What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[motorpunk]

12 hours ago, EspenO said:

Edited for scandinavianness. Winter tyres are awful in the summer 🙂

Yeah. I got some cheap, new winter tyres and left them on a Mazda all summer. Blow out on a hot summers day happened. Urgh. 

[AnthonyG]

A) thinking the timing belt was done 6 years ago, and thus needing doing again this year

B ) checking paperwork to find it had been done 3 years ago, and thus not needing to be done for another 3 years!

at £450 a pop, that’s definitely a tick in the Win column..

[AnthonyG]

8 hours ago, reb said:

Amazing what you can achieve with several copies of viz, a pair of scissors, a pritt stick, and too much coffee.

Is this a ‘mood board’ for a job interview or something??!

If so…good luck!

[Matty]

22 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Went to Aldi and bought beans. I love this little car. 

Yeah we still need a bit more in depth on this. It keeps popping up as a reference but nowt else. Cock tease 😆

[Matty]

On 04/03/2025 at 16:08, Dyslexic Viking said:

I think we need an explanation about the use of that.

Cheap viagra. Fully hard at half price.

[motorpunk]

33 minutes ago, Matty said:

Yeah we still need a bit more in depth on this. It keeps popping up as a reference but nowt else. Cock tease 😆

Happy to oblige if anyone is interested. Which part of the forum? It’s not exactly shite (although it’s an ancient Italian car) and it’s not new or snazzy. 

[High Jetter]

39 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Happy to oblige if anyone is interested. Which part of the forum? It’s not exactly shite (although it’s an ancient Italian car) and it’s not new or snazzy. 

Are you kidding? It's classic shite, probably deserves a thread of it's own.

[comfortablynumb]

Said before @motorpunk that's amazing 👍

[Matty]

1 hour ago, motorpunk said:

Happy to oblige if anyone is interested. Which part of the forum? It’s not exactly shite (although it’s an ancient Italian car) and it’s not new or snazzy. 

Anywhere you want. Just let us know where it is 👍

[hairnet]

still need cheering up

[808 Estate]

[reb]

14 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

Is this a ‘mood board’ for a job interview or something??!

If so…good luck!

Just something to do for a couple of hours that's not staring at a screen! With working from home with my main (well, currently only) client being in a different time zone, I often find myself wide awake at times of the day where there's nobody really awake to talk to, and there's only so many youtube videos you can watch. Didn't feel like reading a book or watching a film, it was still dark so couldn't go for a walk.

Though it does, in a way, help me keep the skills I use for work sharp. As a video editor being able to piece together bits of something that already exists is important, whether it be video clips or random pictures from Viz!

Above all, it's something to do for the sake of doing. I spent too many years doing things because they were what I thought I was supposed to do, always trying to get somewhere or whatever. These days... I got where I was going. I live in a nice house (though this is very much my interpretation of nice, and it is alas rented) in a nice area, I have a job that I enjoy and gives me a lot of freedom, and I have a lot of time on my hands. What with having possibly the most annoying combination of brain fuckery (autism, ADHD, *and* bipolar) I need to have things like this to do to keep at bay the kind of loose end that has you wondering what it's like to get hit by a car (not because you want to die, just a curiosity that gets worryingly close to being bigger than self preservation)

Basically, just art therapy!

[New POD]

10 hours ago, hairnet said:

still need cheering up

With that ref number can I change your plans? 

[reb]

From about 2019 to when I deleted it in 2022 my twitter display name was "Shed" with a profile picture of the garage of a disused petrol station. I can't remember exactly why, and had in fact completely forgotten about it until right now.

Why?

I got a scam email that instead of referring to my name refers to me as "Shed"

I feel bad for the scammers that they can't afford a more up to date dataset.

[DavieW]

Yesterday I saw a woman walking her 2 dogs. Total extremes of the dog spectrum- 1 was a chihuaha and the other a St Bernard. 😄

[motorpunk]

[artdjones]

58 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Yesterday I saw a woman walking her 2 dogs. Total extremes of the dog spectrum- 1 was a chihuaha and the other a St Bernard. 😄

The little one is an ambulatory mid-walk snack for the St. Bernard.

