What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

  On 22/06/2021 at 22:05, 808 Estate said:

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You have done it again. No image.

Still being the third time a post with no image, that alone makes me grin. 🤭

[SRi05]

  On 22/06/2021 at 21:52, Wack said:

Grin removed , fuck me it's got a big tank , that wasn't even from empty 

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[JeeExEll]

  On 22/06/2021 at 21:49, High Jetter said:

I once had a wooden fire escape replaced for a galvanised one. Should have been fitted 2 doors down.

 

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I used to do maintenance sparky work for a local country estate.  "Can you wire a new shower in Gamekeeper's Cottage".   So, I wired and connected a newly installed electric shower in the bathroom by the back door after the plumbers had been to pipe and fit it, -  carpets and flooring had to be lifted right through the cottage, heavy furniture moved in a long corridor, etc. 

Turned out the shower was meant to be fitted in the bathroom upstairs (about 3m from the mains board).  Plumber had came in the back door and just assumed that was where shower was to be fitted.

[High Jetter]

Well you don't expect plumbers to go looking for work do you? That fire escape was wooden before I took over the property, but when I visited after the paperwork was done it was metal. No idea what happened 2 doors down, maybe emergency ladder.

[Jerzy Woking]

Want to cut down 4 pine trees next to my house that are leaning over and also block the light into the house. They are protected in some areas around here (fines are up to €3,000 if you cut one down without permission) So I went to the local town to check if I needed permission. The guy on reception said I did not. But not 100% sure he was right, so I emailed the town hall to at least get a written response.

This morning i had a uniformed officer of the Enviroment department call. He inspected the trees and told me they could be removed. Really nice fella, explained that I should get the cut trees taken away asap as they represent a bigger fire hazard once cut. Great news.

Tree surgeon will be here in a few weeks, with a lorry and hiab crane to take away all the trunks and branches. And at a price less than I expected.

Much as I dislike cutting down trees, they are an issue. I will replace them with trees that produce blossoms for the bees, and plant them futher away from the house.

[phil_lihp]

I had 3 big pine trees in my previous home's garden which were in a line on a slope away from the house, had to be 40ft tall at least.  I'd had concerns about them from the day I moved in - they hung on for a few more years until a storm took out the lowest one and landed it across the neighbour's garden - fortunately with no more damage than a few broken panes of glass in their greenhouse and the demolition of some rotten fence panels.  It did reveal the fact they were only rooted about 4 ft deep and the other 2 were barely clinging on.  All 3 had to go and it didn't half let in some light - I agree, it's a terrible shame to have to remove a tree but from what the tree surgeon told me, pines are meant to exist in a cluster on level ground, not in isolation where they have no means of shelter/support.  Great idea to replace them with blossoming trees.

[808 Estate]

[wuvvum]

This just came up in my recommended videos on YouTube.  Doug DeMuro tests a Rayton Fissore Magnum Laforza.  Always wondered what they'd be like with a V8 rather than the turbocharged SOFIM engine mine had.

 

[Skizzer]

Like for the not-a-Rayton-Fissore; Doug DeMouro I can take or leave.

Would much rather have watched you talking about yours, tbh.

[andy18s]

These facebook algorithms are going to get me into trouble..

[somewhatfoolish]

10,000 what though? Turnips, bottles of vodka, potatoes? I bet it isn't a badermatic either. Wood though.

 

  

  On 24/06/2021 at 14:16, 808 Estate said:

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Lineker is halfway there, he is a right tit.

[cobblers]

  On 24/06/2021 at 17:42, wuvvum said:

This just came up in my recommended videos on YouTube.  Doug DeMuro tests a Rayton Fissore Magnum Laforza.  Always wondered what they'd be like with a V8 rather than the turbocharged SOFIM engine mine had.

 

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Looks like a midget stood behind a fiat uno!

[mk2_craig]

  On 24/06/2021 at 18:09, Skizzer said:

Like for the not-a-Rayton-Fissore; Doug DeMouro I can take or leave.

Would much rather have watched you talking about yours, tbh.

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Yeah seconded! I’d love to know more about just how many parts bins they raided to make those things. 

[motorpunk]

  On 24/06/2021 at 18:41, andy18s said:

These facebook algorithms are going to get me into trouble..

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Can someone lend me ten thousand NBs? 
 

How much is a NB anyway?

[wuvvum]

It's not NB, it's ЛВ, or LV in the Roman alphabet.

A Lev is about 44p at the moment according to the internet.

[catsinthewelder]

I've probably got some somewhere but not that many 😂

[Heidel_Kakao]

Finally got my bear Spunk that my ex partner Geoff got me in 2003 some new clothes, and a blaster rifle because why not lol.

[Wack]

Just watching a recording about steam trains 

3 trainspotters are still friends 50 years on though one might be wearing a hairpiece

Not really sure , it's so convincing 

[MikeR]

When u look down the hotel corridor and expect to see twins standing at the end .....

Did we book into the Overlook ?

[dozeydustman]

[Jenson Velcro]

  On 26/06/2021 at 08:37, dozeydustman said:

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I wonder if he was always wandering off and getting lost as a child?

[Wack]

Hoping to see a few bands this year 

Not TOTO though

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 26/06/2021 at 04:53, Wack said:

Just watching a recording about steam trains 

3 trainspotters are still friends 50 years on though one might be wearing a hairpiece

Not really sure , it's so convincing 

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Is that at Didcot?

[Remspoor]

  On 26/06/2021 at 14:22, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Very NSFW.

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Made in 2014 still relevant when you watch UK Dash Cammers.

The only thing missing is blowing the horn at mini roundabouts

[hairnet]

watching EVM on youtube

hes doing a 24 hours in a twizy with his mate - they cant get out - only to charge they were in howarth old mill pub car park eating pizza earlier

for charidee - they wanted to raise 500 quid - theyve done 3 grand finishes at 9 ish tonight  www.ev-man.co.uk/giving

they were in keighley (cant go far )

and took it thru an automatic car wash and filmed it - it got to almost the end and then it freaked and stopped - apparently a sensor didnt like it

theyve just been at a hand car wash (live) and theyve been washed so hard the phone doing the stream died

oops

 

[omegod]

[goosey]

Today while painting my fence I noticed my neighbours electric cement mixer makes a noise very similar to the sound effects they used in the film “The Ipcress files” when the baddies we’re trying to brainwash Harry Palmer into forgetting information. 
I pointed this out to my wife that this may be the reason I forgot where I left my Jeep keys but she remained unconvinced.

[somewhatfoolish]

I think you need a good dose of 'medicine' as well as the disco lights and wacky noises.

[Joey spud]

[Austat]