What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

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  scaryoldcortina said:

  michiel said:

Confused - tiny bass or giant cat & tub of butter & mug?

 

yes, we keep tigers and buy butter by the gallon. Or, it's a mandolin. You decide...

 

Is it Catpain Bertolli's Mandolin by any chance?

[scaryoldcortina]

^^ No. I make my own pasta sauce and prefer a big knife for chopping stuff up.

 

It isn't Captain Correlli's Mandolin either, although Google/Ebay/Amazon etc are all convinced I will want to buy this film. THey R_RoNG

 

Wife is threatening to make a miniature stonehenge triolith to go with it though, that made me grin.

[scaryoldcortina]

mm, tull. I'm going to go and find the LP and put "songs of the wood" on.

 

The pasta sauce recipe varies depending on what is in the cupboards... but no , it isn't smooth or ketchuppy. I hate ketchup.

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  scaryoldcortina said:

^^ No. I make my own pasta sauce and prefer a big knife for chopping stuff up.

 

It isn't Captain Correlli's Mandolin either, although Google/Ebay/Amazon etc are all convinced I will want to buy this film. THey R_RoNG

 

Wife is threatening to make a miniature stonehenge triolith to go with it though, that made me grin.

 

 

Read my post again:

 

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Is it Catpain Bertolli's Mandolin by any chance?

 

Bertolli being a olive based margerine type spread - much like the one in the picture.

 

I thought I was being bloody clever there

[M'coli]

  scaryoldcortina said:

^^ No. I make my own pasta sauce and prefer a big knife for chopping stuff up.

Very good sir!

[Negative Creep]

Found myself a job! Only for 4 weeks but eliminates any immediate financial concerns

[autofive]

  Negative Creep said:

Found myself a job! Only for 4 weeks but eliminates any immediate financial concerns

 

well done

 

is not easy finding one in this current financial climate

[Negative Creep]

  autofive said:

  Negative Creep said:

Found myself a job! Only for 4 weeks but eliminates any immediate financial concerns

 

well done

 

is not easy finding one in this current financial climate

 

 

Oddly enough this one was easy. Went into an agency on the off chance and they asked me to take a couple of tests. Got full marks on the letter writing so was offered a place. If anything I'm glad as it actually gives me something to do during the day, and I won't be living on benefits either

[Guest]

I'm beginning to think I have a different grasp of the English language to that of my University cohorts. We have a closed Facebook group in which we air our problems and concerns. Whilst we have a mutual agreement about the appalling standard of teaching we're receiving from our Video Journalism lecturer (with a formal grievance in the works) several of us differ as to how well the University radio station is organised. You may recall that I applied to get involved with S**ck at the beginning of last term. Many e mails, forms and phone calls have a occurred since then and I am still not on any team or in possession of a show slot. I decided to air my views in a clear and forthright manner, and subsequently got ripped to pieces by two girls in my set who had managed to get a show. They decided to somehow interpret my comments as a personal attack aimed at them, personally. I responded in kind.

 

Cue a shitstorm.

 

If they crawled out of the station's arse for a fraction of a second they'd see how pitifully shit the whole concern is. I'm not participating in any kind of discussion or debate any more. They can all fuck off. This is worse than that joke of a call centre I worked in. 'Oooh, it's a bit negative, we can't possibly have that, our entire shitty universe will collapse around our ears and kittens will be raped. How dare you suggest that something is crap because you're so negative and horrible, blah blah blah FUCK OFF. Let's ignore all the evidence to the contrary and ram cotton wool so far up our ears it comes out of our arses, wibble bollocks bling blah let's all decorate our desks because it's Halloween.'

 

You know what? I hate being ignored, especially when said station whinges they can't get anyone interested. I've applied to them AGAIN for the fifth (or sixth, or seventh) time (I've lost count), and if they were full up, or didn't like what I proposed, would an e mail or phone call have gone amiss? No, no it wouldn't.

 

Actually, I'm so fucking sick of people taking what I say the wrong way then I might as well buy a Golf and a white fluffy coat.

 

I'm now being told I 'can't complain about the Video Journalism lecturer because that will offend her and will get your face known and no one will want to work with you'. Right then, I'll just take my trousers down and you can all piledrive up my arse without lube. Thanks for calling! Thanks! Would you like some bile with that?

 

Fuck this. I'm not saying anything bad about anything ever again, in case it offends someone. What a pathetic state of affairs.

[seth]

This photo opportunity presenting itself made me grin this evening.

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Wat man, it seems everything you get involved in ends up with you in a foul mood calling all other involved parties 'total wankers' etc. I think you oughta try a course of valium for a couple of weeks and see if the world looks a bit better thus modified.

