What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mash]

/\ I've just seen Seth's new sig above! ROFL!

[Des]

MOT pass! No big deal, but I've been trying to find the time, energy, motivation to do a pre test onceover, the weeks pass quickly and I realise I've been driving around for almost a month without. Decided to book it in anyway, fix what it fails on and bear the retest fee and it turns out the poor neglected things in good shape for it's age. (17)

[Gompo]

Gompo, I think yours is the cutest cat here so far....

 

Cheers.. although I am not sure if i should be pleased or disappointed! Perhaps this can make you rethink:

 

 

Not a lot making me grin at the moment, but going to some crap darts competition ('Clash of the titans') on Friday which should be a laugh..

[Mr H Sceptre]

Darts will be a top laugh.

[brammy777]

Karting tomorrow will be good, and its my birthday on Friday! Ill be 19, without a driving license. Oh well, could be worse, my older brothers 30 this year and in the same boat.

[Mr Lobster]

and its my birthday on Friday!

Have a good birthday! It's Mrs L's birthday as well on Friday and I haven't yet got her a present best be getting on with that I s'pose.

[Cavcraft]

Someone's just offered me a Disco dizzler that is (and I quote) ''...good on diesel, even around the doors'.

[Tayne]

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[Cavcraft]

It's a 1992/3. To be honest I've bombed it right out as he wanted a straightener against my 04 plate Vectra, which, as shit as it undoubtably is, is worth shed loads more.Cheers for the info though mucker.

[pogweasel]

Sunshine. That is all. After the most miserable winter I can remember, it was so pleasurable to spend the afternoon working feeling the actual warmth of the sun on my face. OK, so it's not a skin-cancer-inducing roasting just yet, and it was still fricking brass monkey's when I went out this morning, to be down to 2 t-shirts (rather than 2 t-shirts, wooly pully, massive coat) by knocking off time makes me happy happy joy joy.

[Lankytim]

Dragged the Audi out of the garage after a couple of months lay up (to avoid the shit road salt dissolving it more than it aready has)The Audi started first time which was great but it drove like a sack of crap, wallowing everywhere and genrally feeling nasty. I started to think that it was actually crapper than I had remembered and started to doubt my decision to MOT it for another year. I felt pretty down as id sunk alot of time and money into it and to be honest it put a real downer on the rest of the day.After a mechanically minded poke about I realised that 15 psi isnt really the best pressure for the tyres so id better blow them upThe Audi driving experience has now improved by a by a factor of 12 and im very happy. Even took the wife and nippa out it it with no tears from either party. Nice cheap result! YAY!!

[pandamonium]

This will start off as a rant. There is a lady who works in our office who is only there because she is the owners aunt. She is useless at everything, and takes 3 times as long to do simple stuff as we would. The owner knows this, and has even admitted to it, but cannot/will not get rid as she is family. However, she spoke to me yesterday to tell me she is leaving! After 15 years at the company! Woohoo! Don't get me wrong, I don't hate her, but I like my staff to be efficient and accurate and hard working. Which she isn't.so - that made me grin.

[retrogeezer]

Jeff Waynes musical version of War of the Worlds, just a totally awesome piece of work.

[Cavcraft]

Going through my drawers at work and found a picture of my daughter (aged about 2 at the time) from she won a 'best dressed fairy and dancing competition' thing. Now proudly displayed on my locker and making me grin from ear to ear.

[michiel]

This old pic from the Amsterdam archives made me grin, what is up with that front screen?

 

[pogweasel]

Jeffs Waynes musical version of War of the Worlds, just a totally awesome piece of work.

+1

[trigger]

Hey Michiel, Where do you get all them old photo's from on Flickr?, You have some great stuff.

 

My wife picked me up this retro cars calender from T J Hughes yesterday for the princely sum of 75p, It's fab, It has more normal car's in it rather than lamborghinis and Ferraris, It even has a DAF 66!.

