What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

So you're stuck on a cruise ship that should have left on a 3 year cruise four months ago, which is suffering mechanical maladies, and is finally fixed

What do you really not want to see?

How about 2 of the officials holding a model of the Titanic? 😱

Yeah, it's not quite gone yet, either, - the Odyssey left Belfast Harbour late last night, and almost immediately afterward dropped anchor off Ballymacormick Point out in the lough.

Stranded cruise ship remains in Belfast hours after leaving harbour - BBC News

Apparently there's some problem with paperwork, now.

I can nearly see it from the kitchen window.

EDIT: it's back in Belfast Harbour again now...

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

So you're stuck on a cruise ship that should have left on a 3 year cruise four months ago, which is suffering mechanical maladies, and is finally fixed

What do you really not want to see?

How about 2 of the officials holding a model of the Titanic? 😱

Is that actually Titanic or a model of the weird pastiche that mad australian was trying to build a few years ago?

[comfortablynumb]

1 minute ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Is that actually Titanic or a model of the weird pastiche that mad australian was trying to build a few years ago?

Ssshhhh! You're spoiling my joke!🤣

[Wibble]

34 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Is that actually Titanic or a model of the weird pastiche that mad australian was trying to build a few years ago?

Apparently Titanic 2 is back on and will allegedly start it’s maiden voyage in 2027🤔

[comfortablynumb]

Weren't the Chinese building one too? Or maybe it was just one of their shipyards funded by someone else?

[Wibble]

4 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Weren't the Chinese building one too? Or maybe it was just one of their shipyards funded by someone else?

They were building one for a theme park I believe. I think this one is being built by a Chinese ship builder.

[somewhatfoolish]

6 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Weren't the Chinese building one too? Or maybe it was just one of their shipyards funded by someone else?

That's where it was being built, although given where China's cost base is going I imagine he now wishes he'd ordered it from one of the Vietnamese yards.

[hairnet]

the man in usa does food wrong   @PhilA isnt that like going into a bbq shack and buying a donut

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

the man in usa does food wrong   @PhilA isnt that like going into a bbq shack and buying a donut

Chicken and chips at a Mexican restaurant, burgers at IHOP, the list goes on.

[richardmorris]

23 hours ago, hairnet said:

Meant to post this

What is it - looks like a mazda/sonata but might be chinese?

Guigaro design for China. Hints of a lancia front and Toyota rear.

Poor in very respect.

https://www.chinacarforums.com/threads/brilliance-bs6-uk-press-slaughters-it.1504/page-2

[hairnet]

different chap heads for turkey and decides to keep going

as of friday hes in kazakh having been into russia and thru georgia and chechnya

 

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

That's where it was being built, although given where China's cost base is going I imagine he now wishes he'd ordered it from one of the Vietnamese yards.

It’ll be starship titanic soon. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

9 minutes ago, hairnet said:

 

Hnnnnnnnnnng

[hairnet]

31 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Hnnnnnnnnnng

is that the farmer or the trucker in you talking

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 minute ago, hairnet said:

is that the farmer or the trucker in you talking

 

Both

[hairnet]

omfg

just watching the bangers and cash where they restore 69 cooper s

eek

just waiting for the auction now

[hairnet]

is it me or is the ad for big brother with the guinea pigs likely better than the program itself

[hairnet]

bike gadge is a fookin loony

the other side of the river was afghan - he is in tajikistan

and as i found out (heonly mentioned it now in his report)

hes heading for the pamir mountains

DO NOT IGNORE THIS

 

@davidfowler2000 has prolly had a shot of one of them D

[hairnet]

so hes on the way back and was told about an 'event'

hes not mentioned it so far but hes at a hotel and

quote

'We need to negotiate a price. These rooms are obviously in high demand. This isn’t something you can see every day. If this was  we’d have had to book it 2 years ago and sell a kidney to pay for it. I’m wondering if I have enough cash on me. But then she says ‘3000 each’.

