What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[LightBulbFun]

 

[SiC]

Having a bit of a tidy up/clear out and I found my old IBM ThinkPad laptop, plugged it in and it still works happily running Windows XP. Tons of floppy disks too.

 

No idea at all what to do with it as it is just not required but a nice rediscovery.

Buy a DS150e knock off, so you can diagnose modern car shite.

[purplebargeken]

I have no idea whatsoever what the heck you are all on about. No fecking idea at all.

[purplebargeken]

Got pictures? nothing beats an old thinkpad - I can do that.

 

or better yet some CPU-Z shots? WTF??

[Eddie Honda]

Fridge.jpg

Really Hooli, really.

 

[LightBulbFun]

Got pictures? nothing beats an old thinkpad - I can do that.

 

or better yet some CPU-Z shots? WTF??

 

CPU-Z is a program I like to use that provides detailed information of a computers CPU (the CPU of a computer is like the engine in a car)

 

https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

 

looks like such

 

[Guest Hooli]

Really Hooli, really.

 

 

Aye Eddie, as much of a shock as it will be to a Scotch but it is possible to own veg & store it in a fridge alongside the bacon & potato cakes.

[dozeydustman]

That was always the problem, even when new some were better than others.

 

 

Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

 

I think that still applies today. There's always one or two cars from each batch that were in the Monday morning or Friday afternoon build

[TheClutchBasketPodcast]

I saw something once that made me grin. It was a Mercedes w123 towing an 04 plate LDV Maxus.

 

That was just about the greatest thing I have ever seen.

[Roobarb]

From the grumpy thread:

Sunday, the bloody oven gave up. After a scour of the net, problem identified and part ordered on Amazon.

Turns out I thought I had ordered it but hadn’t. So now won’t be here until some time next week. Wife went out of town (San Diego) so Roobarb jnr and I didn’t mind too much (an excuse for a week of junk food).

Delivery pizza, cheesy poofs and milk by sunset. Every cloud and all that (while the cats away at least).

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Then Monday the hot water heater died. Roobarb jnr didn’t mind until he had to wash in a bowl of kettle boiled water - then repeat all week.

I couldn’t be in for a repair person due to work and single parenting for the week.

Today the central heating went off sometime during the night. Only have the gas fire in the living room working right now... can’t even do the open oven door trick or heat up in the shower.

This is the weather forecast as of Friday morning

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Hoping the heating engineer can make it here before the 8” of snow arrives...

Now the happy thread:

Haz heat

Extra warm too to make up for the icicles from yesterday.

[cobblers]

Last night the mrs got pissed and offered to take me out for a curry today.

 

She stayed true to her word, and she drove too. I had shitloads of it, chilli pork starter, loads of tandoori meats etc etc and she did the same, plus a load of kathmandu stuff - mutton curry etc, 5 hours later I can still barely move.

 

I have all the leftovers to take to work tomorrow for my lunch and I look forward to totally stinking the place out, I can't wait to fuck two garlic naans and a full tray of various mixed leftover meat into my face while all the other losers eat their lentil crisps and mugshots

 

[PhilA]

From the grumpy thread:Now the happy thread:

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Haz heat

Extra warm too to make up for the icicles from yesterday.

I have the heat set to 69 and the kids are complaining it's cold inside.

 

Phil

[Guest Hooli]

Random text due to insomnia and twattatalk talk not letting me post without typing.

[Tamworthbay]

[New POD]

It's grim in The midlands

Not as grim as the North.

[loserone]

And long may it remain grim in the minds of the southerners

[Tamworthbay]

Grim in the Midlands and the North? Has anyone ever been to Staines or Guildford? Or Portsmouth or Southampton for that matter, or London, Maidenhead, etc etc etc And they look at a speed bump and think, fuck that’s high I need a 4x4. Nah, the world doesn’t start until you hit the Midlands then just gets better.

