What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

Twice this week someone has told me I inspired them.

How valuable is that!

[hairnet]

the two mps that had been denied into israel

not a surprise - not cos mp or british or anything like that

for a number of years its been a thing that if you travel to certain places in the middle east you cannot enter israel

even tho it mentioned where theyd been first - the headline was still omg denied

the other way round israel then away - woulda been no problem

why cant they research this shit

sadly taxpayer is likely paying for it

 

[myglaren]

4 minutes ago, hairnet said:

the two mps that had been denied into israel

not a surprise - not cos mp or british or anything like that

for a number of years its been a thing that if you travel to certain places in the middle east you cannot enter israel

even tho it mentioned where theyd been first - the headline was still omg denied

the other way round israel then away - woulda been no problem

why cant they research this shit

sadly taxpayer is likely paying for it

 

I worked for a commercial photo studio in Sweden.  There were many trips to the middle east for location photography and all the models, photographers and reps had two passports, one for Israel and the other for everywhere else.

[myglaren]

[IronStar]

Sixpack arrived yesterday. What a lovely, rare to me, treat. Why don’t we sell this here?!

Random wondering- How many packs of Irn Bru can you 

a) Fit in the boot of Daimler Conquest? 
b) Get across the border without being hassled by the customs?

 

[jim89]

17 minutes ago, hairnet said:

the two mps that had been denied into israel

not a surprise - not cos mp or british or anything like that

for a number of years its been a thing that if you travel to certain places in the middle east you cannot enter israel

even tho it mentioned where theyd been first - the headline was still omg denied

the other way round israel then away - woulda been no problem

why cant they research this shit

sadly taxpayer is likely paying for it

 

They came from Luton airport?

BBC version says israelis covered return flights?

[PhilA]

17 hours ago, hairnet said:

16 mins put it on mute

@PhilA 19 mins  45:40

whats the green thing at 20:33 @Mr_Bo11ox

@Skizzer 31:03

lol at the 205 van done like a rallye

That Oldsmobile is quite low. 

The green thing is a late model Talbot-Simca 1100

[beko1987]

Queued up for a kebab last night and it was quite busy. Were several expensive audi's out on some sort of drive, everyone's heads kept turning now and again with the sound of a loud exhaust approaching 🧓

I then heard an XUD approaching (there's a zebra crossing nearby which makes people change down) and a fucking mint looking dark green ZX Estate on an N plate came tootling by. Didn't get my phone out fast enough sadly for a pic.

No one else looked at it...

[hairnet]

what did @Mrs6C buy now

 

[richardmorris]

[320touring]

Been for a decent sized walk out near Aberfoyle. Saw some scrap to rival @richardmorris's posts..

[MikeR]

Thanks to dry spell the normally flooded forest by the caravan has dried out ...

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, IronStar said:

Sixpack arrived yesterday. What a lovely, rare to me, treat. Why don’t we sell this here?!

Random wondering- How many packs of Irn Bru can you 

a) Fit in the boot of Daimler Conquest? 
b) Get across the border without being hassled by the customs?

 

thats probably better for you than the real thing

 

[hairnet]

watching wheeler dealers integrale

brewer is still a twat

but the grale

they bought for *not much and even then (hammond in the lancia topgear said 25k ish)

75k + now

[IronStar]

4 minutes ago, hairnet said:

thats probably better for you than the real thing

 

I prefer the actual thing, but not saying no to Lidl’s knockoff either

[paulplom]

Is it still made from girders 🧐

[hairnet]

54 minutes ago, 320touring said:

Been for a decent sized walk out near Aberfoyle. Saw some scrap to rival @richardmorris's posts..

 

 

 

 

yir fired ken

[IronStar]

25 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Is it still made from girders 🧐

Seemingly from some different sort of metal construction material, as the colour seems a bit different 

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

what did @Mrs6C buy now

 

Don't be silly, this one still had all its lacquer! Was the same green as my old one

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Is it still made from girders 🧐

Rusty nails!

[wuvvum]

The leading article in this week's Spectator made me smirk.  It's entitled "Keir Starmer's moral vacuum".  Which seemed a reasonable enough premise for an article, until I saw that it was authored by Michael Gove.

[Metal Guru]

On 05/04/2025 at 21:36, eddyramrod said:

Twice this week someone has told me I inspired them.

How valuable is that!

Sure they didn’t say “You’re really perspiring”? It was pretty warm.

[hairnet]

11 hours ago, PhilA said:

 

The green thing is a late model Talbot-Simca 1100

@PhilA

this = the one immediately before - yes - the ones to teh right are

this is bigger teh rear side profile is diffent it looks a bigger car..............??

[Metal Guru]

12 hours ago, jim89 said:

They came from Luton airport?

BBC version says israelis covered return flights?

I’m not an apologist for Israel so don’t have a go at me , but this was a put up job. Muslim MP publicly criticises Israel  and then travels there knowing they will be denied entry, also knowing that would make more of a story than if they’d been allowed in.

[jim89]

5 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I’m not an apologist for Israel so don’t have a go at me , but this was a put up job. Muslim MP publicly criticises Israel  and then travels there knowing they will be denied entry, also knowing that would make more of a story than if they’d been allowed in.

Oh I think you're correct.

Just checking the finer* details (or trying to 😅).

[Merryck]

18 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Disney have the fifth largest navy in the world by number of craft (750) due to the boats in their parks. Obviously by displacement they're way off.

In 1989 Pepsi had the 6th largest navy in the world when the Soviets traded them  17 Submarines, a cruiser, frigate and a destroyer in return for opening Pizza Huts in the USSR and supplying various products. Unfortunately they scrapped it all rather than do the obvious thing and use them to muscle Coca Cola out of the market.

[eddyramrod]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Sure they didn’t say “You’re really perspiring”? It was pretty warm.

One was in a PM here.  I think I'd have spotted such a spelling issue!

[horriblemercedes]

6 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I’m not an apologist for Israel so don’t have a go at me , but this was a put up job. Muslim MP publicly criticises Israel  and then travels there knowing they will be denied entry, also knowing that would make more of a story than if they’d been allowed in.

In an interview, I saw that one of them said, "It's vital that British parliamentarians are able to see the situation in Gaza first hand for themselves."

 

Why is that vital?

[loserone]

38 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

In an interview, I saw that one of them said, "It's vital that British parliamentarians are able to see the situation in Gaza first hand for themselves."

 

Why is that vital?

Because we're supporting them doing it all?

[horriblemercedes]

2 minutes ago, loserone said:

Because we're supporting them doing it all?

I don't think that them being MPs means that we unconditionally support them and I don't think that the support of the British public should grant them the right to cross borders unconditionally