What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Rustybullethole]

Green laning in Berkshire I passed this lump at the side of the trail. No other parts to be seen. 

Trail side engine swap? Who knows? 

[EyesWeldedShut]

6am this morning and Mr. Cuckoo has rocked up for 2025. Rather loudly.
Hardy soul, this isn't Africa

[Yoss]

Got on a tram in Budapest and went to the end of the line because that's what I do.

You never know what your going to find. I found this. 

 

And there was a Felicia outside. Also note the early Swift photo bombing, the national car of Hungary, good to see they're still around. 

Plus its about 25° outside. It doesn't get any better than this. 

 

[IronStar]

24 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Got on a tram in Budapest and went to the end of the line because that's what I do.

You never know what your going to find. I found this. 

 

And there was a Felicia outside. Also note the early Swift photo bombing, the national car of Hungary, good to see they're still around. 

Plus its about 25° outside. It doesn't get any better than this. 

 

Shocking amount of Swifts still kicking around there! 

Shame that the railway to here is not operational yet. Supposedly soon though.

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, IronStar said:

Shocking amount of Swifts still kicking around there! 

 

I've seen several so far but quite a few less than three years ago. Still more than Felicias and Favorits in ČZ so they are hanging on well. Saw a bright shiny gold one which looked fabulous. No picture unfortunately. 

 

1 hour ago, IronStar said:

 

Shame that the railway to here is not operational yet. Supposedly soon though.

I look forward to that, I might come and visit you then! I shall be in Szeged on Tuesday if this all goes to plan which will be the closest to Serbia I have been. 

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, Yoss said:

Got on a tram in Budapest and went to the end of the line because that's what I do.

You never know what your going to find. I found this. 

 

 

bassa

although have croissants and tea here (with bonus mental issues)

[hairnet]

brewer

so g wagen they go to the length of steamcleaning engine bay and make it bling (and the rest)

then take it off roading

not 5 mins later the footballers 322 and 0.5 secs later he says sounds alright innit 

when its clearly running on 5 and smoke from the back

 

[IronStar]

1 hour ago, Yoss said:

.I look forward to that, I might come and visit you then! I shall be in Szeged on Tuesday if this all goes to plan which will be the closest to Serbia I have been. 

I’d come meet you for a drink there if work wasn’t so hectic. Next time you’re around though!

[hairnet]

planes trains everything (not as good as steve marsh)

scott is doing aberdoom to penzapastynce cos theyre shortening it (no shit sherlock its a long way) to plymouth

he was talking about them only having a trolley service and that the hotel hes in first has buffet breakfast that he *wasnt gonna pillage on the way south

its now or never  *break the law break the law

and as i type this he gets to brekky but is unable to snaffle extra breakfast as theres staff everywhere

edit: he said he had a plan b and while theres an aldi backing onto the platform he had an express greggs delivery lmfao (from the other scoatish train pervs)

[Yoss]

4 hours ago, hairnet said:

planes trains everything (not as good as steve marsh)

 

I like Steve Marsh, he's one of the few of those sort of things I watch. His favourite story of mine was when he was hanging round Bucharest Gara du Nord and started getting hassled by some chancer who asked where he was from. Steve replied Scotland. The bloke disappeared and five minutes later found him again (which is no mean feat itself at Gara du Nord) and produced a Scottish five pound note and offered to sell it to him! 

Who has Scottish money in Romania and where did he go to get it? 

[Sunny Jim]

[comfortablynumb]

Good on you mate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx4q1d912do

[vulgalour]

My Lanchester Youtube vids convinced someone else to go out and buy one, so that's an achievement.  Also the most recent in the Lanchester series is now my best performing vid having ticked over 4,000 views in under a week.  My channel doesn't even have 1,000 subscribers yet, so I consider that quite an achievement.  It's a shame that none of those views are going to translate into income, need a few more subscribers and viewing hours to get to that point, and a lot more to be earning a meaningful amount.

Just as well I do the vids mostly for fun and self-promotion, rather than profit.

Channel here, because hey I might as well pimp it outsince I've mentioned it: https://www.youtube.com/@noexpensespentstudios

 

[richardmorris]

Watching the long Good Friday - well it is Easter. Loads of wonderful cars. 

