What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[paulplom]

9 hours ago, cobblers said:

Years ago I used to feel obliged to  go to pubs and new years eve parties etc etc. Now I'm older I don't even have to make excuses. This was my party, in a talbot in a field in the middle of nowhere.

I kind of wanted to stay up and watch some fireworks off a hill or something, but I fell asleep at about 10:30. I think I outlasted the mrs and both dogs by at least two episodes of Bottom.

Gasman!

 

I fell asleep at 10 on the settee. I woke at 1.30 and went to bed. Point Break was on bbc so I watched all of that. Keanu Reeves was slightly wooden.

[New POD]

7 hours ago, Wack said:

Where would one find this magic elixir, asking for a friend 

She gets a lot of packages from Amazon. 

[Skizzer]

7 hours ago, Wack said:

Just watching The Eagle Has Landed on iplayer

Donald Sutherland is riding a Royal Enfield  125 which is still about despite him just throwing it into a sand dune

[VehicleSmart DVLA details]

This is how to enjoy a movie, AS style.

Anyone still wondering whether Autoshite is a way of life? 

[New POD]

Both these cars made me laugh. 

I'm nasty me. 

 

[MikeR]

44 minutes ago, New POD said:

Both these cars made me laugh. 

I'm nasty me. 

 

Thats things Jag from around the corner and that other car has been like that for weeks , it started off with one flat tyre

[NorfolkNWeigh]

ITV3 now- Carry on Behind., not one I'd even heard of before, it's about shite caravans- Windsor Davies I.  Maxi with a Sprite Major, Bernard Breslaw as a posh bloke with a fawn S1 XJ6 and van and Ian Lavender has got a Mk3 Cortina complete with caravan, all I've seen so far . WCPGW?

[Rovorsche]

The news always has an unintentionally funny item

Sacked vegan brings landmark discrimination case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50969168

Mr Vegan says " Jordi Casamitjana says he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing. "

The Hunt Saboteurs say " dismissed for gross misconduct. "

He had some sort of issue with their pension fund and started whistleblowing , told management about it then set about pissing on everybody elses chips when the managers continued to ignore him.

 

Julian Assange should use being vegan as a defense.

 

This was the best bit for me

Mr Casamitjana describes himself as an "ethical" vegan and campaigns to get his message to others.

His beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.

 

Wait until he finds out that wind farms kill birdlife and can no longer use anything electrically powered or manufactured using electricity.

 

 

[iainrcz]

An interesting conversation I was involved in earlier.

Me "where are those tea cakes?"
Woman "in the bin, but not horrifically"

I wasn't sure what I should say to that.

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[Wack]

4 hours ago, Rovorsche said:

The news always has an unintentionally funny item

Sacked vegan brings landmark discrimination case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50969168

Mr Vegan says " Jordi Casamitjana says he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing. "

The Hunt Saboteurs say " dismissed for gross misconduct. "

He had some sort of issue with their pension fund and started whistleblowing , told management about it then set about pissing on everybody elses chips when the managers continued to ignore him.

 

Julian Assange should use being vegan as a defense.

 

This was the best bit for me

Mr Casamitjana describes himself as an "ethical" vegan and campaigns to get his message to others.

His beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.

 

Wait until he finds out that wind farms kill birdlife and can no longer use anything electrically powered or manufactured using electricity.

 

 

A farmer was on the radio a while back upsetting Vegans , they didn't want to hear him telling them growing their Vegan produce in enough quantity  involves killing billions of insects with pesticides

[beko1987]

Aldi is a beautiful place to be at 21.40 with no one in there bar staff! 

[62 Austin]

Some others commented on the latest "Star Wars" multi-million-dollar epic. Glad to see the character Chewbacca survive the episode -- though the British-American chap who played him for years died in 2019. The 7'-2" fellow  has been succeeded by a 6'-11  1/2" one from Finland.

The female lead Rey has survived, as well. I liked her performance -- she's young enough she can carry on for another 40 years, unlike some of the other cast.  I read an up close and personal blurb claiming Daisy Ridley was working as a server or bartender just five years ago in a  city in the U.K. & that she made minimum wage (= 8 USD) at that time. Those rags to riches pieces are made up a lot...and I wonder how much of it is true.  She doesn't do a lot of talking in her role....but to me she sounds more Australian or New Zealandish in her speech.  

[62 Austin]

On 12/31/2019 at 12:13 PM, Roobarb said:

Darwin at his greatest...

For the first year I’ve lived in this frozen tundra called Minneapolis, the cops have said the ice on the main lake is too thin to be out on, so no trucks, no ice houses, no snowmobiles etc as there’s a danger of falling through.

Obviously, people know better - like this guy with his ice fishing hut...

 

And this guy in his pick up... (my wife saw it break through and said that the guys wife(?) in the passenger seat didn’t look too impressed...)

 

Yet amazingly people still went out on the lake again last night, with a snowmobile falling through and being lost until the upper crust melts. And guess what, the stupid idiots are out there again today!

I don't drive out on lakes. If you had had 20 days of -20 F.  maybe i'd walk out on it. Makes me wonder how many of these idiots are looking for a big insurance payback.

[Cavcraft]

He's a bit better again 

 

[robinmasters]

10 hours ago, Rovorsche said:

The news always has an unintentionally funny item

Sacked vegan brings landmark discrimination case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50969168

Mr Vegan says " Jordi Casamitjana says he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing. "

The Hunt Saboteurs say " dismissed for gross misconduct. "

He had some sort of issue with their pension fund and started whistleblowing , told management about it then set about pissing on everybody elses chips when the managers continued to ignore him.

