What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Station]

Was sitting around at a mate's house, and he decides to just show me a load of old pics from about 5 years ago on his PC. Like 'the old days' type of thing. He loads about 100 into Photoshop, and is closing each one as we look through them going 'oh I remember that', and 'oh, there's so and so', etc, until a pic came up of him holding his cock fully standing to attention, at which point he screams 'F*CK!', and tries to close the picture, which then shows further pictures of him with his fella in hand, and he's swearing clicking quicker to get rid of it, and trying to close Photoshop, but it's coming up with yes/cancel dialogue, and in the end he just ripped the plug out of the wall. I was in stitches at his reaction. He promised me to not tell anyone, but I think I've told a few people already.

It reminds me of a time when my mate opened a drawer in my desk to find an unflattering but unmistakable cartoon picture of him, drawn by myself, with 'F*ck Off and DIE you fat C*NT' written on it. We had a love/hate kind of relationship and had known each other since nursery school. What do you do in those situations?!

[Milford Cubicle]

Answer the man, do they have wine in Scotland? Do they?

I recommend Cairn o' Mohr fruit wines, their website is suitably shonky too.

[Tayne]

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[ChinaTom]

Was witness to 2 very memorable similar experience to the dodgy photo on hard-drive scenario:

 

1) A sales chap that used to work for me was giving a sales presentation to a factory a few years ago and had his lap-top plugged into their overhead projector. He clicked on his desktop icon to launch a video of our company but he had that version of Realplayer that popped up with the last video played still loaded up before playing the selected one. We were treated to 3 seconds of hardcore porn, 2 seconds of blank screen, followed by our presentation which started with an intro from the female MD of the company we were representing. Never seen a man panic so much in my life.

 

2) Ruthless co-worker embeds a webcam video of very pretty and very unassuming translator stripping and well, use your imagination in the corporate presentation on the TV screens dotted around the building. Poor girl actually fainted when she was told. Always the quiet ones. It was great.

 

 

 

Attending my first ever serious job interview, I opened my briefcase to get out some stuff to show the 3 directors, and was confronted with a giant cardboard comedy cock that my house-mates had put there for a laugh. This was met with 3 very disappointed expressions, but somehow I still managed to get the job.

[Milford Cubicle]

 

May dad also has a big downer on their product, claiming its total shit, and whilst I'm young enough not to listen to him I'm old enough to know that sometimes he makes a lot of sense.

I'm not a wine connoisseur, I just judge it on ease of getting pished (did find some of the wines a bit 'tart' though). It did the job, albeit more expensively than the new-improved Co-op super lager.

[Pillock]

Further to the embarassing photos..... my friend has a Picasa account (Google Photo Storage). My (Google) phone automatically found his Picasa account and linked all his pictures to his contact in my phone.

 

He got his album access permissions wrong.

 

His girlfriend is NICE. And quite accomodating.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Further to the embarassing photos..... my friend has a Picasa account (Google Photo Storage). My (Google) phone automatically found his Picasa account and linked all his pictures to his contact in my phone.

 

He got his album access permissions wrong.

 

His girlfriend is NICE. And quite accomodating.

 

[ashmicro]

http://tinyurl.com/235jeeb

 

 

Scahdenfreude, I think is the word

[Polystratus]

http://tinyurl.com/235jeeb

 

 

Scahdenfreude, I think is the word

Similar sort of thing occurred in a local substation a few years ago, a 16 year old chap broke in and tried to remove the copper wiring from the transformer, of course it was live, and he was killed as soon as he touched it, one for the Darwin Awards!

[Guest]

I've been drawing little tiny cars again. I haven't done it for yonks. Find it oddly relaxing. Would be nice to create an enormous set and use them to create some kind of sequel to New Wheels John.

[warren t claim]

I've been drawing little tiny cars again. I haven't done it for yonks. Find it oddly relaxing. Would be nice to create an enormous set and use them to create some kind of sequel to New Wheels John.

I hope you're serious. It would be fantastic to get the New Wheels John? code and update it.

[Timewaster]

http://tinyurl.com/235jeeb

 

 

Scahdenfreude, I think is the word

Similar sort of thing occurred in a local substation a few years ago, a 16 year old chap broke in and tried to remove the copper wiring from the transformer, of course it was live, and he was killed as soon as he touched it, one for the Darwin Awards!

