What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[barefoot]

  On 24/03/2022 at 07:12, barefoot said:

The bloke across the road should be on here. He will have a go at anything... Last Thursday he discovered a water leak in his kitchen, turned off the water & set about finding the underground pipe. Not a fucking clue does he have, his garden has trenches all over it, as if Time Team have paid him a visit. And a week on, he still has no water.

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Update, I spoke to him this morning. After moving his shed from one side of the garden to the other, he managed to find the offending pipe, but the actual leak is underneath his kitchen floor. Hs insurance have been out & had a look and have gone back to their office to have a bit of a think. Apart from turning it on for ten minutes at the weekend to fill the bath... He still has no water! He's going to be fucking cold the next couple of days with no central heating.

[somewhatfoolish]

Why would that affect his heating? 

[DSdriver]

  On 28/03/2022 at 17:13, meggersdog said:

Can you tell what it is yet

 

looks like they make chrome clothes pegs just for this.

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What is the "Bad-Worse-Off" slider thing for?

[meggersdog]

  On 29/03/2022 at 15:21, DSdriver said:

What is the "Bad-Worse-Off" slider thing for?

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The heater controls.  Should read "Car-Screen-Off"  but Mini heaters are rubbish.

It was a customers car. Although not needed on this one many, many folk used a clothes peg to hold the choke out. This one , like the controls, was blinged up.

[DSdriver]

  On 29/03/2022 at 18:23, meggersdog said:

The heater controls.  Should read "Car-Screen-Off"  but Mini heaters are rubbish.

It was a customers car. Although not needed on this one many, many folk used a clothes peg to hold the choke out. This one , like the controls, was blinged up.

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And the peg also acts as a visual reminder to push the choke back in, most of us have got out of the habit with modern cars. I say modern, even my 1973 DS has EFI controlled by a big panel of transistors under the carpet of the passenger foot well.

[AnnoyingPentium]

[Dan the van]

  On 29/03/2022 at 18:38, DSdriver said:

And the peg also acts as a visual reminder to push the choke back in, most of us have got out of the habit with modern cars. I say modern, even my 1973 DS has EFI controlled by a big panel of transistors under the carpet of the passenger foot well.

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Phascinating phact: the first 1/4 inch of movement only raises the tick over(a lot), which is why when you start a Mini on full choke the bastard is revving it's nuts off.Not always ideal on a cold engine!.

[Spottedlaurel]

Just discovered that Talking Pictures TV are re-running the excellent Public Eye series again (10pm on Tuesdays). Looks like we're back to 1969 with tonight's episode, so quite early on.

[omegod]

  On 29/03/2022 at 20:58, Spottedlaurel said:

Just discovered that Talking Pictures TV are re-running the excellent Public Eye series again (10pm on Tuesdays). Looks like we're back to 1969 with tonight's episode, so quite early on.

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I can't get that channel on my skybox for some unknown reason, it's bloody free as well 

[omegod]

  On 30/03/2022 at 13:53, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

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a mate has boxing gloves like these for his chickens 

[Metal Guru]

BBC’s self-congratulatory bits between the programmes, featuring people who by and large have made a fortune out of the licence fee.

Worst  bit is, it’s only there because nearly all programmes these days are made to fit the normal commercial 3 minute ad breaks, so the BBC might as well have ads.

Instead they have these little bits telling you how great they are. THIS is effectively  what you are getting for your £159.

[sierraman]

Spots!

[wuvvum]

  On 29/03/2022 at 09:12, beko1987 said:

There's no rhyme or reason for the prices. I put 20l/£36 in at my local esso Sat morning for the FoD. Then got to Whitchurch with it's small little independant station and it was 10p/l cheaper than the esso. Was almost cross but then decided it wasnt worth caring about

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I was mildly miffed when I filled up at Tesco on the way to the FOD and paid 169.9, then got to Wroxham and the Jet garage was 165.9.  Drove past there again today and it's gone up to 178.9.  WTAF?  To be fair that garage has always been a bit* odd - I'm not sure which bodily orifice he pulls his prices out of but it's certainly not one I possess.

On the plus side I then topped the tank up at Morrisons in Milton Keynes on the way home at a bargainous* 164.7.

[808 Estate]

All you need is God.

Except for when God isnt enough and you need Jagermeister.

[cobblers]

You know, my dad was a nun

[FakeConcern]

13 amp fuse only £65...

https://www.russandrews.com/ultrafuse-13a-single/

[cobblers]

someone tell these people that mig welder tips are dimensionally the same as a main fuse and much lower resistance

[High Jetter]

  On 30/03/2022 at 19:54, cobblers said:

You know, my dad was a nun

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Gwan, I'll bite - do tell!

[warch]

  On 30/03/2022 at 19:54, cobblers said:

You know, my dad was a nun

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Were you Baldrick?

[High Jetter]

That's a turnip for the books! 

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

[jamescarruthers]

480 went in for MOT today with zero prep. I had it done a few months early as our baby is due just before expiry. Crossed fingers I wouldn’t have to add more jobs to my expanding list of jobs and the wonderful old thing passed! Usually they need handbrake adjustment every year.

C6 tomorrow… I ‘m pretty confident in that doing the same. 

[Popsicle]

[Wack]

BBC Directors of the 1970s , I'm sure John Noakes could've made this look more appropriate for a kids TV show

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZML9fgsmf/

[Wack]

Those new 8k TVs get more realistic every year 

I bet that woke up whoever was in the house 

 

 

[Austat]

 

[jamescarruthers]

  On 31/03/2022 at 13:13, jamescarruthers said:

480 went in for MOT today with zero prep. I had it done a few months early as our baby is due just before expiry. Crossed fingers I wouldn’t have to add more jobs to my expanding list of jobs and the wonderful old thing passed! Usually they need handbrake adjustment every year.

C6 tomorrow… I ‘m pretty confident in that doing the same. 

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C6 also passed with a few advisories! Woohoo!

Fleet of shite and all going well. Feels strange!

 

[DSdriver]

  On 01/04/2022 at 09:43, Wack said:

Those new 8k TVs get more realistic every year 

I bet that woke up whoever was in the house 

 

 

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Drugs. Terrible stuff, he'll never get right of way across his neighbours gardens to his new garage.

[DVee8]

Watching a workmate doing a cross between ballet and laser quest this afternoon, to get his Jag XF to open with the fob.