What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mr A Lawrence]

Made the missus grin this evening......

 

Was searching through ITV4 on sky and when she asked what I was doing I blurted out that I was looking to see if there was any saloon car racing on tomorrow.

 

Saloon car racing ffs.

[michael1703]

Far end of the Shed Of Dreams has been annexed by the Peoples Front of Autoshite....

All are entranced by the 03 Galaxy before them....

The guy in the brown shoes is gagging for a chip

[Des]

One house I went to work in had been wired by the previous owner entirely in stranded purple car cable, all wires one size regardless of circuit. Lives, neutrals, and earths all purple.

 

Didn't find his hydrolastic pump did you?

 

 

I removed this cooker wiring from behind the kitchen units recently, luckily I'd disconnected it at a fusebox 15' away on moving in, wasn't compatible with my Beatles era gas cooker. Strangely the rest of the house seemed in good order. I found a fair bit of grey lighting wiring in the loft that had been left in place with new white coloured wiring running alongside, this sparked my curiosity and on investigation the older grey stuffs outer sheathing was only fucking lead! Victorians eh? If it's good enough to contain water and gas then it's good enough for the leccy.

[Fat_Pirate]

 

Interesting article about the Pink Panthermobile over on Jalopnik.

[Coprolalia]

The house we've been renovating had never had any wiring/ plumbing removed. Or carpet/ wallpaper for that matter, everything laid on top of the old.

Made a tidy sum down the scrappers from all the cotton coated wiring, lead coated wiring, lead gas lines and old copper water pipes that we ripped out.

The plaster in the living room contained the lead gas lamp pipes, and some 30/40s era wiring.

 

The level of bodgery was terrifying.

[DeeJay]

Police holding cell?

 

 

 

Dollywobblers Doppelgager sans tifter.

[purplebargeken]

Looks like you are all waiting for a train that stopped running in the 80's.

 

Cracking calendar piccie IMHO.

[beko1987]

ha

[Supernaut]

Gumtree isn't always bad.

 

This weekend I sold both my old camera, and the winter wheels / tyres from the Audi.

 

They both sold within 24 hours of me posting the adverts, and for full asking price.

 

I now have enough cash to buy 17-Coffees' Civic, plus £80 spare (that shows how little he's asking for it though).

[nacho man]

I had a good blast in this bad boy last night, powered by the mighty kettle series.

 

 

 

It definitely made me grin.

 

 

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[dugong]

The 'ignore' settings.

 

I'm going for a full Top Trumps deck.

 

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[Kiltox]

Not shite in the slightest (certainly shit tho) but I bump started my non runner Citroen C3 today and it runs as much like a sewing machine as a 1.4 dag dag can

[Noel Tidybeard]

Made the missus grin this evening......

 

Was searching through ITV4 on sky and when she asked what I was doing I blurted out that I was looking to see if there was any saloon car racing on tomorrow.

 

Saloon car racing FTW

 

FIFY

[UmBongo]

I saw a few old clunkers when out at the beach today.

 

A white Allegro estate closely followed by a Triumph Herald. I think they were in convoy.

 

A Morris Minor and a nice light blue Beetle with black alloy wheels.

 

Also something else but I can't remember what it was.

[JohnDeere]

OK yah, drove down to London this evening in the Prelude. Sade singing 'Smooth Operator' came onto the cassette just as I got to Canary Wharf. Felt like a proper period Yuppie. Just need shoulder pads.

[robinmasters]

Went to the cinema tonight (Magnificent Seven, very good), and there was a trailer for a new Ben Affleck film, The Accountant. Looks quite good, but this was by far and away highlight of the trailer:

 

[eddyramrod]

I've just had a lovely day out with my sister.  Might not sound much but we haven't been in contact for 11 years, and very little for the 10 or so before that, so it was a really significant day.

Found her house, 120 miles from mine, with very little trouble despite only visiting it once, 19 years ago.

Then went to see Billy who lives nearby, and found his place after about 20 minutes of driving around looking for landmarks.  It's only 3 years since my one visit there, ffs!  What the hell's happened to my internal satnav?