 

 

[michiel]

Nice one! Most of 'my' photos are details from shots on online imagebanks, a lot from the Amsterdam city archives. Lots of zooming, ctrl print scrn, ctrl v, crop in simple picture editor etc...

[retrogeezer]

I'd love one of those calenders....whats TJ Hughes?? A discount shop like Home Bargains?

[trigger]

I'd love one of those calenders....whats TJ Hughes?? A discount shop like Home Bargains?

Mrs Trigger has just picked up 6 more of them, If anybody wants one of these calenders it's £1.75 deliver to your door!, PM me with your details (paypal perf).

[brammy777]

I keep seeing Metros, everywhere. I think its a good thing. Some of you may strongly disagree.

[Mr Lobster]

BBC showing classic F1 races on the red button thing.Excellent!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'd love one of those calenders....whats TJ Hughes??

Its the newsagent version of TJ HOOKER

 

[Pillock]

What makes me happy?Watanbe's rants in the GoM thread. I mean, I'm not one to find amusement in another's misery but they are 100% pure gold, and I find myself reading them in a ranty mental voice too just to add to the effect. It's the writing style and delivery that makes me chuckle, not the subject matter.I'll buy you a beer if I ever meet you.

[AXrescuer]

Hey Michiel, Where do you get all them old photo's from on Flickr?, You have some great stuff.

 

My wife picked me up this retro cars calender from T J Hughes yesterday for the princely sum of 75p, It's fab, It has more normal car's in it rather than lamborghinis and Ferraris, It even has a DAF 66!.

 

 

Snap!

 

[dollywobbler]

What makes me happy?Watanbe's rants in the GoM thread. I mean, I'm not one to find amusement in another's misery but they are 100% pure gold, and I find myself reading them in a ranty mental voice too just to add to the effect. It's the writing style and delivery that makes me chuckle, not the subject matter.I'll buy you a beer if I ever meet you.

I hope there's some sort of therapy in those rant, though they seriously trouble me. There really are some shit managers about!They are brilliantly written.

[Mr H Sceptre]

What makes me happy?Watanbe's rants in the GoM thread. I mean, I'm not one to find amusement in another's misery but they are 100% pure gold, and I find myself reading them in a ranty mental voice too just to add to the effect. It's the writing style and delivery that makes me chuckle, not the subject matter.I'll buy you a beer if I ever meet you.

I hope there's some sort of therapy in those rant, though they seriously trouble me. There really are some shit managers about!They are brilliantly written.

Just been reading them over a couple of times myself. As you both say, bad shit going down, but very well written! Just read a couple of bits out to my mate who subsequently was in stitches.

[Pete-M]

Went for a job interview earlier this week, just to see if I still have the job interview thing goin' on. Only a part time jobbie, bit of driving, bit of car hire type malarky.Didn't particularly want the job, so went at it from the "Brutally honest, take no shit, tell it like it is, and want random time off to go and fix the Escort every few weeks." angle. Bloke listened to what I had to say, thought about it and says to me "Ok, how about this, I'll take you on on a trial basis to start with, so you can still go to Czech for a few days here and there and work on your car. If you like working here, and it's all going to plan, I'll take you on full time, good money, car, and you can run a branch for me as I suspect you can do this standing on your head. Oh, and you can still have the odd week here and there to go to CZ."Then he rang up last night "Er, fancy working tomorrow? Just to get your hand in?".So today I've driven to the midlands in a '10' plate Merc E class, had a totally relaxed day, job is an absolute piece of piss and I came back to find todays wages (which were a fair bit more than expected) plus two hours overtime - because of the Friday madness on the motorway.Oh, and he's given me the first week in April to bugger off and do some work on the Escort.Oh yeah! A job I like, at last.

[dollywobbler]

Result! Interviews are bloomin' hard, so that's probably a good approach really.

[warren t claim]

Congratulations Pete, but it's probably all a ploy to lull you into a false sense of security....sorry my paranoid side just kicked in, seriously hope it goes well.

Yes, he will probably be using you as a drugs mule without your knowledge!