What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Roobarb]

It’s been around for a while, but still makes me grin...

[Guest Hooli]

That never gets old.

[DeeJay]

I think he tested the pen doing his signature.

[paulplom]

All my Christmas shopping is done and wrapped. Not bad considering I have 3 kids and my partner has 1. I can now sit back and relax. Christmas is probably my favourite time of the year. On another note, social services has now given me full custody of my daughter (5). my ex can only have supervised visits and no overnight stays. She's a registered alcoholic and on a massive downward spiral since I left. Lost the house, her job of 15 years with the nhs, her car and now her license. It's going to be the best Christmas ever.

I have no feeling of guilt or sorry for her. She has put me and the kids through total hell these last three years. I now have a new partner of 2.5 years who has a really good job and for the 1st time in my life I don't have to pay for every fucking thing. Her dad is loaded and bought us a lovely  4 bedroom, 3 storey house next to a pub. We do have to pay the interest on the money he shelled out but it's only £300 a month (till he dies). He's in his early 70's and smokes and drinks heavily. Lovely bloke though.

The only downside is my kids go to school 15 miles away and it's a pita having to do the school run twice a day. What happens when they move out of the catchment area?

[DodgeRover]

Apply to the council for nearer school places, although you probably won't get one till next September. You will also just get whichever has a space not your choice, so it might be a good idea to ask first where has any space as otherwise you might find you are causing more problems.

[dollywobbler]

Openreach engineer is here. Fibre!

[Des]

What, has he brought Wheatabix?

[320touring]

What, has he brought Wheatabix?

*Applauds*

[Lord Sterling]

I do like the have a conversation with the people that ring from random call centres.

Just had another one. Decided on the very fast generic Irish accent this time.

You must be a bit like me then, I love accents and attempting to do them. As I usually travel all over the country I do try, if I'm good enough, to do the accent I try to tone it down and not overly egg the accent.

[loserone]

So let's assume for the moment that I have more money than sense (I have, even though I have no money at all, lol) and decided to replace the Blob with a Leaf.  The Blob does most of our long-distance work, like going to Inverness to see the grandsons.  350 miles each way, which we consider a full driving-day in each direction.  How long would the journey take in the Leaf if we have to stop and recharge (assuming that's even possible along the interminable A9) every 70-ish miles???????

 

There's some clues in my leafy thread about my thoughts on long distant leafing.

 

Thankfully we have (or at least, had until 7am) an ICE for that kind of work.  Now we're potentially looking for a car again.  Maybe I should get a 'Huggy'?

[loserone]

Current thinking is a 2.5 or 3.0H6 legacy / outback. Glug glug!

[Tamworthbay]

Today the postman is mostly delivering....

They are bloody gorgeous! (Massive thanks to Chancer!)

[richardmorris]

What, has he brought Wheatabix?

String.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42338067

[dollywobbler]

I dare anyone to say this place is crap at the moment. Everywhere you look there are epic threads, and some ridiculous winter beaters of distinction. I'm sure it's not long until the moaners start up about it being much better in 1984, but hey, let's enjoy the good times!

[Guest Hooli]

String.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42338067

 

That did make me laugh when I read it.

[Tamworthbay]

What do I win?Ben

DVD box set of X factor featuring every episode ever that won’t turn off once you press play

[Captain Furious]

Grin = it’s 10 full days until Xmas and I’ve done all my shopping! A situation that has hitherto been unknown

 

I’ve finally made good on the promise to myself to be organised for once

[DodgeRover]

Why would I press play on that?

 

Ben

It's labelled as "Debbie Does Dallas"

[seth]

I totally outpaced a Pagani Zonda while driving down Park Lane today.  Left him way, way behind. 

 

I don't think I went faster than 20mph but his lane choice was repeatedly rubbish.  To be fair I suppose his field of vision is probably more limited than a '60s estate car's.

[loserone]

Tools for the job

[Roobarb]

Today was my last day at work until 2018.

 

Off on a flight with the kiddo to see my folks in Dublin tomorrow (for a week at theirs in the south of Ireland) and then back for home (well the US) for Christmas with the wife.

 

Only two presents left to buy.

Other than the packing and the 4hr lay over in Newark (shivers) life I grrrrrrreat!

[Noel Tidybeard]

It all kicked off at work in our depot the other day. Some total twunt had parked a Sprinter across the electric car charge points (car park is too small by far to be fair and vans should be the priority for parking really but still). Some of the managers have EV's and PHEV's so we're mightily pissed off they couldn't charge up. Worse, nobody could find who the van driver was or where he was so it couldn't be moved.

Stupid really but there you go.

 

when did you go back to move the splinter?

[beko1987]

"we're having a decorations war in the office, you 2 have to join in..."

 

Fine

 

[kinkersaab]

That carpet looks like it would make me walk funny to aviod falling over on it, like lots of escalators going in different directons....

[Supernaut]

"we're having a decorations war in the office, you 2 have to join in..."

 

Fine

 

IMG_20171215_075102.jpg

Not good enough, you let some of the tinsel onto your side of the desk!

[beko1987]

That carpet looks like it would make me walk funny to aviod falling over on it, like lots of escalators going in different directons....

Some of the tiles are flipped too, if this were pistonheads it would be in the 'what makes your teeth itch' thread, but we don't have one of those because are better than that

[beko1987]

Not good enough, you let some of the tinsel onto your side of the desk!

Gareth flipped that off as soon as he came in, it obscured the hidden message on our little sign

[dollywobbler]

Hold on,  we've got another slartibartfast now?!

[beko1987]

Yep, Beko flounced off so I nicked his avatar...

[chodweaver]

Returning home from a gig last night at about 2am, twenty minutes of impressive snow storm had turned all the estate roads around chez chod to a full on, no salt Swedish FIA rally stage. Much handbrake/dab of oppo fun was incongruously had in Mrs CW's automatic driving school corsa (complete with extra door mirrors and dual controls). Haven't had so much fun in years.

 

 

It is fully my intention that Mrs CW will remain unaware of this juvenile behaviour.

 

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