What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[beko1987]

18 minutes ago, Aston Martin said:

 

Poundland sell £7 "smart" bulbs

Would cost me about £17 to drive to Aylesbury, park, then drive back again... They love* the car! (had a shock the other week, the B&q car park that was free for 3 hours and a 10 minute walk had changed to fuck off unless your shopping in this smoll retail park...) 

[PhilA]

3 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

These bulbs use a gas heatsink a combination helium and other gases (as helium has a high thermal mass) in the bulb to keep the LED strips/filaments at the correct temperature

For £7 it probably has a highly specialized heatsink gas containing about 70% nitrogen, a small blend of oxygen and a small volume of other noble gases

[lisbon_road]

I sent a section of exhaust and a manifold for an Astra to a man in Suffolk via MyHerpes.  He contacted me and said it hadn't turned up.  I contacted MH who were useless as ever, and their website just said 'there has been a problem but the parcel will be on its way shortly'.  Buyer was decent about it all and I refunded him - I looked at the claim process and it said about having to have a receipt for the original item.  Fat chance.

I visited a friend and was amazed to see the parcel there in her hallway.  I'd reused a massive box she had and it looked like I'd forgotten to remove the label for delivery to her.  

I sent it again and the buyer still wanted it.  No way to get rich but at least it was all closed off.  I haven't had that many problems with MH really, had more with RM over the covid lockdown.

[PhilA]

I had the car out on the driveway, getting ready to go for a drive. I've reached the point where I'm happy driving with the radio on, mostly because the "listening carefully for bad noises" period is beginning to pass.

It would switch on, click, I told my phone to connect to the Bluetooth, it says it did then it wouldn't.. wtf 

 

Then I realized I was in range of the Amazon Echo Dot that's in the den, on the other side of the window from the car.

My thing is, how the hell did the Dot fight my phone and win?

 

Fixed that by driving down the street 20 years and trying again. Remembered heat now to disassociate the Dot, only had that for when I was testing the radio on the workbench in here.

 

Only mild grump to mar this amusement is this is the last of the good weather and SWMBO said no to just randomly going for a Sunday drive, on the account of fuel economy.

 

Phil

[Roobarb]

1 hour ago, PhilA said:

...Fixed that by driving down the street 20 years and trying again...

Delorean?

[Aston Martin]

On 9/25/2020 at 7:40 PM, Aston Martin said:

Sorry, it's now a corner shop.... Ahem..... Called 'Salisburys Local'

The legal letter arrived then..

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, Roobarb said:

Delorean?

Where we're going, we don't need roads

[cobblers]

I was driving up Winnats pass today in the Talbot, it's a very steep hill so I was in first gear at about 15mph. It's a NSL road, but most cars would usually be doing 30-40MPH. Obviously the engine was doing some RPM but I have been overtaken by pushbikes when driving up there before.

As I approached a group of walkers, I gave them plenty of room (they didn't need to be in the road TBH), I got waved and shouted at to "Slow down you bloody idiot", presumably because it sounded like I was going fast. 

 

[strangeangel]

This is a bit of an odd one. I was searching Google Images for something entirely unrelated when I happened across a picture of a good mate's bike:

 

 

Boo, my mate, died a little over two years ago, aged just 51. Suddenly and unexpectedly. The last time I saw his little Honda CM90 was at his funeral, ridden there by another of his mates. Not gonna lie, the sight of it properly spooked me. The thing that made me grin? Following the link from this picture to his Flickr - which I never knew existed; I met him through riding Honda Super Cubs, and I knew he was fascinated by engineering, especially the sort of blind alleys we enjoy here and, in particular, what we know as shite...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did tell him about this place, but he never made it round... I reckon he'd have fitted right in?

 

flickr.com/photos/boo66

 

[PhilA]

Gumbo for dinner. With potato salad.

Just waiting for it to simmer down right now.

 

Phil

[Roobarb]

Ok, I’ll bite Phil. What’s in a gumbo?

We don’t get such fancy dishes “oop north”. 

[High Jetter]

Just now, Roobarb said:

Ok, I’ll bite 

I wouldn't! I have never got the idea of potato 'salad', never mind gumbo

[PhilA]

56 minutes ago, Roobarb said:

Ok, I’ll bite Phil. What’s in a gumbo?

We don’t get such fancy dishes “oop north”. 

In short, it's a soup. It has its origins in west African cooking (think Casablanca) but with a French twist.

It's got almost anything of your liking as a meat (andouille sausage, chicken, shrimp etc), but this one's chicken and sausage.

Brown roux, chicken, smoked sausage, green pepper, onion, celery, a pinch of cayenne. Thyme, sassafras and bay to season. Dash of tabasco and cajun seasoning (I use Tony Chachere's). Chicken broth as the base.

Potato salad is easy, just boil potatoes, loosely mash and add diced raw onion, boiled eggs, sweet relish, mayonnaise and a little dijon mustard.

Gumbo served over boiled long grain white rice, potato salad to the side.

Dessert is cake and bouille*.

 

Welcome to New Orleans.

Phil

 

 

*Regular sponge cake and French egg custard. Very sweet. Bon.

