What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[jamescarruthers]

My sister’s come to visit and have her 2001 C5 MOTd while down here. Its on 201,000 miles, has blasted 250 miles down the motorway to us, has had zero prep and has passed after a new ball joint and presumably some work on the rear earths to get the bulbs to stop interfering with one another. 
 

I enjoyed its 45 minute trip to the garage early this morning— the 2.2 pulls really well. I nailed it up to three figures— as I’m not used to turbo diesels it felt great!
 

I’m quite pleased with that considering I can’t even get her to check the tyre pressures! 
 

Uncovered that under her toddler’s seat is a bio hazard. 🤮

[Remspoor]

On 5/23/2022 at 2:08 PM, Merryck said:

Man, the best I get at bootfairs are  nipple clamps.

I want some bondage with my Sunday morning bargains!

FTFY

[somewhatfoolish]

  

23 hours ago, Remspoor said:

First there was the 11'-8" bridge then there was Milwaukie Roundabout.

Now we have Speed Bump Olympics.

 

Is there an absence of signage here or just a lot of mouthbreathers?

[PhilA]

24 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

  

Is there an absence of signage here or just a lot of mouthbreathers?

https://abc30.com/archive/9335680/

 

25 limit, people going 50+

Local contractor got upset and built the two humps back to back. No signage.

Result, people go flying

[iainrcz]

I have beer and cream crackers with cheese and pickle. I'm a man of simple tastes.

[paulplom]

Plumbase have just rang. It's plate day at Newcastle racecourse on the 25th of June and they have a marquee.
I and partner have been invited for a four course meal, free drink all day and night, afternoon tea and Pete Tong on in the tent at night.
Just so happens I'm fifty on the 25th too. Canny birthday treat.

 

 

[Remspoor]

13 hours ago, PhilA said:

https://abc30.com/archive/9335680/

 

25 limit, people going 50+

Local contractor got upset and built the two humps back to back. No signage.

Result, people go flying

That article is dated 2013. Have those ones in the video been there that long?

In the comments (in one video) it says that there is a 25MPH limit on the road. This is sign posted. About 100 yds from the bumps the posted speed is reduced to 10MPH.  These certainly do not fit in with any of the recommendations which are published from various bodies. Twin speed bumps so close together are not acceptable because of the risks you see. Both to the damaging of the  vehicles and to possible loss control.

[DSdriver]

10 hours ago, Remspoor said:

That article is dated 2013. Have those ones in the video been there that long?

In the comments (in one video) it says that there is a 25MPH limit on the road. This is sign posted. About 100 yds from the bumps the posted speed is reduced to 10MPH.  These certainly do not fit in with any of the recommendations which are published from various bodies. Twin speed bumps so close together are not acceptable because of the risks you see. Both to the damaging of the  vehicles and to possible loss control.

Nah, if you hit the first one fast enough  you land nicely on the down side of the second

[DSdriver]

Whilst waiting at the lights I noticed that the blue BMW alongside had an incredible dose of BL orange peel paint finish. I was even more surprised when it pulled away and I could see it was a 22 plate. Are they coming out of the factory like that ?

It made me laugh that the driver was obviously ignorant of the passenger side's paintwork or just thought that it was acceptable on a new car.

[Wack]

1 hour ago, DSdriver said:

Whilst waiting at the lights I noticed that the blue BMW alongside had an incredible dose of BL orange peel paint finish. I was even more surprised when it pulled away and I could see it was a 22 plate. Are they coming out of the factory like that ?

It made me laugh that the driver was obviously ignorant of the passenger side's paintwork or just thought that it was acceptable on a new car.

Probably painting them as the drive out the factory they're that late with deliveries

[Remspoor]

Rammstein have just released a new album. First since 2019. 🥳 🎶

 

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

[MikeR]

Dr's do a blood test

so despite cancer , high blood pressure , poor kidney function , shite hearing ....... and a lump on my ear

what do they pick up on ??

cholesterol ...  its just over the limit , Satins ?

change your diet your quality /length of your life could be better ..

ok , my blood pressure has dropped .. I dont want Satins at the moment

oh so it has has , why ?

I have stopped working , and my diet has changed ...

thats good ..

and your poor kidney result ,

that could be down to me having one kidney ,

ohh ok

how about a retest in  3 months , and can I get my ears sorted ..

yes thats good , and your cholesterol ???

see what the restest says ..

bye the way I am in on Friday for a lump on my ear !!

[gm]

just chilling out in the garage, faith no more playing on the jukebox, a cold beer in me hand, looking at the Exocet and thinking “fucking hell, i built that !”

