What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[RoadworkUK]

Autofive;

 

Ref. your siggie:

 

I thought I saw a replica of a Russian airliner made entirely out of old lenses. Turned out to be an Optical Ilyushin.

[Cavcraft]

  RoadworkUK said:

Autofive;

 

Ref. your siggie:

 

I thought I saw a replica of a Russian airliner made entirely out of old lenses. Turned out to be an Optical Ilyushin.

 

[Louise2cv]

My best mate Suzy rocked up in this beast:

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6 ... =509177266

 

I bet the neighbours were freaking out because they thought some crusties* had come to buy nextdoor.

 

*Suzy isn't a crusty.

[dollywobbler]

Ace. I'd love a Mk2 Transit parcel van on that scale, but they seem to have all disappeared.

[Negative Creep]

  Cavette said:

  RoadworkUK said:

Autofive;

 

Ref. your siggie:

 

I thought I saw a replica of a Russian airliner made entirely out of old lenses. Turned out to be an Optical Ilyushin.

 

 

 

I thought I saw a group of eye doctors talking in a small huddle, turns out it was an optical collusion

[Richard]

A New Age Traveller, kind of like hippies.

[M'coli]

The film Hot Fuzz uses Crusty Juggler as a description.

[dollywobbler]

  Negative Creep said:

  Cavette said:

  RoadworkUK said:

Autofive;

 

Ref. your siggie:

 

I thought I saw a replica of a Russian airliner made entirely out of old lenses. Turned out to be an Optical Ilyushin.

 

 

 

I thought I saw a group of eye doctors talking in a small huddle, turns out it was an optical collusion

 

Both of those made me grin!

[scaryoldcortina]

  Team Blitz said:

What's a "crusty", Momma?

 

People who don't know me usually describe me as such. They R_RONG

 

 

edit to add a relevant grin...

 

 

I was in a pizza shop late last night, 3 ladies* engaged me in converstion about how exactly you grow dreadlocks, and they all wanted to touch them

 

 

*imagine the 3 witches from macbeth, then apply makeup. You can't have everything...

[Vin]

The Clutch has gone in the Brava. Slave cylinder. I'd been topping the fluid up on a regular basis, but by Thursday morning my foot just went to the floor.

 

Anyway, I've had to press the Panda 750 into use as the daily driver. This meant jump-starting it off the 4x4, as I had to go to the office in Leeds. 120 mile round trip. Back to Leeds on Friday and then on to Buxton to meet my Sis (we saw Cara Dillon at Buxton Opera House, very good it was too ) Then to my Sister's at Cromford. Then this morning, back home to Brigg from Cromford.

 

Love it

[scaryoldcortina]

maybe, my man, maybe.... I just need to do some tooth counting to make sure it's a 4.4 and I'll let you know.

[morris_ital_lover]

 

Only the Italians would select such a good looking car as a police car and then, instead of splashing hideous battenberg markings all over the shop, apply some gentle markings to enhance the lines of the car.

 

m0rris

[Quintus]

One I'm sure many will all appreciate, given the clamping rants on the grumpy thread -

 

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/victory-for-common-sense-as-clamper-hung-on-a-gibbet-201102113535/

[Station]

This is great!

 

[dollywobbler]

  Vin said:

we saw Cara Dillon at Buxton Opera House, very good it was too

 

Nice one. Cara Dillon has a stunningly beautiful voice, and ain't exactly a mirror-cracker either.

 

Here's a musical grin - a wonderful acoustic take on Daft Punk's 'Around the World.'

[Louise2cv]

http://www.pylons.org/about.shtml

 

 

I might join.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

  dollywobbler said:

 

Here's a musical grin - a wonderful acoustic take on Daft Punk's 'Around the World.'

 

I've just had a right old LOL at that, absolutely GR9!!!! In fact GR12.

[seth]

  Mr_Bo11ox said:

  dollywobbler said:

 

Here's a musical grin - a wonderful acoustic take on Daft Punk's 'Around the World.'

 

I've just had a right old LOL at that, absolutely GR9!!!! In fact GR12.

 

No LOLing from me. I'm always just absolutely in awe of people so musically talented.

[M'coli]

One spammer spamming another spammer's thread. You've got to laugh or you'd not.

[seth]

I grumped about this at least twice so I'm going to grin about it now. There is ticking. Mission successful. I have managed to do my first bit of wheel/pinion cutting.

 

At the top is what I needed to make and below are several of the attempts. The bottom one is now in the watch working as it should.

 

 

20p For scale.

 

 

Hoorah!

 

[outlaw118]

Blimey Mr Seth!!!

 

  Quote

No LOLing from me. I'm always just absolutely in awe of people so musically talented.

 

I'm "blessed" for the want of a better word of the ability to play a few musical implements(sic), however, that level of detailed workman ship iz ORSUMZ.

If I can't mend stuff with a hammer, 13mm spanner or a screwdriver, I fooked.

 

Good work Sir, you are the talent here, not me.

[eddyramrod]

Well done Seth!

[r.welfare]

Got given a handful of car magazines by a family friend; one was a copy of Triumph World from September 2009. Imagine my surprise when I saw Rod "Jalopy" Ker had a column and not only that, he's still running his old Herald 13/60 convertible he bought in 1982 (and featured heavily in Jalopy)! It looked about the same as it did in 1992-95, i.e. a bit ropey...

[M'coli]

Very fine work, Seth, and it's nice to see what you were grumping about last week turn out well!

[autofive]

fine skils and emense patience you must have Seth

 

this is making me grin this evening - stan croft still going after almost 45 years on the scene

 

[dollywobbler]

Blimey. Ace crafting skills Seth! And to think, I didn't have the patience to assemble an airfix kit.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

How big's the 20p?

 

[Jon]

Went for a walk on the weekend and passed a dam wall, which had this at the bottom and made me giggle like a 10 year old:

 

 

 

I'm easily amused!

[seth]

  Mr_Bo11ox said:

How big's the 20p?

 

Rumbled!

 

I suppose it is patience more than anything, especially when making something like this repeatedly goes wrong. Really its just small scale engineering with the right tools - I've only recently got my vertical slide and indexing rig set up so a job like this has been out of reach until now.

 

But adapting the music and playing instruments like those guys in the not-Daft Punk video isn't possible for the likes of me even if I practiced day in day out.

 

Could be worse. I could have a giant dick made out of tyres on my property.

[dollywobbler]

Talking of miniature engineering, reckon you could knock one of these up for me Seth? I'd love to have a V12 powered pencil sharpener!