What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[M'coli]

  On 16/03/2018 at 18:50, Aston Martin said:

I’m gonna keep this vague. I sold something on eBay, the guy drove hundreds of miles to collect.

I googled him (don’t judge me) and this guy works for a certain company.

 

If I’d have known he works for X I’d have never let him out of the house as I’d still be asking him questions.

"I found the perfect picture, of a perfect stranger.

It looked as if, it were taken in the forties sometime,

Judging by the style."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StpPgV7GAYw

 

[Datsuncog]

  On 16/03/2018 at 18:50, Aston Martin said:

I’m gonna keep this vague. I sold something on eBay, the guy drove hundreds of miles to collect.

I googled him (don’t judge me) and this guy works for a certain company.

 

If I’d have known he works for X I’d have never let him out of the house as I’d still be asking him questions.

Erm... works for Ambrosia Creamed Rice?

 

"Devon knows how they make it so creamy!"

[omegod]

Sussed it, he's the guy who knows the secret of getting egg to go continuously all the way through a gala pie 

 

[Axplug]

Thank you for welcome! I sold the fox camper about 7 years ago ......it was nice inside as I spent about two years sorting it out I'll try and rustle up a photo to prove its not like a toilet inside. It was quite nippy until you reached a hill, and the handling was a bit wobbly with that thing on its back....I've had a few reliants.....the old reliant garage owner in Chesterfield (woodleighs) said you can always tell a reliant owner and I didn't know what he meant until I met a few more. I have found them all very pleasant , generally with no hair, big grey beards, and no teeth......and I have at least one of these characteristics unfortunately

[artdjones]

^Got it,he was James Corden's pr man.

[Cheggers]

  On 16/03/2018 at 18:50, Aston Martin said:

I’m gonna keep this vague. I sold something on eBay, the guy drove hundreds of miles to collect.

I googled him (don’t judge me) and this guy works for a certain company.

 

If I’d have known he works for X I’d have never let him out of the house as I’d still be asking him questions.

I'm going to guess he works at ATOS

 

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[scaryoldcortina]

I disn't think ATOS was a place!

 

I just spotted a text on my phone, it says "hi, what was that all about, lol." It's timed 12:28 yesterday.

 

I bet you can guess who!

[Slartibartfast]

Someone turned up this morning to buy the Megane 1 cabrio seats I have for sale. He turned up in a Megane 1 cabrio. Thus began a game of car interior tetris that will probably be unrivalled.

[wuvvum]

  On 16/03/2018 at 06:10, Spottedlaurel said:

This was one of his I imagine?

 

1984 Reliant Fox - Westlegate, Norwich by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Has probably been discussed on here previously, but as this photo is from 11+ years ago I can't 100% remember.

Yup, that's the chap.  He's had that one for ages - I started renting the garage in 2003 and he already owned it then.

[robinmasters]

I just found an object I made years ago; a wooden mock-up of a mobile phone I was considering buying. It's a grin because at no point during making it did I wonder about my own sanity. 

 

[Frogchod]

A couple of local lads are doing the 4L Trophy next year. They turned up at my local bar touting for sponsorship and flogging 4L trophy trinkets to raise funds.

For those not aware of the 4L Trophy it's a charity event where students have to take 50kg of school supplies to somewhere in the arse end of Morocco.

Their van is in superb condition, I hope it returns in one piece.

I wonder what'll happen when they run out of Renner 4s ?

What would it's successor be ? The Twingo ? I don't think that would cope with the Moroccan desert so well.

 

 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Up the M11 I had a tail of a late red fiesta, then we approached and over took another late red fiesta, then what came down a sliproad? Another late red fiesta... Seriously man, it was like being followed by the red arrows! I'm sure they even done a two lane formation too.

Then I saw another late red fiesta coming the other way and I started feeling a bit freaked out so toed it out of there.

[fordperv]

  On 17/03/2018 at 17:18, BoggyMires said:

Up the M11 I had a tail of a late red fiesta, then we approached and over took another late red fiesta, then what came down a sliproad? Another late red fiesta... Seriously man, it was like being followed by the red arrows! I'm sure they even done a two lane formation too.