[hairnet]

fuck covid

*books flight

🤤

[hairnet]

looking at buying new phone and looking at reviews on amazon and ebay

the amazon ones made me laugh of 5 reviews two were one star

an italian one and a french one with the same complaint

it came with a uk charger (one of them posted a pic)

its on the .co.uk site of course itll be uk specific

.com itll be usa any euro country itll be two pin

duh

[Rustybullethole]

@strangeangel got to love a crunch box cubbie and great pics in the link. Looks to of been a top boy your man 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

E.L.L.E.  ( Ein Leben Lebe Es)

Took the dogs to the woods in the rain, a local green lane crosses the carpark, there’s some pretty deep hollows , one of the biggest actually in the car park. We heard this V8 coming up the lane, obviously having fun splashing through the big puddles...

Made him get out to attach my tow strap. We went back across the lane and I did bottle out of the deepest puddles, must get a snorkel and some chequer plate.

[paulplom]

My new work light courtesy of @beko1987.

It turns the room from dark into broad daylight. Unbelievable for the money. I joined two together and added 15m  1mm flex with a 13amp plug.

What size fuse should it have?

 

[LightBulbFun]

1 minute ago, paulplom said:

My new work light courtesy of @beko1987.

It turns the room from dark into broad daylight. Unbelievable for the money. I joined two together and added 15m  1mm flex with a 13amp plug.

What size fuse should it have?

 

probably a 3A one, to protect the flex  

these lights dont draw much power at all

[beko1987]

23 minutes ago, paulplom said:

My new work light courtesy of @beko1987.

It turns the room from dark into broad daylight. Unbelievable for the money. I joined two together and added 15m  1mm flex with a 13amp plug.

What size fuse should it have?

 

I can't look even remotely at mine! Plus side, it makes the dark light! 

Can't comment on the fuse as I cut some mega overkill flex offa shit extension lead so it has whatever it has! 

Have thought of putting a connector in the cable though, it's too much to stick on my cheap tripod. Would be neater to wrap it up somewhere else... 

Infact that's given me an idea... 

[hairnet]

23 hours ago, PhilA said:

interesting usa talk

I had the car out on the driveway, getting ready to go for a drive. I've reached the point where I'm happy driving with the radio on, mostly because the "listening carefully for bad noises" period is beginning to pass. - there are more than 4 cylinders how can there be bad noise

Then I realized I was in range of the Amazon Echo Dot that's in the den, on the other side of the window from the car.

My thing is, how the hell did the Dot fight my phone and win?

from 40's tech - no problem to 10's - big issue

Fixed that by driving down the street 20 years and trying again.

as commented by someone else - did you park next to a 71 plymouth or sumtin?

Only mild grump to mar this amusement is this is the last of the good weather and SWMBO said no to just randomly going for a Sunday drive, on the account of fuel economy.

this gets the biggest WTF also you mean you didnt take her for lunch evil git

more videos please (actually go THROUGH the drive in - please)

[PhilA]

3 minutes ago, hairnet said:

more videos please (actually go THROUGH the drive in - please)

It's like they used to be. Pull up out front, get out, go stand by the window and wait. Doesn't make for exciting footage. Plus, they're on vacation for the next few weeks.

 

Phil

[Cavcraft]

The log book for the DMW has arrived! Now taxed (free, obvs) but haven't had a chance to sort insurance out as got way-laid after work.

[anonymous user]

10 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I can't look even remotely at mine! Plus side, it makes the dark light! 

Can't comment on the fuse as I cut some mega overkill flex offa shit extension lead so it has whatever it has! 

Have thought of putting a connector in the cable though, it's too much to stick on my cheap tripod. Would be neater to wrap it up somewhere else... 

Infact that's given me an idea... 

With all that kit are you going to start venturing into low budget porn, as well as the vacuum cleaner porn?

[Saabnut]

10 hours ago, beko1987 said:

 

Followed the link when it first came up and thought they looked like value, as the lights were cheaper than new bulbs for my existing lights outside my shed, both of which have blown. Thought I would order 2 for there, then added a third to replace the one on the house. Then thought these would work well IN the shed where I needed more light. So I ordered 10 (I am doing this right, yes?)

Arrived Saturday and quality looks very good, will start fitting them soon....

[richardmorris]

49 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

With all that kit are you going to start venturing into low budget porn, as well as the vacuum cleaner porn?

Glad I’m not the only one who thought that!

[richardmorris]

Just now, richardmorris said:

Glad I’m not the only one who thought that!

Talking of which, nigella is on the food channel 41 now.

[Spottedlaurel]

22 hours ago, strangeangel said:

This is a bit of an odd one. I was searching Google Images for something entirely unrelated when I happened across a picture of a good mate's bike...........

Very sorry to read this, I knew of Boo through Flickr but didn't realise the sad reason as to why his uploads had stopped.

[gm]

It was my birthday at the weekend - I'd been joking around saying that I didn't want a birthday cake, I wanted a birthday pie instead - nephew gm came up with the goods  

The most fantastically tasty pork pie I've ever had

sister gm made me a cracking cake too, excellent attention to detail, the mx5 is a 1990 mk1 with pop up lights  

best birthday for a long time, thankyou family gm x

 

 

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Very sorry to read this, I knew of Boo through Flickr but didn't realise the sad reason as to why his uploads had stopped.

my condolences too, I had heard of his passing a while back.