What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[boobydoo]

I believe A and S also worked on a couple of Gladys Knight albums in the early eighties. Class.

[Amazo]

This is fucking creepy:

EFT

I bet Mr Glitters a regular customer.

[Justin Case]

Gentlemen, I am horrified by your tasteless suggestions for improving your environment, visitors to Villa Alfisti are always keen to arrive on the dot of the hour to appreciate this family heirloom:

 

 

[Vin]

 

That site is just a diamond mine of

 

As has been mentioned, it's quite amusing that the BNP train locomotive and carriages are modelled on examples from the 19th Century USA. GR8 4 SHOOTIN INJUNS & BUFLO FROM.

[55bloke]

Ah Bollox spotted the American style cow catcher on the BNP Express before me! I was just about to mention it.

 

Ditto! That's so obviously inspired by US designed locomotives!

[Negative Creep]

This was advertised in the Sun today

 

 

 

Also - BMW SOLD YAY!!111!!!!!2!!!

 

Further to my grump of saturday, it was in fact one of the no-shows who ran again and this time turned up. Seemed pretty impressed and paid cash, although then informed me it was going to be used for "street drifting" and after purchasing wheelspan out of my street.

 

Now this is why I get a receipt of sale. Still, who cares, I have the money. Now I need some 4x114 wheels for the bluebird

[retrogeezer]

what bluebird have you got NC??

[Lord Sterling]

That place isn't really real, is it?

 

Thats what I thought until I clicked the link. I still wondered whether it was a for a real

 

 

Yes, quite.

[eddyramrod]

Today I've been working on setting up an event for our local club, which entailed visiting the start venue to confirm that it would be open and drinks available (tea, coffee and soft); and yes, that's in order. Next job was to drive from there to two of the three locations we will be using, to check timings. Each trip took 13 minutes, how spooky is that! I was in the X1/9, roof off, baking in Paphos sunshine. It's a tough life...

 

Oh and later on, I discovered the builder who is coming to fix my swimming pool drives an old Opel Vectra... well no, I knew that already. What I didn't know was that it's a GT, roughly equivalent to a Cavalier SRi, approximately 20 years old and in lovely condition. And he loves it to bits, especially for the way it drives. Good man!

[Negative Creep]

what bluebird have you got NC??

 

 

This one

 

 

4x114.3 think the offset is about et35 I guess that means rwd old skool JDM yo wheels wont fit

[outlaw118]

Anyone like The Pixies?

Anyone like Chris Morris?.

 

This is for you.

[warren t claim]

I've just watched The Devils Double and now feel the urge to own a 1980s supercar. And act like a twat.

[dollywobbler]

Nipped into town earlier (sadly without camera). The Renault dealer had an immaculate Renault 8 sitting out front and then on the way back home, a brown Reliant Ant came the opposite way! Nice.

[155V6]

Watching the Lithuania 1000KM race on Motors TV.The race is held on a stretch of Motorway,using the services for pitstops & apart from a Spyker,Dodge Viper & Ferrari,I also saw an old shape 6-Series BMW,an Alfa 155,& a Lada Estate

[Station]

Nipped into town earlier (sadly without camera). The Renault dealer had an immaculate Renault 8 sitting out front and then on the way back home, a brown Reliant Ant came the opposite way! Nice.

 

I carry a camera all the time now - I've spotted a single Mitsubishi Colt in about 6 months.

[TimothyClaypole]

This is Autoshite... the 3210 is the pinnacle of phone ownership here.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

In fact, I am sure there are one or two people here who use carphones.

 

Incidentally, about 3 years ago I went to the Carphone Whorehouse and asked for a carphone, then expressed my disgust at being told that they don't stock any!

[Mr H Sceptre]

I don't want a damned camera* on my phone. I just want a phone. No "data" charges for me, thankyou. No texting, no App-crap, no video downloads of Beyounce, no internet access*. Just a damned phone, and they don't "cell" simple cellphones any more. Frustrating, because it could be the size of a credit card if they did.

 

*I have PCs and Nikons if I want to do those jobs. I just want a phone, no more.

 

 

Totally agree Mr T.B., although I do like to text as it avoids having to talk to people, which is a good thing in my book.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

there are some basic/small/light mobiles.

 

This is my back-up phone. It's really light (80 grams) and only cost 25 Euros. You can listen to radio or music on it (sticking a micro SD card in), and it can take two sims so that you don't have to mess about with changing them when travelling. Sorry about the pic size- couldn't find many on the google images.

 

If you fancy something really really basic, you have to pay more for it!!. 69 Euros.

[andrew e]

I still have *the* camera phone 3 foot from me - http://nokiareviewz.com/2009/01/bfd-nokia-7650/. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7650

 

 

As an aside, you will be pleased to note the fabulous Canvey Islands pictures still flashes up one of these with no entry sign across it to tell you to switch your phone off

 

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Great, so I have a choice between OAP-spec, Lt.Uhura-spec, or Fratboy Geek-spec. What I'd like is the phone I had about 20 years ago, no bells, no whistles, battery lasted weeks between charges, and Orwellian tracking by 911/999 call centers was not possible.

