What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[PhillipM]

Just discovered there is such a thing as Explosive welding.

Usually when arcing up the morning after curry night.

[Mr Livered]

 

 

I got beeped at for not moving, sat there with the indicator on waiting for a gap. Beep = instant fail). How was I to know you just nose out and hope the car about to not look right stops in time?

 

What, someone beeps at you during your driving test and you automatically fail?

 

I know 17/18 year olds who would probably think it was a proper laugh to follow their mates round during their test, beeping for troll lolz

[fordperv]

mrs fp sent me this link to a house for sale, she thinks its a closet shiter who lives there

 

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39294795.html?utm_source=sendtofriend&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=buying

[Spottedlaurel]

Laurel apparently went straight through its MoT today with no issues. The coolant leak was a split hose from the block to the heater matrix, they just shortened it very slightly and all is fine now.

 

With decent weather forecast I’ll try to use it as much as possible before winter. And hoping for no more errant Skoda Fabias crashing into me….

[Tamworthbay]

mrs fp sent me this link to a house for sale, she thinks its a closet shiter who lives there

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39294795.html?utm_source=sendtofriend&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=buying

That seems cheap, it would be 80k more around here, dread to think what it would be in Kent!

[Mr A Lawrence]

That seems cheap, it would be 80k more around here, dread to think what it would be in Kent!

It's cheap because Crewe.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Anyone going "sober for October"???

 

I'm personally looking forward to "can't remember November"

 

Should be fun.

[Alexg]

The Brownlee brothers. What great blokes

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/triathlon/37402716

 

 

[Cavcraft]

There isn't a chance in hell I'd go sober for a full month.

[Tamworthbay]

It's cheap because Crewe.

Even still, there are shitty bits around the West Midlands but would still be a lot over that.

[Tamworthbay]

Been sober for ten years now, I have to avoid alcohol due to arthritis meds, I don't miss it and can have the odd one very occasionally. My vice is coke (liquid variety), if I had to stop that I would struggle.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Crewe's alright, I lived there for a few years and wasnt robbed etc.

[Pillock]

Well, this afternoon that escalated quickly

Anyway, my mam says she'll lend us the dipper til I flog the van, and it looks as though I'll be living in her spare room for a bit.

 

Shit! Am I reading between the lines right that you're now moving house, but you're now single? That's a bit harsh.

"Alright love, I've seen this great house that.... "

"GET OUT!"

[beko1987]

I don't drink enough to need to go sober for a month!

[anonymous user]

There isn't a chance in hell I'd go sober for a full month.

or in my case even a day; I'm not a member of AA, I prefer the RAC the regional alcoholics' club

[vulgalour]

It's more worrying that there *needs* to be a month people are encouraged to be sober really.  In the jobs I've had, after work drinks seem most common with office jobs, where the employees apparently work very little and get very stressed about it and need a little drinkypoo before they can cope with the weekend of terrible television they intend to watch.  If you struggle to be sober for a month and only try it at the behest of a charity drive thing then it's entirely likely you have a problem and need to seek help.  If your job is so terrible that the only way you can cope with it is turning to drink then perhaps it's time to reassess that too.

[dollywobbler]

I'm with you Vulg. Like the no make up selfie thing, it seems worrying that these things are considered achievements. If anything, it reinforces the fallacy that such things are out of the ordinary.

[Tamworthbay]

It's more worrying that there *needs* to be a month people are encouraged to be sober really.  In the jobs I've had, after work drinks seem most common with office jobs, where the employees apparently work very little and get very stressed about it and need a little drinkypoo before they can cope with the weekend of terrible television they intend to watch.  If you struggle to be sober for a month and only try it at the behest of a charity drive thing then it's entirely likely you have a problem and need to seek help.  If your job is so terrible that the only way you can cope with it is turning to drink then perhaps it's time to reassess that too.

