What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[motorpunk]

2 hours ago, iainrcz said:

I was outside washing the car earlier and some school kids cycled past.
One of them excitedly shouted and pointed "there's the guy with the Porsche"

I hate to spoil your day kidder, but it's a Subaru with the wrong badges on.

I dropped my daughter at school in a brand new Exige. Some kid points and said; “ooh! Kit car!” ... little bastard, I should have run him over.

[iainrcz]

I dropped my daughter at school in a brand new Exige. Some kid points and said; “ooh! Kit car!” ... little bastard, I should have run him over.

I would have done as a matter of course.

[willswitchengage]

Putting my flat on Rightmove... this can't be worse than ebay, right? Anyway, look what has snuck into the photo!

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, willswitchengage said:

Putting my flat on Rightmove... this can't be worse than ebay, right? Anyway, look what has snuck into the photo!

Sadly your location and tales of drug dealing neighbours rule it out for me. Good luck!

[robinmasters]

This almost invisible repair made me smile. 

It's not a bodge if it works. 

[SRi05]

Changing a stereo in an x300. 

Step 1. Remove fucking everything bar the stereo 

[MikeR]

I go back to a 4 day week ,

so thats a long weekend , and 2 half days off in the week ..

and no early starts , that should be nice for when its frosty , cold , snowing or colder rain like we have ....

[MikeR]

58 minutes ago, SRi05 said:

Changing a stereo in an x300. 

Step 1. Remove fucking everything bar the stereo 

as usual when trying to do something , some knob gets in the way !!!

[SRi05]

Joab joabed. The pixels on these x300's displays always go, you couldn't read the radio display at all, and the clock is also bust. The speakers are pretty decent in this thing so the unit is a nice wee upgrade. Only £35 on amazon. Didn't even swear that much putting it back together. 

[paulplom]

Same radio I have in the mx5. Good sound but the display dissapears when the sun shines on it.

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, SRi05 said:

Joab joabed. The pixels on these x300's displays always go, you couldn't read the radio display at all, and the clock is also bust. The speakers are pretty decent in this thing so the unit is a nice wee upgrade. Only £35 on amazon. Didn't even swear that much putting it back together. 

Knees alert!

[SRi05]

1 minute ago, Remspoor said:

Knees alert!

Shit, pre watershed as well

[New POD]

6 hours ago, MikeR said:

I go back to a 4 day week ,

so thats a long weekend , and 2 half days off in the week ..

and no early starts , that should be nice for when its frosty , cold , snowing or colder rain like we have ....

I'm sorry, but you need to be declared fit by the consultant, and take a fit note to your return to work interview. Why are you thinking of returning?  Are you mad? 

Seriously.  

[MikeR]

Dr has declared me fit , another chat on Monday , not like I am in a shop dealing with lots of random spotty customers with the lurgy

rest of the NHS has bolloxed up things ..misplaced results , delayed tests and scans .

I need to get out before I need to do a sacrifice ...  you know I need to roam the moors in the dark at this time of year ...

 

[New POD]

10 hours ago, MikeR said:

Dr has declared me fit , another chat on Monday , not like I am in a shop dealing with lots of random spotty customers with the lurgy

rest of the NHS has bolloxed up things ..misplaced results , delayed tests and scans .

I need to get out before I need to do a sacrifice ...  you know I need to roam the moors in the dark at this time of year ...

 

Fair. 

[SRi05]

Adrian Flux just quoted me £156 for fully comp cover on the Jag

Frees up my normal policy for an incoming modern arrival

[myglaren]

Son has just brought my car back.  He had work last night 23:00~09:00.

Except they sent him home - Covid 19 suspected.

We spent half an hour in the car together, along with youngest granddaughter, last night.

Ooops.

 

 

 

[motorpunk]

20 hours ago, SRi05 said:

Joab joabed. The pixels on these x300's displays always go, you couldn't read the radio display at all, and the clock is also bust. The speakers are pretty decent in this thing so the unit is a nice wee upgrade. Only £35 on amazon. Didn't even swear that much putting it back together. 

Can you get a hinged flap to cover the modern stereo in the old fascia? 

[808 Estate]

[DoctorRetro]

[somewhatfoolish]

 

8 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

As Patrick McGoohan might have said,"I am not a number husband! I am a free man!"

[busmansholiday]

 Please tell me that my geographical knowledge of the UK is slightly different to the bits in "other info" at the start of this;

[3VOM]

Think the writer forgot a break between "Southport" and "within easy walking distance for St Annes". And it isn't that close to the town centre.

[robinmasters]

[S2000]

6 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

Well done .... it took me three years to get the decree absolute....... no finer feeling in the world.

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, robinmasters said:

WCPGW in VRN form; attached to a thing of autoshitey beauty too.

[mitsisigma01]

Anyone know where this one is? I'm sure it was flying down the A264 Horsham to Crawley the other day 

[New POD]

13 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

 Please tell me that my geographical knowledge of the UK is slightly different to the bits in "other info" at the start of this;

Southport is less than 8 miles from Blackpool.  The number of recruitment agencies who have suggested It would be an easy commute from Formby, to Blackpool haven't factored in the Ribble.  Last time it took an hour and 10 mins in a car. 

 

 

The coast guard will tell you that at least 3 or 4 call outs a year come from people who decided to walk down the beach. 

Once they get to the River Ribble they are 4 miles out, and if the tide starts coming in, it's a very flat beach.  And a quick tide. Obviously the tide stops coming in about a mile from shore because Southport is the only seaside town with a pier that lost its sea. 

 

 

[beko1987]

Sold 2 things on ebay yesterday afternoon. Both winning bids were 0 feedback bidders... I'd almost written off being paid... 

Woke up this morning to 2 PayPal transactions, sweet! 

[juular]

Not sure if serious.