 

My backup one (the model is ZTE R221) also has an incredibly frugal battery, and it's made in a pretty robust way. Why are you worried by the fact that it's got a couple of extra features that neither make it more expensive nor affect battery life? It's not like you're going to be using them!

 

Can't help you with the tracking, though it's another pointless thing because they can still track your general location (let's say the neighbourhood you're in) by way of finding the mast to which your phone is connected. The article that you linked refers to a procedure that just narrows the range down to a smaller area.

[wuvvum]

There's an easy way round the tracking thing - buy a pay as you go phone with cash, don't register it in your name, pay cash for topups and don't use it for anything that can be traced to you (advertising a car for example). Of course, this won't protect you from major league baseball and their network of mind-reading spy satellites - you'll have to stick with the good old tinfoil hat for that one.

[ashmicro]

The US mobile phone system, CDMA-IS95 smokes the fat one. It may have changed now, but when I was in Noo Yoik last it was virtually unusable. I frequently got "Radio Path Unavailable" and when I did actually get through it was like talking to someone down a traffic cone. BOINNNNNNNNG! in the background, and folks talking like Max Headroom. I put it down to a shit phone provided by Cingular, so I went to a Verizon shop and got the most expensive phone they had (hey, expenses), an BlackBerry 8830 World Edition. No better. There were other folks in Central Park talking like Dom Jolly "HELLO - I'M IN THE PARK!" However, this handset takes a GSM SIM too, and when I got back to the UK it was perfecto.

 

In a similar vein, my Mum has a BlackBerry with GPS, and they planned their route to a destination in the Irish Republic using it recently. For twenty miles on the UK side of the Irish border it went "BONG! leaving the United Kingdom in xx miles" EVERY mile! On the way back, no such warnings, but about 200 yards inside Northern Ireland the phone went "BONG! Welcome home to The United Kingdom"

 

Class.

[scaryoldcortina]

I use a samsung E1120 (it looks much the same as the ZTE luxo posted) which is about as basic as you can get. No music, can't even change the ringtone, it does calls and texts, and stores phonenumbers. Battery lasts all week, gets good signal too. Best bit about it is that my local Asda got a whole load of them in, presumably thinking that the local mouth breathers would welcome a basic, cheap phone. They didn't. I bought 5 when they reduced-to-clear stickered them all for £8 each. Each phone came with a pay as you go sim with £10 starting credit . Every time I lose/destroy one, I just get a new one out of the cupboard and transfer my number onto it.

[ashmicro]

Tesco are doing a boggo Nokia (with a torch) for £9.79 and a tenner credit.

[peter9000uk]

Had an e-mail from A(nne) Knob today, made me chuckle anyway

[Albert Ross]

I use one of these. It's fucking AWESOME, I never believed one could fit so much crap in one's pocket.... Maps, bean cans on string, letterbox, etc. If they were real I would have trouble keeping my trousers up.

[Guest]

Every "modern" phone I've ever used has had terrible ergonomics and usability - I used a Samsung for a bit which had impressive features, but was easy to accidentally phone the wrong person due to oversensitive buttons and badly laid-out menus. When the main purpose of a phone is to make calls, it is unacceptable for the main function to be so poor. The battery life was pretty feeble too, only a couple of days usually - an old Nokia 3210 with a good battery would stay on for over a week easy, including a few calls and messages along the way.

 

For this reason I'm currently using a Sony CMD-X2000 (left):

 

Extender aerial for better reception, excellent "Jogdial" scroll wheel system (pointlessly removed when they became Sony-Ericsson), nice clicky buttons, deadly serious ringtones and it has a decent enough weight to it that you could put it in a sock and use it as a cosh without risk of damage.

 

However, if you want the best phone ever in terms of overall usability, get your hands on any of the late Sony CMD ones - J5, J6, J70, Z5. Basically the same deal but with much less size/weight, extremely durable, loads of battery life and fantastic to use. The only reason I stopped using my last Z5 is because the aerial dropped out - after many years of daily use - and I've as of yet been unable to source a new one (evidently I'm not the only Z5 fan - they still fetch fairly strong money on eBay).

[Cavcraft]

Samsung D600: old tech these days but tough as old boots and fantastic battery life. Only gripe is there seems to be some characters such as ' absent which means typing something like we're is impossible so you have to type we.re or we,re instead, which makes you look like a twat.

[myglaren]

No cameras on your mobile phones, lads?

 

Mine takes about a week to get itself ready then the battery dies

 

I carry a notebook camera most of the time but I'm so slow that the moment has passed before I find it. Very rare that I manage to capture any spots.