What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tayne]

the way I see it , is every human person has needs of food , warmth  and has an output of waste matter,  heat , consumables , without even going near a car , pc , house , so 11 billion souls porking  and pooing there way thro the planet , before they even do anything , thats 11 billion body's adding to climate change , then we add on transport , manufacturing , waste  etc !   , then we say  its ok we will change the way we make power and use it !!!!

 

years from now , aliens in another galaxy will look back at us , see that little speck , one light bulb too many , the planet went into thermal runaway and turned into a mini sun for a week !

 

 

You don't think the population increase might be reason to reduce carbon ???

[Ghosty]

LS: your description makes me think you were very, very close to Junkman's house.

[wuvvum]

Can you please stop bickering on the fucking grin thread?

[cobblers]

 

That's my kind of campsite! bloody brilliant, fiver a night and I had the best burger of my life at 't local pub (Royal Oak in Hurdlow)

 

However, being me I managed to find the only obstacle in the 4 acre camping field to trip over whilst running around with the dogs, and I think I've broken a rib. The obstacle was a dog tiedown spike thing that I'd personally put in about an hour earlier.

 

Driving a Talbot express is incredibly painful with a broken rib but I remain positive.

[Pillock]

Can you please stop bickering on the fucking grin thread?

 

Agreed. There's an existing thread that could be added to here - http://autoshite.com/topic/26922-an-open-intelligent-discussion-about-zevshybridsalternative-fuels/

[Pillock]

Cobblers, how do you find such campsites - is there a directory or do you just cruise around looking for sites?

I'm thinking of hiring a camper for a few days at a time over the next year and doing this to see if the lifestyle suits us before investing in a vehicle. I say investing, it'll still be shite but I won't want to be ripping out soggy chipboard every weekend - and I don't want to buy one and rent storage and find we don't like it.

[somewhatfoolish]

Can you please stop bickering on the fucking grin thread?

Bickering moved here for reasons of non-grinworthiness.

[cobblers]

Cobblers, how do you find such campsites - is there a directory or do you just cruise around looking for sites?

I'm thinking of hiring a camper for a few days at a time over the next year and doing this to see if the lifestyle suits us before investing in a vehicle. I say investing, it'll still be shite but I won't want to be ripping out soggy chipboard every weekend - and I don't want to buy one and rent storage and find we don't like it.

 

This one was by chance, we were in another pub next to a campsite down the road and got talking to a couple who run the farm that this is on.

https://goo.gl/maps/hJDnJ7k4oW32

Just turn up and walk down the road to the farm and pay them your fiver.

 

Apparently there's some facebook directories and stuff, but I usually use google earth. Pick a place you want to go and then look around the surrounding fields til you see a few tents, then use street view to see if they've got a sign outside with a phone number. That way you can find the quieter sites, but they're often just fields and don't always have bogs and showers so you'll need a van with a loo at least.

 

If you're happy to go on a busier site then you can just google "#PLACENAME# campsite" but you often end up on a caravan club site which are usually clean and tidy and quiet at night but you'll be judged and sneered at by everyone if you're running around in anything other than a brand new bessecar cameo or whatever they call new vans these days.

[Guest Hooli]

If you join one of the big clubs they have maps of certified locations. These are basic sites, often a field with a water tap in & that's all.

 

When I used to go camping a lot I found some great places that way.

[andy18s]

Just gone up on 1 of the landy sites,and as you can imagine they don't take any prisoners on there.....

[puddlethumper]

You don't think the population increase might be reason to reduce carbon ???

You don't think the carbon increase might be the reason to reduce population ?

[Guest Hooli]

This popped up on another site, it's made me chuckle as I don't recall hearing about it before.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41110193

[Tayne]

You don't think the carbon increase might be the reason to reduce population ?

 

 

Absolutely.

 

Imagine a world free of baby on board stickers and screaming toddlers being smacked in supermarkets.

 

Kinda makes the whole pensions crisis worse though....

 

 

Anyway, this discussion has been moved.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/26922-an-open-intelligent-discussion-about-zevshybridsalternative-fuels/page-2

[FakeConcern]

Saw this in Eastbourne today

 

 

[Stanky]

I bet that vinyl roof covers a multitude of sins!

[cobblers]

I bet that vinyl roof covers a multitude of sins!

