What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[iainrcz]

Had a plumber round earlier. He opened a brand new tube of sealant, caulked around the bath and chucked the rest.

It's mine now.

[scaryoldcortina]

4 hours ago, DavieW said:

At a clients premises this morning and their office cat decided it liked my laptop. Wonder if it was looking for a mouse? 😂😂

A few years ago my cat became the third most prolific poster on a forum by doing that. 

[comfortablynumb]

51 minutes ago, scaryoldcortina said:

A few years ago my cat became the third most prolific poster on a forum by doing that. 

Probably made more sense than a lot of the others🤣🤣

[Bren]

I think I broke a world recoed today for quickest elapsed time between applying and being rejected for a job. Less than one hour.

Job was driving a class 2 delivering chilled comestibles. Submitted application - got a message asking about multi drop experience.

I explained I got my C+E and CPC in 2023 but not used it.

The end.

[MikeR]

On 04/02/2026 at 08:37, MikeR said:

The wife has not noticed , just presses the icons for web or mail ..... 

A Win so far 

I just managed to confirm the pc broke and I had to " fix" it , saving all the work ........

Another win .... 

[comfortablynumb]

22 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Had a plumber round earlier. He opened a brand new tube of sealant, caulked around the bath and chucked the rest.

It's mine now.

Neighbours of my mum had the builders in, they completed the work, and threw several 2400mm lengths of various timber and approx 2.5 cubic metres of sand in the skip.

Nearly killed me getting it all out again 🤣🤣

[gm]

hmm, maybe not having a rear window wasn’t such a good idea after all ? 

[myglaren]

 

[hairnet]

On 07/02/2026 at 10:53, gm said:

hmm, maybe not having a rear window wasn’t such a good idea after all ? 

beepers and a 360 camera - need to hand in licence

[myglaren]

[Metal Guru]

6 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Drove past a field this morning near Galashiels. thought there was quite a sizeable fire. When we got closer, it was a heap of dung steaming. I’ve never seen so much steam coming off a dung heap. 
 

[cobblers]

55 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Drove past a field this morning near Galashiels. thought there was quite a sizeable fire. When we got closer, it was a heap of dung steaming. I’ve never seen so much steam coming off a dung heap. 
 

I had a massive load of wood chippings dumped off by a local tree surgeon the other week, to put on our flower bed to keep the weeds down a bit.

They were stood in the corner of the yard on some concrete for about a fortnight before I started the task of shifting them. The steam and heat pouring off them once I started digging away was something quite intense! It was fogging my glasses up, they were way too hot to touch by hand. If I'd have know they'd get this hot I would have kept them further away from the house.

Amazing what a bit of bacteria and decomposition can do!

The wood chippings smelled absolutely lovely, I suspect massive steaming pile of dung (Rotherham?) was much less pleasant up close

[MikeR]

Went for walk in the fields with the dog , this tin of fish was in the tree last time I went out some weeks ago , it's still there and in date till 2029 ...... 

[Remspoor]

7 minutes ago, MikeR said:

Went for walk in the fields with the dog , this tin of fish was in the tree last time I went out some weeks ago , it's still there and in date till 2029 ...... 

Watch out

[Remspoor]

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, cobblers said:

The steam and heat pouring off them once I started digging away was something quite intense!

There's a reason the SAS use dungheaps to keep warm.on exercises, and to avoid detection by tracking dogs.

Source- Andy Mcnab

[cobblers]

I was in a pub called "The Reform Inn" last night and to my surprise it wasn't miserable, or full of impossible broken promises and blame games.

I'm noticing a new dimension in posh pub chips and I am absolutely 100% for it. Had these a couple of times in the last couple of months.

 

Rather than being square, the chips are sort  of "V" shaped, which gives them rigidity and lots of pokey edges to crisp up. They work fantastic at scooping up mayo/peppercorn sauce.

Absolute genius. Bravo. These are fantastic! I wonder how long they have been on the market? I feel like I probably had some a few years ago but didn't notice the shape, just the nice texture.

[loserone]

On 07/02/2026 at 10:53, gm said:

hmm, maybe not having a rear window wasn’t such a good idea after all ? 

Local car to me, here it is from the range rover.  I left a good gap

[Rustybullethole]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

Went for walk in the fields with the dog , this tin of fish was in the tree last time I went out some weeks ago , it's still there and in date till 2029 ...... 

Hope you grabbed that. Mackerel doesn't grow on trees you know. 

[Hawkal]

On 07/02/2026 at 10:53, gm said:

hmm, maybe not having a rear window wasn’t such a good idea after all ? 

Ah, so that’s why they are called pole stars. 

[DavieW]

Noticed this book in our local "give and take" box in the village  😂😂

[High Jetter]

12 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Noticed this book in our local "give and take" box in the village  😂😂

Have you burnt it yet? 😀