What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[rainagain]

  On 06/11/2022 at 20:41, goosey said:

Went into Euro Car Parts Oldbury earlier to grab some H7 bulbs, 4 staff on the tills, virtually no queue. Whole transaction took less then 2 minutes. 

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And when you got home you found they’d given your H4s 

[Wack]

I was talking to a guy yesterday who told me about this lad they had for interview for a job 

He was 90% there before the interview because his dad worked there 

One of the questions asked was, what's something you've done that's made you proud 

Nothing 

Nothing, you're 19 and you've never done anything  that's made you proud 

No 

OK, well what interests have you got

I like rugby 

Right, there we go, union or league

League

So have you played in a match and scored a try that made you proud 

I don't play, I just watch, I'm far too lazy to play 

He didn't get the job 

 

 

[robinmasters]

On the subject of useless new employees....

I worked in a warehouse for a bit. One day a new intake came in; they expect you provide your own safety boots and hi-viz vest-bring those, the job is yours. 

One lad had no hi-viz. Even that didn't disqualify him, the manager taking them round gave him one, and told him he'd need to wear it. Lad took off his hoodie, put on hi-viz, then put his hoodie back on. Over the hi-viz. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

  On 30/10/2022 at 10:15, beko1987 said:

Same at sainsburys back in my yoof. Always the same slow old people waiting at the door 20 minutes before opening on a Sunday. To buy a paper usually... 

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That takes me straight back to the mid 90s. One of my student summer jobs was working in an Iceland store which was at the back of a large Littlewoods store. Unusally, it wasn't separated as such - no wall in between - you could just step through from one to the other. 

I regularly had old dears plonking their oversized underwear on the conveyor belt if I was working tills at the time. It did become a little onerous having to loudly explain that we sold frozen food, not beige underwear...

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 06/11/2022 at 16:10, hairnet said:

Bigger than they look in the photos

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Dafuq is that!? Thought it was some sort of bloated Fiat Panda at first glance...

[wuvvum]

Dacia [Horizontal] Jogger.

[LightBulbFun]

What makes me grin? @Yoss's Routemaster blind from here thats what!

https://autoshite.com/topic/10183-bus-shite/page/155/?tab=comments#comment-2640932

as a Routemaster enthusiast, It makes me grin so much the execution of it is perfect, I love not only the main "destination" text, but the little "drunk driver" subtext, is perfect!

and I love that even the font is perfect!

I have seen so many Routemasters in genuine stage carry service or some sort of outing, with blinds that have the wrong font which always bugs the crap out of me (in the same way that the wrong font/type of number plate does)

so to see a gag blind where even the font is spot on is just great  

 

[Dobloseven]

  On 07/11/2022 at 00:43, RoverFolkUs said:

Dafuq is that!? Thought it was some sort of bloated Fiat Panda at first glance...

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Isn't the Dafuq the latest Skoda? 

[Remspoor]

  On 06/11/2022 at 07:51, Asimo said:

Best movie car chase I’ve seen for years!

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We know a thread about hat.

 

[Dobloseven]

  On 06/11/2022 at 17:10, hairnet said:

Bastard

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Thought they'd given you a condom with it! 

[Rustybullethole]

Morning knee appointment now slipped off to cafe for breakfast. Seems a good way to start the day. 
 

Looking forward to this space being filled with greasy goodness. 

[Rustybullethole]

Yeah

[Tenmil Socket]

  On 07/11/2022 at 09:32, Rustybullethole said:

Yeah

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What happened to the sausage? Looks like a caterpillar!

[Rustybullethole]

  On 07/11/2022 at 10:43, Tenmil Socket said:

What happened to the sausage? Looks like a caterpillar!

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I think they do that so the inside of the Alsatian meat can be cooked double quick. There’s a time and a place for cheap cafe sausages. That time was this morning.

[Yoss]

  On 07/11/2022 at 10:43, Tenmil Socket said:

What happened to the sausage? Looks like a caterpillar!

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Wimpy sausages always looked like that. 

[Yoss]

  On 07/11/2022 at 01:36, LightBulbFun said:

What makes me grin? @Yoss's Routemaster blind from here thats what!

https://autoshite.com/topic/10183-bus-shite/page/155/?tab=comments#comment-2640932

as a Routemaster enthusiast, It makes me grin so much the execution of it is perfect, I love not only the main "destination" text, but the little "drunk driver" subtext, is perfect!

and I love that even the font is perfect!

