What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[DSdriver]

45 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

They've asked for ideas on the identity of that car, it's a bit of a mystery why a car would be taking up valuable hanger space on an aircraft carrier.

Possibly the Admiral's personal vehicle?

[hairnet]

On 20/04/2025 at 20:37, Yoss said:

 

Who has Scottish money in Romania and where did he go to get it? 

fife m8

[paulplom]

Owen had an unknown coolant leak and without a temperature guage cooked the engine a couple of weeks back. It sound like a tractor with a death rattle. I told him to just drive it till it shit itself then we'd fit a new enging. Anyway three weeks later it shredded it's aux belt putting him off the road. I ordered a new one from amazon and he set to stripping the old one off after watching a youtube video. He then discovered the water pump had failed finding the source of the leak and the death rattle which was a right result. He stripped the pump off in preparation all without any advice or assistance from me.

 

Well fucked.

https://youtube.com/shorts/YLgjp7wa_YU?si=FtsNQWJIH6CBEJlu

 

 

[paulplom]

#loweringthetone

[IronStar]

On 20/04/2025 at 21:37, Yoss said:

I like Steve Marsh, he's one of the few of those sort of things I watch. His favourite story of mine was when he was hanging round Bucharest Gara du Nord and started getting hassled by some chancer who asked where he was from. Steve replied Scotland. The bloke disappeared and five minutes later found him again (which is no mean feat itself at Gara du Nord) and produced a Scottish five pound note and offered to sell it to him! 

Who has Scottish money in Romania and where did he go to get it? 

Random: Scottish-issued pounds are notoriously hard to get rid of in the exchange offices here, as no one has ever seen them before. I learned this the hard way as I was stuck with some 300 of them and couldn't exchange them anywhere. 

I swapped for England-issued ones the next time my brother was around, and I got those changed easily. 

Also proved problematic to exchange - pre-indestuctible paper pounds. Which actually reminds me, I should get rid of these as well and send them back home.

[myglaren]

 

 

[hairnet]

6 hours ago, Markeh said:

I have a pact with a former colleague of mine, we play Popmaster every day and we agreed that if we ever scored 39, we'd email in. I assumed it would never happen.

Managed it on round 2 today. Pleased but now that means I've got to do it!

not listened for a while

30 on first 39 on the second andy williams ftw

no 3 in 10 (before my time)

[TataBobu]

On 20/04/2025 at 22:37, Yoss said:

I like Steve Marsh, he's one of the few of those sort of things I watch. His favourite story of mine was when he was hanging round Bucharest Gara du Nord and started getting hassled by some chancer who asked where he was from. Steve replied Scotland. The bloke disappeared and five minutes later found him again (which is no mean feat itself at Gara du Nord) and produced a Scottish five pound note and offered to sell it to him! 

Who has Scottish money in Romania and where did he go to get it? 

Me, I think I still have a green one pound note somewhere, gotten some 20 years ago as change in Glasgow. 

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, hairnet said:

not listened for a while

30 on first 39 on the second andy williams ftw

no 3 in 10 (before my time)

Never got 30+. Varies wildly between single figures and mid twenties.

[Markeh]

7 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Never got 30+. Varies wildly between single figures and mid twenties.

Normally I'm somewhere between 12 and 27 (probably on average, 21 or 24) but very occasionally I'll get a little higher.

[myglaren]

 

[motorpunk]

Roadtrip coming up in a few weeks time. I think I overshare a bit on here sometimes, but if anyone is interested in this roadtrip, I can start a new thread. Destination is somewhere off the beaten track and I'm going to attempt it in something saucy.

New thread?

[comfortablynumb]

27 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

New thread?

@motorpunk

We've had this discussion before.

And you STILL need to ask? 🤣🤣🤣

Onwards!!

[MikeR]

Why does famous person keep popping up on my feed  ?

 

[Joey spud]

Back in 2005 I had a picture above the upstairs toilet of several dogs urinating up a wall (classy or what) anyway we moved later that year and the picture got packed never to be seen again.

Roll on to 2023 and we moved home again and eighteen months later the final moving boxes have just been gone through to reveal the missing masterpiece.

How fricking cool is this ?  Well I like it anyway 😀 

It now has pride of place in the downstairs loo so visitors can admire its quality too.

[grizz]

…..

[Sunny Jim]

What a difference a hairstyle makes, King of the Jungle tries out some new looks.

[juular]

8 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Roadtrip coming up in a few weeks time. I think I overshare a bit on here sometimes, but if anyone is interested in this roadtrip, I can start a new thread. Destination is somewhere off the beaten track and I'm going to attempt it in something saucy.

New thread?

Yes!

[RoverFolkUs]

What's the unspoken rule? See shite, park next to it

[paulplom]

Just watched this happen in front of me oppostie Meadowell first school in Shields. Wheel came off the trailer and twatted that orange nissan. Loads of water gushing from it. Suspect washer fluid tank. The drum is still attatched to the wheel so suspect bearing failure.
It seemed to happen is slow motion weirdly. Just checked my dashcam and the memory card has become corrupted ffs.

 

[Snipes]

That reminds me of a previous life working at a garage. Daewoo Matiz drives in, woman complaining of a noise. Workmate jumps in, goes to put it on the two poster only for the wheel to bigger off, also with the drum still attached!

Lucky he didn't just go straight to road test!

[Tayne]

18 hours ago, MikeR said:

Why does famous person keep popping up on my feed  ?

 

Who?

[artdjones]

[hairnet]

bangers and cash 

norton rotary polis bike

bid 2200

'after a bit of wrangling we paid 2900'

wtf 

on something only a few can mess with and theyre giving to someone to be sorted as after the panda last week they obvs cant be trusted

thats mad

 

[hairnet]

rofl at jonny may (yokshers might know him)

'generic jam filled biscuit' (as he holds it up lol)

[cobblers]

Not really shite related but I've started bringing my dog to work the odd day in the week if my wife isn't at home. Rather than take the dog for a walk and then just drive in, we walk in together. Bloody beautiful route. Just over 5 miles and we're on fields and footpaths for 95% of the journey: 

I'm just starting with actually training her properly and consistently (we never did it properly with our other dogs) and she's come on leaps and bounds in the last month - she picks things up so quickly.  She's only young and full of beans so I was worried she wouldn't settle at work but she's happy to just wander round by my side. Eleven miles of walking does us both a world of good and I'm a mega jammy sod for living where I do and ending up with such a happy little dog which 8 months ago was picked up wandering round as a stray in Gran Canaria and destined to be put to sleep!

 

[wuvvum]

I was down at my parents' in Somerset over Easter and I went to see my aunt who lives just round the corner.  I was pleased to see that her next door but one neighbour has excellent taste in cars.

[Stinkwheel]

10 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I was down at my parents' in Somerset over Easter and I went to see my aunt who lives just round the corner.  I was pleased to see that her next door but one neighbour has excellent taste in cars.

Private plate is the making of it though

[gm]

whilst idly browsing stuff for sale, this popped up on my feed…

wait a minute, i recognise that driveway

but why the hell is it appearing now - listed over a year ago ? 

@Schaefft

 

[Schaefft]

6 hours ago, gm said:

whilst idly browsing stuff for sale, this popped up on my feed…

wait a minute, i recognise that driveway

but why the hell is it appearing now - listed over a year ago ? 

@Schaefft

 

I really don't know, the algorithm for showing things on fb marketplace can be terrible sometimes, especially for older listings that fb might assume just aren't relevant anymore. This ad didn't generate much interest in a long time now.