 

Julian Assange should use being vegan as a defense.

 

This was the best bit for me

Mr Casamitjana describes himself as an "ethical" vegan and campaigns to get his message to others.

His beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.

 

Wait until he finds out that wind farms kill birdlife and can no longer use anything electrically powered or manufactured using electricity.

His beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.

Had it not been veganism, I suspect Mr Casamitjana would have found and way of rubbing people up the wrong way by being an utter cunt-satchel. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 1/1/2020 at 5:10 PM, Wack said:

Isn't it ridiculous , rather than experiences they save footage for facebook or watch it later on a phone screen

and worse they are doing it in portrait mode so it will look wank to watch later on ??

[Noel Tidybeard]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Aldi is a beautiful place to be at 21.40 with no one in there bar staff! 

tesco is better at 3am!

[Roobarb]

3 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

and worse they are doing it in portrait mode so it will look wank to watch later on ??

I used to think that, then realized my sons friends all do it too because #TikTok or whatever it’s called. 

TVs are so last century...

Either way round, I hope one day they realize just to enjoy the moment. Perhaps a good venue will offer after performance downloads to prevent this ridiculousness in future?

[Roobarb]

Great day out with Roobarb jnr today. We went sight seeing and to the Flicks to watch Jumanji. 

As you can see it was very cold...

Even the stalagmites were blue!

Best day of my Christmas holiday.

[Wack]

5 hours ago, Roobarb said:

Great day out with Roobarb jnr today. We went sight seeing and to the Flicks to watch Jumanji. 

As you can see it was very cold...

Even the stalagmites were blue!

Best day of my Christmas holiday.

I wish our winters were like that instead of the +5 wet and windy bollocks we get 

[New POD]

10 hours ago, 62 Austin said:

I don't drive out on lakes. If you had had 20 days of -20 F.  maybe i'd walk out on it. Makes me wonder how many of these idiots are looking for a big insurance payback.

Reminds me of the time (Boxing Day 1984) I walked on Derwent Water in Keswick. 

There was a hole cut in the ice by the shore which was at least a foot thick.  I turned back to shore as I got closer to the middle, when I thought I could feel the ice moving and hear micro cracking.  

There were people ice skating on it. 

No trucks though. 

[New POD]

47 minutes ago, Wack said:

I wish our winters were like that instead of the +5 wet and windy bollocks we get 

Wish you could buy screen wash that didn't freeze at -5 

[andy18s]

46 minutes ago, Wack said:

I wish our winters were like that instead of the +5 wet and windy bollocks we get 

We got down to -9 this week but back up to the pluses for another

[Kiltox]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Wish you could buy screen wash that didn't freeze at -5 

You can. Euro Car Parts definitely sell one. Lidl used to get 5L tubs of a mega concentrate in that’s good to -30 too. 

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, andy18s said:

We got down to -9 this week but back up to the pluses for another

That is some quality doggage right there.

[beko1987]

25 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

You can. Euro Car Parts definitely sell one. Lidl used to get 5L tubs of a mega concentrate in that’s good to -30 too. 

I'm rolling tesco ready mixed at £4 for 5l,bought £40 worth a few months ago when I had a good month repair wise. Hasn't frozen yet, even when the car has been

The aldi/lidl stuff is ace too, not seen any recently though

[xtriple]

11 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

He's a bit better again 

 

Did you find out what was wrong with him?

Chester is over it was that ailed him as well but it had e very worried for a few days - two sick dogs is more than I can cope with! Never did find out what was wrong with him but is back to his usual annoying self now.

[DVee8]

[vulgalour]

I've come to admire some of the DIY in this house.  Why spend money when there's a roll of brown parcel tape in the drawer?

Loft hatch handle broken?  No problem!  Use half a peg and a wood screw.

Want an extra light in the hallway?  Nick one from the caravan, dig out a channel in the plaster with a wood chisel, then run the wire the longest route you possibly can into another room to reach a plug socket.  Filler is for losers, so just paper over everything.  Don't want to use it any more?  Just snip the plug off the wire (that looked for all the world like telephone cord) and paint over the remains with gloss.  Be sure to leave the caravan light in the hallway and never dust it.  Mind you, I can't complain too much since I've repurposed the wall light into a desk lamp, just need to find or make it a slightly better base.

There is one plus side to repairs like this at least, which is that usually old stuff is still there and easy to put right properly, so far no bodge has been irreversible and sometimes, you make nice discoveries like the original kitchen floor, even if the kitchen does have three different sets of cupboards, most of which are heavily gloss painted so they match*.  I'm probably* a bit* weird, but I'm really enjoying just gradually putting things right without overly modernising the place by ripping everything out and blowing a bank loan at Focus Do It All.

[Cavcraft]

41 minutes ago, xtriple said:

Did you find out what was wrong with him?

Chester is over it was that ailed him as well but it had e very worried for a few days - two sick dogs is more than I can cope with! Never did find out what was wrong with him but is back to his usual annoying self now.

They weren't sure, possibly something he ate (doubtful, he's incredibly fussy) or maybe a virus of some sort. Glad to hear Chester is ok!

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

That is some quality doggage right there.

There's a couple missing from the pic,can't sit still for a minute lol