What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MikeR]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

We’ve never stopped there, any better inside?

Go for the retro feel ...... 

[hairnet]

11 hours ago, MikeR said:

Driven past it many times , so today we called in.. 

 

very surprised the bridge hasnt fallen on the carriageway

[DavieW]

A client yesterday asking about one of their office staff - is she the skinny one with big tits? 🤣

[reb]

Decided on a degree and uni.

Go big or go home.

I won't tell you the degree because you'll all point and laugh for doing a middle class waste of resources degree...

[62 Austin]

On 11/9/2022 at 2:50 PM, Wack said:

If this man isn't a shiter somebody should track him down and give him a gold membership 

Let's Play Which Has More Horsepower!

[Clunk]

6 hours ago, reb said:

Decided on a degree and uni.

Go big or go home.

I won't tell you the degree because you'll all point and laugh for doing a middle class waste of resources degree...

They rejected me the bastards!

I went  to Edinburgh instead. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 hours ago, reb said:

Decided on a degree and uni.

Go big or go home.

I won't tell you the degree because you'll all point and laugh for doing a middle class waste of resources degree...

Do they still do Botany?  My Aunt studied Botany there back in the early 80s...

[reb]

49 minutes ago, Clunk said:

They rejected me the bastards!

I went  to Edinburgh instead. 

It's just the closest one to my house.

If they went on grades they'd shred my application without reading it, while laughing manically. I'm relying on having maybe* worked for them and knowing the head of department in a roundabout way. Along with an amazing personal statement I've not written yet.

If I don't get in I just won't bother.

12 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Do they still do Botany?  My Aunt studied Botany there back in the early 80s...

Looks like they don't as a standalone degree, but you can probably do it as part of a Biology degree.

 

I want to do a dual honours of Social Anthro and Philosophy. Because I'm not enough of a wanker already.

[eddyramrod]

Walking my dog this morning, I noticed a back yard gate open that's always been closed whenever I've walked past in the decade since moving here.  The house always looks rather decrepit.  In the back yard I spotted a selection of pushbikes and - wait for it - a Reliant Rialto estate that looks like it was laid up before I came here.

You can always find something interesting!

[myglaren]

23 hours ago, MikeR said:

Driven past it many times , so today we called in.. 

Went there in the nineties when it was still working, about 2 a.m. so pretty quiet.   Was mainly interested in trying out free wifi, as a BT customer I could log in free to a lot of networks, hypothetically.

For a roadside café it was OK but the architecture was the interesting bit of course.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Went there in the nineties when it was still working, about 2 a.m. so pretty quiet.   Was mainly interested in trying out free wifi, as a BT customer I could log in free to a lot of networks, hypothetically.

For a roadside café it was OK but the architecture was the interesting bit of course.

Hardly ever stop there, stop at Tebay or Killington unless desperate. Much nicer places .

[myglaren]

[hairnet]

thanks to @Six-cylinder for the tea 

and @Mrs6C you dont know how lucky you were to escape without batterage of bank account

 

[hairnet]

Massive french per see on way to melton mowbray 

XM C6 and somethng else didn't get

Saw some sorta 50s lancia coming towards me after that ftw

 

[mitsisigma01]

On 11/19/2022 at 1:18 AM, DavieW said:

A client yesterday asking about one of their office staff - is she the skinny one with big tits? 🤣

Pictures or it didn't happen 😳

[beko1987]

Up at the crack of dawn and took Charlie rock finding

I've now got a bag full of bloody chalk and flint in the house

Charlie found a dodgy looking rope swing and got stuck. Hopefully that's put him off trying random dodgy rope swings

[vulgalour]

 

Superb levels of chod in this clip from 1983.

[Matty]

Just reading a copy of the AC owners club magazine. There's this article about this invalid carriage in it.

