What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

Isn't that the Chinese camper someone was talking about the other day that's doing a round the world tour?

[brownnova]

Whoop whoop!! The self healing van passed! 

The first of our 5 cars not to need any work for it’s MoT! 

OK a few minor defects/advisories, and a couple of verbal advisories too... but we’re camping for another year! 

[Tamworthbay]

Chod spotting in Russia, my favourite was the Lada with the half eaten sandwich on the dash. 

[Tamworthbay]

Finnish cider

[hairnet]

MG3 at Rochdale Tesco

Then 56 plate legacy estate pulls in front.so can't photo lol

 

[hairnet]

9 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Chod spotting in Russia, my favourite was the Lada with the half eaten sandwich on the dash. 

Bring back whatever the bottom one is

 

[Snipes]

On 8/6/2019 at 5:19 AM, paulplom said:

The track at the rear was much wider as well. A lot of work looks to have gone in to it.

Or huge spacers.......

[wuvvum]

56 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Bring back whatever the bottom one is

Those big old ex-Politburo limos seem to fetch £££££ these days (or ).

[danthecapriman]

The big white one at the bottom is a GAZ (ZIM) - 12. Basically a Soviet knock off of a Buick Super/Roadmaster.

To have one at the time you’d need to be mid ranking party member level or, they were actually available for private purchase unlike many Soviet limo’s/staff cars but it would have been expensive!

[barefoot]

It's the Jade Goodie hour on the telly tonight.

[paulplom]

A crinkle chip cutter! Who knew something like that even existed!

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[myglaren]

We used to have one, many years ago.

[myglaren]

 

[clayts450]

Well worth persevering to the bitter end - made me piss, anyway

[dozeydustman]

I'm not a Christian man (I'm a non-practicing Pagan), but hearing the bells of Chichester Cathedral in full peal every Wednesday evening brings a smile to my face.

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

I'm not a Christian man (I'm a non-practicing Pagan), but hearing the bells of Chichester Cathedral in full peal every Wednesday evening brings a smile to my face.

It can be quite pleasant and almost uplifting on occasion.  I haven't heard church bells in fifty years, I must gravitate to heathen parts of the community.

I grew up in Whitby and the church bells there used to drive me round the bend.  The clang of the bell buoy *(not the bell boy) was more musical.

 

*some clarification may be in order here - the bell buoy was a buoy anchored about a mile offshore with a bell on it (rocket science part) that was almost always subject to swell if not actual waves and clanged fairly rhythmically every few seconds.

The foghorn was a different kettle of fish entirely.

[Sealtainn]

Playing Forza Horizon 4 on my Xbox and discovering that some enterprising so-and-so has uploaded a design for the 2CV so I can drive my very own Elly ?

[andy18s]

[Saabnut]

The 150 quid Toyota Yaris bought from this parish as a short term snotter with 3 months MOT. I drove it on to my trailer and off again once home. Then went out on loan to a friend whos car was not very well. Been 100% reliable so she stuck it in for a test. It passed!

However, my friendly MOT man has advised that this will be its last test without spending a large fortune....

[New POD]

16 hours ago, paulplom said:

A crinkle chip cutter! Who knew something like that even existed!

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Every good charity shop has one for 35p 

[pilninggas]

15 hours ago, myglaren said:

 

That's like when you think you are tightening up a bolt into a captive/blind nut and it isnt and it's spinning.

In fact it's a metaphor for most of my life.

[LightBulbFun]

11 hours ago, Sealtainn said:

Playing Forza Horizon 4 on my Xbox and discovering that some enterprising so-and-so has uploaded a design for the 2CV so I can drive my very own Elly ?

can you still get the Round headlamp 2CV's in FH4? that would finish off the Elly look nicely (esp if you can get a stripy roof )

I know in Forza 7 when they introduced the 2CV it had Round head lamps but in FH4 it became the James bond 2CV, which was when the 2CV had rectangular head lamps

gives me an excuse to post this again

 

[LightBulbFun]

a couple capacitors one for each of the 1000W metal halide M47 autotransformer ballasts I have arrived in the post today (Previously I was using a bunch of smaller capacitors in parallel that I had robbed from other places where they where needed)

and I had a chuckle at the manufacture name  

[Wack]

Kelly Brook still makes me grin

 

She seems to be wearing a dress made out of the stuff they use to disguise the outline of prototype cars but it's not disguising that enormous chest very well

 

[LightBulbFun]

[iainrcz]

The stars have aligned.
I have beer, there are no noisy arseholes outside, and the wife is out.

Chin chin.

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[Frogchod]

Price has been agreed on that DS

I'm going to see if I can get the suspension raised at the weekend. If all goes well I'll pick it up the following weekend.

 

[BorniteIdentity]

[beko1987]

I went to sleep at 6 last night and woke up at half 9. My gosh do I feel better this morning! 

Probably should have put the dinner stuff in the sink to soak before I went though, oops

[Skizzer]

The Archbishop of Canterbury has been speaking about the need to be social on social media.  This from today’s Guardian:

Welby said: “We don’t want people to [use] jargon in a way that ontologically results in some epistemological confusion.“

Mods, please be vigilant.