What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[EyesWeldedShut]

26 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The record label is Crown Vic? Awsome

[Bren]

Watched a rather obscure British film called for queen and country.

Somewhat surreal seeing Denzel Washington driving a marina.

[hairnet]

flight from the far east via copenhagen

out no problem

in layover in copenhagen all morning afternoon

then flight to stockholm where its an over night then fly home the next day

when theres a flight two hours after you get into denmark (and another two before lunchtime)

wtf?

still gonna book it just book a 50 quid flight instead of waiting on the way home 

[Matty]

Rossendale round the hills. Might be a shitehole where I come from but by god it's beautiful. Dad for scale.

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, Bren said:

Watched a rather obscure British film called for queen and country.

Somewhat surreal seeing Denzel Washington driving a marina.

Never heard of it before.

 

[hairnet]

Rutroh

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

Rutroh

Immigration?

[DavieW]

WTF.....

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/993774548494737/

[New POD]

Got a hand delivered letter yesterday. From the owner of the next door neighbour of house we back on to 

I've been wanting to go around and say something. For about 5 years. 

THat still leaves the much smaller pivet next door, owned by Tony the Stoner 

and the just about too big "Hedge"  in his front garden. Which my wife is now stressing about. I'm to go and ask him.if I can take the top 4 foot off it. 

 

Not sure how to approach that one. He's a total knob, whose paranoia and drug taking is only surpassed by his intransigent nature and absolute laziness. I offered to mow his lawn once whilst I had my mower out. But got verbal abuse for offering. 

[TheOtherStu]

4 hours ago, New POD said:

Got a hand delivered letter yesterday. From the owner of the next door neighbour of house we back on to 

I've been wanting to go around and say something. For about 5 years. 

THat still leaves the much smaller pivet next door, owned by Tony the Stoner 

and the just about too big "Hedge"  in his front garden. Which my wife is now stressing about. I'm to go and ask him.if I can take the top 4 foot off it. 

 

Not sure how to approach that one. He's a total knob, whose paranoia and drug taking is only surpassed by his intransigent nature and absolute laziness. I offered to mow his lawn once whilst I had my mower out. But got verbal abuse for offering. 

Sounds like a great start though!

[Carl1981]

I saw this company on Friday morning, definately made me grin. I had to double take though!

(Photo taken from his website, as I had to check he'd actually named his company that..)

 

[MikeR]

6 hours ago, New POD said:

Got a hand delivered letter yesterday. From the owner of the next door neighbour of house we back on to 

I've been wanting to go around and say something. For about 5 years. 

THat still leaves the much smaller pivet next door, owned by Tony the Stoner 

and the just about too big "Hedge"  in his front garden. Which my wife is now stressing about. I'm to go and ask him.if I can take the top 4 foot off it. 

 

Not sure how to approach that one. He's a total knob, whose paranoia and drug taking is only surpassed by his intransigent nature and absolute laziness. I offered to mow his lawn once whilst I had my mower out. But got verbal abuse for offering. 

the tree backing on to us is as flat as a pancake on our and next doors side of the fence , never said anything as it cushions the noise from the by pass  , the screaming brats , the voice of the fish wife , and does not block our sun , the tree along with the other trees  does a good job of screening out the houses over the back ...

 

[TheOtherStu]

2 hours ago, MikeR said:

the tree backing on to us is as flat as a pancake on our and next doors side of the fence , never said anything as it cushions the noise from the by pass  , the screaming brats , the voice of the fish wife , and does not block our sun , the tree along with the other trees  does a good job of screening out the houses over the back ...

 

My biggest issue with ours isn't so much the trees. I like trees. I like really tall trees that I can hang antenna wires from 🤣
The problem is, the old boy behind me can't really manage his garden, so he just dumps all the detritus in one corner (which backs onto us). Sadly, that means lots of rats. We're very rural anyway so we have enough troubles (ticks, deer, foxes, badgers and more).

On the flip side, we got a wasp spider yesterday and we have a carpenter bee in the front garden to join our mason bee in the back garden.

[MikeR]

28 minutes ago, TheOtherStu said:

My biggest issue with ours isn't so much the trees. I like trees. I like really tall trees that I can hang antenna wires from 🤣
The problem is, the old boy behind me can't really manage his garden, so he just dumps all the detritus in one corner (which backs onto us). Sadly, that means lots of rats. We're very rural anyway so we have enough troubles (ticks, deer, foxes, badgers and more).

On the flip side, we got a wasp spider yesterday and we have a carpenter bee in the front garden to join our mason bee in the back garden.

Wow , that's a spider to run away from !!! 

[TheOtherStu]

26 minutes ago, MikeR said:

Wow , that's a spider to run away from !!! 

I don't mind it being here, but not there.
Apparently, they don't bite, but I still don't want to touch it and it's on the gate latch, so it's currently stuck open.

