What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[retrogeezer]

oh, and I realise you can burn stuff to doovde but they can get corrupted easily too..

[ashmicro]

The Riello Series 40 central heating burner is a bitch - and I KICKED it's ass. Air lock twixt oil pump outlet and output nozzle. I now STINK of kerosene, however, but I still got a hug from Katie.

[tonedepear]

Fuelly.

 

+1000000

 

The only down side is I used to use the fuelly signature to "spot" my posts from a distance, and now everyone's got one!

[Cavcraft]

The coppers going into that pikey camp has made me happy. Ok, they're ten years late but it's nice to see them turning up mob handed and doing their job.

[Negative Creep]

The coppers going into that pikey camp has made me happy. Ok, they're ten years late but it's nice to see them turning up mob handed and doing their job.

 

 

Shame they didn't give them a good kicking at the same time

[TimothyClaypole]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Sylvesterurlaub-29-12-3-1-Mottoparty-1001Nacht-in-Marinas-Paradies-/190570027894?pt=Ferienwohnungen&hash=item2c5edbdb76

 

[Craig the Princess]

Looking at the TV adverts thread and finding this classic that I hadn't seen before

 

[autofive]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Sylvesterurlaub-29-12-3-1-Mottoparty-1001Nacht-in-Marinas-Paradies-/190570027894?pt=Ferienwohnungen&hash=item2c5edbdb76

 

babaelfish translation: Marina brings each tomorrow free Baguette and blows Croissants!

 

is it just me or does marinas place sound like a knocking shop?

[sporty-shite]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Sylvesterurlaub-29-12-3-1-Mottoparty-1001Nacht-in-Marinas-Paradies-/190570027894?pt=Ferienwohnungen&hash=item2c5edbdb76

 

babaelfish translation: Marina brings each tomorrow free Baguette and blows Croissants!

 

is it just me or does marinas place sound like a knocking shop?

 

Never mind that, he's got FOUR H vans!

[cobblers]

I work in a garage with a mate, and a while ago we made a wood burner out of a gas bottle and some scrap to replace the PROPER insufficient pot bellied stove. We kick out stacks of scrap wood from stripping vans out, and more or less back onto some woods so theres stacks of free timber to burn if we can be arsed to drag it back and point a chainsaw at it.#

 

 

The flue is an awkward shape (has a 3 feet run horizontal cos my mate doesn't understand how these things work ) and ended up being blocked with shite (probably due to me lobbing absolutely everything I could get my hands on in the fire, e.g carpet) which caused the thing to smoke the garage out to the point where we couldn't actually see, let alone breathe.

It was looking like I'd have to cut the (5" steel pipe) flue open and give it a good sweep, then weld the bastard back up and wait another few months then do the same.

I had a gamble and drilled a hole in the flue, connected some 8mm flexi coppe gas pipe to the compressor and rodded the bastard out,took a bucketful of ash out of the thing and she now works great.

 

I plugged the hole I drilled with a couple of fittings and a bit of copper pipe, so i can connect it up to the compressor and get a venturi effect up the chimney like an old steam engine. This works far too well and I have melted the radio and mildly set fire to a chair left a bit too near the fire (4 feet away). Tomorrow I'll be bloody warm all day though.

[alf892]

westlife splitting up

[autofive]

Gaddafi dead

[Albert Ross]

My Stepson Darren (Of Young Soldiers fame) coming home from Afghanistan in less than 3 weeks. I cannot bloody wait!

[The Moog]

My Stepson Darren (Of Young Soldiers fame) coming home from Afghanistan in less than 3 weeks. I cannot bloody wait!

 

Watched the programme and I have to say it definitely gave me a new found respect for people who join up.

[mattblack]

Just had to throw away a full roll of recycling bags because they weren't perforated...

 

OH, THE IRONY.....!

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I hope you recycled them. As Frank Sinatra would say, you ain't seen nothing yet. Last week in Germany, I bought a bottle of water from a shop at a train station. 55 cents for the water, and an extra refundable 25 for the bottle itself. No purchase receipt required for returning it. I am considering going to a plastics factory and making an order for 5,000 bottles at a couple of cents each then 'returning' them to various supermarkets in batches of 20.

