What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[mintwth]

  On 25/12/2021 at 11:11, Wack said:

Wow , 6 days Darlington to Southampton , surely at that point in time there must've been a company in Southampton that could've built that 

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Only 6 days? I guess the route they took can't have gone via Spaghetti Junction or the M25

[richardmorris]

Roads Policing Unit (RPU) - Surrey Police - UK (@SurreyRoadCops) Tweeted: We acquired some footage from our @NPASSouthEast colleagues. https://t.co/KocYJYqv8q

 

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

Just watched chitty chitty bang bang. Now I’m tired and emotional.

[richardmorris]

  On 25/12/2021 at 08:21, New POD said:

We had Ribbee last night as my son's wife is 1/2 Norwegian (and 1/2 Polish).

And the weirdest cold rice pudding dish ever.  It was nice, just new to my tastebuds. 

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I thought it was belly pork from the picture! Is superkraut like sauerkraut? I have it with monkfish usually.

[Pieman]

  On 24/12/2021 at 19:09, MrDuke said:

My niece is 17, has moderate social anxiety, and no interest whatsoever in driving. She doesn't need to drive in any case, as she can commute by bus. Her ****ing idiot father has decided to buy her a car anyway, because apparently no respectable parent could possibly have offspring that don't drive. He decided to buy a 10+ year old hatchback in the interests of 'practicality'.

Said car is actually a CLC 200 Kompressor, with a sports exhaust, AMG rims and tinted windows. The first thing my niece did, bless her, was stick a big plastic flower on top of the aerial. I'm currently laughing my arse off thinking about how much he'll be spunking on her insurance, on a car that she'll drive once a month at the very most.

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What a load of balls.  If she doesn't want to drive, I'll buy that off them as Christmas present to myself.

Anyway, making me grin yesterday was watching the Top Gear christmas edition at a friend's house...how cool was Chris Harris's BX 4x4 GTi?
 

[richardmorris]

Currently watching the Grieg piano concerto with Andrew preview. Christmas of 50years ago!

[wuvvum]

Heh, I just watched that too, along with the "new" episode...

[808 Estate]

[Remspoor]

  On 25/12/2021 at 19:11, Pieman said:

Anyway, making me grin yesterday was watching the Top Gear christmas edition at a friend's house...how cool was Chris Harris's BX 4x4 GTi?
 

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He fucked with a rare car.

[MikeR]

WiFi Network with Advert blocker in place 😀 

[Wack]

All the modern Top Gear episodes are in the iPlayer 

Just watching Season 9 episode 4 when they built a space shuttle , it's as epic as I remember it , if you've never seen it treat yourself 

[catsinthewelder]

  On 26/12/2021 at 16:38, MikeR said:

WiFi Network with Advert blocker in place 😀 

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Please tell me more 😁

[Supernaut]

  On 26/12/2021 at 17:53, catsinthewelder said:

Please tell me more 😁

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I'm assuming a PiHole.

A raspberry pi that blackholes any DNS requests for known advertising hosting domains. The ad content doesn't even reach your devices in the first place, so no need for blockers on all the devices.

[MikeR]

  On 26/12/2021 at 17:53, catsinthewelder said:

Please tell me more 😁

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Its a gl mt300n mini router , it runs openwrt and I have put adblocker on it , can also plug in the sdd as a Nas. So I have 2 WiFi networks , one with adblocking 😁

[Floatylight]

  On 26/12/2021 at 18:24, MikeR said:

Its a gl mt300n mini router , it runs openwrt and I have put adblocker on it , can also plug in the sdd as a Nas. So I have 2 WiFi networks , one with adblocking 😁

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Is there a guide to doing this?

[beko1987]

Can't live without my pihole! Browsing the net anywhere else fucking sucks! 

[gm]

it was my nephews birthday last week - as the gift I had bought him was a bit sensible / boring (an a3 drawing board, squares, compasses, pencils etc) I thought he might appreciate a silly gift too !

120 assorted googly eyes  

this turned out to be a hit and, one week later, we are still finding surprise eyes all over the house 

 

and my particular favourite (his mother hasn't found this one yet)

apparently, googly eyes are the talk of the school too  

(the drawing board is still in its box)

 

 

 

[MikeR]

  On 26/12/2021 at 18:31, Floatylight said:

Is there a guide to doing this?

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https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/adblock-on-b1300/3162/5

[reb]

My Christmas night was rounded off with cheap cigars, nice rum and a few episodes of Still Game.

I intend to repeat the feat tonight, though perhaps with slightly less rum as I'm working tomorrow.

[Floatylight]

  On 26/12/2021 at 19:46, MikeR said:

https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/adblock-on-b1300/3162/5

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Thanks I'll check it out..

[Wack]

Regret nothing , apart from that turn maybe

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[Spurious]

Must have taken years of practice to manage this.

[MikeR]

  On 26/12/2021 at 20:16, Floatylight said:

Thanks I'll check it out..

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I have just tried the router with my main pc which is cabled in to the router  , switched the adblocking off and just let the mini router do the work , its a lot quicker !!!

it also takes the ssd drive and turns it into a NAS drive which can be seen by the pc and the phones ...  1TB ssd on route from Amazon for all my photos and films to go on , so I can access them , they  can go Martini !

pa all my Tapo devices work ok

[Wack]

What kind of witchcraft is this 

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8wN3Vcw/

 

[MrDuke]

  On 25/12/2021 at 19:11, Pieman said:

What a load of balls.  If she doesn't want to drive, I'll buy that off them as Christmas present to myself.

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No, he won't sell it. He'd rather have it sitting outside the house so all the neighbours can see what a flash car his daughter drives. Even if she doesn't.

Yes, that's exactly how much of a weapons-grade twat he is.

[adw1977]

  On 26/12/2021 at 20:36, Spurious said:

Must have taken years of practice to manage this.

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As soon as that white blob thing (Land Rover?) appeared, I just knew that was going to be the one that caused a crash.

[808 Estate]

[Andyrew]

  On 26/12/2021 at 20:15, reb said:

My Christmas night was rounded off with cheap cigars, nice rum and a few episodes of Still Game.

I intend to repeat the feat tonight, though perhaps with slightly less rum as I'm working tomorrow.

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Love it when a plan comes together

[Pieman]

  On 26/12/2021 at 22:36, MrDuke said:

No, he won't sell it. He'd rather have it sitting outside the house so all the neighbours can see what a flash car his daughter drives. Even if she doesn't.

Yes, that's exactly how much of a weapons-grade twat he is.

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OK, I'll nick it and banger race it then.