What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MikeR]

I had a spare Tapo socket and could not think what to call it on the app ..

so I called it Harry ..

[Dyslexic Viking]

The Merc has a mot pass.

[puddlethumper]

12 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The Merc has a mot pass.

Brilliant.

[Split_Pin]

This guy has to be a guiser and pulling my leg.

 

[Split_Pin]

[beko1987]

My mate was moaning his missus's oil light came on the other day, and how the thing probably needs an oil change soon as its probably never had one. 

I then concurred, and noted I need to do mine before it gets too cold to be arsed. 

So a plan was formed, he said he'd buy my oil and his and the filter if I'd drop it in. Seemed resonable

It's a 1l astra K 2019 so it can't be that difficult. 0w20 for it though, £4 more than my 5w30 😂

I'll need to start buying oil filters come 2025's change, the nice stock @Wingz123 gave me years ago is getting low...

[Tenmil Socket]

On 9/23/2023 at 2:09 PM, MikeR said:

I just happened to be in the right place and all set up when this Heron landed in front of me and waded into the pond at a reserve ....

I know Herons are very nervous and vanish at the first hint of man being around ...

But the vid has had 400 plus views ...  what did I do right ????

The last few months on my lunch break I’ve been walking around a small lake that’s beside my workplace. There’s a Heron there most days in the reeds. Sometimes it comes close amongst the ducks when I feed them. 

[sierraman]

Having spent an evening or so attempting to get a two stroke strimmer working, it running fine then the day after on coming to get it out it was completely dead, it was an absolute delight to fit another recoil to a Briggs and Stratton mower. These old things just work, rarely need much more than a clean out of the carb and and an occasional plug. Simple engineering, built to last. 

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Fuck me... 😂

[Christine]

40 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Having spent an evening or so attempting to get a two stroke strimmer working, it running fine then the day after on coming to get it out it was completely dead, it was an absolute delight to fit another recoil to a Briggs and Stratton mower. These old things just work, rarely need much more than a clean out of the carb and and an occasional plug. Simple engineering, built to last. 

Ive been having trouble too , i think its E10 fuel  ...and water absorbtion . When i drained my chainsaw, coz it wouldnt start,   there was little globules of water in it ..or the sweat dripping off my nose, (because ppe and chainsaw... ) happened to go into the tank when i filled it .. or  the petrol can ..  little engines don't seem to like it 

[Matty]

On 9/27/2023 at 9:15 AM, beko1987 said:

 Nice 👌

Had a genuine laugh, then chuckled again as I typed it into my phone after! 

Always a good start to the day 🤣

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, Christine said:

Ive been having trouble too , i think its E10 fuel  ...and water absorbtion . When i drained my chainsaw, coz it wouldnt start,   there was little globules of water in it ..or the sweat dripping off my nose, (because ppe and chainsaw... ) happened to go into the tank when i filled it .. or  the petrol can ..  little engines don't seem to like it 

I think it’s because you can’t really build a strimmer for £120 or whatever it is they cost, I got it for free. You can see all over where the corners are cut, the fuel pipes rely on just being wedged in the fuel tank as opposed to the proper grommet on dearer tackle.

[Wack]

It's 1965 , you've got £4000 (64k today) sitting in the bank then you spot this advert , 19 year old's were flying them with guns 25 years ago, how hard can it be 

 

 

 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

It's 1965 , you've got £4000 (64k today) sitting in the bank then you spot this advert , 19 year old's were flying them with guns 25 years ago, how hard can it be 

 

 

 

Would have been an even better investment than spending £4k on a house in London in 1965, it would be worth ~£1m similar v £4m for the Spitfire..

[Saabnut]

A friend of mine tells the story that at the end of the war, the local airport here in NE Scotland had rows parked on the runway and for sale. His father would not buy him one as £50 was a lot of money which they did not have!