I have worked in a couple of places (neither were offices) where stress levels were generally high- very high for pretty much all staff. I know of quite a few who went home and the first thing they did was pour a drink. I even know of a couple who would drink before work to get through the day. Whilst it wasn't normal it wasn't unusual either. It was just seen as a 'coping' strategy by some. I found it quite scary but some of the people had been what I would term 'effective alcoholics' for years, they still functioned perfectly well but must have had high levels of alcohol almost permanently. One guy was averaging 6-8 pints between 5-7pm EVERY night. I wouldn't be able to stand if I played that game. Mind you he is diabetic now and is a complete twat.

[Cavcraft]

It's more worrying that there *needs* to be a month people are encouraged to be sober really.  In the jobs I've had, after work drinks seem most common with office jobs, where the employees apparently work very little and get very stressed about it and need a little drinkypoo before they can cope with the weekend of terrible television they intend to watch.  If you struggle to be sober for a month and only try it at the behest of a charity drive thing then it's entirely likely you have a problem and need to seek help.  If your job is so terrible that the only way you can cope with it is turning to drink then perhaps it's time to reassess that too.

 

Hey, some of us can just get royally pissed on a Saturday night and go a week or more before the next round.

[dollywobbler]

Wanting to get drunk is fine. I don't, but plenty of people do. The idea of it being really, really hard to not drink for a month doesn't seem a healthy idea to band about.

[cort16]

i have stopped before and felt much healthier but after a while it occurred to me that me and my life was quite boring so I started again .

[Mr_Bo11ox]

How cool is this?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/waste-not-want-not-sweden-tax-breaks-repairs

[michael1703]

And make it a requirement that every school child can sew a button on and cobble a shoe

[captain_70s]

I used to get drunk for fun when I was at college.

Once in employment I'd have the odd local ale in the evening because I quite like them.

Now I have a couple of cans of McEwans Export because it's been a shit day and they are good value for money.

 

I try not to drink too often to be honest, my local has closed down and drinking alone tends to make me a right miserable git. I'm sure being sober is grand and all but I've spent too much bloody time trying to get the Scots to accept me and being an alcoholic is a step in the right direction!

[jakebullet]

Booze is something I pick up for a bit, then get bored and stop. I can see it causing problems with Kinky Girl 'cos every Friday night she's "do you want a beer?", and is then cracking a bottle of wine for her. I'm not really bothered love. It doesn't make me any more fun to be around.

 

Now if you asked me to give up cake for a month I'd be rattling before the week was up.

[xtriple]

I 'officially' gave up booze in about 85-87, not because I had a problem but because my Mother is/had a major problem and what I saw made me sick to the core. I had a few drinks on the millennium and for a few years had a drink at Christmas, but really not bothered about the stuff, not touched a drop again in years. Never missed it, doesn't bother me if other people around me drink but if they get drunk, stupid or aggressive, I'm out!

[garbaldy]

I couldn't care less who drinks, I don't go out much these days as it was always pick on the none drinker attitude that pissed me off,

I don't not drink for fun it's because beer lager most spirit's taste like shit, i do like Malibu as it's nice and coconuty but even that gets the piss takers out in force as it's apparently a ladies drink, fuck the lot of them that's what I say.

 

In a hot summers day when I see a pint of whatever dirty dishwater someone is drinking I have to admit it does look nice if only it tasted as good as it looks.

[Guest Hooli]

^^ Try real ale. Lager is for those who don't know better (it's the renault of the booze world).

[Cavcraft]

How cool is this?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/waste-not-want-not-sweden-tax-breaks-repairs

 

That's probably about the best idea ever.

[rainagain]

What, someone beeps at you during your driving test and you automatically fail?

 

I know 17/18 year olds who would probably think it was a proper laugh to follow their mates round during their test, beeping for troll lolz

 

I remember asking one of my mates how his test went, he told me had failed as he rolled back during the hill test when he stalled, he then went on to say he rolled back into a poor sod who was trying to cross the road behind him!

 

Luckily this was before compensation culture so he just got a lot of abuse off the guy who hobbled off.