What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That's Lenin.

Some animals are more equal than other animals?

I'm shocked, shocked I say.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Brezhnev was the first foreign state funeral I ever watched on the telly, and he definitely wasn't accorded the honour of a mausoleum. 

[Snake Charmer]

3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Ah yes...

That iconic all-American classic, the GAZ-24 Volga.

Brezhnev will be spinning in his mausoleum...

My stepsons wedding on Sunday. This will be getting a small block eventually.

[Datsuncog]

13 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Brezhnev was the first foreign state funeral I ever watched on the telly, and he definitely wasn't accorded the honour of a mausoleum. 

Indeed, apparently not:

Maybe if his Eleventh Five Year Plan hadn't stalled at 4% economic growth, rather than the projected 5%, then the Politburo might have at least permitted the sculptor to finish his statue to below his nipples.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The only politician who had bigger eyebrows than Brezhnev was Denis Healey.....

[Surface Rust]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Ah yes...

That iconic all-American classic, the GAZ-24 Volga.

Brezhnev will be spinning in his mausoleum...

Brilliant! I've ordered one for my dad to wear when he drives his Mustang. I won't tell him...

[Dr_Slow]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Some animals are more equal than other animals?

In addition, Stalin's corpse squatted there between 1953 and 1961...

[Part 35419 of 'Pointless and boring facts that you really didn't need to hear about']

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The only politician who had bigger eyebrows than Brezhnev was Denis Healey.....

...but they had their own career

[Leyland Worldmaster]

This:

https://www.upworthy.com/london-street-artist-has-a-hilarious-year-long-battle-with-a-graffiti-removal-crew

😁

[TheOtherStu]

18 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Ah yes...

That iconic all-American classic, the GAZ-24 Volga.

Brezhnev will be spinning in his mausoleum...

To which end, the winner of the JDM meet "show and shine" on Monday was a BMW that was clearly not JDM and hadn't actually been cleaned 🤣

[Tadhg Tiogar]

After seeing these signs near Aldwych, I was left wondering where I could claim my free Assange and whether this offer was only whilst stocks last.

Do you have any other examples of misunderstood signs or banners?

[richardmorris]

49 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

After seeing these signs near Aldwych, I was left wondering where I could claim my free Assange and whether this offer was only whilst stocks last.

Do you have any other examples of misunderstood signs or banners?

Some free offers aren’t worth the trouble. Where is he now anyway, still in Ecuador on Thames?

[3VOM]

53 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

After seeing these signs near Aldwych, I was left wondering where I could claim my free Assange and whether this offer was only whilst stocks last.

Do you have any other examples of misunderstood signs or banners?

Giving away my age here but - "...with every 4 gallons"

[richardmorris]

5 minutes ago, 3VOM said:

Best I had was a set of classic car medallions in a board. Must have that somewhere still. Dad had some glass flutes too later. All 1980s.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

15 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

...Where is he now anyway, still in Ecuador on Thames?

Belmarsh on Thames

[somewhatfoolish]

On 8/31/2021 at 7:38 PM, Datsuncog said:

Indeed, apparently not:

Maybe if his Eleventh Five Year Plan hadn't stalled at 4% economic growth, rather than the projected 5%, then the Politburo might have at least permitted the sculptor to finish his statue to below his nipples.

More to the point why has the sculptor done Lord Melvyn Barg instead of the baggy-eyed fatso Brezhnev?

  

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Belmarsh on Thames

Best place for him; at least he's not being harassed by the likes of Jemima Goldsmith-Khan and Pamela Anderson in there. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

21 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

....why has the sculptor done Lord Melvyn Barg instead of the baggy-eyed fatso Brezhnev?...

Probably 'cos the sculptor has done it to a romantic ideal rather than as a true depiction of the idiosyncratic facial qualities of Brezhnev.

[Joey spud]

I have been working on the isle of Wight (shite?) today and got back to Southampton at 18.30 feeling too tired/lazy to drive back home to Kent so have bedded down for the night in a cheap Mercure hotel right next door to a Wetherspoons in the high street.

Wetherspoons generally get the piss ripped out of them but Cod an chips with a pint of brew dog IPA for £6.35 all ordered from the comfort of my table via their app really is quite impressive.

And its official beer tastes better when you pay for it with your company credit card.

And for even more added win i am off to the New Forest in the morning to visit a couple of fast fits and it just so happens a chap in Lymington has a set of leather KA seats for sale for not much money that would fit in Boris the Morris nicely so it would be rude not to kill two birds with one stone an all that.

[808 Estate]

[Wack]

Maccies new outdoor barbeque range 

[Bren]

[Fumbler]

While I was doing some bodging, a wild Xantia V6 appeared and parked up to say hello.

Very nice chap who owns it. He recommissioned it, changed a strut top, sorted a plethora of leaks and so on.

He even gifted me one of these!

He had two in the boot! This'll be rather handy. Very, very kind of him.

[Wack]

Hi is that vehicle  recovery 

It is 

Are you fully legal 

Yes 

Great , how big a load can you handle 

Anything 

 

[155V6]

[STUNO]

New Zealand railways have lost a train, actually a bit of one. At the Picton rail yards they have (or used to have) a remote controlled engine. It was supposed to push a wagon onto the ferry to Wellington, So off it trundled over the ramp to the ferry. There was no ferry there and the result is ..... how do we lift a Locomotive out of the sea ? It weighs about 20 tonnes, the tank wagon can be seen floating happily.

Oil spill response operation underway after shunt train falls into Picton Harbour (msn.com)

Update.....Locomotive that fell into harbour back on dry land 'where it belongs' (msn.com)

[Austat]

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

This:

😁

[Joey spud]

I was looking at my emails earlier and this second one caught my eye.

[Joey spud]

It was just this hilarious decal honest...

[Joey spud]