What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

In other news...

 

Having visited Dunkerque earlier today (well, yesterday...) I can understand completely why the Wehrmacht set fire to it in 1940.

 

Didn't think it was that bad when we visited last Easter. Bit like a French Aberystwyth in many ways. Ok, that's not necessarily a compliment I'll concede...

[spike60]

Dunkerque is twinned with Middlesbrough. I live near M'bro and have visited Dunkerque and it's pretty apt.

 

The main difference is their steel plant hasn't shut.

[loserone]

I hear that. A good 10 years after quitting the smell of someone sparking up a Marlboro Light got me climbing the walls. I'm closer to 20 years now and its passed thankfully.

Someone sparking up a MB Light would have me climbing the walls to get out, binds are and always were absolutely disgusting (in my opinion, obviously!)

[DeeJay]

Just watching American Pickers and Barry has a convertible AC/Invacar in his garage.

London Calling, Ep 4, season 6

[DVee8]

Tickets for Skid Row at the O2 academy Newcastle next month..

[Hendry]

For some reason the price of a 20 deck of Club fags is down by over £3 just now. 

[Cavcraft]

Work's do=utterly destroyed

[STUNO]

Proof that cars CAN rust in the antipidies....

The Ventora looks ok though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[andy18s]

Work's do=utterly destroyed

Are these a monthly occurrence or something?

Or do you have many,many companies in your portfolio?

[Mr A Lawrence]

Are there any vacancies in your "works" ?

 

Monthly works do's sound fun. 

[beko1987]

My dad's neighbor has an excellent taste in cars

 

[DeeJay]

Work's do=utterly destroyed

Making up for last week?

[vulgalour]

Here's a photo of a one-year only Canadian market Dodge Viscount (bascially a Plymouth Fury with Dodge front end) ... in Israel.

 

[hairnet]

Dunkerque is twinned with Middlesbrough. I live near M'bro and have visited Dunkerque and it's pretty apt.

 

The main difference is their steel plant hasn't shut.

can understand them

 

better food

 

its not near boro

[Frogchod]

I've been discussing a fuse board replacement with a client, I asked for a picture of the existing one.

She sent me this saying it's through the door and in the hallway

[vulgalour]

 

Cheers to William for the Facebook tip off...  a familiar Ital van bothering name there too...

[Cavcraft]

Are these a monthly occurrence or something?

Or do you have many,many companies in your portfolio?

 

Basically, it's just getting absolutely wankered on as many Saturday nights as possible, sometimes on the proceeds of the many many rubbish cars I get weighed in. 

[fordperv]

Does the heavy drinking lead to the purchase of more cars that no one else would touch with a shitty stick?

[vulgalour]

It's a terrifying thought that Billy might have been buying cars sober.  Have you seen them?

[DodgeRover]

Not wishing to condone drunk driving but barring a biohazard suit heavy drinking would definitely be required before delving under the seats in some of them!

[robinmasters]

well done mate , i'm at 14 months now , I think when you smell smoke and it makes you want to spew up rather than it smelling nice is the tipping point 

 

I gave up 13+ years ago. I still love the smell. I have been known to walk behind people in order to Hoover up their secondhand smoke. 

[cros]

Had a visit from a friend of my late mother's yesterday. At Christmas she flew to New York by herself to visit family, and at their remote farm nipped outside for a smoke. It was -20 and wind whipped up the snow so for a short time she was lost in the white-out. She seemed unfazed by it but the biggest problem was that her lighter had frozen up and for a few minutes she couldn't find the way back in to seek an alternative source of ignition.

She's 89.

[John F]

It's unusual to find a Montego Estate in a car park nowadays.

 

It's very unusual to find an Austin Allegro.

 

So what would be the chances of finding both of them in the same car park on the outskirts of Innsbruck in Austria last week? Very high, apparently. With a bonus ex-fire service LT28.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's unusual to find a Montego Estate in a car park nowadays.

 

It's very unusual to find an Austin Allegro.

 

So what would be the chances of finding both of them in the same car park on the outskirts of Innsbruck in Austria last week? Very high, apparently. With a bonus ex-fire service LT28.

 

 

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[John F]

They didn't look like they'd been moved for quite some time, but were still in fairly tidy condition.

[Talbot]

Could it be the inverse of using a Romanian registered car here in the UK? Austrian Plod see a UK plate and ignore it?

[Tayne]

The allegro owner was probably chucked out of the UK for putting those wheels on it.

[cros]

It's unusual to find a Montego Estate in a car park nowadays.

 

It's very unusual to find an Austin Allegro.

 

So what would be the chances of finding both of them in the same car park on the outskirts of Innsbruck in Austria last week? Very high, apparently. With a bonus ex-fire service LT28.

 

 

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You have simply died and gone to heaven.

[John F]

And to top it all, the Horsey Horseless appears in this episode of QI

 

"Getting out of a car", from 14:15

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knrMWIgvOtc

[AlabamaShrimp]

They've stolen our car!!!