Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)

[DickyC]

V6Pushfit said:

I've got a dirigible.

You have a dirigible, Iva has taken some exercise and I have a picture of a pork pie cut in half. It just amazes me how often things go in threes.

[anonymous-user]

DickyC said:

V6Pushfit said:

I've got a dirigible.

You have a dirigible, Iva has taken some exercise and I have a picture of a pork pie cut in half. It just amazes me how often things go in threes.

The worlds coincidences never seem to amaze me, you'll be telling me you've got a crow bar next to match a banana I have.

[DickyC]

V6Pushfit said:

The worlds coincidences never seem to amaze me, you'll be telling me you've got a crow bar next to match a banana I have.

So close! It's actually a stick of rhubarb used for pole vaulting.

Used once, I should add. The experiment wasn't a resounding success.

[anonymous-user]

Sounds like my spaghetti hub puller fiasco - Italian mass produced rubbish I tell ya.

[DickyC]

Thinking of pasta tools, I have an friend who is involved with a charity specialising in helping African orphans. The charity's UK arm use young offenders to clean, dismantle and crate secondhand utility vehicles while the African arm teach their lads to reassemble the parts into viable pickups and Land Rovers and whatnot. The charity's benefactors are very generous but often prefer to send tools rather than money. The Africans, who are overwhelming grateful for the support they receive, have one caveat: Please, no Chinese tools. They don't wish to appear ungrateful but they do need tools that actually work.

[anonymous-user]

That reminds me of the local Chinese chippy. On handing over the chips she always say 'swarfega?'
No thanks I've got some at home I say.

[Vitorio]

After Luigi once more displayed some until-now unknown electrical behaviour (blinking odometer, turned out to be nothing serious), i ordered a bluetooth ODB2 dongle just now. €16 delivered to my door, and with a bit of luck its small enough that i can leave it plugged in permanently under the cover.

Should be good for when one of my lambdas throws a momentary hickup, i wont have to drive around with the check engine light for ages...

[DickyC]

Ridiculous! The DB2 had been superseded by the DB2/4 MKIII long before the dongle had even been contemplated.

Oh, DB2! We are unworthy.

[Vitorio]

DickyC said:

Ridiculous! The DB2 had been superseded by the DB2/4 MKIII long before the dongle had even been contemplated.

Oh, DB2! We are unworthy.

Well realisticaly speaking it is just much easier to get a DB2 admin for a reasonable rate then modern noSQL packages.

Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM remember?

[coopedup]

Morning all, been rather unwell recently hence my lack of posts but on the mend now thankfully

[Vitorio]

coopedup said:

Morning all, been rather unwell recently hence my lack of posts but on the mend now thankfully

Good to hear you are on the upswing coop

What was going on? Just some seasonal physical illness, or more serious issues?

[coopedup]

Vitorio said:

Good to hear you are on the upswing coop

What was going on? Just some seasonal physical illness, or more serious issues?

More serious but more of the mental rather than physical.

[Vitorio]

coopedup said:

More serious but more of the mental rather than physical.

Ah right, i thought i remembered you (also) struggling with that kind of stuff

Good to hear you are on the mend mate, life's much better when your in a positive state of mind.

[anonymous-user]

This thread is great for mental health Coop

[austinsmirk]

whilst putting 12 bottles of wytchwood beers in the garage fridge at 7.10 am today, dropped the case and smashed 3 of them. probably 3 of the best too.

I'm still upset by it.

and it stinks.

[anonymous-user]

austinsmirk said:

whilst putting 12 bottles of wytchwood beers in the garage fridge at 7.10 am today, dropped the case and smashed 3 of them. probably 3 of the best too.

I'm still upset by it.

and it stinks.

That's not good.

I tried the old 'I dropped the bottle' stunt with a wine box once but got found out as I was making less sense than normal.

[Iva Barchetta]

Thisthread is goodfor mentalhealth ,someone once said...

I'll second that.

There was a nice piece on Chasing classic cars last night.

Bloke buys back the car father bought new in 1955,father paid 792 pounds,$2700 , for an

AC Ace Bristol,$200 to ship to USA,does some racing quite successfully, until end of year and engine blows.

Son gives car to Wayne Carini to put back to same colour and rough spec as 1955.

Wayne then gets it taken to Put In bay, an island in Lake Eerie, Ohio where there is a retrospective

of the 1955 race.

Son brings father along and presents car to emotional dad.

Dusty....

We love a happy ending.

[LiamB]

Where am I? Last thing I remember was sitting down with a few beers to watch Star Wars last night.. I've just woke up confused in the sofa! Oh the joys of having the last few weeks of the year off work

[Jim AK]

LiamB said:

Where am I? Last thing I remember was sitting down with a few beers to watch Star Wars last night.. I've just woke up confused in the sofa! Oh the joys of having the last few weeks of the year off work

In the sofa? Hate to think how that happened, wondering how you get last few weeks of year off too.

ION Went to move the Jag this morning, not touched it since June, fired first try.

MOT Monday, so fingers crossed!

[LiamB]

I wish I knew but I simply don't.. I am going to blame the dog he was probably using me as a bed at one point..

And I'm a landscape Gardner (mainly for a sheikh.. long story) so the hours die down in the winter months and the boss has let me have the last couple of weeks off

About to leave for Basildon now though, the car is finally ready but is throwing up some codes I hope is just a sensor.. good luck with the Jag