What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[DSdriver]

  On 20/06/2022 at 12:08, cobblers said:

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My father was as deaf as a post and managed to burn through a clutch in 7K because he could not hear he was slipping it.

He also tried unsuccessfully to claim on warranty and I thought they were quite right to refuse in his case. I didn't tell him he was wasting his time just in case he came up trumps

[iainrcz]

Saw some aboriginal art in Skeg.

[DSdriver]

  On 19/06/2022 at 22:17, hairnet said:

due to medical - looking at doing a runner for a coupla days

hai bai cos wanted to do a place

so boat to felbast ok but was thinking back via scotland in a fornight

last time i did larne cairnryan it was 50 quid 18 months ago?

just look for car - 240 quid one way - WTF?

looked at dublin and 200 euro

its cheaper to get the long boat from belfast back to liverpool including stena plus for tea and cake

wtf

would bike it but unlikely to be able to ride it

would fly (as last time) but thats a clusterfuck on its own

the grin is fly and hire is usually half the ferry - the car on its own is how much the ferry is - for two days  - insane

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Could the sudden surge in prices be in any way due to the sudden lack of competition from P&O?

[eddyramrod]

Finally... I got my PIP!

[Jazoli]

  On 20/06/2022 at 13:16, eddyramrod said:

Finally... I got my PIP!

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That's great news Eddie, a friend of mine has had a similar issue getting his so I bet its a relief for you. 

[hairnet]

  On 20/06/2022 at 12:29, DSdriver said:

Could the sudden surge in prices be in any way due to the sudden lack of competition from P&O?

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i dont think so - covid and cos july mainly - i never travel in july if i can help it for this reason

not THAT desperate to go to scotland - i can go from here if i was - paying money to go dont see the point 

 

[Datsuncog]

[richardmorris]

[andy18s]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10160337155278420&id=744188419

[vulgalour]

A friend visited in his not-quite-shabby pre-facelift Rover R8 today (I totally failed to get a photo, I'll have to see if I can get a copy of the ones I he snapped) to deliver a really nice polishing machine from another friend.  Now I want to polish ALL THE THINGS.  I'm going to start with the Maestro since I literally cannot make the paint on it look any worse than it already does.

[Wack]

Fuck me , can you imagine being a copper and seeing this coming the other way 😄

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMN2UnbhM/?k=1

[beko1987]

  On 20/06/2022 at 18:34, vulgalour said:

A friend visited in his not-quite-shabby pre-facelift Rover R8 today (I totally failed to get a photo, I'll have to see if I can get a copy of the ones I he snapped) to deliver a really nice polishing machine from another friend.  Now I want to polish ALL THE THINGS.  I'm going to start with the Maestro since I literally cannot make the paint on it look any worse than it already does.

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Warning, it's very addictive! Don't go chasing a flawless perfect finish at the expense of the thickness of the paint! 

[morrisoxide]

Just been playing about with AI generating images thingy.

This comes up for Autoshite. 

Link if you're as bored I am.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

Edit. Top right reminds me of @vulgalour Princess.

[Metal Guru]

  On 20/06/2022 at 12:27, DSdriver said:

My father was as deaf as a post and managed to burn through a clutch in 7K because he could not hear he was slipping it.

He also tried unsuccessfully to claim on warranty and I thought they were quite right to refuse in his case. I didn't tell him he was wasting his time just in case he came up trumps

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Ive only once had to change the clutch in a car and that had done 160 000 miles., but I’ve heard if supercars that can only do about half a dozen full power launches without getting through a clutch. Can’t imagine anyone would pay a warranty claim for a clutch on a driving school car though.

[vulgalour]

  On 21/06/2022 at 07:05, beko1987 said:

Warning, it's very addictive! Don't go chasing a flawless perfect finish at the expense of the thickness of the paint! 

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Fortunately, I've used one of these things before and perfect is something that happens to other people, so we're good.

[omegod]

  On 20/06/2022 at 13:16, eddyramrod said:

Finally... I got my PIP!

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Happy days Eddie, hopefully it'll take a bit of pressure off your mind, hopefully there's an element of back pay you can treat yourself and the good lady  with 

[catsinthewelder]

Quiet afternoon so clocked off and serviced the daily driver, found a split pipe which should be the source of lots of limp mode recently.

Guess what the little van is for.

[Wack]

  On 21/06/2022 at 14:30, catsinthewelder said:

Quiet afternoon so clocked off and serviced the daily driver, found a split pipe which should be the source of lots of limp mode recently.

Guess what the little van is for.

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postman pat convention but it got painted the wrong colour

[mitsisigma01]

  On 21/06/2022 at 14:30, catsinthewelder said:

Guess what the little van is for.

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Red bull soapbox run 🤔

[LightBulbFun]

  On 21/06/2022 at 14:30, catsinthewelder said:

Quiet afternoon so clocked off and serviced the daily driver, found a split pipe which should be the source of lots of limp mode recently.

Guess what the little van is for.

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Support vehicle for the FoD railway? LOL

[catsinthewelder]

  On 21/06/2022 at 15:19, mitsisigma01 said:

Red bull soapbox run 🤔

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Close enough

I'm one of 2 drivers from work doing this on Sunday

https://www.richardscastlesoapbox.co.uk/

[iainrcz]

Got my leg over earlier, in complete silence just in case we woke the dog 🤣

[motorpunk]

Two things!

1-Goodwood Festival of Speed, this weekend. Am packing now. Excited.

2-It looks like I’m entering the most Autoshite of motorsport events; the 24 hours of Lemons, in the US, this autumn. Details TBC. A proper bucket list thing!

[Wack]

This is what happens when you're paid by the parcel not the hour , rush rush rush , he probably thinks the van's been nicked 😄

 

[High Jetter]

  On 21/06/2022 at 20:57, iainrcz said:

Got my leg over earlier, in complete silence just in case we woke the dog 🤣

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Dog will hate you in the morning

[iainrcz]

  On 21/06/2022 at 22:05, High Jetter said:

Dog will hate you in the morning

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Pretty sure he hates me anyway.

Unless I have treats, obviously.

[HillmanImp]

Why not move the car forward 4ft so it's in the garage? 

[face]

  On 14/06/2022 at 06:32, MikeR said:

Interesting bit of kit ...

 

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They’re fucking awesome things. 13-06 was one of the early ones not built by the RNLI themselves in their new factory.

Composite hull and wheelhouse 👌

The noise they make from the water-jet engines is incredible - they sound like a old muscle car 😎

[Bren]

While travelling down the M56 to my hospital appointment something on the other side of the motorway was smoking so badly I thought they were filming a remake of goldfinger.

It was a mk 4 mondeo. And it was obviously on its last.

[PhilA]

Was followed home by a mullet/baseball-cap last night, driving an early 90's Ford F-150. Truck itself didn't look too bad but every time we went around a left hand curve the cars behind him vanished.

I think somethin' was leakin'