What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

Like an early teenager's trainers.

[sdkrc]

Checked my keys this morning after a 20min walk. Bollocks. The end of the Disco key has disappeared.

 

Just about to retrace my steps very thoroughly and be late for work when I thought I'd check the disco door.

Get in there.

[MarvinsMom]

trying make a tea this morning, fill up kettle, 

pop on stand,

turn on,

nothing,

nada,

what the sctual fook?

have i blown it up? is the power off?

nope, its just not plugged in.

its going to be a long day.

 

 

[MikeR]

Interesting , wonder what happened in the Lakes ? 

[vulgalour]

Delightful little Hillman Minx Californian trundled past Pat and I earlier today.  It looked brand new and was resplendant in primrose yellow with a black roof, just like the advert.  No picture, sadly, it was gone past too quickly.

I actually wonder if might be the one that sold on C&C.  There aren't many Californians left and the chances of there being another in this colour combo is pretty slim.

[wuvvum]

It can't be that one, it's about half the size of the one in the advert...

[Wack]

3 hours ago, MikeR said:

Interesting , wonder what happened in the Lakes ? 

They're probably still bitter about Donald Campbell 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

30 minutes ago, Wack said:

They're probably still bitter about Donald Campbell 

I reckon it's to do with them having too many tourists.

Elsewhere, this sorry tale involves an undertaker and a grieving widow. The icing on the cake is the Claimant's lawyer....

[busmansholiday]

So, I'm parked in a one hour slot on the main road just past Barnsley General Hospital awaiting Mrs BMH (I was not allowed in with her for her appointment). I parked as far back in the marked zone as possible to allow another vehicle in front. 

Three people in Disco's and Range Rovers tried to back into the space. Third one actually asked me to move backwards so he could get in, fucked if I was going to move. Suggested he bought a smaller car, amusingly he agreed it hadn't been a good choice.

Eventually a bloke in a Q5 backed into the space with no problems.

Changed my all Audi drivers are ****s attitude.

[Ian_Fearn]

There’s nobody in this world about to cry me a river, but I’ve been really stressed out recently. So today, I spent the whole morning at Albert Looms scrap yard in Derby.

I spent my childhood there, scavenging wooden dashboard for Triumph Dolomites and hydrogas displacers for Austin Princesses.

Today’s hunt was for Panda parts and I had a huge amount of success, along with drooling over a V6 Espace and various other hopeless tat.

I know some people take an all inclusive break, but Looms’ is still a fabulous place to get away from it all….

[anonymous user]

I too spent a lot of my childhood in proper scrapyards. I miss them. 

My favourite one was in Haverfordwest, very small, but often had some interesting stuff. The owner was one of my father's cronies, so while they had a mug of tea and a chat in the office (which I remember as a tram, but more likely to have been an ancient double decker bus) I would be playing in the decrepit cars. I was particularly taken by a 30s Rolls Royce but my father was too mean (sensible) to buy it for me, I was probably about 5 at the time.

[High Jetter]

9 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

, its just not plugged in

Y tho?

[MarvinsMom]

Just now, High Jetter said:

Y tho?

had the toasted sandwich press thing pluged in, instead cos i have had a toasted cheese an pickle sandwich for me dinner.

i know how to live, me.

 

[Remspoor]

Found this website today. Want to purchase some nice one owner Toyotas?

https://www.afghanlogisticstours.com/toyota_buy.html

Even better they have an armoured car for hire.

https://www.afghanlogisticstours.com/service/rent-a-b6-armored-car/

[Wack]

Perfect timing , plenty of cargo aircraft leaving at the moment 

[High Jetter]

Guy Martin. Battery abuse testing site. BATS!

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

had the toasted sandwich press thing pluged in, instead cos i have had a toasted cheese an pickle sandwich for me dinner.

i know how to live, me.

 

Twin sockets are the future! Umpteenth regs, apparently 😀

[MarvinsMom]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Twin sockets are the future! Umpteenth regs, apparently 😀

we've already got one of them, the toaster was plugged in to the otherside.

[myglaren]

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Is this genuine? My brother-in-law claims to have spotted this weekly special in his local Lidl....

[TheOtherStu]

19 hours ago, Ian_Fearn said:

There’s nobody in this world about to cry me a river, but I’ve been really stressed out recently. So today, I spent the whole morning at Albert Looms scrap yard in Derby.

I spent my childhood there, scavenging wooden dashboard for Triumph Dolomites and hydrogas displacers for Austin Princesses.

Today’s hunt was for Panda parts and I had a huge amount of success, along with drooling over a V6 Espace and various other hopeless tat.

I know some people take an all inclusive break, but Looms’ is still a fabulous place to get away from it all….

I was pleased to see that my local scrappy has, since Covid, taken a new approach. They actually encourage people to DIY (Dismantle it yourself).

That was half the fun of the scrappy. Going round all the old crud and looking for those hard-to-get special bits. I'm desperately looking for a cheeky spoiler or skirts for my MR2 - even if they need a bit of filler or a respray. But they've got wise to it and simply put all the best bits on eBay with ridiculous asking prices.

[Wack]

Just saw this on tiktok , there's a few J reg so I assume it's 71-72 

This truck drives by at the start 

 that container appears to be held on there with a wing and a prayer

 

 

[neil1971]

I wasn't quite sure what was being advertised in this photo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fortunately it was just a large Pokemon teddy in need of slight repair

[Garythesnail]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

that container appears to be held on there with a wing and a prayer

The front of the small container is probably 20' and a bit back and has the twisting lugs from the deck locked in .

 

[320touring]

The sky Tonight when we got back to @Supernauts after the Civic collection.

 

my phone camera doesn't do it justice..

[GeorgeB]

On 8/17/2021 at 10:33 PM, High Jetter said:

Guy Martin. Battery abuse testing site. BATS!

Whut?

[hairnet]

my mot man is holiday with his big fat bmw bike in northern spain and portugal

spotted 114 merc 50s beetle 120Y renault 9 already

 

[High Jetter]

7 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

Whut?

Watch his programme on the electric Beetle. Also, it's what, or watt.

[Supernaut]

34 minutes ago, 320touring said:

The sky Tonight when we got back to @Supernauts after the Civic collection.

 

my phone camera doesn't do it justice..

Aye, the view from the 2nd floor is even better!

[Snake Charmer]

When a friend loans you his car so your daughter feels that little bit special travelling to get married in a castle.