What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[davidfowler2000]

Finally got the V5C in for the V70 so it's back to an all H-reg fleet

[omegod]

Regarding the peeled transit, I have been shown how newer transits are being nicked, it's unbelievably easy, involves no damage, takes 2 minutes and I'd never ever have one !! 

[AdeMk1]

Regarding the peeled transit, I have been shown how newer transits are being nicked, it's unbelievably easy, involves no damage, takes 2 minutes and I'd never ever have one !! 

Shockingly easy isn't it!

[loserone]

5 hours ago, Frogchod said:

I've been to see that DS.

I think it needs more welding than my skills can cope with.

It does look complete.... maybe a few beers will change my mind.

I recon 1400 euro will buy it.

If anyone wants it I can pass on the sellers number. He's Dutch so speaks good English. Car is near St Lo

Have you drunk enough yet? I have no doubt it will be an expensive, ungratful son of a bitch, but if you don't it will always be the one you regret not buying.

[Mrsbrownnova]

On 7/28/2019 at 7:25 PM, chaseracer said:

Brownnova and Mrsbrownnova have just got spliced.

Lovely.

Nice cake, too ?

Thanking you all for the congratulations. 

Much merriment was had on the particular day after some slight mishaps such as my reversing @brownnova‘s Saab into his Mazda MX5 (the only damage was to the car shaped cake which was unfortunately being kept ‘safe’ in the boot) and the slight inconvenience of a missing wedding ring. 

Anywho, after all the enjoyment, back to house cleaning, garage painting and discussing if a wardrobe and a bed are absolutely necessary when you’ve been gifted wedding money that could be spent on another car. 

Unfortunately, the furniture won (damn being a responsible adult) and Mr B and I put our relationship to the test and went to Ikea. As the evidence had already presented itself, I left the heavy trolley driving to my better half as I didn’t want to be responsible for wiping out aisle 8-21 of the collection warehouse. I mean, who even makes trolleys without reversing lights anyway? ? 

[myglaren]

On 7/30/2019 at 9:17 PM, catsinthewelder said:

This is Norman

He or possibly she is the only survivor of a nest falling off a customers wall in last weeks storms.  Hopefully it can fly away in a few weeks with the wild ones.  I hope it will take to eating insects as it is mostly eating mince at the moment.

Mealworms from your local petshop

[paulplom]

7 hours ago, omegod said:

Regarding the peeled transit, I have been shown how newer transits are being nicked, it's unbelievably easy, involves no damage, takes 2 minutes and I'd never ever have one !! 

My mate and I both had same age transits when we shared a flat together about 5 years ago. They were 2010 models. Mine was sign written and I kept a disclok on it after watching videos on how easy they were to nick. Guess whos was stolen one night. We both got up to go to work and wondered where it was. We couldn't remember if we left it at the pub the night before. He was a self employed plasterer with 3 plasterers worth of tools inside. Cost him a fortune to replace it all. I still use the disclok on my custom.

[Saabnut]

The A series fire appliance helpfully* posted on this very site but located in deepest darkest east England has arrived at its new home in Perth in the land of the Volvo.

[paulplom]

I've seen the metropolitan knocking about a few times. I was walking into Shields and spied it in a back lane. I had a good crack with the elderly owner of these two. I never knew the Nash was made by Austin of it had an a series for that matter. He loves nowt better than driving/tinkering with them. He doesn't really do shows though.

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[anonymous user]

I thought it was a B series in the Metropolitan.

[chaseracer]

It was - forget what size, though.

EDIT: 1200 and 1500, according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_Metropolitan, so there's a 70% chance of that being so...

[barefoot]

I don't know if this is a grump or a smilie, but my new Rover licking friend at the garage takes his customer's cars down to another village just a couple of miles away for MOT. He has been conducting an experiment over the past ELEVEN years in which he uses a crap old motor, currently a Focus,  to get back to his premises after dropping a car off for test. He passes an ANPR camera several times a day, and none of these cars have ever been taxed.

[davehedgehog31]

I was into my Pokemon cards back in the day. My mum and dad recently moved house and I was handed a box of odds and ends, among them a little binder with some Pokemon cards in it...

