Good Morning Good Night and General Chat.

[Mickly]

49 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Oddly the inside of my car doesn’t ever need defrosting, maybe the aircon keeps it dry? My first mini though often had more ice on the inside than out. !

I remember scraping the inside of my old Austin Mini screen & side windows on icy mornings.

Also the rear window when the aftermarket stick on heater element inevitably  peeled off.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

5 hours ago, Mickly said:

My Disco has a heated screen, plus the added bonus of an app that lets you set the interior temperature remotely so at this time of year the engine starts, heats the interior & defrosts the windows while I drink my cuppa - all while being securely locked.

Only downside is that it doesn’t switch on the heated seats or heated steering wheel, I have to wait until I’m in it to do that!!

Sounds like bliss. Shame on them for letting you get briefly chilled fingers though, a terrible oversight on their part, I’m sure they’ll be an app update soon

Edited January 7, 2021 by Slowlycatchymonkey

[Bender]

1 hour ago, rennie said:

Good Evening 

My driver's side window is nearly always cracked open

usually so I can throw my fag ends at people! 

I threw a cigarette back through someone's window at a junction a few years ago.

 

Accompanied with oh I'm sorry you appear to have mistaken the outside world for your ashtray, got back in and drove round him as he frantically searched for the glowing end probably melting a hole in his carpet.

 

 

[James in Brum]

I find it odd that some people don’t think of fags as litter. 

[Bender]

1 minute ago, James in Brum said:

I find it odd that some people don’t think of fags as litter. 

I reported a police for doing the same he pulled up outside one of those fortress type stations where they don't want to interact with the public.

 

He flicked it out and drove through automated gates, I picked it up pressed the button and waved it at the camera, apparently they are not supposed to smoke in the cars and voice man said he would be spoken to, probably laughed at more like.

[rennie]

I knew people would bite!

 

I'm careful what I do with my fag ends honest 

[Tiggie]

As far as rubbish from cars the one that genuinely pisses me off is Mcdonalds carparks. There are bins dotted all over them and people just open the window and chuck it out 

[skyrider]

18 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

As far as rubbish from cars the one that genuinely pisses me off is Mcdonalds carparks. There are bins dotted all over them and people just open the window and chuck it out 

they want fining heavily 

[rennie]

Good Morning 

[Guest Swagman]

5 hours ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

The mini of course, the one you used to look at the rain and wonder if it would start, the one with a gear stick that really was a stick that simply disappeared through a cross cut in the carpet floor, the one where the locks would freeze shut with no hope of getting a tiny metal key in, the one with ‘heaters’ that would finally put put a wisp of warm air just as you arrived at your destination, the one with windscreen wipers that were too busy having a party to effectively clear the windscreen, the one where you had to know exactly how far to pull out the choke and how long leave it warming before you could start it, the one before abs that you could skid around in, the one that had by the end of its life been more than one car because parts were endlessly replaceable and it was cheap because seemingly anyone could work on it. 

Wish I hadn’t let it go, great car.

Great I had one of those, couldn’t stop it pouring smoke out the exhaust.

[Guest Swagman]

5 hours ago, Mickly said:

My Disco has a heated screen, plus the added bonus of an app that lets you set the interior temperature remotely so at this time of year the engine starts, heats the interior & defrosts the windows while I drink my cuppa - all while being securely locked.

Only downside is that it doesn’t switch on the heated seats or heated steering wheel, I have to wait until I’m in it to do that!!

You poor man I feel really sorry for you with cold hands and arse.

[Guest Swagman]

Good morning Rennie.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

4 minutes ago, Swagman said:

You poor man I feel really sorry for you with cold hands and arse.

Briefly cold, he has a heated seat and wheel

[Guest Swagman]

Just now, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Briefly cold, he has a heated seat and wheel

Yeah but the poor man has to get in to switch them on.🥲🥲

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

1 minute ago, Swagman said:

Yeah but the poor man has to get in to switch them on.🥲🥲

We’ll chip in and get him a butler, just tell them Stu needs the money for something, it’ll roll in

[Guest Swagman]

Just now, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

We’ll chip in and get him a butler, just tell them Stu needs the money for something, it’ll roll in

Good idea another buff they sell well.

[rennie]

I'll tell you all about cold cars at 0545!

