What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Why do you think I watch Doctor Who? Waiting for it on i-Player...

[Junkman]

I'm not a Doctor Who fan. 

 

Why the bloody hell not?

[Cavcraft]

Because sci-fi is shit?

[fotorabia]

My really good mate in Brisbane showing off her Xmas present..S1.5 / 4.2 E-Type....and thats her 3 legged dog..[waits for comparisons!]

[dollywobbler]

It makes absolutely no sense at all, but then I think that's always been the point. (EDIT - Doctor Who that is, not the E-Type Jaguar or dog)

 

As for the weather, snow didn't last long, but we did have some. 

 

Then got damp, then bloody cold. The sort of cold that stops the Daihatsu demisting. Annoying as we'd spent the day with friends. The windscreen had almost completely demisted by the time we got the six miles home.

[Parky]

Watching my family heading across the Bay of Bengal on their Flight to New Zealand. Sometimes I bloody love the Internet!

 

Quite scary though when two planes merge, I have to keep checking to make sure the other traffic is at different altitudes-I am like some sort of amateur air traffic controller but i don't think a real one controls the aeroplanes by shouting "don't deviate from that altitude Gulf Airlines 757!" At an ipad.....

[Richard]

I love most of the Carry On films and Hancock's Half Hour but Porridge was the only one that I never really liked. Open All Hours is great though! I'm really looking forward to the Christmas special tomorrow with David Jason returning as Granville. Hopefully it'll be decent, I read Jonny Vegas has a part in it so I hope he doesn't ruin it.

 

Here he is

 

[cobblers]

"It's just the same really, I don't know why you moan about it!" - My sister talking about her orthopaedic "facon"

 

 

 

hahahahaha

[vulgalour]

Those... things... are to pigs-in-blankets what Wynsors World of Shoes are to Lobbs.

[ProgRocker]

Watched the Christmas episode of 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?' yesterday night on BBC4. It was quite a funny episode. Some top chod was featured.

 

Bob's HB series Viva of course.

Bob reversing the Viva into a car I couldn't identify after 3 rounds in the pub (looked like a Farina-mobile - Oxford or Cambridge?).

Terry taking his driving test in an Austin 1100.

A white mark 3 Cortina overtaking the ADO16 when it stalled at traffic lights.

Terry minicabbing in a Rootes Arrow.    Hillman Minx or the Singer/Subeam version.

[Cavcraft]

Those... things... are to pigs-in-blankets what Wynsors World of Shoes are to Lob ons.

 

I got a lob on once in Wynsor's when some some really fit bird in a low cut top was offering some Dunlop Mingebag trainers up to my feet.

[Station]

With all due respect, a 'sausage' isn't in fact an animal. The veggie ones do look a bit anaemic though lol! I actually like those quorn ones. The bacon I could live without though - it's not very appetising on it's own.

I suppose it's like saying movie make up doesn't look like real injuries.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Why the bloody hell not?

 

I don't watch Doctor Who for the same reason I avoid Star Trek/Wars... I'm worried I'd like it and I'm the kind of person who'd end up obsessing over it and spending 18 hours a day reading Dr Who fan sites and posting on message boards (see also: what happened when I found out I liked old cars).

[overrun]

Why the bloody hell not?

 

Cos it's shite and for bairns?

[mercrocker]

Every Boxing Day we usually trundle to a classic car meet in a nearby market town.   Well, I  woke up  this morning and I just could not be bloody arsed with people and for some reason,classic car owners....  Left Mrs R. at home and fucked off across the New  Forest backroads in the Minor.   Feeble heater on, Dunn's overcoat on, windows down, kept the car in a gear lower  than it should be and every time I  saw another car I  turned down an even narrower lane.   Bloody brilliant hour and a half - sunshine, flat-out A series, plenty of  diff  whine and bags of fresh air.  Just before I turned for home I watched  the odometer clock over  to 50,000.   I'm happy.....

[Mr Lobster]

Why the bloody hell not?

