What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Vin]

Not America as yet, guy from Holland wanted to "Vauxhallise" his Opel and got a full kit off me  

 

 

I'm sure in the past, there was a poster on here from America doing that to a Catera. Somebody sent him all the bits and pieces...can't remember who though...

[Tamworthbay]

Had root canal couple of weeks ago. Relatively painless, they used topical anaesthetic before even doing the injections.

Unlike my old dentist who used to leap out of darkened corners with a needle 10ft long then stabbing you in the face, before telling you to wait 10 mins in reception.

I asked about codeine pads the last time I went, the dentist asked me if a really wanted them ffs, are you serious? Do I want pain or not? Did I come in here dressed in a vinyl gimpsuit with a pool ball in my gob? No, and reason is that I am not a bloody masochist. (Stereotype copyright of Pulp fiction). Sounds like they have at least moved on a bit from the last time I went.

[Sheefag]

I met young Beko of this parish today, smashing lad. His Missus is going to batter him when she sees what he's taken home though...!

[Parky]

He hasn't taken a load of your Argos catalogues has he?

[Sheefag]

Ha!

[Ghosty]

I'm sure in the past, there was a poster on here from America doing that to a Catera. Somebody sent him all the bits and pieces...can't remember who though...

 

I remember that, it could have been on the blue forum though?

Quite a while ago anyway.

[DodgeRover]

I met young Beko of this parish today, smashing lad. His Missus is going to batter him when she sees what he's taken home though...!

Blimey he was a long way from home (or you were)

 

Was it something vacuum related or Laguna?

[Sheefag]

I was up Maidenhead way today. It was a combination of vacuum cleaners and electronics. Enough to fill the boot and the back seat of the Laguna.

Should keep him busy for some considerable time.

That Laguna is an astonishing amount of tidy car for the money.

[vulgalour]

I'm still ill.  Have some more shorties.

 

 

 

[Crusty Sills]

I learned how to make these today courtesy of this thread: http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/199071/honey-shrunk-car-66-toons

 

ShortyRialto.jpg

 

ShortyType3.jpg

 

Shorty1100.jpg

 

Great way to cheer myself up since I'm full of cold and the Princess' suspension has done what it does again.

I've just been looking at the pics on RR.

Making me smile, they look just like my Micro Machines.

[beko1987]

I was up Maidenhead way today. It was a combination of vacuum cleaners and electronics. Enough to fill the boot and the back seat of the Laguna.

Should keep him busy for some considerable time.

That Laguna is an astonishing amount of tidy car for the money.

Was great meeting you too Tony! Yes, I haven't told her yet... Need to work on that! She's working tomorrow night so will go through it all then, we certainly played the 'how much can a laguna hold' game, it's quietened the rear end clink down a bit too! More details in the techy corner thread!

 

 

 

So looking forward to this, I have the model down, the S5510! And the previous gen revolution so I'll have the set soon (must sell some though)

 

And this!

 

 

Which is a childhood blast as my aunt replaced her u2332 turbopower in Wedgewood green with one! Initially I was happy because I have a power drive one of these which needs the cyclone unit, but it looks too good to break so will chase up my sniff of another cyclone unit and have 2.

[Timewaster]

Vulg, I like the way you kept the telecom writing in proportion.

[Stanky]

Having submitted my self assessment tax return a couple of months back, I got a letter from HMRC today saying THEY would be paying ME £55.40 direct into my account within the week.

 

Cha-ching.

[FakeConcern]

Went to a garden centre today and most of the Christmas decoration stuff was really funny (makes me want to watch Christmas Vacation early!) but the best thing was this model "Victorian Village" complete with motor car!

 

 

[forddeliveryboy]

[eddyramrod]

I'm sure in the past, there was a poster on here from America doing that to a Catera. Somebody sent him all the bits and pieces...can't remember who though...

 

 

I remember that, it could have been on the blue forum though?

Quite a while ago anyway.

I remember that too!  It was a few years ago though, pretty sure I was still in Cyprus then.  The thread likely sank in the Great Disaster....

[chaseracer]

I am in my pre-Accrington hotel near Wakefield.  The kitchen staff have knocked off and they are chatting and smoking under my second-floor window, which is slightly open.

 

They are not smoking B&H...

 

[Jon]

Here's the link to the Vauxhillac Omera:

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/9373-my-new-cadillacvauxhall-shite/?p=359021

[angle]

I know people on here have been slagging off the new Cactus for losing the airbumps, but look - suspension!