I have seen so many Routemasters in genuine stage carry service or some sort of outing, with blinds that have the wrong font which always bugs the crap out of me (in the same way that the wrong font/type of number plate does)

so to see a gag blind where even the font is spot on is just great  

 

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Glad you appreciated it. There's a lot of work went in to those blinds. I would have to go through my stash of blinds looking for the required letters, then draw round them, normal writing paper was fine for this, the black and white showed through easily. Then I would cut the letters out, find a destination that I was never likely to use, or had multiples of then draw round the cut out letters with black marker then paint them in with Humbrol paints. But of course you need black and white paint because you are laying the letters over another destination. If you looked close you could see they were hand made but from far enough back to take a picture they look fine. And like you I was a stickler for detail. They had to look right. 

Then of course you can't just look for any letters. Whilst they are all Johnston typeface, they come in different sizes depending on how long the destination is. If I can repeat this picture... 

... you can see the Norwood Garage uses smaller letters than the Swanage. They are the same height but narrower. Incedentally the Swanage is one of mine too, I did it for a trip to the railway. There were actually four different sizes of letters for the NN blind (final destination) so it could take a while to find all the right letters. After a while I built up quite a collection of stencils and so wouldn't have to cut them out every time. 

If I can just post this picture again, 

I even did the intermediate blind for this trip to Hastings. Those are really fiddly. Those are intermediate stations on the Tonbridge Hastings line and the 22 is the Southern Region route code for Charing Cross to Hastings but that's a normal LT number blind, I didn't have to paint that one. 

I had a lot more time on my hands in those days. 

[SteersWithThrottle]

Farcebook sent me another one:

[MiniMinorMk3]

Here's one I didn't see earlier

[stendec]

So they could have made it roomier!

[myglaren]

[Rustybullethole]

  On 07/11/2022 at 14:31, Yoss said:

Wimpy sausages always looked like that. 

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Yes. Yes the did. They used to do the bender burger with the curly sausage. Not sure that’s allowed these days ?

[horriblemercedes]

  On 07/11/2022 at 20:11, Rustybullethole said:

Yes. Yes the did. They used to do the bender burger with the curly sausage. Not sure that’s allowed these days ?

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I think the bender is still available 

[Crackers]

Is the rule of Saabs a thing? I parked up in a pub car park the other night and came back to find it'd made a friend. Is this normal?

[wuvvum]

Saabs aren't quite on the same level as Daves yet but they are getting less common and a higher proportion of them will be enthusiast owned, so it's not uncommon for them to come in twos.  Same with Rover 75s.

[motorpunk]

Getting this for a bit 😎

[wuvvum]

Haven't you already got one?

[motorpunk]

  On 07/11/2022 at 21:01, wuvvum said:

Haven't you already got one?

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Sort of. But not really.

This is an Emira.

[Crackers]

  On 07/11/2022 at 21:00, motorpunk said:

Getting this for a bit 😎

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One of the few new cars I'd go and buy if I had the money nowadays.

They've got it so so right.

[cobblers]

Went over to help out some mates who are in the scouts, they needed some stuff ferrying up a boggy track for a scout camp. Made a night of it.

Picked the T25 up from the unit:

ON MY WAY:

Hmm

It got very boggy, but I wasn't far from camp and I didn't want to absolutely rip the fuck out of the track in these private woods that the owner very kindly allows the scouts to use, so I left the van here for the night looking like a scene from a netflix documentary. They said a stock 110 defender drove up here so I thought I'd be fine, but they didn't tell me this was in the middle of summer, 6 years ago and it took an entire scout group pushing to get it to the end....

Instead of the roof tent, I slept in my hammock. Best nights kip I've had in a long time.

Sleep was possibly aided by campfire burgers and beer.

Now I need a winch, I reckon.

[Saabnut]

  On 07/11/2022 at 20:35, Crackers said:

Is the rule of Saabs a thing? I parked up in a pub car park the other night and came back to find it'd made a friend. Is this normal?

 

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Yes it is, in fact I believe it is a rule these days!