What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[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.

 

[captain_70s]

I was going to criticize his lack of welding mask, but obviously they didn't have such things in Roman times, so carry on.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, captain_70s said:

I was going to criticize his lack of welding mask, but obviously they didn't have such things in Roman times, so carry on.

They didn’t really have welding as we know it ( Industrial Revolution ), but certainly had soldering and brazing.

[reb]

[Ohdearme]

We’ve all been here…

 

[myglaren]

[hairnet]

 

 

[AnthonyG]

On 29/05/2025 at 20:36, richardmorris said:

Is that made up or a real thing?

If it’s a real thing it’s brilliant. 

[reb]

3 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

Is that made up or a real thing?

If it’s a real thing it’s brilliant. 

All lego is made up if you think about it.

I think the "Ideas" in the bottom left means it's designed by a fan, I can't remember how it works for them going into production 

[New POD]

On 01/06/2025 at 17:07, Remspoor said:

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

The secretary at work has got me into a hotel in eindhoven with bed and breakfast and use of a bike in with the price. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

Time to break out the Werther's Originals and buy a cardigan - I am officially out of middle age.
25 years after becoming a stepdad it seems step-grumpy-fucker is on the cards:-)
At least it's got my hair already, due date 9th December

[comfortablynumb]

Been a grandad for just over six years now @EyesWeldedShut

Better than dealing with your kids, what's the saying?

' my grandkids are brilliant, should have had them first.'

I'll be a great uncle ( Bulgaria?😆) later this year too

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

30 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

I'll be a great uncle ( Bulgaria?😆) later this year too

Been a Gruncle for two years after my (twin) brother got his Grandad Elbow Patches.
Sproglette here has lost three pregnancies (now been told it's Lupus) so it's everything crossed for this one as I think it'll be the last attempt (she's now past the 12 week high-risk period and is on all sorts of chemicals. injections and things).
When I'm not wearing my grumpy persona it's quite exciting

p.s. you can easily cut out having your own kids by going down the step-dad route. Child bride came with a pre-booked pageboy and flower girl for the wedding.

[808 Estate]

[captain_70s]

12 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

Is that made up or a real thing?

If it’s a real thing it’s brilliant. 

Real. I think @dome maybe has one?