[richardmorris]

[montytom]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

Great film watched it for the first time a few weeks ago, 

[richardmorris]

16 minutes ago, montytom said:

Great film watched it for the first time a few weeks ago, 

The soundtrack is fantastic , and it’s one of bob hoskins’ greatperformances.  The best I think is Mona Lisa.

[myglaren]

Would have been better without the music and laughter.

[DSdriver]

Get in the sea you say? OK

Found by a ROV inside the wreck of an American aircraft carrier  USS Yorktown.

Source The Marine Executive.

[Markeh]

I have a pact with a former colleague of mine, we play Popmaster every day and we agreed that if we ever scored 39, we'd email in. I assumed it would never happen.

Managed it on round 2 today. Pleased but now that means I've got to do it!

[comfortablynumb]

51 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

Get in the sea you say? OK

Found by a ROV inside the wreck of an American aircraft carrier  USS Yorktown.

Source The Marine Executive.

They've asked for ideas on the identity of that car, it's a bit of a mystery why a car would be taking up valuable hanger space on an aircraft carrier.

[DSdriver]

45 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

They've asked for ideas on the identity of that car, it's a bit of a mystery why a car would be taking up valuable hanger space on an aircraft carrier.

Possibly the Admiral's personal vehicle?

[hairnet]

On 20/04/2025 at 20:37, Yoss said:

 

Who has Scottish money in Romania and where did he go to get it? 

fife m8

[paulplom]

Owen had an unknown coolant leak and without a temperature guage cooked the engine a couple of weeks back. It sound like a tractor with a death rattle. I told him to just drive it till it shit itself then we'd fit a new enging. Anyway three weeks later it shredded it's aux belt putting him off the road. I ordered a new one from amazon and he set to stripping the old one off after watching a youtube video. He then discovered the water pump had failed finding the source of the leak and the death rattle which was a right result. He stripped the pump off in preparation all without any advice or assistance from me.

 

Well fucked.

https://youtube.com/shorts/YLgjp7wa_YU?si=FtsNQWJIH6CBEJlu

 

 

[paulplom]

#loweringthetone

[IronStar]

On 20/04/2025 at 21:37, Yoss said:

I like Steve Marsh, he's one of the few of those sort of things I watch. His favourite story of mine was when he was hanging round Bucharest Gara du Nord and started getting hassled by some chancer who asked where he was from. Steve replied Scotland. The bloke disappeared and five minutes later found him again (which is no mean feat itself at Gara du Nord) and produced a Scottish five pound note and offered to sell it to him! 

Who has Scottish money in Romania and where did he go to get it? 

Random: Scottish-issued pounds are notoriously hard to get rid of in the exchange offices here, as no one has ever seen them before. I learned this the hard way as I was stuck with some 300 of them and couldn't exchange them anywhere. 

I swapped for England-issued ones the next time my brother was around, and I got those changed easily. 

Also proved problematic to exchange - pre-indestuctible paper pounds. Which actually reminds me, I should get rid of these as well and send them back home.

[myglaren]

 

 

[hairnet]

6 hours ago, Markeh said:

I have a pact with a former colleague of mine, we play Popmaster every day and we agreed that if we ever scored 39, we'd email in. I assumed it would never happen.

Managed it on round 2 today. Pleased but now that means I've got to do it!

not listened for a while

30 on first 39 on the second andy williams ftw

no 3 in 10 (before my time)

[TataBobu]

On 20/04/2025 at 22:37, Yoss said:

I like Steve Marsh, he's one of the few of those sort of things I watch. His favourite story of mine was when he was hanging round Bucharest Gara du Nord and started getting hassled by some chancer who asked where he was from. Steve replied Scotland. The bloke disappeared and five minutes later found him again (which is no mean feat itself at Gara du Nord) and produced a Scottish five pound note and offered to sell it to him! 

Who has Scottish money in Romania and where did he go to get it? 

Me, I think I still have a green one pound note somewhere, gotten some 20 years ago as change in Glasgow. 

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, hairnet said:

not listened for a while

30 on first 39 on the second andy williams ftw

no 3 in 10 (before my time)

Never got 30+. Varies wildly between single figures and mid twenties.