Put a couple on eBay last week and sold them for decent coin (£15 between two cards). Been doing a bit of reading into them, how to identify them etc. I have one the exact same as this from the same print run etc and in very similar condition;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/bfl/viewbids/173893551026?item=173893551026&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

£722 for a Pokemon card!?!?

Taking detailed photos, listing mine at a 99p start and then holding on... hopefully a nice little earner. I'll keep a couple of them for old times sake, but I'm far too nervous to sit on something like that hoping it's value increases. 

[hairnet]

@Six-cylinder

Chris look - convertible boat

[hairnet]

Oh and earlier visited a thing that I decided i wasn't

For the sake of 2 hours and 10 euro in petrol

 

Saved at least €150

 

 

[Six-cylinder]

Just now, hairnet said:

@Six-cylinder

Chris look - convertible boat

 

You took me before on a convertible boat!

[hairnet]

29 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

You took me before on a convertible boat!

 

[HillmanImp]

[gm]

childish, but it did raise a snigger

[Frogchod]

18 hours ago, loserone said:

Have you drunk enough yet? I have no doubt it will be an expensive, ungratful son of a bitch, but if you don't it will always be the one you regret not buying.

I've not drunk enough yet, but tonight is Friday. That means more beer than usual so seller may yet get a cheeky offer from me.

One of the pub regulars is a welder, don't really know him, might have to buy him a pint tonight....

[loserone]

Don't tell him what it is or you may lose your chance to buy it..

[willswitchengage]

F1? MotoGP? Motocross? Have ten times the fun on a millionth of the budget.

 

[Joey spud]

In May 2018 i quit my RAC patrol job.

After seventeen years and 750,000 miles of ploding up and down the motorways of north Kent it had became a stressful and a sometimes dangerous way to earn a living.

So after fifteen months of ''resting'' and not wanting to continue in the motor trade and not actively looking for work i sent my cv off for a job i have no written qualifications for and bugger me sideways i got the job.

It's field based so i get a nice new kitted out Mercedes Sprinter to drive around southern England,down side i got a few weeks of training in Wakefield to enjoy first.

It also means i don't need to keep the Daihatsu YRV turbo as my commute car which will free up some cash for a scruffy Nissan Stagea i've spied locally.

 

[Sealtainn]

It’s a lovely evening up here in Shetland so thought I’d indulge in some topless motoring...........not sure I’ve got the hang of it though ?

[High Jetter]

40 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

In May 2018 i quit my RAC patrol job.

After seventeen years and 750,000 miles of ploding up and down the motorways of north Kent it had became a stressful and a sometimes dangerous way to earn a living.

So after fifteen months of ''resting'' and not wanting to continue in the motor trade and not actively looking for work i sent my cv off for a job i have no written qualifications for and bugger me sideways i got the job.

It's field based so i get a nice new kitted out Mercedes Sprinter to drive around southern England,down side i got a few weeks of training in Wakefield to enjoy first.

It also means i don't need to keep the Daihatsu YRV turbo as my commute car which will free up some cash for scruffy Nissan Stagea i've spied locally.

 

Sounds like an all-round result to me, well done - as long as you actually wanted the job, obs.

[Joey spud]

14 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Sounds like an all-round result to me, well done - as long as you actually wanted the job, obs.

Originally i was going to settle for a simple van delivery sort of job like a Tesco or a parts supplier gig but i kept thinking i am a light vehicle tech with C+G certificates am i selling myself short,although after gaining this qualification in the mid eighties how relevent it is in 2019 is debatable but shirley i can do something to match my skills.

So yes i really wanted this job but didn't think at my age they would invest time and money training me to the standard required.

But wtf do i know maybe maturity and life skills  trump still being a bit wet behind the ears.

 

[High Jetter]

Mrs J  & I are planning to escape this island for a short while in October. Dug out our EHIC's this morning - expiry 25th Sep FFS. Grin is it only took about 5 minutes to order new ones FOC and they should be here in 10 days! Wouldn't have fancied shelling out if they'd only last a month instead of 5 years.

[Supernaut]

Mr Spud, would your new job be telecomms related by any chance?

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Sealtainn said:

It’s a lovely evening up here in Shetland so thought I’d indulge in some topless motoring...........not sure I’ve got the hang of it though ?

Taps aff

[hairnet]

View from the hotel

Cba riding home