[Dippy]

Started as agrump after ebay buyer waiting 2 weeks to tell me his stuff hadnt arrived and thought I would end up refunding him.

 

Anyway managed to find lost postage reciept and checked tracking number online showing his signatue, he soon shut up when I sent him a copy.

[DodgeRover]

Having a bit of a tidy up/clear out and I found my old IBM ThinkPad laptop, plugged it in and it still works happily running Windows XP. Tons of floppy disks too.

 

No idea at all what to do with it as it is just not required but a nice rediscovery.

Find a copy of Elite & have hours of fun.

 

I think I've got a PC copy somewhere if you want...

If it will run it then Oolite is open source Elite but with many many more time wasting possibilities. I had to stop playing as it was taking far too much time.

[fordperv]

Grim in the Midlands and the North? Has anyone ever been to Staines or Guildford? Or Portsmouth or Southampton for that matter, or London, Maidenhead, etc etc etc And they look at a speed bump and think, fuck that’s high I need a 4x4. Nah, the world doesn’t start until you hit the Midlands then just gets better.

This is it we aren't running round shooting each other either now that's grim

[SierraMikeHotel]

Getting on the ferry the other day and watching the couple in front of us prep their car. The fella asked for my help with the headlamp adjusters so I did, but I was back in my car before they tried fitting the GB plate.

 

It would not stick no matter what they did: clean the bootlid, press it on really hard...

 

Audis are made of aluminium, aren't they?

[nebuchenezer]

Went for a mooch around Faversham on Saturday and while on the way to Standard Quay saw this:

 

 

Made me giggle

[Guest Hooli]

Grim in the Midlands and the North? Has anyone ever been to Staines or Guildford? Or Portsmouth or Southampton for that matter, or London, Maidenhead, etc etc etc And they look at a speed bump and think, fuck that’s high I need a 4x4. Nah, the world doesn’t start until you hit the Midlands then just gets better.

 

The Midlands are what southerners think is the north, hence they are hideously grim to scare southerners back down to their overcrowded & overpriced hell holes before they get to the nice parts of the UK.

[Tamworthbay]

The Midlands are what southerners think is the north, hence they are hideously grim to scare southerners back down to their overcrowded & overpriced hell holes before they get to the nice parts of the UK.

To be fair I had purposely not mentioned Donny for fear of destroying my own argument

[New POD]

Grim in the Midlands and the North? Has anyone ever been to Staines or Guildford? Or Portsmouth or Southampton for that matter, or London, Maidenhead, etc etc etc And they look at a speed bump and think, fuck that’s high I need a 4x4. Nah, the world doesn’t start until you hit the Midlands then just gets better.

The North starts in Crewe, and yes once you are North of Crewe it is better.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

The Midlands are what southerners think is the north, hence they are hideously grim to scare southerners back down to their overcrowded & overpriced hell holes before they get to the nice parts of the UK.

 

Ex GF from moons back - decided she'd visit my hometown NE coast. Journey of 270+miles - we'd barely made it to the Watford Gap when she started - how much farther? She had not a fucking clue……….

[NorfolkNWeigh]

To be fair I had purposely not mentioned Donny for fear of destroying my own argument

Last year I visited Doncaster and I think I posted my impressions here, I've since tried to banish the memory, but good news, I've found a competitor for character*

On Friday I went to Port Talbot, WTAF?

On the positive side, I looked in an estate agents window and I could probably have bought a house if I'd maxed my cards and overdraft. And I don't have very high credit limits .

[fordperv]

The North starts in Crewe, and yes once you are North of Crewe it is better.

Then you get to cavcraft

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Yesterday, I met two new Shiters; Laseralignmentfoofoo etc and The Doctor. As seems usual whenever I've met a shiter both were sound blokes.

I love this place.

[fordperv]

Yesterday, I met two new Shiters; Laseralignmentfoofoo etc and The Doctor. As seems usual whenever I've met a shiter both were sound blokes.

I love this place.

The ones I've met were brilliant guys