Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 31)

Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 31)

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magooagain

9,911 posts

169 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Coooorrrrrrr Peri! I'm loving this lemon beauty! Just seen it up for sale in Northampton .


P5BNij

15,772 posts

105 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Bobberoo99 said:
yes he's our font of all motoring knowledge, glenrobbo is our font of all TVR and flying knowledge, Dicky is our font of all musical knowledge, Bomma is a nutter on a fast bike, P5BNIJ us our font of all train and muscle car knowledge, Scrump is our font of all marketing, Magooagain is our font of all French stuff and I'm a multi axis buffoon!!! smile
Not so sure on the muscle car knowledge Bobbers, just stuff I've picked on here quite recently really. I'm much more 'up' on the Italian exotica and seem to be getting deeper and deeper into it as the months go by, I can't get enough of it and the interest shows no sign of slowing down. It's not just the cars themselves either, it's the intrigue and relationships between all those fabulous engineers who flitted from one firm to another and back again, Alfa, Fiat, Lancia, Ferrari, Maserati, OSCA, Lamborghini, De Tomaso, Stanguellini, Moretti, Bizzarrini, Iso, Ghia, Bertone, Pinifarina, Frua, Alemano, Scaglietti, Innocenti…. they're all intertwined much more than some folk might realise. I find it all very absorbing, far more so than the British stuff like Jaguar, Rover and BL, all short jouneys from where I grew up. I've read several times on PH recently that car enthusiasm is on the wane, not for me it's not!

As for the railway stuff - besides working on the footplate for a large chunk of my working life the whole thing has pretty much been ingrained in me since I was old enough to walk, large numbers of my family on both sides have worked on the railway since the 1880s so it's bound to rub off (my younger brother is also a driver). So far we've traced a couple of ancestors who both started as engine cleaners in the Broad Gauge era at Westbourne Park shed just outside Paddington. Family rivalries between siblings working for different companies before nationalisation in '48 was rife too, so I'm told hehe






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Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 21st July 13:42

Scrump

21,893 posts

157 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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I think P5BNij just needs to embrace his role as font of train and muscle car knowledge.

I am now the font of all marketing despite my lack of any relevant knowledge, no previous experience and no real ability. This hasn't prevented me asking my mum to sew my marketing badge onto my uniform.

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

162 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Magoo's got wood and a yellow B hankering,lucky man.

Only one thing better than a yellow B,an orange B.

P5BNij

15,772 posts

105 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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What we really need a font of all fonts, someone who knows their Helvitica Bold from their Old Gothic, which strangely sound like names of products from a micro brewery in the wilds of Trivenhamshire... beer

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

162 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Yep,let's have a round of Old Gothic in the Bell n Leper later......drink

P5 is buying,it was his idea.

Scrump

21,893 posts

157 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Kylie did a song about a font “German Bold Italic”.
In the video she was dressed as a geisha girl and wore a bikini in a hot tub, not that I took much notice. whistle

P5BNij

15,772 posts

105 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Scrump said:
Kylie did a song about a font “German Bold Italic”.
In the video she was dressed as a geisha girl and wore a bikini in a hot tub, not that I took much notice. whistle
I've seen that video but I'm sure she was dressed as a very fierce looking fraulein. Might have been her sister though. Will need to watch it again, just to confirm you understand. Cough. Mutter.

ApOrbital

9,942 posts

117 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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magooagain said:

That's it all stacked.

I then went to help my neighbor stack his as his wife has a back injury.

It's a nice feeling once it's all neatly stacked.
I had wood this morning now back down sarf.

Bobberoo99

38,373 posts

97 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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I'm on my new phone!!! Oohhh it's shiny and fast!!!
It's been an interesting day, PAC codes for our existing numbers to be ported across to our new phones handed over, a longish visit to a new bank to invest some money in a bond, lunch, stuck in an inexplicable traffic jam for 35mins just so we could get to Sainsbury's and do our shopping and now home and our Sunday roast prepped and on!!!

glenrobbo

35,087 posts

149 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Scrump said:
Kylie did a song about a font “German Bold Italic”.
In the video she was dressed as a geisha girl and wore a bikini in a hot tub, not that I took much notice. whistle
I have been depraved, having never seen that Kylie video. frown
Was that Jason Plato fellow in it? I seem to remember something about her and a "Jason", and that was the only one that sprang to mind.

weeping

Anyway, it wood(sic ) have been rather pointless me seeing it anyway, as I am far too old for her, and she is much too tiny for me.
Unrequited love is the purest kind.

I like the font style that TVR used on its later model badges: Griffiths, Chimaera Tamora, T350t, Tuscan, Sagaris & Typhoon.
I think it's called "Gailliard" or similar, a rather obscure script but rather pleasing.

