What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[PhilA]

What's crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside?

 

 

Arma-dillers! 

 

Odd to see them outside during daylight, this one was rooting about for insects at the bottom of my yard.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

 

wtf??

[warch]

  On 26/02/2021 at 18:55, PhilA said:

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It's like a cross between a shrew and a woodlouse.

[PhilA]

  On 27/02/2021 at 11:57, warch said:

It's like a cross between a shrew and a woodlouse.

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But that's 2" diameter pipe it's sitting next to.

[Tenmil Socket]

A quick trip to the shop earlier I stopped off enroute. Cars a bit dusty!

 

[Fumbler]

This fine nugget came in my comment box yesterday.


Reminds me of

Small bit of backstory, this guy is Canadian, didn't make any friends at all, and was banned from the online group he's talking about around 4 years ago. Ever since he's been hounding me about it and I've kept forgetting to remove his comments... That is until today as I couldn'e be arsed to take another 3 years' worth of abuse.

[PhilA]

Dinner table discussion yesterday, and the kids were chipping in their two-penn'orth on their idea of what "prestige" is, given the cars we have on the driveway.

Child 1 said he thought that the Jeep would attract more looks and adoration than the Pontiac, and the Challenger was a second place option. Child 1 associates new=better.

Child 2 said she thought he was stupid and that the rarity value of the Pontiac outweighed the others.

 

Funny, I've never had anybody repeatedly comment on the Jeep that is a nice car, nobody waves or honks their horn hello to it when I'm driving, so yeah, there is a certain merit to the argument of rarity.

 

Even though I did get sneered at by someone driving a Nissan Leaf the other day. Now I understand their car is zero driving emissions and mine turns a large amount of fuel into a relatively small driving force, but at the end of the day, whose car is more recyclable?

Ah yes. That won't be the Leaf, then. Apart from possibly the brake linings, seat foam and covers, and the gearbox friction bands, the entire thing is made from steel, iron, brass or glass, and a few select thermoplastics. So, probably about 3% of my car would not be recycled directly if it were scrapped. I call that green. There's no complicated chemistry battery pack, for starters...

 

Phil

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Going for a spin (and not looking to closely  at the dirty paint.. I have my excuses)  a plant hour burbling around in the sunshine.

 

Also shockingly being grown up and doing due diligence on a car and seller who within his niche is  known as  an " Arthur Daley" type and   gets violent when confronted with issues with the cars. So yikes.. well avoided.

[Wack]

There are some corkers in here

 

Total idiots of the internet

 

[maxxo]

weird thinking a year ago, i was 20 years old, severley depressed, lonely and was thinking seriously about ending it all

today i have 2 of the most wonderful friends possible, an amazing partner (few naughty visits though!), a job i enjoy and just all together feeling good with life

just shocked at how rapidly life can change for the better

as weird as this is to say, if covid wouldn't have kicked off i would have ended it all or been in a complete state probably addicted to drugs

covid saved my life........as much of a terrible virus it is, lockdown allowed me to make the changes needed

[hairnet]

  On 27/02/2021 at 13:40, PhilA said:

Pontiac outweighed the others

 

Phil

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only when i sat in it :P

child 2 - can i buy them a cake :D

leaf - might make it to 15 years - pont 70 years and counting

[beko1987]

Been struggling with Mothers day for a while. My brilliant idea of buying a shit load of daffodil bulbs and splitting them with my mum, the kids for the ex and me for my garden fell down by them being out of stock everywhere! I'd either fill a basket and they were for autumn delivery, or the checkout just didn't work or they had no stock

Just called dear mummy for other reasons and they were at a garden centre! Ace, bunged her a tenner and told her to buy herself something. One job ticked off... 

[Jerzy Woking]

[Borsuq]

...just take the Cortina.

[cort1977]

Love that coat hanger aerial, my dad's mk 5 had one for years. In fact he would treat it to a new one when it went rusty, true craftsmanship.

[artdjones]

  On 28/02/2021 at 16:59, Borsuq said:

...just take the Cortina.