[John F]

I hope you recycled them. As Frank Sinatra would say, you ain't seen nothing yet. Last week in Germany, I bought a bottle of water from a shop at a train station. 55 cents for the water, and an extra refundable 25 for the bottle itself. No purchase receipt required for returning it. I am considering going to a plastics factory and making an order for 5,000 bottles at a couple of cents each then 'returning' them to various supermarkets in batches of 20.

 

 

Love it!

[John F]

 

[M'coli]

I hope you recycled them. As Frank Sinatra would say, you ain't seen nothing yet. Last week in Germany, I bought a bottle of water from a shop at a train station. 55 cents for the water, and an extra refundable 25 for the bottle itself. No purchase receipt required for returning it. I am considering going to a plastics factory and making an order for 5,000 bottles at a couple of cents each then 'returning' them to various supermarkets in batches of 20.

I used to top up my pocket money in the 80s by scouring the countryside and seashore(we lived near the Clyde) for 750ml glass bottles - they were worth 8p each when they were returned, which was about 15% of my weekly pocket money - so cashing in 10 or 20 was a good pay-out.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I hope you recycled them. As Frank Sinatra would say, you ain't seen nothing yet. Last week in Germany, I bought a bottle of water from a shop at a train station. 55 cents for the water, and an extra refundable 25 for the bottle itself. No purchase receipt required for returning it. I am considering going to a plastics factory and making an order for 5,000 bottles at a couple of cents each then 'returning' them to various supermarkets in batches of 20.

 

10 cents in Michigan!

[retrogeezer]

I used to top up my pocket money in the 80s by scouring the countryside and seashore(we lived near the Clyde) for 750ml glass bottles - they were worth 8p each when they were returned, which was about 15% of my weekly pocket money - so cashing in 10 or 20 was a good pay-out.

 

My brother and I earned ourselves a pretty drachma when on hols in Corfu 1983 by collecting all the bottles off the beach late afternoon while our parents were 'having a rest' (we actually thought they were back then!) Bought us loads of ice creams and greek delight etc.

[Pete-M]

Decided today to get the Jaaaaag out of hibernation.

 

Nipped to a friendly workshop, dismantled the centre console, fixed the clock!! and resecured the hazard light switch panel. Took the front passenger door trim off, fixed the speaker that packed in on the way to Czech (just as I was passing Knutsford...) had a fiddle with the cd changer wiring and that worked for a while too - need to fiddle with that again.

 

On the way home educated a Z4M Coupé driver as to what the "R" means. The supercharger sounds ace on the rare occasions it's at full blast.

 

All in all, a good day.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

This bottle thing seems like a right business. Today I went to B&M Bargains (an odds-and-sods supermarket chain aimed at tight Northerners), and they had San Pellegrino on offer for 3 quid per 6 bottles. Now that doesn't sound very exciting, but the important bit is that the label stated that you could return each bottle for FORTY cents! I had gone for some kitchen towel rolls and was parked on a single yellow line so I didn't have time to read it properly and understand which country it referred to (I thought it was in French, so France or Belgium presumably), but I'm going back for further investigation tomorrow or Sunday.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Seriously. There are at least 3 or 4 of them. They buy things like shampoos from cancelled export orders, bread loaves from bakeries that mostly sell to caterers, crisps that are near their best-before date and Polish confectionary, and sell them to retail shoppers at rock-bottom prices. They only seem to operate in Northern England!

[Cavcraft]

Whoa, don't be knocking B&M! It IS a shit hole of a place but you can score some cheap stuff and my mate Mad Bobby works for them.

[Guest]

Whoa, don't be knocking B&M! It IS a shit hole of a place but you can score some cheap stuff and my mate Mad Bobby works for them.

 

Is he mad about low, low prices or is he simply a common or garden batshit mentalist?

[Cavcraft]

The latter. Cracking lad but dangerously bewildered.

[autofive]

just been to pick up a freecycle score

 

all this years practical classics (scary: expect to see these shortly)

 

most of this years Classic van & 4 classic commercials (my dad will get these after ive read them)

 

3 copies of Classic military vehicle - never heard of it before (going to my dad also)

 

1 classic cars - scary pile

 

1 classics monthly - scary pile

 

 

almost 120 quids worth of mags for 3 quids worth of petrol

[scaryoldcortina]

Wow, you get B&M in scotland? You are more civilized than we thought! Next you will be telling us Aldi have stores there.

[Guest Len H]

Aye they do, but I've not seen any B&Ms.