Whatever, I shall continue searching for cockerel costume until I achieve satisfaction.
Or I might just hobble down to the B&L for a pint of Old Gothic, when I have finished this half litre of Rheinbacher Weissbier ( the label is in Old Gothic, so it should be a seamless transition.) Cheers! beer

ION, this evening's culinary delight shall be lamb's liver and bacon with garlic & rosemary in a rich red wine & onion gravy, served with creamy mash, Chantenay carrots and garden peas. Yum! And indeed "Yam" & "Nom!" lick
It will be worth it. smile

Bobberoo99

38,373 posts

97 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Your culinary skills are to be applauded glenrobbo, so is the gay abandon with which you use "the chargeable words"!!!
I haven't had a beer all week, I'm trying to cut down my alcohol intake and only drink beer one night on a weekend, but tonight I have three beers to delight in!!!

ApOrbital

9,942 posts

117 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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ION, this evening's culinary delight shall be lamb's liver and bacon with garlic & rosemary in a rich red wine & onion gravy, served with creamy mash, Chantenay carrots and garden peas. Yum! And indeed "Yam" & "Nom!" lick
It will be worth it.

Pics btw i hate liver silence of the lambs was on tother night.

Scrump

21,893 posts

157 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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I have just been out to help one of my neighbours as his daughters car had a flat battery and wouldn’t start. He tried using his jump leads attached to his car but still couldn’t get the car to start so was sat there revving his car trying to charge the flat battery. The droning noise of the engine was disturbing me so I hobbled out to see what the problem was. His jump leads were made of what seemed like lengths of coloured string, so I attached my jump leads. The car started immediately, and the daughter has now gone so peace again.

I am now enjoying a Malfy gin rosa with tonic and will be having a curry later this evening as I am still under doctor’s orders to apply rice to my ankle.

227bhp

10,203 posts

127 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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I went to an event in a field yesterday, maybe a couple of thousand people there. As I was walking by the rows of parked cars I noticed a brand new Merc with the engine running, I thought it odd as there was no-one around. I walked past again maybe an hour later and it was still there running so I told security who were nearby. They came, had a look and switched it off (stop/start button), apparently it only had about 450 miles on the clock.

A couple of weeks ago I was at the FOS, as we returned to our car in the evening the car next to us had its boot wide open with some stuff in the back, again no-one was around so I can only assume it had been like that all day.

Is this the kind of thing people like to do these days? I'm regretting not getting in the first one and parking it somewhere else!

Scrump

21,893 posts

157 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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First one could be stop/start kicking in and the new owner not realising when they left the car.
Second one I have done myself. The boot open button on the key was accidentally pressed whilst in my pocket. Luckily the car was on the drive and it wasn’t raining so no harm done.

Bobberoo99

38,373 posts

97 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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227bhp said:
I went to an event in a field yesterday, maybe a couple of thousand people there. As I was walking by the rows of parked cars I noticed a brand new Merc with the engine running, I thought it odd as there was no-one around. I walked past again maybe an hour later and it was still there running so I told security who were nearby. They came, had a look and switched it off (stop/start button), apparently it only had about 450 miles on the clock.

A couple of weeks ago I was at the FOS, as we returned to our car in the evening the car next to us had its boot wide open with some stuff in the back, again no-one was around so I can only assume it had been like that all day.

Is this the kind of thing people like to do these days? I'm regretting not getting in the first one and parking it somewhere else!
None so queer as folk!!! The things people do now a days which they see as completely normal and acceptable but which leaves me thinking "Are you serious??" Is just overwhelming sometimes!!!!

Trophy Husband

3,924 posts

106 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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magooagain said:
Coooorrrrrrr Peri! I'm loving this lemon beauty! Just seen it up for sale in Northampton .

Such a pretty thing.
I drove one for about 60 miles a few summer's ago. Sublime little thing it was too. Cheap exotic.
I hadn't grinned as much since driving my pal's Midget up Woodhead Pass with a crate of Red Stripe on the back rack, heading to Sheffield and the Leadmill to pull some uni birds. Circa 1991.
Louise, where are you now you little minx!

Nerdherder

1,773 posts

96 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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glenrobbo said:
Kylie she is much too tiny for me.
Tiny women do give an interesting perspective in some matters. What I am meaning to say is that they make your cock looks bigger. Cocksuit eh cocksuit I mean.
Why did I bring up my chickens again?

Nerdherder

1,773 posts

96 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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magooagain said:
Coooorrrrrrr Peri! I'm loving this lemon beauty! Just seen it up for sale in Northampton .

Nice and acceptable in yellow this one. Recently came across the facelift version that adds a weird third brake light on the rear deck. This is better. Enjoyable ride too the Barchetta.
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