What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

If there's one thing that guarantees I stick to the speed limit (minus a little for safety) it's someone sitting so close they could change the numberplate light bulbs without stretching

[Fumbler]

When are the shadowy petroleum cabal sending the goons round to fit the concrete boots?

When I'm invaded by the USA.

[DodgeRover]

When I'm invaded by the USA.

Are you doing wood gasification as a feedstock? I had assumed you were recovering volatiles from crossfuel or old oil mix!

[Andyrew]

If there's one thing that guarantees I stick to the speed limit (minus a little for safety) it's someone sitting so close they could change the numberplate light bulbs without stretching

It's petty I know but I do this or lower if I know they can't get past. Some people think it's okay to be a dick so they deserve to be dicked back.

 

Going along the route I used to take to work for 10 or so years the other day. Some bell in a range rover does the usual and takes the wrong lane on a roundabout passing 4-5 cars on the inside and carves in behind me then proceeds to sit right on my arse as he failed to get past.

 

Knowing the roads well I trundle along the bits where getting past is impossible and knowing that bits where over taking is possible are coming up I pick up speed so he can't get past as I don't think he knew the roads. Hands in the air and weaving around trying to get past,

 

After about 6 miles of this his dick headness actually calmed down and think he accepted the fact he wasn't getting past me and my clapped out disco and for the next mile or so he drove normally behind me. Why couldn't he just drove like that the whole time?

[hairnet]

Waiting to exit the country that makes these

 

Shame the weather wasn't this yesterday

[PhilA]

Central locking ?

Can you also open the boot without taking the ignition key out of the ignition lock ?

Do you have air bags?

Do you have electrickery Windows?

How very decadent.

 

My grin is GM thought of that on my car and you can pull the key out of the ignition without having to switch it off.

 

Simple solution. You can also then switch the car off without the key if you need to.

 

And back on.

 

 

Hah.

 

Phil

 

 

 

 

(...though that might go towards the reason it's fairly expensive to insure)

[PhilA]

If there's one thing that guarantees I stick to the speed limit (minus a little for safety) it's someone sitting so close they could change the numberplate light bulbs without stretching

You're also technically in the right, because the highway code suggests that if someone tailgates you, slow down until you can maintain a safe speed that you can stop for them also, or they can pass.

 

I'll just give a glance in the mirror and pop the cruise control on and then from there on, ignore them.

 

It saves the headache of worrying about them because no, you getting up close won't make me go faster BECAUSE THERE'S A CAR IN FRONT SONG THE SAME SPEED.

 

Though, to be fair, these days it's mostly people who can't judge distance or the speed of the car in front of them unless they're right up on the rear bumper.

 

Phil

[Pillock]

I think previously I've had a go at people who bother putting stickers on saying "the closer you get, the slower I go" (usually quite small stickers so you have to be close to read them). Just to be clear, I'm talking about sticking to the limit or thereabouts... people who drop to a ridiculously low speed can still get fucked. 

 

But that's getting dangerously close to a grump so let's even it up. I got a screw last night..... sadly it was in my tyre, not in the bedroom. Came out to go shopping this morning and it's flat, so took t'other car. Returned, got the compressor out the boot and as it's going up I can hear it going back down again but it held long enough to do 3 miles to the tyre place (dropping 10psi in the process!)

 

"Can you do puncture repairs?" "Yes, we can. Pop it in..." and the guy puts his lunch down and immediately cracks on. Barely had time to flick through a dog-eared Car magazine and he's handing me the locking wheelnut back. "Oh, are you going to phone up for authorisation later?".... "No sir, it's not worth the time. Taken five minutes, and we've seen you in here plenty of times getting tyres fitted. Just have a nice day"

He interrupted his lunch, recognised a returning customer and sorted me out. And he called me Sir! So I popped over the road and got him some beers, hopefully he'll have a nice day too.

[Richard]

If somebody wants to go faster than me I normally let them. There's no point in having two drivers annoyed when there could be none.

[PhilA]

Not a grump, I'm quite happy to keep the speed limit. Plus, rolling along at a steady speed improves my fuel economy.

 

Though, I think there's something in physics because I'm sure a car on your rear quarter (not directly behind) decreases the aerodynamic drag on your car because I've seen the cruise control back off and the economy figures go up a few mpg in that instance

 

Save some pennies

 

Phil

[SierraMikeHotel]

It's ten years today since I started my current career.