My poor old diesel Astra takes about 15 mins. to get even slightly warm

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

Just finished helping my son submit his university application so I’m wide awake which is annoying. I read his personal statement and feel bad I’ve intervened but if you read it you would too. It was really sweet, his family obviously mean a lot to him because he mentions nearly all of us at some point! It’s hard knowing whether university is worth the bother in a lot of areas now but I suppose I’d rather they were in education while covid works it’s evil on the unemployment figures. I should probably just be grateful it’s an option. 

[Guest Swagman]

4 minutes ago, rennie said:

I'll tell you all about cold cars at 0545!

My poor old diesel Astra takes about 15 mins. to get even slightly warm

Been there Rennie all those stupid hours of the night having to go to work, hardly worth going to bed some nights as the shift started at 2am and was 40 miles away, in to your own cold frozen car down to the depot pick up the cold frozen van, what loverly memory they are.

[Guest Swagman]

2 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Just finished helping my son submit his university application so I’m wide awake which is annoying. I read his personal statement and feel bad I’ve intervened but if you read it you would too. It was really sweet, his family obviously mean a lot to him because he mentions nearly all of us at some point! It’s hard knowing whether university is worth the bother in a lot of areas now but I suppose I’d rather they were in education while covid works it’s evil on the unemployment figures. I should probably just be grateful it’s an option. 

Well let’s hope he gets in and once completed his education doesn’t have to go into the fast food industry, one of my son’s friends worked for Maccy ds before he did 4years at uni then came home and guess where he works now maccy ds.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

7 hours ago, rennie said:

I'll tell you all about cold cars at 0545!

My poor old diesel Astra takes about 15 mins. to get even slightly warm

The coldest I’ve ever been in a vehicle was doing the 5 o'clock milking on the farm where the fields back straight onto the sea, a cab-less tractor in the icey January gale force winds blowing in off the channel trying to get the cattle in in the pitch black, real pitch black, no lighting. Brrrrr I don’t think even the -30 degree temperature I experienced in Canada can top that. Hosing down the milking parlour with the coldest water I’ve ever encountered was impossible to do without getting wet yourself and then having to get back on the tractor. It’s no wonder I have an obsession with cold weather gear now

Edited January 7, 2021 by Slowlycatchymonkey

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

8 minutes ago, Swagman said:

Well let’s hope he gets in and once completed his education doesn’t have to go into the fast food industry, one of my son’s friends worked for Maccy ds before he did 4years at uni then came home and guess where he works now maccy ds.

Yes it’s a distinct possibility isn’t it but I’d rather he did something he enjoyed and hopefully has a good time before settling into a McDs job. It’s all a bit bleak on that front, especially now so if I can give him four more years of being young, carefree and optimistic I’d rather that cos one way or another life’s coming for ya and once it starts it doesn’t stop!

[NeilM]

6 hours ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Just finished helping my son submit his university application so I’m wide awake which is annoying. I read his personal statement and feel bad I’ve intervened but if you read it you would too. It was really sweet, his family obviously mean a lot to him because he mentions nearly all of us at some point! It’s hard knowing whether university is worth the bother in a lot of areas now but I suppose I’d rather they were in education while covid works it’s evil on the unemployment figures. I should probably just be grateful it’s an option. 

Yes. Be grateful. 

Where is he applying to?

My 2 are still looking around for 2022 start, but seem to have narrowed it down.

Unfortunately for @Stulewis is looking at Hull.......

[Trooper74]

My first car , Morris Minor , didn't have a heater fitted ... it was an extra .... ! in winter driving over Salisbury plain to Newquay i would have to stop now and again to scrape ice off the inside of the windows ... Or stop breathing ....

The Transit has heated screens front and rear ...

Edited January 7, 2021 by Trooper74

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

11 minutes ago, NeilM said:

Yes. Be grateful. 

Where is he applying to?

My 2 are still looking around for 2022 start, but seem to have narrowed it down.

Unfortunately for @Stulewis is looking at Hull.......

Surprisingly Weston where we live has the course with highest ranking, they know him and have guaranteed him a place so that’s the back up. 
Then he chose on the course and ratings which meant Guildford and both Bristol Uni’s. 
He wants Bristol and really so do I. If everything goes tits up he can always come back, live at home n commute. He’s deferring til 2022 so he can earn money to give him some sort of cushion.
 

You have two going at the same time?