What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[TataBobu]

12 hours ago, beko1987 said:

... and I still carry the keys of my first car to prove it ?

[Mally]

13 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Tried caravans, HGV trailers, small trailers and big trailers. Dog shit on toast describes my skills with them.

Obviously a CRASH course is the one for you.

https://www.northwestcrashcourses.co.uk/driving-lessons-towing-with-a-car/

They have to use enclosed box trailers, now for a test, but TBH a long empty open bed car trailer with posts at the back corners is easiest.

 

[Supernaut]

I play a lot of Euro and American Truck Simulator on full difficulty....

[vulgalour]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

I'd say that was a pretty up-market kitchen for the day, being fitted like that. Mum's 60's bungalow has those floor tiles, now protected by modern vinyl, but had stand-alone units. What sort of sink has it, and are they Supataps?

The sink has a 'week 12/01' production paper tag glued to the bottom of it and since the cabinet it sits on is the newest bit of the kitchen, I'm guessing that means it was done in December 2001.  That cabinet and the adjoining drawer unit is also falling apart, so clearly orl nu kitchuns r shit.  No fantastically named taps for us.  Interestingly*, the newer parts of the kitchen have worn out much faster than the older parts.  There's likely some commentary to be had on consumerism and the rise of built-in obsolescence to be had there.

[High Jetter]

The original sink unit might have worn out faster, hence being replaced?

[barefoot]

Back in the olden days when I used to work at the UPS, I used to be able to back an air container anywhere using one of the TUG vehicles. Most of the blokes who went airside and came back with trains like the one in the pic could reverse two with little difficulty, but a lad from the village who grew up on a farm & who had a pedal powered tractor & trailer as a kid could reverse a chain of three and would make a reasonable fist of backing up four!

[vulgalour]

56 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

The original sink unit might have worn out faster, hence being replaced?

sshhh, you're ruining the Old Things Best  New Things Shit rule.

[TataBobu]

Not really, first sink might have been a cheap one.

[myglaren]

Car re-tyred today

Long overdue

[Cavcraft]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A69qjScL2VM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3sOGvOs91_MVO222TLQCMMaHyYJThmMP5sYEH625W3twMGEWkz3re-gQU

[MondeoBlues]

On 1/7/2020 at 3:37 AM, Floatylight said:

Gotta larf..

Yesterday's train was cancelled which left me late for a meeting so I put in a delay repay claim...

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I used to process the delay repay forms for that lot back when they were London Midland. I remember having to send a fair few disgruntled commuters a voucher for a quid which they could exchange for one shiny English pound coin at any railway station which was operated by London Midland. 

The irony of the fact that I was made late for work on many occasions by the very train operating company I worked for was not lost on me. 

[Tamworthbay]

37 minutes ago, MondeoBlues said:

I used to process the delay repay forms for that lot back when they were London Midland. I remember having to send a fair few disgruntled commuters a voucher for a quid which they could exchange for one shiny English pound coin at any railway station which was operated by London Midland. 

The irony of the fact that I was made late for work on many occasions by the very train operating company I worked for was not lost on me. 

Great excuse though, I can imagine the conversation- ‘so why are you late again? Oh shit yeah, just sit down over there’

[Tamworthbay]

On 1/7/2020 at 3:25 PM, myglaren said:

Car re-tyred today

Long overdue

That is fucking genius!

[Saabnut]

Grinning this evening as after 4 days in the wilderness, BT have been and repaired my phone cable that my neighbour removed with his tractor so I have a landline and internet access now. Useful as there is no mobile signal here!

At least I will not actually have to watch the TV this evening!

[Rod/b]

They don’t sell booze in supermarkets where I live. You have to go to one of the not exactly abundant bottle shops, the closest 3 of which to me are all about a 10 minute drive away. UNTIL TODAY when I walked up to Waitrose, 2 mins away, and found a swanky new off licence opened up in the long since empty unit next door. Needless today I supported my new local shopkeeper. 

[Jazoli]

I manage a staff house for the place I work, I found this on the toilet door today, it seems one of the girls has had enough

[Timewaster]

Watching an old PimpMyRide where they customise a 58 VW bus. 

But only after they pop rivet plates on the sills and wob over the top! 

Edit : as the guy was a surf dooooood, they fitted a Zanusi spin drier and wired it to an 800w inverter. Useful. 

[MikeR]

My fast long route to work is 3 miles longer than the slow direct stop start route of 15 miles  ..... Some 15 minutes differnce in the rush hour .......  So much for new road planning ! .

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Jazoli said:

I manage a staff house for the place I work, I found this on the toilet door today, it seems one of the girls has had enough

Not one for watersports, then?

[LightBulbFun]

Just now, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

 

[robinmasters]

This bloke is brilliant. He's over-excited, sweats a lot and sounds a bit drunk. He uses very strange camera angles, and frames things oddly, sometimes so you can't see the part of the thing he's talking about. 

 

[New POD]

9 hours ago, MikeR said:

My fast long route to work is 3 miles longer than the slow direct stop start route of 15 miles  ..... Some 15 minutes differnce in the rush hour .......  So much for new road planning ! .

I thought you were buying a motorbike. ZZR1100? 

[Kiltox]

9 hours ago, Jazoli said:

I manage a staff house for the place I work, I found this on the toilet door today, it seems one of the girls has had enough

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572752/amp/Stop-standing-toilet-Now-Lloyds-Bank-issues-instructions-use-British-loos-foreign-staff.html

[andy18s]

[cobblers]

Usually facebook groups are incredibly tiresome "THANKS 4 THE ADD" bollocks etc but there's a bloke on the Talbot Express owners club earnestly asking where his OBD socket is and it's absolutely made my morning

[clayts450]

8 hours ago, robinmasters said:

This bloke is brilliant. He's over-excited, sweats a lot and sounds a bit drunk. He uses very strange camera angles, and frames things oddly, sometimes so you can't see the part of the thing he's talking about. 

 

Rev up your engines, it's time for Scotty Kilmer. He's been around for years.

TBF,  his videos are pretty good for anyone with no mechanical knowledge whatsoever, but he's never provided me with any Hallelujah moments.

[5speedracer]

Tried caravans, HGV trailers, small trailers and big trailers. Dog shit on toast describes my skills with them.

When I drove artics all the time I used to have to really think just reversing the unit.

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[Kiltox]

1 hour ago, clayts450 said:

Rev up your engines, it's time for Scotty Kilmer. He's been around for years.

TBF,  his videos are pretty good for anyone with no mechanical knowledge whatsoever, but he's never provided me with any Hallelujah moments.

The rate at which he puts out content is insane - several videos a day sometimes!

[Cavcraft]

A bloke wearing a full face helmet on some sort of orange coloured 1960's/70's Mobylette type pedal and pop has just ridden round the pavements of our local shops, nearly rode into someone, then fucked off again. 

[Tayne]

11 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

A bloke wearing a full face helmet on some sort of orange coloured 1960's/70's Mobylette type pedal and pop has just ridden round the pavements of our local shops, nearly rode into someone, then fucked off again. 

“A bloke” ?

 

Was his name Billy Cavcraft?