What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Ghosty]

Also, I found some 5 litre kegs of London Pride yesterday.

 

£6/keg down from £15.

 

Got two, there were for but I summoned a mate to buy the other two as I knew he'd want them.

[chatsharris]

I finally got the order through for my next assignment, staying in area (Bristol) for a couple of years, with a promotion and running an office.

It was meant to be happening in October, and it's now down for December, but I will see what I can wangle there.

 

The best part is that one of my lads from my last ship is due to join there as well.  He got offered a temporary promotion elsewhere, and turned it down because he wants to carry on learning from me.  You can't buy loyalty like that!

[PhilA]

Bought a wonderfully shonky piece of lawn equipment.

 

It was cheap because according to the seller:

 

1) blade belt tensioner broken

2) takes a screwdriver across the solenoid to start (won't start with key)

3) needs jump leads to start up

 

 

2006 Simplicity Broadmoor (Briggs and Stratton own brand) with a 470cc 16hp v-twin and hydrostatic drive. Three small high speed blades underneath the deck, which is interesting.

 

So, after having had the battery on trickle charge overnight it started just fine on the key. If you engage all the interlocks it'll start... He'd been starting it like that for 5 years or so.

 

The tensioner spring had sawn through where it goes into the sheet metal of the deck. Heated the remaining end orange with blowtorch, bent it round with pliers and hooked it all back up.

 

The PTO switch is a bit iffy, so someone in their wisdom removed two of the wires and replaced them with a toggle switch. PTO switch needs to be reconnected then and cleaned up.

 

 

Need to adjust the level of the deck but that's not bad for a $200 machine.

 

Phil

[Wack]

That bit of lawn next to your house, that's about twice the size of my whole plot , result on the mower though

 

In the 80s when betamax video recorders were the price of a used car I saw one advertised as broken for £25 in the local paper, went to have a look and the picture was all fuzzy , offered £20 and he took it

 

got it home thinking it'll just want the head cleaning but no, turned the tracking wheel and it was fine, kids must've been messing about with it , sold it for £150 and that day led to me dealing in shite for money

 

The shed I could put on that land

[Floatylight]

The whatsapp group chat for the branch of the union I've joined has had some real gems on it today. They are talking about the idea work have of setting up a private company to run estates, wholey owned by the trust and how much they don't like the idea.

 

I totally get there point but then some genius* pipes up that we should 'strike and stick together, like the miners'. I really struggled not to comment that maybe they should ask a miner how that turned out & if they've still got the job.

 

I find it amazingly funny that anyone can think the miners won when living in area that is entirely shut pits etc.

Hopefully the background work we've put in should stop all this, (UNISON) in other areas staff have been striking and have stopped the subcos going ahead.. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/20/nhs-trusts-told-to-stop-using-subcos-subsidiary-firms-to-save-money?CMP=share_btn_fb

 

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[STUNO]

NZ Lotto mid-week numbers drawn 3 5 7 9 11 13. the first prize is always $1,000,000 (small population ! )

Won by 40 people who got $25,000 each. Enough to make me happy, but jeeezzz.

Powerball had also just been won in the previous draw so the two of them who got that had to put up with $2,000,000 each.

I will keep trying.

[Guest Hooli]

Hopefully the background work we've put in should stop all this, (UNISON) in other areas staff have been striking and have stopped the subcos going ahead.. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/20/nhs-trusts-told-to-stop-using-subcos-subsidiary-firms-to-save-money?CMP=share_btn_fb

 

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Aye the idea of a WOC is shite & should be stopped. A lot of trusts have dropped it already, mine hasn't decided yet.

[PhilA]

That bit of lawn next to your house, that's about twice the size of my whole plot , result on the mower though

 

In the 80s when betamax video recorders were the price of a used car I saw one advertised as broken for £25 in the local paper, went to have a look and the picture was all fuzzy , offered £20 and he took it

 

got it home thinking it'll just want the head cleaning but no, turned the tracking wheel and it was fine, kids must've been messing about with it , sold it for £150 and that day led to me dealing in shite for money

 

The shed I could put on that land

Not bad at all. That was getting a bit much to do with the push mower.

 

This is two lots, mostly garden and the shed on that side, house behind me in that photo

 

This is a rural area though. Beats the house we were in, my shed is bigger than the whole house was before. Couldn't afford anything like this in the city though...

 

Phil

[richardmorris]

This cctv footage in wrexham had me crying with laughter.

 

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/16889825.knuckle-fight-in-wrexham-captured-on-cctv/

 

wait for the comedy drunk at the end!

[Guest Hooli]

Comedy drunk is comedy!

[richardmorris]

I'm impressed with the quality of the footage too - HDCCTV! Oh and they're outside my bank!

