What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Craig the Princess]

1 hour ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

Great news for Great Britain i see, no not that eu thing, the Wombles are back to clean the place up. Wish they would come over here in italy to give some lessons to this mucky lot.

 

These people?

[jumpingjehovahs]

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[Cavcraft]

4 hours ago, Craig the Princess said:

 

These people?

 

They were on a North West motorway this morning, shortly before someone definitely didn't find out a Transit van can do 3 figure speeds.

[captain_70s]

19 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Glass panelled door a bold choice for the toilet!

 

19 hours ago, vulgalour said:

It's got privacy glass, what's the problem?

You jest but this is my loo door...

The Union Flag was added by myself when I started dating Girlfriend_70s, because I'm a gent.

[hairnet]

5 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

 

They were on a North West motorway this morning, shortly before someone definitely didn't find out a Transit van can do 3 figure speeds.

no cliffs on the ring road.........

 

[andy18s]

Saw an ad on the local Facebook marketplace wanting to buy old catalytic converters and dpf's

Sent a pic of a Forester Turbo exhaust i had lying around,showing the codes on the cats

Had an offer of £500 for the pair within an hour,and they paid the postage too

[paulplom]

 
They were on a North West motorway this morning, shortly before someone definitely didn't find out a Transit van can do 3 figure speeds.

I've been told my remapped custom does the clock.120 apparently easily achievable.
Quite possible at 90 its only on 2.5 k revs.

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[Cavcraft]

13 minutes ago, hairnet said:

no cliffs on the ring road.........

 

Apology accepted

 

[hairnet]

bus is quicker than your shitta

 

[LightBulbFun]

11 minutes ago, hairnet said:

bus is quicker than your shitta

 

I wonder if anyone here has driven an RT?

pre selector gearbox FTW!

[paulplom]

Asian neighbours rang earlier. Usually to do a job like fitting a shower head or something. I nearly didn't answer but she sent her hubby round with some rice.
He works as a chef in Whitley and brought round this biryani. He can't speak English but I did make out bones and very hot. Can't wait!

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[DVee8]

Heading home this afternoon,behind me was a young lad in a Rover 45 Y plate. No idea what he was listening too,but boy was he playing the drums on that steering wheel..

[Tadhg Tiogar]

40 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Asian neighbours rang earlier. Usually to do a job like fitting a shower head or something. I nearly didn't answer but she sent her hubby round with some rice.
He works as a chef in Whitley and brought round this biryani. He can't speak English but I did make out bones and very hot. Can't wait!
 

Can't go wrong with a biryani. Subcontinental heaven on a plate. The veg ones are really good. 

[paulplom]

It was red hot, but in the good way where you get the rush that makes indians so addictive.

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[Wack]

[The Moog]

Congratulations - must be the week for it!
Looks like mine is going to start quicker than I thought, not confirmed yet but looks like they want me in Stavanger Monday morning! Just got to live through the survival course tomorrow!

Would love to know more about this and your rebreather training... Sounds so much more exciting than my lecture observation which was the highlight of my week

[Steve79]

Read the comments its absolute gold!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157690884851070&id=137302061069

[Tadhg Tiogar]

26 minutes ago, paulplom said:

It was red hot, but in the good way where you get the rush that makes indians so addictive.
 

The other side benefit is that they are excellent at making you sweat if you have the 'flu. Same goes for any decent curry.

[Wack]

I had a thai green curry in warrington market today , it was only one chilli hot on the worldwide three chilli hotness scale but it had me glowing a bit

Nice though 

[andy18s]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159200790620830&id=626825829

[HillmanImp]

Sorry for copying a post from Facebook. 

[Jamie]

8 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Sorry for copying a post from Facebook. 

was me on way home from buying Mondeo #2

[fairkens]

On 1/29/2020 at 4:37 PM, Cavcraft said:

After just short of 10 months living the highlife pissing about buying hopeless motorbikes and scooters, going to the tip and walking the dog etc I've just landed another job.

Heaven knows I'm miserable now

[Christine]

3 hours ago, DVee8 said:

Heading home this afternoon,behind a young lad in a Rover 45 Y plate. No idea what he was listening too but boy was he playing the drums on the steering wheel..

It was  Led Zeppelin.  Rock n Roll  ,....

