What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

@vulgalour very kindly sent me a book full of dreadful (but nonetheless GR8) cartoon jokes the other day. Cheered me up no end, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you.

[wuvvum]

  On 18/10/2019 at 12:20, vulgalour said:

 

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Would.

[SiC]

First Bristol is short of buses. Something to do with Wright Buses going broke. As there is a shortage of buses they have reinstated some of their older buses that were left parked up when newer ones came in. Unfortunately they haven't been that reliable coming back into service. They're a bit shonky!

 

This evening my transport is this lovely old thing. Delayed going out as it appears they were topping up the coolant!

 

Genuinely a lot smoother and quieter ride than their 2015+ buses we usually get around here. I guess because these are running slush autos rather than automated manuals? Interior seems brighter and more light in too. Bus lickers on here no doubt know all the differences.

 

Interior is like going back in time! In surprisingly good condition considering how much uses these things have had. Seats could do with new foam though.

 

Oh and the front display is a proper flip dot board.

[LightBulbFun]

an ALX400!, im not sure which chassis that one is on, im sure the more seasoned lickers can tell (I focus on London buses primarily!)

 pretty much the only Modern Low floor bus I want to own someday (a London stagecoach, Trident chassied one please!)

I have many fond memories of these as the 3 most local routes to me (26 48 and 55) used these buses for a very long time

makes me feel mighty old when you say "Lovely old thing" LOL

 

you can read about the London stagecoach ones here  http://www.countrybus.org/TA_Stagecoach/TA_1.htm

(again made me feel very old when I saw that Ians bus stop had done a page on them!)

[face]

  On 17/10/2019 at 18:22, Wack said:

Somebody's husband isn't going to be happy

 

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And so he shouldn’t be happy, the accident was clearly his fault.

[hairnet]

Shite polo hire car

125 on the motorway and bing bing speed limit exceeded

Yeah fucking limit here is 120

Wasn't doing 140 and it's on is way to a quarter used and I've only done 50 miles

[bramz7]

Got a reasonably epic holiday coming up in just under a month. 

London to Paris to Turin in one day...all trains booked and hotel in Turin near the car museum and gigantic mall (former Fiat factory as featured in the Italian job) reserved. Train down to Bari for three nights there, then train down to Lecce for three nights. Train back up to Bologna for one night, then maybe Turin again, and then back to Paris for one night and then Eurostar back home again. 

As I work for a TOC, we can get free travel coupons for European travel, with the only cost being a seat reservation supplement on the train. 

 

9 nights of hotels booked so far, coming in at approx £35 per person per night...and these aren't dive hotels either. Quite pleased with that. 

[hairnet]

The only thing making me grin

 

In Ireland in an Irishman's house watching the green get wasted by the kiwis

There's a lot of swearing

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 19/10/2019 at 11:05, hairnet said:

The only thing making me grin

 

In Ireland in an Irishman's house watching the green get wasted by the kiwis

There's a lot of swearing

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Not Ireland's year this year. Didn't start well by underestimating the Japanese....

[angle]

This is the blue forum bit of me coming out, but I just followed this through town and it looked flipping amazing. Proper Ti too. 

[LightBulbFun]

Just saw in a Lighting facebook group im part of

that the tate modern has this art installation! (edit it looks like the name of the exhibition is "room for one colour")

 

litreally just a shit load of 91W SOX-E lamps hanging on wires! id love to know the details behind it, especially as sadly most people have been brainwashed somewhat into thinking anything not LED is bad, so im surprised to see such a modern Low pressure sodium installation  (note these are not my pictures just ones I borrowed off the facebook page!)

 

must be an Awesome sight to behold in person, especially when they all started up red and slowly warmed up  

(cc @Zelandeth  ) 

[Fumbler]

Cupcakes...

[Crackers]

Twat in a straight piped Zafira (how sad do you have to be?) tried to jump me off the lights.

Turns out a well-pedalled 1.6 Focus will cleanly outpace a Zafira.

Cue grin in Focus, frown in Zafira. Ha.

[hairnet]

Skipped the toll at kinnegad and went down the old road 

Saw these at side of road and will be going to moy  valley tomorrow

Asked a coupla questions and then followed them for coupla miles then carried on

If I'd stayed on the toll is have missed them

Free wins the red one is a Star didn't see the other one ( he was waiting for) until they pulled off in front of me

More old tat tomorrow

[hairnet]

Only in ireland

[hairnet]

[richardmorris]

  On 19/10/2019 at 19:32, LightBulbFun said:

Just saw in a Lighting facebook group im part of

that the tate modern has this art installation! (edit it looks like the name of the exhibition is "room for one colour")

 

litreally just a shit load of 91W SOX-E lamps hanging on wires! id love to know the details behind it, especially as sadly most people have been brainwashed somewhat into thinking anything not LED is bad, so im surprised to see such a modern Low pressure sodium installation  (note these are not my pictures just ones I borrowed off the facebook page!)

 

must be an Awesome sight to behold in person, especially when they all started up red and slowly warmed up  

(cc @Zelandeth  ) 

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Reminds me of going through the Mersey tunnel as a child.

