What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

6 hours ago, warch said:

Lego Muppets!

Isn't the second one from the right Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy?

[wuvvum]

Look what the postie brought me today.

I was actually quite impressed with how efficient the whole process was.  Sent the paperwork off probably end of April, a few weeks later it came back with a covering letter explaining that they couldn't process it as I hadn't done a NOVA declaration, and a return envelope addressed to the specific DVLA employee handling the application.

Sent off the partially completed NOVA form and covering letter explaining why I couldn't fill in the rest, which took them about three weeks to turn around, which was fair enough as there was the Jubilee weekend in the middle.  Once I got the email to say the NOVA was done I posted the docs back to DVLA.  On Tuesday of this week I got a call from a very pleasant and efficient chap called Anthony in Swansea who said that the application was done and I just needed to pay (I'd enclosed a cheque with the original application but that had obviously gone AWOL at some point).  He gave me a number for a payment line to call, which got answered after three rings and the payment went straight through.  Three days later the V5C turns up.  @hairnet they obviously just don't like you...

The bike is now insured (for the princely sum of £57 a year) and tomorrow I'll be buying it a number plate.  Then I can use it on the road legally for the first time in almost 25 years.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Isn't the second one from the right Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy?

Muppets in Lego isn't fucked up enough anyway?

[vulgalour]

That's Statler or Waldorf (I never know which is which)

[DavieW]

On the end credits of an episode of Last of the Summer Wine tonight.....

 

[Wack]

FFS Mate

if he comes off it'll take them a week to brush the glass up 

[RoverFolkUs]

13 hours ago, DavieW said:

On the end credits of an episode of Last of the Summer Wine tonight.....

 

Still using the Autoshite of sky boxes it seems too 😁

[808 Estate]

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Still using the Autoshite of sky boxes it seems too 😁

Those were the better ones tho. Recently put a new hard drive in my Granny's one.

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, Wack said:

FFS Mate

if he comes off it'll take them a week to brush the glass up 

Which will be the first time someone with full beam comes up behind him and burns his retinas out.

[RoverFolkUs]

8 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Those were the better ones tho. Recently put a new hard drive in my Granny's one.

Interestingly I had one briefly and it was a pile of shit, always freezing so I convinced them to send me a shiny (well, that matte black colour) new one, their first HD model.

Those were the days, paying £40 a month for the privilege* of recording crap satellite TV 🙄

Don't ask how I managed to identify the box from the pause icon! 

(That very icon burned into my state of the art Samsung plasma telly I had at the time. Wasn't impressed. And no, before anyone says, it wasn't from being up during the early hours on the 9xx channels 😆) 

[808 Estate]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Which will be the first time someone with full beam comes up behind him and burns his retinas out.

We used to do that back in the 80s being bad ass bikers on our 125s.

Either that, or grab their whippy aerials, slow down a bit and then let go, so it flies forwards and twats them on the back of the head.,

[wuvvum]

So this happened...

[cobblers]

As ever, the members of VW camper facebook groups continue to amuse and terrify me with how little they know about their vehicles. Last week a bloke was asking whether he should buy copper brake pipe instead of flexys (it was cheaper) and today we get a woman with an air cooled van genuinely asking where she tops it up with antifreeze:

[horriblemercedes]

Just now, cobblers said:

As ever, the members of VW camper facebook groups continue to amuse and terrify me with how little they know about their vehicles. Last week a bloke was asking whether he should buy copper brake pipe instead of flexys (it was cheaper) and today we get a woman with an air cooled van genuinely asking where she tops it up with antifreeze:

I can understand making these mistakes when they were new and you were just buying "an van", but you'd think anyone who owns them now is into them enough to get that! 

 

That said, I guess a lot of people just own them because they want the retro camper lifestyle rather than liking vehicles 

[cobblers]

Just now, horriblemercedes said:

That said, I guess a lot of people just own them because they want the retro camper lifestyle rather than liking vehicles 

They're about two bank holiday camping trips away from being quite miserable about the poor choices they have made. 