I just don't get sci-fi stuff at all, doesn't interest me in the slightest. Shames applies to lord of the rings, Star Trek and all that type of stuff.

[overrun]

I just don't get sci-fi stuff at all, doesn't interest me in the slightest. Shames applies to lord of the rings, Star Trek and all that type of stuff.

 

I like some sci-fi. Usually it is comedy-based though. Red Dwarf springs to mind, I used to love that.

I am the same with LOTR, Star Trek, Star Wars (is OK, but not amazing), Farscape and all the other guff.

 

I am similar with most superhero stuff. Strange, as I 'should' enjoy it.

Only since the recent films, have I enjoyed Batman.

 

My mate tells me that the LOTR books are amazing. I cannot see past silly little trolls and ogres, if I picture stuff like that, personally.

[dollywobbler]

I'm a complete LOTR addict, but only the films. I find reading the books akin to swimming in treacle. Must catch up with The Hobbit ones at some point.

 

Anyway, Christmas is making me grin. Lots of visiting local friends, chatting and eating chocolate. 

[overrun]

Footy result, drink, meats and chocolate and doing SFA else - despite my big plans yesterday, are keeping me grinning.

 

Saw a new BR14N advert earlier, as well.

[Station]

 

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've had to google LOTR to find out what it meant. When I was a lad it was usually the posh birds with horses that read them, so for that reason I pretended to like them and learnt enough to get a stinky finger. But to watch a film about goblins and elves running about the jungle as an adult seems a bit odd . But then any film that contains no car chase is unlikely to retain my interest for long.

[Lord Sterling]

Never really got into Dr Who, but I remember seeing it now and again as a kid. Never sat down and actually watched an episode unless it on. Somehow, due to the over broadcasting of the 50th anniversary of Dr Who or whatever it was the other day, I've suddenly found myself really getting into the theme tune (I'm talking; Original, Tom Baker/Peter Davison/Colin Baker eras). I've downloaded it for compulsory listening.

[Lankytim]

Went to Halfords today to buy a DAB Sony stereo for the Multipla and buy another 150-pc socket set, the one I bought a couple of years ago had the odd cracked socket plus all the ratchet drives had been abused to death. When I explained this to the store assistant he replied "oh, those are all covered under warranty. bring 'em in and we'l exchange them". So I did, and he did. I had lost the receipt years ago too!

 

Now, the warranty doesn't cover ratchets but the store assistant obviously didn't know this, so I kept my gob shut. Thanks Mr store assistant, it saved me £100 odd quid!

[Cavcraft]

I just don't get sci-fi stuff at all, doesn't interest me in the slightest. Shames applies to lord of the rings, Star Trek and all that type of stuff.

 

 

+1.

I actually thought 'Trekkies' were a made up thing, but there really are people who are fanatical over that nonsense.

[MrDuke]

I'm a complete LOTR addict, but only the films. I find reading the books akin to swimming in treacle. Must catch up with The Hobbit ones at some point.

 

I wouldn't bother with the Hobbit films - to steal a quote from another forum, Jackson seems to have decided that he's a better story-teller than Tolkien, which he isn't. There is an excess of computer-game-style OMGACTION sequences and the plot has been stretched woefully thin, while simultaneously being padded out with irrelevant bo11ocks.

 

 

 

Oh, and LOTR isn't sci-fi. Also, saying you "hate sci-fi" is like saying "all old cars are a bit shit". A lot are, but that doesn't mean you have to drive them. There's a massive difference between watching (for instance) films like The Prestige or Event Horizon, and attending a Star Trek convention.

[scruff]

Yeah, different strokes for different folks. My wife loves that stuff... me, I spent the episode going through black and white photos of steam rollers. OMG NERD

[M'coli]

I've just overtaken a IOM registered Sierra-based motorhome on the M1 at Leeds on my way into work!

[Craig the Princess]

Port. Port is good.

[Cavcraft]

Ellesmere?

[hairnet]

salou or stanley