What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Saabnut]

Travelled by train for the first time since lockdown started last year. Four trains, Perth-Waverley-Peterborough-Norwich-Great Yarmouth. Every single train on schedule to the minute, every train waiting on time, plenty of space, not many people and ALL wearing masks. Could not have been better.

[Skizzer]

8 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

Travelled by train for the first time since lockdown started last year. Four trains, Perth-Waverley-Peterborough-Norwich-Great Yarmouth. Every single train on schedule to the minute, every train waiting on time, plenty of space, not many people and ALL wearing masks. Could not have been better.

Years ago I spent several months working with the operational planners and controllers for a big airline. It was a truth universally acknowledged that transport systems would run massively better without passengers.

(see also IT systems/users, shops/customers, schools/children etc etc)

[MarvinsMom]

52 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Years ago I spent several months working with the operational planners and controllers for a big airline. It was a truth universally acknowledged that transport systems would run massively better without passengers.

(see also IT systems/users, shops/customers, schools/children etc etc)

this is true, every "customer facing" job i have ever done has been utterly ruined by the idiot  "customers".....

[Crackers]

Sitting in my Focus in a car park and the parking warden swings in and parks next to me in a battered Dacia. 

Opens his door straight into mine with a bang.

The look on his face when I tapped on the window was priceless! 

[Wack]

Smart car looking tiny 

2 new Michelin pilot sport 3  tyres fitted for £110 

[omegod]

27 minutes ago, Wack said:

Smart car looking tiny 

2 new Michelin pilot sport 3  tyres fitted for £110 

Impressive workshop they have at Toy's r us  

Seem's a bargain for two decent branded tyres !

 

[Wack]

Costco 

I wasn't expecting them to keep them in stock 

There's an offer on that started yesterday 

£20 off 2x15" up to £100 off 4  X 19"

When he said £110 for pilot sport 3 fitted I thought he meant each 

[wuvvum]

19 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Travelled by train for the first time since lockdown started last year. Four trains, Perth-Waverley-Peterborough-Norwich-Great Yarmouth. Every single train on schedule to the minute, every train waiting on time, plenty of space, not many people and ALL wearing masks. Could not have been better.

My condolences.

I was on the slow train to Liverpool on Sunday (the same service you will have got from Peatboghorror to Norwich, but in the opposite direction).  Despite a delay due to a points failure at Ely, it rolled into Liverpool 2 minutes early, and everyone (above the age of about 10 anyway) was wearing masks and keeping their distance.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

25 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

.... Peatboghorror ...

🤣🤣🤣

[808 Estate]

How to stop a thief.

[somewhatfoolish]

A budding astrophysicist there.

[808 Estate]

[Wack]

I've watched this a few times and I might watch it a few more 

It's the squealing like a pig that does it for me 😂

 

[Sham]

When the "big man" realises he's nothing but a little boy.

[Saabnut]

COVID PCR test results just in - negative so I can go to work!

Taxi picks me up in less than an hour to take me to the boat. 

Here we go again.....

[Wack]

1 hour ago, Sham said:

When the "big man" realises he's nothing but a little boy.

He's watched too many hollywood films where they stand 2ft from their target with the pistol pointed sideways

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, Saabnut said:

COVID PCR test results just in - negative so I can go to work!

Taxi picks me up in less than an hour to take me to the boat. 

Here we go again.....

Bonvoyage! Does this mean the 'view from my office' thread will get revived? 

Bet your house wondered what was going on, longest I've known you at home for in the years I've known you! 

[Saabnut]

38 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Bonvoyage! Does this mean the 'view from my office' thread will get revived? 

Bet your house wondered what was going on, longest I've known you at home for in the years I've known you! 

I had forgotten that! Will go and find it and, yes if there is any interest I will revive the thread. May not be too interesting this time, but you never know.

[cort1977]

Spotted this beauty just now. Great colour and condition with just 9000 miles on the clock. Just how I remember them right down to the unleaded sticker above the fuel filler.

Was tempted to see if it was for sale...

[gm]

 would that not look perfect parked next to  @DoctorRetro's pink metro  

 

[Stanky]

I took the Daihatsu to work yesterday, it was a totally shit day with the 'to do' pile being twice as high at the end of the day as it was at the start (and it was dangerously high to start with!) but driving home made the stress evaporate. The daihatsu is a bit of a TLGP weapon and even holds its own on the motorway. 

I managed to badly embarrass the driver of a ford focus who incorrectly related 'small = slow' - overtook and then got tangled in some traffic while I blasted past the dawdlers in the middle and outside lanes in L1. I got followed for a while by a lovely gunmetal grey Toyota Starlet as well.

Then, having come off the motorway I was at the front of the queue with mr focus on my left. He looked over and sneered so I booted it and used all the revs in 1st and 2nd and left him for dead. 

I might get a flat cap, walking stick on the parcel shelf and dogs trust sticker for the back window to complete the look* of coffin dodger giffer-mobile.

Childish? Yes. Fun? Yes, also. I always wanted a bit of a sleeper and the Daihatsu is very much one. 

[Wack]

Fuck me give it up man 🤣he looks more like my grandma every year 

Proof 

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Count Binface has published a manifesto.

It actually makes sense, except for point 10, obviously. 

[dozeydustman]

 

[Cooper1]

A mate in NZ sent me this.. 😝

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 hours ago, Cooper1 said:

A mate in NZ sent me this.. 😝

 

Here, try this:

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Apparently the NHS has its own board games*...

They look like management wet dreams.

 

*may not be available on general sale to the public 

[eddyramrod]

I've just had a nice surprise, while I was upstairs using the desktop puter.  For ages now, there's been a balloon popping up when I turned it on, telling me I "have files waiting to be written to the CD."  Until tonight I've ignored it, but while cleaning the mouse I accidentally clicked it.  It's only a whole load of photos that I thought I'd lost!  I need to back them all up on a memory stick now, but oh boy, I'm so pleased to see them again!

[clayts450]

A701 Edinburgh to Moffat.

Oh yes. The most epic of drives ever in the van yesterday. Hardly any traffic, fantastic views, great bendy bits, fast road apart from a few 30s. If you've not done it yet, get it done.

[Spottedlaurel]

Some years ago my weekend didn't officially start until I'd heard Brian Matthew on Sounds of the Sixties.

Sadly he died in 2017 and Tony Blackburn just isn't the same. I've recently manged to get myself into a new Saturday morning routine, watching "Public Eye" which I 'tape' off Talking PicturesTV on Thursday evening.

So the immortal music that acompanies this is my new weekend intro:

I don't remember it myself but Public Eye is great viewing. This week's episode seems to mark the start of a new series. It was a little bit more action-packed than previous episodes (personally I hope we get back to the slower-paced storylines) but the fipside was that we were treated to more filming on location.

Early Datsun 140J! I just about made it out to be WPD 778M, it made it to 1984.

The villains use a Jaguar (obviously).

Our hero Frank Marker (played impeccably by Alfred Burke) makes his escape in a Landcrab.

Datsun 1200 coupe!

Corolla estate.

As ever with a programme from this era it's good to see actors who pop up in other shows, either at the tail end of a long career or on their way to greater things. We recently had a relatively subdued Brian Blesed playing a vicar, and Sarah Greene's mum.