[EyesWeldedShut]

10 hours ago, Christine said:

Ive been having trouble too , i think its E10 fuel  ...and water absorbtion . When i drained my chainsaw, coz it wouldnt start,   there was little globules of water in it ..or the sweat dripping off my nose, (because ppe and chainsaw... ) happened to go into the tank when i filled it .. or  the petrol can ..  little engines don't seem to like it 

I have two non-starting 2-stroke bastards here (cheapish tat) that I must scrap - the Husqvarna chainsaw, on the other hand, can lie dormant for a month then starts on maybe 3rd or fourth pull.
Also it's getting to the weather where you can wear  the padded trousers without getting a sweat rash - happy days

[Tenmil Socket]

15 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

The last few months on my lunch break I’ve been walking around a small lake that’s beside my workplace. There’s a Heron there most days in the reeds. Sometimes it comes close amongst the ducks when I feed them. 

Can you spot it?

[Westbay]

11 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Can you spot it?

Centre twohirds up from bottom …

[gm]

postie just dropped this off - i should have bought one years ago, will come in very handy

[gm]

i see that when leaving feedback on ebay there is now an option to add photos - how could i resist this opportunity? 

[gm]

ha, good game this  

[vulgalour]

Automotive perfection.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Searching for snow UK on YouTube is fun for a Scandinavian.

And to clarify, a couple of cm is not a lot of snow, example of a lot of snow is below.

[richardmorris]

14 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Searching for snow UK on YouTube is fun for a Scandinavian.

And to clarify, a couple of cm is not a lot of snow, example of a lot of snow is below.

My mums dad ( who died 40years ago), was stationed in Canada in ww2. He used to tell us about having to dig their way out of the barrack dormitory in the morning as the snow was 8ft deep. There’s a photo somewhere my mum has. Always told us as children who got excited when the snow was deeper than wellies, that we didn’t know what deep snow was.

[Wack]

23 hours ago, Saabnut said:

A friend of mine tells the story that at the end of the war, the local airport here in NE Scotland had rows parked on the runway and for sale. His father would not buy him one as £50 was a lot of money which they did not have!

I think they were £1000 in 46-47 

Only because a friend of a friend's grandad was a farmer near Burscough around that time , he died in the 80s ,they cleared a huge barn out because farmers never throw anything away 

Found a wing , then another wing , then the rest of a spitfire 

His farm used to be a raf base , aparrently he bought it at the end of the war with this idea he'd learn to fly it but it got shoved in the barn under a tarp and forgotten about,  buried behind old machinery 

The government tried to claim it as left there at the end of the war but the family had a receipt for £1000 from the mod so it was theirs.

I've never found anything online about it but it's the sort of thing you read and think , yeah that definitely happened 

[Metal Guru]

9 hours ago, richardmorris said:

My mums dad ( who died 40years ago), was stationed in Canada in ww2. He used to tell us about having to dig their way out of the barrack dormitory in the morning as the snow was 8ft deep. There’s a photo somewhere my mum has. Always told us as children who got excited when the snow was deeper than wellies, that we didn’t know what deep snow was.

I remember twice in the 80s (81 and 87 I think) , driving through cleared snow drifts as high as the car roof on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent (A228). This is about 30 miles from central London. 
In 87 several villages there got cut off for over a week and had to have supplies flown in by helicopter. 
Even the main A2 through Kent ( a motorway really) was closed for several days .

[myglaren]

11 hours ago, richardmorris said:

My mums dad ( who died 40years ago), was stationed in Canada in ww2. He used to tell us about having to dig their way out of the barrack dormitory in the morning as the snow was 8ft deep. There’s a photo somewhere my mum has. Always told us as children who got excited when the snow was deeper than wellies, that we didn’t know what deep snow was.

When I got off the ferry to Sweden, having followed an icebreaker into port, I got on a bus for my destination 30 miles away and was staggered by the snow piled up fifteen feet deep at the sides of the road.

Also, I knew a French girl who had lived in Chicago when little who told of her dad having to go out in a morning with a long pole to probe the snow to find their car.

[Joey spud]

A mate posted this image entitled "a fearless soul on his C90 circa 1982"

[AnnoyingPentium]

Had spent ages trying to find out where my Dad's old Nova had went after it was sold on. Logged into Facebook and boof, first post I see...

Edited September 30, 2023 by AnnoyingPentium
Idiocy

[Matty]

On 9/29/2023 at 2:50 PM, vulgalour said:

Automotive perfection.

Thus one cannot sell automotive perfection 😉