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Did you ever own a MK3 back in the 80s. I did.(shudders slightly)

[Borsuq]

  On 28/02/2021 at 17:47, artdjones said:

Did you ever own a MK3 back in the 80s. I did.(shudders slightly)

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No, but I do own a Polonez. (shudders hard) ;D

[artdjones]

As my wife had to go to Bantry today for vaccination we got to see the sea for the first time in 10 weeks. Probably going to be another 8 weeks till we get another opportunity.

[mitsisigma01]

  On 28/02/2021 at 17:47, artdjones said:

Did you ever own a MK3 back in the 80s. I did.

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☹️ It picked a fight with a huge fk off oak tree and lost... Just after I had it mot'd as well, but it kept running til the end after I pulled the radiator off the block 👍

[mitsisigma01]

I used to do a 110 mile round trip commute everyday in it like that as well!!! Kept spare pallet strapings in the glove box after the bonnet made a high speed escape bid for freedom whilst negotiating dipping S bends... Nearly very brown trousers 😲

[Wack]

  On 28/02/2021 at 00:06, maxxo said:

 

 an amazing partner (few naughty visits though!), a job i enjoy and just all together feeling good with life

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If I was 21 and I got a phone call , can I come round wearing not much 

Chances of me saying no = 0.00% 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

  On 27/02/2021 at 13:02, PhilA said:

But that's 2" diameter pipe it's sitting next to.

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You need to get an everyday item like a fifty pence piece so people can judge it's size! 

Cute animals, I really like them! 😎😎😎

[eddyramrod]

  On 28/02/2021 at 17:47, artdjones said:

Did you ever own a MK3 back in the 80s. I did.(shudders slightly)

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Yes I did, a 2000GT no less.  And a decade later I had a Polonez!

[artdjones]

  On 28/02/2021 at 20:25, eddyramrod said:

Yes I did, a 2000GT no less.  And a decade later I had a Polonez!

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My friend's father bought a 2000GT in abut 1978. I can remember saying to my friend as a joke that his father was too old for it(he was probably about 45). And my friend saying "I don't think we'll share that thought with him".

Time slips by, I haven't even seen that friend for nearly 40 years, he married a solicitor's daughter from another town and left Cardiff.

[PhilA]

Because Citroen BX.

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Having a neighbour visit me for a Listening Session... Lord Boots is a Kei Koito fan... 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

This Grauniad article pooped up on my News Feed this morning... 🤭🤭🤭

[New POD]

  On 01/03/2021 at 12:12, Rovorsche said:

Anyone in Plymouth handy with a welder and job hunting ?
You can work from home apparently although getting a Frigate home on a roof-rack would be a challenge.

https://www.securityclearedjobs.com/job/801927023/principal-welding-engineer/

Principal Welding Engineer
Location: Devonport, Plymouth (working from home is an option

https://www.securityclearedjobs.com/job/801927022/senior-welding-engineer/

Senior Welding Engineer
SF31997
Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth (working from home is an option, with visits to site required)
Starting Salary: £43,445 - £48,770
 

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I know a Welding Engineer at Rolls Royce.  His qualifications are a  Masters in Material Science. And then a years academic study in welding. 

He Never does the actual welding.  Which is done in an automated vacuum chamber. He decides what experimental settings are required and how the strength of the weld is to be checked (X ray, and ultrasound and electron microscope) and could do most of it at home. 

I had a discussion with him about gasless mig welding. His thoughts "it'll be fine" 

[robinmasters]

What's this?

A bottle opener from Lidl which matches their tools. A toolbox bottle opener. 

 

[R1152]

  On 01/03/2021 at 14:26, robinmasters said:

What's this?

A bottle opener from Lidl which matches their tools. A toolbox bottle opener. 

 

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Toolbox bottle openers have been a feature of the Wera tool Advent Calendars for some years now. I picked up one some years ago and the white bits on the handle glow in the dark. So if you've plunged somewhere into darkness by accident, at least you can find the bottle opener to break out a beer and have a liquid "Hamlet moment".