What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Lacquer Peel]

Oh dear

It looks alright bub, low mileage, big chunk of MOT, the 1.4 TU is a sweet engine.

[bub2006]

It's a bit scruffy bodywork but structurally sound and solid underneath. 56k on clock. Ten months ticket with leccy windows and roof,Pas and Central locking

[wuvvum]

Oh dear

 

Considering the alternative was a petrol Mk4 Golf, I don't think you've done too badly there tbh.

[Cavcraft]

Not sure if grin or grump, but on balance probably fits here better.  Cycling in to work this morning on my decrepit 1976 3-speed Raleigh Wayfarer, and some bloke in a Porsche Cayenne sat in traffic in the other direction bips his horn, winds his window down and offers to buy me a better bike.

 

Isn't that the urban dictionary definition of cottaging?

[bub2006]

Considering the alternative was a petrol Mk4 Golf, I don't think you've done too badly there tbh.

Golf was shagged even by my standards

[red5]

Not sure if grin or grump, but on balance probably fits here better.  Cycling in to work this morning on my decrepit 1976 3-speed Raleigh Wayfarer, and some bloke in a Porsche Cayenne sat in traffic in the other direction bips his horn, winds his window down and offers to buy me a better bike.

 

Blimey, dark blue? I remenber those. Or rather, perched behind a parent piloting one...

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Golf was shagged like I'd had it previously in my unlucky catastrophic possession …..

EFA Bub dude……

 

It does actually look better than I expected. It's a good distance away in bad light of course …

[bub2006]

Zx is whole better motor

[dozeydustman]

Zx is whole better motor

 

Yup gotta concur. A ZX is a sweet little runabout to knock around in.

[bub2006]

It was cheap with a decent ticket. That's all I look for! Bonus is it is nice. Bought it back from leicester

[Supernaut]

I saw something astonishing earlier when I left work.

 

A Goona II being used as a taxi. The offshore worker getting picked up from the helicopter terminal in that must have felt like a winner*.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Saw this at the garden centre this afternoon.  I know nothing about tractors but I think this is proper tractorshite.

 

 

EDIT:  Found this.

 

[Supernaut]

D'aaw.

 

My dad has a Siromar. It's a wee bit bigger than that (it's about the size of an old grey Ferguson) and makes a whopping 28hp.

However, it has 4WD and diff locks, so it may not go fast, but it goes just about anywhere.

[richardmorris]

Not sure if grin or grump, but on balance probably fits here better.  Cycling in to work this morning on my decrepit 1976 3-speed Raleigh Wayfarer, and some bloke in a Porsche Cayenne sat in traffic in the other direction bips his horn, winds his window down and offers to buy me a better bike.

You’ve pulled! Did you accept the offer?

[somewhatfoolish]

It looks alright bub, low mileage, big chunk of MOT, the 1.4 TU is a sweet engine.

 

He's right you know, peppy is the word for these things. ZX + 1.4 TU = many funs.

[HillmanImp]

Old bloke gets done for shagging prossie at fake spa:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47334897

 

 

 

Orchids of Asia manager Lei Wang was also arrested on Tuesday and made her first court appearance on Thursday.

 

That can't be their real name?

[HillmanImp]

I was just about to post a link to Winstons 'health club' in Leeds as a few years ago it's website was pretending to be an actual leisure centre with sports etc but they seem to be taking a more direct approach now:

 

https://www.winstonsmassageparlour.co.uk/Gallery

[somewhatfoolish]

Chief Constable/Police+Crime Commissar is a good customer perhaps?

[Tamworthbay]

Not sure if grin or grump, but on balance probably fits here better.  Cycling in to work this morning on my decrepit 1976 3-speed Raleigh Wayfarer, and some bloke in a Porsche Cayenne sat in traffic in the other direction bips his horn, winds his window down and offers to buy me a better bike.

Did you offer to buy him a better car?

[myglaren]

^ all seems rather sordid and pathetic.

 

Surely with that much money a better alternative could have been found.

 

Something like this, although the price may be a bit high for most.

 

News.com au.

Not the one I was looking for - was posted on ARRSE earlier but the idea is the same - not that unusual it appears.

[wuvvum]

Blimey, dark blue? I remenber those. Or rather, perched behind a parent piloting one...

 

Yup.

 

 

Magnificent*, isn't it?  I bought it off Gumtree for a tenner as spares for one of my other bikes, but it turned out to ride really well and I couldn't bring myself to strip it.

[puddlethumper]

The Scottish parliament looks so much more fun than hours, doesn't it?

As a building I think it looks bloody good as well. Not as stuffy and 

old tradition as Pestminster.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Yup.

 

IMG_20170211_155918.jpg

 

Magnificent*, isn't it?  I bought it off Gumtree for a tenner as spares for one of my other bikes, but it turned out to ride really well and I couldn't bring myself to strip it.

See your bike, that's a girls bike that is.

[willswitchengage]

We all remember this from Facebook over Christmas?

 

 

Well, the rozzers caught them.

 

https://www.herts.police.uk/news-and-appeals/woman-charged-following-incident-at-tesco-in-rickmansworth-2601

 

 

Lucy Turner, aged 32, of Organ Hall Road in Borehamwood, has been charged with the following offences:

• Attempted theft (from Tesco in Rickmansworth)
• Causing serious injury by dangerous driving
• Use of a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance
• Driving whilst disqualified
• Being the driver of a vehicle that failed to stop after a collision
• Being the driver of a vehicle that failed to stop after a collision and failing to report the collision

[chaseracer]

 

 

© FPB7

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Followed a pogweasled 405 estate for about 10 minutes this afternoon.  That brought on a big grin.

[D Spares & Tyres]

It was cheap with a decent ticket. That's all I look for! Bonus is it is nice. Bought it back from leicester

Good cars

 

I have loads of bits for these. Or will buy the remains off you when you are done with it.

[bub2006]

Remains?! You know me too well. I plan to run it while trying to save up. It's not ideal for me,not big enough and low down too but until I can afford something better it will do.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I like them. We have two every days cars, a Nissan X Trail and ZX. I prefer the ZX by far

[Mrcento]

Getting on for a month since i put the offer in on the unit that was rejected,

 

It still sits totally empty, so that's already over £500 the landlord is down.

 

And i bet it'll still be empty this time next month

 

And the month after

 

And the month after.

 

The guy's going to end up thousands down and still have a unit in need of doing up at the end of it, all because he wanted top bucks right away.

 

Nae luck sunshine, should have taken my offer.