What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

homemade chicken curry and chips

i opened it and after 0.03 secs - im in love

scarily they do battered sausage which aint that common up here (NOT IN SARF)

shame theyre not open tomorrow ❤️ (i didnt come here the last time i was here)

 

[Wack]

1 hour ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The 24th is the main day of Christmas in Norway. Has been a great day this, minus 20 cold degrees over 1 meter of snow so proper Norwegian Christmas weather. My dad is here we've had Deere roast for dinner and just enjoying ourselves.

Any pictures of said meter of snow , we get 1cm for 20 minutes here and things start to fall apart , I bet 1m deep and it's business as usual in Norway 

[Dyslexic Viking]

10 minutes ago, Wack said:

Any pictures of said meter of snow , we get 1cm for 20 minutes here and things start to fall apart , I bet 1m deep and it's business as usual in Norway 

We had 1.5 meters of snow but have shrunk a little since. The pictures below are the same as I posted in the new news 24 thread a few weeks ago.

[MikeR]

Whoops !

https://www.ladbible.com/community/dna-test-christmas-present-reveals-family-secret-20211220.amp.html?fr=operanews

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Deere roast 

I heard their tractors do that sometimes.😄

[New POD]

12 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The 24th is the main day of Christmas in Norway. Has been a great day this, minus 20 cold degrees over 1 meter of snow so proper Norwegian Christmas weather. My dad is here we've had Deere roast for dinner and just enjoying ourselves.

We had Ribbee last night as my son's wife is 1/2 Norwegian (and 1/2 Polish).

And the weirdest cold rice pudding dish ever.  It was nice, just new to my tastebuds. 

[New POD]

13 hours ago, MrDuke said:

My niece is 17, has moderate social anxiety, and no interest whatsoever in driving. She doesn't need to drive in any case, as she can commute by bus. Her ****ing idiot father has decided to buy her a car anyway, because apparently no respectable parent could possibly have offspring that don't drive. He decided to buy a 10+ year old hatchback in the interests of 'practicality'.

Said car is actually a CLC 200 Kompressor, with a sports exhaust, AMG rims and tinted windows. The first thing my niece did, bless her, was stick a big plastic flower on top of the aerial. I'm currently laughing my arse off thinking about how much he'll be spunking on her insurance, on a car that she'll drive once a month at the very most.

I had a look at a few of them, before buying an Astra GTC. 

All were being sold by bombsite traders, whose idea of after sales service would be to set the dawgs on you. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

35 minutes ago, New POD said:

We had Ribbee last night as my son's wife is 1/2 Norwegian (and 1/2 Polish).

And the weirdest cold rice pudding dish ever.  It was nice, just new to my tastebuds. 

I'm not that fond of Ribbe so it's not something I eat. And I think I know what you mean by rice pudding, we also had this yesterday called Riskrem in Norwegian. The world is small at times.

[Wack]

Wow , 6 days Darlington to Southampton , surely at that point in time there must've been a company in Southampton that could've built that 

 

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

Wow , 6 days Darlington to Southampton , surely at that point in time there must've been a company in Southampton that could've built that 

 

Not many foundries could put out fabrications that big at that time(even fewer now), most were near the two big centres of ship building, the Tyne and the Clyde.

[mintwth]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

Wow , 6 days Darlington to Southampton , surely at that point in time there must've been a company in Southampton that could've built that 

Only 6 days? I guess the route they took can't have gone via Spaghetti Junction or the M25

[richardmorris]

Roads Policing Unit (RPU) - Surrey Police - UK (@SurreyRoadCops) Tweeted: We acquired some footage from our @NPASSouthEast colleagues. https://t.co/KocYJYqv8q

 

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

Just watched chitty chitty bang bang. Now I’m tired and emotional.

[richardmorris]

10 hours ago, New POD said:

We had Ribbee last night as my son's wife is 1/2 Norwegian (and 1/2 Polish).

And the weirdest cold rice pudding dish ever.  It was nice, just new to my tastebuds. 

I thought it was belly pork from the picture! Is superkraut like sauerkraut? I have it with monkfish usually.

[Pieman]

23 hours ago, MrDuke said:

My niece is 17, has moderate social anxiety, and no interest whatsoever in driving. She doesn't need to drive in any case, as she can commute by bus. Her ****ing idiot father has decided to buy her a car anyway, because apparently no respectable parent could possibly have offspring that don't drive. He decided to buy a 10+ year old hatchback in the interests of 'practicality'.

Said car is actually a CLC 200 Kompressor, with a sports exhaust, AMG rims and tinted windows. The first thing my niece did, bless her, was stick a big plastic flower on top of the aerial. I'm currently laughing my arse off thinking about how much he'll be spunking on her insurance, on a car that she'll drive once a month at the very most.

What a load of balls.  If she doesn't want to drive, I'll buy that off them as Christmas present to myself.

Anyway, making me grin yesterday was watching the Top Gear christmas edition at a friend's house...how cool was Chris Harris's BX 4x4 GTi?
 

[richardmorris]

Currently watching the Grieg piano concerto with Andrew preview. Christmas of 50years ago!

[wuvvum]

Heh, I just watched that too, along with the "new" episode...

[808 Estate]

[Remspoor]

14 hours ago, Pieman said:

Anyway, making me grin yesterday was watching the Top Gear christmas edition at a friend's house...how cool was Chris Harris's BX 4x4 GTi?
 

He fucked with a rare car.

[MikeR]

WiFi Network with Advert blocker in place 😀 

[Wack]

All the modern Top Gear episodes are in the iPlayer 

Just watching Season 9 episode 4 when they built a space shuttle , it's as epic as I remember it , if you've never seen it treat yourself 

[catsinthewelder]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

WiFi Network with Advert blocker in place 😀 

Please tell me more 😁

[Supernaut]

13 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

Please tell me more 😁

I'm assuming a PiHole.

A raspberry pi that blackholes any DNS requests for known advertising hosting domains. The ad content doesn't even reach your devices in the first place, so no need for blockers on all the devices.

[MikeR]

29 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

Please tell me more 😁

Its a gl mt300n mini router , it runs openwrt and I have put adblocker on it , can also plug in the sdd as a Nas. So I have 2 WiFi networks , one with adblocking 😁

[Floatylight]

5 minutes ago, MikeR said:

Its a gl mt300n mini router , it runs openwrt and I have put adblocker on it , can also plug in the sdd as a Nas. So I have 2 WiFi networks , one with adblocking 😁

Is there a guide to doing this?

[beko1987]

Can't live without my pihole! Browsing the net anywhere else fucking sucks! 

[gm]

it was my nephews birthday last week - as the gift I had bought him was a bit sensible / boring (an a3 drawing board, squares, compasses, pencils etc) I thought he might appreciate a silly gift too !

120 assorted googly eyes  

this turned out to be a hit and, one week later, we are still finding surprise eyes all over the house 

 

and my particular favourite (his mother hasn't found this one yet)

apparently, googly eyes are the talk of the school too  

(the drawing board is still in its box)

 

 

 

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, Floatylight said:

Is there a guide to doing this?

https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/adblock-on-b1300/3162/5

[reb]

My Christmas night was rounded off with cheap cigars, nice rum and a few episodes of Still Game.

I intend to repeat the feat tonight, though perhaps with slightly less rum as I'm working tomorrow.