What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Red squirrel spotted about 50 yards from my house    I might have to order a truckload of nuts to tempt him (/her?) into the Leylandii.

 

Ace. Saw one in France near my father-in-law's gaff. Was well chuffed. Pretty sure I've never seen one in the wild before.

[jakebullet]

Proton overload today. Spotted an mpi sat in disabled bay at tescos, and then followed a savvy out.

[Cavcraft]

Oh no!

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you, Inconsistent.

[MarvinsMom]

so doesn't billy like the Beatles?

[tooSavvy]

Proton overload today. Spotted an mpi sat in disabled bay at tescos, and then followed a savvy out.

Not many Savv to follow anywhere.

 

**X Files moment**

 

I parked MrSavvy in Tesco - next to a IQ (bronze).

 

Came out with shopping - same bay, IQ (white) !!!

 

Lottery Odds on that then?

 

TS

[Pillock]

 

Lectures for one of my university modules are done as podcasts - a PowerPoint with audio backing explaining the slides.

Halfway through one of the "videos", a slide about NTFS comes on. The audio is someone getting up from the desk, going through the door to the room and locking it, leaving the microphone on, leading to five minutes of ambient noise, and whole time you're just looking at the slide about NTFS. 

 

 

The lecturer probably got halfway through his script about NTFS and just wandered off to find a tall building. Has anyone heard from him since?

Seriously though, that's shocking..... for the cost of a university education you'd expect something more than a prerecorded video they can trot out year on year (since NTFS hardly changes much, does it?)

[MrDuke]

Ace. Saw one in France near my father-in-law's gaff. Was well chuffed. Pretty sure I've never seen one in the wild before.

 

It's only the second one I've seen since moving here - despite the fact that Newborough forest is teeming with them, I've never managed to see one close up. The fact that there's very few clusters of trees near the house would suggest that they're starting to spread out from the heavily wooded areas, so the local re-introduction project seems to have worked amazingly well.

[tooSavvy]

They have to dwell in a 'grey free' zone. Up in the lakes they have secured territory and shooters get a bounty for grey pelts.

 

You could just get a Topic, like squirrel shit- a hezelnut in every bite.. 'bumm tishh'

 

 

TS

[MrDuke]

Yeah, there was a 'grey bounty' here for a while, but they've all been cleared now. They could come back across the bridges in theory, but I doubt they're really that bothered.

[philibusmo]

Vulg - Not sure thats good nor bad - But He's all excited about it bless him!

It was owned by Vulgalore who did a fair few jobs to it after it had been off the road for about 15 years. Then I bought, spent a manic weekend with chompysnake getting it into a road worthy state to drive it from Chesterfield to Tiverton to a pre-booked MOT. I didn't make it and the head gasket blew near Donnington.

 

There was then an epic Autoshite resuce mission which got both me and the car back to Devon over a couple of days and then I spent many months slowly going over it, fixing everything that it needed for an MOT. It got an MOT, but I never managed more than 32 miles in it without a failure to proceed. Then I sold it to the chap who had it on eBay because I was off to Australia.

 

When I got rid of it, the lower water rail had just sprung a small leak under pressure, so make sure he has a spare supply of water if he's picking it up.

 

Additionally for the alternator to work, you need to start the car, open the bonnet, flick the switch on the battery clamp from 'off' to 'on' for 10 seconds and then flick it off again. All being well, you should then make it to your destination without running out of electricity, although it didn't always work 100%.

 

Vulgalore has the thread which details exactly what has happened with this car in both his ownership and mine sat in his signature. It may well make interesting reading for your friend to ready himself for the world of pain he is about to enter.

[vulgalour]

Said link here

 

Phil more than earned his stripes with that car.

[fred]

It was owned by Vulgalore who did a fair few jobs to it after it had been off the road for about 15 years. Then I bought, spent a manic weekend with chompysnake getting it into a road worthy state to drive it from Chesterfield to Tiverton to a pre-booked MOT. I didn't make it and the head gasket blew near Donnington.

 

There was then an epic Autoshite resuce mission which got both me and the car back to Devon over a couple of days and then I spent many months slowly going over it, fixing everything that it needed for an MOT. It got an MOT, but I never managed more than 32 miles in it without a failure to proceed. Then I sold it to the chap who had it on eBay because I was off to Australia.

 

When I got rid of it, the lower water rail had just sprung a small leak under pressure, so make sure he has a spare supply of water if he's picking it up.

 

Additionally for the alternator to work, you need to start the car, open the bonnet, flick the switch on the battery clamp from 'off' to 'on' for 10 seconds and then flick it off again. All being well, you should then make it to your destination without running out of electricity, although it didn't always work 100%.

 

Vulgalore has the thread which details exactly what has happened with this car in both his ownership and mine sat in his signature. It may well make interesting reading for your friend to ready himself for the world of pain he is about to enter.

