What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

58 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

.... the judge thought I went above and beyond by helping to bring them to justice and awarded me £150!!

Result!!

Is it bad my first thought was about buying tools?

Could have been a lot worse; you might have been thinking about acquiring your next piece of prime chod.

[Rovorsche]

A pop up advert in a local online newspaper made me grin.
An online chat filter tool to counter harsh language in social media, no idea how it works and I certainly wont be using it but is the name accidental or intentional.

If you have a problem on-line, and nobody else can help you need to engage the twohat filter

https://www.twohat.com/

How do you pronounce that one ?

[Remspoor]

20 hours ago, reb said:

The thought hadn't occurred to me! I knew there was something I'd forgotten to buy. Alas I don't think I can afford the £60~ the MarsMatics cost these days so I'll have to do with a cheap set. I wasn't very good at inking lines, often I'd ruin a perfectly good drawing by making a dogs breakfast of inking it. I think I understand a bit better now though!

I do not think I have got mine any more either. I had my technical drawing items when I moved to The Netherlands, just in case. But when I moved to Spain I sold a lot of surplus items stencils pens, scale rulers etc all went for a few Euros.

[Remspoor]

19 hours ago, myglaren said:

Used to have a load of Rotring technical pens, ostensibly for college but I had a thing for writing almost to small to be legible.

Only one left now, anybody's guess where they went.

I remember them. I seem to remember a choice of black or red/brown body. Maybe time has played a trick on me.

[myglaren]

The only ones I ever saw were black with the red ring.

The Mars alternatives were multicoloured.

[Roobarb]

I used to have red/brown Rotrings along with black. I inherited an electric pencil rubber from my Dad who was an architect- you don’t see those any more. Or people with razors by their boards for slashing their wrists... um scratching out their inked in Rotring mistakes. 

Probably because it’s easier (I’m dyslexic) but I still write everything in freehand capitals to this day. No, I’m not shouting!

Funnily, no-one has ever suggested that (to my face). Normally it’s ‘Isnt your handwriting so neat!’

Today, I mostly am using... SolidWorks. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The rich are different to you and me.

Even their speeding offences are committed differently.....

 

[Andyrew]

Finally after years of saying we should go , me and my better half went to London and watched The book of Mormon,  and it was bloody funny. 

 

[wuvvum]

Grump that turned into a grin.  Got home to find a PCN from the Dartford Crossing on the doormat.  Fair cop, I knew I'd forgotten to pay (I did pay, but two days later).  Thought I'd better ring up the automated phone line and pay it straight away, before I forgot again and the charge went up to the higher level.  Went through the menu, entered the PCN number, and the robot woman goes "The amount due is two pounds and fifty pence".  Aye, I'll take that...

[morris_ital_lover]

Watching This Country on the Beeb and there's been some brilliant chod in it including a Volvo 940 and a minty Nissan Bluebird - the latest episode even has an Allegro Vanden Plas in the background. Surely there must be a shiter involved somewhere in the team behind it.

[Spottedlaurel]

11 hours ago, Roobarb said:

I used to have red/brown Rotrings along with black. I inherited an electric pencil rubber from my Dad who was an architect- you don’t see those any more. Or people with razors by their boards for slashing their wrists... um scratching out their inked in Rotring mistakes. 

Probably because it’s easier (I’m dyslexic) but I still write everything in freehand capitals to this day. No, I’m not shouting!

Funnily, no-one has ever suggested that (to my face). Normally it’s ‘Isnt your handwriting so neat!’

Today, I mostly am using... SolidWorks. 

I started off with green Faber Castells but cheapness and availability saw me move over to the red/brown Rotrings.

Took me a while to master use of the razor blade, but as a junior learning the trade it was frequently put into practice.

I also tend to handwrite in capitals nowadays due to years of writing freehand notes on drawings.

I'm now on AutoCAD LT, which is OK for the architectural stuff I do. Did use the adjustable triangle yesterday however, as I found it easier to overmark a drawing by hand. No point trying to use the pens however.....

