What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Lacquer Peel]

[Timewaster]

Yes, he's the one in the silly hat.

Narrow it down a bit.

[Jon]

[dollywobbler]

At least his hat fits him, unlike the two with flat-caps perched precariously on top of their scalps. And the bloke on his left seems to have been under the impression he'd be an extra on War & Peace.

Ah, but they are genuine farm folk and those are their own hats. Most of the background people in that scene are local farmers. Richard - see if you can find the other scene with my hat and a cameo by Mrs DW.

Oh and for the record, the wardrobe and make up girls on this were gorgeous! Which sadly meant that Mrs DW kept them at a distance when we were extras together. Humph.

[Richard]

I'll have a look tonight while my wife is watching whatever shit the shitpump pumps out on a Saturday night. I just skipped through it with iPlayer on full screen, paused it and hit PrtSrc, if anybody else is at a loose end.

[dollywobbler]

I'll have a look tonight while my wife is watching whatever shit the shitpump pumps out on a Saturday night. I just skipped through it with iPlayer on full screen, paused it and hit PrtSrc, if anybody else is at a loose end.

 

I just tried that but it just pixelated on me. 46 minutes in to episode 2 part one is where you can briefly see Mrs DW and me either side of the Volvo.

 

Here's my feeble effort.

[myglaren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=suYz5SHFHyA

[fordperv]

I had a leak in my boot from the boot seal, i replaced it and it sorted that, I left my boot carpet out to see, it turns out my rear light gasket also has a leak, i popped to ford today to pick up a clutch quadrant I'd ordered, luckily got served by one of the decent guys who works there i enquired and he got me a pair sorted to be here the first part of next week for less than half of the price that some chancer is trying to sell a set on ebay for

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Old-Stock-Ford-Sierra-Cosworth-Rear-Light-Gaskets-/231802342663?hash=item35f87f0d07:g:qRIAAOSwa-dWiY06

[chaseracer]

 Most of it is in English, just the occasional bit of Welsh dialogue...

 

Not if you watch the proper one, boyo... 

[fordperv]

I asked ruffgeezer for some custom decals, they came today, with an added bonus an Autoshite sticker, so I promptly fitted it

 

 

Cheers ruffgeezer

[vulgalour]

In the Protohno was a load of tapes.  In amongst them all and the sticky sweet that had melted** onto everything was a Chinese cassette cleaning cassette thingy.  Nothing ventured nothing gained I wanged it in the Rover's tape deck because my tapes all sounded like they were underwater and let it play back and forth to itself for half an hour.  My cassettes now play perfectly fine!

 

What I'm less happy about is that the Rover has broken out in sympathy with the Protohno and my tape storage has sticky sweet residue that I've been trying, with varying success, to clean out with it in situ.  I've never put a sweet in there so it must have been some sort of slow-release sabotage by a previous owner.  That or Isis have really got some budgeting issues these days.

[gm]

I had to go to the supermarket but somehow got distracted

 

 

 

I read recently that Torsen differentials are hopeless in the snow, turns out that the word they were looking for is hilarious !

[Timewaster]

Life imitates art.

 

The convenience shop who's address is on the autoshite stickers now has a couple of crap cars for sale outside.

A £500 Yaris and something else equally forgettable. A Vectra I think.

Plus an old 190 that has sat there for years.

[Richard]

Are these any better? I played it in HD this time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

Ah yes. I should have tried HD myself...

 

Chap in the blue checked jacket with a gun is a lovely chap. He looked outright terrifying in this!

 

EDIT - Filming was back in January 2015. There was a fleet reunion for shonky old cars on set.

 

Incidentally, the Maverick was sold from my mate (walking away from shot) to another, but then spectacularly failed its MOT on rot. It is now used on a wood plantation as a hack. It still goes on! I'd have another like a shot if they didn't rust quite so spectacularly well. And I'd choose diesel this time.

[Louise2cv]

Not if you watch the proper one, boyo...

I'm so outrageously proud of myself being an english incomer, so I'm gonna brag:

 

I watched this in the proper language. Without subtitles.

 

 

 

Didn't understand a word mind...

 

Nah seriously, I'm pretty chuffed with myself for learning Welsh, I'm not a language person but I really wanted to do it for my kids.

[michael1703]

I serviced a Toyota RAV4 yesterday, this was the pollen filter

 

[twosmoke300]

Nice . That's the worst I've seen for a while . It's the weight of them that gets me . Compared to the new one , shows how much crap they stop

[beko1987]

The Miele roffle will be drawn tonight. Anyone know what time the actual draw is? Don't fancy watching 56 minutes of some crap programme first...