 

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/uk-exclusive-new-citroen-suspension-set-‘reinvent’-comfort

[chodweaver]

I am in my pre-Accrington hotel near Wakefield. The kitchen staff have knocked off and they are chatting and smoking under my second-floor window, which is slightly open.

 

They are not smoking B&H...

 

They'll be back in the kitchen shortly then, raiding the fridges and the biscuit tin.

 

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[JeeExEll]

I get email text alerts from job internet sites, got one this morning from a site called No Experience Necessary. Their latest job offering's to be a surgeon for a NHS Trust in Glossop.

[PhilA]

I asked about codeine pads the last time I went, the dentist asked me if a really wanted them ffs, are you serious? Do I want pain or not? Did I come in here dressed in a vinyl gimpsuit with a pool ball in my gob? No, and reason is that I am not a bloody masochist. (Stereotype copyright of Pulp fiction). Sounds like they have at least moved on a bit from the last time I went.

Funny thing, couple years back I went to the dentist here for routine check-up and gave the complaint that one of my lower molars would occasionally be a little sore. He poked a bit and discovered the tooth above had worn through the enamel on the lower one and it was beginning to work it's way down. Decision was made there to clean it up and fill it full of wob.

Out comes the stainless steel syringe with the big eye hoops that would look more at home on a turkey baster, and the large needle with a big kink in. He explains the best way to go about this will be to inject anaesthetic at the back of my mouth to numb the right side of my lower jaw.

(Since then I researched; this method is standard practice, called the Gow-Gates lower mandibular block and it works because there's a big nerve that comes up behind the jaw and splits off into 3 main branches. One goes up your cheek, the other to your top teeth, the other to the jaw and injecting there numbs the entire nerve making the side of your face numb).

 

So, in goes the needle and he squeezes the plunger in, sets everything down and tells me to sit back and he'll be back in fifteen minutes. I'm laying back and I can feel warmth running down my back, down my legs and it feels like I'm laying on a cloud.

 

Dentist comes back a while later, I'm staring at the speaker grille in the ceiling and he asks me if my jaw is numb. I tell him no, not really but he says we'll make a start of it. In goes the drill and I nearly jump out of the chair as the crashing electric feeling jolt of pain roots itself firmly into my tooth.

 

He decides at this point perhaps I wasn't telling him nonsense about the anesthesia having not taken hold. He puts the needle again carefully and squeezes the plunger. Again, the warm feeling down my back and down my legs. I tell him it feels warm. He agrees that it can, and buggers off again for a while.

 

Ten minutes of watching the trees outside and he returns. Asks if my jaw is numb. I whistle the first bar of Dixie at him. He looks slightly perplexed and decides on a third round of lidocaine. In goes the needle, expertly and again the sensation of floating on a warm cloud.. ten minutes pass and he returns, my jaw is still not numb.

 

At this point we are at the maximum injection allowance for the anaesthetic so he admits defeat. My wife leads me out, puts me in the passenger seat of the truck and goes back in to sort the paperwork out. When she comes out in told I was having a conversation with my reflection in the wing mirror. I don't recall much else from that day but, after doing a bunch of research it appears that in about 2.5% of the population, the main vein in the jaw decides to grow around the front of the nerves, rather than to the back, well out of the way.

 

What my dentist had done was find a vein and give me a rather concentrated three-course IV of lidocaine. Needless to say I was quite stoned and slept the rest of the day...

 

My dentist back home had heard of the oddity that is the veins going the wrong way and instead did the many-stabs approach on and around the tooth. That successfully had me pfhrobolblerrbrbbl and the filling went just fine...

 

I can smile about it now but I'll be honest. Anaesthetic almost directly to the heart isn't an inviting thought.

 

The main thing is I can grin about it BECOS I ARE NOT NORMAL.

 

Phil

[Mr A Lawrence]

It's the little things.....

 

[Tamworthbay]

Funny thing, couple years back I went to the dentist here for routine check-up and gave the complaint that one of my lower molars would occasionally be a little sore. He poked a bit and discovered the tooth above had worn through the enamel on the lower one and it was beginning to work it's way down. Decision was made there to clean it up and fill it full of wob.

Out comes the stainless steel syringe with the big eye hoops that would look more at home on a turkey baster, and the large needle with a big kink in. He explains the best way to go about this will be to inject anaesthetic at the back of my mouth to numb the right side of my lower jaw.

