What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[PhilA]

On 11/20/2021 at 9:42 AM, vulgalour said:

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

He normally went in the rear quarter window- reason being when you shut the hatch the resulting shock would normally detach him from the glass and end up in the boot or on the back seat.

Also watch out for damaging the heated glass traces. Was ok in a mk1 Fiesta with sandwiched wires but printed traces are vulnerable.

Looks right at home, though!

Phil

[vulgalour]

Funny you should mention that because guess where I had to move him to and why.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

30 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

....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.

I was still getting it in briquettes stamped "BnM" in 2003. They took a while to properly burn through. 

[High Jetter]

You could still get that 'modern' peat when I was over a couple of years ago. Not the same warmth or aroma as from proper peat that has been cut from a field and dried on a verge near you.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

.... proper peat that has been cut from a field and dried on a verge near you.

Nothing like setting fire to the oul sod.

[balford]

13 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.  

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.

My parents grew up in the time before driving tests full stop (pre-1964 you basically just bought a licence). This lead to my mother being licensed for artics and buses for most of her life, despite finding driving a regular car somewhat challenging.

[Metal Guru]

On 22/11/2021 at 14:03, Tadhg Tiogar said:

 

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. 

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.

I quickly learnt about the hard shoulder within 30 minutes of driving in Ireland for the first time. Leaving Dublin , soon after the dual carriageway ended, I was confronted by an HGV over taking another one , way over into “my” lane.

I swerved onto the hard shoulder thinking “what a fecking idiot !” and then it happened again. Soon realised , this was normal and accepted way of driving there.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I quickly learnt about the hard shoulder within 30 minutes of driving in Ireland for the first time. Leaving Dublin , soon after the dual carriageway ended, I was confronted by an HGV over taking another one , way over into “my” lane.

I swerved onto the hard shoulder thinking “what a fecking idiot !” and then it happened again. Soon realised , this was normal and accepted way of driving there.

There actually is a logic to it. One might almost say "an Irish solution to an Irish problem".

[myglaren]

[808 Estate]

[morrisoxide]

[junkyarddog]

On 11/22/2021 at 7:04 PM, High Jetter said:

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.

My Uncle lives in rural Tipperary and always has a shed full of cut turf.

This would be a nice photo of his cottage if some bellend hadn't parked a Viva in front of it😂

[808 Estate]

[Leyland Worldmaster]

I R bad for finding this a little* amusing:

https://road.cc/content/news/bmw-drivers-most-likely-show-psychopathic-traits-288039

[Ghosty]

🤪

[Sham]

I'm grinning right now because of a job offer. 20% more money, plus health and life insurance, plus bonus scheme, nearer to home and should be less stress. 

Happy days!

[High Jetter]

Sounds almost too good to be true. Any downsides?

[Sham]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Sounds almost too good to be true. Any downsides?

Only the 6 month probation being a risk, I guess - but I can't see any right now. The current job has been somewhat underpaid and it's a very small company - so to improve matters, I needed out. I've been there 9 years.. wow that's a long time.

[Snake Charmer]

[Talbot]

16 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

All your wiring are belong to us.

[Snake Charmer]

31 minutes ago, Talbot said:

All your wiring are belong to us.

Hope not! 

[omegod]

17 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

Hope not! 

Correction: All you ludicrously expensive and complex wiring belong to us 

[808 Estate]

[hairnet]

5 days car rental with any of the big 4 in USA for 5 days in Feb

3 were 700+ one was a grand forks r a compact)

Ffs- not gonna do what I was gonna do then when that's twice as much as the flight

 

[TheOtherStu]

10 minutes ago, hairnet said:

5 days car rental with any of the big 4 in USA for 5 days in Feb

3 were 700+ one was a grand forks r a compact)

Ffs- not gonna do what I was gonna do then when that's twice as much as the flight

 

Car rental is absolutely bonkers at the moment. When we were up in Edinburgh the other week, we thought about hiring a car and spending a day going out of the city to see a few sights. Absolutely horrendous. I don't think we could find anything under a ton for a day. Many places had a minimum of 3 days booking too.

[hairnet]

it is nuts - booked a coupla days for belgium in january and that was 175 but i dont do what im going for much so fuckit

but then did norfolk suffolk coast last month and that was 100 quid for two days - which isnt so bad

the usa thing will probably still happen only just for the one day in and out - bit boonies so has to be car

[cobblers]

had a couple of nights camping, was supposed to be going back home in the morning, but I've just seen the forecast and it's heavy snow all night.

If that's the case I can't see me getting the van off this field (I'd be struggling without the snow tbh!) so I'll simply have to stay here til the snow melts. There's plenty of beer in the fridge and it's 45 minutes walk to Monyash for a mega breakfast. Suits me.

[Sunny Jim]

Stopping where you are and continuing to enjoy your time off is obviously the sensible thing to do. 👍

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, hairnet said:

it is nuts - booked a coupla days for belgium in january

Don`t worry, the way things are going Belgium will be closed under lockdown.

[DeeJay]

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