What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Matty]

13 hours ago, maxxo said:

Well after all the shite of the past few weeks there is one good thing

on Monday I start my new job

apprentice intruder and fire alarm engineer

really looking forward to it

Yes Max!!!!! Proper job that you can make good brass at! Fresh start pal, onwards and upwards 👍 

[iainrcz]

Got a bit carried away, bought a Claudio Lugli shirt.

[jakebullet]

Little blue C1 is back with a new LUK clutch for £320. Got my money's worth out of the old one. Plate down to rivets, cover has fallen apart and fingers almost worn thru. 

[hairnet]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c133x22kzrpo

dumb as a stump

if youre gonna do that pull over and be sat on the other side for the 5 mins itd take obvs

[hairnet]

bislett ftmfw

@Dyslexic Viking

[hairnet]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/live/cl554vjw9vpt#player

@Dyslexic Viking

[Split_Pin]

I came 2nd in a Dad's potato and spoon race today 🙂

I applied an engineering* strategy of holding the spoon loosely between my finger and thumb to act as a kind of crude suspension system to absorb the shocks from my running.

A lot of the other Dads were faster than me but they quickly dropped their potatoes. My strategy worked well and I didn't drop mine once. I didn't see the tactics of the winning* dad but I did hear some people say I was cheated out of first place. I didn't see if he had blu-tac on his potato or something though as I was concentrating too much 😂

My son also came second in his own similar race!

[GeorgeB]

5 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I came 2nd in a Dad's potato and spoon race today 🙂

I applied an engineering* strategy of holding the spoon loosely between my finger and thumb to act as a kind of crude suspension system to absorb the shocks from my running.

A lot of the other Dads were faster than me but they quickly dropped their potatoes. My strategy worked well and I didn't drop mine once. I didn't see the tactics of the winning* dad but I did hear some people say I was cheated out of first place. I didn't see if he had blu-tac on his potato or something though as I was concentrating too much 😂

My son also came second in his own similar race!

Losers!

[Matty]

Home visit!! (Still no garage yet car still lives at who can find space). Despite all the engine work a good run home today suggests the ungrateful little twat is eating its gearbox. Never mind, i have a spare 😄

[Remspoor]

I am not into football, but still....

The Belgian away kit for Euro2024

[hairnet]

So im here

 

Put in where im going( im closer to it here than home)

And this happened - wondered why enviro zone

Scrolled down and it sends me from here to hull for the ferry back through london

Its not set on no tolls or ferries

[hairnet]

Braaap

Ive had 40 mph on the bike once 

 

Also the train looks like its not een cleaned since 1994

[hairnet]

This is how far i am from it

Like rhe signs say kids dont follow sat nav (mostly)

[hairnet]

[hairnet]

Ming ( blame the belgians)

Shit peugeot did 687 miles since friday

56.5 litres 57 mpg

Bling

[hairnet]

@Dyslexic Viking grand ponton passed on way home 

didnt find amg sl55 or 608D sadly

[TataBobu]

On 28/05/2024 at 20:34, Yoss said:

Tonights papanaşi came as a pair. 

I finished them but I'll admit I struggled. It probably is a good job I don't live here. 

It's getting atmospheric outside too. 

Luckily it was only a five minute walk back to the hotel. 

Papanași always have to be in pairs, it's the plural form. A single one should be a "papanaș", but nobody over here would dare to be such a cheapskate to sell them as singles.

[Yoss]

6 hours ago, TataBobu said:

Papanași always have to be in pairs, it's the plural form. A single one should be a "papanaș", but nobody over here would dare to be such a cheapskate to sell them as singles.

Thanks, I didn't know that. The one I had the first night was a single one but it was bigger. I don't think I could have eaten two of those. The Romanian restaurant we used to have here in Southampton always sold them in pairs. They were obviously doing it properly. 

[beko1987]

Pissing around with Home Assistant last night I found a DVLA plugin 😂

Following the github instructions I now have an API key with 62 requests a month and have some sensors made from my car!

I wonder how far these API keys go 🤔 I could take requests and have it spit out emails when stuff happens/becomes due!

[hairnet]

10 hours ago, Yoss said:

Thanks, I didn't know that. The one I had the first night was a single one but it was bigger. I don't think I could have eaten two of those. The Romanian restaurant we used to have here in Southampton always sold them in pairs. They were obviously doing it properly. 

want. where. fanks.

[Yoss]

 

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

want. where. fanks.

Anywhere in Romania to be honest, it is sort of their national dish, or at least their national desert. 

That particular one was in Sinaia at a restaurant strangely called The Irish House. Despite this there was no English language menu. I understand papanaşi though. 

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Pissing around with Home Assistant last night I found a DVLA plugin 😂

Following the github instructions I now have an API key with 62 requests a month and have some sensors made from my car!

I wonder how far these API keys go 🤔 I could take requests and have it spit out emails when stuff happens/becomes due!

Can us old fogies have that in English?

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Can us old fogies have that in English?

