What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest]

we don't get the European shag though...

I've been to Amsterdam. This statement is false.

[michiel]

 

http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:RA01:30051001480091&role=image&size=large

 

Couldn't link pic, but this is what we call 'shag', available in 'semi-heavy' and 'heavy'. We shmoke our shag...

 

Found a pic:

 

[Guest]

Carter USM make me smile. Half a wake, cold and pissed off at stupid o'clock this morning. Banged the Carter CD in and before you know it I'm cranking it up full whack and singing along full tilt.

And when I drive that heap down the roadYou can hear the cheap car stereoVolume knob turned down lowAnd rubbish on the radio

I'm prepared to meet my maker and ask for my money back. Indeed.

[Mr H Sceptre]

I quite enjoy watching some of the crazy Winter Olympic sports on Eurosport. Currently digging the Women's Skeleton (where they go downhill on a tea tray, head first). A few rather tidy (lycra clad) competitors:

 

 

[brammy777]

Got to college in the end, where we spent the day trying to sort out a fucked Rover 100 with holes in the footwells and an exhaust that had rusted clean off in front of the cat.It started! And idled, and drove. Wahey!

[Cavcraft]

Cavette Junior has impressed on his two day trial at a garage and been invited back to work when he can around his college hours.Unpaid at the moment but I expect I'll be sorting him out myself. No guarantee of a job but they said they would do their best to employ a day or two a week if it works out.Chuffed to bits, especially as he's really enjoyed it and says there's quite a few of 'our' type of cars to fix there.

[brammy777]

Thats good to hear Cavette, I think ill maybe be doing another year of college just to reinforce what I already know. Its worth doing, I think.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Cavette Junior has impressed on his two day trial at a garage and been invited back to work when he can around his college hours.Unpaid at the moment but I expect I'll be sorting him out myself. No guarantee of a job but they said they would do their best to employ a day or two a week if it works out.Chuffed to bits, especially as he's really enjoyed it and says there's quite a few of 'our' type of cars to fix there.

Thats great stuff.

[trigger]

That is good news Cavette, Good for him.I was on one of them REMIT schemes when i left school in 1996, You do 4 days practical working for a local garage and one day at college, I really enjoyed it and did get to learn at lot as well as make new friends.I done body work instead of mechanics though, sometimes i wish i did mechanics as bodywork was a dirty old job what with the filler dust and paint fumes you had to inhale all the time.

[Volksy]

Just been to see Avatar at the IMAX cinema in 3D,Once my eyes had got used to being led around the screen it was nothing short of epic. Fantastic film, amazing effects. My freinds and I were pretty much speechless when we came out.If you can see it at the IMAX it's well worth it, and at £9.00 was the same price as the local Multiplex for 3DTo all the northerners, Its on a The national film museum until the end of Jan, is sold out for the next few days so you have to book in advance.But WELL worth it! Shall be going again!

[Mike D]

Thinking i'm half my age and going sledging the other night makes me grin. Yeah, i'm still bruised, and i was sore the next day, and it was between 9 and 11.30 pm, so the barbed wire fence at the end of the hill was hard to see, but epic fun!!!

[55bloke]

Just been to see Avatar at the IMAX cinema in 3D,Once my eyes had got used to being led around the screen it was nothing short of epic. Fantastic film, amazing effects. My freinds and I were pretty much speechless when we came out.If you can see it at the IMAX it's well worth it, and at £9.00 was the same price as the local Multiplex for 3DTo all the northerners, Its on a The national film museum until the end of Jan, is sold out for the next few days so you have to book in advance.But WELL worth it! Shall be going again!

Went to see it last week, in 3D at the multiplex, and came out just about speechless. It is, genuinely, astonishing, can't recommend it highly enough. Imagine it must be quite an experience in IMAX.

[GrumpyOldMan]

 

^^^ A seriously good book, regardless of what one thinks of its writer. Manages to be witty, thought-provoking and heart-warming at the same time ! A must for people with a genuine passion for cars and engineering (a definition that probably applies to all members of this forum !).

[brammy777]

Got 12 issues of street machine through the post today, all from 1982. Brilliant magazine, the custom cars from back then were well finished. Checked a few on the DVLA database, only one is still taxed on the road, although one 7.5 litre MKII Consul has been unlicensed since march.... anyone know more?I can chuck up some scans if anyone wants them.