[RedSparrow]

Wat - Yes I was going to say similar to Bol but he got there before me. You do seem to end up in a lot of arguements with people!

 

Seth - top photo work!

[RoadworkUK]

  seth said:

....absolute friggin' pornography

 

I'll have the one on the right, please.

[254575]

jh

[254575]

RE Austin Day at Brooklands

 

i was there with a few of my maestros with the owners club.

 

Angry Dicky. was yours the beige one parked with the princess's?

 

 

heres a picture of our rabble

[messerschmitt owner]

motorway cops - watching the 93 year old maestro driver who'd driven the wrong way down the M40 in the snow say 'bollocks' when he'd been caught - it was the Fast Show all over again!

[Claypole]

Cigs to be hidden from view in shops...

 

Someone is being paid to come up with this bobbins.

 

I'm sure if I went down the local shop and couldn't see and cigs I'd think "Oh I'll give up smoking then".

 

(not that I have or do smoke) I've cars to piss my money away on.

[Angrydicky]

  109landys3 said:

 

Angry Dicky. was yours the beige one parked with the princess's?

 

 

That's right!

 

Brooklands, Austin Morris Day (373) by Austin7nut, on Flickr

 

My dad didn't want to park with the other Maestros as we're not club members. There were two tidy Montegos elsewhere in the show as well

[messerschmitt owner]

image001-1 by messerschmitt owner, on Flickr

[mattblack]

Last night I dreamed I had a Lada, it seemed that I only had it as a cheap banger but then I looked down at the dashboard and thought 'this is cool'. Then I parked outside a shop to get 20 Bensons and a paper, and when I went in I found that they were giving away 20 obscure foreign fags with every paper...

[Mr_Bo11ox]

  Claypole said:

Cigs to be hidden from view in shops...

 

Someone is being paid to come up with this bobbins.

 

I'm sure if I went down the local shop and couldn't see and cigs I'd think "Oh I'll give up smoking then".

 

(not that I have or do smoke) I've cars to piss my money away on.

 

Hey, if someone blocked my computer access to eBay i'd probably buy a lot less old shite that I don't need. It works!

[dollywobbler]

Just say No Mr Bol!

 

[Cavcraft]

Our works banned FaceAche yonks ago and it's bloody brilliant. No longer do you have wait eight hours to get a response from some turd who's been excitedly telling people he's had steak and kidney pie for dinner.

[barrett]

  Claypole said:

Cigs to be hidden from view in shops...

 

Someone is being paid to come up with this bobbins.

 

I'm sure if I went down the local shop and couldn't see and cigs I'd think "Oh I'll give up smoking then".

 

(not that I have or do smoke) I've cars to piss my money away on.

 

Maybe it's just me, but I have NEVER found a shop where they get my fag choice right first time. Whatever I say, they'll reach for something else and I have to direct them along using hand gestures and grunts of encouragement/ discouragement. I foresee placing them under the counter resulting in my tabacco transactions doubling in length as they repeatedly bring up one packet and have to down again to replace it with the correct brand....

[pogweasel]

They are USELESS in all fags shops.

They only recognise the ones that POOR PEOPLE smoke (Richmonds!), so you can totally bamboozle them by asking for something as exotic as Embassy Filters.

Heaven forbid you wanted something like Dunhills.

[brammy777]

I always choose the right cigarettes for customers! And funnily enough, they normally choose the 'premium brands'. I wonder how many other people who work in front of a fag gantry know where the Senior Service are.

And Angry Dicky, here is another photo of your excellent looking Maestro.

1985 Austin Maestro 1.3 Base Hatchback. by bramm77, on Flickr

[wuvvum]

Pulling away from a traffic light on the pushbike on the way home from work this evening (yes, I do stop at red lights when I'm cycling), I heard a slightly incongruous noise behind me. At first I thought it was one of those Secma buggy things, or a cheap Chinese imitation thereof, but it was too quiet and refined-sounding for that. It actually turned out to be an immaculate T-reg Honda CB400A - I haven't seen one of those on the road for donkey's years. Proper bikeshite.

[Pete-M]

  pogweasel said:

Heaven forbid you wanted something like Dunhills.

 

Ask 'em for 20 Davidoff, that normally causes 'em to blow a gasket.

[Richard]

  barrett said:

Maybe it's just me, but I have NEVER found a shop where they get my fag choice right first time. Whatever I say, they'll reach for something else and I have to direct them along using hand gestures and grunts of encouragement/ discouragement. I foresee placing them under the counter resulting in my tabacco transactions doubling in length as they repeatedly bring up one packet and have to down again to replace it with the correct brand....

 

I don't smoke, but I often find myself in a queue behind somebody who does and I've noticed that too. It'll be even worse if the idea of plain packets comes to anything.

[myglaren]

Victory Cigarettes?