What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[HillmanImp]

Shit the bed, I'd never profess to be good at English but this is piss poor. 

 

[omegod]

A mate has had some issues with his diesel Nissan van and additional personal stuff has popped his head, van has cut out a few times and he's lost faith in it so offered it to me for 1500 which was too cheap, I scanned it and the injectors or HP fuel pump were on their way out. I offered to get shut of it and today I wazzed down to we buy any car and managed to squeeze 2450 out of them , it was a remarkably painless experience to be honest, 3 x bodywork issues identified which was fair but £50 taken off for a missing book pack was a piss take, would use again though ! ( to dump stuff with impending doom)  

[Cavcraft]

If 'Chucking a chocolate cake into her firebox' isn't a line from Reader's Wives Sploshing it's a sad day all round.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

26 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

....I'd never profess to be good at English but this is piss poor. 

 

That seems to be the standard* of education* nowadays.

Advanced technology: helping the ill-educated to be even more inarticulate. 

[Roobarb]

Darwin at his greatest...

For the first year I’ve lived in this frozen tundra called Minneapolis, the cops have said the ice on the main lake is too thin to be out on, so no trucks, no ice houses, no snowmobiles etc as there’s a danger of falling through.

Obviously, people know better - like this guy with his ice fishing hut...

 

And this guy in his pick up... (my wife saw it break through and said that the guys wife(?) in the passenger seat didn’t look too impressed...)

 

Yet amazingly people still went out on the lake again last night, with a snowmobile falling through and being lost until the upper crust melts. And guess what, the stupid idiots are out there again today!

[dozeydustman]

[SiC]

[somewhatfoolish]

Revenge of the technical writer; it's pretty boring, you've got to get your kicks where you can.

[Skizzer]

That’s very funny.  However, what’s nearly as amusing is the ground clearance of the new Defender in that picture.

[mitsisigma01]

Looks more appropriate for most modern Aldi and BMW drivers 

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, Roobarb said:

Frozen tundra

Ice

I'm laying out on the back deck in the sunshine with the dog.

There's some eagles circling on a thermal overhead

 

It's quite pleasant today

Phil

[hairnet]

3 minutes ago, PhilA said:

I'm laying out on the back deck in the sunshine with the dog.

There's some eagles circling on a thermal overhead

 

It's quite pleasant today

Phil

pics of you the car or the boss - not the weather ffs

 

[PhilA]

Just now, hairnet said:

pics of you the car or the boss - not the weather ffs

 

It is too nice to be working on the car. Plus I'm not feeling so great, the children brought some lergy home with them

[hairnet]

13 minutes ago, PhilA said:

It is too nice to be working on the car. Plus I'm not feeling so great, the children brought some lergy home with them

drown lurgy with meds

go larf at reno

lock kids in cage

 

[Roobarb]

2 hours ago, PhilA said:

 

It's quite pleasant today

Phil

Quite pleasant!!! I can see I chose the wrong place to settle...(!)

Enjoy the sunshine and think of us poor MidWesterners freezing our b@lls off!

[beko1987]

Happy new year! 

[Fumbler]

And to you too!

[Richard]

5 hours ago, Skizzer said:

That’s very funny.  However, what’s nearly as amusing is the ground clearance of the new Defender in that picture.

That's what I was thinking, I don't think that could straddle a speed cushion.

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, Roobarb said:

Quite pleasant!!! I can see I chose the wrong place to settle...(!)

Enjoy the sunshine and think of us poor MidWesterners freezing our b@lls off!

Retire and become a snowbird?

[Dan the van]

11 hours ago, SiC said:

Confirms what I suspected.The new Defender is a load of wank.

[paulplom]

Could be referring to the people who'll be buying them.

[beko1987]

My zx has more ground clearance than that new land rover... 

[SiC]

I imagine the new defender will be on air suspension and that picture is probably with it at its lowest setting. If you're a dealer, I can imagine you aren't going to leave a JLR product in a showroom expecting it to stay fully up on its air suspension for long periods without breaking!

[DeeJay]

13 hours ago, SiC said:

So that's what those ladies were doing in those old videos. Apparently there's a hands free version.

[robinmasters]

[Tamworthbay]

Off road with that ground clearance? What a fucking joke they have become. How tragic for such an iconic brand.

[Skizzer]

9 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Off road with that ground clearance? What a fucking joke they have become. How tragic for such an iconic brand.

I think you’ll find it’s got air suspension and that’s the down position, as SiC said above.  For all its faults, JLR hasn’t forgotten how to build a car that works off road, at least in principle.

My worry would be about complexity and reliability.  I wouldn’t fancy crossing the Namib desert in a ten year old one, trusting everything to a rats’ nest of plumbing, wiring, pumps, seals and sensors.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Going, going, Ghosn!

[Tamworthbay]

44 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

I think you’ll find it’s got air suspension and that’s the down position, as SiC said above.  For all its faults, JLR hasn’t forgotten how to build a car that works off road, at least in principle.

My worry would be about complexity and reliability.  I wouldn’t fancy crossing the Namib desert in a ten year old one, trusting everything to a rats’ nest of plumbing, wiring, pumps, seals and sensors.

Sadly they are shit, a mate has a 2019 one and compared to a twenty year old hi lux it is awful, it couldn’t even keep up with a Santa Fe ffs. A lot of that may well be down to the stupid wheels and tyres they insist on fitting from new.  And the complexity you mention would give me nightmares.

[warch]

Compare and contrast. Unfortunately my tow bar will not adjust, regardless of how much you wank it off (could be my lack of technique mind).