Then I saw another late red fiesta coming the other way and I started feeling a bit freaked out so toed it out of there.

Would only be made better if they all had thick trailing white smoke of hgf

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 17/03/2018 at 17:16, Frogchod said:

....students have to take 50kg of school supplies to somewhere in the arse end of Morocco....

Will les étudiants be coming back from Morocco with 50kg of local product?

[AlabamaShrimp]

  On 17/03/2018 at 17:18, BoggyMires said:

Up the M11 I had a tail of a late red fiesta, then we approached and over took another late red fiesta, then what came down a sliproad? Another late red fiesta... Seriously man, it was like being followed by the red arrows! I'm sure they even done a two lane formation too.

Then I saw another late red fiesta coming the other way and I started feeling a bit freaked out so toed it out of there.

So they were dead Fiestas?

 

'late"??

[somewhatfoolish]

late model, i.e. modernz shite.

[hairnet]

trigger.

 

will not elaborate.

[hairnet]

watching the footy live astheres feck all on tv

 

usually radio and watch highlilghts later

 

weekend tv is dogshit

[myglaren]

  On 17/03/2018 at 17:18, BoggyMires said:

Up the M11 I had a tail of a late red fiesta, then we approached and over took another late red fiesta, then what came down a sliproad? Another late red fiesta... Seriously man, it was like being followed by the red arrows! I'm sure they even done a two lane formation too.

Then I saw another late red fiesta coming the other way and I started feeling a bit freaked out so toed it out of there.

My youngest daughter just bought a red Fiesta this morning

[robinmasters]

  On 17/03/2018 at 18:15, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Will les étudiants be coming back from Morocco with 50kg of local product?

Rugs?

[Cavcraft]

  On 17/03/2018 at 19:30, hairnet said:

trigger.

 

will not elaborate.

 

Is the yellow thing?

[Cavcraft]

  On 17/03/2018 at 19:54, hairnet said:

watching the footy live astheres feck all on tv

 

usually radio and watch highlilghts later

 

weekend tv is dogshit

 

Even worse when you're should be out on the piss

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 17/03/2018 at 20:43, robinmasters said:

Rugs?

Not quite what I had in mind....

[AlabamaShrimp]

  On 17/03/2018 at 19:30, somewhatfoolish said:

late model, i.e. modernz shite.

Then just say that. We're not American...

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

  On 17/03/2018 at 20:25, myglaren said:

My youngest daughter just bought a red Fiesta this morning

 

It's a really popular car apparently! Hope she enjoys her LATE model fiesta.

[STUNO]

Sometimes it is good looking through your late mothers newspaper clippings to see what needs throwing.

Most were about being in the local dramatic club, but always look at the reverse of the clip. I found 2 worth keeping !

 

I wonder how much a Vedette cost in 1959

 

Part of an ad, must be an early 500 as suicide doors.

No overseas funds required.... to buy Brit you needed money in Brit because of this country having none. European cars were available "off the floor" but were heavily taxed, therefore the above.

[hairnet]

want all those in the first ad plz

[Tayne]

  On 17/03/2018 at 21:21, AlabamaShrimp said:

Then just say that we're not American...

Do tell us all about your username then.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 17/03/2018 at 21:48, STUNO said:

...must be an early 500 as suicide doors.

No overseas funds required.... to buy Brit you needed money in Brit because of this country having none. European cars were available "off the floor" but were heavily taxed, therefore the above.

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The suicide doors were retained on the 500 Giardiniera, long after other 500s had switched to front-hinged doors.

 

There's been a white Giardiniera sitting half-hidden in a garage near my office for years. Think its owner gave up trying to put it back on the road.

[AlabamaShrimp]

  On 17/03/2018 at 22:47, Tayne said:

Do tell us all about your username then.

It's highly exciting, get ready...

 

About 18 years ago I worked in a place fixing up old computers. In the classroom had a network, we played Quake on it.

 

Usernames were needed. Someone said Alabama Shrimp is a pizza topping, it was funny and it stuck.

 

Couple of the others were Mr Lovepants, apperently its a record, Wu tang, because he hated it and er can't remember the others.

 

See said it was exciting.