I'm not sure I can... 😅

It's the dvla data one gets from doing a basic search online, but I can request the data directly from the servers (twice a day apparently) 

Pointless really for me but fun! To get a but more geeky, I have a program called Alteryx on my work pc, and found a guide to pull data via that, which can be done more in bulk, and then cleansed sorted and analysed within the same workflow (again not anything I need to do but say we knew someone with a fleet of cars, some not having seen daylight for years and years and could get every vehicle on one spreadsheet with tax and mot status (no idea what's shown on an mot exempt car...) 

@LightBulbFunwill understand (and probably know exactly what limitations and brick walls pulling bulk data from the dvla probably has...)

Getting the api key (the thing that let's me into the data) was automated though and I wonder what limit of monthly queries one could put before it's declined 🤔

[myglaren]

 

[Cavcraft]

In response to someone name calling her, a girl down the down the road replied' Try feeding your kids and stop feeding your fanny'.

[beko1987]

Make    Registration    co2 Emissions    Colour    dateOfLastV5CIssued    motExpiryDate    motStatus    Tax Due Date    Tax Status    engineCapacity    fuelType    markedForExport    monthOfFirstRegistration    typeApproval    wheelplan    yearOfManufacture
CITROEN    GL02BHX    141    SILVER    2020-03-11    2024-09-03    Valid    2025-03-01    Taxed    1997    DIESEL    false    2002-06    M1    2 AXLE RIGID BODY    2002
CITROEN    R267PGF        BLUE    2014-09-08    2015-06-28    Not valid        SORN    1998    PETROL    false    1997-09        2 AXLE RIGID BODY    1997
FORD    K176YBV        SILVER    2012-08-21        No details held by DVLA        SORN    1597    PETROL    false    1993-07        2 AXLE RIGID BODY    1993
FORD    L263YVK        BLUE    2011-11-01    2024-11-10    Valid    2024-10-01    Taxed    1796    PETROL    false    1994-02        2 AXLE RIGID BODY    1994

Can do pretty PDF reports or just large datasets

It views better when in a spreadsheet but I got Alteryx to bulk query the DVLA from a list of reg numbers, cleaned the crap out of the resulting data as it's badly formatted everywhere and I now get the above! Found some Mondeo's from the mk1 thread. Anyone want any bulk extracts of car data? Happy to generate another API key with a large number of extracts set

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

It views better when in a spreadsheet but I got Alteryx to bulk query the DVLA from a list of reg numbers, cleaned the crap out of the resulting data as it's badly formatted everywhere and I now get the above! Found some Mondeo's from the mk1 thread. Anyone want any bulk extracts of car data? Happy to generate another API key with a large number of extracts set

for shits and giggles i'd be interested if you could run REV375R-REV475R then tabulate the average life of that registration block by comparing the date first registered to the Tax Due date and then averaging out the figure, you might wanna drop REV451R otherwise that will skew the data somewhat LOL 

dont know if you can set it to just automaticly run the 101 marks, but the concatenate function of Libreoffice is great for generating blocks that I feed into my own bulk-running tool LOL 

[beko1987]

3 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

for shits and giggles i'd be interested if you could run REV375R-REV475R then tabulate the average life of that registration block by comparing the date first registered to the Tax Due date and then averaging out the figure, you might wanna drop REV451R otherwise that will skew the data somewhat LOL 

dont know if you can set it to just automaticly run the 101 marks, but the concatenate function of Libreoffice is great for generating blocks that I feed into my own bulk-running tool LOL 

I could probably cobble a long list together in Excel fairly easily, then what doesn't come back didn't exist. Will give it a go in a bit, just got home. The date calcs should be easy too with some date tool action

I've almost got the whole lot automated, but the input thing has to be formatted specifically, and Alteryx won't make a " which the string demands as" denotes the start of a text entry and it won't take "", so the first bit has to be done manually. 

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I could probably cobble a long list together in Excel fairly easily, then what doesn't come back didn't exist. Will give it a go in a bit, just got home. The date calcs should be easy too with some date tool action

I've almost got the whole lot automated, but the input thing has to be formatted specifically, and Alteryx won't make a " which the string demands as" denotes the start of a text entry and it won't take "", so the first bit has to be done manually. 

Spammed your thread with rev goodness 👌

[richardmorris]

22 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I'm not sure I can... 😅

It's the dvla data one gets from doing a basic search online, but I can request the data directly from the servers (twice a day apparently) 

Pointless really for me but fun! To get a but more geeky, I have a program called Alteryx on my work pc, and found a guide to pull data via that, which can be done more in bulk, and then cleansed sorted and analysed within the same workflow (again not anything I need to do but say we knew someone with a fleet of cars, some not having seen daylight for years and years and could get every vehicle on one spreadsheet with tax and mot status (no idea what's shown on an mot exempt car...) 

@LightBulbFunwill understand (and probably know exactly what limitations and brick walls pulling bulk data from the dvla probably has...)

Getting the api key (the thing that let's me into the data) was automated though and I wonder what limit of monthly queries one could put before it's declined 🤔

Wind that back further, what is home assist?