What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[robthedonkey]

Does anyone have the image in decent resolution ?

Can knock em out for £8 delivered
Can do a travel mug version for £9 delivered for collection capers

Some of our previous work can be seen at

https://www.facebook.com/thatprintshopuk

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[catsinthewelder]

26 minutes ago, robthedonkey said:

I have all the kit to make them if theirs no current supplier

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Go for it, just check with @Skizzer as he did the artwork.

[robthedonkey]

Go for it, just check with [mention=4091]Skizzer[/mention] as he did the artwork.

Have pmd him

Thanks lads

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[Skizzer]

8 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

Go for it, just check with @Skizzer as he did the artwork.

Thanks Cats.

PM duly responded, I just need to try and dig out a suitable quality artwork file.  I believe whoever did the original mugs may have done some tweaking.

My only request would be that if there’s a profit being made, it should go to the forum running costs fund 😊

[goosey]

Found a random fire burning in a drum, so emptied all the rubbish out of my car into it.

[warch]

Ha!, used my special swiss army multiskillz to good effect and mended our ancient Sky Box in time for Chrimbo (so I can inflict a load of old war films made years before I was born on the kids). Even found time to repair the dish so it doesn't move every time there is a slight gust of wind. 

Next job, to do the fork seals on my Triumph, which is dirty and a bit painstaking but ultimately quite rewarding (much like WW2). 

[Matty]

Xmas present for my best mate to cheer him up.

"The fucks that on top of it?"

"A bow"

"Really??"

(Not my finest hour I'll admit 🤣)

[chodweaver]

Does anyone have the image in decent resolution ?

Can knock em out for £8 delivered
Can do a travel mug version for £9 delivered for collection capers

Some of our previous work can be seen at

https://www.facebook.com/thatprintshopuk

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@robthedonkey I'll take three of the domestic non-travel variety puleeeease

[MikeR]

15 hours ago, Wibble said:

Despite all we’ve got going on at the moment, something made me smile this evening. Popped into a local shop on the way home and noticed a newly installed defibrillator on the wall of the, er, undertakers. First thought, that’s fucking optimistic, second, or potentially bad for business!

I don't really see the point of the defibs , by the time it's noticed you have dropped , someone's found a defib , the door code and set it up , your gone , and if you are brought back you are in a state , ffs even the one at work was kept in a locked office so it was not avb after hours ...!! 

[Metal Guru]

2 minutes ago, MikeR said:

I don't really see the point of the defibs , by the time it's noticed you have dropped , someone's found a defib , the door code and set it up , your gone , and if you are brought back you are in a state , ffs even the one at work was kept in a locked office so it was not avb after hours ...!! 

You could argue that with any medical emergency. If you’re too far from help , you’ve no chance. With defibrillators, if you’re near one and someone knows what to do , it might buy some time before the ambulance gets there.

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, Matty said:

Xmas present for my best mate to cheer him up.

"The fucks that on top of it?"

"A bow"

"Really??"

(Not my finest hour I'll admit 🤣)

That’s a bow!!?? I thought that was a sling you’d used to lift it with!😆

But it’s the thought that counts!

[Rust Collector]

On 18/12/2023 at 18:11, HillmanImp said:

Just watched an advert on the telly for Skoda. 

However they made a proper effort to pronounce it Schoda. 

Is that a thing now? 

To be pedantic, it was always a thing and we have been saying it wrong/having it adjusted for us in adverts as we don't use accents. 'Ś' is a 'Sh' sound, so Sh-cod-er is how it was always named.

See also Volkswagen, BMW and probably every other manufacturer that was named in a foreign tongue.

But yeah, the UK brand guidelines for Skoda have changed at some point in the last few years to use the 'correct' pronunciation and the original spelling - presumably as they see themselves as a slightly more upmarket these days and the accent is possibly seen as 'exotic'.

I'm sure I've wheeled this dull fact out before as well, but in Slovakian (I'm unsure about Czech) the word śkoda has a meaning similar to the phrase 'it's a pity/that's a shame' which I find quite fitting.

[Datsuncog]

4 hours ago, goosey said:

Found a random fire burning in a drum, so emptied all the rubbish out of my car into it.

[Erebus]

15 hours ago, robthedonkey said:

Does anyone have the image in decent resolution ?

