What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[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.

[beko1987]

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

My cars not that much of a ponce. Even we don't use extra virgin olive oil!

 

Coconut oil might produce a pleasing smell out of the exhaust though. I'll have a better look on the shelf next time

[beko1987]

Cars can run on nut oil? And to think I've been getting rid of mine in a tissue all these years.

No officer, this isn't what it looks like, I'm getting free fuel...

[Sheefag]

Cars can run on nut oil? And to think I've been getting rid of mine in a tissue all these years.

 

That's what the Sock Filter's for.

[dollywobbler]

It's Hot Rod Drag Week. So far, I've seen both a Dodge Omni and a Suzuki Vitara hit 130mph at the quarter mile. Brilliant.

[cort1977]

Jalopnik waxing lyrical about Panda vans.   http://jalopnik.com/an-unashamed-fan-letter-to-the-fiat-panda-van-1786592212

 

That guy is  bit of an unknowing shiter is some ways, runs an S-class on a shoe string.

[Jazoli]

 

My cat, back in my house after disappearing over 2 years ago, spotted him on a local FB pets group

 

Grins all round although I have some impressive cat related injuries