What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

[chaseracer]

A council finance chief called Mr Cutts? #Gidiot would love that...!

[trigger]

Those Raccoons are cute!.

 

I've been following a facebook page which makes "ghost" photos by superimposing old black & white images over current ones, some of them are quite impressive.

 

They are all Norwich based I think, This ones the Norfolk Record Office receiving it's first computer in 1958.

 

 

and this ones Lady Betty Road, Norwich after a raid on 10th May 1941.

 

 

http://www.facebook.com/#!/Blitzghosts

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I saw a LHD FSO 125p tanking down the A50 this morning , H195LJA, registered in the UK in May last year! RESTECP to whoever imported it.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Blitzghosts

 

That last picture... fucking shit UPVC windows in old houses. They literally look worse than bomb damaged originals. Look at the difference between the slim curved metal frames and that cheap chunky plastic. They're like federal spec shock absorber rubber bumpers - aesthetic catastrophes trying to update an old design with minimal cost or effort.

[trigger]

Best you don't look at my windows then!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

..or my own, or go for a walk down any street in the country!

 

I know it's a lost cause, it just saddens me that almost every house has the same chunky white windows, the same kind of chunky white front door, the same kind of white garage door etc. All the colour has been drained from our houses, all the individuality is gone. There's a 1930s semi over the road who had all their nice red tiling removed from the front of the house and replaced with strips of white plastic. Their house now looks like one of those flimsy plastic sheds.

 

e: I can see ten houses from my window. They used to all have different coloured gutters, facia boards, etc. Some were bright reds and blues, some were duller burgundys and greens. Now every single one of them has white plastic facias, black plastic guttering and a white plastic conservatory. They somehow look MORE identical than when they were built!

[retrogeezer]

True, but those Crittall windows originally fitted in those 20's/30's house were SHIT.

 

You can't blame people for wanting warmth, no draughts and no noise from outside in their houses can you.

 

Been following that blitz ghosts page for a while, really cool pics.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

True, but those Crittall windows originally fitted in those 20's/30's house were SHIT.

 

You can't blame people for wanting warmth, no draughts and no noise from outside in their houses can you.

 

Oh, no, not at all. I don't blame people for fitting maintenance free plastic stuff in place of poorly insulated old windows. I've lived with single glazed wooden ones enough to know better. My house has a front door which is so ugly you can't look directly at it, but it's draught free and has multipoint locking. It's prettier predecessor had a tiny Yale nightlatch mounted in rotting wood and let all the heat out.

[vulgalour]

Racoons... they're Red Pandas and rather than evolution, they're the creation of the collective consciousness of Japan. Crittall windows? I don't care that they're shit, get around the heat loss with heavy curtains and woollen clothes and never turn the heating on unless you're powering your boiler by burning stray cats, orphans and vagrants... or something.

[mattblack]

This ones the Norfolk Record Office receiving it's first computer in 2013.

 

EFA

[willswitchengage]

Spent far too much time on Gizmag at work today. Coming to a small penis near you:

 

 

Audi "Swarm" rear lighting

 

 

The sky's truly the limit for da Bushist luxury SUV krew.

[philibusmo]

THE ROVER HAS AN MOT.

 

The gasket for the oil pump arrived today, filled it with Vaseline to prime it and all is well in the world again. The fuel issue seems to have been the fuel filter which has been resolved by taking it off, filling it with brake cleaner and electrical contact cleaner, covering the ends over with my fingers and shaking it repeatedly.

 

The door was fixed by hammering the pins back in, they have already been stopped in their tracks trying to escape again twice.

 

Looks like it will make it to the retro rides beach meet after all.

 

In other news, I wasn't killed today.

 

To put this in context; on the way home from work, I rounded a corner on the A road I use to commute at about 50-55mph to find a Renault Megane with a ladder on the roof overtaking a Vauxhall Zafira on a straight that didn't exist. I'm glad the handling and the brakes are good on my Alfa Romeo, or I would not be making this post now. I managed to jam on the brakes and swing as far left as I could, not wanting to have a smash or be impaled by a ladder. There was no way either of us were going to stop in time as it was all happening not far from the exit of the corner but we somehow squeezed through 3 abreast.

 

My drivers side wing mirror hit his, mine got folded inwards. His exploded.

 

Serves him right the twunt.

[dollywobbler]

..or my own, or go for a walk down any street in the country!

 

I know it's a lost cause, it just saddens me that almost every house has the same chunky white windows, the same kind of chunky white front door, the same kind of white garage door etc. All the colour has been drained from our houses, all the individuality is gone. There's a 1930s semi over the road who had all their nice red tiling removed from the front of the house and replaced with strips of white plastic. Their house now looks like one of those flimsy plastic sheds.

 

e: I can see ten houses from my window. They used to all have different coloured gutters, facia boards, etc. Some were bright reds and blues, some were duller burgundys and greens. Now every single one of them has white plastic facias, black plastic guttering and a white plastic conservatory. They somehow look MORE identical than when they were built!

