What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

is it me or is the ad for big brother with the guinea pigs likely better than the program itself

[hairnet]

bike gadge is a fookin loony

the other side of the river was afghan - he is in tajikistan

and as i found out (heonly mentioned it now in his report)

hes heading for the pamir mountains

DO NOT IGNORE THIS

 

@davidfowler2000 has prolly had a shot of one of them D

[hairnet]

so hes on the way back and was told about an 'event'

hes not mentioned it so far but hes at a hotel and

quote

'We need to negotiate a price. These rooms are obviously in high demand. This isn’t something you can see every day. If this was  we’d have had to book it 2 years ago and sell a kidney to pay for it. I’m wondering if I have enough cash on me. But then she says ‘3000 each’.

‘What? Pounds? Dollars?’

‘Niet. Tenge’

So, that’s about £4.50 for the room for the night with a (long distance) view of the Baikonor launch site out the window. I think that’s what would be generally considered to be a bloody bargain............'

OMG

[hairnet]

 

[comfortablynumb]

I thought for a minute that was the Israelis again... 😱

[MorrisItalSLX]

18 hours ago, Wibble said:

Apparently Titanic 2 is back on and will allegedly start it’s maiden voyage in 2027🤔

I’ll believe it when I see it as Clive Palmer is a fat lying twat.

How about instead of spending millions building a replica Titanic, you pay the staff made redundant from your failed Nickel mine their payouts you owe them.

Sorry, rant over.

[grizz]

No balls

[Datsuncog]

On 01/10/2024 at 15:05, Datsuncog said:

Yeah, it's not quite gone yet, either, - the Odyssey left Belfast Harbour late last night, and almost immediately afterward dropped anchor off Ballymacormick Point out in the lough.

Stranded cruise ship remains in Belfast hours after leaving harbour - BBC News

Apparently there's some problem with paperwork, now.

I can nearly see it from the kitchen window.

EDIT: it's back in Belfast Harbour again now...

Despite promises that it would finally depart on Tuesday night, that bloody cruise liner's still not gone.

Belfast cruise ship to leave for France, passengers say - BBC News

It does sound like the most shonky cruise ship setup imaginable, though:

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Villa Vie Residences bought the 31-year-old ship from Fred Olsen Cruise Lines in 2023.

The ship arrived at Queen’s Island in the Northern Ireland capital to be outfitted in April 2024.

It was scheduled to leave on 30 May for the first leg of its cruise.

But until 30 September, it was stuck in Belfast due to problems with its rudders and gearbox.

The vessel had some final inspections to pass this week before it was signed off to sail.

Passengers have been able to spend time on the ship during the day while waiting for a departure date, but had to disembark in the evenings to stay in hotels.

Basically, the new owners took on an end-of-life cruise liner that had been laid up for four years, sold all the rooms to paying customers on a permanent basis, only to find out that the steering and gearbox were fucking fucked m8, once they got it to a garage*.

If AutoShite did cruises...

 

*Harland & Wolff

[comfortablynumb]

20 hours ago, richardmorris said:

It’ll be starship titanic soon. 

Been watching Dr Who? 😄

[somewhatfoolish]

10 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Despite promises that it would finally depart on Tuesday night, that bloody cruise liner's still not gone.

Belfast cruise ship to leave for France, passengers say - BBC News

It does sound like the most shonky cruise ship setup imaginable, though:

Basically, the new owners took on an end-of-life cruise liner that had been laid up for four years, sold all the rooms to paying customers on a permanent basis, only to find out that the steering and gearbox were fucking fucked m8, once they got it to a garage*.

If AutoShite did cruises...

 

*Harland & Wolff

AS cruises would be blasting a gap in Queen Mary's lagoon and propelling it with 500 outboard motors, or stealing the SS Rotterdam or maybe this thing.

 

[comfortablynumb]

16 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Despite promises that it would finally depart on Tuesday night, that bloody cruise liner's still not gone.

And it's STILL there.

Apparently they can't decide whether it's leaving or not.

Latest is 11pm Thursday night.

Place your bets now...

