What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MorrisItalSLX]

My grin today is my ‘new’ clock-radio, scored for £Nil.

 

 

I have always wanted a flip-clock and they are usually £100+ on the interweb, so when I pulled this out of a skip I was very pleased.

 

What makes it such a winner is the fantastic radio tuner, the FM hooks up to the house aerial and is fantastic and even the AM is picking up stations which has never happened before in my area.

[New POD]

Which reminds me - what is the worst thing to read in Braille?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do not touch.....

.....

 

 

....Biochemical hazard bin

Fixed that 4 you.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Just listening to the Pixies Bossanova for the first time in years (best one IMO) and I was listening to 'Rock Music' and decided to google the lyrics as I always thought they were a bit odd, even by Pixies standards.

 

Turns out when i thought they were screaming 'Hey you dozy Asian junkie' he was actually saying 'Hey you know me, me conoce'

 

I don't know either but it's slightly less racist, possibly depending on what conoce means?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v30hFJ-T0zw

Get 'Pixes at the BBC' some of their best tracks in a live set but with decent recording equipment. Fantastic.

[purplebargeken]

Stationary obtaining spree is a constant..... mind you, they now use some cheap shite recycled paper for letters which looks cheap and shite. No point in obtaining same, 'cos shit.

[Cavcraft]

Waiting for a bus in London and who was next to us in the queue? Una Stubbs. 

 

Life simply does not get better than that. 

[Louise2cv]

I saw Penelope Keith drive past when I was waiting for a crossing to change.

 

I hope Una was nicer.

 

(She knew I was staring and she blanked me).

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Despite loving pretty much every band that ever claimed to be influenced by the Pixies, and Deal’s Breeders, for ages I never got the Pixies, then something clicked and I listened to them constantly for about a month.

 

 

I liked the Pixies fine but they've never really 'clicked' for me aside from a few individual songs.  'Monkey Gone to Heaven' is probably my favourite, along with (perhaps weirdly) 'Caribou'.  Probably the same for Melvins although that probably has more to do with the fact that I haven't heard as much as I ought to...

 

On musical grins, a few years ago I was assisting as the London Drum Show (my mate used to own a drum company) and I literally ran into Nick Mason from Pink Floyd, nearly knocking him over.  Fortunately enough, he was very nice about it and I was very apologetic.  Still makes me smile.

[Louise2cv]

Wolf from Gladiators in the mid-noughties was much more excited about being spotted on a petrol station forecourt.

[Louise2cv]

(nervously waiting to be told I have finally fallen for one for the jokes)

 

Spare me the embarrassment

[SierraMikeHotel]

Wolf from Gladiators in the mid-noughties was much more excited about being spotted on a petrol station forecourt.

I was convinced he owned a car dealership but it was actually a small chain of gyms. No idea where that false memory came from.

[Cavcraft]

I saw Penelope Keith drive past when I was waiting for a crossing to change.

 

I hope Una was nicer.

 

(She knew I was staring and she blanked me).

She was absolutely charming and was telling a young lad next to us that it was people of his age group (about 21, at a guess) and a bit over who recognised her most.

Also saw Nigel Eubank is his floppy top Rolls Royce (don’t mind him, but boxing not my thing) and possibly Boris Johnson on his bike.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Waiting for a bus in London and who was next to us in the queue? Una Stubbs. 

 

Life simply does not get better than that. 

Surely you mean - a GOOD LIFE …. EDIT - I'm surprised she's still kicking, she looked a little worn out last time I saw her on t'box….

 

I saw Penelope Keith drive past when I was waiting for a crossing to change.

 

I hope Una was nicer.

 

(She knew I was staring and she blanked me).

ah.... perhaps not 

[Andyrew]

 

Bonnet is clearly happy that I've removed the awfully fitted pins.

[beko1987]

Their demolishing a load of quite nice looking 1970's warehouses next to the office. We have a front row seat on the first floor, and it's been ace watching them pick it apart, everyone's been at the window at various points.

 

Except in a few weeks, they'll be taking the fucking huge concrete slab up... Can't wait for everyone to suddenly hate it as they spend a few days breaking it up...