[myglaren]

[Fumbler]

Yay. That could've been bad!

[Floatylight]

First day out in the van this year, headed to the NE and ended up in Redcar, lovely walk on the beach and tea & bacon cooked using the newly installed lithium battery..

[320touring]

The Birds pure fucking Love the Zoe...

 

Reminds me of that old joke

 

"What do you do if a bird shits on your windscreen?"

"Drop her home and tell her you don't want another date."

[62 Austin]

On 08/03/2025 at 11:44, myglaren said:

looking for people to foist Devil's Advocate explanations for this...

•  uh, you know, it is secretly satisfying a wish by the overwhelming majority of the new administration to delete from all memory any actions leading to  the discomfort and death of a single Japanese civilian after December 7th, 1941, despite the actions of the Japanese Navy at that time.
• like, if the Asian Exclusion Act of 1924 hadn't been sponsored by the Eugenics advocates, and passed, to end Asian immigration, then the Japanese may have been in a better mood. Cutting off our supply of oil, iron and steel to Japan in 1940 was a restriction of Japanese business interests by our government that could be seen to lead to Enola *** flying around Japan in the first place.
• and, it's the Department of Defense. So they are defending us from troubling words like ***, *****, ********, etc.

 

 

[iainrcz]

Which one of you lot left your mug here?

[wuvvum]

I had a dream last night that I was out for a walk and came across a house which had three yellow C-reg Vauxhall Chevettes outside, and a bit further up the road a yellow C-reg Mk1 Cavalier sportshatch.  On the drive was what I initially thought was a C-reg yellow Hyundai Accent, but then when I looked properly it turned out it was a 51 plate with the reg starting CX51.

I had a natter to the bloke about his love of C-reg yellow Vauxhalls and how long the Chevettes must have sat around unregistered to be on C-plates, then I went on my way.  A bit later in the dream I suddenly had a thought - how the hell did he have a C-reg Mk1 Cavalier?  This bugged me for a while until it hit me - it was obviously an Opel Manta that he'd put Vauxhall panels on.  Once I'd figured that out I was able to continue my dream in peace.

Anyway, as you were...

[andy18s]

16 hours ago, myglaren said:

One of 26,000 to be deleted so far..

[PhilA]

Just thinking on the cars this morning, the Jag is now the car with the smallest engine on my fleet. 

Across five cars that's 25.7 litres of engine swept volume. 

I like big engines and I cannot lie 

[Bmwdumptruck]

Wifey relaxed her ‘no more bikes’ rule so I could go buy this one. 

Not sure if its worth a collection thread as its only 10 mile away and i’ll be using my van and trailer Tuesday teatime hopefully

[Popsicle]

4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I had a dream last night that I was out for a walk and came across a house which had three yellow C-reg Vauxhall Chevettes outside, and a bit further up the road a yellow C-reg Mk1 Cavalier sportshatch.  On the drive was what I initially thought was a C-reg yellow Hyundai Accent, but then when I looked properly it turned out it was a 51 plate with the reg starting CX51.

I had a natter to the bloke about his love of C-reg yellow Vauxhalls and how long the Chevettes must have sat around unregistered to be on C-plates, then I went on my way.  A bit later in the dream I suddenly had a thought - how the hell did he have a C-reg Mk1 Cavalier?  This bugged me for a while until it hit me - it was obviously an Opel Manta that he'd put Vauxhall panels on.  Once I'd figured that out I was able to continue my dream in peace.

Anyway, as you were...

Did you eat a lot of cheese last night, hence the wedge shaped yellow dreams?

Incidentally I used to own a yellow Cavalier Sportshatch, have a picture to help fuel tonights dreams.

[catsinthewelder]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr42e3321rdo

 

[auntiemaryscanary]

1 hour ago, Bmwdumptruck said:

Wifey relaxed her ‘no more bikes’ rule so I could go buy this one. 

Not sure if its worth a collection thread as its only 10 mile away and i’ll be using my van and trailer Tuesday teatime hopefully

Ah go on, it's worth a collection thread. I always get the getting the fear putting bikes on trailers.

Nice bike, enjoy riding it.