What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest]

I didn't realise I was concentrating that hard.

 

Do any of you fine people fancy sending me full size Amazon shots? (looks at Seth and M_Lobster).

Doing the drag strip was a riot. I reckon I could get it into the high 21s if I lost the spare wheel and boot full of rancid holiday tat, not to mention half of Birkenhead Tesco* in the front passenger footwell.

I was eating jaffa cakes in the queue, and one of the marshalls had a fit when my sump gasket dripped a bit.

 

New engine mounts would also be full of awesome, so that I could drop the clutch hard without it bogging down and sending shivers down the front half of the prop.

 

(*MM5 decided to comprehensively equip himself with food for the Rock Ferry - Conwy - Ace Cafe - Tooting - Santa Pod - Conwy trip, there were receipts and everything).

[Pete-M]

Dude, that's an impressive trip.

 

Can more of us do it next time?

[chaseracer]

Doing the drag strip was a riot.

Good, innit? I went to an event there with the Slow Car Club a few years back, and had a run up the strip in my mate's slightly 'tired' Dyane.

 

24 second quarter. Woo hoo!

[Guest]

Dude, that's an impressive trip.

 

Can more of us do it next time?

Yeah we can if you like. We'd have to find somewhere to stay in London though, as MM5 and me stayed with Paul H and his house is quite ickle.

But yeah, the four two needs to go up the strip full of fags and chips.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Whats making me grin, is the fact that I have bought 4 new half-decent speakers from the local PUMPIN BASS ICE STO' and fitted them in my Rover. Now I can turn up TEH SICK VIBES 2 DA MAX BRO INNIT, U NEEDZ IT 4 CRUISIN THE CREWE GHETTO. DEM FLY HONEYS AINT ROLLIN WITH A NIGGA 'F HE GOT SOME PUNK-ASS FACTORY FIT PHILLIPS STEREO! I AM THE DOPEST MUTHAF#CKA ON THE ALLOTMENT. U BETTA START PAYIN YO HOES OR I GONNA POP A COURGETTE IN YO ASS

[Milford Cubicle]

Courgette? Oof.

I really need to upgrade my PUMPIN BASS ICE as playing lots of cheesy black metal has killed the speakers to bits.

Are aftermarket speakers plug and play?

[pogweasel]

GR8 4 LISTENING TO THE CRICKET / THE ARCHERS / THE SHIPPING FORECAST* AT 100db.

 

*delete as applicable

[Mr Lobster]

Do any of you fine people fancy sending me full size Amazon shots? (looks at Seth and M_Lobster)

Yep, no problemo. PM me your email address and I'll sort 'em L8R.

 

A shiteists trip to the Ace sounds good. I quite fancy going as I've never been. Probably be a big disappointment but even so..

 

(Realises that I have just driven back from fancy London this afternoon and silently realises that I could have just gone when I was there. Ho hum).

[AnthonyG]

The Ace is Ace if you like strong tea and burgers. There's a lot of interesting tat/history/photos on the walls.

 

The area immediately around it is great for 'buildingshite', next door there's an empty 'World of Leather' and a dodgy limo place with a pink stretched Lincoln up on axle stands .

 

The RAF museum at Hendon is close, as is 'Wemberly' of course.

[Mr Lobster]

The Ace is Ace if you like strong tea and burgers.

 

Why indeed I do. Annoyingly, I was 13.8 miles away at breakfast time this morning (according to Google maps). Fucksocks.

[seth]

The Ace is Ace if you like strong tea and burgers.

 

Why indeed I do. Annoyingly, I was 13.8 miles away at breakfast time this morning (according to Google maps). Fucksocks.

A quick multimap hit shows me that Canary Wharf is about that far from the Ace and I wouldn't want to drive that at breakfast time on a week day!

 

Watan, wang us your email too.

[Mr Lobster]

I was in the other direction though - Rickmansworth. Although as to whether that would be a better drive is debatable.

[Minimad5]

MM5 decided to comprehensively equip himself with food for the Rock Ferry - Conwy - Ace Cafe - Tooting - Santa Pod - Conwy trip, there were receipts and everything.

I said i would bring food, and you never complained when you were hungry.

I found a Jaffa Cake in my bag at work today, was stuck to my keys

 

Have just uploaded some pictures onto photobucket, will make a thread tomorrow - everyone feel free to whallop your pictures in too.

 

Was good to meet afew people whilst at the Ace such as Seth, Kev, Paul and many more.

 

What makes me grin :-

 

Work is full of mad people, for instance a woman openly admitted to using fruit for more applications than eating ... ....[M&S VOICE] Not just any woman, bit a Birkenhead woman dribbled with fruit [/M&S VOICE]

 

Did i mention i have started mocking up the Rebels new engine already ?

