What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, myglaren said:

People would still ignore it and go for the £1300 option.

[andy18s]

11 hours ago, myglaren said:

I always said Land/Range Rover products should have a cash register "Ker-ching" noise for their many,many fault warnings..

[EyesWeldedShut]

22 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

That looks like a fantastic experience, glad you enjoyed yourselves. I grew up in (and still live in) a seaside town, and have fond memories of days spent at the beach fishing with my mates as a kid.

We spent every summer holiday from ages 11-14 (found out that girls were a thing after that) rock fishing or harbour fishing. Looking back on it I seem to recall that we caught near feck all (other than Wrasse) but it kept us well out of my Mum's hair.
BiL still loves his fishing (coarse type) and he's the most chilled out, laid back person I know - so, maybe, there's something in it?

[Tenmil Socket]

11 hours ago, New POD said:

He's not keeping to the speed limits.  I used to work alot in Derby, and leaving Miseryside at 5am on a Monday.  would see me arrive after 7.30.  88 miles of M57, M62, M6, A500, A50 and A6. 

Coming back at Midday on a Friday was typically 3 hours. 

Tell me its not his daily commute.  

He may have said 2.5 hours, I can’t remember. He’s not in the office every day of the week.

Where is Miseryside by the way?

[castros_bro]

Germany is closed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/chaos-on-german-autobahns-as-google-maps-wrongly-says-they-are-closed

[richardmorris]

Internet road trip is quite addictive, in a slow-mo way.

https://neal.fun/internet-roadtrip/ 

[myglaren]

On 30/05/2025 at 10:28, Rust Collector said:

That looks like a fantastic experience, glad you enjoyed yourselves. I grew up in (and still live in) a seaside town, and have fond memories of days spent at the beach fishing with my mates as a kid.

Every time I walk along the beach, I wonder if I fucked myself over by getting into cars rather than sticking with the fishing - it’s got to be a less stressful pastime, sitting on the beach and enjoying the view 🤣

I grew up in Whitby and was on the beach and swimming most days, even in winter, which is what stupid kids do, it's a wonder we weren't drowned.

Always thought I would never be happy away from the sea then moved inland in Sweden, never missed it but there are lots of nice lakes to substitute there.

Then moved to Washington, not far from the sea but very rarely go there any more.

Kind of brought home when we went to sling flowers over the cliff in Whitby on the 10th anniversary of my wife's death, and we threw her ashes over the cliff.

The sea and beach looked nice.

Never one for fishing though.

[comfortablynumb]

2 hours ago, myglaren said:

swimming most days, even in winter, which is what stupid kids do, it's a wonder we weren't drowned.

I've done a reasonable amount of wild swimming too, lochs, rivers, sea.

Yet it seems every time there's a bit of heat now, or the schools are on holiday, we hear another tragic story about how another kid has drowned in a reservoir, the sea, the Thames etc.

What's changed? 🤔

[myglaren]

Tiramishoe

 

[808 Estate]

[comfortablynumb]

But the hill is cheaper than the pint.....😁

[artdjones]

[Lord Sterling]

I forgot to post this the other day, a fair grin. I've doing tip runs for ole' Ma as she is in the final throes of getting the house ready for sale. 

The first time I went to the tip, a lad who worked there engaged me in conversation about my Vectra.

The second time I went (the run below) a chal with a newish white Focus was telling me how nice it looked. He was hoping I'd be keep it which I confirmed.

It's nice to see that the Vectra is getting some appreciation. 

Also, someone at work turned up in a 1979 Blue Rolls Royce. I have a pic somewhere. Most people thought it was mine 😅. It turned up once last year, I still don't know who owns it.

[Snipes]

At Brands. Can hear v10s.

Edit: Pre-66 touring cars warming up. The sound of many DCOEs failing to tick over.

[myglaren]

 

[cort1977]

23 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

I've done a reasonable amount of wild swimming too, lochs, rivers, sea.

Yet it seems every time there's a bit of heat now, or the schools are on holiday, we hear another tragic story about how another kid has drowned in a reservoir, the sea, the Thames etc.

What's changed? 🤔

I thought this was interesting.

