What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Junkman]

  On 31/07/2013 at 09:01, Cavette said:

Being told that there is a cure for dyslexia is music to my arse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Thank you, Andy

 

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[Junkman]

Actually, what made me grin today was all those newfangled motors being stranded in flash floods. One foot of water and they stop dead in the middle of a puddle. Audis, VWs, BMWs, Benzes, oh so reliable J-Tin, the lot. My 1987 Big Bad Benz didn't even wrinkle an arse cheek, it just kept going.

Interestingly, so did most of this newish Asian stuff, like Kias, Hyundais and Chewoos. So not all new carz is shit. Only the overhyped expensive stuff.

[barrett]

Are those Soviet things £1 each (I don't know if poundland is an actual £1 shop or what)? Because you should deffo go back and scoop up everything they have! I reckon most Shiters would pay £3-4 if they could be posted out for that. I really want to go and have a nose in my local Poundland now but a) I don't know if I have a local poundland and b ) It's 1:30am

[garycox]

There are 2 Poundlands! I have checked in both though and there aren't any.

[Richard]

I've tried more than once to give away a brand new boxed Matchbox Rancho without any takers so I'm not so sure that buying up Poundland cars is such a sound business plan.

[RedSparrow]

  On 01/08/2013 at 00:34, barrett said:

Are those Soviet things £1 each (I don't know if poundland is an actual £1 shop or what)? Because you should deffo go back and scoop up everything they have! I reckon most Shiters would pay £3-4 if they could be posted out for that. I really want to go and have a nose in my local Poundland now but a) I don't know if I have a local poundland and b ) It's 1:30am

 

Yeah. I couldn't find any in Poundland in Hastings when I went back to the UK recently. Here in Czech a local cheap bookshop has a load of them, Kc69 (about £2.30) each. The ones I got are in the shite in minature thread.

They're not selling quickly here as people hate the Russians and anything associated with them!

[Sigmund Fraud]

What made me grin was receiving a box full of Haynes manuals, courtesy of the legend that is Mr.Junkman !

 

They are now all neatly arranged in my bookshelf, ready to provide some quality reading for those cold winter nights at work

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Don't confuse Poundland (green, a bit downmarket) with Poundworld (blue).

[vulgalour]

  On 01/08/2013 at 05:33, Richard said:

I've tried more than once to give away a brand new boxed Matchbox Rancho without any takers so I'm not so sure that buying up Poundland cars is such a sound business plan.

 

If you're still trying to get rid of it, I'll take it and add it to my collection.  I don't have a Rancho.

[nacho man]

Matey boy who works next to me reckons "he is in to his cars" and ages ago he said he had five and a half grand saved for his new car, I gave him good ideas, silver shadow, xjr, cossie etc etc he buys a 58 plate mazda 6 diesel.

 

Tells me this morning that yesterday it shat its self on the motorway, garage have said the turbo went, engine sucked in a impellor knackered it and the exhaust, and reckon its gonna cost 3-4 grand to fix, oops. He wont listen to my suggestions of a second hand engine and that it sounds expensive, so I let him be and kept quite.

 

Only last week he was taking the mickey as the exhaust fell of my 500 quid 306, got one weekend in the ecp sale thingy me bob for 57 quid, downpipe, mid section and rear box, not bad i thought.(yeah they gave me the wrong back box but thats the 50 50 chance you take with them)

 

I had a permanent smile on my face today.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Five grand Silver Shadow might genuinely be a safer bet than a modern diesel (depending on usage). 

[pompei]

Aircon re-gassed today! Phew!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Check out this massive spanner.

 

 

 

You probably can't read that big red notice in his rear window, but it says 'CLOSSURE YOU GET SLOWER ILL GO'. Thats right 'CLOSSURE'. Basically its a home made badly spelled road safety 'aid' for other motorists. When I burned him off I was all ready to give him the 'dick head' gesture but he was laughing and wittering away on his phone as he drove so probably wouldn't have noticed anyway.

[Ghosty]

Right outside Holborn tube station in the middle of London, and there's some mid-20s idiot (the type that usually drive blacked-out A4s etc) in an M5 at the crossroads. As soon as the green light's on, he does a full throttle start, from the left into the middle lane, cutting up a bus, and he bins it into someone's MG ZT who's come from the right and (presumably) run a red/not stopped. M5's in limp home mode, ZT's dead, pissing out red fluid of some sort. Been waiting a long time to see one of these pillocks get what they deserve.

[pompei]

Went into Harry Halfords for some oil.  They are selling 4 litre bottles of own brand synthetic and semi synthetic oil for a tenner a shot!  BARG!