[hairnet]

watching sounds of the sixties on yesterday

 

mannfred mann - paul jones singing on stage and the audience nipping him at the knees while hes singing

 

30 secs from the end he keeps looking down and you know hes just thinking

 

'when i get off this stage.......'

 

credit to him they started just as he started the first verse and he kept going

 

still funny and its been 50 years

[steve_earwig]

I serviced a Toyota RAV4 yesterday, this was the pollen filter

 

Careful with the clips putting it back, chap on TOC had his changed at the dealer's, the mechanic managed to break one of the clips and the dash had to come off to change the housing. It was never the same again either, Hmm, maybe that's why that one's never been changed before...

[catsinthewelder]

To be fair if I ever have another car with a pollen filter I'll just rip the fucker out and Frisbee the cunt.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I'm so outrageously proud of myself being an english incomer, so I'm gonna brag:

I watched this in the proper language. Without subtitles.

Didn't understand a word mind...

Nah seriously, I'm pretty chuffed with myself for learning Welsh, I'm not a language person but I really wanted to do it for my kids.

I lived in Mid-Wales from the age of 10 til 17 and made it my mission not to learn Welsh. Don't get me wrong I could understand it in the playground and sometimes even spoke it to other kids.

But.... you know that scene in Roots where they're beating the shit out of Kunta Kinte to make him say his name's Toby? Well substitute a psychotic middle aged sadist called Griffiths for the slaver and a chubby,mouthy Brummie kid for Kunta, only difference is I didn't break. ( although I do have a Grade 2 CSE in Welsh, think that was for spelling my name right)

[Eddie Honda]

The Miele roffle will be drawn tonight. Anyone know what time the actual draw is? Don't fancy watching 56 minutes of some crap programme first...

Thunderball is on now (9.55pm to 10.05pm)

[dollywobbler]

I'm so outrageously proud of myself being an english incomer, so I'm gonna brag:

 

I watched this in the proper language. Without subtitles.

 

 

 

Didn't understand a word mind...

 

Nah seriously, I'm pretty chuffed with myself for learning Welsh, I'm not a language person but I really wanted to do it for my kids.

 

I certainly know how difficult it is! Especially as I'm HOPELESS at structured learning. Most of the stuff I've learnt is from going to a small group run by a Welsh friend where he tells us about local history in Welsh, translating as he goes. First few months, we picked up bugger all. A couple of years on, it's surprising what we've picked up. That scene was a good opportunity as despite how it came out, they filmed the whole thing in English and Welsh (but then left bits of Welsh in the English version because that's how it is hear, locals speak their local language). Mind you, all we learnt was stuff like "blood" and "death." 

[purplebargeken]

I would love to learn Welsh!

[MrDuke]

I came here with good intentions, but living in Caernarfon kinda set me off with the wrong attitude. There was all the "Cymuned" propaganda stuff, which I was slightly sympathetic to - but when I listened to people in the street, I just heard heavily-accented English with a few Welsh conjunctions and adjectives thrown in, which annoyed me immensely and made me stubbornly refuse to pander to the stupid Cofi mentality.

It was only after moving to different, more rural areas, that I appreciated how widespread and prevalent the language (actual, proper Cymraeg) really is. Of course, by that time I'd lost the desire to learn it, although I can still do the polite small talk, and can follow conversations. I will get around to learning it properly one day.

Amusingly, I now have real difficulty understanding tourists when they mis-pronounce local place-names. I nailed the Welsh pronunciation within months of moving here, and I genuinely can't switch back to the English phonetics. When I'm asked for directions, I usually have to pass them off to a Welsh person.

[dollywobbler]

Oh aye. Re-learning the alphabet was the bit we struggled with most at first. It was one reason I got involved with the community bus - I simply couldn't pronounce place names and getting directions was a nightmare. So I hurled myself in feet first and had to learn quick! Still struggle with the LL sound though. In some places, it's quite a hard sound but around here, it's very soft. Like saying L, but you just blow through it, if that makes any sense. 

 

Mind you, Yam-Yam is pretty impenetrable at times, and that's allegedly English. Even as a Brummie, I found proper Black Country lingo a challenge.

[Louise2cv]

I would love to learn Welsh!

www.saysomethinginwelsh.com

 

It's free I believe, (for the first 30 lessons which get you a long way) and gives you loads of useful Welsh.

 

It's what got me speaking far more than my two attempts at the more structured and more formally recognised Wlpan course.

 

I love it (I wish I was Welsh) but I don't think I've ever really had a bad experience with it.

[Richard]

Is the Welsh version of Hinterland dubbed Monkey style?