What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tickman]

What's the reasonable limit for these things? I have an old MercSE (1500kg ish) and a BMW e39 Touring (1825kg ish). Are they safe for those or just a step too far?

 

Looks to be quite a high weight limit going by the pictures on the brochure!

 

 

 

Edit: 3500 Kg it says it the upper limit.

[scruff]

 

Arrived today, recommended!!

[Cavcraft]

i drive the van at work (unlike eddy its not cakes or buns )

 

they wanted to send me and the other gadge on it - we do fuck all sales wise and if the customer doesnt get what he wants he rings the depot

 

on a sales course

 

what the fuck for we dont carry stuff to sell around and we dont have the parts knowledge like the guys on the phones have - two have been there 20+ years

 

they sent workmate on the course in feb and said yeah next time it comes up you get a go

 

since then the supervisor left and it got forgot about

 

went in this morning

 

'why are you not at preston'

 

what for?

 

'the course was today'

 

really?

 

why you no tell me

 

this was at 930 this morning - 90 secs before i was due to leave to go on a run

 

sacked it off and they said right you can go tomorrow to do the other half of the course

 

came back this afternoon and they said theyve cancelled it - most of it was today and the depot boss said sorry its his fault

 

he did ok my holiday id put in tho

 

madness - wonder when itll be

We did quite a few sales courses etc in Dinnington near Sheffield at my old job. I did an ADR course, failed it on one question and had to drive all the way there to circle something with a pen then come back again!

[gm]

I spent yesterday afternoon giving the mazda a long overdue service, oil, filters, plugs etc. while it was up on the ramps, I changed the gearbox oil which, although only being a year old, was minging. When refilling, I managed to spill some onto the heat wrapped exhaust manifold

 

once the car was all back together, I drove round the corner to fill her up with fuel. By the time I'd reached the pump, there was an unhealthy amount of smoke seeping out of the bonnet, much to the horror of the lady at the next pump. when I opened the bonnet for a better look, it all got too much for her - she finished her fuelling super fast and left with a squeal of tyres !

[cort1977]

Good work scaring the straights there gm.  

[xtriple]

I bought a fandango telly-visual box thing yesterday. Android something and I now have loads of new film channels, Sky sports, Sky films, al sorts... I watched the Minions, Ted 2, the Revenant and then the Martian back to back yesterday.

 

it is jolly good and ideal for a crippled old git like me who cannot always get out and about.

[the judge]

Got one of them,ace!!

 

Hairnet,you are obviously a top dude,but we dont live in your head. So,what on earth has gone on? You missed a course? Course of what?

[Cavcraft]

Saw one of these in the flesh yesterday and have to say it looked absolutely ace.

 

 

[Asimo]

Doing well here today,first the Catalina then just had an Bell-Boeing MV-22B Osprey,very low,very slow in tilted configeration.

Seems to be going to Isle of dogs then Gravesend.

First one i have seen.

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Have them fly over here at night: the rotors have green lights on the tips which make a fabulous helical/ persistance of vision effect, very impressive. Sometimes these lights are off but there is no mistaking what they are even if they can't be seen at all, nothing else sounds like a V22.

[Rusty Pelican]

I had absolutely no idea where to put this on here so this will have to do . Spotted last week at a car show .

Autoshite icecream department 

 

[Cavcraft]

If that hasn't got the bit where the ice cream comes out right in the middle of the cat's arse, I don't want one.

[michael1703]

Looks to be quite a high weight limit going by the pictures on the brochure!

 

Car tilter roller 1.JPG

 

Car tilter roller 2.JPG

 

Edit: 3500 Kg it says it the upper limit.

I've got that exact model,I've got the screw thread leg for lifting it too. It burnt out at least two of my drills

[quicksilver]

Making me grin tonight is Ray Wilson. Never heard of him? I wouldn't be surprised as he was the guy who had the impossible task of replacing Phil Collins in Genesis and released only one moderately successful album with them before fading back into obscurity. My copy of his 'Genesis Classic' live album arrived today from his online shop in Poland and it's utterly fantastic, an improbable but brilliant combination of Genesis hits with a string quartet that sounds far better than might be expected.

