What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Matty]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

Great rift in the pacific / Mariana trench?

Pretty much. Cover of joy division unknown pleasures

[Matty]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Sat in the 2cv this morning in laithwaites car park in Virginia water waiting for it to open ( does that sound bad?), green moggie van( f reg suffix)  goes past , occupants look and wave.

Love stuff like that. I was out this aft and a mk2 escort and a capri went past in convoy. The mk2 was leading, had a full stadium rig on the front and both of them hit all the lights and waved cos I was in an old car as well. Makes you happy!

[Spurious]

 

https://twitter.com/Sandford_Police/status/1627237991474253825?s=20

[Remspoor]

33 minutes ago, Spurious said:

 

https://twitter.com/Sandford_Police/status/1627237991474253825?s=20

This is the train line, I believe.

https://www.molli-bahn.de/

[richardmorris]

45 minutes ago, Spurious said:

 

https://twitter.com/Sandford_Police/status/1627237991474253825?s=20

How can you miss a moving train? Or more to the point, not miss.

[richardmorris]

50 minutes ago, Matty said:

Love stuff like that. I was out this aft and a mk2 escort and a capri went past in convoy. The mk2 was leading, had a full stadium rig on the front and both of them hit all the lights and waved cos I was in an old car as well. Makes you happy!

I only looked up as I had the window up and heard something interesting coming closer. Also followed a D reg Land Rover for a while from ascot.

[Andyrew]

You know how it goes, you spend ages getting your paint gleaming and those cloudy headlights just let the whole thing down.  A quick buff and it just transforms the whole thing. 

Now stand back and admire your handy work!

  Practically a brand new van.

 

Its Like it just fell off the production line .

[camryv6]

4 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

You know how it goes, you spend ages getting your paint gleaming and those cloudy headlights just let the whole thing down.  A quick buff and it just transforms the whole thing. 

Now stand back and admire your handy work!

  Practically a brand new van.

 

Its Like it just fell off the production line .

Are Sprinters known for rusting ? 🤣

[Matty]

1 hour ago, Andyrew said:

You know how it goes, you spend ages getting your paint gleaming and those cloudy headlights just let the whole thing down.  A quick buff and it just transforms the whole thing. 

Now stand back and admire your handy work!

  Practically a brand new van.

 

Its Like it just fell off the production line .

Little acorns pal 😁

[Garythesnail]

1 hour ago, camryv6 said:

Are Sprinters known for rusting ?

20 years old and quarter of a million miles and who know how many 'unsympathetic operators', it's done well just to survive!

[Yoss]

3 hours ago, Matty said:

Missus has made a pudding to go with my Sunday tea. Thought I'd seen this somewhere before 😆

I must admit that was exactly what I thought of when I saw it before I'd even scrolled down to see the album so it's bang on in that respect. 

But what actually is it? Is it edible? 

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, Spurious said:

 

https://twitter.com/Sandford_Police/status/1627237991474253825?s=20

 

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

How can you miss a moving train? Or more to the point, not miss.

I mean it's a bloody steam train with a bell clanging constantly. How much noise does it have to make before you notice? And apart from that how can they not have seen it? Got everything they deserve I reckon. 

[Matty]

7 minutes ago, Yoss said:

I must admit that was exactly what I thought of when I saw it before I'd even scroll down to see the album so it's bang in that respect. 

But what actually is it? Is it edible? 

It's a posh bread and butter pudding made with rhubarb. She saw it in a magazine. I'll admit, I might have married up a bit.

[Andyrew]

1 hour ago, Garythesnail said:

20 years old and quarter of a million miles and who know how many 'unsympathetic operators', it's done well just to survive!

Just how i like them, 

"Its Probably going to be scrapped"

 

[garbaldy]

Good vehicles still being unearthed it amazes me someone would do that.

Wonder how much 🤔 

[RoverFolkUs]

42 minutes ago, garbaldy said:

Good vehicles still being unearthed it amazes me someone would do that.

Wonder how much 🤔 

Sadly I suspect that's going to be a "£20000 I no wot ive got m9, no rush to sell, find another" etc etc 

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Also followed a D reg Land Rover for a while

D701SWL?

[garbaldy]

 

24 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

D701SWL?

My dad bought that new in 87.

[wuvvum]

So did mine.

[richardmorris]

18 hours ago, wuvvum said:

D701SWL?

Sorry, don’t get the reference, the one I saw was a two door SWB with canvas top , bright yellow too.

[Sunny Jim]

For the days he can't be arsed to walk?

[808 Estate]

[andy18s]

Gotta love Google translate...

[Aston Martin]

Good old Blaupunkt

[Datsuncog]

On 2/19/2023 at 11:00 PM, wuvvum said:

D701SWL?

 

On 2/19/2023 at 11:24 PM, garbaldy said:

My dad bought that new in 87.

 

18 hours ago, wuvvum said:

So did mine.

 

18 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Sorry, don’t get the reference, the one I saw was a two door SWB with canvas top , bright yellow too.

For our younger readers...

As I recall, the story went that someone created a forum account on here specifically to ask if anyone knew the whereabouts of a particular Land Rover 110, registered D701SWL. It was of great sentimental importance to them, as their father had bought it new in 1987 and they really wanted to track it down.

Nothing much popped up, until a year or so later when someone else joined to say that they were also searching for D701SWL, and had been led to discover the AS forum through a Google search on the registration, which brought up the original post. They really wanted to track down the whereabouts of this specific Land Rover because... their father had bought it new for their mother in 1987.

Much confusion and hilarity followed, with various theories set forth to explain the paradox - including that the two posters were long-lost siblings; that there was only actually one person involved but they suffered from bouts of amnesia; that the vehicle had the capacity to warp space and time and was a convergence point of the Omniverse; or (perhaps most plausibly) that the Land Rover dealership had messed up the number plates and perhaps another Land Rover - say D710SWL - appeared in family photos with its digits showing in the wrong order (which is seemingly more common a problem than you'd think - didn't we have a BMW X5 on here the other week which was showing as a Transit because the plates had been made up wrong?).

Over the years it's become something of an AS in-joke whenever passing mention is made of any Land Rover, since D701SWL "can be claimed by anyone, to have been bought at any time in the past, present or future, by their relative of choice".

Various forum software upgrades over the years seem to have caused the original posts to vanish into the digital ether, but all I can say is it was ver', ver' funny at the time.

[High Jetter]

^^^ Brilliant! Thanks for the explanation.

[808 Estate]

Want!

[iainrcz]

Ox liver for tea 😘

[fairkens]

[hairnet]

Long distance stalk mode engaged

Hopefully the rest will happen too