What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

I don't know how it's happened, but the sky isn't grey today, it's turned almost Olympic Blue and the overall light is quite bright, for a change.  Is summer coming, or something?

[anonymous user]

27 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I don't know how it's happened, but the sky isn't grey today, it's turned almost Olympic Blue and the overall light is quite bright, for a change.  Is summer coming, or something?

It's not real, you have been put in suspended animation.

[beko1987]

It's a nice day here too! I've looked at my garden properly for the first time since last autumn and it's needing some De-wintering! 

Maybe this weekend... 

[LightBulbFun]

Bloody hell, a new series by Tim Hunkin, the same chap who made the Awesome TV Series The Secret life of machines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Machines

this is gonna be awesome! 

[Wack]

Fuck me where did it all go wrong

12 months ago I had a Mustang , then covid hit , it barely moved for 5 months so I sold it 

Now look at me , sat waiting for my wife reading 

 

I'd say pass the slippers but I couldn't be arsed to put my shoes on so I'm fucking wearing them 

[Agila]

9 minutes ago, Wack said:

Fuck me where did it all go wrong

12 months ago I had a Mustang , then covid hit , it barely moved for 5 months so I sold it 

Now look at me , sat waiting for my wife reading 

 

I'd say pass the slippers but I couldn't be arsed to put my shoes on so I'm fucking wearing them 

 

[Wack]

8 minutes ago, Agila said:

 

I don't think I was ever cool  

 

[hairnet]

Mos gb header pic

Why are you dressed like don johnson/ peter andre

@Lord Sterling

[Lord Sterling]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

Mos gb header pic

Why are you dressed like don johnson/ peter andre

@Lord Sterling

😁 It was a jacket I tried on. I should have bought it. But I didn't 🙁

Also, that was at least 6 or 7 years ago. I'm quite a bit bigger now

[Asimo]

On 19/02/2021 at 12:38, SRi05 said:

She is quite correct - there is NO excuse for wire wheels on an XJ Coupé

[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]

17 hours ago, PhilA said:

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

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, warch said:

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

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]

10 hours ago, PhilA said:

Pontiac outweighed the others

 

Phil

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]

46 minutes ago, Borsuq said:

...just take the Cortina.

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

[Borsuq]

1 minute ago, artdjones said:

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

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]

3 minutes ago, artdjones said:

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

☹️ 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 😲