‘What? Pounds? Dollars?’

‘Niet. Tenge’

So, that’s about £4.50 for the room for the night with a (long distance) view of the Baikonor launch site out the window. I think that’s what would be generally considered to be a bloody bargain............'

OMG

[hairnet]

 

[comfortablynumb]

I thought for a minute that was the Israelis again... 😱

[MorrisItalSLX]

18 hours ago, Wibble said:

Apparently Titanic 2 is back on and will allegedly start it’s maiden voyage in 2027🤔

I’ll believe it when I see it as Clive Palmer is a fat lying twat.

How about instead of spending millions building a replica Titanic, you pay the staff made redundant from your failed Nickel mine their payouts you owe them.

Sorry, rant over.

[grizz]

No balls

[Datsuncog]

On 01/10/2024 at 15:05, Datsuncog said:

Yeah, it's not quite gone yet, either, - the Odyssey left Belfast Harbour late last night, and almost immediately afterward dropped anchor off Ballymacormick Point out in the lough.

Stranded cruise ship remains in Belfast hours after leaving harbour - BBC News

Apparently there's some problem with paperwork, now.

I can nearly see it from the kitchen window.

EDIT: it's back in Belfast Harbour again now...

Despite promises that it would finally depart on Tuesday night, that bloody cruise liner's still not gone.

Belfast cruise ship to leave for France, passengers say - BBC News

It does sound like the most shonky cruise ship setup imaginable, though:

Quote

Villa Vie Residences bought the 31-year-old ship from Fred Olsen Cruise Lines in 2023.

The ship arrived at Queen’s Island in the Northern Ireland capital to be outfitted in April 2024.

It was scheduled to leave on 30 May for the first leg of its cruise.

But until 30 September, it was stuck in Belfast due to problems with its rudders and gearbox.

The vessel had some final inspections to pass this week before it was signed off to sail.

Passengers have been able to spend time on the ship during the day while waiting for a departure date, but had to disembark in the evenings to stay in hotels.

Basically, the new owners took on an end-of-life cruise liner that had been laid up for four years, sold all the rooms to paying customers on a permanent basis, only to find out that the steering and gearbox were fucking fucked m8, once they got it to a garage*.

If AutoShite did cruises...

 

*Harland & Wolff

[comfortablynumb]

20 hours ago, richardmorris said:

It’ll be starship titanic soon. 

Been watching Dr Who? 😄

[somewhatfoolish]

10 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Despite promises that it would finally depart on Tuesday night, that bloody cruise liner's still not gone.

Belfast cruise ship to leave for France, passengers say - BBC News

It does sound like the most shonky cruise ship setup imaginable, though:

Basically, the new owners took on an end-of-life cruise liner that had been laid up for four years, sold all the rooms to paying customers on a permanent basis, only to find out that the steering and gearbox were fucking fucked m8, once they got it to a garage*.

If AutoShite did cruises...

 

*Harland & Wolff

AS cruises would be blasting a gap in Queen Mary's lagoon and propelling it with 500 outboard motors, or stealing the SS Rotterdam or maybe this thing.

 

[comfortablynumb]

16 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Despite promises that it would finally depart on Tuesday night, that bloody cruise liner's still not gone.

And it's STILL there.

Apparently they can't decide whether it's leaving or not.

Latest is 11pm Thursday night.

Place your bets now...

@Datsuncog any live updates? 😁

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

@Datsuncog any live updates? 😁

Still there; doesn't appear to have moved since it dropped anchor off Ballyholme Bay in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

NOT-QUITE-LIVE POTATOCAM ACTION YO:

(That's it in the middle of the pic - funny how something quite obvious to the eye is little more than a distant smudge to a phone camera. See also: taking pics of the moon...)

[reb]

Starting in about 6 hours, video I have produced will be available to watch on cable TV in thousands of homes in a random corner of the US.

Wild.

[hairnet]

Because racecar

Official is 99 ive had 94 gps before