What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Ghosty]

Twin air horn plus original high note horn = really bloody loud

[gm]

definitely very loud, but something kept going wrong and the music would cut out for a second or two, the dj was annoyed, the crusties cheered and kept on dancing

 

I wonder if he is for hire and available for shitefest ?

[oldcars]

This at a show i was at yesterday.

[louiepj]

The seat colours on the overground train from Clapham to Dalston Jct. With bonus sun bleaching.....

[John F]

^ You need to add an Autoshite sticker to that window behind the seats

[DeeJay]

Those seats have been copied from your avatar.

[Bobthebeard]

Parcelforce 48 tracking......

"We have your parcel and it is on it's way"

Cheers PF.

I know... But.....

[louiepj]

  On 04/06/2018 at 14:49, DeeJay said:

Those seats have been copied from your avatar.

My avatar is my neighbours exhaust rubber hanging on a bush down the road, took her a month or so after I found it and hung it there to ask me to look at why she had a knocking noise when going the speed humps. Took car for a spin then looked underneath and saw it was missing an exhaust rubber and laughed all the way down the road to retrieve it.

[Wack]

a very british road interaction

 

https://www.facebook.com/TheBackRoadsTBR/videos/1841267265953622/?hc_ref=ARTXW5VFHqWpFV8p3MlzvQvtvEOxqgQzFHqhTfvSKMSZ5X-FNfr4kpeAgYA0pfcgwfs

[richardmorris]

  On 03/06/2018 at 22:24, VicN said:

What's a crusty?

It’s a term I haven’t heard for twenty years!

New Age traveller folk. Long haired, tie died and dreadlocked and averse to washing,

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 02/06/2018 at 17:53, SiC said:

Out in the TT today when I had another one pull up by the side of me at the traffic lights. He was probably what most would describe as your stereotypical TT owner (to be fair the same probably could said about me) with his girlfriend next to him. As he was tailgating me before hand (I was doing the speed limit), I hazard a guess that he probably was going to race off the lights. Being a childish sort of person, I couldn't resist. Especially as it a straight dual carriageway into an NSL.

 

Gear shifter moved from Drive to Sport.

 

Traffic Light GP lights are Red ... Amber ... Green for Go!

 

I let go of the brake and planted the accelerator. Front chinese, winter rated death rings squarked and scrabbled for any grip they could while the Traction Control system flashed frantically away as it tried to keep everything in check.

 

Naturally I got ahead and stayed ahead. There was a good 2 car lengths ahead by the time I got up to 70mph when I backed off the accelerator.

 

I could see him loosing speed and lurching on his (presumably) manual gear changes. I do like DSG...

 

In my defense of taking the bait is that it was a good test to see if everything was working well! Especially as both cars should have had similar performance as being nearly identical. So all the horses must be still alive in the engine and the gearbox must be whirring its cogs properly.

 

Quite why he was bothering racing another TT off the line I'm not really sure why...

 

I've slightly forgiven it for costing me far too much last month now.

 

*Puts on flame suit from this Pistonheads style post*

 

this was a game that was fun to play in a 2.0 cvt primera (vvt with learning ecu)- just pull away at the same rate as them but get ahead just by the fact there was no on/off the powah for gear changes and all at less than 4000 revs lol

[cobblers]

I've bought a VW T5 which I can understand is "not cool" (I have reasons) but it's a 192bhp 5 cylinder turbo diesel and I really didn't anticipate how beautiful it would sound. It's flipping magnificent. 

Apparently these 2.5s are made of chocolate, but the noise they make will really keep me happy until it plunges me deep into debt.

[robinmasters]

  On 04/06/2018 at 17:22, Wack said:

a very british road interaction

 

https://www.facebook.com/TheBackRoadsTBR/videos/1841267265953622/?hc_ref=ARTXW5VFHqWpFV8p3MlzvQvtvEOxqgQzFHqhTfvSKMSZ5X-FNfr4kpeAgYA0pfcgwfs

What is it that is particularly British about this? The 'fist bump'? The overly laid-back affect of the bus driver? The motorcyclist's apparent complete disregard for anything in front of the bus?

 

The only British things about this film are driving on the left and the red bus.

[robinmasters]

  On 03/06/2018 at 22:10, gm said:

I went out for a run around Edinburgh this afternoon and happened across some crusties having an impromptu rave in the Meadows !

 

I must have looked a little out of place in my running kit taking photos but I doubt anyone noticed

 

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That's 'the next field' from Carry On Camping.

