What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[michiel]

 

It's alive! Excellent.

[trigger]

Just watched this 1977 AA advert, funny how most the cars are of BL origin!

 

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediapl ... 7&type=mp4

[Negative Creep]

Next door's cat likes to pay me a visit - with every one of its 24 toes

 

 

[michiel]

Eek! Not that I know how many toes it's supposed to have...

[Richard]

Eighteen- five on each front paw and four on each back one.

[Negative Creep]

Fronts have 5, rear have 4 . So basically even more pain for your lap as they knead it and extra joy for your carpets and furniture

[brammy777]

Spent the day in London today, somehow walked all the way from Wandsworth Town station to Raynes Park station, which was a long one. Never go to Raynes park if you plan to go home via Woking by the way.

Anyway, I spotted a HUGE amount of shite, including, what could be regarded, as my dream car. Those of you familiar with my flickr will know what I am on about.

Also, anyone after a 1994 Rover 800 Saloon with tax and test? There is one for sale in London for £375, I have the numbers to call if you are interested.

[Station]

Is it supposed to have four on each foot?

 

My cat used to go missing for long lengths of time. Then one day I saw it staring at me from a neighbour's window, quite content with it's selfish, cheating, mercenary ways. It disappeared one day, and never came back.

[Guest]

C4 is almost* vibration free thanks to the ministrations of Pete-M's tame wheel balancer. On the way back through Edge Hill I bobbed into Maplins and managed to bag a 100W 110V inverter for half price. Tried it out on the Zenith racetrack that arrived recently, and it works! Picked up Five Live, and freed off the wibbly dial that sticks sometimes.

 

Then the bonus. Plugged the H751 in, the one which I bought years ago from a tat shop in Maine. The one I thought was shagged because I couldn't get a signal in the States. Well, that only fugging works as well! Does FM as well as AM. It is slightly weird listening to Tears for Fears on a fifties radio.

 

Not selling it now

 

*we should have got him to do the rear wheels as well. The OSF was 40g out and the NSF, 20g. The fact that three separate garages (one of which was a respected alignment \ tracking centre, said the muffin man) couldn't balance the bloody things does worry me slightly. Stick on weights definitely not for the win. As we left the rears alone because Paul was chocka, my arse is wobbling a bit now. The fact that the balancing has been out for so long invariably now means a rod bush \ track rod will have gone West. There's a 'clunk' at low speeds combined with a weird writhing through the wheel if you swivel it quickly.

[Guest]

In other news......

 

1. Sh*ck Radio have replied. There's a NEWS MEETING. Yes.

 

2. The girl who was being an arse apologised.

 

3. Key 103 want me in for a placement.

 

4. The group we want to film for our project have got back to us. They want us to film on Wednesday.

 

5. The head of year admitted our Video Journalism tutor is an arse.

 

FITNESS \ RESULT.

[Guest]

What is a C4 in Watanabe-speak? It means a Mk4 Corvette here.

 

 

A moderately pish, one owner from new French hatchback with a diesel engine. The source of much pain and misery to my good self.

 

 

Here I is, driving it at the Combe.

[ashmicro]

...and C4 here in Northern Ireland

 

[Guest]

...and C4 here in Northern Ireland

 

 

Yeah, but which is fastest?

 

1. Norm's Corvette?

2. Wat's Citroen?

3. Ashmicro's boom - plastic?

 

Only one way to find out........

 

FIIIIIIIGHT.

[ashmicro]

This is funny as fuck - read the story for the full S.P.

 

 

http://uk.deadspin.com/5781702/the-ulti ... e=true&s=i

[BMC Dan]

Seeing this incredibly pointless spoof Pentium processor sticker on a bog standard 03 Corsa 1.2 'Twinport' this morning

 

[ashmicro]

Seen quite a few of those, most notable of which was "Pinto Inside" on a mark 1 Escy.

 

 

Make your own!

 

http://www.images-graphics-pics.com/sig ... =358&h=239

 

[wuvvum]

I passed a metallic blue C6 and a lovely BRG Montego saloon on the way back from work today. Probably about as common as each other now, which is amusing given that not so very long ago they were selling more Montegos in a week than Citroën sell C6's in a year. It more than made up for my having seen not one but two Mini Cuntrymen today, having successfully avoided seeing any in the flesh up til now.

[eddyramrod]

My new house has a leaky roof. Why on earth is this in the grin thread? Because I went up on the flat roof yesterday with my landlady's dad to see if we could see the problem, and a previous tenant had left at the top of the stairs.... the complete plastic grille from a Ford Cargo! How random is that?

 

I have fond memories of the 0813 Cargo I used to drive on the produce....

[autofive]

 

this made me grin this morning

 

ronnie and reggie on A691

 

unfortunately ron & reg are stood outside the Blind Begger

 

reg wouldnt have gone in the Blind Begger with or without a Mauser, he didnt like Watneys

 

incidently heres a pic of Cornells motor outside next morning after the shooting

 

dvla computer says no

 

[messerschmitt owner]

cheap fuel again - veg oil from Morrisons at £1.04 a litre - was beginning to despair about seeing it cheap again as Tesco is £1.45 a litre!

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

it's under £1/litre at Tesco at the moment.

[messerschmitt owner]

it's under £1/litre at Tesco at the moment.

two people have said that - but it ain't in any of the four stores in Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham. I know ...

[Cavcraft]

 

 

 

Ron and Reg? From that angle it looks more like Fred West and that bloke from 'Sparks' the 1970's pop group

 

[meggersdog]

Yesterday I went to collect another car from BCA.Now most of the parkway system around here is dual carriageway except a two mile stretch near my village.Coming in the opposite direction of this single carriageway was a lorry with a big newish silver Merc straddling the white line itching to overtake.The car a little way infront of me had to pull towards the kerb to avoid this twat.My passenger and I laughed as I steered two tonnes of twenty year old Discovery towards the centre of the road.The look on Merc-man's face was not "get out of my way,I'm important" but more "oh shit,I'd better get back to my side of the road" It was definitely the wide eyed expression on his face that made us laugh.

[Cavcraft]

The q and a section is as good as the listing...

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/XCEL-3-2mm-Infini ... 256213381b

[Station]

Ron and Reg? From that angle it looks more like Fred West and that bloke from 'Sparks' the 1970's pop group

 

 

It does! Or someone impersonating Adolf Hitler.

[chester drawers]

[Skizzer]

^^ That carrot clarinet is amazing. But I'm not even going to ask what you were Googling to get that to come up

[peter9000uk]

Just watched "made in Dagenham" ,much late sixties shite, excellent film with Miranda Richardson as Barbara Castle and John Sessions as Harold Wilson

[autofive]

Just watched "made in Dagenham" ,much late sixties shite, excellent film with Miranda Richardson as Barbara Castle and John Sessions as Harold Wilson

 

downloading it now