Aye, I bet they went for the "Tredaire Premium Softstep" underlay 

[hairnet]

cobblers how do you forget you put a thing in the ground only you know about on your own in a field???

 

 

i thought i was mad

[hairnet]

going to nz next year and yes i know it gonna cost and wanted to hire a bike

 

 

one place wanted 1500 gbp for a fortnight and 2500 deposit

 

other places were 1000 quid and same deposit

 

no problem money wise but was looking at buying - was gonna bring 3k nz with me for deposit - this woulda left me change if i bought a new small bike

 

but

 

one of the hire places mentioned they did scooters - didnt find any on their site - so i went looking

 

found a place that was very cheap for a week and a half - bike for two days 260$ - i get the scooter for a week and half for that

 

crucially - accepted cash for the deposit

 

very happy and just for that in their t and cs they will be getting a crate of beer

 

now need to book the time off

[anonymous user]

I bet that vinyl roof covers a multitude of sins!

Is sins a new word for wob? I like the MG front though

[wuvvum]

Hairnet, I looked at hiring a scooter when I was in Oz, but decided against it in the end because although it was cheap, there were major restrictions on where you could go with it, how far from base you could take it etc., so I ended up hiring a car instead.  Not saying your place is going to be the same but worth double checking the small print.

[hairnet]

Off road I don't care about but they've already been asked about kms per day

[Ditchfinder General]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/02/owner-reunited-stolen-peugeot-38-years-later/

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/09/02/TELEMMGLPICT000139085727_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq9iE3zOuyeHxS3CNKsoV5sQ1vLvhkMtVb21dMmpQBfEs.jpeg?imwidth=1240

 

Châlons-en-Champagne,

Twinned with Ilkeston. [/shitefact]

[dave21478]

When my cousin hired a scooter here it came with a harsh km per day limit. Once he got a feel for engine noise Vs road speed the speedo cable tragically* fell off the back of the instrument panel. He racked up several thousand kilometers and the cable miraculously* reconnected itself a few days before he returned it, so it had coincidentally* done a reasonable and non surchargeable distance.

[bub2006]

About time i posted in this thread. Im still in hospital but physio been to see me. Gave me walking aid so im sat outside now. Feels good to go out on my own even if it has taken half hour to walk here with rest breaks every 20/30 feet!

[hairnet]

Hairnet, I looked at hiring a scooter when I was in Oz, but decided against it in the end because although it was cheap, there were major restrictions on where you could go with it, how far from base you could take it etc., so I ended up hiring a car instead.  Not saying your place is going to be the same but worth double checking the small print.

Even factoring in 50c a km over the 450 I'll be allowed it'll still work out 300 gbp cheaper than hiring a bike

[Asimo]

For a TV travelblog type of show Russia to Iran is well worth a look. Not much pretence that the guy doing the walk is any kind of hero, just enjoying bumming around in the Caucasus.

The Lada rules in these wild and rural areas, nearly thirty years after the USSR ended. Fiat 124 clones-a-plenty, a Samara or two and lots of Nivas. Hopefully the final episode ending in Iran will feature Paykan action. 

 

 

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/from-russia-to-iran-crossing-wild-frontiers

[Kiltox]

"Ex police cars are a great buy, they're really well maintained" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Nuq1Vx9S4

[gm]

BX08OTY

 

If that is the reg of the police car on the top left of the screen, it passed an mot last week - must be pretty tough these bmws

[DodgeRover]

going to nz next year and yes i know it gonna cost and wanted to hire a bike

 

 

one place wanted 1500 gbp for a fortnight and 2500 deposit

 

other places were 1000 quid and same deposit

 

no problem money wise but was looking at buying - was gonna bring 3k nz with me for deposit - this woulda left me change if i bought a new small bike

 

but

 

one of the hire places mentioned they did scooters - didnt find any on their site - so i went looking

 

found a place that was very cheap for a week and a half - bike for two days 260$ - i get the scooter for a week and half for that

 

crucially - accepted cash for the deposit

 

very happy and just for that in their t and cs they will be getting a crate of beer

 

now need to book the time off

Bike hire isn't cheap in NZ but occasional cheap bikes do turn up for sale.

Whereabouts are you going?

[outlaw118]

Vauxhall Scrappage Scheme announced....
http://sniffpetrol.com/2017/09/04/vauxhall-announces-scrappage-scheme/#.Wa2i9RS0mUl