[Rust Collector]

The camera never does justice as to just how bloody big those wasp spiders are. We get them in the paddocks when the grass gets long. Fairly sure they're harmless, bar the small amount of stress your heart experiences when you first spot one nearby and jump out your skin.

[TheOtherStu]

51 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

The camera never does justice as to just how bloody big those wasp spiders are. We get them in the paddocks when the grass gets long. Fairly sure they're harmless, bar the small amount of stress your heart experiences when you first spot one nearby and jump out your skin.

Yup. They apparently like the heathland and with the New Forest literally the other side of the road, they invariably pop over to say hi.
Along with ticks.

They are apparently very harmless and I've no issue with anything that consumes the twats that are wasps.

[Remspoor]

Just ran the car in.

For a ca which has just turned 20 years old, the underside is not looking to bad either.

[andy18s]

10 hours ago, Carl1981 said:

I saw this company on Friday morning, definately made me grin. I had to double take though!

(Photo taken from his website, as I had to check he'd actually named his company that..)

 

US division..

[goosey]

Waked past this a few times and only just noticed 😂

[Spottedlaurel]

Earlier this year I saw this tidy Corolla looking somewhat out of place in the yard of a local Ford dealership:

Rang up about it, the salesman said it had come in as a part-exchange and agreed that it was a decent thing but they were unable to make it available, not even as a trade sale to another garage. If it couldn't go on their forecourt with a warranty etc then it would have to go to auction. Boo.

It sat there for several months, remaining in place when the dealership closed up and the yard became overgrown. I feared that it would get vandalised and scrapped.

Just yesterday one of my Flickr contacts did a check and discovered that it has been MoTed and taxed, with DVLA listing a keeper change on 8th August. Great news!

[myglaren]

[UltraWomble]

Picked up dad's old car today. 

He's been dead 13 years and my mum didn't realise it had drawers under the front seats so for 13 years under the drivers seat there was a tin of windscreen grime cleaner and some rags made up of torn up pillow cases. 

Odd seeing his writing after all this time. 

 

[artdjones]

On 9/2/2023 at 10:30 AM, RoverFolkUs said:

"Customer states vibration through car and shaking steering wheel over 40mph" 

Holy fuck 🤣🤣 - I counted 155g on the outside and 95g on the inside 

Rebalanced, it still needed 65g and 30g respectively which is fairly high but it certainly sorted it 🤣

Maybe whoever did it last didn't tighten the cone properly. I once had the machine tell me to stick 250g on one side, over half a pound.

[RoverFolkUs]

9 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Maybe whoever did it last didn't tighten the cone properly. I once had the machine tell me to stick 250g on one side, over half a pound.

Yep, my thoughts exactly. Same happened to me before, I'd have thought common sense may have prevailed but if it was a tyre fitter then the car may not have been test driven afterwards to check and realize their error. Even though you'd hope someone would realize that much is too much, but maybe not!

[Joey spud]

My sons other half has a V6 manual Mitsubishi FTO as a daily car and it has started gobbing it's coolant out when stuck in traffic and apparently there's little sign of the cooling fans kicking in. Alas being an import the fuse box lid is in squiggle writing and goggled results are iffy at best and no relay locations are available.

So thinking outside of the box I searched eBay for a FTO fuse box and found this lovely image.

It turned out the fans were actually fine and it was the rad cap with a broken spring that was obviously the real cause of the boiling up. 

My son turned 33 the other day and asked me to wire a plug up for him,I have definitely failed as a parent.

[RoverFolkUs]

20 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

My sons other half has a V6 manual Mitsubishi FTO as a daily car and it has started gobbing it's coolant out when stuck in traffic and apparently there's little sign of the cooling fans kicking in. Alas being an import the fuse box lid is in squiggle writing and goggled results are iffy at best and no relay locations are available.

So thinking outside of the box I searched eBay for a FTO fuse box and found this lovely image.

It turned out the fans were actually fine and it was the rad cap with a broken spring that was obviously the real cause of the boiling up. 

My son turned 33 the other day and asked me to wire a plug up for him,I have definitely failed as a parent.

For future reference, Google lens on the "Translation" setting has saved me many times trying to read a fuse layout on a Jap import

[jakebullet]

Got a notification my parcel has been delivered to outbuilding* 

As I'm away I've locked the gates so how? Checked the camera and there's a projectile flying over the gate like a javelin. Then an arm sticks up with a phone n snaps a pic. Good job it's only mail sacks.

[DavieW]

Not sure if it was a dog walker or dog groomer's van I saw  last week with the name "Fairy Dogmother".

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Yep, my thoughts exactly. Same happened to me before, I'd have thought common sense may have prevailed but if it was a tyre fitter then the car may not have been test driven afterwards to check and realize their error. Even though you'd hope someone would realize that much is too much, but maybe not!

A lot of people in the motor trade know what to do, but not why they are doing it. So having to stick 6-8oz of weights on a wheel doesn't ring any alarm bells.