 

We all like to moan about work, and there have been some big ups and downs, but overall it's a brilliant job - especially compared to the shitty short-term, low-paid jobs I was doing in a failing industry beforehand.  I've met some really brilliant people and most days I do something worthwhile.

 

There are twenty-nine years to go before I can retire and I expect I'll change jobs within the organisation but I don't intend to ever leave.

[cms206]

My ex-gaffer popped in for a visit during the week. I've spoken often of his Rover collection but I don't think I've managed a decent photo of this one yet.

 

It started life as a K-series powered manual 416 Tourer with the bubble R3 interior, but now has a decat a Honda D16 mated to an auto 'box, with the full black half leather SEi interior from an earlier R8; it was entirely rebuilt with new panels where necessary, along with a full bare shell respray into Nightfire red.

 

I am informed that it goes "much better than it ever did with a K-series".

 

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[Fumbler]

Are you doing wood gasification as a feedstock? I had assumed you were recovering volatiles from crossfuel or old oil mix!

Oh I can and I have. Very interesting it is. More planning to be done however, such as making a good, straight coil.

[loserone]

That rover is marvelous.

[DodgeRover]

Oh I can and I have. Very interesting it is. More planning to be done however, such as making a good, straight coil.

Could you not diy a Liebig condensor with 15 & 22mm copper and a couple if reducing T's?

 

I'm struggling to think of a way to create a fractionating column...SOC might have an idea.

[Fumbler]

I'd have a look into that for sure.

[wuvvum]

That R8 wagon is excellent.  I always thought the R3 dash looked a bit out of place in those.

[Tamworthbay]

Could you not diy a Liebig condensor with 15 & 22mm copper and a couple if reducing T's?

I'm struggling to think of a way to create a fractionating column...SOC might have an idea.

There are lots of ways, the most reliable would be use electrical heating elements and rig them up with simple rheostat controllers to set each temperature you want. As long as there are reasonable gaps in the temperatures of the fractions you want then a home made bubble plate type fractionation column would work. There are so many other ways you could do,it but that’s the simplest way I can think of where I would trust what comes out. If purity was critical you would then distill the fraction to be sure.

[Fumbler]

All I want to do now is extract volatiles from cellulose, plastics and used oils. After I can rinse and repeat that I can then make a column and tap off as need be like in the video I posted.

[Cavcraft]

If somebody wants to go faster than me I normally let them. There's no point in having two drivers annoyed when there could be none.

 

Totally agree, when it's a road that's safe for them to overtake or the fact I haven't already got a queue of cars in front of me.

[myglaren]

I'd have a look into that for sure.

DIY kit

[Fumbler]

Thank you kindly my good sir.

[myglaren]

Daughter would put down laminate in her kitchen on Saturday - she has done the rest of the ground floor (herself).

Wanted a hand to lift the cooker (a huge range thing) and washing machine onto the existing laminate.

 

Cooker easy, fridge easy (on wheels) washer less so and the water connectors very tight.  Turned off at the tap, disconnect by hand - with difficulty - water everywhere.

The lever on the tap turned but not the ball valve.

By the time I had shut it off at the main (in the street, her stop tap in a locked outside cupboard and doesn't work, need mole grips to turn it off and yes, I have a replacement and will fit it - one day).

 

Water everywhere, had to go home for my wet vac and then we've had to leave it a few days to dry out before laying the laminate.

 

Not been a good month for her - someone broke in and swiped all her cash, her car key and my cordless drill.

Worse was she was in bed - 4am.  Heard something on the stairs and presumed it was her son going to the bog but then no lights on, no toilet flush etc then she heard a buzzing noise outside her bedroom door and a purple (ultra-violet) light under the door.

Took the only thing to hand, half a mug of cold tea, crept to the door, yanked it open to see a figure crouched in front of her.

 

Bashed him over the head with the mug, he legged it down the stairs followed by the mug that clocked him again, out the door and up the street closely followed bay a foul-mouthed banshee waking all the neighbours.

She turned back, concerned for her son, rang the police. Copper and dog there within a couple of minutes, hared off after him but lost him in a farmyard.

 

Detectives turned up ten minutes later and she has nothing but praise for the police.  Treated her very well and did what they could but no fingerprints and a vrey vague description there's very little to go on.

 

Police let her tyres down in case they came back for it, good thing I bought her an electric pump a few months back.

