What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

Yes, go on, I dare ya!

[vulgalour]

I'll have to see about getting some beige-green flip paint made up XD

[cms206]

The whole idea of this makes me grin.

 

I'll have to see about getting some beige-green flip paint made up XD

 

I imagine on a rally stage anything in that shade would be quite literally a vomit comet to watch. Awesome.

[RedSparrow]

This seems appropriate today.

[ashmicro]

The Irish Olympic team have just arrived in Beijing..

[M'coli]

[Caffiend]

Fencing semi-final

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I managed to sew two buttons on my trousers without injuring myself. I am impressed.

[dollywobbler]

It took all day, but me and the wife managed to fit a new tap to the kitchen sink. Can't say I've really done any plumbing before. The old fittings were horrible to get at and seized pretty solid. Couldn't get a spanner near them really and in attempting to defeat physics, my knuckles took a mighty bashing. In many ways, it reminded me of working in our hold Citroen H van.

[Wilko220]

I managed to sew two buttons on my trousers without injuring myself. I am impressed.

 

Did you sew a smaller... Sorry

[willswitchengage]

Watching an old lady on a mobility scooter chasing a homeless with a Staffy around your local TescEsso forecort shouting "You stole my dog! You stole my dog!"

 

If you imagine this in your head as a cartoon then you have imagined EXACTLY what happened.

[RedSparrow]

Watching an old lady on a mobility scooter chasing a homeless with a Staffy around your local TescEsso forecort shouting "You stole my dog! You stole my dog!"

 

If you imagine this in your head as a cartoon then you have imagined EXACTLY what happened.

 

Was it part of the olympic opening ceremony?

[eddyramrod]

Sounds more like The Cleveland Show!

[oldford]

Good on you staying off the biftas. Think I'm on week 15 or 16 now and defo getting easier and easier.

 

Bloody hell, after 28 years I'm giving up. Had my last ciggy on Easter Sunday, so that's around the 15 or 16 week mark. Not saving much money as i was on the roll ups and ended up spending more in the first month on gum, patches, and other nicotine replacement stuff than I would of done in a couple of months of smoking.

[ashmicro]

This is a tap spanner or "basin wrench".

 

 

These are GR16.90 for getting taps off, which are always a right bastard in my experience. Cheap cheap 10 dorrar. When replacing taps, I always put flexi pipes on as well ( the ones that look like Goodridge brakes hoses, not the wriggly copper cheap shit type). cut the existing Rigid pipe off at an accessible point, and place a compression joint on it. Chuck away one of the screw on bits of said joint, and screw on the "Goodridge", not forgetting the olive. Copper grease all threads. True, they are a bit more expensive, put takes all the ballache out of fitting the new gear, or if it ever needs work in the future.

 

Edit: top tip for removing an enamel bath: borrow or rent a Stihlsaw, cut the bath into 4 like a hot cross bun, then drop a breezeblock in the middle. NOTE: do not do this if you want to reuse the bath. It'll probably leak a bit...

[vulgalour]

Several things made me grin today:

> The Princess waiting until the Police Volvo was out of sight before her lights started to play up.

> Accidentally wheel spinning noisily in a blaze of beige and fury to go for a gap in the traffic on damp roads as I went to visit my parents earlier today, much to the bemusement/horror of other road users.

> Forgetting the flags were still on the car, but brightening people's very soggy day with them anyway.

[ashmicro]

Livin the dream, Volks: you're driving a car that most people wouldn't recognise, and most of those that do know what it is would laugh at (not us here, of course). Most impressive though, is your attention to detail in your refurbs and repairs. Doing it right FTW. Well played.

[eddyramrod]

+1

[Guest]

 

Awesome bull nose Industar 50 f/3.5 lens from 1977. Really impressed with this little thing. £20 delivered off the world's favourite auction rip off merchants and in some ways it gives my Nikkor 50 f/1.8 a run for its money. Nowhere near as quick, but still a fun piece of kit.

[dollywobbler]

Thanks for the plumbing tips Ash. We did use one those fabulous spanner things, but access was still horrific. We'd've been absolutely stuffed without it.

[RichardMoss]

Whoop Whoop, thats an awesome pic of a VC10 in BOAC livery.

 

I like them so much, I bought the t-shirt :

 

http://www.skyshirts.com/popup_image.ph ... 0a2e469e2a

I like them so much that I used to fly them (in RAF colours)

[pompei]

Came across this lot at a gala day at the local park on Sunday ...

 

http://www.grannyturismo.net/grannyturismo/granny_home.html

 

An absolute hoot

[dollywobbler]

 

A friend's latest resto project. Subaru pick-up in hearing aid beige. 73500 miles, no farm abuse. Needs a front wing and a bit of tidying of the load bed but that's about it! He usually collects old tractors but is making an exception with the Subaru.

[ashmicro]

Thanks for the plumbing tips Ash. We did use one those fabulous spanner things, but access was still horrific. We'd've been absolutely stuffed without it.

 

 

Anything else, just holler. Me and my ex-BIATCH Kerry bought a house to renovate, and the plumbing was a nightmare of mixed Imperial and metric fucked-up-ness. Fortunately, one of my mates is a professional plumber, so he told us a few tricks, and gave us a lot of hands-on help.

 

Making me grin today: learning that my best mate is known among the criminal classes in west Belfast as "The Terminator". I hasten to add that my bezzer is a Police Officer!

[Rocket88]

Bradley Wiggins..................that is all.

[vulgalour]

Came across this lot at a gala day at the local park on Sunday ...

 

http://www.grannyturismo.net/grannyturismo/granny_home.html

 

An absolute hoot

 

And now I know! I'd seen a picture somewhere that someone had posted (maybe Failblog? I don't know) of them on a random street somewhere, hooning about and the get up looked too professional to just be students mucking about.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Bradley Wiggins..................that is all.

 

Legend

[morris_ital_lover]

+1 on the fastest side burn wearer in the olympics.

 

As for my grin, thought I should share this with shiters: http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... 771&page=3

 

From the blue corner, reliant prototype spotted in a bad way and in imminent danger of being scrapped ends up being saved by someone on RR... needs alot of TLC but its not on its way to China.

[autofive]

+1 on the fastest side burn wearer in the olympics.

 

As for my grin, thought I should share this with shiters: http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... 771&page=3

 

From the blue corner, reliant prototype spotted in a bad way and in imminent danger of being scrapped ends up being saved by someone on RR... needs alot of TLC but its not on its way to China.

 

seems that it was stripped of wiring and motors etc, so what better time to add the perkins diesel it really deserves

 

[Cavcraft]

+3 on Wiggins, the man is a machine and you just can't see anyone beating him. If he hadn't got an MBE or OBE then he bloody well deserves one.

 

Making me grin is Whitby and the surrounding areas. Never been before and can't believe what we've been missing, it's cracking.