What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[anonymous user]

8 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Managed to actually complete a Rubik's cube!!

First time ever.

It takes ages peeling the coloured stickers off and putting them back in the right order

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, anonymous user said:

It takes ages peeling the coloured stickers off and putting them back in the right order

thats a new version not an old one

 

[hairnet]

got home from shopping (hate shopping)

sky arts floyd - dark side of the moon - with them all talking about parts and tracks of the album = edit no im not old enuff and yes ive been to gigs seeing other people sing their songs

and they talk to alan parsons

fuggin ace - shame i didnt tape this and taped fast and loud instead

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Official! 

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/motoring/audi-or-bmw-drivers-safest-5435741

[Mally]

Further to my grump about a cancelled plane, I'm flying again, and I no longer need a PCR going out. That's £50 saved.

Boris may knock on my door at a later date though to see if I'm in.

 

[timolloyd]

We’re doing something right!

Record number of older cars in daily use: 

https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/british-cars-2020-oldest-on-record/

[junkyarddog]

10 minutes ago, timolloyd said:

We’re doing something right!

Record number of older cars in daily use: 

https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/british-cars-2020-oldest-on-record/

Thinly veiled "New is good old is bad" bollocks. 

[Timewaster]

On 5/19/2021 at 1:03 PM, MikeR said:

Hedy Lamarr

brains and beauty

[Spottedlaurel]

The weekend has started in the proper manner for me, catching up with Thursday night's episode of Public Eye. A shame we're on the last series now, wonder if they'll go back to the early ones again?

Period vacuum cleaner excitement for @beko1987

It's even seen in action in another scene.

Also good Landcrab/Lobster content for @keef

Sadly the registration isn't fully visible on either of these two at Maidenhead station, although the Wolseley is seen to be an H-reg 18/80 when it appears in other shots.

A Morris 1800 appears later on, apparently it made it to April 1983. Bonus Crayford Cortina in the background, sadly not much more of it visible than as seen above.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, timolloyd said:

We’re doing something right!

Record number of older cars in daily use: 

https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/british-cars-2020-oldest-on-record/

The cost of a hybrid/electric means we'll mostly be shiters anyway

[beko1987]

Looks like a Vactric or similar, nice! 

[Fumbler]

His comedic commentary is just brilliant- never fails to impress.

[Wack]

Just found this in my late parents record collection 

Probably not as popular as it once was

[somewhatfoolish]

A sordid tale of horse cruelty; no-one cares about dobbin taking one for the team.

[LightBulbFun]

Just learnt of the RCA AM100L Television 

whats so grin worthy about that you might ask?

well just look at this mind fuck of a photograph

and to top it all off I think it is still at least partially Valve/vacuum tube powered  

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/rca_9_inch_miniature_console.html

would love to get one, but from what I can tell they command strong money these days sadly

(and shipping to the UK would probably be £LOL)

[Crackers]

17 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

RCA AM100L Television 

Y THO?

[3VOM]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

Just found this in my late parents record collection 

Probably not as popular as it once was

If you are a fan of I'm sorry I haven't a clue you will know that to be one of the best ever Censure Your Own Song tunes.

[junkyarddog]

This afternoon I was transported back to 1981,when I was an impressionable car mad 8 year old lad.

My cousin had bought a bright orange 1979 Fiat 131 mirafiori sport,it was amazing,especially compared to my dad's Hillman hunter and indeed most of the daily porridge that abounded at the time.

Fast forward 40 years. 

It was a nice afternoon today,so I decided to go for an amble out in my Golf,passing my cousins farm yard gate a glint of bright orange caught my eye,followed by me bringing my Golf to an abrupt halt!!

FUCK ME!!!!

What a stunner.

A Fiat enthusiast found out through word of mouth about my cousins old one,or at least the sorry remains of it,and called on him for a chat.

His is a left hand drive very low mileage model imported from Germany.

Rust proofed from new and now leads a very cosseted life,and rightly so.

I've seen the car before, but to see it in a setting where one was an everyday sight for me was great.

What a car,was my first experience of 100mph at age 10 or 11,the noise of the twin cam at that speed is etched into my soul,of course my Mum would have killed him if she'd have known at the time!

So yeah,this made me grin.

 

[goosey]

Following this “outfit” as it leant over in the corners,

the pics not great as my wife took it and didn’t understand why I wanted a photo of some “stupid trailer”

[Wack]

Imagine ringing the insurance 

You've hit a what !

[High Jetter]

Bridging it?

[clayts450]

[Floatylight]

3 ton crane, looks ...interesting 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 5/22/2021 at 11:13 PM, junkyarddog said:

This afternoon I was transported back to 1981,when I was an impressionable car mad 8 year old lad.

My cousin had bought a bright orange 1979 Fiat 131 mirafiori sport,it was amazing,especially compared to my dad's Hillman hunter and indeed most of the daily porridge that abounded at the time.

Fast forward 40 years. 

It was a nice afternoon today,so I decided to go for an amble out in my Golf,passing my cousins farm yard gate a glint of bright orange caught my eye,followed by me bringing my Golf to an abrupt halt!!

FUCK ME!!!!

What a stunner.....

You might remember this ad campaign....

 

[andy18s]

Fancy outdoing  the Stolly at Chumley?

Withams have a sale on

[High Jetter]

Isn't 'light tank' an oxymoron?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

A shiter writes....

 

[clayts450]

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Isn't 'light tank' an oxymoron?

Not when this one is comes in at a smidgen over 8 tonnes and a a Challenger MBT can hit 70 tonnes.

[High Jetter]

Hmm, so not exactly light, but lighter. Like Lurpack