What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MikeR]

That's the 2nd oldest son collected his master's degree with distinction  in advanced plant engineering  , now going for a Dr's degree ,the same kid that primary and secondary schools could not teach and wrote him off , left it to family and home education to help him. Makes you wonder what we pay teachers for ..

And I always get sat behind a big head ..

[High Jetter]

Liked for the beating of adversity, not for the obstruction of your sight-line!

[Dyslexic Viking]

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Complete contrast to trying to adjust the mileage on the Caddy which is with a mainstream provider which took me nearly half an hour of bashing my head against the nearest wall.

Can't you in the UK just log into the insurance company's website and quickly change it? We can do that here.

[horriblemercedes]

26 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Can't you in the UK just log into the insurance company's website and quickly change it? We can do that here.

It probably depends on the insurance company

[richardmorris]

For a couple of minutes today my TIPO was parked next to this miura one side and maserati on the other. The maserati was not a happy looking car, more like a Ford Mustang imitation. The miura was mostly obscured by men salivating over it. £2million!

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/lf22/london/lots/r0028-1971-lamborghini-miura-sv-by-bertone/1301169

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/lf22/london/lots/r0055-1958-maserati-3500-gt-spyder-by-frua/1301808

 

 

[mk2_craig]

[richardmorris]

14 minutes ago, mk2_craig said:

The only one who didn’t was Bruce Willis

[dozeydustman]

Much excite. I even get a free kazoo!

[wuvvum]

A database I regularly use at work has comprehensively shat itself and is just giving me pages and pages of code.  I don't really understand any of it, but there appears to be a sex offender involved somewhere along the line.

[Blunderguts]

The dog when I balance a treat on his back. Sometimes it takes him a few seconds to notice!

[MiniMinorMk3]

48 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

1958-maserati-3500-gt-spyder-by-frua
 

Looks like a Renault Floride that's been giffered

[808 Estate]

[NorthernMonkey]

32 minutes ago, Blunderguts said:

The dog when I balance a treat on his back. Sometimes it takes him a few seconds to notice!

It doesn’t….trust me, he’s simply judging you 😉

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

 

[vulgalour]

One from the vaults.

 

[Wack]

2 hours ago, Blunderguts said:

The dog when I balance a treat on his back. Sometimes it takes him a few seconds to notice!

If I hide a treat the dog knows it's in the room as soon as she comes through the door, then it's a sniff test to find it, rarely takes more than 30s 

Their sense of smell is amazing 

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

saw an x3 that made chuckle earlier- hearing aid beige! 😲🤪🤣

[Asimo]

9 hours ago, MikeR said:

Makes you wonder what we pay teachers for

For ticking boxes and meeting targets imposed by applying the business-management model to education. 

See also nurses, doctors, soldiers, social workers, public transport…, …, …

[RoverFolkUs]

eBay, for a change. 

Ever since they introduced managed payments a couple of years ago, I felt it had gone rapidly downhill and stuff just wasn't selling like it used to. 

I have a small number of items listed, whenever the 70/80% off fees promotion comes through I'll list a few new items I've gathered up and relist everything else so that they can take advantage of the offer. 

Two items in particular - one I first advertised in March 2022. The other in June 2022. They did not sell in all that time. 

I did not originally believe in the "promoted listings" thing. However I decided to give it a try, I increased both item prices by around 5%, and introduced a 5% promotion rate to all items. 

Lo and behold, in the last 48 hours, two of those items listed on the dates above have sold!

Very happy. The fee doesn't bother me because I just increased the price. I might be a couple of quid worse off but that doesn't bother me as they're gone and sold now, I didn't need them anyway!

eBay is usually a last resort for me and I know it's full of aggro, but these sort of items wouldn't have sold elsewhere locally for nearly half the amounts I wouldn't have thought 

[Mally]

2 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

saw an x3 that made chuckle earlier- hearing aid beige! 😲🤪🤣

NHS hearing aids are no longer beige.

Apart from NOS

[DarrenBowker]

On 12/3/2022 at 4:44 PM, vulgalour said:

Made sure to get into the neighbourhood spirit and put the outdoor decorations up today.