[chester drawers]

After hours BBC2 showing “Pages from CEEFAXâ€Â, with music apparently borrowed from Swiss Railway Journeys. If it wasn’t for that “How CEEFAX switches to Digital TV 697†anchor on the news pages you could pretend it was still 1983 8)Bugger it, I'm going to have another beer and watch this for a bit...EDIT: Intrigue. They've stopped the music now and an announcer has said "we're interrupting our programmes to" followed by silence. Don't keep me in suspense. What's going on? Has someone assassinated The Queen? Is the World going to end? Should I head for the Anderson shelter? Help!2nd EDIT: The music's back. Panic over :D3rd EDIT: Page 124 just went by and apparently a simple urine test can differentiate between dangerous and safe snoring. What will they think of next?

[Rusty Pelican]

Missus made me laugh this morning , Pet shop boys new single comes on the radio .I like this group , VERY controversial thoughCONTROVERSIAL WHY ????????????They did that relax thing , you know , When you want to come No thats Frankie goes to Hollywood NOT the Pet shop boys Lead singer sounds exactly the sameUHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Missus has FINALLY lost the plot

[Hudsonpie]

Just saw a Shitron Picasso abandoned up the road with one side stoved in and the o/s front wheel hanging off.....its not even icy either....tit

[Mr Lobster]

 

*Sigh*

 

On a boring, cold afternoon at work, pictures of Emma Bunton cheer me up no end

[Minimad5]

Well Mr Lobster i wouldn't say no to abit of that.On the other hand i can be happy from simple things :)Such as on saturday i replaced a rear hub on a "52" Nissan Micro-waveSure i got a soggy ass from the snow But seing my mate and his dear old mother be happy was chuffingly good !I weirdly get happy from drumming too (Which has the opposite affect on the neighbours)

[trigger]

Oh Emma Bunton... I had a huge teenage crush on her, Still do a bit...* Goes of to search google images with safesearch off...*

[Cavcraft]

I've got a bloody mid-life crush on her

[trigger]

I think she could be the perfect women, My wife often comments about how i fancy Emma more then her!.

 

[retrogeezer]

yeh, she is lovely....

[retrogeezer]

this just made me LOL...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA

[barrett]

Nah, have you seen Bunton recently? she's not wearing the years well, shall we say. It's all about Shakira.....

[retrogeezer]

yeh, I don't look as good as I did when I was 20 either so we'll call it quits eh!

[Mash]

Oh I don't know, Emma Bunton was on that Mr & Mrs shit the other week * and she looked pretty damn nice to me!*I was flicking channels, it was on, I saw her, I watched it for a few minutes that's all Anyway...I have returned from a trip to Europe in a bad mood and with a stinking cold so I have been mostly sat in front of the telly this weekend. I was supposed to see Avatar last night but had to cancel which miffed me even more. However I was mightily cheered up today with some cool stuff on TV as follows:The Quiller Memorandum - 60s spy thriller in Berlin (where I've just been) with lots of really excellent German shite.Minder - one of the later ones with whatisname as Ray and a flashback to the fashions of the early 90s and a few glimpses of motors, including a Trabant.The Saint - this episode was called The World Beater and was all about sports cars and rallying with some industrial espionage thrown in - excellent episode.The Professionals - an episode from 1980, some good car action with Cortinas and a Transit ambulance, plus a great little filling station with old pumps with globes and a Renner 16.All in all not a bad day really!

[Andrew353w]

Good choice, Mash! I was watching exactly the same programmes on ITV4! Interested in that film "The Quiller Memorandum"-anything to do with the Cold War is up my alley (as it were!) I'll be off Googling that any minute now.Incidentally, my Wartburg features in another Cold War film due out soon: "The Debt" is set in 1960's east Berlin, so another car fest for those of us into east European cars!

[Mash]

I missed the beginning of the film but I got the impression it might have been set only about 10-12 years after the war perhaps, before the Wall? I say this because although it was made in 1966, the majority of cars used by the characters were from the 50s.

 

For example:

 

 

However they hadn't really tried to hide the newer cars so maybe my theory is wrong (see Rekord in pic above).

 

Unless, as in Quadrophenia, they just didn't give a shit!

[barrett]

iirc the quiller memorandum is a bit rubbish, i caught a bit of it today but quickly flicked over to ITV1 to catch the pilot film of Kojack (sic), which turned out to be a gritty little thriller based on a true story, none of the lollipop nonsense (evidentally Telly was atill a smoker at this point), I was pretty impressed. New York was a real shitheap back in the early 70s though!Doesn't that episode of The Saint use an orange TVR (that popped up in a few ITC shows at the time) as the new sports car? cannae remember what they called it, but they didn't even bother to hide the TVR badge on the front as i recall!