What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[trigger]

Cheers Richard, now up to date, trust it to all kick off the night both me and Billy aren't about!

[captain_70s]

My works night out occurred. Christ on a bike, laughs were had. I can think of a few people who will be ashamed to show their faces at work on Monday morning, I'm one of them. I got utterly rat arsed, although I did manage to walk back to my parent's place to pass out on the sofa unlike the folk who were carried out of the building...

 

As long as there are no meetings regards sexual harassment on Monday I'll say that was a night well spent.

[gm]

I hope there wasn't any 'onion dancing' going on ?

[vulgalour]

I shouldn't ask, but curiosity has the better of me.  Onion dancing?

[gm]

correct - you're probably better not knowing but the craze that caused a stir in Aberdeen students union was for the rugger lads to pop their onions out of their flies and see how long they could dance with a girl until she noticed and ran away screaming / in tears / fetched the bouncers !

[quicksilver]

Vulgalour makes me grin with his unique take on the world. I'd been away from the forum for a few days and returned to his excellent advice about setting fire to Daily Mail readers and his description of the fascinating new sport of basegolf - I'd forgotten how bizarre and brilliant this place can be and how far it extends beyond old cars to sensible* life advice. Long may it continue!

[tooSavvy]

We chased him off, don't worry! Wannabe shiter he was!

Wannabe.... I, sir, regard it an houour to be hosted about these halls - special exception applied for my 'NEW $hite' not requiring 20+ years mouldering.

 

 

 

TS

[Sloth in a bowl]

went to York today on the train so that we could have a few slurp in one or tow of the pubs in town,

 

that isn't the reason for the [post./

 

when going for the train home this evening this was sat in the next platform waiting for the signal to head for home at tyelsey and yes, it was a heavy pullman train made up from mark 1 and mark 2 coaches which the locomotive was able to lift like it was a bag of feathers.

 

 

yes, castle class 5043 earl of mount edgecombe.

 

no pics from this afternoon cos it was dark, raining and i'd left the camera at home.....

 

 

Ridden behind that loco a couple of times and they seem to have a fairly liberal interpretation of the 75mph speed limit for steam.

[beko1987]

9 pints down!

[vulgalour]

@GM:  Rugby players are wonderful, terrible, brilliant idiots.  The world is a better place for them being in it!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Just been watching 'Between the Lines' as the Virgin box has a series link on it. (Drama channel)

 

Recorded in 1992 and the program has most excellent chod viewage.

Hero drives a Saab 900 Turbo, aide has a Mk2 Astra.

 

Listing all the cars in episode 1 would be tricky as too many to remember but includes:

Granada

DAF van

Sierra

Renault 21

Merc SL possibly

Volvo 700

Cavalier

Escort

Capri

etc

[Lord Sterling]

Just been watching 'Between the Lines' as the Virgin box has a series link on it. (Drama channel)

 

Recorded in 1992 and the program has most excellent chod viewage.

Hero drives a Saab 900 Turbo, aide has a Mk2 Astra.

 

I've got a couple of episodes of 'Between the Lines' on tape. I bought them from a charity shop, never watched them mind but I've seen a few on the Drama channel a few years ago.

[dome]

BMW 330 seems nice, looking forward to using it a bit and sorting out all its niggles.

 

Seeing as I now have a 330touring does that make me 10 better than Neil?

[Richard]

Not really, because he has a 335 touring as well.

[dome]

Not really, because he has a 335 touring as well.

Dammit!

[beko1987]

12 pints. Done now, got to drive in the morning at some point!

[myglaren]

Had a nice letter from the IRS.

Looked ominous so let it lie for a few days.

£200 winter fuel payment

And Scottish Power have reduced my payments by £30 a month

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Saw the first few minutes of a BBC drMa called Capital this morning.

It starts off showing how an old lady has lived in her house for 50 odd years- as new.yweds in aMorris Minor then with a baby with an 1100, then, to depict the 70's she emerges from the front door which is framed by the rear of a P6b, predictable enough and, and........

 

 

The front end of a

 

 

 

CHRYSLER 2 Litre !! Not that black one either,or the white one I've seen at shows before, this one is in lustrous JRG.

