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Post by Felice Landry on Oct 11, 2022 14:28:44 GMT
Delapidated nostalgia:  |
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 11, 2022 14:41:18 GMT
It doesn't look like the magic has returned.
It's quite an interesting building, but it looks like the elves left without a forward address some years ago.
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Post by muffrat on Oct 11, 2022 14:44:34 GMT
That very much describes my day-to-day dress sense |
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 11, 2022 14:45:32 GMT
That very much describes my day-to-day dress sense Shaved legs and a sense of regret? |
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 11, 2022 14:47:03 GMT
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 11, 2022 14:54:50 GMT
Talking of holidays, we're on a ferry about to leave Kent and storm into Essex. Does that involve going into Gravesend? <shudder> That entire litoral of the Kent side of the Thames Estuary is foul; I lived there (Dartford, Erith, Belvedere) and the industrial refuse of the litter-all, where the effluent of London collects and mixes with the smells of the cement works near Swanscombe and Ebbsfleet... In Winter it gets the coldest fucking wind that you can imagine and it catches any precipitation. Until you 'turn the corner' at the Isle of Thanet, I will never live there again. My view is coloured by the fact that I am born North of the Thames... Mind you from Canary Wharf out to Canvey Island is worse as it's really flat, either built over or exposed estuarine marshland dotted with nuggets of concrete and steel like the Ford Motor fortress at Dagenham. I went for a job at the Polytechnic of North East London at Dagenham; it was my dream job (librarian for the SF Foundation); and having seen the area and the building, if it had been any other job, I would have pissed off to the pub. However, it had only just started and I thought I was ideal - degree in librarianship, dissertation on the History of SF, experience of magazine editing. Surely I would get the job... unfortunately there was one other bloke in the UK better qualified - Malcolm Edwards. (Legs are on fire; treatments finished at 1.45pm. (started at 10), so if I am polite to you or apologize that's why.) |
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Post by Felice Landry on Oct 11, 2022 14:56:19 GMT
It doesn't look like the magic has returned. It's quite an interesting building, but it looks like the elves left without a forward address some years ago. They did, used to go there as a kid, there was an amusement park hidden behind the walls. |
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 11, 2022 14:58:04 GMT
I've never been to Plymouth! I was, unfortunately, visualizing a Bonobo style fencing match with THAT knocking over the bin, whilst the bin's owner keeps trying to get it upright! |
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Post by Tuffers on Oct 11, 2022 16:30:57 GMT
Got. MOT. Done. (and service)
The old girl (aged 7)is back on the drive. Although I'm £572 squids worse off. Sob. Turns out I needed 3 (THREE) new tyres. The one with the puncture and the two front ones. I thought the front two were just about OK, but he thought borderline. So that was a big chunk of the cost. Oh well, all sorted for 12 months (hopefully).
Miles done in the last 12 months? A WHOPPING 2,660. Your welcome, Greta.
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Post by Felice Landry on Oct 11, 2022 17:21:24 GMT
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 11, 2022 17:42:09 GMT
Got. MOT. Done. (and service) The old girl (aged 7)is back on the drive. Although I'm £572 squids worse off. Sob. Turns out I needed 3 (THREE) new tyres. The one with the puncture and the two front ones. I thought the front two were just about OK, but he thought borderline. So that was a big chunk of the cost. Oh well, all sorted for 12 months (hopefully). Miles done in the last 12 months? A WHOPPING 2,660. Your welcome, Greta. You're lucky, even though it won't feel like it - as the driver or keeper of the car, if it's not in roadworthy condition and you have an accident, your insurance company can invalidate your insurance. But more importantly, if this theoretical accident is connected with the faulty bit, like being unable to stop in time, then you will be held responsible - even if you weren't the cause of the accident. A mate of mine got tapped on the rear right wing causing him to swerve, then skid off the road into the side of a house. His tyres failed the inspection and he ended up personally being liable for the damage to the house and his car. The police held (probably rightly) that if his tyres had been in a fit state he probably could've brought the car under control. That wiped all his savings out and nearly bankrupted him. But it could have been worse - if he'd killed someone, he would have been left with the question in his mind "would they still be alive if my tyres were in decent shape." for the rest of his life. Edit: I just re-read that and it sounds very preachy, but I spent the time tapping that in, out of concern. Everyone here probably thinks "You old windbag, I know all that." But on the off chance someone didn't, hopefully they will now realise the real stakes involved. |
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Post by amipal on Oct 11, 2022 17:45:26 GMT
TVblog: more X Files. Watched the one where we see some of the Smoking Man’s pst accomplishments. 4* Most people think it's just an Outlook data file, but, as Smoking Man showed us, the Personal Storage Table format has so much more to offer across various applications. Your face is pst. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Oct 11, 2022 19:09:27 GMT
Got. MOT. Done. (and service) The old girl (aged 7)is back on the drive. Although I'm £572 squids worse off. Sob. Turns out I needed 3 (THREE) new tyres. The one with the puncture and the two front ones. I thought the front two were just about OK, but he thought borderline. So that was a big chunk of the cost. Oh well, all sorted for 12 months (hopefully). Miles done in the last 12 months? A WHOPPING 2,660. Your welcome, Greta.  |
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Post by MrTiddles on Oct 11, 2022 19:09:58 GMT
Hmmmm...That worked OK.
