What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[808 Estate]

[jakebullet]

Not exactly grin, more like fucking hell it wasn't me for a change. Getting in the c1 at Mrs's and the next car to me has peeps doing the looking glum thing. Has someone hit your car?

Yes. Hang on, I'll have a look on the dashcam and see if it got anything. Turns out it's police interceptors tiem. A disco flies round the corner with cops behind it. 3 scallies jump out like the A team and disco sails on clonk into car parked after me.

You would have thought cops would have contacted crashed into owner but they just recover the disco and bugger off. Looks like they got 1 out of 3 scallies.

[hairnet]

22 hours ago, hairnet said:

 

usually use aer fungus cos far cheaper to start in dublin 

@Wibble - well how does that work

dub-bos - 679 euro 580 quid

man-bos (via dub cos national carrier) 474 quid

wtf

also found out using trip.com or similar some of them let you pay in instalments

will be booked tomorrow  - also going for two days - usually its in on the day of gig then out the next day - might as well fart about - weekly transport ticket is 22 bucks - might see how far away i can get before the gig on the sunday

[horriblemercedes]

Took my car for an MOT today. Passed, no advisories. I'm very happy about that. 

This evening I decided to file the pass sheet and noticed the testers name. M. Thatcher. Nice to get a Prime Minister look over your Jaguar XJ

[beko1987]

Had a lovely day yesterday. Xsara took me to Birmingham to pick up a friend, then Wakefield to a vacuum cleaner collectors mini-meet at a place some of the northern lads rent out and use above a gym (literally the first time in my life I've ever 'been to a gym') 

Someone bought their early 1910's Hoover 103/5 (I can't remember), that was cool to see! 

Xsara smashed the lot at either 30, 50 or 80. Bar a couple of times the turbo didn't kick in occasionally it took the drive and the hellish journey back into brum at 7pm to drop my mate back off. 

[beko1987]

[Metal Guru]

15 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Took my car for an MOT today. Passed, no advisories. I'm very happy about that. 

This evening I decided to file the pass sheet and noticed the testers name. M. Thatcher. Nice to get a Prime Minister look over your Jaguar XJ

Can’t have been Mark Thatcher. He would have got lost on the way there.

[hairnet]

@Wibble

[scaryoldcortina]

23 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

Someone did the "Welcome to Hebburn" sign once with "where love comes first" which I thought was quite good.

[scaryoldcortina]

Actual grin - went to Beamish museum yesterday for the first time in ages and found in one of the houses a playable, in tune piano that didn't have a "DO NOT TOUCH" sign so I sat down and played it.

[andy18s]

Yep...

[rattlecan]

11 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Had a lovely day yesterday. Xsara took me to Birmingham to pick up a friend, then Wakefield to a vacuum cleaner collectors mini-meet at a place some of the northern lads rent out and use above a gym (literally the first time in my life I've ever 'been to a gym') 

Someone bought their early 1910's Hoover 103/5 (I can't remember), that was cool to see! 

Xsara smashed the lot at either 30, 50 or 80. Bar a couple of times the turbo didn't kick in occasionally it took the drive and the hellish journey back into brum at 7pm to drop my mate back off. 

You drove many miles to a vacuum cleaner meet? That sucks!!

[auntiemaryscanary]

Oh, it's having a little wee...

[Remspoor]

1 minute ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

Oh, it's having a little wee...

 

Is that yours?

[auntiemaryscanary]

Just now, Remspoor said:

Is that yours?

No, just spotted in a car park. 10 mins later the leak had stopped.

[Wack]

[vulgalour]

Just back from a little pub social, and had a great time.  I even remembered to hand out some business cards for once.  Tonight was made even better by one person mentioning their dad has two Princesses he's "getting around to one day", so I'll have to find out more about that.  Couple of other folks were facing a bit of a trek on foot in the cold to the taxi rank, so I gave them a lift and that seemed to be quite exciting for all concerned since I so rarely have passengers.

Princess is behaving suspiciously well, going to have to give it some attention this weekend to keep it sweet I think.  Just generally having a nice time, it's good to have a break from the stress and actually be making connections with new people.  Got to remember days like this when I'm feeling a bit stressed on other days, it's what'll see me through the bullshit.

[MikeR]

a couple of hours on the car saw the most worn tyres on the front to finish wearing them out over the summer , 2 good ones on the back , 

and a fairly decent spare in the boot ,

and the 12 year old spare sat in the garage ready for a new tyre on its rim .. 

hopefully a swap around before the winter will see a set of decent tyres on the car 

 

[Tenmil Socket]

[Tenmil Socket]

[HillmanImp]

Here is the biography for Anne Sellors on IMDB. 

Sounds like a great woman. 

Wonder what she was in?

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/

 

[Tenmil Socket]

[hairnet]

Currently having a shit week

This has made it

@Parky parky gis a wave

[hairnet]

I now have 3 britten t shirts

Thanks Richard ya lovely man ya

[RoverFolkUs]

[MikeR]

just reading up on LED bulbs , thought I would try some again to replace the T10s on the car ...and so ordered some more 

so we get this LED using some 160 -200 mA of power , much less than a proper 5w bulb taking some 500mA....

but because canbus cant measure some 50 ohms across what is now a diode ...

so we fit resisters which will draw some 280mA of power .... so the canbus dont error 

to replace a bulb that drew some 500mA   ...

so thats 5 watts of heat to dissipate on this little led bulb thingy to help it fail ....

the canbus resistors will be getting the snip !!

[rattlecan]

Just this

[catsinthewelder]

It's good, but is it....

Good?

[richardmorris]

Iron bru

[Dyslexic Viking]

I have found a cheap vehicle for @hairnet to rent next time he is in Norway.