(Since then I researched; this method is standard practice, called the Gow-Gates lower mandibular block and it works because there's a big nerve that comes up behind the jaw and splits off into 3 main branches. One goes up your cheek, the other to your top teeth, the other to the jaw and injecting there numbs the entire nerve making the side of your face numb).

So, in goes the needle and he squeezes the plunger in, sets everything down and tells me to sit back and he'll be back in fifteen minutes. I'm laying back and I can feel warmth running down my back, down my legs and it feels like I'm laying on a cloud.

Dentist comes back a while later, I'm staring at the speaker grille in the ceiling and he asks me if my jaw is numb. I tell him no, not really but he says we'll make a start of it. In goes the drill and I nearly jump out of the chair as the crashing electric feeling jolt of pain roots itself firmly into my tooth.

He decides at this point perhaps I wasn't telling him nonsense about the anesthesia having not taken hold. He puts the needle again carefully and squeezes the plunger. Again, the warm feeling down my back and down my legs. I tell him it feels warm. He agrees that it can, and buggers off again for a while.

Ten minutes of watching the trees outside and he returns. Asks if my jaw is numb. I whistle the first bar of Dixie at him. He looks slightly perplexed and decides on a third round of lidocaine. In goes the needle, expertly and again the sensation of floating on a warm cloud.. ten minutes pass and he returns, my jaw is still not numb.

At this point we are at the maximum injection allowance for the anaesthetic so he admits defeat. My wife leads me out, puts me in the passenger seat of the truck and goes back in to sort the paperwork out. When she comes out in told I was having a conversation with my reflection in the wing mirror. I don't recall much else from that day but, after doing a bunch of research it appears that in about 2.5% of the population, the main vein in the jaw decides to grow around the front of the nerves, rather than to the back, well out of the way.

What my dentist had done was find a vein and give me a rather concentrated three-course IV of lidocaine. Needless to say I was quite stoned and slept the rest of the day...

My dentist back home had heard of the oddity that is the veins going the wrong way and instead did the many-stabs approach on and around the tooth. That successfully had me pfhrobolblerrbrbbl and the filling went just fine...

I can smile about it now but I'll be honest. Anaesthetic almost directly to the heart isn't an inviting thought.

The main thing is I can grin about it BECOS I ARE NOT NORMAL.

Phil

I was laughing and cringing in equal measure at that, but it does sum up why I only go when I absolutely can’t avoid it.

[Hendry]

It is a reason to use the handbrake at lights. If you're holding your foot on the brake you're always going to lose a quarter of a second finding the biting point and then swapping feet, so either balance on the clutch (applicable to hire cars, or your own vehicle that isn't long for this world anyway) or use the handbrake so you can be ready on the pedals.

 

Learning light sequences helps too, so you can be rolling on red to cross the line on amber and into the distance on green

 

(I used to go full dragstrip with my Polo, hold it on the handbrake with the revs high and the clutch just below biting. Stopped doing that when I twisted a driveshaft in half)

My tactic is to sit in neutral with foot on brake for a while, roughly guesstimate when the lights will be changing. Change into first gear, bring up the bite and then swap other foot from brake the accelerator but try to avoid too many revs, also even better when it’s flat enough to be able to sit at lights with the handbrake off and no feet on any pedal so it’s not obvious from brake lights you’ve come off the brake pedal.

 

I try to avoid rolling over the line or too many revs so it’s not obvious I’m planning to beat them off the lights because I’m always worried with 140bhp and 270Nm of torque at my disposal I’ll get beaten, and I hate trying to beat someone off the lights and getting a showing up, so I make it look as if I’m not trying, so they don’t try either, catch them off guard and away I go.

 

I must admit to being a bit of a dick where I even if I’m in the lane others want to beat me off the line to get into I pull away quick to stay in front, and if I have a car which has similar power alongside who matches me, I never give in, even if we are neck and neck I will make them have to pull in behind me or whatever.

[dollywobbler]

My tactic is to sit in neutral with foot on brake for a while, roughly guesstimate when the lights will be changing. Change into first gear, bring up the bite and then swap other foot from brake the accelerator but try to avoid too many revs...

 

Or you could just use the handbrake?

[Guest Hooli]

Anyone would think that's what a handbrake is designed for.

[Pillock]

Handbrakes make for better drag starts anyway. But I knew talk of sitting on the brakes would make a light illuminate in Dollywobbler's house and he's be along shortly

 

(Presumably a red light, at eye level)

[Coprolalia]

Heidel's collection thread from the other side of Finland! New record

[Tamworthbay]

Or buy an auto, perfect for the two foot traffic light Grand Prix.