What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[robinmasters]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

Are we nearly there yet

Are we nearly where yet? Spain or Greece?

[High Jetter]

Ground level, I suspect.

[Datsuncog]

Looks like one of those godawful Loganair turboprop planes that Belfast City Airport has to lie about and pretend they don't rattle the roof tiles off the terraces in Sydenham...

[hairnet]

Ahh jaysis

X3

 

[Datsuncog]

Fuckin' hell... The tryptich of horror.

[hairnet]

Fucker got pointed at 3 o clock

I was annoyed

As I said the the gadge on the desk at least it's not a polo

DAA can fuck right off tho

 

[hairnet]

Oh and saw apple green in Meath

1.79 fir pez

Farcanal *stops doing 175 kmh everywhere

 

 

[hairnet]

Paddy seen in his modern tractor 

Filth and doing not a lot 

With one taillight and no beacon

On the M1 ffs only here

 

[High Jetter]

Did he not move over for ye?

[Austat]

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

38 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Paddy seen in his modern tractor 

Filth and doing not a lot 

With one taillight and no beacon

On the M1 ffs only here

 

Ah sure 'tis grand

[Wack]

[hairnet]

8 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Ah sure 'tis grand

No black bales on da back doh

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

Man u need a goalie

[hairnet]

8 hours ago, Austat said:

 

*Mustnt  make statement about @Six-cylindercough

[Snake Charmer]

12 hours ago, Fumbler said:

New carb fuel results are in. I'm running on E10 BTW.

FORTY EFFING MPG!

 

That's the best yet.

E5 is horrible enough in carbs let alone E10, what car is it?

14 hours ago, PhilA said:

Because the first 10% of use drove them to go buy a decent brand?

 

"Someone else can have this misery"

In the early 90's I needed a set of pads for an SD1 I was running,  something cheap to squeeze the last bit of life out of the discs that were just about serviceable. Via a friend in what was Camberley Auto Factors using his staff discount I was presented with a set of Jurid pads for £4, that was cheap even back then. They worked OK, a bit lacking in feel and uninspiring bite but the brakes were not great to start with. Then I tried stopping from high speed, wet bicycle brake blocks would have been better! I'm sure they were made from recycled cardboard. 

[Remspoor]

https://www.dumpert.nl/item/100015308_0fae6bb8

CCTV working well.

The video will not embed on the forum.

[hairnet]

Monkey as mod

Oo oo etc

Do we feed him bananas and leaves now

[vulgalour]

A little gift from @PhilA for the Maestro.  Looks right at home.

[brownnova]

They’ll let anyone into the playboy mansion these days… 

[vulgalour]

Made some jam from the golden raspberries we got from the garden this year.  Really easy to do, and tastes fantastic.  First time I've made jam in absolutely ages.

[hairnet]

On 11/19/2021 at 11:26 PM, High Jetter said:

Did he not move over for ye?

he was on the hard shoulder although as potato people will tell ya @Faker

its not really used for emergencies

 

[Wack]

Top tips northern style 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

he was on the hard shoulder although as potato people will tell ya @Faker

its not really used for emergencies

 

In the west where we holiday, slowies usually move to the shoulder to let MORE IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO BE SURE pass. Though they may just be faster, or sober, drivers.

[cobblers]

[loserone]

You bloody fool you should never mix your drinks!

[cort1977]

10 hours ago, High Jetter said:

In the west where we holiday, slowies usually move to the shoulder to let MORE IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO BE SURE pass. Though they may just be faster, or sober, drivers.

Or actually have a licence.  Many old people in Ireland never sat a test, in the late 70s they just gave out licences to anyone who had had a provisional for a while.  Like my wife's grandmother.  

Wife's grandmother was stopped going too far though when they put a roundabout on the Tralee road.  That stopped her gallivanting ways and notions of grandeur.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

16 hours ago, hairnet said:

he was on the hard shoulder although as potato people will tell ya @Faker

its not really used for emergencies

 

14 hours ago, High Jetter said:

In the west where we holiday, slowies usually move to the shoulder to let MORE IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO BE SURE pass. Though they may just be faster, or sober, drivers.

My first memory of Irish road infrastructure was in 1988. Back then, conventional dual carriageways were fairly rare and mostly found around Dublin (especially the N11 going south via Cabinteely), with a couple coming into Cork and Limerick. 

Cross-country National roads were single carriageway BUT what they did have were long lengths of what was euphemistically called a hard shoulder denoted by a broken yellow line. In reality the hard shoulders were about a third-to-half the width of the standard carriageway, and slower traffic (tractors, giffers and learner drivers mostly) would usually drift into this margin, straddling the broken yellow line, to let you overtake before drifting back into the normal carriageway after you had passed. 

To make things more entertaining, pedestrians and  hitchhikers would also walk along the hard shoulder in lieu of a proper pavement. 

3 hours ago, cort1977 said:

Or actually have a licence.  Many old people in Ireland never sat a test, in the late 70s they just gave out licences to anyone who had had a provisional for a while.  Like my wife's grandmother.....

Then there's the provisional licence holders who have been driving around unaccompanied for years. Many didn't bother hanging L-plates on their cars.

[Wack]

6 hours ago, cort1977 said:

 

Wife's grandmother was stopped going too far though when they put a roundabout on the Tralee road.  That stopped her gallivanting ways and notions of grandeur.

 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

My first memory of Irish road infrastructure was in 1988

Mine was only 2 or 3 years later. I used to love the smell of peat in the air, much reduced these days - hard to get it unless you know who to ask it seems. Best winter fires ever IMHO.