What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[PhilA]

2 minutes ago, hairnet said:

where did you find that or did someone ask you to fix it

if yer stuck inside make popsicles or cake

 

Mine. eBay. Quarantine project!

[somewhatfoolish]

Jack needs a new ribbon. Make it a green one, then you can write complaint letters.

[PhilA]

21 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Jack needs a new ribbon. Make it a green one, then you can write complaint letters.

That's a ribbon from 1965, that's the last service stamp.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

is there one of them fold over hard cases with it?

 

[PhilA]

4 minutes ago, hairnet said:

is there one of them fold over hard cases with it?

 

Nope, it's an electric. Hardly a portable, weighs a good 50 lbs or so

[hairnet]

dont drop it on ya toe

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Had a significant birthday yesterday. Local Japanese restaurant was open for takeaways and we needed a bit of milk etc so that gave me a reason for my longest drive in nearly three weeks (10-mile round trip!). '88 Sunny was the perfect choice.

Booked a day off either side of this long Easter weekend so we could have a once-in-a-lifetime trip to New York with the kids. Clearly that didn't happen so I'm now having the longest, laziest period of doing nothing I can recall since I started work in 1986, and I've got the perfect excuse not to get involved with work on the house which would usually be the priority at this time of year.

[MikeR]

found the old skull I had hung up in the garage ....

by the way the face in the eye does not exist ....   woooooooOOOOOooooooOO

 

[HillmanImp]

Good news everyone, he got away. 

 

[wuvvum]

Happy birthday SL.

[cobblers]

Going through the bins at work, as you do, I thought I'd struck gold

 

 

Two full boxes of brand new, sealed face masks!!

With no filters

 

[Andyrew]

Okay, there's one perk to having to remain indoors ,

A Strong cheddar and raw onion sandwich. 

Its Been many a year since I last had one and it too requires isolation and distancing from others after consumption for at least 48hrs. 

[myglaren]

2 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Good news everyone, he got away. 

 

I wondered what the hell was going on as that started when it was way down the page and I was reading something else.  Loads of tabs open in multiple workspaces, digging through them to find where the noise was coming from.  Using a laptop but sound through a proper stereo and 20L speakers

[Fumbler]

Woke up this morning and the swelling on my hand is going down, plus the dull ache has disappeared. The unfucking of my fucked hand continues. The immune system and its associates are marvellous things, aren't they!

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

I wondered what the hell was going on as that started when it was way down the page and I was reading something else.  Loads of tabs open in multiple workspaces, digging through them to find where the noise was coming from.  Using a laptop but sound through a proper stereo and 20L speakers

Soz. I can delete it if peeps are having issues. 

[treehugger]

Boris is out of hospital.

[Timewaster]

7 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Had a significant birthday yesterday. 

I started work in 1986.

Happy 50th!! ?

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, HillmanImp said:

Soz. I can delete it if peeps are having issues. 

I wouldn't worry about it, I was perplexed as to where the noise was coming from and wondered if I had been hacked.

[Spottedlaurel]

28 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Happy 50th!! ?

Thanks! I could have had a tough upbringing and started work when I was 6, or wasted a few years and started when I was 26, but you've guessed correctly.......

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, treehugger said:

Boris is out of hospital.

Fantastic news! It frees up a valuable bed for someone who contracted the illness through no fault of their own, rather than someone who:

• Went round purposefully shaking peoples hands long after the official advice was to do the exact opposite, and bragged about this on national TV
• Is responsible for the delayed response to initial cases, massively increasing the spread of the disease throughout the population, perhaps resulting directly in his own infection, and no doubt many tens of thousands of others.

[sierraman]

Finished my potting bench today. Built with scrap I’d got hanging around. 

[Roobarb]

Laughable as only pride was hurt (and a little chod). 

Driving home from work on Friday night (med device company, so on skeleton staff), I came over the bridge onto the island I live on. 
Weirdly, just to my right as I came over the bridge, there is this huge explosion of water followed by a similarly huge tidal wave. Took me a second to realize that some guy in his car, came flying around the corner (30mph limit) and saw a stopped car in front of him, took to my side of the street, lost control and dropped into the lake!

I pulled over to check the driver was okay. Ran over there to his now floating car. I could see him struggle with the door but I shouted not to open it and to wind the window down. 
‘You okay?’

’Shit! Shit, shit, shit!’

’You okay...?’

’Er... yeah, I think so’

’You must have been hacking on there’

‘Er, no... I think it was the summer tyres’ (Quick thinking there by Mr Amazed)

At which point a boat that was in the bay started powering over to him. I turned around and left, snapping these quick pics on the way.

I have to say, his troublesome ‘summer tyres’ probably have flat spots on them now! 30mph my arse!!!

 

[Tenmil Socket]

On 4/7/2020 at 6:38 PM, richardmorris said:

One of our customers imports metals. They send samples to us to test. We can’t do iridium as no acid does anything - boiling away in nitric, sulphuric or aqua regia for days on end, it looks the same as when it went in.

@richardmorrisIridium IS very difficult to digest...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Roobarb said:

......

I have to say, his troublesome ‘summer tyres’ probably have flat spots on them now! 30mph my arse!!!

Insurance claim form will make interesting reading!

[vulgalour]

Got to love an episode of Stupid People Winning Stupid Prizes.  What a plank.

[hairnet]

what film am i watching

WANT.

[somewhatfoolish]

8 hours ago, cobblers said:

Going through the bins at work, as you do, I thought I'd struck gold

 

 

Two full boxes of brand new, sealed face masks!!

With no filters

 

How does this work, you're self-employed; are you skip-diving your own rubbish? Or is this the neighbouring units?

[cobblers]

 

18 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

How does this work, you're self-employed; are you skip-diving your own rubbish? Or is this the neighbouring units?

My unit is on a big business park with shared waste. 80% of the units are offices and they chuck perfectly good gear away - I've had shelves and office chairs etc that just needed one bolt tightening or a new wheel etc.

I wasn't really "going through them" but being a yorkshireman, if you see a nice new looking box right on the top of an industrial bin, you've got to have a quick peek.

[loserone]

 

Coronavirus poem at 22min

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, cobblers said:

....being a yorkshireman,....

This explains everything.