 

Battery powered LEDs, great stuff.  The little function selector box slots neatly into the coin cubby in the dash.  Obviously, don't drive around with them all flashing like that.

There's an old Volkswagen bus up my road with a full on light show inside. Makes the passers by smile. 

[Wack]

14 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Can't you in the UK just log into the insurance company's website and quickly change it? We can do that here.

You can with Aviva, most of the others like to charge you £25 to press a couple of buttons 

[Yoss]

15 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Can't you in the UK just log into the insurance company's website and quickly change it? We can do that here.

Ha. Allegedly yes, they even encourage you to do so. But I tried when I got green Favorit. Obviously it's heavily modified but I thought I'd try out of curiosity, there are sections to list all modifications which I did. It just said I need to phone up. Not entirely surprised to be honest I wasn't expecting to get it on standard insurance anyway and indeed I've now got it on specialist modified car insurance. 

BUT. I then tried swapping the blue Favorit on to Mrs Yoss's now departed Felicia insurance online. So a bog standard Felicia to a bog standard Favorit? Surely that's a fairly simple ask? No, you need to phone up. The actual swap was fairly simple but you seem to spend longer listening to tedious recorded messages than actually talking to a human. 

 

Apologies for being grumpy in the ungrumpy thread. 

 

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, DarrenBowker said:

There's an old Volkswagen bus up my road with a full on light show inside. Makes the passers by smile. 

I saw some blobby SUV on the road which had lights strung on the outside of the roof. Fortunately constantly on, rather than flashing, but a distraction even so.

[Yoss]

Popped in to our local butchers for some pies. Their pies are great, full to the top and there is something about the pastry that just sets them apart. They probably use lard or something but whatever, it works. 

 

But they also have a small eat in section. Usually if you get there after 8am it's full (they open at 7 as any proper butcher does) but there were a couple of spare tables and as I walked in the smell of bacon hit me so I thought sod it and stopped for a bacon sandwich. 

Sometimes when you order a bacon sandwich out it can be a disappointment. Not these. Decent amount of bacon, well cooked, just the right amount of saltyness and proper bread. 

I should make more spontaneous decisions like this. 

[dozeydustman]

26 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Popped in to our local butchers for some pies. Their pies are great, full to the top and there is something about the pastry that just sets them apart. They probably use lard or something but whatever, it works. 

 

But they also have a small eat in section. Usually if you get there after 8am it's full (they open at 7 as any proper butcher does) but there were a couple of spare tables and as I walked in the smell of bacon hit me so I thought sod it and stopped for a bacon sandwich. 

Sometimes when you order a bacon sandwich out it can be a disappointment. Not these. Decent amount of bacon, well cooked, just the right amount of saltyness and proper bread. 

I should make more spontaneous decisions like this. 

which butcher is this? I’m not mega miles from Yosstown so if ever I’m passing I may have to partake of cured pig in bread

[AnnoyingPentium]

Car was clunking again (suspected another drop link). Took it back to the garage, the one they fitted was loose. It's fixed, FOC as well. That's enough to make me deploy the smug face or something daft like that.

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

which butcher is this? I’m not mega miles from Yosstown so if ever I’m passing I may have to partake of cured pig in bread

Uptons of Bassett in Winchester Road, by the roundabout with Hill Lane. They also do a good full English for about a tenner and being a butchers they don't have wishy washy stuff like beans or tomatoes. Two eggs, decent bit of toast and the rest is all meat. Can recommend. 

[MikeR]

Today's find in the loft 😀😀😀😀😀

[Stanky]

4 hours ago, Yoss said:

Sometimes when you order a bacon sandwich out it can be a disappointment. Not these. Decent amount of bacon, well cooked, just the right amount of saltyness and proper bread. 

 

I've all but stopped bothering ordering bacon sandwiches out and about - every time I seem to get about 30% of the bacon I would expect, unsmoked bacon, and which seems to have been cooked by steaming it. The bacon is invariably 50% fat as well, which is all stringy and chewy and its just a really big disappointment every time.

That looks like a proper bacon sandwich, lots of meat, cooked in an actual frying pan until bits have gone black, in proper bread. I may well have to make a visit there next time I'm over that way. Was it smoked bacon? I bet it was....