What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Is that the posh version of the brandy bus?

[Kiltox]

Well this will be an interesting collection thread!

I fucking wish - commuting thread doesn’t have the same appeal

 

Plus the closest I’ll ever get to drinking and collecting was when I got the Panda - we flew to Glasgow at early o’clock having had a house party the night / morning before. Coffee and breakfast and sleep sobered me up on the plane but it was hell on Earth.

 

Thankfully only had to drive a few miles from SRI05’s gaff to Glasgow city centre, a journey I could actually do in my sleep

[cobblers]

I overheard a conversation today in which a colleague spent a decent amount of time and effort trying to explain to someone how somewhere could in the south end of Northern Ireland. "But how can it be in the south if its in the north?"

 

She absolutely couldn't comprehend this until it clicked with me that she didn't realise that North and South were "directions" as well as regions. She's in her mid-20s.

We used google maps to try and help illustrate this, and I ended up mentioning that France is a lot closer to us than Ireland. My colleague mentioned the Channel Tunnel to her, and she didn't believe it was real.

"What? a tunnel? Underwater? Won't it flood? How do the cars see where they are going?"

 

Same girl today spitting coffee out all over the kitchen: "OH MY GOD! This coffee is 4 years out of date, OMG OMG I feel sick, I've been drinking it all morning"

 

 

It said ©2014 on the back of the jar underneath the logo. Give me strength.

[dozeydustman]

I love family recipes - I have our Christmas cake one and some from my Grandma, my mum tends to cook by eye with the ingredients so it's difficult to get anything written down. Also have my late father in laws salmon moose recipe which is simple and good.

 

 

Some family recipes are the nuts. My wife has inherited, along with her sisters, her great-granny's bread sauce recipe for roast gammon or xmas dinner/yuletide feasts.

 

It's quite unlike any bread sauce I've had in the past, but I really like it. Made with red onions so it goes pink.

[Fumbler]

I'm sure Aunt Thally's family tea recipe went down well with her relatives.

[Fumbler]

I don't know what's funnier: the f-ups or the shitty jingles playing randomly.

[LightBulbFun]

 

[PhilA]

Fun with car aerosol paint, stencil and modest airbrush style stuff

 

 

Not that I'm any good at it, mind- but it was fun to do

 

Gonna put a graveyard or something on the other side and some more bats maybe.

 

 

Phil

[hairnet]

Train to London browser set to eBay

 

This is gonna end well

[Wilko220]

Yeah, convincing m8.

 

[5speedracer]

Tom Ravenscroft playing "Kennedy" by The Wedding Present for his mum's 70th on 6 Music.

She is Sheila "the pig" Peel.

 

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[Kiltox]

Yeah, convincing m8.

 

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LOL

[320touring]

Yeah, convincing m8.

 

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Outside the church just up from Cafe Noir?

 

There's an old A4 Avant that sits there too - tasty

[hairnet]

Irish f

 

In Spain for the week. First a few days in Valencia which is a lovely city, now we're in Salou. What brings me here, I hear no-one ask?

WRC Catalunya

The walk to the shop was interesting this morning.


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Off to Barcelona today for the opening stage running through the city centre. My kind of holiday!

Irish friend and his mate run the videos via motor cycle after the stages are finished

 

He kidded on he was in Wicklow ( pic clearly wasn't)

 

Asked him where he was he said

 

'Teruel to Alcaniz by twisty roads'

[MikeR]

nearly got the pot of gold .......

 

 

 

we could of sworn it was on the windscreen !!!

[hairnet]

Thanks to six cylinder and the boss

[Noel Tidybeard]

Yeah, convincing m8.

 

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bentley cuntinental

[richardmorris]

Same girl today spitting coffee out all over the kitchen: "OH MY GOD! This coffee is 4 years out of date, OMG OMG I feel sick, I've been drinking it all morning"

 

 

It said ©2014 on the back of the jar underneath the logo. Give me strength.

Surely, hopefully? You’re exaggerating a tad? Otherwise perhaps you could get her sectioned for the future of humanity / your company?

[cobblers]

Nope, 100% genuine. Maybe not word for word, but I haven't jazzed it up to make her sound worse.

[artdjones]

I'm surprised she knows 2014 signifies a year.

[richardmorris]

Nope, 100% genuine. Maybe not word for word, but I haven't jazzed it up to make her sound worse.

Well I expected as much. Sadly! Youth today!

 

My sister did turn her nose up at my hot chocolate sashets in August that did actually have a best before date of 2009, but I’m happily using some Worcestershire sauce from before 2015 and I’ve spices in the cupboard from the 1990s-chilli flakes, cardoman and cinnamon etc.