Confession time - I work for an Electricity distribution network operator.

 

(Yes, its the Electricity Board!)

 

You really would not believe how common this theft is. We have replaced the earthing in one substation twice in the last 6 weeks!

99.9% of the time there is no problem but if there is a fault then the result could be catastrophic.

 

More than a few end up dead. Doesn't seem to stop the others though.

[Station]

I've been drawing little tiny cars again. I haven't done it for yonks. Find it oddly relaxing. Would be nice to create an enormous set and use them to create some kind of sequel to New Wheels John.

I hope you're serious. It would be fantastic to get the New Wheels John? code and update it.

I started doing one in Facebook after that old New Wheels John. It'd be ace to get that finished!

[Minimad5]

Link please Dave

[shite_meister]

Buying a TVR Chimaera maketh the meister of shite grin, very much so (although I'm sure I'll be pissed off in a few weeks with it)

[The Moog]

Petrol Turbos .. nothing quite the kick in the back ..

[Guest]

Petrol Turbos .. nothing quite the kick in the back ..

The kick plus the arc of the boost gauge is fantastic, I agree.

 

Anyway, I saw a covered wagon with 'Marquee Erection' in massive letters on its side. You could see the 'Marquee' lettering had fallen off by the non-faded tarp underneath.

 

So that will be a 38 ton wagon hoofing past the Handforth Green industrial estate with 'Erection' written on it. Annoyingly, I couldn't get a picture of it fast enough. Too keen.

[Station]

You can't beat 80's petrol turbos! Power bands like a square-wave.

[seth]

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-70-200mm-f-4.0-L-USM-Lens-Mug-Review.aspx

[shite_meister]

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-70-200mm-f-4.0-L-USM-Lens-Mug-Review.aspx

Nice, were you looking for one of these lenses? I bought a 2.8 version and takes pics so sharp I cut my eyes up just looking at the resulting pictures, being from the Autoshite school of economics I bought the slightly older non I.S version but the brucey bone-arse was its price.

[seth]

I'd love one of that range of lenses but a bit beyond budget at the moment. Looking to upgrade body from my 400D so I'm spending a lot of time looking at camera stuff on-line.

[ashmicro]

Mrs Ash bought me one of these lately. As some of you may know, I design and implement computer networks for a living. Buggered if I can figure this badboy out, though!

 

 

Looks ally though!

[trigger]

Mrs Trigger bought me that camera for my 30th as well, I'm still trying to work it out as well!

 

I found this chaps videos quite helpfull though.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/lbguides#p/ ... xMM747ybjo

[ashmicro]

Excellent, Trig. Thank you.

 

re the BM: HI M8 WUD U TAKE 150 CASH KAN COLLECT 2NITE?

 

Didn't put that on your eBay listing, but I was tempted

[Station]

Best to just find a setting and stick to that, praying that somehow you don't switch it to another user setting. I gave up at about page 10 of the 220 page manual for mine.

[Angrydicky]

 

Anyway, I saw a covered wagon with 'Marquee Erection' in massive letters on its side. You could see the 'Marquee' lettering had fallen off by the non-faded tarp underneath.

 

So that will be a 38 ton wagon hoofing past the Handforth Green industrial estate with 'Erection' written on it. Annoyingly, I couldn't get a picture of it fast enough. Too keen.

There is a van around here that belongs to a TV ariel company. The slogan down the sides of the van and on the back doors is "Satisfaction with every erection". Makes me grin every time I see it

[RedSparrow]

I've been drawing little tiny cars again. I haven't done it for yonks. Find it oddly relaxing. Would be nice to create an enormous set and use them to create some kind of sequel to New Wheels John.

If you get bored, could you do me one of a TR7 from the side?

Only if you have the time, like.

[dollywobbler]

Driving around in the 2CV in the rain. With the roof back. Trying to keep up enough speed to avoid getting wet is huge fun! 'Don't change traffic lights!'

[Station]

Link please Dave

I think it was called New Wheels Dave, but there's nothing there as I never finished it!

[ChinaTom]

Chinese Government reduced CGT from 30% to 1%, and purchase tax from 5% to 1% today for property sales transactions.

 

With 2 apartments currently on the market, I think I'll be topping up my Jag restoration fund soon.

 

Or maybe I'll remain sceptical - t'int' often they miss a trick to fleece you though.