The owner says he was finally spurred on to restore it after he met a lad called Dez at a show who told him it was the last of its type left. I thought "if that isn't @LightBulbFun I'll eat my hat" 😁

[LightBulbFun]

14 minutes ago, Matty said:

Just reading a copy of the AC owners club magazine. There's this article about this invalid carriage in it.

The owner says he was finally spurred on to restore it after he met a lad called Dez at a show who told him it was the last of its type left. I thought "if that isn't @LightBulbFun I'll eat my hat" 😁

Hah!

 

I have never (knowingly!) met Ted, the owner at a show, but I have indeed conversed with him quite a bit  

and indeed, while not quite the last of its type left, there are very few Model 67's (or Fibreglass AC Acedes as they are also known) still in existence, of all types (Mk14 Mk14A Mk15) only about 12 or so are known about, so I was very enthused to get in contact with him about his! and very pleased to see it be restored! 

and his Model 67 AC Acedes Mk15, is AFAIK the only Model 67, that I know which moves under its own power let alone roadworthy! (which I believe it also is  )

 

TL;DR, I think a little bit of an artistic licence is being taken or things have gotten lost in translation! but I do believe he is indeed talking about me  (I know he also Met Stuart Cyphus, My predecessor so to speak and good friend of mine, at the NEC a couple years back so he may be thinking of that as well)

[DavieW]

Just out of a Saxon gig in Aberdeen. It's only taken 40 years to see them and was not disappointed.   Biff is awesome for 71. 

[Stanky]

14 hours ago, DavieW said:

Just out of a Saxon gig in Aberdeen. It's only taken 40 years to see them and was not disappointed.   Biff is awesome for 71. 

I saw them supporting Dio in about 2003 at the Astoria in London, was an awesome gig!

[hairnet]

I got stickers too

[MikeR]

 

Interesting to see ...

[cobblers]

I don't have to work outside in the rain on a steep road or in a public carpark anymore!!! It's taken 21 years of slogging but finally I have wangled some way to have some indoor space to work on vehicles and bugger me it's just amazing, I've got some PVC tiles on the floor, a big bluetooth speaker, a coffee machine, bright lighting 🤩

It's late november, piss pouring with rain and I changed the discs and pads on my van inside, in the warm* (11c), with some drum and bass on in the background and I didn't get hypothermia or anything! I don't want this to come across as bragging, I'm the luckiest bastard alive and never imagined I'd get something like this.

 

The masking tape on the floor is the line where the workshops, storage and offices will be built but there's still plenty of room to mess about, I might even be able to put a 2 post ramp in if I can work out where is best to fit it and still get both vans inside

[Remspoor]

The Room Next Door -  and that speech by Giovanni Infantino

 

[High Jetter]

I've just been promoted, and had to google Isuzu Florian 🤣

[Remspoor]

3 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I've just been promoted, and had to google Isuzu Florian 🤣

I have not but I still had to search that one. Maybe you are a car which did not existed.

[Wack]

[vulgalour]

Young people keep liking the Maestro, which makes me feel a bit old because they're noticeably younger than I.  The woman at the gym who wanted a chat because she hadn't seen a Maestro in ages and it reminded her of her old Escort.  The two lads in the Vauxhall Viva HB who gave (and got) a thumbs up while I was stuck in traffic.  The school kids arguing about what the Maestro actually is as they were walking past it, one of whom was adamant it was a "weird Mk2 Golf", which isn't that far off the mark really.  It's also great watching people in my rear view at traffic lights trying to surreptituously take a photo before the lights change, many don't manage it and end up holding everyone else up, so I'm causing mild second-hand chaos most days.

I dunno, sometimes I think I'd like something else but most of the time it's a very easy car to live with that other people really like to see, so I reckon I'll stick with it a bit longer since it's doing a good job of reducing stress in one aspect of life.

[richardmorris]

On 11/22/2022 at 10:07 AM, Remspoor said:

The Room Next Door -  and that speech by Giovanni Infantino

 

He’s always hilarious. I