What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[mrbenn]

Finally got planning permission through from the council after a fraught few months!

 

I can almost sense the hammer in your hand already.

 

Congrats!

[Ohdearme]

I can almost sense the hammer in your hand already.

 

Congrats!

Indeed, I wouldn’t have dreamed of starting anything* ahead of getting consent.

 

I’ve got a lot done today*

 

 

 

 

[Pillock]

That caravan is older than the hills! I hope it's been refurbished inside if you are paying money to stay in it!

Well it's a bit rough inside but we got it cheap.

 

 

Naah, that's a before. It's quite nice now although not as cool as the guy's wooden wagon we stayed in before..

 

 

2000 man hours to restore it after dragging it out of the woods on the family farm.

 

 

The hot tub was also dragged out of the woods

 

[Aston Martin]

The last time I went abroad you still saw Toyota Paseos and Jimmy Saville was still diddlling kids... Which means I need a passport interview.

 

The Hull office don't interview on a weekend, Leeds do and I can have it at 8:15am next Saturday or 3:45pm. I know they're just a formality, but this confirmation email tickled me.

 

So, what you're saying is some people have brought scissors to a passport interview?

 

Does the delay involve getting locked up for 6 months?

 

How do I apply for a job as an interviewer, I bet they see some weird people.

I had the interview, any questions?

 

Yes, on the email. How many people bring scissors?

 

"You'd be surprised, what people bring to an interview"

 

It went ok, she said "the interview questions people have put online. Like "they asked me about my goldfish" is nonsense "

 

Assuming I don't get arrested or rejected, it was fine.

[vulgalour]

Basic cars !!!

Absolutely! The turny dial or slidey knob (stop it) is perfectly acceptable functionality in a vehicle. A three speed fan is adequate. Heated seats are a nonsense. Reversing sensors an extravagance. Touchscreen dashboards a danger...

 

[Garythesnail]

It's the fiddly little digital climate controls that bother me, particularly the ones that move in increments of 0.5 degrees c per push of the button or need to hold for an age to get it to move... nobody needs to be that precise with their temperature and they are nearly always located low down. Going from that to a big dial you don't even need to look at is always a joy.

 

As silly as it seems, this is an annoyance of VAG stuff to me. We've had two - a 3.2 MKI TT sportscar* and a Seet Exeo diesel estate loadcarrier* - both are fine cars in their own way, but the clickety-click, half a degree, randomly un-synchronising, two zone ACC was sufficiently irritating to make me not want another one.

[Wack]

Imp Jr accidently put the Grand Tour on the other day when he was trying to put Leo the Truck on or some other shite.

 

As soon as he saw it was about cars he pretended that he'd put it on for me.

 

It was the ones where they were acting like pratts in Columbia and it wasn't too bad.

 

On the contrary I watched an episode of Top Gear from 2014 yesterday afternoon and it was barely watchable it was so terrible.

 

I have watched a few episodes of the Grand Tour if I thought they had something I'd be interested in on them and they've been pretty crap but maybe they've got their shite together with it now, or are the normal studio ones still embarrassing?

It's much better this series , episode 5 was very good, even the rich mans SUV test was worth watching but the Jim Clark 20 minutes actually got me quite emotional, especially when I recognised him driving round oulton park.

[Cheggers]

I just went for a sit-down wee and produced the longest sustained single-note fart of my 53 year old life.

 

Go me!

[Ohdearme]

...A three speed fan is adequate...

 

I concur, my Galaxy has a four speed fan but I only use three of them. Nothing to do with the fourth speed blowing always a fuse or anything.

[Lord Sterling]

I love how most threads on the other section has 'shite' tagged on the end, i.e; Saladshite / buildingshite / curtainshite etc...shite

[320touring]

I love how most threads on the other section has 'shite' tagged on the end, i.e; Saladshite / buildingshite / curtainshite etc...shite

Time for a matshite thread..

[Lord Sterling]

Time for a matshite thread..

Lol, I think there is a floor mats thread somewhere on here

[Guest Hooli]

I've got a job interview on thursday, fingers crossed n all that.

[M'coli]

Good luck!

[dollywobbler]

Annoying squealing wiper spindle returned today, everyone was saying "it's the wiper m8 you lift it off and it shuts up dunnit.." Yeah, course it does because there is no sodding pressure on the spindle then.

 

Anyway some ACF50 in the limited gap I can get into the driver windscreen wiper spindle, a minute with wipers on, and nice and silent.

 

Must be the evening for it. Skoda was doing this. Sadly, it's pissing it down so much here that sorting it can be a job for another day.

 

Which means I will forget until the next time I drive it in the rain...

[eddyramrod]

I've got a job interview on thursday, fingers crossed n all that.

Good luck Hooli!  I'm expecting to be going through that process - again! - soon.  When, and for what, who knows, but I suppose time will tell.

[Tayne]

Annoying squealing wiper spindle returned today, everyone was saying "it's the wiper m8 you lift it off and it shuts up dunnit.." Yeah, course it does because there is no sodding pressure on the spindle then.

 

Anyway some ACF50 in the limited gap I can get into the driver windscreen wiper spindle, a minute with wipers on, and nice and silent.

 

 

If I mixed a solution of ketchup and 10w30 engine oil (40/60 proportion) and fired it at your screen with a tennis ball cannon how long would it take for the wipers to clear it?

[Guest Hooli]

Fired left or right handed?

[Wack]

Proper laugh out loud , sound on

 

 

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/6sIlUtL

[loserone]

Do we have a thread for shit people found on social media?

[nebuchenezer]

Been doing some decorating in the utility room and bought a new bulb for the ceiling light - you can see it in the shit picture below:

 

 

When you switch the light on though:

 

 

Arrghhh!! my eyes.......

[DodgeRover]

Absolutely! The turny dial or slidey knob (stop it) is perfectly acceptable functionality in a vehicle. A three speed fan is adequate. Heated seats are a nonsense. Reversing sensors an extravagance. Touchscreen dashboards a danger...

 

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Nail on the head apart from the heated seated, with a knackered back they're a real bonus to me.

[Aston Martin]

[beko1987]

Reasons a Zafira can be handy number 32

 

 

Luckily the people getting rid were very friendly so myself and the fella dismantled it and in it went! That's my afternoon sorted! Will fix the crack another day, few rivets and some stout plastic/scrap metal offcut will sort that

[DeeJay]

[hairnet]

booked a room at newcastle airport

 

booked the wrong one (theres two within a mile of each other on the same road (?!) )

 

found out after the one i booked was 20 quid cheaper even tho it was closer to airport

 

derrrr

 

result tho

[Frogchod]

Half an hour and many euros at the jetwash and years of crud and green slime has been removed from the Buick. It looks to be in better Nick than I thought.

[bramz7]

So I read online that if a V70 TDI suffers an EML illumination, taking it for a blast or two can make it go out.

 

That advice is correct. No more EML for me.

[Ohdearme]

Finally got time this morning to do the pads on Imp’s Jag, the wife has been giving me grief about it not moving very much as I haven’t wanted to put any major miles on it as such before swapping them over.

 

 

Refreshingly easy.

 

Wheel nuts a screwdriver, 7mm bolt and not much else. Oh, and a burn barrel because I was cold

[hairnet]

Half an hour and many euros at the jetwash and years of crud and green slime has been removed from the Buick. It looks to be in better Nick than I thought.

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a frog a frog a yank and a car missing a wheel