What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

The local developer who built the hotel is a bit of a dick.  Maybe that's it.

[Skizzer]

14 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

There's clearly some sort of informal competition going on amongst the architect fraternity to see who can get away with the most genitalia-shaped designs....

Yup. This one makes a bit of a change, though.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Yup. This one makes a bit of a change, though.

...but kind of predictable in this context

[New POD]

52 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

This is the Holiday Inn (previously a Ramada) a couple of miles away near the M6 Toll junction...

Can anyone perceive an emerging theme?

I have actually stayed in an apparhotel here

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, Skizzer said:

Yup.

The World Trade Centre mall is of a similar ilk. I've been there and oconfirmed it does rate highly on the genital scale...

[MarvinsMom]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Yes, we need a completely new type of corrupt system!

"president blair" or "president boris", depending on your choice of poison,

those are the best adverts possible to keep the monarchy.

[MarvinsMom]

4 hours ago, strangeangel said:

I wager 400 Quatloos on it been either The Princess Royal, or Zara Philips......

[SRi05]

Pishin doon 

[PhilA]

Today I had some time between appointments in the city, the weather was fine so I went for a look around.

Plenty of new street rammel.

Some Mississippi river occurred.

There was a Vanagon.

And a Volvo.

 

That is all

 

 

[Wack]

When you work opposite an overgrown 30ft hedge for 20 years without knowing what's behind it.

I bet it was spectacular 100 years ago , I assume its getting a housing estate now though 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 minutes ago, Wack said:

When you work opposite an overgrown 30ft hedge for 20 years without knowing what's behind it.

...I bet it was spectacular 100 years ago , I assume its getting a housing estate now though 

Is that a listed building? Will likely be converted into unaffordable luxury flats if the developer can't find a way of setting fire to it/demolishing it in order to plant more identikit properties ....

[chaseracer]

Remember when the 240 was a BIG car...?

[somewhatfoolish]

32 minutes ago, Wack said:

When you work opposite an overgrown 30ft hedge for 20 years without knowing what's behind it.

I bet it was spectacular 100 years ago , I assume its getting a housing estate now though 

Pretty, but that roof will be a cast iron bastard to keep watertight.

[Garythesnail]

11 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Pretty, but that roof will be a cast iron bastard to keep watertight.

Only wood, lead and slates. Done properly  will be good for 40 years or more - and then fit for 'maintaining' rather than replacement.

[Wack]

 I assume it was a wealthy area at one time as there was another one as big next door which now has flats on it so that's likely what's happening to it 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

15 minutes ago, Wack said:

 I assume it was a wealthy area at one time as there was another one as big next door which now has flats on it so that's likely what's happening to it 

Looks like the sort of pile that would once have been used as a minor private school or old folks' home for the bewildered. 

[Wack]

10 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Looks like the sort of pile that would once have been used as a minor private school or old folks' home for the bewildered. 

Pity it's not still open as I've been bewildered for the last 12 months 

[New POD]

14 hours ago, strangeangel said:

 

Not arsed really... in the 21st century we should be doing away with the lot of them, both the privileged by birth and 14th rate actresses/Jerry Springer escapees alike.

 

You are me. 38 years ago.

I haven't changed my opinion since 1983, other than realising that getting rid of them, would cause a civil war with gammons like royalists and it would be easier to keep them, and just pretend they have a reason to exist. 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

32 minutes ago, New POD said:

...I haven't changed my opinion since 1983, other than realising that getting rid of them, would cause a civil war ....

This country hasn't had a decent civil war since the 1640s, so maybe 'tis time for another one....although with antisocial media it would be an uncivil war. Also, any system replacing the old one would inevitably bring its own form of corruption as people learn how to game it.

[myglaren]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

Pity it's not still open as I've been bewildered for the last 12 months 

It looked to me like Cherry Knowle; long disused but a mental hospital

[Tadhg Tiogar]

28 minutes ago, myglaren said:

It looked to me like Cherry Knowle; long disused but a mental hospital

The architecture certainly looks similar.

[Sham]

You know when you spend a little more than you can afford on a car, and there's always a little nagging doubt whether you got it right - plus this is the sensible long term car... But it's only got a few months MOT and then it goes in for the test and you panic slightly....

 

Not even an advisory. That's worth a grin 

[cort1977]

18 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

My money's on either of the Kents; they have a rep for being well up their own arses; not naming is bollocks, she's doing exactly what she's moaning at the shitrags for.

Michael the female one is actually from a Nazi family.  Her Dad was in the Waffen SS right up to 1945.  So my money would also be on her, the blackamoor brooch wearing Aryan cow.

 

[hairnet]

insurance is due on shit peugeot

got quotes a coupla weeks ago

got the renewal from them today

due to changes by the underwriter we wont be able to quote for next year

thats not what made me laugh

i pay rate for parked and then x a mile - old git and me did 1700 miles last year so 85 quid and rate - which wasnt expensive so we did it that way

got quotes from that welsh opera fella and the first four were cheaper than the standing quote without the mileage :D - so saved 85 quid right there

ironically one of the cheap quotes was thru axa - who is the insurer at the moment :D which is where the larf happened

im insured with them with the bike and also when the bike got pinched (and they couldnt have been more helpful) so this we cant quote you is bollox

the old git is over 70 i think thats it right there

[GeorgeB]

9 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Pretty, but that roof will be a cast iron bastard to keep watertight.

You mean the bit on the extension?

[Split_Pin]

This gent expects  everyone to believe him when he tells us he modified his 25 year old Corsa to be able to start via Alexa.

[S2000]

My new lockdown project  purchased waiting for lockdown 3.0

 

[Cord Fourteener]

2 minutes ago, S2000 said:

My new lockdown project  purchased waiting for lockdown 3.0

 

Aren't we just coming out of the third lockdown? Maybe I'm losing count. 

Nice project either way!

[S2000]

5 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

Aren't we just coming out of the third lockdown? Maybe I'm losing count. 

Nice project either way!

Let me correct to lockdown 30 🙈

[gm]

9 minutes ago, S2000 said:

My new lockdown project  purchased waiting for lockdown 3.0

 

Wow, that's some impressive sunburn ! Is it solid in the places that matter ?