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I’m 25 years early, but I love these.

 

And it’s now available in The A-Team livery.

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Just winding down from a cracking weekend.    Rock and roll gig on Saturday night with some top mates, first sleep in the campervan this year in the lane outside, followed by a pleasant Sunday meandering around random chocolate-box Hampshire villages with no particular place to go.   Saw a Jensen CV-8 Mk III which I managed to follow for a few miles with my window down - upset Mrs Rocker with the draught but that V8....   

 

Topped the day off with a rummage round an antiques fair wherein I managed to score a Gilbern GT brochure complete with 50th British Motor Show exhibitor's label on it which if I recall correctly dates it to 1965.   "How much is this?" was answered with "A Pound".   Thank you very much....

 

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I’m 25 years early, but I love these.

 

And it’s now available in The A-Team livery.

 

My sister bought* one of these a few months ago in 4x4 flavour - its a decent enough wee thing. Live rear axle though - what is this? 1983?

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Just resurrected the Saab floppytop from the barn so I can charge the battery before it gets Moted tomorrow, just in time for Summer*

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My daughter is in a theatrical group, which is held in a school. A box of Lego in the room they use contained this:

 

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My wife didn't seem to share my excitement. 

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My daughter is in a theatrical group, which is held in a school. A box of Lego in the room they use contained this:

 

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My wife didn't seem to share my excitement. 

 

I hope you stole it to prevent destruction.

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I am sure they would rather have a nice shiny poondshop Matchbox toy instead of that frankly dangerous old toy.....

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Cheap bluetooth FM thing works a treat with the Micra saving me buying a whole new stereo.  Crate of Magners from Home Bargains, and no neighbours in so I can have my surround system playing some chillstep.

 

Yes. Just.. yes.

 

They are good aren't they ? Think I paid £15 for mine and it's transformed my ICE. Not that I have it on much mind.

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Cheap bluetooth FM thing works a treat with the Micra saving me buying a whole new stereo.  Crate of Magners from Home Bargains, and no neighbours in so I can have my surround system playing some chillstep.

 

Yes. Just.. yes.

I'm on a massive chillhop phase at the moment, it's good stuff.
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Daughter has just passed her driving test. Absolutely made up for her, she’s had her struggles including one really big issue, but she’s done it

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Two things arrived this morning that made me smile.

Firstly , I opened a bank account last with Metrobank , mainly as they have a branch next door to my local shop and all the other fuckers keep closing theirs.

When opening the account I was told to type a random word into a keyboard to activate the account, it would only be used once and nobody would ever use or see it, seems she lied, oops!

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Those jars hiding my important identity are the other thing, six arrived and I got a Whatsapp message from a client, ' Keep one jar , it's good for you" I ve got to take the other five to The Churchill Hotel in That Lahnden and give them to someone that's flying back to Kuwait tonight.

So that's £200 ( plus con chg) to drop off some honey, so I checked how much they cost . Over £100 a jar !!! For honey!!! WTF? I've just had about a fivers worth on a bit of toast, it wasn't that great.

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Daughter has just passed her driving test. Absolutely made up for her, she’s had her struggles including one really big issue, but she’s done it

Thats great news, can't help feeling the quality* cars her Dad has no doubt got lined up for her might take the shine off things a bit, though.

Good luck, love, you're gonna need it.

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....Those jars hiding my important identity are the other thing, six arrived and I got a Whatsapp message from a client, ' Keep one jar , it's good for you" I ve got to take the other five to The Churchill Hotel in That Lahnden and give them to someone that's flying back to Kuwait tonight.

So that's £200 ( plus con chg) to drop off some honey, so I checked how much they cost . Over £100 a jar !!! For honey!!! WTF? ....

 

The other thing about manuka honey is that it's the biggest con going - so lucrative is the Manuka/UMF label, that actual production is far outstripped by the quantity sold as "manuka" each year.

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My wiper blades have been split since the beast from the east.  It was getting to the poinbt of being barely driveable in the rain so I ordered some new ones from ECP at 1pm.  Got 50% off and free same day delivery, they were here by 3pm.  What a time to be alive.

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Scratch that, they're the wrong ones, typical ECP shit, useless cunts.  Please move post to grumpy thread etc

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The good* news is she's already inherited her brother's car. 

 

 

 

A Corsa 1.4.

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My wiper blades have been split since the beast from the east.  It was getting to the poinbt of being barely driveable in the rain so I ordered some new ones from ECP at 1pm.  Got 50% off and free same day delivery, they were here by 3pm.  What a time to be alive.

 

Scratch that, they're the wrong ones, typical ECP shit, useless cunts.  Please move post to grumpy thread etc

 

Flippin' brilliant!   Sorry to laugh, but that is my life summed up in two consecutive posts.....

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Yeah its fucking typical innit.  I don't know why I allow myself to believe.

 

Been in the queue for customer services now for an hour and, I suspect, cut off a while ago because its been at position 9 for some considerable time.  I started at 42 - obviously i'm not the only one they have wronged today.   I suspect same day delivery is going to cost me a couple of days chasing replacement\my money back

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I managed to get my car insurance renewal down from £480 to £370 on the phone. Knocked off a named driver who doesn't use the car any more took about £60 off, and then she listened to my buttery charm and knocked another £50 off.

 

Oh, and Japan was ace! Flew the missus out for a week to meet me and we had an amazing time, I finally got to take an R34 Skyline round the mountain roads and it was amazing. Hit 3k RPM and the world just goes backwards, and it sticks to the road like shit on a blanket.

 

I asked the missus to marry me, she said yes.

 

But the Skyline just ticked every box for me, what a motor!

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Technically I was sat in a car.

 

There’s this local church that’s on a junction, they have this sign that never makes any sense. Today was “Don’t go to waste. Let Jesus recycle you”

 

Which I’m struggling to work out, so I checked street view.

 

“Your honour, not once did God say not to choke the Thai whore with iPhone headphones. Therefore I should be released immediately.”

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.I asked the missus to marry me, she said yes.But the Skyline just ticked every box for me, what a motor!

Order of priority seems correct there. Congratulations on the car (and new wife)

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My lad passed his driving test yesterday  (monday) !!

 

Jammy little shit did it first time too.

 

Good job he lives too far away from me to natter for a car!

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No broken glass or stabbed tyres?

He can't have fucked Isabelle more than a handful of times if that's all that's happened.

She's probably worth a couple of hours with a machine polisher.

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