What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

A tree?

[catsinthewelder]

Dissolved remains of an early Mondeo?

[Rustybullethole]

  On 11/12/2022 at 19:55, vulgalour said:

Oh hi.

Definitely worth putting a million layers on and risking certain death for The Content.  First time I've left the house in a week, still weaker than a Renault front spring and only just started getting my voice back.  Covid can get in the bin, I am not appreciating it one bit.  But hey, surprise fox encounter in the first snow of the year, that proper cheered me up.

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It’s the simple things that matter the most. Hope you’re on the mend.

Presume this is one of the cubs we saw darting about out the back earlier in the year. Big sturdy looking bugger now. Don’t think I’ve seen a fox luggin that much timber. 

[wuvvum]

  On 11/12/2022 at 19:55, vulgalour said:

weaker than a Renault front spring

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I'm nicking that.

[Rustybullethole]

  On 11/12/2022 at 23:19, wuvvum said:

I'm nicking that.

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No need. Have the remains of a pair sitting out the back you can have them for free.

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

[High Jetter]

Fudge is seasonal?

[iainrcz]

Finished work till January the 6th 😁

[Dyslexic Viking]

  On 11/12/2022 at 21:45, GeorgeB said:

Aspen?

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  On 11/12/2022 at 21:47, High Jetter said:

A tree?

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Aspen petrol, either for two stroke or 4 stroke they sell both.

[jakebullet]

We're feeling the lurve at wild bean cafe at the BP station. A large cappuccino is £3.30. But there's £1 discount for using a reusable cup. N hot drinks are on the BP rewards app, so 100 bonus points (50p). Plus 8th one free with stamp card. So £1.58 each. 

[myglaren]

 

[myglaren]

A German eco-activist who glued himself to a road in Mainz had to have the tarmac around his hand removed after emergency workers were unable to free him.  A member of Letzte Generation, Germany's version of Just Stop Oil, reportedly stuck his hand to the road using superglue mixed with sand, meaning the authorities could not dissolve the glue.  Power tools had to be brought out to cut the area around his hand, while a video of the event also shows several failed attempts at dissolving and filing away the glue.  After the block of tarmac was cut away, the man was able to stand up and walk around with the chunk of road still glued to his hand.

 

[Metal Guru]

  On 12/12/2022 at 13:03, myglaren said:

A German eco-activist who glued himself to a road in Mainz had to have the tarmac around his hand removed after emergency workers were unable to free him.  A member of Letzte Generation, Germany's version of Just Stop Oil, reportedly stuck his hand to the road using superglue mixed with sand, meaning the authorities could not dissolve the glue.  Power tools had to be brought out to cut the area around his hand, while a video of the event also shows several failed attempts at dissolving and filing away the glue.  After the block of tarmac was cut away, the man was able to stand up and walk around with the chunk of road still glued to his hand.

 

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I’d have given him an axe, saying you’ve got 3 minutes until the traffic starts up.

[EyesWeldedShut]

  On 10/12/2022 at 20:59, Bren said:

Watching ice station zebra on TCM.

And I feel like I am there.

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I saw that first time around in Ayr Odeon - don't remember much about it as I was a wee lad but my Mum had a thing for Rock Hudson (and Dirk Bogarde - guess her gaydar wasn't that hot?) 

[Blunderguts]

[richardmorris]

[MiniMinorMk3]

  On 11/12/2022 at 23:58, 808 Estate said:

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He should post that up in phone boxes, he'd get loads of offers then.

[Rustybullethole]

  On 12/12/2022 at 13:03, myglaren said:

A German eco-activist who glued himself to a road in Mainz had to have the tarmac around his hand removed after emergency workers were unable to free him.  A member of Letzte Generation, Germany's version of Just Stop Oil, reportedly stuck his hand to the road using superglue mixed with sand, meaning the authorities could not dissolve the glue.  Power tools had to be brought out to cut the area around his hand, while a video of the event also shows several failed attempts at dissolving and filing away the glue.  After the block of tarmac was cut away, the man was able to stand up and walk around with the chunk of road still glued to his hand.

 

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Lefty wanker 

[Jenson Velcro]

  On 12/12/2022 at 18:41, Rustybullethole said:

Lefty wanker 

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Well he can’t use his right hand now can he, unless for some extreme S&M

[Rustybullethole]

Exactly 

[High Jetter]

I used a small car-park attached to a parade of shops this afternoon, 2 degrees outside. The Co-Op artics delivering to the store reverse in, and it's on a slight incline. As last night's snow was still on the ground, but just slushy. He tried, tried and tired again several more times but didn't make it. He parked on the road then I think, god knows how he'd have got the roll-cages up the same slope!

[Hertz]

[RoverFolkUs]

[Wack]

Picked this up at a boot sale 

Strangely hypnotic 

[AnnoyingPentium]

  On 12/12/2022 at 21:41, Wack said:

Picked this up at a boot sale 

Strangely hypnotic 

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[High Jetter]

  On 12/12/2022 at 21:41, Wack said:

Picked this up at a boot sale 

Strangely hypnotic 

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I never got the point of them the first time round, guess the lava never flowed for me.

[Wack]

  On 12/12/2022 at 23:02, High Jetter said:

I never got the point of them the first time round, guess the lava never flowed for me.

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I'm pretending it's heating the room for 40w  of bulb power while keeping me entertained with its 1960s vibe 

[Wack]

  On 12/12/2022 at 20:01, High Jetter said:

I used a small car-park attached to a parade of shops this afternoon, 2 degrees outside. The Co-Op artics delivering to the store reverse in, and it's on a slight incline. As last night's snow was still on the ground, but just slushy. He tried, tried and tired again several more times but didn't make it. He parked on the road then I think, god knows how he'd have got the roll-cages up the same slope!

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They really should send the drivers out with a bag of rock salt. 

When we had that -20 winter in 2010  and everybody ran out of salt I was delivering for a truck company 

TTC in crewe was a distribution centre for the North, they ordered pallets and pallets of salt for next year, it was everywhere 

Only next year was warm, as was the next year, they then put in a 1 way system and used the pallets of salt as roundabouts, road markers etc 

Last time I went the UV light had turned all the plastic bags brittle and it was piles of salt everywhere. 

[808 Estate]