What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[SiC]

What the hell was that originally?!

 

I like how the right exhaust is so obviously fake and not connected.

[DoctorRetro]

Work let me have use of the director's season tickets to West Ham today, so my little boy who loves them got to go to his first match.

 

I had to sit in silence, being a Newcastle fan...

[gm]

So, how many drugs would you like, Sir?

 

ALL OF THEM.

 

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I can't imagine the joy of just walking down the street and happening across that - wow, just wow !

[The Moog]

Oh hello .. that looks a complicated love tryst with a rover, a Saab 99 and a maestro...

 

It's the second time in a day I have had to go seconds for CMS

[cms206]

What the hell was that originally?!

 

I like how the right exhaust is so obviously fake and not connected.

Allegro!

 

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[Sheefag]

[New POD]

Castrol 5W20 fully synthetic

£2:20 litre in Asda

The one oil that "mayos" in my omega. Unlike Asda own brand.

[New POD]

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...

Bus companies insurance will pursue a loss of use claim Whilst it is repaired and hopefully everyone on the bus will i

Have whiplash too.

[paulplom]

15 mile run via Newcastle town centre. Canny mpgs. 2006 v70 2.4d. Usually averages 50mpg however it's driven.

 

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[Frogchod]

I've been tinkering with the Buick to find out why it's so slow. New plugs, air filter and even a compression check.

Mooching around under the bonnet this morning I spotted a detached cable. Turns out it's the kickdown cable.

Re-attached it and the old barge now does sub 12 second 0-60

Sounds fucking ace now that the V6 can rev

[Semi-C]

Rebuilding a spare master cylinder and discovered I needed a 14mm allen key (which I did not possess).

 

 

Only one thing for it.

 

[Floatylight]

I've seen some shit videos come up on fb but what the.....

 

https://www.facebook.com/2016507345095844/videos/389927058477542/

 

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[myglaren]

Too much like hard work even if it didn't compromise the tyre.

Sooner buy new ones and have done with it.

[wuvvum]

Unusual for Gumtree to feature in this thread, but I nabbed a nearly new 90AH battery off there earlier for a tenner.  Stuck it on the Volvo to try it out - I haven't heard the old crate spin over that quickly in years!  It doesn't actually fit any of the fleet (although it might fit in the Buick if the battery tray were a little less fragile) - it's going to be primarily used for jump starting duties - with the addition of a decent pair of jump leads it'll make a far better (and cheaper) alternative to a jump pack.

[Ghosty]

Watching East is East, it's set in Salford in 1971.

 

At one point the family central to the plot drivefrom Salford to Bradford.

 

The sequence for them driving from Salford to Bradford starts at Howden and Derwent reservoirs (up a dead end road only accessible from Snake Pass), then drive down the Snake towards Glossop (the wrong way), which is signed as Bradford - the Bradford scenes are shot somewhere else completely. 

This aside, why would you even be at the Derwent reservoirs driving from Salford to Bradford? You'd go via Bury and Rochdale.

I'm grinning cause I know the locations used, and how wrong and daft it is.

[beko1987]

Unusual for Gumtree to feature in this thread, but I nabbed a nearly new 90AH battery off there earlier for a tenner. Stuck it on the Volvo to try it out - I haven't heard the old crate spin over that quickly in years! It doesn't actually fit any of the fleet (although it might fit in the Buick if the battery tray were a little less fragile) - it's going to be primarily used for jump starting duties - with the addition of a decent pair of jump leads it'll make a far better (and cheaper) alternative to a jump pack.

One of the highlights of shitefest 2017 was watching ruffgeezer jump his volvo with this exact method! Several times...

 

Of course I needed to borrow it to get the blue laguna going becase the battery was dead

[chodweaver]

I've seen some shit videos come up on fb but what the.....

 

https://www.facebook.com/2016507345095844/videos/389927058477542/

 

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I disagree. The production quality exceeds that of many, many 'instructional' vids I've sat through on YouTube... in this one, close ups are accurately framed and (eventually) in focus, tasks are actually performed in front of the camera, using the actual parts used in the subsequent demonstration, and it is painfully obvious HOW EFFING LONG it will take to change an illegal tyre into a just-as-illegal tyre, that looks like it was sculpted by a four-year old while possibly making it more dangerous.

 

By comparison, a well known supplier of spare parts for domestic appliances posts videos in which the spare part remains in its plastic bag, the appliance which requires the part is not shown at all and the verbal description of how said part should be fitted is vague to the point of being useless. And yet their videos run for over ten minutes, so I'm not actually sure which is worse...

