What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[LightBulbFun]

 

[Guest Hooli]

[JeeExEll]

Just had a phone call.

 

I start a new job on the 7th of January. I'll be providing remote support for satellite comms stuff. The pay is significantly more than what I was on at my previous role.

 

Fuck yeeeaaaaah! The interview was only on Monday, so that was bloody quick!

Nice one.

New year, new start, new direction to focus technical interest, etc.

Still based Abdn area?

[Aston Martin]

I know its the Daily Mail.... But, a guy selling a TT on eBay for £15k.... Guy offers £6k then calls him a time waster for saying no. Then the seller sends him on a small goose chase.

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6515723/Car-seller-tricks-rude-buyer-12-mile-wild-goose-chase.html

 

 

Probably fake obvs.

[fordperv]

I picked up the reconditioned head today for my saph from a fantastic guy from the fsoc

 

Hopefully I'll be able to get it on at the weekend

 

[M'coli]

Just had a phone call.

 

I start a new job on the 7th of January. I'll be providing remote support for satellite comms stuff. The pay is significantly more than what I was on at my previous role.

 

Fuck yeeeaaaaah! The interview was only on Monday, so that was bloody quick!

Get the fuck in! Hopefully there'll be some talent there too.

[beko1987]

I picked up the reconditioned head today for my saph from a fantastic guy from the fsoc

 

Hopefully I'll be able to get it on at the weekend

 

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See, I'd love to look at that and just nocholantly class it as an easy job and nothing to be afraid of! Cap doffed sir

[Remspoor]

[Supernaut]

Get the fuck in! Hopefully there'll be some talent there too.

Nuh-uh. I never mix work and pleasure.

[vulgalour]

 

It's ready!  Shame it's coming in the post instead of me picking it up in person.  Quite possibly the nicest SU carb to ever grace a Princess.

[Fumbler]

Just managed to get another test server on the road despite me not knowing how to linux. The Ubuntu help website is really useful for this. Now to see how fast writing to this godawful slow drive is...

[dome]

Well done Supernaut!

[M'coli]

Nuh-uh. I never mix work and pleasure.

It doesn't matter if you do or if you don't, it's just always nice to have some talent about.

[Dippy]

After a year of being fed up of only having a radio in the Ovlov, I bought a bluetooth stereo off ebay with phone kit for £12 and a wiring kit for £3 it only a took a few minutes to fit and im really pleased with how it sounds.

 

Its amazing how cheap stuff is now especially if you dont need a fancy branded item.

[Zelandeth]

Just got to watch our dog going absolutely daft chasing the cardboard base a pizza arrived on all around the floor.

There are few things he enjoys more than destroying cardboard (but only when we tell him he can)...however he didn't know quite what to do about the fact he couldn't get hold of it on the floor.  So being half husky went for "flail madly at it" as a default response.

The results spoke for themselves really... 

 

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Yes, I'm going to be picking bits of cardboard up all day tomorrow...

[omegod]

Last day in work tomorrow is being taught how to defend lunatics who are trying to kill me, thumbs in eyeballs n stuff , early dart at 2 pm apparently then off for 10 days. 

 

Sounds great being off but all the stress I've been hiding away for the last year will resurface around day 5 and fucking destroy me, there's always booze though 

[LightBulbFun]

Just got to watch our dog going absolutely daft chasing the cardboard base a pizza arrived on all around the floor.

There are few things he enjoys more than destroying cardboard (but only when we tell him he can)...however he didn't know quite what to do about the fact he couldn't get hold of it on the floor.  So being half husky went for "flail madly at it" as a default response.

 

The results spoke for themselves really... 

 

[YouTube]

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Yes, I'm going to be picking bits of cardboard up all day tomorrow...

 

found that throughly amusing 

 

smart dog for figuring out to put it on the strip between floors to create a gap to pick it up via

[New POD]

I know its the Daily Mail.... But, a guy selling a TT on eBay for £15k.... Guy offers £6k then calls him a time waster for saying no. Then the seller sends him on a small goose chase.

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6515723/Car-seller-tricks-rude-buyer-12-mile-wild-goose-chase.html

 

 

Probably fake obvs.

A student with 15k worth of Audi TT ?

 

Fake news.

 

Plus you don't know whose going to clone your number plate and get you back.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Here's a project I've been working on for a while. 

 

 

My grandad made this dolls house for my sister some time in the early 90s. It got a lot use, including by me in the late 90s as a set for making films with an 8mm Camcorder and a cast of Playmobil people, and a place for a kitten to play (pictured here in the living room). 

 

 

It fell into disrepair and was forgotten at the back of a cupboard.

 

That was until recently, when my sister had a baby. What better excuse to drag the dolls house out and renovate it for the next generation? Here's the result:

 

 

Alright, the exterior doesn't look all that different, which is a shame because it was a crapload of work! The house was built from plans supplied by a company called Hobby's, who are not only still in business but still sell the windows. All the windows and doors were replaced since the old ones were either missing, yellowed or broken. I re-papered the roof and hinged it to provide a storage area, before tearing all the black wood off so it could be repainted. 

 

Interior before:

 

...and after:

 

The first thing I did was build a new staircase and relocate it so it doesn't block the whole hallway anymore. I installed two separate LED lighting circuits, controlled by tiny switches in the hallways and with batteries in the roof space. New wallpaper and carpet throughout, with nice lollipop stick hardwood floors in the hall.

 

The washing machine, staircase and assorted furniture are made from lollipop sticks as well. The bed is a thick cardboard base with foam mattress. The (somewhat old fashioned) fitted kitchen was crafted from thin MDF. Settees are sculpted foam, covered in felt. The television is stiff cardboard and has a removable insert so that the programme can be changed. 

 

I built a false wall with a lollipop stick sliding door for the bathroom, hiding a toilet and sink made from Fimo. 

 

 

Can't wait for my niece to fuck it up good and proper in a few years!

 

[Remspoor]

Sarah Beeny would be proud of you.

[M'coli]

This may have been a grumpy thread post but every cloud etc. - I'm working out of an office in Bradford for a few days (this would be the grump) but the grin? It is RAMMED with Manto' and I am a rare male in the office - the ratio of women to men must be at least 5:1.

[Cheggers]

Manto?...That's a new one on me. Must be a northern thing.

[M'coli]

Mantovani...

[Datsuncog]

Manto?...That's a new one on me. Must be a northern thing.

Thought it was from round that Lahndahn way...

 

Mantovani = fanny

 

Doesn't quite work as well with a northern accent?

[Guest Hooli]

Mantovani...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantovani

 

??

 

Still not making any sense to me.

[Cheggers]

Thought it was from round that Lahndahn way...

 

Mantovani = fanny

 

Doesn't quite work as well with a northern accent?

Doesn't work in the South either, unless she has a fahhhhhhney.

[Cheggers]

Doesn't work as well as "Jack & Danny"

[M'coli]

At least I didn't use "Shereen" - from the gorgeous Scottish newsreader Shereen Nanjiani - that would have confused the fuck out of people!

[Guest Hooli]

Doesn't work as well as "Jack & Danny"

 

American Pie?

[Cheggers]

American Pie?

I remember my Dad (cockney lad through and through) using it when I was a kid.