What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Might have the World's best ISP.  Vfast.  They use OFNL, which had a major issue today affecting their entire network.

 

Apart from them letting me pick up the router directly from their office within 4 hours of signing up to them because they were local and didn't see the sense in shipping it out to me, seeing as I live ten minutes away, today I gave them a call during my service outage.

 

'You are number seven in the queue, estimated wait time is five minutes'.

 

'You are number six in the queue, estimated wait time is four minutes'.

 

Etc.  The whole way through the hold.  Why other companies can't do this, I do not know.

 

Then, when they answered the phone I told them my name and they told me straight away I was experiencing a network issue out of their control, technicians had been sent to sort it and the name of the site that I could get service updates from if I had mobile data.  No mucking around.  No bullshit security screening, asking for my second dog's cousin's surname.  Call was over in 30 seconds from answering and I had the answer.

 

That and the service is actually the speed they advertise and in two months (apart from today) I've had a 20 minute network drop and I'm a very happy bunny.

[loserone]

AAISP are like this, but slightly* expensive.

[rantingYoof]

There's something about owning a relatively rare original car that makes you look at eBay ads like this and go 'Hmmmm'...even when part of you knows it's luuuuuuuudicrously expensive for paper with 'Vauxhall' written on it.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-Omega-MV6-3-0i-V6-24v-1997-98-UK-Market-Foldout-Sales-Brochure/173307849618

 

Yup, I'm getting this one instead...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-Omega-MV6-brochure-1998-models/302594077089

[fordperv]

A very kind shiter who i wont name incase he doesnt want me to sent me a parcel after sending me a message because I showed interest in a post he had made

 

But what is it

 

Its a set of 90s ford to trumps which are blooming fantastic

 

Thanks mate these made my day after a crap day at work

 

This place is what it used to be

[Crusty Sills]

You're welcome.

[Stanky]

Ha, awesome! Truly winning at life with a Probe GT. A stonking 147bhp at 4300rpm? Good grief. How utterly bleak!

 

Also, does a 1300cc mk5 escort really weigh 1350kg? Incredible. I have learned two things today, both of which made me smile.

[Wack]

A strange grin this evening,  I was fetching the washing in and a young magpie landed on the line right in front of me.  He looked straight at me and opened his mouth so I assumed he wanted food.  I hunted around under a few rocks with him sat on my head and found a worm for him which he took out of my hand and sat on my shoulder to eat.  My 8 year old daughter came out at this point and was very pleased that he wanted to say hello so fetched some cheese from the house for him.  He ate some of that from my hand then flew up into the tree while we went in.  I'm always meaning to feed the birds but rarely get around to it.  Time to put that feeding shelf outside my bedroom window that I've been meaning to do for over a year then.

Sunflower hearts , birds go nuts for them , I've got them queuing up in the trees for a spot on the feeder, they empty it in a day.

 

I ran out so put some normal seed in, you could see them spitting it out, what's this crap

[Jon]

I can now breathe a nice big sigh of relief, as just like every year, I put off sorting out my accounts until the last minute, so it looms over me daily until I pull my finger out. Despite the scene of haphazard computing and general confusion that has been my dining room table for the past couple of days, I'm quietly confident that it's all done! YES!

 

Spurred on by such uncharacteristic productivity, I cancelled an insurance policy on a car I'm not using (Visa GTi), saving a heady 26p a day in the process. Then, since my cousin drove into someone in our 205 GTI and immediately claimed on the insurance as a knee-jerk reaction a few weeks back, I bit the bullet and called the insurer of our Clio, to break the bad news, as the renewal's up (the Clio being insured with someone else).

 

Expecting a financial reaming due to a claim, I spoke to an actual person within 2 minutes, presented the details and then waited on hold whilst he spoke to his supervisor about what would happen next. Both were in agreement that despite the 205 policy being in our names, since it was my cousin involved in the claim and not me or Mrs_Jon (the Clio named policy holders), there was no extra penalty to pay! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!

 

As if that weren't grin-worthy enough, I paid the policy in one lump sum, so saved another £20. Thus a modified Clio 172 fully comp policy has now been procured for 63p a day. 

 

Take that UK insurers! NZ insurance industry is ace. 

 

I'm calling that enough life progress for today, so I'm going to head out for a bike ride to celebrate, then maybe take the Cavalier for a cruise, just because.

[MorrisItalSLX]

I was digging through some old books about learning technical drawing and found some serious shite content

 

 

 

 

 

Now you too can pretend to be from the AA or put flying plug holes on whatever you want!

 

Is there any way to scan them and send 'em on? I'd love to take a look/go at those....... fantastic stuff!

 

I have dug out the second book from the pile and scanned all the car related pages.

 

Apologies for the poor quality, the photocopier is quite old and I was a bit haphazard lining the pages up!

Educational Technical Drawings - Car Related Pages.pdf

[Mr A Lawrence]

Me!

oh. i used to recover for chestercarcare, A1and A55 about 10 years ago.

[SiC]

Debugging a live production system

[danthecapriman]

^^ brilliant!

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

SiC - how the hell has it made it to PROD then? best of luck there! 

 

Morris - thanks a million.... really - fuggin BLUEBIRD etc... I've just spent the lunchtime (and a bit) drooling over them. Really appreciated..... grin stuck on for sure.

[Jon]

I have dug out the second book from the pile and scanned all the car related pages.

 

Apologies for the poor quality, the photocopier is quite old and I was a bit haphazard lining the pages up!

