What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[The Moog]

Did my PhD assignment in 4 days! Had lectures all last week and then sat down Friday morning to start.

Submitted 32 pages of hopefully passable nonsense on the ESS late last night.

Mega impressed with myself, who knew it was possible to not leaving it to the last minute is even possibl.

Deadline isnt until 8th August.

Two more to go before finalising my thesis proposal then the hard work starts

[myglaren]

Improvements to the Golden Gate bridge backfire

 

The second video - it will only post both together.

 

[mitsisigma01]

42 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Improvements to the Golden Gate bridge backfire

 

The second video - it will only post both together.

 

As long as it looked good on paper, great design, did he still get paid? ??

[Volksy]

A friend of mine lives at the top of Nob Hill in SF which is about 4 miles away from the Golden Gate, she can hear the bridge singing from her flat. 

She first assumed one of her crazy hippy neighbours was learning some new age chanting. 

[paulplom]

Mx-5 has passed it's mot this morning. No advisories although he did mention a slight oil leak. Woo hoo!

Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk

[juular]

On 6/9/2020 at 9:07 AM, myglaren said:

Improvements to the Golden Gate bridge backfire

 

The second video - it will only post both together.

 

Speaking as someone who has a manic intolerance of noise, I actually quite like that. Much nicer than listening to some brain dead twat's thumping music or barking dog.

[Stanky]

I bought my first house on Monday! After 15 years of renting a dismal variety of hovels, and spending the last 7 months with my well meaning but very OCD in-laws we got the keys to the new place last monday.

Cue 2 days of moving all of my worldly posessions in, sorting it all then compiling a lengthy list of all the things we need to buy (washing line, dining chairs, microwave etc) to fill in the gaps. However, most importantly, this

As well as a drive that will fit 3 cars on easily, I have my very own double garage! Its currently filled with about a million cardboard boxes and all sorts of moving tat and needs a good sort out, but this is literally the main reason I bought this place (as well as to house my family) - its exactly what I wanted. The days of tinkering with cars on a sloping drive in either the baking sun or pissing rain are gone. I have celebrated by buying myself a halfords tool cab and top box, 2 bigdug workbenches to go where the rickety shelving unit in the back right of the garage are currently, a nice new SGS alu trolley jack, and the @Skizzer-lift from CJ autos to properly kit it out.

The kids are still asleep and I've actually got a bit of time to type this up before I hit up screwfix for a load of DIY stuff, the shops for a food shop that will make the EU stockpiled meat and grain mountains look like molehills and then argos for a bedframe for my eldest as the crack-den 'mattress on the floor surrounded by piles of toys and clothes' look isn't in vogue any more I'm told.

Now I just have to pay for it all for the next 30 years...

[sdkrc]

Congrats on the house @Stanky! Very jealous of your garage and drive. Soooo much shitbox potential.

[Skizzer]

Congratulations Stanky, that looks like a cracking garage

[Tickman]

That looks like a great space there.

[cort16]

My garage in 5 mins drive away but having spent time building stuff like my wood burner in the back garden having a garage at home is extremely appealing . Being able to nip out for 1/2 an hour here and there is great rather than needing to jump in the car.

[Skizzer]

On 6/9/2020 at 9:07 AM, myglaren said:

Improvements to the Golden Gate bridge backfire

 

The second video - it will only post both together.

 

Erm — I really like that ?. It sounds like late Talk Talk/Mark Hollis, God rest him.

Maybe not great if it’s playing 24/7, but I’d happily buy the album.

[outlaw118]

19 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Erm — I really like that ?. It sounds like late Talk Talk/Mark Hollis, God rest him.

The colour of Spring(s)? Laughing Stock(piles)?

[vulgalour]

[Skizzer]

Ermm...

Does it look any better a bit higher up?

[mitsisigma01]

Like over the hedge ?

[mitsisigma01]

Were those rear lights standard fitments ?

Its good to be different ??

[vulgalour]

It looks great, you ninnies.

[mitsisigma01]

I'm sure I've seen one fitted at the top edge of the boot and at the top of the window... but not at the same time ??

[Saabnut]

My new circuit breaker for the shed arrived whilst I was in Norway, so today it was fitted. I now have a working 2 post lift!

Just need to move a few cars around so I can get to it!

[hairnet]

Yay found it

The cock on eBay that's taken 2 weeks to not.post it can fro

Also this

3 years I've had I've never read it @Jon 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 hours ago, Skizzer said:

Ermm...

Does it look any better a bit higher up?

I think it would look well if positioned over the top line of the rear windscreen, hot hatch-style.

[EyesWeldedShut]

13 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I think it would look well if positioned over the top line of the rear windscreen, hot hatch-style.

Over the windscreen like a 1950's yank tank sunshield? Anywhere at the back is just going to detract from the lights surely?

[Jon]

6 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Well, I like it! Can we have a side profile shot?

I know you love unsolicited opinions/suggestions and so since you definitely asked*, I wonder if somehow matt blacking part of the rear end would help tie in the spoiler? I've just no idea where you'd end, with that pesky drop in the boot lid between the tail lights but I reckon it'd also highlight those rocket boosters a real treat.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

...Anywhere at the back is just going to detract from the lights surely?

I see what you mean, but the current position on the bootlid looks a bit wrong - a bit like someone wearing drop-crotch trousers with the waistband at comedy low level, exposing the underpants.

[vulgalour]

Hey guys, go over to my build thread, there's more pics and shizznit in there. https://autoshite.com/topic/10789-1980-austin-princess-head-rebuild-commences/page/132/?tab=comments#comment-2068838

 

[wuvvum]

On 6/9/2020 at 9:07 AM, myglaren said:

Improvements to the Golden Gate bridge backfire

 

The second video - it will only post both together.

 

Boody hell that is a weird sound.  I've cycled along that footpath sidewalk and it was quite a pleasant ride - don't think it'd be as enjoyable with that racket going on.  Especially after dark - that would be eerie as f*ck.

[motorpunk]

7 hours ago, vulgalour said:

It looks great, you ninnies.

Any more foul language and I’m reporting you to a grown-up, or something.

[vulgalour]

You're not the boss of me, you rapscallion!

[motorpunk]

Hypothetical scenario:

You know when you buy a car from someone, you kind of hope that they’re, say, a retired RAF Wing Commander living in a big, posh house in the Cotswolds and has had every service done at a main dealer and has only ever used the car for, say, going to church on Sundays hence the tiny mileage and flawless condition, and, for example, insists on knocking money off the asking price which you were trying to pay, just because “you seem like a nice chap who’s really going to enjoy it”, and is only selling because he can’t get in it any more, so it sits under a dust sheet between weekly valetings, while his wife serves fresh coffee and cake and the birds sing and the sun shines, and, hypothetically, he encourages a lengthy test drive following a map he’s printed of the best local B roads, just for you, in the rare and beautiful car which you vowed to buy when it was launched almost 25 years ago and never thought you’d be able to afford, but, fuck it, you’re a long time dead and I’m sure it’s worth a load more than the asking price. Yes, please, another slice of cake, sorry I can’t stop looking at the car. That sort of hypothetical scenario?

Well. Exactly that happened to me, yesterday. And I’m still pinching myself.