[Guest Hooli]

Does that add interest for you?

[richardmorris]

Of course - it's right outside the town hall - hardly what you'd usually see there.

[omegod]

I'm glad they were both held to account for their actions !

[John F]

richardmorris, on 21 Sept 2018 - 12:56 PM, said:

This cctv footage in wrexham had me crying with laughter.

 

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/16889825.knuckle-fight-in-wrexham-captured-on-cctv/

 

wait for the comedy drunk at the end!

 

I did an actual LOL at the comedy drunk

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Whoops, just enthusiastically drove the Discovery in sport mode... 'but I only put £20 in it yesterday!' ...will be the cry tomorrow morning.

 

Growls like a monster!

[fordperv]

I often see a gorgeous local registered red mk2 Mondeo saloon when im out and about, well today ive met its owner purely by accident I came out of a shop where I'd parked near said mk2 mondeo, as I was walking to the saph I saw a chap and doing a bit of stereotype profiling I said to mrs fp I bet thats the guy who owns it, walking to the saph I hear a voice ask me a question about the saph, it was the chap and I was right, a great bloke who owns it as well has a love for older run of the mill bread and butter cars, turns out he lives around the corner from where I grew up we chatted about cars for a bit and it turns out I remember a mk1 cavalier he used to have

 

Are you ready for a hot bit of saloon action

 

 

He has had it from 3 years old and it's only on 50 odd thousand miles it was the local Bristol street ford demonstrator, obviously I told him if he ever considered selling it to please come and see me

[somewhatfoolish]

I just checked my university timetable as I'm going back in next week to do my final year (only been 2 years since second year?!). 

 

It's been revised since I last checked - my earliest start is 1pm.

 

[old STEM git]

Bloody arts students; when I did engineering I had 9am starts every day and at least 25hrs of lectures a week until my final year when we had the luxury* of a lie-in until 10 on tuesdays and thursdays.

[/old STEM git]

 

 

 

 

I can't claim I was necessarily fully conscious for all 25 hours, but was at least present in body if not in mind.

[Ghosty]

Art? I'm Computer Science

[Tamworthbay]

Wouldn’t it be better to do it in half the time? I have to admit I don’t understand it, when I did Biochemistry it was lectures 9-12 every day and labs every afternoon apart from Wednesdays. If you were lucky you got out by 5pm but 7-8pm finishes were common.

[Guest Hooli]

Ahh but provided they do enough hours to qualify for a full time course (over 16 a week I think) then the uni gets paid as much for 16 hours as 37.5 hours so why would they employ a teacher full time for the same income?

[Tamworthbay]

Ahh but provided they do enough hours to qualify for a full time course (over 16 a week I think) then the uni gets paid as much for 16 hours as 37.5 hours so why would they employ a teacher full time for the same income?

True, Or the simpler version - it’s bollocks ain’t it

[Guest Hooli]

Aye you could put it like that.

[Tamworthbay]

If I came out with £50-70k of debt and only had 16 hours a week I think I would be a bit pissed off value for money to say the least. Apprenticeship And traineeships are the way to go these days I think.

[Pillock]

I think I did about 25 hours of lectures a week, including one or two 9am starts. That was for Computer Engineering

 

Mind you that was so long ago we got something called a "grant" which is like a loan, but without any pesky repayments.

[Floatylight]

Aye the idea of a WOC is shite & should be stopped. A lot of trusts have dropped it already, mine hasn't decided yet.

Which ones yours?

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Which ones yours?

 

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Rotherham Foundation Trust

[richardmorris]

Back in 1990 my chemistry course was lectures from 9 TIL 12 sometimes till 2pm, and usually labs from 2 TIL 5. At minimum, if you hadn’t finished you carried on.

No free periods.

I’m always rather annoyed by the right wing press ( mail, express etc) that think students have one lecture a week and laze about. Not in the sciences anyway.

[Tamworthbay]

Back in 1990 my chemistry course was lectures from 9 TIL 12 sometimes till 2pm, and usually labs from 2 TIL 5. At minimum, if you hadn’t finished you carried on.

No free periods.

I’m always rather annoyed by the right wing press ( mail, express etc) that think students have one lecture a week and laze about. Not in the sciences anyway.

As I mentioned above it was the same for me, and glad it was. No point wasting that time. Still enjoyed myself but in those days I could get home at 3am and still be in a lecture at 9am without a problem, now I would be knackered for days.

[Pillock]

Sometimes we kind of combined the two activities (learning and drinking) and had seminars in the pub on campus. I was one of only five people to start my course in my year and the only person to stay on past the first year, and whilst modules were shared with other courses some of the numbers were so low that it wasn't worth booking a room for only a handful of students so we'd grab a table and some drinks and the lecturer would get the scampi fries in.