What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[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"?

[Fumbler]

I wouldn't know! The driver and passenger were very upright, emotionless and going 50 MPH. Lots of Chinese writing on the back on colourful beachside stickers and whatnot.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

20 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

I wouldn't know! The driver and passenger were very upright, emotionless and going 50 MPH. Lots of Chinese writing on the back on colourful beachside stickers and whatnot.

That sounds truly grim.

[hairnet]

Voiture de merde

She bought this she was looking at Yaris but decided she liked this

Shame it's not got 104 or 304 but hey

I get to have a go in October

Played with all the toys - cruise control ffs

[barefoot]

On 7/27/2019 at 12:07 PM, beko1987 said:

I didn't laugh much

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

Saw something very similar in Loughborough a couple of years ago and actually saw it happen. Chap was reversing an Astra van with a load of full lock. Plenty of space for the fixed cast iron bollard to squeeze past the flexible plastic air-dam/bumper, but once it hit the suspension, the car stopped dead and everything popped back instantly into place, there was no easy way to move it again without much disassembly taking place.

[barefoot]

Another barefoot grin.

I have just spent a very pleasant lunchtime in the public house with an elderly chap who regaled me of the time he ran out of fuel in his Morry Thou van on the M1 Southbound, after J26, but just short of Trowell services. Undeterred, he attempted to push it to Trowell, but encountered an unexpected uphill stretch. Searching in the back, he found a galleon of paraffin which he cheerfully poured into the tank. Unsurprisingly, the car was reluctant to start, but with some encouragement and with the use of full choke, it eventually fired up, "obliterating the motorway in clouds of white smoke". Careful use of the clutch, "it was like trying to pull away in top" and maintained full choke, saw the Minor splutter its way down to the services where it was re-filled with three star. 
When restarting, the carb & fuel lines were obviously still full of paraffin, and similar clouds of smoke provided much entertainment in the service station until John, in no uncertain terms was asked to leave as soon as it was possible!

[anonymous user]

Try that with a modern Mercedes, oh, they did a few years ago when I was accompanying someone having an argument at a Mercedes main dealer. Someone accidentally emptied a can of paraffin into the tank of a new Mercedes and tried to start it. It didn't start, but there were a lot of headless chickens running about in the workshop. It had been pushed onto a lift by the time we left. Note to main dealer designers, do not have a window into the workshop so that people can view your mistakes (and keep the door shut to the showroom, your mechanics may not be used to the language that some of the customers use)

[chaseracer]

Brownnova and Mrsbrownnova have just got spliced.

Lovely.

Nice cake, too ?

[richardmorris]

8 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Brownnova and Mrsbrownnova have just got spliced.

Lovely.

Nice cake, too ?

Ooh, cake!

[Skizzer]

 

(I hate people posting other’s content without crediting or linking but some git has already done so, so I can’t trace it back.)

[Skizzer]

Congrats to the Brownnovae!

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Ooh, cake!

lol surprise

shouldnt you be yellow2cv now

congrats

[Fumbler]

Much congratulation on your betwixtment Mr. and Mrs. Nova!

[LightBulbFun]

many Congratulations to @brownnova and @Mrsbrownnova 

I hope the Yellow and Brown 2CVs where banana and chocolate flavoured accordingly

[108]

Ultimate felicitations to Mrs and Mr Brownnova. And bonus cakeshite too. Many wishes for a bright future. 

[hairnet]

so much oof so much want

think ive seen it at one other show - been a looooong time

[Wack]

[brownnova]

Thanks for the congratulations folks - we had an absolute blast! 2CVs were a major influence, the cakes, the guest book, the wedding transport... and the table names: Charleston, Dolly, Sahara, Beachcomber and Bamboo!! 

Today we celebrated by going to a tractor show and pushing some fellow 2CVers out of a muddy field! Romance at its finest!!!