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Post by Tuffers on Oct 11, 2022 19:31:41 GMT
I had the other one changed less than a year ago!
(puncture)
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 11, 2022 19:33:29 GMT
Cars eh? You don't get the pleasure of ScotRail fucking your journey home if you drive. Where's the fun in that? Oh.
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Post by Tuffers on Oct 11, 2022 19:38:33 GMT
My knowledge of the workings of automobiles:
I can:
Drive one
Wash one
Put petrol in one
Pump up the tyres
Fill up the windscreen wash
Check the oil level
Put my roof rack on and off
Make love to a beautiful wom.. Hmmm calm down Swiss Tony
I am the best* at cars.
*not true
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Post by MrTiddles on Oct 11, 2022 19:41:47 GMT
amipal. Did you get your motor(s) back today?
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Post by RollingEscargot on Oct 11, 2022 19:51:54 GMT
The lady vanished.
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 11, 2022 19:59:41 GMT
I can add to Tuffer's list:
Add oil,
Change the battery,
Remove the internal door panel and fiddle with the window and lock mechanism, and then put everything back so it works,
Change bulbs,
Remove broken exhaust pipes,
Take apart, fix and reassemble soft top motorised opening mechanism,
Change the stereo,
Call Sheep to come and give me a lift when my car won't work,
Take the bend on the A39 with advisory 20mph signs at 55, but only by letting the back end drift dangerously onto the other side of the road,
Have tawdry meaningless textbook sex with beautiful women, but only when my eyes are closed and I'm on my own.
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 11, 2022 20:00:24 GMT
My knowledge of the workings of automobiles: I can: Drive one Wash one Put petrol in one Pump up the tyres Fill up the windscreen wash Check the oil level Put my roof rack on and off Make love to a beautiful wom.. Hmmm calm down Swiss Tony I am the best* at cars. *not true Having owned and driven mostly older cars I have a decent working knowledge of what is wrong with a car. I can generally identify the difference between a damaged gearbox and a damaged clutch and a blown pump or broken exhaust. I can change a tyre. Except my current car has a can of magic air rather than a spare tyre, so I can't change the tyre. On a practical basis I can (just) change a headlamp bulb if I have to, though usually I get Halfords or a garage to do it as I have to buy the bulb anyway. Anything more complicated requires a trip to the garage. So for practical purposes I am no more useful than Tuffers. |
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Post by stxdpr on Oct 11, 2022 20:00:48 GMT
The wombles masters have been destroyed to stop any remasters. Which one of you degenerates has them and the live bootlegs on their nas raid thing? Are they on one or both drives?
I may have glanced at music things chat and it all felt like a bowel or blood bowl report.
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 11, 2022 20:02:35 GMT
The wombles masters have been destroyed to stop any remasters. Which one of you degenerates has them and the live bootlegs on their nas raid thing? Are they on one or both drives? I may have glanced at music things chat and it all felt like a bowel or blood bowl report. Wtf? What's this about Wombles master tapes? |
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Post by stxdpr on Oct 11, 2022 20:03:02 GMT
My knowledge of the workings of automobiles: I can: Drive one Wash one Put petrol in one Pump up the tyres Fill up the windscreen wash Check the oil level Put my roof rack on and off Make love to a beautiful wom.. Hmmm calm down Swiss Tony I am the best* at cars. *not true Having owned and driven mostly older cars I have a decent working knowledge of what is wrong with a car. I can generally identify the difference between a damaged gearbox and a damaged clutch and a blown pump or broken exhaust. I can change a tyre. Except my current car has a can of magic air rather than a spare tyre, so I can't change the tyre. On a practical basis I can (just) change a headlamp bulb if I have to, though usually I get Halfords or a garage to do it as I have to buy the bulb anyway. Anything more complicated requires a trip to the garage. So for practical purposes I am no more useful than Tuffers. The bugger with magic air cans is they can't repair the tyre if you use one. Save money on no recovery but get hammered with tyre or recovery hurts and no new tyre. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 11, 2022 20:04:27 GMT
I have not driven round bends on the A39 dangerously fast.
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