What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[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.

[catsinthewelder]

I had a really quiet day at work today,  often this can result in boredom but fortunately I arrived prepared.

 

I wasn't prepared through organisation but through laziness.  I had planned to service the 405 earlier in the week but hadn't got around to it so had oil and filters in the boot.  I now have a freshly serviced car.  I did some welding earlier in the week and still had the kit in the boot.  This means that a door on the building I've been meaning to fix for about 2 years now has a fresh set of bolts attached.

 

Another grin was a big parcel arriving from Dome of this parish.  The result was a very full Peugeot on the way home to a very happy teenager.

[omegod]

I had a really quiet day at work today,  often this can result in boredom but fortunately I arrived prepared.

 

I wasn't prepared through organisation but through laziness.  I had planned to service the 405 earlier in the week but hadn't got around to it so had oil and filters in the boot.  I now have a freshly serviced car.  I did some welding earlier in the week and still had the kit in the boot.  This means that a door on the building I've been meaning to fix for about 2 years now has a fresh set of bolts attached.

 

Another grin was a big parcel arriving from Dome of this parish.  The result was a very full Peugeot on the way home to a very happy teenager.

Issue 1 - 1273 of razzle ? 

[bub2006]

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

I've had numerous saxos, Picassos,a xantia and a xsara but never a zx. It's not bad at all for a 1.4. Think alternator bearings aren't great though and a noise like a droplink on driver side. Front and rear bumpers a bit scuffed up and outer indicator lense missing on driver side. Oh and stereo has no code!

[catsinthewelder]

Issue 1 - 1273 of razzle ? 

 

A bicycle that is far better than anything he was expecting to get.

[paulplom]

I've used this garage for 20 years or so. I rang yesterday morning for a service and mot on our 2006 V70. They said just to bring it down. My partner dropped it

about 12. they rang at 3 asking if I was picking it up! full service, mot, new rear discs and pads and they were busy welding the exhaust as the receptionist was talking to me. There's a few garages could take a lesson from that. If I have issues with my van they drop everything to get it sorted. It's like a formula one pit crew watching them.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Automotive-Repair-Shop/Barrington-MOT-Centre-657190807717963/

 

It's worth having a look through their page at some of the stuff they do. There's a defender with the 'dreaded disease'.

£300 damage for a years motoring's not too bad. Cycling with my son 15 miles for it this morning.

[Sheefag]

Two, maybe even three times a year at The Guardian, an editor falls asleep at the wheel and a warm hearted story somehow slips through to publication.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/400-toilet-rolls-how-feels-win-lifetime-supply

[dozeydustman]

Two, maybe even three times a year at The Guardian, an editor falls asleep at the wheel and a warm hearted story somehow slips through to publication.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/400-toilet-rolls-how-feels-win-lifetime-supply

 

What would you do with a lifetime's supply of loo rolls?

[MorrisItalSLX]

What would you do with a lifetime's supply of loo rolls?

Give some to Jim Bell?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

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

Ah, another pillar of the Boringwood community.