 

I'm entirely with you. We love (EDIT - that's a typo, but I guess I do quite like my wife, so I'll leave it] in a 200+ year old cottage that someone had equipped with the crappest, nastiest UPVC windows, complete with fake bars to try and (fail) make it look folksy and traditional. We've not really got the budget for replacing them, but if we had, we'd be going for timber double-glazed units. They look so much better.

[Cavcraft]

Have we had this yet?

 

http://www.facebook.com/JimllPaintIt

 

Some class stuff there by some nutter who's very good with cartoons.

[retrogeezer]

 

 

 

[Negative Creep]

 

 

Why is that Dad shooting his son in the face?

[Ben_L]

This is doing the rounds at the moment, made me laugh...

 

[Richard]

This is doing the rounds at the moment, made me laugh...

 

 

It's actually quite easily done if you go from a car that has pedals offset one way to one that has them offset the other, SAAB 99 to Peugeot 305 in my case. I did realise my mistake a bit faster than that guy though.

[Negative Creep]

Van gets broken into, thief bumps the thread to boast about how easy it was. Forum members find his name, phone number, house and family very soon after

 

http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=429641

[STUNO]

I need these

[dollywobbler]

Van gets broken into, thief bumps the thread to boast about how easy it was. Forum members find his name, phone number, house and family very soon after

 

http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=429641

 

Good grief. He wasn't exactly Moriarty material was he?

[trigger]

That thread (and thief) is pretty special.

[Ben_L]

I love the way some typically council estate girls, a bloke (probably Gary Glitter) in a pig suit and a lad stealing spanners can make nearly 200,000 views.

 

The bloke is now going across the internet crying to anyone that'll listen that he was only trying to offer Security Advice to the chap who'd been robbed? What a fucking piece of shit... His job ad is a right laugh too, I mean, I wont knock anyone for trying to get work, but you can clearly see his Job Centre advisor has played a part in the ad if you read towards the end of it...

 

http://siravo.info/advertisement/nesting/17/kind/5200/

 

I work 60 hours a week to fund this cunt, I can't wait until Pizza, Indian, Chinese, Kebabs, Tenalady trials, Erectile Dysfunction assistance etc etc start calling him... He'll be crowing on to the papers on how he wants a John Venables style identity switch!

 

But on a happier note;

 

But I've got my heater working in the Fiesta. It was jammed on full tilt, so I changed the valve on the bulkhead which controls hot water flow into the heater matrix. This did nothing, so I then changed the heater control knob on the dash and it's now working.

Two heater control valves and three control panels later, I can now drive in the lovely Spring sunshine* without roasting to death.

 

A night at work productively spent!

I did however manage to tear the front off of the shit radio that the car came with, but I've got a CD player (OE, of course), on order, so I can listen to my Power Ballads box set once again!!!!!

[Ben_L]

This is doing the rounds at the moment, made me laugh...

 

 

It's actually quite easily done if you go from a car that has pedals offset one way to one that has them offset the other, SAAB 99 to Peugeot 305 in my case. I did realise my mistake a bit faster than that guy though.

 

I remember trying to start my aunts MG Midget and she told me off for not giving enough gas... I stamped on what I thought was the throttle and fucked the brakes (Think I blew a cylinder or something...)

 

I was using my left leg half in and half out of the car though, so I feel excused.

[Cavcraft]

That happened to someone I knew in a Peugeot. Due to the stupidly small/close together pedals he hit the accelerator instead of the brake and demolished a large wall.

[cobblers]

My mate upgraded from an old MK3 golf to a fancy Audi A4 estate the other day. He tried to get the stereo out to remove a hands free kit but failed since one of the clips has bent double and the thing needs half the dash hacking apart to get it out. Anyway now the stereo is stuck on Hallam FM (local station run by, and for wankers), very loud and none of the controls work. I haven't mentioned taking the fuse out because just the mental image of him and the mrs driving about the place having to yell across the car at each other is too brilliant.

[catsinthewelder]

 

I really hope this is true

[Negative Creep]

 

I really hope this is true

 

 

It isn't. You'd have to be pretty good to manually track a target doing 300mph

[HillmanImp]

That happened to someone I knew in a Peugeot. Due to the stupidly small/close together pedals he hit the accelerator instead of the brake and demolished a large wall.

 

When I was 17, I had been driving my first car around for a couple of weeks without driving any other cars. One night I decided to put it in the garage but my dad asked me to pop his car back on the drive behind it once mine was in. Sadly the offset and probably the size of the pedal gaps in the Renault 19 compared to the Imp meant that instead of hitting the brake whilst going down the drive, I hit the accellerator and crashed into the garage door, damaging it so that it would not open and locking my car inside. It took a further 10 days for the garage to get mended. Gutted.

 

Thankfully the Reanault 19 was undamaged too.