 

Oh and I'm on holiday this week

[Rover414]

Today I went into work early to help out, anyway, driving up I notice bus is pulling to the right and then hear a grinding noise, have a little look out and this greets me:

 

 

This might seem like a grump but I was sitting there waiting for our on call mechanic to come out, now the usual Transit Connect is not available so I was expecting them to show up in the Land Rover, oh no:

 

 

63 plate bus, 51 plate "breakdown van" ha!

 

[oldcars]

Never had a car with a bluetooth car kit thingy. The 75 has a parrot kit fitted but i have never used it before. Set it up Sunday and phone the good lady on the way home. I felt like a photocopier salesman in the mid 2000s. He must have hit his targets as he has the top spec 75. I then went on to phone countless folk because i can.

[RoadworkUK]

Just down the road from me is a listed monument named the Mistley Towers. Out of nowhere, recent months have brought scores of visiting cars lining the narrow road past it while their occupants play Pokemon Go - the programmers have placed a Pokemon 'Gym' here.

 

The assortment of depressingly barried Astras and Focuses that this usually involves totally grumps me out, as does seeing a whole family sitting in one Mondeo and gawping into their screens, rather than actually getting out and walking around, breathing the river air and enjoying the scenery.

 

However. Last night, on my way back from the pub, the usual hideous morass was joined by a young couple in an Allegro, getting their Pokemon Go on.

 

As The Hitcher in Mighty Boosh once said:

 

"Elements of the past combining with elements of the future, to create something that's not quite as good as either".

[richardmorris]

Just back from a family weekend in the Lake District during which we climbed Catbells. Not the greatest achievement ever, but with a combined age of 274 from 4 to 73 it wasn't too bad.

My parent's have both said today that they won't be up to climbing it again ( first climbed it with my sister and I in the late 1970's) but I had to try and reign in my eldest niece ( as she kept bounding ahead like a mountain goat. She and I were in the first phalanx as my sister and BIL coped with my parents and 4 yr old niece.

 

I think this is also going to seem like one-up-man ship on the school Homework stakes as she has to write about a walk she did at the weekend!

 

 

Only rare spot was a 1978? R reg Saab estate in seemingly pristine blue on someone's driveway.

[RoadworkUK]

We live directly under the eastern approach to Stansted airport. One of my tragic pastimes is watching the overhead action on Flightradar24. Occasionally we have some interesting jet stuff fly over, and I enjoy when old semi-forgotten propeller stuff, like Fairchild Metros pass over. But my favourites are the old ruskies.

 

Typically, even with no windows open I'll hear them clearly and that'll prompt me to get Flightradar working. Just now I heard one. I immediately guessed it was Russian, with its strident high-pitched whine. Turned out to be an Antonov AN26B flying out from Stuttgart.

 

Another one I've trained myself to recognise by ear is the Piaggio P180 Avanti. Need to get the wife trained up next.

[Guest Hooli]

Talking of training the missus, my missus knows a 'baby Vulcan' by sound - Typhoons to the rest of us.

[Guest Hooli]

Today I went into work early to help out, anyway, driving up I notice bus is pulling to the right and then hear a grinding noise, have a little look out and this greets me:

 

 

This might seem like a grump but I was sitting there waiting for our on call mechanic to come out, now the usual Transit Connect is not available so I was expecting them to show up in the Land Rover, oh no:

 

 

63 plate bus, 51 plate "breakdown van" ha!

 

Optare isn't a bus, they aren't much bigger than a focus ffs

[cobblers]

Most Solos have an LED display with the facility for a tyre pressure monitor. We fix loads at work but TBH most of them come in with leccy tape covering up half the warning lights.

[Guest Hooli]

Another thing that makes me grin is our older Staffy is a rock dog, the best way to get him to chill out & relax is loud rock music. He just lays down & sleeps within mins, metallica seems best.

 

Well trained dog eh?

[gm]

[Station]

Has anyone drank MD20/20? It actually has different flavours but it all tastes the same (horrid).

I had a 50cl drink on the weekend, it was ace.

[Guest Hooli]

MD 20/20 was all the rage 'back in the day' the green one glows in UV light - always handy for puking off balconies in night clubs.

[Eddie Honda]

Yeah, but it never had a head on it like that Kanterbräu...