What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[steveo3002]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

16 hours ago, Joey spud said:

..... re found a pool ball gear knob i bought from a lad off here a few years back.

I got it for my Subaru but it didn't feel right so i put it somewhere safe and i found it again today and it fits my old Hiace just right.

First time I've seen a gearknob that goes up to "11"

[richardmorris]

 

[Aston Martin]

From the latest Evo @Kiltox can sod off.

[Kiltox]

Oh that’s great news. “MODAN KLASSICKZ INNIT M8” types are coming to buy all of the cheap 100HPs   

[Wack]

[Wack]

[High Jetter]

Or Coronachrome? Boredom levels seem to be rising throughout the country

[strangeangel]

 

[Remspoor]

 

[andy18s]

Can you tell what it is yet?

[balford]

6 minutes ago, andy18s said:

Can you tell what it is yet?

Rover SD3?

[paulplom]

Nice delivery from the postman today.
Challenge bini awaits.

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[808 Estate]

[TooManyPeopleMovers]

The public library where I live has purchased access to Haynes All Access Online Manuals!

Which will make for great fettling during the lockdown period.
And I always like to have a browse on Haynes to see what a car is like to service/maintain/repair if it's a potential purchase option (Post lockdown, of course).
So this is a double win!

Have public libraries in the UK done this yet?

[New POD]

2 hours ago, TooManyPeopleMovers said:

The public library where I live has purchased access to Haynes All Access Online Manuals!

Which will make for great fettling during the lockdown period.
And I always like to have a browse on Haynes to see what a car is like to service/maintain/repair if it's a potential purchase option (Post lockdown, of course).
So this is a double win!

Have public libraries in the UK done this yet?

No. They closed. 

[TooManyPeopleMovers]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

No. They closed. 

Even the online services? 

Our public libraries here in New Zealand have closed their physical branches, but the "Online Libraries" are still open, and in some cases expanding. 

[loserone]

Are you the Claire that the dark wob thought was actually Ben?

 

Ben

[paulplom]

Has anyone got a book on how to fix automatic gearboxes.
I’ve tried the library but they only have manuals.

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[mitsisigma01]

Taxi for Plom ?

[Bren]

Mucho vitriol on soshal meedia about 100+ romanians coming into the UK to pick fruit. Quite a bit of blood pressure going up on twitter - I suggested the formation of a new political party.

It will be called UPIK.

[somewhatfoolish]

According to the recruiting agents of the 10s of thousands of britons who expressed interest via the various web portals perhaps 10k in total have so far signed up; the sticking points seem to be length of contract(people don't want to commit to 8 weeks+; this seems like an oversight on the part of the recruiters, someone picking for 4 weeks is better than nothing), the hours(people used to doing 40 hour weeks reluctant to do 60+) and in some cases the need to live on site due to remote locations. If the farmers can't get pickers they go broke and the food rots in the field.

41 minutes ago, Bren said:

Mucho vitriol on soshal meedia about 100+ romanians coming into the UK to pick fruit. Quite a bit of blood pressure going up on twitter - I suggested the formation of a new political party.

It will be called UPIK.

 

[vulgalour]

One upside to asking permission to buy a rotten car for the other half is that he's said to spend the money on the existing cars.  There's not really anything else I can get for the BX at the moment because the bits I would get for it just aren't out there and aren't important, so it's time to throw money at the Princess instead.  It feels a bit extravagant to be spending so much really.  New carpet, new chrome bits, some new engine bits, money put aside for the suspension re-gas once the World Event finishes, and I'm on the hunt for the right shade of vinyl dye for the spare door cards so I can match them to the carpet and cut down on the amount of black inside the car.  The seats might also get a partial retrim to put some red into them so they're not so black too, probably just reface them in red velour instead of black and keep all the black vinyl original, shouldn't be too difficult.  It's all very exciting.

EDIT:  found some red dye I like from vinyldye.co.uk so I've ordered enough to hopefully do all four spare sun-faded door cards.  Exciting~

[New POD]

37 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

According to the recruiting agents of the 10s of thousands of britons who expressed interest via the various web portals perhaps 10k in total have so far signed up; the sticking points seem to be length of contract(people don't want to commit to 8 weeks+; this seems like an oversight on the part of the recruiters, someone picking for 4 weeks is better than nothing), the hours(people used to doing 40 hour weeks reluctant to do 60+) and in some cases the need to live on site due to remote locations. If the farmers can't get pickers they go broke and the food rots in the field.

 

I saw that.  All they have to do is offer a range of shift options from mornings 3 days a week to 60 hours over 6 days and other options with some sensible hours in between, and they'd  be sorted.  Its not hard to change from "because thats what we've always done, to oh lets change and see if we can survive" 

 

[New POD]

13 hours ago, TooManyPeopleMovers said:

Even the online services? 

Our public libraries here in New Zealand have closed their physical branches, but the "Online Libraries" are still open, and in some cases expanding. 

Erm no idea.  The last library I went in, had computers for people to use, books, DVDs and maps and a council desk.  I went to talk to them about council tax. 

[Wack]

Tiger King 

UK Version

 

[somewhatfoolish]

What is this Tiger King thing anyway? There's no streaming onboard due to shit satellite intertubes so the only knowledge I have of it is a series of opaque memes on livre d'visage.

[richardmorris]

4 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

What is this Tiger King thing anyway? There's no streaming onboard due to shit satellite intertubes so the only knowledge I have of it is a series of opaque memes on livre d'visage.

As far as I can tell, he’s in prison for killing someone who said he was mistreating animals. 

[New POD]

15 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

As far as I can tell, he’s in prison for killing someone who said he was mistreating animals. 

It is must watch TV 

Hilarious and yet disturbing. Very odd. 

[somewhatfoolish]

How prosaic; I was hoping for something more exotic, like the tiger eating someone.