What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Wack]

  On 18/09/2020 at 11:13, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I'm curious as to how you calculated the 80%.....

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Angle of attack

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Yes definitely 80%

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 18/09/2020 at 11:56, Wack said:

Angle of attack

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Yes definitely 80%

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So precise, though. Do you have a mental heads-up display?

[PhilA]

  On 18/09/2020 at 09:59, Borsuq said:

I took time out of my day today to a noble* steed called Proton Wira. Nobody remembers them these days, but thinking about random chod makes me happy.

To be fair, I wouldn't remember Wiras either if it wasn't for them being in a game I played a lot as a kid.

 

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Network Q Rally?

 

Good game.

 

Phil

[Borsuq]

  On 18/09/2020 at 12:31, PhilA said:

Network Q Rally?

 

Good game.

 

Phil

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Exactly!

Loved the car selection in this game. Also, fairly sure teh Proton Wira was only there because they had issues getting a proper Mitsubishi licence, but that is somewhat beside the point.

[PhilA]

  On 18/09/2020 at 12:37, Borsuq said:

Exactly!

Loved the car selection in this game. Also, fairly sure teh Proton Wira was only there because they had issues getting a proper Mitsubishi licence, but that is somewhat beside the point.

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I am just trying to install it in DosBox.

[Borsuq]

  On 18/09/2020 at 12:40, PhilA said:

I am just trying to install it in DosBox.

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I might be misremembering things, but I think I got it working under a Windows 95 or 98 VM some years ago.

It's a game I essentially got my first steering wheel controller for back in the day. One of these: 

So many good memories. Even me mum played it.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Slowly caught this up on the M40 this morning, I’d got cruise set at licence preserving 99. The Jag wasn’t going much slower, sounded great too.

[DoctorRetro]

This is always a good text to receive. 

[PhilA]

  On 18/09/2020 at 12:54, Borsuq said:

I might be misremembering things, but I think I got it working under a Windows 95 or 98 VM some years ago.

It's a game I essentially got my first steering wheel controller for back in the day. One of these: 

So many good memories. Even me mum played it.

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Haven't played this in a good while. Never ran this fast, either!

[myglaren]

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a1WL6P8_460svav1.mp4

 

 

 

[Wack]

  On 18/09/2020 at 12:25, Tadhg Tiogar said:

So precise, though. Do you have a mental heads-up display?

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Burned onto the back of my eyeballs 

 

[Joey spud]

Genuine error or a bit of naughtiness ??

[strangeangel]

After selling that shitbox Aixam for half what I paid for it, I've actually come out in front! How? By selling the pile of spares I got from the breakers for £80 at a considerable profit... never saw that one coming!

 

[paulplom]

  On 18/09/2020 at 15:25, Joey spud said:

Genuine error or a bit of naughtiness ??

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Two vans for the running costs of one. Genius.

[Wack]

  On 18/09/2020 at 15:25, Joey spud said:

Genuine error or a bit of naughtiness ??

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LP69XUB RENAULT KANGOO BUSINESS LL21 I ZE 33

Check another vehicle

Colour White

Fuel type Electric

Date registered 23 January 2020

First MOT due 22 January 2023

 

They've broken the space time continuum now though 

[anonymous user]

  On 18/09/2020 at 11:56, Wack said:

Angle of attack

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Yes definitely 80%

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Sorry about that, didn't mean to offend you.

[hairnet]

  On 18/09/2020 at 03:59, PhilA said:

Stopped and stared at the sky this evening. 

Someone louvered the clouds

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you know the ripples in tarmac/concrete where lots of trucks have been braking.........??

 

[wuvvum]

An Antonov AN-225 obviously slammed the anchors on somewhere over Louisiana last night.

[gm]

I was out and about today and spotted Fat Franks H van selling street food

nothing unusual about that but wait a minute, let's have a closer look

my eyes are not deceiving me, it's a fooking fake !

that wonky front wheel isn't attached to anything. The actual trailer wheel is hidden behind the plant pot and the tow hitch is under the 'bonnet' 

I don't think Fat Frank appreciated me pointing and laughing  

[MikeR]

apparently st Lukes road in Formby will be well parked up in the morning ....

 

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6058552/handsome-new-vicar-excites-locals/

[anonymous user]

  On 18/09/2020 at 21:28, gm said:

I was out and about today and spotted Fat Franks H van selling street food

nothing unusual about that but wait a minute, let's have a closer look

my eyes are not deceiving me, it's a fooking fake !

that wonky front wheel isn't attached to anything. The actual trailer wheel is hidden behind the plant pot and the tow hitch is under the 'bonnet' 

I don't think Fat Frank appreciated me pointing and laughing  

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I have seen an even less convincing fake, it compromised just the one side with a serving hatch, the rest of it was a gazebo/tent.

[Cavcraft]

After  literally years of occasionally (once or twice a week) hearing an early-ish morning aeroplane flying low and the engines making some sort of 'reverse thrust' noise, yet never actually seeing it,  I found out what it was last week.

 

A local shop shrink wrapping pallets. 

 

 

 

[iainrcz]

Just got home from Stirling.
4 tanks of petrol and about 1000 miles, the car averaged just a touch over 40mpg.
Quite happy with that.

[Roobarb]

Just noticed this picture and it made me smile. 

The 1960 future with spoked wheels, Batwoman looking like she has just crashed through a fabric shop (complete with bow to ‘wrap up’ the image, weird plexiglass dome that must have been a bugger in a side wind and a cool VW Karmann Ghia hiding out in the background. 
Today’s super hero’s just don’t know how lucky they are!!!

[cort16]

Just sat out with the last bits of sun that hitting our deck drinking chilled bottles of heineken with my feet in a bucket of cold water.  That's as good as it gets these days.

[Joey spud]

[somewhatfoolish]

Teeth in an exhaust pipe? Virgil Exner will be spinning in his chintz driver's armchair.

[robinmasters]

  On 17/09/2020 at 15:23, Wack said:

Just won a hens teeth large disklok on ebay for the opening bid of £40  because you don't spell it disclock , result

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  On 18/09/2020 at 10:35, Aston Martin said:

We're you searching for Dick lock again?

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I suspect he was actually searching for something like this:

In other news, if you want to spend nearly thirteen minutes yuck-yucking and fnarr-fnarring, with the occasional 'that's what she said' and 'as the actress said to the bishop' thrown in for good measure, here you go:

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Swiss Toni exists!!

[gm]

I do like a bag of pic-n-mix from wilkos, less keen on the sorting out when I get home