[hairnet]

In daylight 85 kmh

In the dark 40

 

[myglaren]

 

[Garythesnail]

Finding an invoice for a cam belt(s) change and service dated April 2019 to a value £90 less than I paid for the car.

? Happy Bunny

[fairkens]

Group of 'bad ass' middle aged bikers went passed the house this morning. 

Forgive me - I don't understand the genre - but what is the point of speccing a brand new black on black Harley and then riding around in a hi-vis "POLITE" jacket ?

[meshking]

  On 18/10/2019 at 16:52, SiC said:

First Bristol is short of buses. Something to do with Wright Buses going broke. As there is a shortage of buses they have reinstated some of their older buses that were left parked up when newer ones came in. Unfortunately they haven't been that reliable coming back into service. They're a bit shonky!

 

This evening my transport is this lovely old thing. Delayed going out as it appears they were topping up the coolant!

 

 

Genuinely a lot smoother and quieter ride than their 2015+ buses we usually get around here. I guess because these are running slush autos rather than automated manuals? Interior seems brighter and more light in too. Bus lickers on here no doubt know all the differences.

 

Interior is like going back in time! In surprisingly good condition considering how much uses these things have had. Seats could do with new foam though.

 

 

 

Oh and the front display is a proper flip dot board.

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Jeez - that makes me feel old. I remember when those buses were introduced. Replaced the seriously ageing fleet.

[MrDuke]

Last night I had a fairly long and detailed dream, part of which involved me visiting WHSmith and discovering that my Yaris roffle number had in fact been drawn, but not as the bonus ball. I then moodily wandered over to the magazine racks and picked up 'X1 Magazine', the publication for owners of BMW SUVs (yes, that's a thing in my subconscious) to find that Auto$hite.com had topped their annual awards for best website. They had a 4-page feature extolling our virtues, including a "best quotes" section, and a list of euphemisms that we had invented for human genitalia. I was giggling like a nutter in my dream, but can't actually recall any of them due to the fact that actual reading in dreams doesn't work.

 

As you were...

[dozeydustman]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 20/10/2019 at 15:23, fairkens said:

Group of 'bad ass' middle aged bikers went passed the house this morning. 

Forgive me - I don't understand the genre - but what is the point of speccing a brand new black on black Harley and then riding around in a hi-vis "POLITE" jacket ?

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Born to be mild.

[Spurious]

  On 19/10/2019 at 11:27, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Not Ireland's year this year. Didn't start well by underestimating the Japanese....

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Have we ever done well in a WC.  We've form of fluffing it up and then shining two years later in the Six Nations.

I know we were optimistically ranked in the world rankings but I thought we'd put up a better fight than that.   I dunno if it's Joe Schmidt's time tbh; his game is becoming a bit predictable.

[Roobarb]

Finally took my dream car out just before the snow settles in. 

It’s been quite a few years of horse trading, parts swapping, overtime, wrenching and saving, but finally, thanks to a lucky break, I have a running 911. 

I was grinning so widely, I’m surprised the cops didn’t stop me as being insane or the Joker!

The 914 race car got swapped in against this and my project 911 sold to make up some of the funds. 

Still needs quite some love, but it’s driving and (mostly) road worthy! I’m just so damn freaking lucky and now have winter to get her all fixed up. ?

[LightBulbFun]

  On 20/10/2019 at 21:08, Roobarb said:

Finally took my dream car out just before the snow settles in. 

It’s been quite a few years of horse trading, parts swapping, overtime, wrenching and saving, but finally, thanks to a lucky break, I have a running 911. 

I was grinning so widely, I’m surprised the cops didn’t stop me as being insane or the Joker!

The 914 race car got swapped in against this and my project 911 sold to make up some of the funds. 

Still needs quite some love, but it’s driving and (mostly) road worthy! I’m just so damn freaking lucky and now have winter to get her all fixed up. ?

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very cool that you got your dream car after lots of hard work and effort!

I very much know the feeling!  

and they both have rear mounted Air cooled boxer engines

[DeeJay]

  On 19/10/2019 at 23:15, hairnet said:

Skipped the toll at kinnegad and went down the old road 

 

 

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The Mullingar Rd was 100kmh until they opened the tolls on the M4 then they cut it to 80kmh

[xtriple]

I was sat quietly watching the box when I was disturbed by a mad dog barking at something in the corner by the fridge, then mad running around still barking and then scrabbling at the door to be let out. As I am well trained, I let him out and then watched bemused as he sat the other side of the door barking at the inside of our gaff.

I must admit I had a bit of a moment thinling there was a mouse or something as I have a habit of falling asleep with the front door wide open and only shutting it about 7:00 a.m. before the postie comes (he freaks out when mad dogs thunder up to say 'Watcha cock!') so anything could take up residence...

The big brave dog was scared because there was a buzzy fly, dopey because cold and it was buzzing by the side of the fridge. I hit it with 'Raid!'tm which killed it stone dead but the dog took some persauding before he would come back in! Jumbone did the trick!