What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Datsuncog]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

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...)

Apparently it'll definitely be leaving tonight.

Belfast cruise ship still waiting to leave for France - BBC News

Definitely.

(I'll have a look in the morning - place your bets now...)

[warch]

23 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

If AutoShite did cruises...

I see it managed about sixteen miles before the captain discovered it wouldn't go into fourth. My Triumph managed about twice that earlier this year before a FTP thanks to overheating wiring. 

ETA I wonder how much of the world they'll get to see during their three year cruise.  

[myglaren]

[Datsuncog]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Apparently it'll definitely be leaving tonight.

Belfast cruise ship still waiting to leave for France - BBC News

Definitely.

(I'll have a look in the morning - place your bets now...)

It's away!

Couldn't see it from the foreshore while sitting in traffic on the way home... according to reports, it left around 4.30pm.

BBC News - Stranded cruise ship finally sails out of Belfast Lough 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ely932d64o

Just have to wait and see if it stays out...

[High Jetter]

Why did they have to get off to stay in hotels overnight, and did the company pay for that?

[somewhatfoolish]

BBC news said it was heading for the Clyde earlier. 🤣

[High Jetter]

14 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

BBC news said it was heading for the Clyde earlier. 🤣

How does Clyde feel about that? Could be a new lodger.

[somewhatfoolish]

Peel Ports will be glad to charge them harbour dues to drop their anchor inside the harbour limits.

[artdjones]

On 28/09/2024 at 12:27, hairnet said:

Ffs

Why is there 3 tolls between caen and pont normandie

 

Two are card the last i have a ticket 

Weird

Big up to that nice keith bloke

Go via Pont de Brotonne, it's free.

[artdjones]

3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

It's away!

Couldn't see it from the foreshore while sitting in traffic on the way home... according to reports, it left around 4.30pm.

BBC News - Stranded cruise ship finally sails out of Belfast Lough 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ely932d64o

Just have to wait and see if it stays out...

It'll probably be tied up at the quay in Cobh this time tomorrow.

They'll have run out of toilet paper or sprung a leak.

[Metal Guru]

39 minutes ago, artdjones said:

It'll probably be tied up at the quay in Cobh this time tomorrow.

They'll have run out of toilet paper or sprung a leak.

It’s not going that far. Earlier report said the Clyde. I can really recommend* Greenock.

[somewhatfoolish]

The jaikeys are very welcoming and so are the shite hawks.

[Datsuncog]

The best bit for me, from today's shenanigans, was the assurance to passengers and authorities that they were heading out of Belfast Lough on a north-east bearing towards the Clyde and Glasgow - but instead the ship turned due south, and now appears to be heading for the coast of France...

Maybe the steering wasn't quite sorted, then...

[somewhatfoolish]

Quick trip around the Mew Island lighthouse and then north?🤣

[Rustybullethole]

Berlingo punches above its weight yet again.

To be fair it's tugged far heavier loads in my ownership though my expectation of this being a bum clenching wobbly mess was entirely unfounded. Even when getting shown a clean pair of heels by the artics, which happened more than once. 

Some bearing and brake love for the caravan and careful weighting of tat came i to play though regardless I am yet again impressed with the little petrol Citroens performance*

[andy18s]

9 hours ago, artdjones said:

It'll probably be tied up at the quay in Cobh this time tomorrow.

They'll have run out of toilet paper or sprung a leak.

I'm sure they were demanding to be offloaded and pop along down to the hallowed halls of tat Friday,and fill their boots with genuine Irish Antiques..

[artdjones]

13 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

heading out of Belfast Lough on a north-east bearing towards the Clyde and Glasgow -

They were going to the Clyde to refuel, but that's been scrubbed now and they are going to Brest. So Cobh would be a good refuge if* it all goes pear shaped. I'll nip down and take a look if it happens.

[Markeh]

On yet another airport run for my parents this evening, this being number 3 of 4 this year. Due to Luton airport's lack of short stay parking I couldn't stand with a sign last time. This time it's Manchester again, and I can.

[High Jetter]

Saw these 2 stickers on a van today, the right one especially made me smile:

[reb]

My new neighbours were moving some things in today, they gave me a bottle of wine!

[reb]

21 minutes ago, reb said:

My new neighbours were moving some things in today, they gave me a bottle of wine!

It seems to me that it is the universal experience of those under 30 to be gifted a bottle of wine with a cork, be unable to find that promotional corkscrew you got 5 years ago, then fight using improvised tools in order to drink some wine with bits of cork floating in it.

[Markeh]

1 hour ago, reb said:

It seems to me that it is the universal experience of those under 30 to be gifted a bottle of wine with a cork, be unable to find that promotional corkscrew you got 5 years ago, then fight using improvised tools in order to drink some wine with bits of cork floating in it.

As a professional* alcoholic I know very well where my corkscrew is (although cheap bottles of White Zinfandel generally don't have corks for me to worry about!)

[reb]

11 minutes ago, Markeh said:

As a professional* alcoholic I know very well where my corkscrew is (although cheap bottles of White Zinfandel generally don't have corks for me to worry about!)

I generally drink fizzy piss featuring a self-removing cork.

[myglaren]

32 minutes ago, Markeh said:

As a professional* alcoholic I know very well where my corkscrew is (although cheap bottles of White Zinfandel generally don't have corks for me to worry about!)

I recently went to open a corked bottle and couldn't find the corkscrew anywhere so used a 'waiter's' corkscrew that wouldn't pivot properly on the top of the bottle and ended up chewing the cork out in bits, aided with a screwdriver.  Took the best part of an hour.

Then couldn't find a stopper for the bottle.  Fortunately I have a decanter that was brought into use.

After a few bottles like that I did discover the corkscrew, on my desk, the stopper too.

Just opened a bottle of Tokaji Amethyst, screw top as it happens.

[DavieW]

Whenever we get a bottle of wine with a cork, the bloody electric corkscrew is flat. 

[reb]

Just now, DavieW said:

Whenever we get a bottle of wine with a cork, the bloody electric corkscrew is flat. 

Even though I spend roughly 75% of the time blind drunk, even I would question the utility of an electric corkscrew.

[somewhatfoolish]

If you have a drift, pin punch or piece of dowel of suitable diameter and a hammer you can drive the cork into the bottle.

[richardmorris]

Surprised none of you has a Swiss Army knife.

[loserone]

Bit of string and a lighter, followed by some ice

[myglaren]

12 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Surprised none of you has a Swiss Army knife.

I have three, not the original Swiss ones but a Leatherman and a couple of others.  They would just be the same as the waiter's corkscrew though.  Readily admit that I never thought of them.