She's had the locks changed and the remote entry codes changed so they can't use the old keys anymore.

 

If she'd got hold of him she'd have killed him - she takes no prisoners.

 

Ed:  Posted in the wrong thread, naturally

Edited October 14, 2018 by myglaren

[Timewaster]

I recently changed my company car for a Ford Ranger which came with a massive box section towbar and a pin type tow hitch that sticks out 8".

 

I don't seem to get tailgated for some reason?

[MorrisItalSLX]

Apparently, shite is now fashionable!

 

 

The checkout lady was very surprised that I knew it was a Skoda Favorit.

[LightBulbFun]

meanwhile in the autoshite meme department

 

[junkyarddog]

Rusty old tractors on the north Norfolk coast,

Still earning their keep.

 

 

 

[Aston Martin]

Rover 45 doing 4 mph on the m62, the driver was 7393 years old. Every single window was piss wet with condensation and he couldn't see a fucking thing.

 

I assume he's a member?

[davehedgehog31]

Not been a good month for her - someone broke in and swiped all her cash, her car key and my cordless drill.

Worse was she was in bed - 4am.  Heard something on the stairs and presumed it was her son going to the bog but then no lights on, no toilet flush etc then she heard a buzzing noise outside her bedroom door and a purple (ultra-violet) light under the door.

Took the only thing to hand, half a mug of cold tea, crept to the door, yanked it open to see a figure crouched in front of her.

 

Bashed him over the head with the mug, he legged it down the stairs followed by the mug that clocked him again, out the door and up the street closely followed bay a foul-mouthed banshee waking all the neighbours.

She turned back, concerned for her son, rang the police. Copper and dog there within a couple of minutes, hared off after him but lost him in a farmyard.

 

Ed:  Posted in the wrong thread, naturally

 

That's shite. 

 

We had a similar experience about three years back, a week before christmas. In bed at approx 4am as well. Some arsehole smashed my back window and swiped my keys and made off with my car which was parked in the little residential car park. 

 

I just heard a loud smash and legged it downstairs but they were long gone. Took me a minute to work out the keys were gone and run out to check and find the car wasn't there. 

 

They did recover the car but insurance company had already paid out. I went to get some effects from it but they had nicked it all apart from curiously, a Genesis CD... There were needles sticking out the back seat swab like a pin cushion, so I passed on buying it back.

[dozeydustman]

Daughter would put down laminate in her kitchen on Saturday - she has done the rest of the ground floor (herself).

Wanted a hand to lift the cooker (a huge range thing) and washing machine onto the existing laminate.

 

Cooker easy, fridge easy (on wheels) washer less so and the water connectors very tight.  Turned off at the tap, disconnect by hand - with difficulty - water everywhere.

The lever on the tap turned but not the ball valve.

By the time I had shut it off at the main (in the street, her stop tap in a locked outside cupboard and doesn't work, need mole grips to turn it off and yes, I have a replacement and will fit it - one day).

 

Water everywhere, had to go home for my wet vac and then we've had to leave it a few days to dry out before laying the laminate.

 

Not been a good month for her - someone broke in and swiped all her cash, her car key and my cordless drill.

Worse was she was in bed - 4am.  Heard something on the stairs and presumed it was her son going to the bog but then no lights on, no toilet flush etc then she heard a buzzing noise outside her bedroom door and a purple (ultra-violet) light under the door.

Took the only thing to hand, half a mug of cold tea, crept to the door, yanked it open to see a figure crouched in front of her.

 

Bashed him over the head with the mug, he legged it down the stairs followed by the mug that clocked him again, out the door and up the street closely followed bay a foul-mouthed banshee waking all the neighbours.

She turned back, concerned for her son, rang the police. Copper and dog there within a couple of minutes, hared off after him but lost him in a farmyard.

 

Detectives turned up ten minutes later and she has nothing but praise for the police.  Treated her very well and did what they could but no fingerprints and a vrey vague description there's very little to go on.

 

Police let her tyres down in case they came back for it, good thing I bought her an electric pump a few months back.

She's had the locks changed and the remote entry codes changed so they can't use the old keys anymore.

 

If she'd got hold of him she'd have killed him - she takes no prisoners.

 

Ed:  Posted in the wrong thread, naturally

 

 

Your daughter twatting the intruder round the loaf with her mug - Good on her.