Can knock em out for £8 delivered
Can do a travel mug version for £9 delivered for collection capers

Some of our previous work can be seen at

https://www.facebook.com/thatprintshopuk

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I'll take a regular and a travel mug please 

[robthedonkey]

Will sort a thread out once I have the artwork from skizzer so I can keep track then ... Bear with us

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[nev_jr]

Half grin half grump....

"New" car has gone spectacularly wrong and I haven't even had it a month and it's not worth repairing so off you pop.

So I've just agreed to buy another "new" car this weekend but this one will be cheaper and better for me in pretty much every way, and it has had more thumbs up from the family with a sweet sweet 5 star NCAP rating, alls well that ends well I suppose.

 

[DavieW]

Out of Office on, laptop closed and off until 3rd January. I'd booked 2nd off but the company has given us a complimentary day off so start the year with full entitlement. 😎

[wuvvum]

On 20/12/2023 at 14:02, Rust Collector said:

To be pedantic, it was always a thing and we have been saying it wrong/having it adjusted for us in adverts as we don't use accents. 'Ś' is a 'Sh' sound, so Sh-cod-er is how it was always named.

To be even more pedantic, it's Š not Ś.

[Rust Collector]

44 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

To be even more pedantic, it's Š not Ś.

Out pedanted!

[RoverFolkUs]

Question for pedants: 

What is your preferred pronunciation of Dacia? 

I've always known it to be "Dat-cha" 

Others say "day-see-ya" 

But I booked one in for MOT the other week and the chap at the test station said "darr-see-ya" !? 

Discuss

[DavieW]

9 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Question for pedants: 

What is your preferred pronunciation of Dacia? 

I've always known it to be "Dat-cha" 

Others say "day-see-ya" 

But I booked one in for MOT the other week and the chap at the test station said "darr-see-ya" !? 

Discuss

IIRC the TV ad pronounced it Dat-cha.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

IIRC the TV ad pronounced it Dat-cha.

Yes, as in “ Is Dat-cha Duster?”

[EyesWeldedShut]

4 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Yes, as in “ Is Dat-cha Duster?”

Me and t'missus say 'day-see-ah'
Sprog who owned two (and thus has has exposure to Main Dealers aka Vospers) uses that much posher sounding variant 'Dat-cha'

(Mind you if Joanna Lumley did that for me......)

[LightBulbFun]

Credit where credit is due, and colour me impressed, parcel force was not fucking around!

this is a case of 25 4ft T10 fluorescent tubes I bought from Japan back in October and had shipped by slow boat to keep the costs down, they only finally landed in the UK/Got off the boat yesterday, and here they are today already in me house!

its nice to have something that really is like a Christmas day gift almost, and finally concludes my lightbulb tat account for the year  

 

[Rust Collector]

9 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Question for pedants: 

What is your preferred pronunciation of Dacia? 

I've always known it to be "Dat-cha" 

Others say "day-see-ya" 

But I booked one in for MOT the other week and the chap at the test station said "darr-see-ya" !? 

Discuss

My mrs pronounces it ‘dat-see-yuh’ but I’ve no idea if that would be the same in Romania.

[catsinthewelder]

I pronounce it Dat-cha when referring to my 1310 or my friends Duster but tend to say Day-seer if it's a Sandero.  The one at work is universally known as the Dogger.

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

Credit where credit is due, and colour me impressed, parcel force was not fucking around!

this is a case of 25 4ft T10 fluorescent tubes I bought from Japan back in October and had shipped by slow boat to keep the costs down, they only finally landed in the UK/Got off the boat yesterday, and here they are today already in me house!

its nice to have something that really is like a Christmas day gift almost, and finally concludes my lightbulb tat account for the year  

 

Royal Mail making light work

[808 Estate]

[hairnet]

nah bag bought months ago for niece

nephew will get a giftcard

the old gits will get some nibbles/choc/alcohol

 

[SiC]

On 18/12/2023 at 18:11, HillmanImp said:

Just watched an advert on the telly for Skoda. 

However they made a proper effort to pronounce it Schoda. 

Is that a thing now? 

Thats how my Slovakian mate pronounces it. Similar we say Octavia wrong here too.

PorschAAAA, VolksVVVVagen, etc