In work we have a bottle labelled “sulphur dioxide solution” that I’ve no idea what it’s for - nothing I’ve ever used but quite possibly something a student put in when they needed a cold storage, but has been there, in the fridge, since I joined in 1995. Like many chemicals, it’s easier to keep than try to dispose of it.

[Tamworthbay]

Well I expected as much. Sadly! Youth today!

My sister did turn her nose up at my hot chocolate sashets in August that did actually have a best before date of 2009, but I’m happily using some Worcestershire sauce from before 2015 and I’ve spices in the cupboard from the 1990s-chilli flakes, cardoman and cinnamon etc.

In work we have a bottle labelled “sulphur dioxide solution” that I’ve no idea what it’s for - nothing I’ve ever used but quite possibly something a student put in when they needed a cold storage, but has been there, in the fridge, since I joined in 1995. Like many chemicals, it’s easier to keep than try to dispose of it.

I have stocks at work that were purchased when I was in secondary school, I am mid forties now, some stuff is due to volume in store and small amounts used e.g 200g of Eosin that will last my successors well. Other stuff is the same reason you mention, why pay for disposal when it’s ok where it is? We got a quote of £250 to remove 100g of Mercury I will never use so it will just stay happily where it is until I retire in a few decades time and then someone else can worry about it.

[New POD]

Some family recipes are the nuts. My wife has inherited, along with her sisters, her great-granny's bread sauce recipe for roast gammon or xmas dinner/yuletide feasts.

 

It's quite unlike any bread sauce I've had in the past, but I really like it. Made with red onions so it goes pink.

Aunty Penny's Penny cake.

Great Granny J's googley buns.

Toy Nan's burnt lamb.

Granny Eul's Yuel Log

Great Auntie Annie's chestnut stuffing.

My Mother's Damson Port.

My Dad's extreme mixed grill.

 

I hope I have a legacy, but I don't think it's going to be the Chilli Lasagne that I once made by confusion

[wuvvum]

Thanks to six cylinder and the boss

I missed that, but they were saying on the radio this morning that John Williams wasn't actually going to be there - which kind of defeated half the point for me.

[hairnet]

I missed that, but they were saying on the radio this morning that John Williams wasn't actually going to be there - which kind of defeated half the point for me.

Have been previously to there with guest conductor and until I tuned in and they said - I R DUSAPOINT

 

But if he's not well..... He's in London just didn't go

[Junkman]

I just stepped out for a smoke.

Along came a bunch of teenage girls who intended to look the part, but in fact left more exposed than covered, if you know what I mean.

It is coooold out fucking there.

They asked me, whether I have a car.

I was standing in front of two of them, so I answered yes.

They asked me whether I could drive them somewhere.

I said no, I'm too plastered for that.

They said but hey, we've got hardly anything on and we are freezing.

I said yes, I see that you are not exactly appropriately dressed for this climate, but I bet you advocate for stopping to change it.

They said yes.

I said there you can see how full of shit you are.

[Aston Martin]

My commute has gone from a 10 mile round trip, to 3.

It'll save me hours a week in traffic, and then theres those weeks when I'm working away, which means sometimes my car will barely do double digits a week... So why do I have 2 of the bastards? (Three if I count the Parade)

According to the citroen app, I did 20 miles last week.

[fordperv]

I just stepped out for a smoke.

Along came a bunch of teenage girls who intended to look the part, but in fact left more exposed than covered, if you know what I mean.

It is coooold out fucking there.

They asked me, whether I have a car.

I was standing in front of two of them, so I answered yes.

They asked me whether I could drive them somewhere.

I said no, I'm too plastered for that.

They said but hey, we've got hardly anything on and we are freezing.

I said yes, I see that you are not exactly appropriately dressed for this climate, but I bet you advocate for stopping to change it.

They said yes.

I said there you can see how full of shit you are.

In my naughty days of going to the boy racer haunts, we used to get the half naked young ladies hanging around, it was winter I had a bit of a laugh while my mates were watching, I pulled up with a mate in the passenger seat next to 2 and said "hi, are you cold?" They started playing with their hair and said yes obviously assuming id invite them into my car, my reply was "well fuck off home and put some clothes on" everyone was in hysterics

[Guest Hooli]

In my naughty days of going to the boy racer haunts, we used to get the half naked young ladies hanging around, it was winter I had a bit of a laugh while my mates were watching, I pulled up with a mate in the passenger seat next to 2 and said "hi, are you cold?" They started playing with their hair and said yes obviously assuming id invite them into my car, my reply was "well fuck off home and put some clothes on" everyone was in hysterics

 

When I went to such exciting meetings they were known as skippies, As they'd skip between cars with any offer of a lift.

[fordperv]

When I went to such exciting meetings they were known as skippies, As they'd skip between cars with any offer of a lift.

They were known as festitutes at festival park