[John F]

  On 04/06/2018 at 19:37, richardmorris said:

It’s a term I haven’t heard for twenty years!

New Age traveller folk. Long haired, tie died and dreadlocked and averse to washing,

 

An dog on an string used to be an crusty entry requirement way back when, too.

[Ghosty]

  On 04/06/2018 at 12:12, louiepj said:

The seat colours on the overground train from Clapham to Dalston Jct. With bonus sun bleaching.....

 The seat on the right isn't sun bleached, I think it's a different colour to dictate that it's a priority seat.

[Kiltox]

Thameslink you beautifully incompetent bastards - if your services ran on time I’d be in an expensive taxi right now

[Guest Hooli]

  On 04/06/2018 at 22:41, robinmasters said:

What is it that is particularly British about this? The 'fist bump'? The overly laid-back affect of the bus driver? The motorcyclist's apparent complete disregard for anything in front of the bus?

 

The only British things about this film are driving on the left and the red bus.

 

Apparent disregard? I fail to see that, he stopped without issue well before the front of the bus so he obviously saw the bloke walking across by looking through the bus.

[Des]

  On 04/06/2018 at 22:41, robinmasters said:

What is it that is particularly British about this? The 'fist bump'? The overly laid-back affect of the bus driver? The motorcyclist's apparent complete disregard for anything in front of the bus?

 

The only British things about this film are driving on the left and the red bus.

 

The after you, no, after you exchange between the motorcyclist and pedestrian was pretty fucking British, as was the humorous execution of the fist bump with its so very subtle hint of piss taking and dry sarcasm. Then there's no shouting, nobody left for dead, nor WW3 starting which is what the swarthy continentals would do with such a situation.

[Kiltox]

I thought the fact that not a word was exchanged between any of them was pretty typical too. At least for Laandaan.

[Guest Hooli]

I've heard there is a bylaw against talking to strangers in dat dar lunden

[andy18s]

Yeah....

[wuvvum]

  On 04/06/2018 at 21:41, cobblers said:

I've bought a VW T5 which I can understand is "not cool" (I have reasons) but it's a 192bhp 5 cylinder turbo diesel and I really didn't anticipate how beautiful it would sound. It's flipping magnificent. 

Apparently these 2.5s are made of chocolate, but the noise they make will really keep me happy until it plunges me deep into debt.

Those 5-pot Dub TDIs do sound lovely.  I had an LT28 van with the non-turbo (SDI) version - slow as fuck but that just gave me an excuse to constantly cane the living shit out of it.  Good times.

[xtriple]

Just driving along, roof up but windows down, fat Chester hanging his head out of the drivers side rear window, turning right at a junction and a random lass shouts out: 'Nice car!'

 

Never happened to me before, not even when out in £25Ks of Bentley! So, if you are lacking in the looks department (like Moi) then you need £1800 worth of Mercedes convertible with a soggy dog hanging out of the window

[angle]

  On 02/06/2018 at 19:36, Tayne said:

Get yourself a V6 Gooner auto, bring it to Crail and then we'll settle this.

 

Yours Sincerely,

Manual 330 Owner.

Ah, but then you'd be expecting it. The beauty of the V6 Laguna is the element of surprise, and making people in stickered-up 320d's try really, really hard not to lose face...

[Lacquer Peel]

It's pretty easy to win public road drag races against drivers who aren't really trying. I could do that in my Inca SDI.

[anonymous user]

Only once have I driven down a drag strip, I do not remember my time as I don't think the timer had a minute hand. I was trying my best but was in my Trabant.

[beko1987]

  On 05/06/2018 at 18:15, Tayne said:

So only faster than a 330 that’s being driven slowly?

 

All you Gooner boys in your glacial French buses seem to change the comapritive BMW every time.

I’m sure it would measure up really well against the e21 315 from 1981.

Bring a BMW 1.6 and I'll facking have you m8 in my gooner!

[beko1987]

I lent my crutches out a few weeks ago to a complete stranger who posted on facebook asking if anyone had a pair as her 11 year old little girl did almost what I did... She bought them back today with a box of chocolate! How lovely, and so was the chocolate which we have demolished now...

[vulgalour]

This one time I beat my brother at traffic light grand prix.  I was in the Princess, he was in a considerably newer Skoda Felicia estate.  He said he wasn't paying attention, but we know the real reason I won is because I'm a much better driver and was in a vastly superior vehicle.  I'm also the director of a powerfully built company of directions, and this is what peak physical fitness looks like.