[horriblemercedes]

7 minutes ago, cobblers said:

They're about two bank holiday camping trips away from being quite miserable about the poor choices they have made. 

About two away from making everyone else quite miserable when they break down in slow traffic on the M6

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, horriblemercedes said:

About two away from making everyone else quite miserable when they break down in slow traffic on the M6

Well, just on que her van has broken down already 😂😂 accelerator pedal has snapped off

[Wack]

I drove a bay window vw van in the late 70s early 80s , 80 mile round trip every day, it was awful then , you couldn't pay me enough to drive one now , I've no idea why anyone would want one , I had a calor gas bottle in the front with a heater on it trying to keep warm in the winter 

A bit like this 

It was the 70s though , all sorts of shit like that went on 

 

[vulgalour]

I have learned things with this paint.  Primarily, thinning it causes problems so it's best not to do that.  Secondly, it dries too fast to apply over large areas with a brush, you have no time to dress it out before it's already starting to dry.  Thirdly, it seems formulated to work best with mini gloss rollers, which suits me fine because that makes application fast and tidy.  All in all, that means the cheapest way of doing this job is actually the best.  What I also learned today is that you should use the foam rollers not the fluffy rollers because the fluffy rollers shed little bits into the wet paint and then you can't get them out so I've got to flat the bonnet down again and probably give it another coat of paint to deal with that, and that's going to have to wait a week or two for the fresh paint to be hard enough that it doesn't clog the sandpaper when I do that.  I really want this done this year, it's just been hard to find the time to get it sorted.

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, cobblers said:

As ever, the members of VW camper facebook groups continue to amuse and terrify me with how little they know about their vehicles. Last week a bloke was asking whether he should buy copper brake pipe instead of flexys (it was cheaper) and today we get a woman with an air cooled van genuinely asking where she tops it up with antifreeze:

Antifreeze ...in the summer?

[HillmanImp]

[RoverFolkUs]

[horriblemercedes]

I'm treating myself to an air conditioning regas

[horriblemercedes]

18 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

The one car thing that has annoyed me lately is in Stranger Things. Actually a lot annoys me in that, because I think it's a crap story with very poor attention to detail which is beautifully filmed and rendered to gloss over that.

 

But one of the characters drives a (then current) BMW E23 733i. He's a teenager who works in a video rental shop. That was a seriously posh car in 1986, when it's set.

[HillmanImp]

14 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

The one car thing that has annoyed me lately is in Stranger Things. Actually a lot annoys me in that, because I think it's a crap story with very poor attention to detail which is beautifully filmed and rendered to gloss over that.

 

But one of the characters drives a (then current) BMW E23 733i. He's a teenager who works in a video rental shop. That was a seriously posh car in 1986, when it's set.

Wasn't that covered in the earlier series? He's a rich kid isn't he. I thought he'd definitely get killed off, rich 'jock' etc. 

I've got a feeling they even mentioned it a few times about how the hell he was able to drive it. 

However, I'm with you on why he later works in an ice cream parlour and video shop if his dad's so rich. Maybe he'd invested the family fortune in Betamax instead of VHS? 

[horriblemercedes]

4 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Wasn't that covered in the earlier series? He's a rich kid isn't he. I thought he'd definitely get killed off, rich 'jock' etc. 

I've got a feeling they even mentioned it a few times about how the hell he was able to drive it. 

However, I'm with you on why he later works in an ice cream parlour and video shop if his dad's so rich. Maybe he'd invested the family fortune in Betamax instead of VHS? 

I don't remember to be honest! I've seen them but probably forgot those details 

 

I was more annoyed by how the Russian prison guard managed to call California from a payphone in the Soviet Union and how the pilot from the Soviet Union managed to own a helicopter, a plane and a warehouse full of weapons 

[Back_For_More]

19 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Maybe he'd invested the family fortune in Betamax instead of VHS? 

Iirc then in yankland (it is set there right as I've never seen it) he'd be OK as Betamax was the one to have over there apparently....  So running a barge on daddies investment was probably doable 

[Remspoor]

[neil1971]

Is this what's meant by subliminal advertising?