What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[fordperv]

congratulations Conor

[Dippy]

I needed a new electric radiator fan for the princess so I rang my mate who usually has something lying around but when I got to him he only had a 16" fan and I wanted a 10".

After a bit of thought he said I put one on my disco a couple of years ago but never wired it up, he then tried to remove the grille but the fixings wouldn't budge so he got a grinder removed the grille and took the fan off for me, that's what I call a real mate.

[dave21478]

He was always my favourite character.

 

[nacho man]

Off on a 9 hour round trip on sat morn to have a look at a car.

 

I say have a look.

 

I paid the insurance in full this morning and paid for a hpi check.

 

So there is a 99.999999999% percent chance it's coming back with me.

 

It's a bit pistonheadsie. But I have always wanted one.

 

 

 

 

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[Tamworthbay]

Off on a 9 hour round trip on sat morn to have a look at a car.

I say have a look.

I paid the insurance in full this morning and paid for a hpi check.

So there is a 99.999999999% percent chance it's coming back with me.

It's a bit pistonheadsie. But I have always wanted one.

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Very brave, hope it's decent.

[strangeangel]

Good on you Conor!

[mercrocker]

Yep, congrats to you, Conor.  I well remember how good that day felt even though it was 39 years ago.   

 

My grin for the day is unrelated, though.....I went to a Co Op yesterday and forgot my plastic bag.   I was juggling (badly) a handful of vastly different shaped purchases when the woman said "For God's sake buy a bag, its only 10p!"   I reluctantly agreed, cursing having to break my duck at never having paid for one yet.    Glad I did!   They've only gone and re-introduced the proper Co Op logo and colour that disappeared along with TK Bedfords and D Fords!    That really is a bag for life - its going to hold some of my truck brochures!

 

 

 

 

 

[richardmorris]

Pure, pulse or passion? Oh and congrats to Connor.

[michael1703]

My co op lets you take the basket to the car which saves you keep buying them, unfortunately you then have all your shizzle floating about the car unfettered

[andy18s]

My co op lets you take the basket to the car which saves you keep buying them, unfortunately you then have all your shizzle floating about the car unfettered

Well,there's a fairly obvious answer to that.........

[scaryoldcortina]

Pure, pulse or passion? Oh and congrats to Connor.

700cc Pure. Billy basic! He's looking at dash pods on ebay at the moment.

[scaryoldcortina]

He was always my favourite character.

 

I had to show Conor this. His first reaction was "Oh, you dick!" but then he said Hurley was his favourite too because he kept pointing out all the BS the same way the audience would and he liked that. He also said he'd have never made the connection if you hadn't pointed it out.

 

Also he says IF LOST GOOGLEMAPS

[Pillock]

Commuting up the M40 today. Sat at 70mph with a stream of stuff passing me that I'm half paying attention to.

 

Grey Audi.... Grey Audi.... White BMW, black Golf, white golf, grey BMW, red Lancia Delta Integrale, white Audi WAITASECOND.

 

Made my day.

[chaseracer]

OK, it's a LONG way from shite but it made me grin.

 

Passing Denis Welch Racing's fine emporium near Yoxall earlier, I espied the pert and shapely rear of this...

 

 

[beko1987]

Just spent a happy 10 minutes adjusting the front washer jets so they all hit the actual window, and the ones that did hit it in a sensible place.

 

Then attempted to find the header tank to check the coolant but gave up cos I saw nothing that looked like a coolant header tank...

[dave21478]

From the grump thread....

 

 

Time to lose some weight.

 

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A tickle with the mig and the chair is back in the game, just in time for some pizza and beer.

 

Time to lose some weight.

 

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[MarvinsMom]

the touch pad thing on the lap-top-a-ma-bob that wasn't working last night, is (at least for now) working again.

 

perhaps i don't hate the computer quiet so much today.

 

(i do, i really do hate computers.....)

[pshome]

Tagora fuses

 

[vulgalour]

All of the welding on the passenger side of the Princess is done.

[twosmoke300]

Commuting up the M40 today. Sat at 70mph with a stream of stuff passing me that I'm half paying attention to.

 

Grey Audi.... Grey Audi.... White BMW, black Golf, white golf, grey BMW, red Lancia Delta Integrale, white Audi WAITASECOND.

 

Made my day.

Brilliant !

[FakeConcern]

In a pushbike magazine so I wasn't sure if this should go in that thread, but decided it would get a bigger audience here.

[dollywobbler]

On a Facebook group, after someone asked whether fitting a dump valve was a good idea. 

 

 

Hardly any petrol fuelled turbocharged cars of any type 'need' a vent to atmosphere air-bypass valve, let alone diesel cars. Easier to open the window, rev your engine and shout Im a cock! out of the window.

 

Nice work sir! Though I must concede, I drove a Supra Mk3 with a dump valve recently and both me and the owner giggled everytime it went Ptchoo...

[gm]

I got a postcard from my nephew

 

 

so I sent him a picture message to say thankyou

 

[M'coli]

I stopped at lights in Bristol today, and in the rear-view I noticed a 12-reg bling-spec Discovery racing up to come alongside me.  The ZX's stereo was playing some prog, and the Disco driver felt the need to rev the engine - it sounded as if it was about 6 pints short of oil, but obviously I'm a "loser" because he can also drown out the stereo in my £230 car with his shit music too...

However, it's not all rosy in his manor, judging by the feathering of the outer edges of both front and rear tyres (I suspect the rears used to be the fronts) but those tyres look way more expensive than £230, and that engine sounds and smokes like it's been neglected to more than the tune of £230...

 

(edit : I'm using an Ubuntu memory stick and have now managed to change the keyboard to UK English and have put £ instead of quid)

[DVee8]

It is 04.45,i can't sleep.I have been up since 03.00.It is to hot,Mrs V8 want's most if not all of the bed.

 

But we are going to Elvington raceway in York this morning.I have a 911 turbo to play with. My12 year old did have a Lambo but some adult has hired it,so he has his choice of Aston Martins.

[Cavcraft]

 

 

'Garage sale' on a local Facebook page. Trying to resist the temptation to ask if they still have the case of VD.

[Richard]

 

 

 

Trying to resist.

 

Don't.

[jakebullet]

Shit face pineapple mong left me negative feedback on evilbay t'other day that I sent him a too small pool ball. I complained to evilbay that he was a window licker without a clue, and amazingly they have agreed with me, negative feedback erased.

 

Still getting an argos book in the post mind.

[Richard]

Argos should put you in charge of marketing.

[Cavcraft]

Shit face pineapple mong left me negative feedback on evilbay t'other day that I sent him a too small pool ball. I complained to evilbay that he was a window licker without a clue, and amazingly they have agreed with me, negative feedback erased.

 

Still getting an argos book in the post mind.

 

In the last year you've sold nigh on 4,000 of these things and only had 4 complaints. I think you've done pretty well tbh.