What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

Didn't sleep a wink last night - we were at a guest house near Troyes, it had hit 44 degrees in the late afternoon and was still high 30s in the house all night, plus the room overlooked the main road into the village so we had tractors roaring past at all hours.  So had been hoping for a better night tonight.  Just arrived at the gite near Annecy where we're staying for the weekend.  It's 28 degrees and this is the view out of my room window. 

That's more like it. ?

[xtriple]

Just got the Jag back, MOT (£50) and a service (oil and filter basically and Shell Helix posh stuff not reconstituted chip fat) all for... £120. I honestly do not now how he does it! I know he's slow but goodness gracious me, that is jolly cheap.

[twosmoke300]

Had a flight in a Merlin chopper today thanks to Fatharris of this parish .

Guys a legend . 

[MorrisItalSLX]

I just got a letter from management at work requesting that I park the Corolla around the back as it is “aesthetically detracting” in the business car park in the eyes of the customers.

 

Personally, I think the gaudy modern tat belonging to the management is far more aesthetically detracting.

[HillmanImp]

Throwback to the Daf being outside my office. 

[Rovorsche]

I went to the dentist yesterday as one tooth was a bit throbby and got a double course of antibiotics, one has a strict no alcohol clause, even mouthwash can cause chundering apparently.
 

This morning I had a chick pea sized lump on my gum, an epic throbby gum boil.

A close inspection, a squeeze and I ruined the hotel mirror but feel so much better.

Grin?

Would if I could but I am a stunt double for Popeye at the moment

 

 

[clayts450]

Another day, another PPI claim succeeds. My estimate of what I'd get - about 300 quid. Barclays estimate. Same amount. Multiplied by 10.

Bring it

If you haven't done so, put a claim in even if you think it ain't worth it. Deadline looming.

[clayts450]

Kwik Fit Mobile fitter just came to stick a couple of tyres on the Honda. Easy job for him as the wheels are off already (I'm  mid-swap between aftermarket rimz and original Honda alloys) - all done and dusted in 15 minutes.

Nice bloke - he was admiring the fleet, and we had a good old chat about BL chod generally, and I urged him to go to Gaydon. He was also telling me he'd bought a Golf VR6 as a WBOD a few years ago for 600 quid. Still got it - now worth about 4K.

[beko1987]

I didn't laugh much

Neither did the aa guy and the other people standing around as I walked past... 

[vulgalour]

MorrisItal: I do hope you keep 'forgetting' to park round the back.

[hairnet]

They're showing this on quest

And it's 54 days @PhilA

[MorrisItalSLX]

MorrisItal: I do hope you keep 'forgetting' to park round the back.

I may be parking right by the front door from now on.

“Letter? I never received a letter.”

[Jamie]

My new* golf has an auto shite button 

 

[Supernaut]

6 minutes ago, jamiechod said:

My new* golf has an auto shite button 

 

When you press it, does the car turn beige, lose a wheeltrim, and also halve its power?

[Jamie]

Yep just pressed it now waiting for the AA

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

They're showing this on quest

And it's 54 days @PhilA

Yes, I can hear the music from Countdown playing.. but we aren't quite be-doo be-doo beDOODEEDO BONG yet.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

What did the old git buy @dollywobbler

 

[hairnet]

38 minutes ago, PhilA said:

Yes, I can hear the music from deliverance playing..

 

Phil

oops thats what i read

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I didn't laugh much

Neither did the aa guy and the other people standing around as I walked past... 

We can though!

HOW? It’s not even a rising bolard.

[Rovorsche]

He bought an Off-Roader so now it's off road, well one wheel is.

Tip it on its side, lay the bollard flat, tip the Honda back on its wheels and drive off into the sunset.

Fixorred

[bramz7]

Booked a few days in Mulhouse at the start of October to visit the Schlumpf collection. 

Quite excited, and the (proper shitty looking) suburbs of the area look ripe for spotting. Early morning trips then, to avoid the streetlife, just like in Lille then. 

 

I'll also spend a day in Basel.

[loserone]

You'll enjoy that, make sure you also visit the cité du train

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

We can though!

HOW? It’s not even a rising bolard.

It was sarcasm, I burst out laughing, so did Charlie! 

No idea how it happened, fixed wooden post! Possibly a 3 point turn gone wrong? 

Social media got another angle

 

[myglaren]

11 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I just got a letter from management at work requesting that I park the Corolla around the back as it is “aesthetically detracting” in the business car park in the eyes of the customers.

 

Personally, I think the gaudy modern tat belonging to the management is far more aesthetically detracting.

They asked me to do that in my scabby, hand painted bright yellow Imp.

"Socially unacceptable" was the diagnosis

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, myglaren said:

They asked me to do that in my scabby, hand painted bright yellow Imp.

"Socially unacceptable" was the diagnosis

I bet nowhere in your contract does it mention what you can park at work. Sorry meant to quote morris ital too.

[beko1987]

I had a few tickets on friday in the work raffle, one of the prizes was park in the directors bit of the car park for a week...

Had I won, I was going to ask mr Six Cylinder if I could borrow his allegro for a few days....

Sadly I did not win

[Jamie]

Chod 'for sell' 

[Fumbler]

Spotted my first Chinese registered vehicle on the M11. Great Wall campervan doing travel round the world it seems.

[catsinthewelder]

My cousin and his mrs managed a similar feat to that 4x4 with a Corrola Verso and a smaller bit of wood and pulled the bumper off on one side.  As pretty much everyone else at the family gathering had white collar jobs I fixed it with random tools and fixings found in the various cars at the gathering in the dark while pissed.  It stayed on for the 100 mile drive home.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Fumbler said:

Spotted my first Chinese registered vehicle on the M11. Great Wall campervan doing travel round the world it seems.

Another visible sign of President-for-Life Xi Jinping's "(Cam)Belt and Road Initiative"?