[myglaren]

All the - graphic artists rather than technical drawists - that I have worked with use scalpels rather than razor blades.  I've used them in print retouching but not in a great many years.  Still have some here.

And I came upon a Rotring pen while searching for something else and it is black with red rings but also brown rings which I think may indicate the diameter of the stylus.

And dentists tools, which was a surprise.

[myglaren]

[DSdriver]

On 3/10/2020 at 11:18 PM, Rovorsche said:

A pop up advert in a local online newspaper made me grin.
An online chat filter tool to counter harsh language in social media, no idea how it works and I certainly wont be using it but is the name accidental or intentional.

If you have a problem on-line, and nobody else can help you need to engage the twohat filter

https://www.twohat.com/

How do you pronounce that one ?

Are they an associate company of OneCar?

[DSdriver]

13 hours ago, myglaren said:

All the - graphic artists rather than technical drawists - that I have worked with use scalpels rather than razor blades.  I've used them in print retouching but not in a great many years.  Still have some here.

And I came upon a Rotring pen while searching for something else and it is black with red rings but also brown rings which I think may indicate the diameter of the stylus.

And dentists tools, which was a surprise.

Brown ring (oo-er missus) is 0.4mm, Autoshiters need the 0.5mm pens with beige ring. The black barreled Rotring pens were later replaced with maroon, I still have sets of both.

[myglaren]

↟  Yep, just looked and it is on the end of the cap.

I used to use a 0.1 to write with.  Could cram a lot on a page.

 

[reb]

The first technical drawing of an kind I've done for years, I think I did ok. The choice to use a cube actually made it more challenging than it really had to be because it meant having to really think about which side was which to make sure I'd dimensioned it correctly. When my textbooks turn up I'll be able to practice properly!

[TataBobu]

Shouldn't the perspective be a bit oblique? I do remember we would have had points taken off for aligning the corners one on top of the other.

[Snipes]

If you really want to impress try a 3point perspective ellipse

[paulplom]

Fridge freezer for sale in Sunderland

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[myglaren]

[dozeydustman]

Had a nice run up to Manchester to visit family.

Suzuki is in excellent company. Truly is Granadaland up here in the NW

[hairnet]

21 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Grump that turned into a grin.  Got home to find a PCN from the Dartford Crossing on the doormat.  Fair cop, I knew I'd forgotten to pay (I did pay, but two days later).  Thought I'd better ring up the automated phone line and pay it straight away, before I forgot again and the charge went up to the higher level.  Went through the menu, entered the PCN number, and the robot woman goes "The amount due is two pounds and fifty pence".  Aye, I'll take that...

theyre friendly to bumpkins

 

[reb]

3 hours ago, TataBobu said:

Shouldn't the perspective be a bit oblique? I do remember we would have had points taken off for aligning the corners one on top of the other.

Quite possibly. I did this just based on what I can remember.

3 hours ago, Sir Snipes said:

If you really want to impress try a 3point perspective ellipse

I used to be able to do them, I'll have to give it a go once I'm more confident

[DVee8]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

Had a nice run up to Manchester to visit family.

 

Suzuki is in excellent company. Truly is Granadaland up here in the NW

What's that in front of the Granada with the plowed in front end?

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, DVee8 said:

What's that in front of the Granada with the plowed in front end?

Jag XK8/XKR. Niece pointed out the stoves in Jag to me.

[hairnet]

wheeler dealers saab 96

WTAF????

[dave j]

Was playing with the Dacia website car configurator earlier, I think this colour scheme was a glitch in the software! ?

[balford]

29 minutes ago, dave j said:

Was playing with the Dacia website car configurator earlier, I think this colour scheme was a glitch in the software! ?

 

Nah, it's just showing you the '10 years old and 5th owner' paintjob option

[Datsuncog]

Smart idea from Vauxhall to alert following drivers. Wonder if they'll roll this out to all their models?