 

One of the massive diggers has a pair of snips on the end and is cutting the girders that would probably take 20 people to lift like I'd snap a matchstick!

[cort1977]

I was convinced he owned a car dealership but it was actually a small chain of gyms. No idea where that false memory came from.

 

Didn't Wolf move to NZ? 

 

Now if i saw Jet from Gladiators in the mid-noughties (or in fact at anytime) I would be proper excited.

[95 quid Peugeot]

Castrol 5W20 fully synthetic

£2:20 litre in Asda

[scdan4]

[Aston Martin]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-6756471/Classic-car-experts-reveal-bangers-worth-banking.html

 

Hmmmmmmm

[beko1987]

I'll keep this brief because it's very off topic but fellow shitter Mr Twiggy is a dab hand at leather! Belt making, car door pull strap making (I imagine) and unobtainable parts for 1931 vacuum cleaners making too!

 

 

Looks the utter business, especially considering this is the best original one in the world

 

 

Its amazingly good, thanks Twiggy!

[myglaren]

I don't think my daughter will be pleased to hear that her MX-5 is a banger.

Not when she has a MK III Escort cabriolet in her garage.

[beko1987]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-6756471/Classic-car-experts-reveal-bangers-worth-banking.html

 

Hmmmmmmm

I saw this earlier and didn't click on it because I'd disagree with it all!

 

None of those are bangers ffs, their all new cars that should continue doing car like stuff for many years yet

[Cavcraft]

Not seen a ‘Bangers that will become classics’ thing in a newspaper ever that hasn’t been half-arsed, lazy journalism as it’s very worst.

[Sir Snipes]

I saw this earlier and didn't click on it because I'd disagree with it all!

 

None of those are bangers ffs, their all new cars that should continue doing car like stuff for many years yet

They're all the thick end of 20 years old. They're not new.

[twosmoke300]

I'll keep this brief because it's very off topic but fellow shitter Mr Twiggy is a dab hand at leather! Belt making, car door pull strap making (I imagine) and unobtainable parts for 1931 vacuum cleaners making too!

 

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Looks the utter business, especially considering this is the best original one in the world

 

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Its amazingly good, thanks Twiggy!

 

I fucking love proper traditional craftsmanship like this . Sadly a dying art as no youngsters want to work with their hands these days

Love seeing the old upholsterers on car sos for this

[beko1987]

I fucking love proper traditional craftsmanship like this . Sadly a dying art as no youngsters want to work with their hands these days

Love seeing the old upholsterers on car sos for this

Its bloody brilliant isn't it!

[Timewaster]

I fucking love proper traditional craftsmanship like this . Sadly a dying art as no youngsters want to work with their hands these days

Love seeing the old upholsterers on car sos for this

I liked the Salvage Hunters spin off series The Restorers which shows the people doing restorations of the old tat Drew has bought.

The upholsterer is great.

[twosmoke300]

Yeh and that french polisher bloke that did work for him but went out alone iirc . Like an artist . Can’t learn skills like that from a you tube vid

[New POD]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-6756471/Classic-car-experts-reveal-bangers-worth-banking.html

 

Hmmmmmmm

We have a yellow mini Cooper with black roof, 51 plate in our fleet. Still.on the original gearbox at 98k built in September 2001, so a couple of months after launch.

[Alan_Green]

Currently browsing Ebay for electric wheelchairs etc. Had to chuckle when I saw this ramp:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOMCOM-Aluminum-Folding-Wheelchair-Ramp-for-Scooter-Pet-Equipment-Mobility/292396061024?epid=22012517973&hash=item441429d160:g:ruoAAOSw~o5acpP6:rk:18:pf:0   Come on granny.  Time to go.

 

[Zelandeth]

Just heard through the grapevine that our well known local menace has ploughed his riced up Focus (which hasn't been taxed, insured or MOTed since 2014) into the back of a parked up Volvo Olympian at around 50mph.

 

Best bit? Apparently he broke a leg in the incident, so wasn't able to dispose of the few kg of drugs in the boot before the police showed up...

 

Apparently damage to the bus is limited to the panel under the engine cover needing a paint and the cover itself needed a kick to get it shut again. They built those old tanks well back in the 90s...