[inconsistant]

I ran out of petrol once on the motorway, M20/M26 even though I still had half a tank full because I was looking at the temp gauge. It was in a new (to us) Rover 214 with the two gauges the opposite way around to the previous car. I was ragging the tits off it at the time so I had enough momentum to get to the next exit and came to a halt at the bottom of the slip road.

[Saabnut]

10 hours ago, snagglepuss said:

On 1/29/2020 at 10:33 PM, Saabnut said:

Congratulations - must be the week for it!
Looks like mine is going to start quicker than I thought, not confirmed yet but looks like they want me in Stavanger Monday morning! Just got to live through the survival course tomorrow!

Would love to know more about this and your rebreather training... Sounds so much more exciting than my lecture observation which was the highlight of my week

I cannot stress how much I hate doing the survival refresher, some people love it, some are a bit meh but quite a high percentage are like me and hate it. It is stressful, mentally draining and physically challenging. Before you can even book the course, you have to have a valid offshore medical (which is quite indepth) plus a "certificate of fitness for training" which is basically a diving "light" medical. These take about 2 hours and cost me £156 inc VAT

The refresher itself takes between 8 and 9 hours, depending on how many are on the course.  Arrived at the training centre for an 0800 start. After the usual registration and safety lectures, it is straight into it. About 45 minutes on fire, fire prevention and fire fighting, with particular emphasis on different types of fire extinguisher. After that you are provided with PPE and it is out into the yard. First thing is escape exercises around a container filled with artificial smoke. After that you get to play with some fire extinguishers and actually put out a few different types of fire with different types of extinguisher.

Back inside, grabbing a coffee on the way, and it is into an hour of basic first aid, including CPR. By now it was 1130 so a half hour break for luch (provided - yesterday it was a mediocre Chilli and rice) then back into the classroom. The next hour and a half are telling you about the pool work that you are going to be doing next. Lectures over, through to the pool where you get given a simulated survival suit thenyou don a standard ships lifejacket. Upstairs then back down vis a "skyscape escape system" - look it up! After that you are issued with a lifejacket with a re-breather attached plus another with a compressed air gas cylinder attached. First it is the rebreather, with some pool exercises getting used to breathing underwater and moving around the pool with a jacket on. Then swap jacket to the compressed air one, repeat the exercises and also have to swim underwater for 30 seconds whilst breathing compressed air. Then swap jackets back to the rebreather one.

After that it is on to the "Helicopter Underwater Escape Trainer" or HUET. There are seven exercises in this, drop to surface and escape to life raft, drop to surface and submerge to escape underwater with and without windows (you have to remove the windows when they are fitted), no rebreather used, repeat both of these using the rebreather before the big ones. Drop to surface, submerge, turn you upside down then escape, first time no rebreather and no windows, second time with both. After that lot, deploy the lifejacket, swim across the pool, climb up a Jacobs Cradle, back down into the water, swim across the pool, climb into a life raft from the water, back out and that is it over. Get your tickets and sod off home.

I ache in some strange places this morning and I am very glad it is over. That days training cost me £600. As the medical lasts 2 years it basically costs me £1000 every 4 years just so I can look for work. Still, it was worth it as I am off back to work on Monday in Stavanger, Norway.

[andy18s]

 

Gets interesting at 2.10 mins....

[wuvvum]

18 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

 

They were on a North West motorway this morning, shortly before someone definitely didn't find out a Transit van can do 3 figure speeds.

I've never driven a Transit that didn't have a hopelessly optimistic speedo.  My smiley 190 ran out of revs at 78 in 5th - speedo said it was doing 93.

[paulplom]

Eldest daughter (24) passed her theory test yesterday. I said I would buy her a car if she insured it etc. She wanted mini, I've said yaris.
At her age would the insurance still be nuts? What car would shiters recommend?

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[jumpingjehovahs]

Eldest daughter (24) passed her theory test yesterday. I said I would buy her a car if she insured it etc. She wanted mini, I've said yaris.
At her age would the insurance still be nuts? What car would shiters recommend?

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Congrats to her! Something out the ordinary is usually best, my sister is 17 (way younger than me ) and she expressed an interest in a Prius as she liked mine. A Gen2 was about £1100, fully comp, a year to insure if I remember rightly, which felt very cheap. Probably because not many teenagers want to drive them and the 1.5 is hardly a ball of fire.


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