[r.welfare]

It's doing the rounds, the same car was on the ITV drama on the first use of DNA testing to catch a murderer earlier in the year.

[andrew e]

Ridden behind that loco a couple of times and they seem to have a fairly liberal interpretation of the 75mph speed limit for steam.

Sadly it's shite like that, that leads to people thinking they an switch the TPWS off and nearly twatting a HST. Just ask the crew from the West coast railway. When mainline steam gets banned, who's to blame #Grumpy Bastard

 

http://orr.gov.uk/news-and-media/press-releases/2015/orr-prosecutes-west-coast-railway-company-and-train-driver-over-signal-incident

[cobblers]

We've got a knackered old shed at the bottom of the garden, and about 6 months ago I was bored one sunday so I ran a network cable down to it and put a Raspberry Pi (£20 computer) with a camera on it as CCTV, and put a Wifi dongle on it so I could get WIFI when I'm parked in the car on the street searching googles on my laptop how to fix the car.

 

I had it all running off an old car battery which needed charging every 3 days, but then I realised that there was 4 wires spare in a CAT5 network cable so I got some chinese ebay shit out of my stash and now I've got an old laptop charger, a boost converter stepping the voltage up to 40V, then a buck converter stepping it down to 13.5v to keep the battery charged, it maxes out at about 4 amps which is plenty.

 

Then I realised that I've got a decent source of power down there so I connected up a load of 12v LED lights on a dusk-dawn sensor which keep the whole garden lit up like wembley all night.

 

I've got a load of hard drives and stuff on the network as backups (and a Raspberry Pi for downloading stuff and as an adblock VPN for my phone) which were all in the kitchen and made a row, so I moved all them into the shed too.

 

So now I've got 5 terabytes of space and basically a fully functional datacenter on a shelf marked "WD40" in a rotten old shed down the garden and I've not had to touch any of it for months and months.

It even keeps my boost packs charged up and ready for use. and I can access a live, grim picture of my house from anywhere in the world.

 

 

Technology is flipping brilliant.

[STUNO]

Sadly it's shite like that, that leads to people thinking they an switch the TPWS off and nearly twatting a HST. Just ask the crew from the West coast railway. When mainline steam gets banned, who's to blame #Grumpy Bastard

 

http://orr.gov.uk/news-and-media/press-releases/2015/orr-prosecutes-west-coast-railway-company-and-train-driver-over-signal-incident

 

Surely that is more to do with the driver switching the tpws off and then running a red light than possibly going at more than 75 !

[andrew e]

Surely that is more to do with the driver switching the tpws off and then running a red light than possibly going at more than 75 !

True, very true, but "the rule book only exists because of previous error" as an instructor once told me. Still the same I know best mindset.

[Negative Creep]

[Split_Pin]

The wonders of having no central locking "handle up-button down-slam" type doors. Was faffing in my car at the station this morning, trying to get my hood up before getting out the car. Got to work, no car keys in the pocket. Arse. Still in the ignition! Thankfully my wife works nearby so got the spare set and retrieved them.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I have to carry an extra key in my bag at work for exactly that, done it too many times to remember

[castros_bro]

That, my friend is why a one way ticket is almost as expensive as a return...the crafty bastards know you have to get somewhere to use your "free" return

 

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Shirly no-one* would get return tickets Sturry-Canterbury West and Canterbury West-Sturry and just use the return parts for a month?

[hairnet]

the spare on the visa is an xzx michelin and wondered if could still get them

 

longstone - 129 quid each

 

kleber m and s 25 quid each or two falkens for 47 pair

 

madness

[Skizzer]

Can I just add my own whoop at joy at whichever of our fine, fine mods booted off that Renault 20 twat.  Excellent move.

 

(Edit - that sounds sarcastic.  It isn't, I mean it.)

[Lord Sterling]

I have actually bought a sofa today, brown leather which is what I wanted, cheap, cheap delivery and even help get it into Chez_Mo. Then, of course I stepped into another shop and fo4 a £5er more there was a nice huge White cloth sofa, very comfy, huge enough to even double as a bed. Hey ho, at least I've got a sofa, finally...