@Datsuncog any live updates? 😁

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

@Datsuncog any live updates? 😁

Still there; doesn't appear to have moved since it dropped anchor off Ballyholme Bay in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

NOT-QUITE-LIVE POTATOCAM ACTION YO:

(That's it in the middle of the pic - funny how something quite obvious to the eye is little more than a distant smudge to a phone camera. See also: taking pics of the moon...)

[reb]

Starting in about 6 hours, video I have produced will be available to watch on cable TV in thousands of homes in a random corner of the US.

Wild.

[hairnet]

Because racecar

Official is 99 ive had 94 gps before

 

[Datsuncog]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Still there; doesn't appear to have moved since it dropped anchor off Ballyholme Bay in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

NOT-QUITE-LIVE POTATOCAM ACTION YO:

(That's it in the middle of the pic - funny how something quite obvious to the eye is little more than a distant smudge to a phone camera. See also: taking pics of the moon...)

Apparently it'll definitely be leaving tonight.

Belfast cruise ship still waiting to leave for France - BBC News

Definitely.

(I'll have a look in the morning - place your bets now...)

[warch]

23 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

If AutoShite did cruises...

I see it managed about sixteen miles before the captain discovered it wouldn't go into fourth. My Triumph managed about twice that earlier this year before a FTP thanks to overheating wiring. 

ETA I wonder how much of the world they'll get to see during their three year cruise.  

[myglaren]

[Datsuncog]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Apparently it'll definitely be leaving tonight.

Belfast cruise ship still waiting to leave for France - BBC News

Definitely.

(I'll have a look in the morning - place your bets now...)

It's away!

Couldn't see it from the foreshore while sitting in traffic on the way home... according to reports, it left around 4.30pm.

BBC News - Stranded cruise ship finally sails out of Belfast Lough 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ely932d64o

Just have to wait and see if it stays out...

[High Jetter]

Why did they have to get off to stay in hotels overnight, and did the company pay for that?

[somewhatfoolish]

BBC news said it was heading for the Clyde earlier. 🤣

[High Jetter]

14 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

BBC news said it was heading for the Clyde earlier. 🤣

How does Clyde feel about that? Could be a new lodger.

[somewhatfoolish]

Peel Ports will be glad to charge them harbour dues to drop their anchor inside the harbour limits.

[artdjones]

On 28/09/2024 at 12:27, hairnet said:

Ffs

Why is there 3 tolls between caen and pont normandie

 

Two are card the last i have a ticket 

Weird

Big up to that nice keith bloke

Go via Pont de Brotonne, it's free.

[artdjones]

3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

It's away!

Couldn't see it from the foreshore while sitting in traffic on the way home... according to reports, it left around 4.30pm.

BBC News - Stranded cruise ship finally sails out of Belfast Lough 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ely932d64o

Just have to wait and see if it stays out...

It'll probably be tied up at the quay in Cobh this time tomorrow.

They'll have run out of toilet paper or sprung a leak.

[Metal Guru]

39 minutes ago, artdjones said:

It'll probably be tied up at the quay in Cobh this time tomorrow.

They'll have run out of toilet paper or sprung a leak.

It’s not going that far. Earlier report said the Clyde. I can really recommend* Greenock.

[somewhatfoolish]

The jaikeys are very welcoming and so are the shite hawks.

[Datsuncog]

The best bit for me, from today's shenanigans, was the assurance to passengers and authorities that they were heading out of Belfast Lough on a north-east bearing towards the Clyde and Glasgow - but instead the ship turned due south, and now appears to be heading for the coast of France...

Maybe the steering wasn't quite sorted, then...

[somewhatfoolish]

Quick trip around the Mew Island lighthouse and then north?🤣

[Rustybullethole]

Berlingo punches above its weight yet again.

To be fair it's tugged far heavier loads in my ownership though my expectation of this being a bum clenching wobbly mess was entirely unfounded. Even when getting shown a clean pair of heels by the artics, which happened more than once. 

Some bearing and brake love for the caravan and careful weighting of tat came i to play though regardless I am yet again impressed with the little petrol Citroens performance*

[andy18s]

9 hours ago, artdjones said:

It'll probably be tied up at the quay in Cobh this time tomorrow.

They'll have run out of toilet paper or sprung a leak.

I'm sure they were demanding to be offloaded and pop along down to the hallowed halls of tat Friday,and fill their boots with genuine Irish Antiques..