 

No need to apologise, they're plenty acceptable; thanks for taking the time! Edit: Have now updated my profile photo as a consequence.

 

Got to admit that when I was scrolling down and got to item 21: Garage door, I was fully expecting a bit of 1970's technical drawing trolling, i.e. this:

 

[Parky]

Matt Berry’s new album of TV Theme tunes.

 

https://soundcloud.com/acidjazzrecs/matt-berry-are-you-being-served-1

 

This Acid Jazz version of “Are you being served” is just masterful. Looking at the track listing I am looking forward to getting my cd in October as the Rainbow theme tune has to be worth a listen, as does a funked up version of “The Good Life”

 

(Might have to listen to an ad first, but it’s worth persisting)

[dome]

Popped over to Bute for the day to do a spot of bird watching.

 

One bird in particular

 

A blue one.

 

 

This is awesome. I'm here for the duration

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Ah..... holy fuck! - Only like once - but kept clicking...... broke the mousepad...... 

That is just fabulous to behold........ sooooooooo jealous

[Cavcraft]

Another one off the bucket list:  Local chippy does free delivery, so just ordered a takeaway and it's arrived. The chippy is about 20 foot from my front door. SUCCESS.

[dome]

Ah..... holy fuck! - Only like once - but kept clicking...... broke the mousepad......

That is just fabulous to behold........ sooooooooo jealous

She's up here next week too. Had to tear myself away to get the ferry home. I may be back...

[Kiltox]

SiC - how the hell has it made it to PROD then? best of luck there!

 

Morris - thanks a million.... really - fuggin BLUEBIRD etc... I've just spent the lunchtime (and a bit) drooling over them. Really appreciated..... grin stuck on for sure.

Agile innit - fuck it up faster.

[vulgalour]

Another one off the bucket list:  Local chippy does free delivery, so just ordered a takeaway and it's arrived. The chippy is about 20 foot from my front door. SUCCESS.

 

As far as that?  I could see the pizza shop from my first flat and they were still happy to deliver.  How I'm not twice as wide as I am tall, I do not know, because they were always really generous with proportions and so amiable you just kept going back for more stuff.  They did the best cheesy chips I've ever had.  Aw... now I'm sad, I want amazing first flat cheesy chips now.

[beko1987]

My new phone! My first brand new device in about 5 years! Grateful to my mate for giving me his year old phones and all, but shiney shiney! Bloody slippery though, the case came after I left for the day...

[Wack]

Weather changed down south , looks bad

 

[dozeydustman]

On Idiot Driver UK's Facebook page today

 

[fordperv]

Just found a picture of my capri from a few years back at a show in the pedestrian area of hanley

 

It reminded me of the story behind it, the marshal looked and said "you are definately going there"

 

 

I was there for a good while then it became shop opening time, a real miserable bint opened up the shop and was all in a flap, went stomping up and down then went to the marshal who was close enough for us to hear and she said loudly "with that there (pointing) how are people supposed to get past with pushchairs" quick as a flash I shouted over "you sell dildos not rattles" everyone was in uproar with laughter, she was not impressed the Marshall told her that the capri was a sex icon, despite the look of the picture there was plenty of space to get by, I wanted to ask if I could borrow the mannequins to pose around the car but I thought how miserable she was that may be a bad idea, you would think working in a sex shop she would be happier

 

It's funny how these things bring a smile to your face years later

[Zelandeth]

This put a grin on my face!

 

Was surprised when they were able to look these up on the parts system...

 

Was even more surprised when this packet actually arrived along with the more standard service parts.

 

 

How many companies could find you a couple of lenses for the dashboard of a van that's not been made since 1995?

 

Never mind the fact that they treated me like royalty in their glossy dealership, despite my turning up in a crusty old van!

[tinribs]

[fordperv]

Saw an escort cosworth out in the rain

 

[chodweaver]

shite-cars-viz.jpg

Pmsl. Brilliant!

[Tamworthbay]

Just found a picture of my capri from a few years back at a show in the pedestrian area of hanley

It reminded me of the story behind it, the marshal looked and said "you are definately going there"

Photo249.jpg

I was there for a good while then it became shop opening time, a real miserable bint opened up the shop and was all in a flap, went stomping up and down then went to the marshal who was close enough for us to hear and she said loudly "with that there (pointing) how are people supposed to get past with pushchairs" quick as a flash I shouted over "you sell dildos not rattles" everyone was in uproar with laughter, she was not impressed the Marshall told her that the capri was a sex icon, despite the look of the picture there was plenty of space to get by, I wanted to ask if I could borrow the mannequins to pose around the car but I thought how miserable she was that may be a bad idea, you would think working in a sex shop she would be happier

It's funny how these things bring a smile to your face years later

A few years ago I was building and racing electric cars and was invited down to Prince Charles Eco festival on the Mall. We did runs up and down with Kryton off Red Dwarf doing the commentary. There were loads of stars there we mixed with and it was a great laugh (meeting Stirling Moss was a high point). At the time one of,our sponsors was King Dick tools and we had a big king dick sticker on the side. The whole event was sponsored by Siemens and you had to have one of their stickers somewhere to be involved. It was only after the event when I was showing a mate the pics that He clocked we had put the Siemens sticker right under the king dick one so it read King Dick Siemens. It was a genuine accident but still makes me laugh that all these stars and members of royalty walked past it looking like that. The owner of King Dick is an bike racer (The king of Mallory in case anyone knows him) and thought it was brilliant. I will try and dig the pics out.