 

[captain_70s]

On 5/25/2022 at 8:17 PM, DSdriver said:

Whilst waiting at the lights I noticed that the blue BMW alongside had an incredible dose of BL orange peel paint finish. I was even more surprised when it pulled away and I could see it was a 22 plate. Are they coming out of the factory like that ?

It made me laugh that the driver was obviously ignorant of the passenger side's paintwork or just thought that it was acceptable on a new car.

Fairly standard on new cars now. People don't seem to give a fuck about paint finish.

Some Toyotas and Hondas have better paint than German premium brands.

[cobblers]

9 hours ago, captain_70s said:

Fairly standard on new cars now. People don't seem to give a fuck about paint finish.

Some Toyotas and Hondas have better paint than German premium brands.

And I recall a bloke I know buying a new spaceship civic 15? years ago and the black paint was absolutely abysmal, it looked like hammerite!

[cort16]

Many a "brand new" car goes out of the dealership without brand new paint work.  My mate used to work for a large Scottish car dealer as a painter and he spent quite a lot of his time fixing paint on cars that weren't even registered yet that had been damaged in transit or in the compound. The customer was none the wiser.

 

[Metal Guru]

12 minutes ago, cort16 said:

Many a "brand new" car goes out of the dealership without brand new paint work.  My mate used to work for a large Scottish car dealer as a painter and he spent quite a lot of his time fixing paint on cars that weren't even registered yet that had been damaged in transit or in the compound. The customer was none the wiser.

 

Absolutely right. There was a Vauxhall/Suzuki/Kia dealership at the end of my road. Next door was an independent body shop. You’d often see unregistered cars in their yard.

[cobblers]

A few months ago had an Iveco main dealer bring me £11,000 worth of ECUs for repair from a new unregistered truck that someone had jump started the wrong way round 🤐

[Timewaster]

16 minutes ago, cobblers said:

A few months ago had an Iveco main dealer bring me £11,000 worth of ECUs for repair from a new unregistered truck that someone had jump started the wrong way round 🤐

A stupid thing to do, but why are there no safeguards against what must be a reasonably regular occurrence if it causes so much damage?

 

 

Oh yeah, Iveco.

[Timewaster]

44 minutes ago, cort16 said:

Many a "brand new" car goes out of the dealership without brand new paint work.  My mate used to work for a large Scottish car dealer as a painter and he spent quite a lot of his time fixing paint on cars that weren't even registered yet that had been damaged in transit or in the compound. The customer was none the wiser.

 

Nothing new. 1990 I worked at a Vauxhall dealer and at the time there was always 1 or 2 brand new cars in the paint shop. I bet for every transporter load, one would get paint.

One I recall was a doom blue Carlton which has been on the lower deck and the chain securing the car above had come free. That was a right mess. It went out on August 1st looking lovely. 

That's why you often see new cars on transporters all sheeted up with protective film.

[Wack]

1 hour ago, cobblers said:

A few months ago had an Iveco main dealer bring me £11,000 worth of ECUs for repair from a new unregistered truck that someone had jump started the wrong way round 🤐

I used to deliver to truck dealers, one of the apprentices was drilling the chassis to fit a fifthwheel , only he hadn't looked behind the chassis rail , he'd drilled through the loom in 6 places, proper fucked it up 

[Datsuncog]

Under a nest: protected gulls roost on roof of Dorset police car | Wildlife | The Guardian

[3VOM]

1 hour ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

I think that's an M2. If so, they usually feed from the left side.....

Can you give it to Jonathan Ferguson at the Royal Armouries?

[hairnet]

21 hours ago, gm said:

just chilling out in the garage, faith no more playing on the jukebox, a cold beer in me hand, looking at the Exocet and thinking “fucking hell, i built that !”

 

i wouldnt be looking

brmm brrrmmmm etc

 

[Ghosty]

Mate sent me a pic of a Capri he spotted. Apparently the odometer is broken. 

 

420 on 4/20. 🤣

 

[PhilA]

21 hours ago, Timewaster said:

A stupid thing to do, but why are there no safeguards against what must be a reasonably regular occurrence if it causes so much damage?

 

 

Oh yeah, Iveco.

Because a $0.02 diode is too expensive.

 

By the time it's gone through shipping and quality control it costs $370

[wuvvum]

On 5/27/2022 at 12:51 PM, Datsuncog said:

Under a nest: protected gulls roost on roof of Dorset police car | Wildlife | The Guardian

How the actual fuck are herring gulls a protected species?  There's about a trillion of the bastard things just in my street.

[RoverFolkUs]

7 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

How the actual fuck are herring gulls a protected species?  There's about a trillion of the bastard things just in my street.

Second that, they're just pests