My simple answer was when I was a kid it 70p to go to walthamstow pool, 15p on the bus each way, towel in a Tesco bag and away you go. Now it's £4.60, there's few open sessions and they have the front to make you get out after an hour.

Found this online which makes some very good points about relative risk.

https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/drowning-statistics/

[hairnet]

4.50 for a croissant?

hahahahahahaahahah

and travelling possibly miles for it

thats not nuts thats a screw loose (like @dome )

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39xz8vjw3ro

i like cake but im not that mad

[hairnet]

@beko1987

check furious drivings latest video

do it

[Tayne]

Childish, but 1:33

 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, cort1977 said:

I thought this was interesting.

My simple answer was when I was a kid it 70p to go to walthamstow pool, 15p on the bus each way, towel in a Tesco bag and away you go. Now it's £4.60, there's few open sessions and they have the front to make you get out after an hour.

Found this online which makes some very good points about relative risk.

https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/drowning-statistics/

When I was a young kid , we used to have our holidays on the South Coast (mostly Camber Sands), and my mum taught us all to swim in the sea, normally in about 2 fr of water.

Later we’d holiday in the Lake District . My brother and I had a favourite spot (Crummock Water), where we’d dive in off of some rocks. My mum had a fit when I told her it was 80ft deep.

[comfortablynumb]

Thanks @cort1977, that was very interesting. There was a ' float to survive ' initiative round here a while ago, but interestingly since we're not far from one of the biggest boating areas in the UK (broads) nothing about wearing lifejackets on boats 

School used to teach swimming when I was a kid, the two schools I went to both had their own pools, one outdoor and one in. Admittedly it's an affluent area, but they don't seem to even take the kids swimming any more 😕

[loserone]

We're currently spending nearly £200 a month on swimming, plus transport which if we used the RR would be the same again (125 miles a week), and that's about the most cost effective we could do it for.

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

@beko1987

check furious drivings latest video

do it

Hang on then let me get some crisps

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

@beko1987

check furious drivings latest video

do it

Shudder

The exact reason we ended up with ours in the first place is laid upstairs on her bed with 2 group chats going over 2 phones asking when I'm going to cook dinner 🙄 

Just looking at those a pillars is giving me flashbacks, combined with the awful pedal box angle I could never be in a position where I had a clear view and didn't ride the clutch 🤮

[beko1987]

He's right by my dad's too at crowland 😂 Cross the a16 and drive into death valley for 8 miles and your there.

Its cubbit, not cowbit. Can vroom vroom on those roads, being a passenger in my stepbrothers van is terrifying but he drives the roads every day and hasn't had a huge accident yet...

Can hear all the steering joints are fucked where he goes into that layby too...

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, cort1977 said:

I thought this was interesting.

My simple answer was when I was a kid it 70p to go to walthamstow pool, 15p on the bus each way, towel in a Tesco bag and away you go. Now it's £4.60, there's few open sessions and they have the front to make you get out after an hour.

Found this online which makes some very good points about relative risk.

https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/drowning-statistics/

My step daughter who lives in The Netherlands has spent a fortune on her daughters swimming lessons. Yes in a land made on water they have to pay. Nothing in the Netherlands is cheap

[artdjones]

3 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

My mum had a fit when I told her it was 80ft deep.

Once it's over 6 or 7 feet it doesn't matter.

We learned to swim free at Guildford Crescent Baths, Cardiff at aged 10-11, a daily session for a month for Standard 4.  The first year or two of secondary school we went to the building behind the trolley bus. The Wales Empire Pool, built for the 1958 Empire games. Olympic size, and with a 16ft deep end. All of this swimming was free. The Empire Pool was knocked down to make way for the Southern extremity of the Millennium Stadium. Mammon wins again.

 

[loserone]

I am sorry, but I was unable to generate the image with a Roman soldier welding the sills of the car while lying underneath it. I apologize for any inconvenience.

[hairnet]

oof @cort16 @dome

there is always hope

[reb]

7 minutes ago, loserone said:

I am sorry, but I was unable to generate the image with a Roman soldier welding the sills of the car while lying underneath it. I apologize for any inconvenience.