What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[M'coli]

...and Jack McConnell was an utter cunt.

His sister has enormous tits, however!

[Guest]

Found some Weetabix on Cross Street.

 

[Tayne]

As its not in a yellow and blue box, how can you tell its not a piece of cardboard packaging or chip board?

[pompei]

Where's the difference?

[Ross_K]

For all his faults Alex Salmond is by far the best First Minister we've had.

 

That's like saying a punch in the mouth's better than a kick in the balls.

 

Jack McConnell was a fucking bollocks alright, but so too is Salmond. The fact that he's pals with Rupert Murdoch is enough for me...

 

Can't see an independent Scotland happening any time soon though... It'd be as fucked as Ireland before the decade's out.

[Spiny Norman]

Spotted this rather nicely restored old ferry puttering 'doon the watter' on Saturday when I was out playing with my new zoom lens.

 

[Guest]

Was it made of Weetabix?

[Des]

Can't see an independent Scotland happening any time soon though... It'd be as fucked as Ireland before the decade's out.

 

Surely only if they would then be foolish enough to join the EEC, even after decades of asset stripping a pretty industrious place truth be told, with skilled engineers and inventors as common as hookers in Birmingham.When they're sober that is.

[Des]

Found some Weetabix on Cross Street.

 

 

That might be a bit of Trabant. Did you keep it?

[Des]

I'm upbeat because I learned today that the olympics is done, over, finished. I have sucessfully managed to completely ignore /avoid anything to do with it. Similar story with the recent royal events, I'm on a happy roll.

[michiel]

weetabixcrossStreet.jpg

 

If it wasn't for the fact that my kitchen floor has a 'one life etc' checkerplate pattern that could have been me this morning (even the shoes are the same) - after I dropped my weeta on the floor instead of in the bowl of yoghurt.

[Guest]

Found some Weetabix on Cross Street.

 

 

That might be a bit of Trabant. Did you keep it?

 

Nah man, I didn't get the shipping quote from Shiply in time.

Besides, my mate wouldn't go halves with me.

[Albert Ross]

Flares and running/basketball shoes? They needed to be moccasins and Farah slacks.

[cort16]

You should put a lost & found advert in the local newsagents window for that weetabix

[HillmanImp]

You can tell by the orange tint to the tarmac on my drive that I own a Lancia.....

 

[HillmanImp]

Sorry Volksy, I should be saying that I part own a Lancia.

[Negative Creep]

Sainsburys sell sour cream and chive dips. Suddenly my life is not a depressing meaningless void

[Volksy]

Sorry Volksy, I should be saying that I part own a Lancia.

 

LoL, I swept most of the remains of the floor/subframe/subframe mounts/sills/innersills/crossmember up on Saturday, which was dust I will admit.

 

Rolling about in all that fitting all the mechanics back in has left my back looking like i've been attacked by something from 'The Birds' (Hitchcocks one).

[vulgalour]

 

Beautiful, this picture made me grin reading through this thread. You might find the crackling is coming from a rough connection and/or the needle needs replacing from what I remember of old turntables. Definitely something to keep and admire and use a lot, if I didn't have the Dynatron I'd be jealous.

[M'coli]

^^^This has made me grin, as has today's antics at my Open Uni residential school. We were tasked with preparing a computer simulation of a truss structure and then attempt to translate it into a real structure to be tested to destruction, and then compare the computer prediction with the real world result. The one designed by my lab partner and I not only got closest to the computer prediction, but much to the tutor's disgust broke his test rig. Smug does NOT even begin to describe it!

[DSdriver]

...We were tasked with preparing a computer simulation of a truss structure and then attempt to translate it into a real structure to be tested to destruction, and then compare the computer prediction with the real world result. The one designed by my lab partner and I not only got closest to the computer prediction, but much to the tutor's disgust broke his test rig. Smug does NOT even begin to describe it!

 

Surgical truss?

[M'coli]

No, like this but only 15 members rather than the 11 in this:

[DSdriver]

Ah things have come on a bit since I was at college, we had to support a brick off the ground purely with folded paper and non of the structure directly under the brick. Mine held up for about twenty seconds.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I was a bit grim today, I've been feeling really fatigued all week and today ate two whole bags of Maoam Pinballs which didn't help.

 

But then I noticed that the trousers I can't wear without a belt are a 36in waist, which is great considering it wasn't long ago I popped the button off a 40in pair with elastic sections in the waistband. Have now lost 93lb, that's more than six and a half stone Can't believe how god damn fat I was.

[Lord Sterling]

Well, je suis now abroad chez FATHA_STERLINGs. Hopefully now, a week and a half of relaxation.

[willswitchengage]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subaru-Justy- ... 500wt_1362

 

 

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[trigger]

Beautiful, this picture made me grin reading through this thread. You might find the crackling is coming from a rough connection and/or the needle needs replacing from what I remember of old turntables. Definitely something to keep and admire and use a lot, if I didn't have the Dynatron I'd be jealous.

 

Thank you, I'm pleased with it, It's still got it's original stylus which flips over to play 16's so that could be why i have some background noise but it's most likely a connection somewhere. I bought another record for it today, You can't beat a bit of the Animals, I've even made a crappy video!.

 

[Louise2cv]

Wishing "nesting instinct" could be bottled, I'd be made for life.

 

In the last couple of weeks I've totally redecorated the hall/stairwell/landing including some OMG-scary-wobbly-ladder-over-stairs action; tidied the shed and understairs cupboard out resulting in a huge amount of crap disappearing to the tip; made the dining room usable again after it had become a junkroom/overflow for understairs cupboard and shed/ laundry room; put up shelves in the understairs cupboard so its more like a pantry; built Megan a climbing wall and kept on top of the housework and both back and front gardens.

 

Yesterday afternoon alone saw the backyard and side passage jetwashed, the lawn cut, 2 loads of washing washed and dried and the drains rodded and jetwashed in about 4hrs.

 

Bearing in mind I'm 8 months pregnant and can only do stuff like that when Matt is on rest days so he can look after Megan, I think it's not bad going (for a fat lady).

 

My legs do hurt a bit now though

[Cavcraft]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subaru-Justy-SL-4WD-1-2cc-/221096458760?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item337a603a08#ht_500wt_1362

 

 

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Whoosh! When do you collect?

[pompei]

Louise, you've still got a month to go, how about coming round and sorting this place out? Mrs P is a midwife so could give you plenty of pep talks...