What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[myglaren]

37 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Can’t argue with any of them except dog shit which is always a sticking point.

As was said, hard to swallow.

[cobblers]

last night I was out camping, and randomly messing about with my latest impulse purchase (drone), I decided to try and track a car up the hill. 

Looks like I picked the right one to track!

 

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

[jim89]

13 hours ago, cobblers said:

last night I was out camping, and randomly messing about with my latest impulse purchase (drone), I decided to try and track a car up the hill. 

Looks like I picked the right one to track!

 

I expected a Hammond roll off the final bend 😮

[EyesWeldedShut]

Benedict Cabbagewank gains another pseudonym
 

[hairnet]

holiday

because fuck life

[iainrcz]

Mrs got an email from HSBC today 

Dear *insert derogatory term*

You're no longer eligible for a student credit card.

 

She's nearly 50 and the daft cunts have only just noticed 😂

[Markeh]

1 hour ago, iainrcz said:

Mrs got an email from HSBC today 

Dear *insert derogatory term*

You're no longer eligible for a student credit card.

 

She's nearly 50 and the daft cunts have only just noticed 😂

I've not been a student since 2017 and Lloyds only realised and changed my student credit card last month!

[iainrcz]

14 minutes ago, Markeh said:

I've not been a student since 2017 and Lloyds only realised and changed my student credit card last month!

They've done well.

My Mrs hasn't been one since the early 2000s .

[paulplom]

On 02/08/2025 at 20:09, MikeR said:

Started Xmas shopping today ....

 

Not a bad idea tbf.

[catsinthewelder]

I accidentally did, bought this for my stepmum.

She's from Hartlepool.

[MikeR]

On 02/08/2025 at 22:52, High Jetter said:

For yourself, I hope?

For others , 2 lots now ..

On a roll ... 

[myglaren]

[hairnet]

A Scottish man buys a german car shocker ( not cort)

[ProgRocker]

Chap I was working with was making negative comments about the seat cushions used in manufacture. I commented in mild agreement that they looked like the seats from a 1970 Hillman Avenger.

He then told me that his 1st car was a 1978 Triumph Dolomite in yellow. I was impressed.

[320touring]

Have pub, have pint, have Lars Fredriksen and the bastards doing a cover of Billy Bragg. Braw

[Dyslexic Viking]

I've been thinking about it for 10 years and finally did it this week. I finally bought the book that covers my area of the municipality. This is one of several books that have been published since the 1970s about the properties and places people have lived in the municipality here. And the stories about some of the places go back sometimes hundreds of years it also covers the many abandoned farms both large and small in my area. 

And I find it fascinating, I have learned about several small farms that are now abandoned in the forests here where only ruins remain and about the people who once lived there. I have also now learned who built the small farm I live on and who lived here afterwards. The book is almost 1000 pages and with my dyslexia it will take a while before I can finish reading it but it is worth it.

 

And it's amazing what the large forests in my area can hide. An example. bellow is Hanes place, built in 1887/1888 and abandoned in 1921, and the house, amazingly, is still standing.  I want to visit this one day.

[loserone]

We have a similar book and it's fascinating to join the dots during a walk

The Disappearing Farms of Weardale: Amazon.co.uk: Ruskin, Christine: 9780957424500: Books https://share.google/O0AApUnonABSZTWfV

 

[reb]

I was looking for a specific Guy Martin quote (which I cannot find) and found this one:

"The most common way to crash coming out of a corner is to highside - which is where you accelerate out of the corner, and the rear loses grip, then suddenly finds grip and chucks you off the bike."

Describes life pretty well, honestly.

[goosey]

Not sure if there’s something in the drum but this morning the Washington Machine sounds like that Italian Traffic Computer from the film Italian Job before it goes on the Fritz 

[reb]

4 minutes ago, goosey said:

Not sure if there’s something in the drum but this morning the Washington Machine sounds like that Italian Traffic Computer from the film Italian Job before it goes on the Fritz 

I choose to read this as your Drum tobacco has been spiked and you're hallucinating 

[artdjones]

[goosey]

MOT passed for another year of motoring in this big beautiful bastard 

[EyesWeldedShut]

[Billy - Medhurst]

Simple thing. Found a handbook pack  for a 1968 Rover 2000 P6 In the charity shop for peanuts.  All there including a printed envelope with a unused Rover car company tax disc holder. 

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

I can relate to that. July 2007 we went camping in Wales. Lovely campsite at St Davids overlooking the sea. Then we had a storm that wiped out most of the campsite . We suffered a broken tent pole but fared better than most, but spent 24 hrs inside the tent holding it down.

Roll on to Jan 2008 , BBC are reporting from  Newgale beach just along the coast because there’s a terrible storm. It wasn’t as bad as the one we’d experienced in the summer.

[Garythesnail]

12 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

This is an unfair representation of weather conditions in Wales - it  just doesn't convey how the rain is marginally less cold in the summer months.

[beko1987]

Last week I was in the woods with the boy, when we found a plastic tub.

After my initial excitement of it being a massive tub of weed something intetesting had subsided when we opened it to find a wet horrible mess of what looked like a pencil case we chucked it in the litter picking bag we had on the go and came home. And had a closer look at it. It was a geocache.

These pictures are after we dried it all out with a few days in the airing cupboard, cleaned the box and the seal on the box and tidied out the contents 

We put some of the original items back in. It's been about a while

Now I'm back at the woods  and have re hidden it mildly close to where it was before 👍

 We looked at the website and there's tons around our town. We tried to find another but it's too overgrown, a winter job (if it's even still there)