[saucedoctor]

My GF bought me an new watch. With a lithium ion battery in it. And Royal Mail didn't blow it up or send for RLC EOD or anything. Rrrrresult!

[fordperv]

I had absolutely no idea where to put this on here so this will have to do . Spotted last week at a car show .

Autoshite icecream department

 

That is all kinds of awesome

[dome]

I bought a fandango telly-visual box thing yesterday. Android something and I now have loads of new film channels, Sky sports, Sky films, al sorts... I watched the Minions, Ted 2, the Revenant and then the Martian back to back yesterday.

 

it is jolly good and ideal for a crippled old git like me who cannot always get out and about.

 

Which one did you go for? I'm tempted by one.

[Negative Creep]

Bought Doom for the Xbox One a few days ago and it's utterly epic. Just so much fun to be running around at full speed slaughtering everything in brutal fashion without such complications as a plot or character development. To use the technical terms, it's metal as fuck.

[xtriple]

Which one did you go for? I'm tempted by one.

I don't know anything about it other than it says: T10 on the top. Hold on, I'll dig out the box.....  Right, it says: TT TV BOX. Then further down it says: RoHS FC.

 

It's an Android thing. Sorry if that's no use....

[saucedoctor]

Saw one of these in the flesh yesterday and have to say it looked absolutely ace.

 

 

 

A mate's wife got one about a fortnight ago. It's certainly a striking looking thing. The handbook is like a telephone directory.

[xtriple]

Bought Doom for the Xbox One a few days ago and it's utterly epic. Just so much fun to be running around at full speed slaughtering everything in brutal fashion without such complications as a plot or character development. To use the technical terms, it's metal as fuck.

Got the original version that Kyle (my son) and I used to play ALL the time. God it was fantastic fun.

[Jazoli]

I don't know anything about it other than it says: T10 on the top. Hold on, I'll dig out the box..... Right, it says: TT TV BOX. Then further down it says: RoHS FC.

 

It's an Android thing. Sorry if that's no use....

They are all much of a muchness really, just make sure you get the latest version with a decent sized processor and memory.

[Negative Creep]

Got the original version that Kyle (my son) and I used to play ALL the time. God it was fantastic fun.

 

 

The new one is basically the game they would have made in 1993 had the technology been available

[Guest Hooli]

Got the original version that Kyle (my son) and I used to play ALL the time. God it was fantastic fun.

 

Still got it somewhere & still now know....

 

idspispopd for all the cheats

idkfa for all guns & unlimited ammo

[alf892]

At work we deal with a pallet network daily......the woman who does the booking flirts with the transport manager as required to get what she wants.

 

Today he had to cover for one of the drivers who was off sick........so he happens to pop in to 'say hello'

 

His face dropped when he realised the one he deals with looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp.......

[Guest Hooli]

They always do

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This didn't just make me smile, it made me snort with derision. I almost bought Autoespress ,but thought better of it and took a picture.

Apparently this makes me an embarrassing pikey- double win!

 

Bold new look! Aye,that'll be reet.

[Lacquer Peel]

Bold new look = big gopping grille.

[twosmoke300]

Mondeo grille ?

[Spottedlaurel]

AS key-swapping session at the end of last night's Shotley meet was good fun (although a shame Triger's Astra is being temperamental, with fuelling issues much like those I've been suffering on the 1200). Got to drive Rover 825, Audi 90, Mazda 121 and the Astra.

[saucedoctor]

I didn't get the Audio manual or stereo code with the Focus, so I thought I'd pull out the unit and get the serial number off it, and then hit up a dealer for the code.

 

Previous owner=legend. Code on a Post It stuck to the head unit.