[PhilA]

Reading AutoShite on ComputerShite.

 

20130801_142718 by renault9gta, on Flickr

 

Fixed up a 1983 Compaq "Luggable". Now all I need is a big brick of a cellular telephone, a Cavalier with a Bon Jovi tape in the AM/FM and I'll be set for life.

 

--Phil

[Richard]

The place I'm going tomorrow is still using a BBC Micro.

[cobblers]

  On 01/08/2013 at 19:50, Richard said:

The place I'm going tomorrow is still using a BBC Micro.

Barnsley?

[loserone]

Luggable was the first machine I used in earnest (I distinctly remember playing 'castlex').  The A: failed, so we used to swap it for the B: for booting and then hot swap the drives, until that too failed.

 

It was digging that out three years ago which persuaded me to buy a Model M for use at work.  I must drive everyone else nuts!

[Richard]

The BBC Micro is in the Scottish Agricultural College in Aberdeen. I took a crappy phone picture of it last year.

 

[RedSparrow]

PhilA and Richard - I think there was a shite computers thread once, if you can find it bung up loads of photos.

(it was the only OT thread I approved of!)

[quicksilver]

That's the best computery thing I've seen in ages and I'm in the business of 'computering' as my friend so eloquently put it when slightly drunk the other night

[RedSparrow]

  On 01/08/2013 at 19:41, PhilA said:

Reading AutoShite on ComputerShite.

 

20130801_142718 by renault9gta, on Flickr

 

Fixed up a 1983 Compaq "Luggable". Now all I need is a big brick of a cellular telephone, a Cavalier with a Bon Jovi tape in the AM/FM and I'll be set for life.

 

--Phil

 

Frig me, I've just zoomed into that photo and realised you are actually browsing this forum on that Compaq!

You must be some kind of genius.

[cort16]

The makers of the raspberry pi originally tried to get the BBC to take it on as the new BBC micro.

 

These are the kind of headlines I like to see in the news

 

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Monkey in sheepskin jacket on the loose at Ikea in Toronto

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20667481

[John F]

Wow. Just wow. Video with actual sound shot from one of the solid boosters during a space shuttle launch, all the way from take-off to splashdown.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uEL8d5CX9U

[Spiny Norman]

Rummaging about in the darkest recesses of a cupboard last night revealed a bottle of Bowmore single malt I'd long since forgotten I had.

[PhilA]

  On 02/08/2013 at 10:58, RedSparrow said:

Frig me, I've just zoomed into that photo and realised you are actually browsing this forum on that Compaq!

You must be some kind of genius.

 

 

Genius, no. Geek, yes.

 

In true shite fashion, the computer has thrown all toys out of the pram. I've had the lid off it for a good proportion of the morning, have cursed at it and it's still not working right, with an intermittent memory fault. It's like trying to troubleshoot a computer misfire...

 

 

EDIT:  After faffing about with it for too long, I've found the memory chip that's gone bad and removed it and a few of its' pals from the confines of the case and into a little bag.

 

The computer is now outfitted with about 0.03% of the memory found in a modern computer and is working just fine thank you.

 

--Phil

[Ghosty]

I've got an original 1979 Walkman from eBay!

[Lord Sterling]

Got myself a set of 16" Rover 800 'Prestige' alloys off ebay for £21, the price of a part worn tyre:

 

 

I was going to stick them on my KV6 as that wears the 15" version of these alloys, but I reckon they'll go on my mk2 827 Sterling as the tyres on that are shot and it needs to be moved soon. I can also give one of the old alloys to an old boy who is looking for one spare alloy for his mk2 827 Sterling.

 

My alloy collection is scarily growing too, soon I'm going to look like one of those alloy collectors/fans.

 

In my (off car) collection I have:

 

2 × 4 16" mk2 Prestige alloys.

1 × 5 16" mk1 Prestige alloys RARE

1 × 4 or 5 15" mk1 Sterling alloys (cross spoke)

1 x 4 or 5 15" Early mk1 Sterling alloys (flat face)

1 x 4 15" Scorpio/Mondeo alloys

1 x 5 15" Ford Sierra Ghia Pepperpot alloys

And a couple of steelies.

 

I had a set of early mk1 alloys nicked from one of my garages some months back, very rare alloys to find, particularly in good condition. I will get all my alloys together at some point and take a picture so it can remind me to stop buying alloys I don't need.

[Junkman]

  On 02/08/2013 at 15:14, studebaker hawk said:

Rummaging about in the darkest recesses of a cupboard last night revealed a bottle of Bowmore single malt I'd long since forgotten I had.

 

That, my friend, is truly fuggin good news for a change. I'm honestly happy for you. Enjoy!