Oh Lord - Do I tell him, or Do I not - he has put his deposit down and is like a kid at xmas eve, this is a bit like knowing your mates new girl is a whore bag and you just dont want to tell him.....Oh bugger

[cort1977]

Watching Worricker last night and Ewen Bremner was driving a solid gold autoshite Mondeo with mismatched wing and minicab looks as his undercover MI5 car.

 

Also, Winona Ryder still scrubs up well.

[fred]

[fairkens]

If he's not expecting to have issues with a sub £300 princess bought unseen on eBay he's probably got bigger problems than you telling him it might not have been the worlds greatest purchase tbf tbf

[castros_bro]

Toasted nuts Sir ? Side order of Old Volvo 3.49 ?

 

[Coprolalia]

More grins

 

 

This old girls a thing of beauty and only just come into the country! Parked behind it in the queue for the ferry at Calais last week on my way back from a shite car rally (pictures to follow). The new owners a nice chap who had flown down to Italy with his mate, bought it sight unseen from a restorer and driven it back. It's super clean, though there's definitely some Italian pigeon shit welds in the arches. 

Convoyed for a bit with it to listen to the twink motor. Lush.

[beko1987]

I was getting asked if my current desktop background was anything to do with me/was this my car/what happened there etc

 

 

Lets see if this one's any better

 

[vulgalour]

Random call from Admiral discussing possible multicar insurance.  Turns out I can insure the Princess for about £100 if I take out a multicar deal once she's passed her MoT and that's with the debumpering and alloys declared.  Sounds good to me!

[RobT]

Random call from Admiral discussing possible multicar insurance.  Turns out I can insure the Princess for about £100 if I take out a multicar deal once she's passed her MoT and that's with the debumpering and alloys declared.  Sounds good to me!

 

Is that on a 'normal' policy Angyl?  Might be worth giving Peter James a go in future as they'll be even cheaper insuring all your chod on a classic policy.  You also get free AA breakdown cover which I've used a few times, no quibbles.  Although I'm sure you know all this being a seasoned old car botherer!

[fordperv]

My mate told me the backbox on his mk3 cortina has blown what can he do? Can I get him one?, well bugger me I found a place with one on the shelf for not a lot of cash, i go to collect it for him and am in the shop and 3 guys who work there are out on the carpark checking my saph out and were watching it as I left driving away down the road

[vulgalour]

Peter James aren't competitive pricewise for me.  Admiral is cheaper because of second car and classic car discount.  I also get NCB on both cars and both cars are parked on the street outside the house.  It's great value for me.

[gm]

I was looking to buy some tickets for a gig and came across Grouchos record store in Dundee - looks like a proper old school store where they actually care about their music (none of that modern rubbish though )

 

what made me grin was the page of 'give me strength' customer queries :

 

http://www.grouchos.co.uk/Dinna-ask.html

 

such gems as :

 

C: What time is the Damned gig?

S: The doors open at half past eight.

C: Are The Doors playing as well

 

 

Young lad selling CDs:

S: Do you have any ID that says you're over 16?

C: No, but i've got a fag packet!

[Taff]

Red squirrel spotted about 50 yards from my house    I might have to order a truckload of nuts to tempt him (/her?) into the Leylandii.

 

Red squirrels are ace

[myglaren]

Ace. Saw one in France near my father-in-law's gaff. Was well chuffed. Pretty sure I've never seen one in the wild before.

Not a frequent occurrence but I do sometimes see the odd one on our street.

Should really have a camera ready but that never seems to happen.

[Ghosty]

The lecturer probably got halfway through his script about NTFS and just wandered off to find a tall building. Has anyone heard from him since?

Seriously though, that's shocking..... for the cost of a university education you'd expect something more than a prerecorded video they can trot out year on year (since NTFS hardly changes much, does it?)

 It's a woman actually, sounds Australian. Pretty easy to listen to. It's not pre-recorded, she does it for us each week and she says it's the first year she's done it - it's a time management thing, the lecturer sits down and records and goes through all the lecture material as she would in a lecture. The lecture time is used as a big Q&A/discussion group with an interactive smartphone-based quiz on the recordings. People seem to like it, and you can listen to the lecture whenever you like and as many times as you like. Pretty nifty idea IMO.

Whether the lecturer will re-use the recordings year on year, I don't know.

 

This kind of incompetence is typical of all these people with computer-related doctorates, as one lecturer explained, many of them got their qualifications in the 16-bit era (Amigas, STs, Windows 3.1 etc) and as their knowledge is specialist, they're no better at using typical computer things than any other middle aged person.

Laughable really, they can get their heads round how C#, filesystems and Unix work, but basic Windows functions and simple programs such as Sound Recorder and Audacity are seemingly past their abilites...

[Pillock]

[Station]

As did this,

 

Was going to say 'that's my old one!', but different country.

 

 

[panhard65]

If it is why on earth did they cut the roof about to fit a poxy webasto

[Timewaster]

Red squirrels are ace

There are black ones living wild in Cambridgeshire. I sat in the van watching two frolicking in a tree one day about 4 years ago.

 

A few days later there was a feature on squirrels on Jeremy vine and they had an expert who said he'd heard of them but never seen one.