What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[davehedgehog31]

On 8/2/2019 at 1:15 PM, davehedgehog31 said:

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. 

So - I put 8 cards up in total last week. 

The really valuable one is still ongoing, one didn't sell and the six others sold for between £4 and £42 and netted me a cool £109.60 after postage etc. 

The one from the post above ends in just under 2 hours and is up to £98.75, hopefully a late flurry to come from the 30 odd watchers!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Near-Mint-4th-Print-1999-2000-Base-Set-Charizard-Pokemon-Card-Holo-Holographic/273953385185

A nice little earner from a loft find. 

[barefoot]

I've joined the Rover 75 forum. They all seem very, very old & sensible. I might attend the meeting in September...

[Joey spud]

Too many ugga dugga's ??

[Joey spud]

I thought this combo was quite tidy for a postie van.. 

[SiC]

^^ going Postal?

[Mally]

1 hour ago, barefoot said:

I've joined the Rover 75 forum. They all seem very, very old & sensible. I might attend the meeting in September...

You may find me, I'm older on there. I only drop in about twice a year so probably invisible by now.

You can often find a bargain, when people run out of patience and / or cash.

 

[beko1987]

4 hours ago, davehedgehog31 said:

So - I put 8 cards up in total last week. 

The really valuable one is still ongoing, one didn't sell and the six others sold for between £4 and £42 and netted me a cool £109.60 after postage etc. 

The one from the post above ends in just under 2 hours and is up to £98.75, hopefully a late flurry to come from the 30 odd watchers!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Near-Mint-4th-Print-1999-2000-Base-Set-Charizard-Pokemon-Card-Holo-Holographic/273953385185

A nice little earner from a loft find. 

Well that went for a nice free tank of fuel and a free kebab, nice!

[MikeR]

Snap-off tool ?

 

2 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Too many ugga dugga's ??

 

[busmansholiday]

Very, very occasionally, I miss the H&S world I spent 40 years in. 

Boy would I have had a field day with this.  Barely 400 yards from Busmans Towers.

[catsinthewelder]

That looks like something I would do.

A fortnight ago I helped get a grand piano off a balcony with 4 lengths of 4x2, a few blankets and some ratchet straps.  I'm quite glad 2 otherwise unconnected contractors helped hold the lowering rope mind

[3VOM]

10 hours ago, Skizzer said:

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.

Isn't that an ecumenical question?

[Fumbler]

That would be an ecumenical matter!

[MarvinsMom]

YES

[New POD]

9 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

Very, very occasionally, I miss the H&S world I spent 40 years in. 

Boy would I have had a field day with this.  Barely 400 yards from Busmans Towers.

I see no issues.  

[iainrcz]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233569702.html&ved=2ahUKEwjMqoPC9vXjAhUMVd8KHcGxAvQQFjAOegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw1jb2Zj67IO-7P4x7rYtNWy&ampcf=1
 

Thunderbox....

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[andy18s]

18 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

Very, very occasionally, I miss the H&S world I spent 40 years in. 

Boy would I have had a field day with this.  Barely 400 yards from Busmans Towers.

Bulgarian standard practice.....

[Frogchod]

DS starts and rises

[hairnet]

@Conan

dirty dirty git

https://rod.kaidee.com/product-349207485?fbclid=IwAR0INLfEheEILi-lRPYh_93OWwyB2GyNylgvs921hzbVrVYi703LxmP9FW4

 

[purplebargeken]

3 days in Berlin booked for September.

[richardmorris]

Apparently the new “leader” of UKIP is called Dick Braine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49307101

[hairnet]

evil conan

https://rod.kaidee.com/product-349435991?fbclid=IwAR1RKby-Dd44zXa08yMd06XtZo_PXmBvcFptyAWCX1DCG_BuvOPRIH5qGLE

[Cavcraft]

Went to a vegan festival thing today (despite not being vegan or vegetarian) and it was great. Met some of the members of the anti-badger cull and anti-fox hunting groups and enjoyed talking to them.  The vegans cemented my view that the majority don't actually force their beliefs on people and have to let everyone know about it, I think they are like religious people, where it's easy and cheap for people to take a shot at them because they don't agree with their views. 

[richardmorris]

From the club de vehicles d’anciennes de Calais FB page.

[jumpingjehovahs]

My younger brother bought this wee beastie today. It’s a Hyundai Veloster Sport. It’s a grin because this is the first car he’s ever bought. It’s been slightly breathed on and has a strut brace so feels pretty swift. It also has a pretty kick ass private plate with it - really happy for him (and also kinda jealous!)





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[loserone]

Any car with more doors on one side has to be awesome

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

Any car with more doors on one side has to be awesome

Especially if you drive it on holiday to a country that drives on the opposite side of the road.....

[MikeR]

my wife and her friend have gone camping in one of those Bongo camper vans this weekend

they have just got back and she has explained how the oil light kept flashing so they stopped to give it a rest ...

then it made noises so they had to find out how to put oil in ,,, and it got back

glad its not my camper !

[wuvvum]

An 05-plate Renault Trafic van has just had its engine run away quite spectacularly outside the office.  The amount of smoke a dying 1.9 dCi can produce is really impressive.

[TataBobu]

On 8/9/2019 at 10:03 PM, busmansholiday said:

 

 

On 8/10/2019 at 7:35 AM, New POD said:

I see no issues.  

What do you mean "no issue"???

The tape measurer is on the sidewalk, and not rolled back onto itself. That's not right.

[hairnet]

took out insurance for the bike wayy early (like not the day before it was due like normal)

it ran out and new policy kicked in - got a letter off them - can you contact us we've been trying to contact you (nope no emails or phone calls)

rang them thinking it would be about ncd id been waiting for

'no we dont have anything here that says you need to ring us'

wtf - random letter explosion or summat

odd