What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[anonymous user]

I was thinking of using a glove puppet next time I have to use the camera in Skype meetings. Or I'm sure I could get a string or something to work Carruthers' jaw

 

[Roobarb]

You could always take a quick video of Carruthers and play it back in front of the video (with backgrounds turned on).

One guy in the ‘office’ has one of those googley finger puppet monsters with wavey arms in front of his camera.

[paulplom]

I always new this about sparkys
Local van while out walking the dog this morning.

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[SiC]

13 hours ago, anonymous user said:

I was thinking of using a glove puppet next time I have to use the camera in Skype meetings. Or I'm sure I could get a string or something to work Carruthers' jaw

 

My history teacher was called Mr Carruthers! I think he died a few years ago. Hopefully it's not the same one!

[SiC]

14 hours ago, cobblers said:

These are from someones "How to guide" on repairing scuttle rot. He's filled the whole thing with expanding foam and fillered over it. I don't think the wiper mechanism will have room to move, he's just literally spunked tins full of it up from underneath

I feel sorry for whoever buys that next and cuts in or starts trying to weld near that "fix"

[cobblers]

For some reason people are commending him for "keeping it on the road" but all he really needed to do was put a bit of duct tape over the hole to keep the rain out.

He's done the same all over the back lower corners and in structural areas so I'd be pretty surprised if it sees another MOT let alone another owner. 

[cort16]

It reminds me of the fix I did on my cortina in 1995. I big rock smashed a hole in the rotten floor right at the point the floor meets the a pillar.

Water, dead hedgehogs and all kind of shit was splashing up through the floor so I bought a tin of fibre glass filler,  took an old rugby sock and covered the sock in as much fibre glass as a could then balled it up and rammed it in the hole. When it went off it was hard as a rock and kept my feet dry for a good 3 months. Needless to say my Dad wasn't impressed when I eventually convinced him to weld it up for me and he had to try to excavate it from the floor.

[paulplom]

My moggy from 5 years ago just popped up on fb. I wonder if it's still going. I remember bleeding the brakes. The brake fluid resevoir was under the drivers carpet for some reason. Ridiculous idea.

 

My old v70 did the pulling as well

 

 

 

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

45 minutes ago, paulplom said:

My moggy from 5 years ago just popped up on fb. I wonder if it's still going. ....

DVLA reckons it is. VED/exemption renewal due end of this month

[paulplom]

Must still be plodding on then. I paid £250 for it off a mate as it hadn't run for a few years. I got it up and running fittied new brakes and took a £650 offer on ebay.

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[MarvinsMom]

23 hours ago, paulplom said:

Gave son a covid hair cut yesterday. Not sure if he's happy or not.
A bit like the mona lisa smile.


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do you have a white terrier? cos that picture deffo looks like someones channelling their inner Tintin.

and he is young enough to be sure that it will grow back/out if he don't like it.......

but enough of that, here is my grin. this has arrived, its taken 2 weeks to get here, but here it is! some toytrain porn for the rest of lockdown.

[MarvinsMom]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

My moggy from 5 years ago just popped up on fb. I wonder if it's still going. I remember bleeding the brakes. The brake fluid resevoir was under the drivers carpet for some reason. Rediculous idea.

 

My old v70 did the pulling as well

 

 

 

i love morris minors - but why did they put the brake master cylinder inside the chassis leg??

bloody issigonis again, many great ideas, some bloody stupid ones too.......

[Tadhg Tiogar]

22 hours ago, anonymous user said:

That's the one, just need to spray your little dog white

Quite ironic, given that the Tintin series have been seen in some quarters as racist, amongst other sins

 

[camryv6]

On 5/21/2020 at 2:41 PM, paulplom said:

Gave son a covid hair cut yesterday. Not sure if he's happy or not.
A bit like the mona lisa smile.


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I take it you don't like him ?

[camryv6]

21 hours ago, paulplom said:

He's too busy on guard duty for that. He's keeping an eye on the van.

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He is probably shitting himself after seeing what you did to your son !

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Quite ironic, given that the Tintin series have been seen in some quarters as racist, amongst other sins

Tintin was of its time.  Tintin in the Congo, for instance, was written 90 years ago.  Although I appreciate that that is neither here nor there for those who choosed to indulge in the popular 21st Century pastime of generational chauvinism.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

11 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

.... the popular 21st Century pastime of generational chauvinism groupthink 

EFA

[MarvinsMom]

On 5/21/2020 at 6:22 PM, Iamgroot said:

This made me grin this morning, sorry for the crap pic from the dashboard pocket before the lights changed, I bring you, a plastic pig with reversing sensors! (And a hand brush painted stripe from front to back)

i'll have to get a picture of the yellow reliant that lives in town, it has a bonnet scoop and a DTM style spoiler fitted to it....

[LightBulbFun]

18 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said:

i'll have to get a picture of the yellow reliant that lives in town, it has a bonnet scoop and a DTM style spoiler fitted to it....

wont have been the first LOL 

[Landy Mann]

An Isle of Man  registered Holden Commodore in a Buckinghamshire Sainsbury's...

Sadly no photo

 

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

The knight rider. Season 2 episode 5.

Hot Renault fuego turbo action.

Made my teatime most pleasing.

[Richard_FM]

5 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Tintin was of its time.  Tintin in the Congo, for instance, was written 90 years ago.  Although I appreciate that that is neither here nor there for those who choosed to indulge in the popular 21st Century pastime of generational chauvinism.

Herge made up for it quickly afterwards with the Blue Lotus & the next few stories had anti-nationalist messages barely hidden.

[Richard_FM]

On 5/21/2020 at 2:41 PM, paulplom said:

Gave son a covid hair cut yesterday. Not sure if he's happy or not.
A bit like the mona lisa smile.


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Looks like he’s also a fan of adventure time, Finn is one of my cosplays

[Skizzer]

1 hour ago, Richard_FM said:

Looks like he’s also a fan of adventure time, Finn is one of my cosplays

Is it just me who hasn’t the slightest clue what any of that means, including the photo?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Is it just me who hasn’t the slightest clue what any of that means, including the photo?

I'm not familiar with the character, but I do know the whole cosplay thing is very big business; participants take it incredibly seriously and whole livelihoods are supported in this type of industry.

[Richard_FM]

26 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I'm not familiar with the character, but I do know the whole cosplay thing is very big business; participants take it incredibly seriously and whole livelihoods are supported in this type of industry.

Yes it's been one of my hobbies for the last few years, being interested in Japanese culture helped me get into it.

[wuvvum]

Another nocturnal visitor.  He (?) was sat outside my front door, I nearly trod on him in the dark. 

[paulplom]

It's a cartoon.

[Skizzer]

Thanks chaps, I am better informed now.

Chaq’un à son gout.

 

Edited May 23, 2020 by Skizzer
If that sounds like I’m sneering it’s not meant to. I can see how that would be fun.

[ruffgeezer]

Just happened to look out the window at one o the frequent trucks that pass and spotted this strange creature..