 

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[New POD]

Watching East is East, it's set in Salford in 1971.

 

At one point the family central to the plot drivefrom Salford to Bradford.

 

The sequence for them driving from Salford to Bradford starts at Howden and Derwent reservoirs (up a dead end road only accessible from Snake Pass), then drive down the Snake towards Glossop (the wrong way), which is signed as Bradford - the Bradford scenes are shot somewhere else completely.

 

This aside, why would you even be at the Derwent reservoirs driving from Salford to Bradford? You'd go via Bury and Rochdale.

 

I'm grinning cause I know the locations used, and how wrong and daft it is.

Great film though if you put that particular detail aside.

[angle]

I ordered some random shit from the Mercedes Benz Club today - a keyring, a baseball cap and a window sticker.

 

The website reminded me that I could qualify for free postage if I paid TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS on club branded tat.

 

Cant help but grin at the sense of entitlement!

If there's not a selfie in your thread of you sitting in your Mercedes, wearing your Mercedes baseball cap and twirling your keys on their Mercedes keyring around your finger by this time next week, I'm going to be very disappointed.

[hairnet]

So the snow is no.more

 

Hour till plane

 

Thank fuck

 

Not the way I wanted to spend an unexpected day off

[beko1987]

"now boy, this is how you mini strip a car for scrap"

 

 

(I'm not keeping the sun visors, we were removing the phone mic!)

[PhilA]

Watching East is East, it's set in Salford in 1971.

 

At one point the family central to the plot drivefrom Salford to Bradford.

 

The sequence for them driving from Salford to Bradford starts at Howden and Derwent reservoirs (up a dead end road only accessible from Snake Pass), then drive down the Snake towards Glossop (the wrong way), which is signed as Bradford - the Bradford scenes are shot somewhere else completely.

This aside, why would you even be at the Derwent reservoirs driving from Salford to Bradford? You'd go via Bury and Rochdale.

I'm grinning cause I know the locations used, and how wrong and daft it is.

The movie "Deepwater Horizon" is like that also, at the start.

 

Driving down the new section of raised bridge towards the seaport that avoids the old Highway One surface road, and "arrives" at the helibase.

 

About 15 miles inland.

 

Everybody's laughing at the screen "dude, you drive to Fourchon, then end to at Air Log' in Golden Meadow, you got turned around!"

 

The house he was in doesn't look like any around here anyway, much further inland that style becomes prevalent.

 

 

This area has a particular look to it (traditional French) when it comes to small wooden houses.

 

 

Phil

[BorniteIdentity]

Completely forgot that in "Ali G indahouse" - there's an invacar right at the start!

 

 

Also forgot what a completely ridiculous and completely brilliant film it is.

 

Sneer all you like.  I love it.

[LightBulbFun]

you know you had a fun up bringing when that film gives you childhood nostalgia 

 

fun fact, the invacar in that scene is supposedly REV451R which shows up as SORN on the DVLA site so may well still be out there somewhere

 

I wonder if the film studio acquired it somehow for that scene (and the scene where he cuts him up back ) and then squirrelled it away somewhere...

 

(I do wonder how scenes involving invacars where done when the cars where government property)

[Cavcraft]

Unusual for Gumtree to feature in this thread, but I nabbed a nearly new 90AH battery off there earlier for a tenner.  Stuck it on the Volvo to try it out - I haven't heard the old crate spin over that quickly in years!  It doesn't actually fit any of the fleet (although it might fit in the Buick if the battery tray were a little less fragile) - it's going to be primarily used for jump starting duties - with the addition of a decent pair of jump leads it'll make a far better (and cheaper) alternative to a jump pack.

 

The G*lf I had collected Saturday had £100's worth of two week old battery fitted to it. Gone straight on the Transit and works a treat.

[purplebargeken]

^^ Golf?

[Stanky]

I sincerely hope the hidden letter was an O and not an I

[scaryoldcortina]

"now boy, this is how you mini strip a car for scrap"

 

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(I'm not keeping the sun visors, we were removing the phone mic!)

Sit down son, this is how you strip a car for scrap.

 

 

Just waiting for the windscreen bloke to come and cut the screen out.

[loserone]

Those air intakes not worth keeping?

Mine fell out when I washed it, but they're a different shape

[SiC]

You left the door striker plates on.