What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Wack]

23 years ago Mrs wack and I did a tour of the south , Kent, day trip to France etc , we'd booked a night in hastings, didn't know anything about it apart from the battle.

 

Drove along the seafront, looked at the hotel we'd booked and drove on, didn't even get out of the car it looked that grim , rest of it was ok though

[Wack]

I was looking through some old pictures , my dad was a keen fisherman all his life , a year before he died at 82 he went missing for a day because he found out his mobility scooter had a 20 mile range so he went to look at a lake 5 miles away without telling anybody

 

I live 150 miles from him , took the kids down to see him , must be 10 years ago now , we met him at a lake and he gave my son a fishing lesson , do you think he enjoyed it

 

[Guest Hooli]

  On 28/01/2019 at 22:46, Wack said:

23 years ago Mrs wack and I did a tour of the south , Kent, day trip to France etc , we'd booked a night in hastings, didn't know anything about it apart from the battle.

 

Drove along the seafront, looked at the hotel we'd booked and drove on, didn't even get out of the car it looked that grim , rest of it was ok though

 

I once spent a week on Hastings on a training course, fuck me that place is grim (must be the french influence).

[New POD]

  On 29/01/2019 at 06:07, Hooli said:

I once spent a week on Hastings on a training course, fuck me that place is grim (must be the french influence).

When we were younger, we had a week in Hastings with our kids for our summer holiday. Well I say Hastings, but it was actually a f family room in the youth hostel. It was great. I thought Hastings was great too.

M8nd you it was fucking hot.

[Wack]

I knew nothing about Hastings , we were on a culture trip , it looked very Blackpool with cockneys so we drove on , I think we went to Royal Tunbridge Wells.

 

Probably a great place for a family , I went to Blackpool many times as a child and loved it , apart from the time my dad told me I was swimming next to a turd , that's a holiday memory I'd sooner forget .

[MorrisItalSLX]

In New Zealand, no chod is safe.

 

[oldcars]

  On 29/01/2019 at 09:41, MorrisItalSLX said:

In New Zealand, no chod is safe.

 

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Oil leak caused by big seal failure.

[hairnet]

Went to hospital

 

All kinds of dire shit in the letter you won't be able to drive home it'll take two hours etc etc

 

Done and dusted in half an hour and its not what the 3 doctors over 4 months told me it was

 

Dermatologist now just gotta see them

[Roobarb]

Grim up North? It’s bloody grim out West at the moment...

Focus on Saturday, focus on Saturday, focus...

[Guest Hooli]

Which degrees are those? F or C?

[LightBulbFun]

  On 29/01/2019 at 12:02, Hooli said:

Which degrees are those? F or C?

 

if it gets much colder it wont matter 

 

(also woo 882th post, free internet cookie if you can figure out the relevancy of that )

[Wack]

  On 29/01/2019 at 11:48, Roobarb said:

Grim up North? It’s bloody grim out West at the moment...

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Focus on Saturday, focus on Saturday, focus...

 

 

I do like a clear mound

[Jim Bell]

 

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[busmansholiday]

  On 28/01/2019 at 16:23, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Last year I visited Doncaster and I think I posted my impressions here, I've since tried to banish the memory, but good news, I've found a competitor for character*

On Friday I went to Port Talbot, WTAF?

On the positive side, I looked in an estate agents window and I could probably have bought a house if I'd maxed my cards and overdraft. And I don't have very high credit limits .

Oh, dear old Port Talbot. Every time we had to go and see colleagues there we stayed in Swansea. You really don't want to look up what comes out of those chimneys and where the environmental modeling shows it hits the ground.

[oldcars]

This. Saw it online.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 28/01/2019 at 08:32, Tamworthbay said:

Grim in the Midlands and the North? Has anyone ever been to Staines or Guildford? Or Portsmouth or Southampton for that matter, or London, Maidenhead, etc etc etc ....

 

....and then there's Cricklewood.....

[DoctorRetro]

Finally being recognised at work for hitting year end targets (I was the only one out of 10 regions), and I'll be getting £150 of vouchers of my choice. Result!

[Aston Martin]

I arrived in Dublin at 6am, I arrived back at the dock at 9:30am for the 3pm ferry (nobody knows why we do this run)... and there's 10 lorries and a Sprinter getting it back. This is not a passenger ferry persay, you can take a car. But there's no one else here. (Last night maybe 50+ of us)

 

They've shunted a load of trailers onboard, so I guess P&O are making their money that way.

 

Which means less chance of random drivers talking absolute bollocks (Paul/Mike/Ken talking about how they sued the council for several trillion pounds) and no old man ruining my eyes.

 

The fact that I'm getting paid for doing fuck all... Plus night-out pay... Plus "ok" free food ain't bad.

 

 

....

 

EDIT: I looked at the check in list. 13 people are onboard the European Endeavour.

 

On the downside a bottle of Heineken cost me £3.70.

[Aston Martin]

  On 29/01/2019 at 12:45, oldcars said:

This. Saw it online.

I'm pretty sure I saw him twice in two weeks bombing down the A74.

[Roobarb]

It’s ‘C’ as I thought it was more internationally accepted

 

Tonight with windchill it will be -50F. Not sure what that is in C. Other than ‘stay in doors’ and wish you were living within a few miles of Phil A!

[purplebargeken]

I've been once. 
My dad grew up there in the 40s and has no interest in returning.

Apparently it was a shit hole back then too. 

 

Edmonton or Rhyl? Or both?

[oldcars]

  On 29/01/2019 at 13:43, Aston Martin said:

I'm pretty sure I saw him twice in two weeks bombing down the A74.

Makes sense, says it was in that area. Chap seems to do some miles in it from mot history.

[Tickman]

  On 29/01/2019 at 12:59, TheDoctor said:

Finally being recognised at work for hitting year end targets (I was the only one out of 10 regions), and I'll be getting £150 of vouchers of my choice. Result!

£150 of Roffle vouchers, excellent

[New POD]

What's just made me grin. My totally random approach to finding work closer to home.

Recruitment agency contacted me ref a permanent job which includes a car and pension.

Asked me what I'd need to be paid.

Now, permanent jobs are not my thing, and I don't value a company car.

I gave them a figure which is silly.

Well i dont really want it.

If they paid me that I'd put 50% into my pension pot so I didn't go into the top tax bracket.

[Tickman]

I have been driving a bus.

Left turns are interesting

[purplebargeken]

After all the horrible things of late, an old school mates sister who used to knock about with all of us back in the day has been in touch over the last few weeks following a spate of sad deaths of some of the old gang.

 

Lovely chatting to her after all these years despite sad reasons behind getting in touch. 

 

She's going to pop over to tourist London for a catch up day in a few weeks. Should be a really nice day out. 

[yellowperil]

We finished our work early today, so we were given some bin deliveries to do.

One of the service requests we had, stated...

 

Reason for new bin...

Grafiti, someone has drawn a penis on the side of the bin and we can't get it off.

 

My advice to tell them to rub a bit harder wasn't acted upon.

[Guest Hooli]

  On 29/01/2019 at 14:32, Tickman said:

I have been driving a bus.

Left turns are interesting

 

Takes a while to remember to use your mirrors enough to drive forwards safely doesn't it?

[5speedracer]

Seeing this heading North out of Aberdeen this afternoon.

Salt !!!!!

 

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[dozeydustman]

Wife's just walked in. "Why are you watching Mr Autoshite drive an Allegro, dear?"

 

Because I can and it's baby poo coloured.