What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mr A Lawrence]

I finally had to bite the bullet and resort to putting the old daily hack on gumtree. After reading on here about the numties on there, the first message is.lol. Wide u swopz for a radio control plane and a saw of some sort. If they had offered a pineapple I might have considered it.lol. Good old bumtree.

[Timewaster]

Local faceache page has a story about a van hitting the railway bridge.

 

Happens every couple of months and every time the comments are unbelievable.

 

Blind idiots, take their licence away, what if that had been a child 9ft in the air etc etc etc

 

Today's best so far: "So meny idiots can't read"

[Stanky]

After several years of poverty or poor timing blighting my chances to see one of my favourite bands live, tonight I bagged a pair of tickets to see VNV Nation live in Holland in November. Chuffed would be an understatement.

 

I'm taking brother_stanky along as he likes them too and as a birthday present for him. Can't wait. Its a 3 hour show too, playing early stuff right through to the newest album so should be a good one.

[bramz7]

Have a fair bit of time off in November, checked some air fares for a bit of a laugh and now I'm going to Rome. Again. Flights cost less than my trip to Norwich....

[saucedoctor]

Or as we call it in Carrickfergus, "voicemail"

 

http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/buckfast-swigging-topless-man-arrested-11879694

 

Bucky FTW.

 

 

[hairnet]

response

 

'unless ye hav anny letturs fek aff'

[richardmorris]

Monks in France make Cointreau and Benedictine with similar effects. My dad's always said it was to take their minds off vows of chastity.

[purplebargeken]

What does Buckies actually taste like?

[The Moog]

Accepted an offer on our flat in Edinburgh.

 

Seems my mad dash to fill the house with furniture paid off. First person to see it has bought it.

[Ghosty]

What does Buckies actually taste like?

 

Like wine, but worse. Apparently Liverpudlians are keen on it.

[saucedoctor]

Buckfast to me tastes like that red medicine that you got when you were a kid, instead of penicillin.

[Pillock]

In other news, turns out Buckfast is cheaper than a prescription for that red medicine you got as a kid.

[Richard]

Is it? It costs a fucking fortune here, so much that I've never tasted it.

[michael1703]

 

 

A friend of mine lives in buckfastleigh and on visiting her and going to the abbey I can't quite work out the link between drunk Scotsmen and Devon monks?

[Timewaster]

Monks brew some mad potions. Scotsmen like ti drink them?

[Kiltox]

 

No tax since Feb (how has it taken so long?), no MoT and no insurance

[Louise2cv]

Buckfast ≈ horrible medicine or cough syrup.

 

I think it's probably like herbal tea which is rank until you drink enough to get used to it?

[Coprolalia]

Drank Buckie as a student. Excellent warm up for a night out.

Then we discovered Synatogen, which is like Bucky but with several red bull cans worth of caffeine added. Choo-choo!

[Eddie Honda]

Airdrie, Coatbridge & Bellshill form the Buckfast Triangle...

 

Rank stuff, I'd rather do Carlsberg Spesh Brew / TNT cider snakebites...

[Cavcraft]

tastes like that red medicine that you got when you were a kid

Wine?

[Richard]

Buckfast has caffeine in it too, apparently that's why people get violent when they drink it.

[MarvinsMom]

Marvin has passed the mot,

 

ok so there are a couple of advisories WRT slight corrosion of back brake pipes, some corrosion to the hydro pipe between the back displacers and a worn tyre,

 

but we are legal for another year!!

 

good old Marvin....

[Sheefag]

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No tax since Feb (how has it taken so long?), no MoT and no insurance

 

You should have reported him earlier....!

[Slappy]

Scene inside the garage at the end of my road.... Rover R8 416 poking it's arse out the door, J reg Transit being worked on in the middle, Trig-spec (RIP) Astra at the back looking like it's being used as a paint test mule. Permanently outside, early K11 Micra and passing by the end of the road was a Tata Ghurkha. The rusty Felicia that I think the owner runs was no where to be seen at that moment....

[scaryoldcortina]

I just upgraded our focus CL to remote locking using bits I scrounged from the scrapyard. Total time 10 mins, cost nil.

[beko1987]

 

£24, bargain

[forddeliveryboy]

 

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£24, bargain

 

 

About as good a simple example of how dysfunctional the modern economic system is. Clear ancient rainforest to allow MNCs to grow Soya, wreck the land, destroy entire communities, poisin those who remain with agrichemcials (child cancer rates in soya plantation areas are through the roof), then poisin the countries who buy the product, often through feeding the intensively-farmed animals the genetically-modded product. 

 

On a human scale it's genocide, on an environmental scale far worse.

 

“Soya is a business for the few and an epidemic for the masses.â€

 

Rapeseed oil is less harmful to our world and engines run better on it, it stays liquid to -10C and below. 10p a litre if you can be bothered to buy a sock filter and a pair of drums - it's less hassle than going to a supermarket, filling the trolley with individual bottles of oil and decanting them one-by-one into the tank - or into the boot, then into the tank.

[beko1987]

Well, asda only had this or sunflower, and its cheaper than diesel. We aren't going to have this debate again are we?

 

I did spot 5l of nut oil, but it was a tad more expensive.

[Bucketeer]

If you're not using ethically sourced extra virgin olive oil in the car Sam you're just an earth raping, sunflower hating bastard.

[M'coli]

If you really want to be an environmental bastard, run a diesel on whale oil.