(Yep in the rain .... in a vest)

[Guest]

Seeing a broken down Brabus Mercedes broken down on the ringroad near me last night cheered me up no end The owner looked ready to ring the samaritans . Never heard of one before and had to look it up-no wonder he was pissed off

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I had no keys for my 929. Took the locks off, and wizzed em up to the local locksmiths shop. £25 later I am back in business with full vehicle access, woo-hoo!!!!!

[Pillock]

A few weeks back, I noticed that in Southwell (place where people think they are posher than they are), some graffiti had appeared on some wooden hoardings around a building site. The graffiti was in latin, which amused me for the reason someone thought they were being funny and it wasn't just mindless daubings.

 

Today, what really made me chortle was noticing that over the past week, someone has been out with different coloured paint and corrected the mistakes in the latin. Ironically the building site is a what used to be quite a posh school.

[Richard]

It wasn't "Romanes eunt domus" was it?

[Guest]

 

MM5 decided to comprehensively equip himself with food for the Rock Ferry - Conwy - Ace Cafe - Tooting - Santa Pod - Conwy trip, there were receipts and everything.

I said i would bring food, and you never complained when you were hungry.

I found a Jaffa Cake in my bag at work today, was stuck to my keys

 

Did i mention i have started mocking up the Rebels new engine already ?

(Yep in the rain .... in a vest)

Hey, it was much appreciated, but when you said 'I'll bring food', I thought you'd rock up with a bag of crisps or something.

 

Mocking up the Rebel engine in a vest eh? Your 'boat' will have an engine quicker than you think....

[Pillock]

It wasn't "Romanes eunt domus" was it?

 

[warren t claim]

Here we go.... One minute in...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVy4BrxpKGQ

[Minimad5]

Mocking up the Rebel engine in a vest eh? Your 'boat' will have an engine quicker than you think....

.... Ya' think so ? .....

 

 

[seth]

Thanks to Fred's post of a couple of weeks ago it seems that a certain Hillman will be appearing at Goodwood Vintage!

[scaryoldcortina]

It wasn't "Romanes eunt domus" was it?

 

 

it's still wrong! Romani ite domum....

 

ps. I did Latin at school, got an 'O' level and everything. Fat lot of use it is in real life...

 

My grin is a VT30 form (Mot pass) for my recover-o-shite LT35. It's taken weeks of pain and expense to get it up to the MINIMUM standard for a class VII test but this afternoon it finally got a ticket. Taxing it in the morning. Shame there are only 9 days left in the month but hey.

[warren t claim]

Today on the M6 I managed to beat my own overtaking record with a twelve minute HGV overtake. Normally I wait until the motorway is reduced to two lanes before attempting such a heroic feat of truck endurance so everyone else can admire my handiwork but today was special. The high point was seeing the colour of the Megabus drivers face who was tailgating me all through my maraton task.

[Pete-M]

Today on the M6 I managed to beat my own overtaking record with a twelve minute HGV overtake. Normally I wait until the motorway is reduced to two lanes before attempting such a heroic feat of truck endurance so everyone else can admire my handiwork but today was special. The high point was seeing the colour of the Megabus drivers face who was tailgating me all through my maraton task.

12 Minutes? I'd have you shot for that!

[boobydoo]

Someone has put the song "HEY, BABY" by DJ Otzi on repeat play in the Mercedes Benz showroom here at Stevenage. It has now been playing for nearly 2 hours again and again and again.....

 

"Hey-y-y ...Baby!! Ooh! Aah!!"

[boobydoo]

 

Sorry, I know this is really old ,....but that is soooo funny.

 

Best thing Ive read in ages.

 

Just how it should be aswell.

[Cavcraft]

Today on the M6 I managed to beat my own overtaking record with a twelve minute HGV overtake. Normally I wait until the motorway is reduced to two lanes before attempting such a heroic feat of truck endurance so everyone else can admire my handiwork but today was special. The high point was seeing the colour of the Megabus drivers face who was tailgating me all through my maraton task.

 

Making me grin was watching the new 'Shooting Stars' and the 'What if Bruce Forsyth Was Gay' sketch.

[Albert Ross]

Last night, this came in for MOT. It passed of course.

 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2298/216 ... 8296fd.jpg Could somone un-Ludd this please, to make it a picture?

 

Went home, unloaded my bits into my garage that I rent in the council block, to see a 125 Bantam! The bloke also has a Wolseley 1300 in Trafalgar Blue, on a D plate. He told me that there's a Spitfire across the block from him, and a few down the other side is a Messerschmidt. Seems that all my Land Rover stuff is in good company. They also like to challenge people as to their business, which cheered me immensely. I like to think my crap is safe!

[Tayne]

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