What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[DavieW]

The new Mini Countryman seats. Just need a couple of goggly eyes attached to headrest for a happy seat 😄

[RoverFolkUs]

Car boot shite grin - 50p!

... 

Matches the supplying dealer!

[MiniMinorMk3]

 

[Blunderguts]

[MikeR]

Shredicate ! 

[High Jetter]

Kinda grates, tho.. 

[DavieW]

What better to sell ice cream from at a classic car show than a classic ice cream van.

 

[beko1987]

8 hours ago, DavieW said:

What better to sell ice cream from at a classic car show than a classic ice cream van.

 

That's newer than the smiley faced transit my local van is 😂

It's always a nice smell standing in the queue (for me) 

[cobblers]

5 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

That's newer than the smiley faced transit my local van is 😂

It's always a nice smell standing in the queue (for me) 

Yeah! I always say to my mrs that the smell of a transit engine that has spent the last 25 years on idle all day every summers is permanently intermingled in my brain with cheap raspberry sauce, stale bubblegum balls and knockoff flakes. I can't smell any of them without smelling the other!

[myglaren]

 

[myglaren]

[MikeR]

The sun in your house !! 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

The sun in your house !! 

That's just @LightBulbFungetting up to go for a wee in the night

[LightBulbFun]

7 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

That's just @LightBulbFungetting up to go for a wee in the night

hah! its only right I link to the original  

 

[wuvvum]

Saw this happy little chappie in Tesco's car park this evening.

[scaryoldcortina]

[wuvvum]

It must be 15 years since I saw one of those in the wild, they really do look comically small next to modern stuff don't they!

[mk2_craig]

7 hours ago, wuvvum said:

It must be 15 years since I saw one of those in the wild, they really do look comically small next to that bloke don't they!

 

[scaryoldcortina]

1 hour ago, mk2_craig said:

 

That's my son Conor

He was very amused by smol car but said if it was his he'd have to Hightower it.

[iainrcz]

This morning, after owning it for over 4 years, our living room television proudly announced it had downloaded a system update.

Has it taken it 4 years to download it  or has it just realised that it should have downloaded it ages ago. Who knows.

[Alan_Green]

Currently in Gaborone, Botswana where they've just installed new traffic lights and said to hell with the old way of doing things.  Let's modernise and have a tiny white landscape rectangle for Red; a tiny white dot for Amber; and a tiny white portrait rectangle for Green.  Simple, right?  Good job Gaborone City council.   May include LandCruiser content.

[beko1987]

5 hours ago, iainrcz said:

This morning, after owning it for over 4 years, our living room television proudly announced it had downloaded a system update.

Has it taken it 4 years to download it  or has it just realised that it should have downloaded it ages ago. Who knows.

And now tonight you can sit down for a nice night infront of the TV and find out all the things the update has changed/moved/broken/killed... 

(my old 4g network box pulled an update down that nuked several handy techie screens and api's, was the main reason 7 months later I switched to fttp and binned it off, the customer service person who asked 'why I was leaving' stopped listening after the first 2 minutes I could tell 😂 Was a quick cancellation after that... 

[Stanky]

I've had a bit of a rollercoaster ride of a day today. Early on, I got an email from my gas and electricity provider saying my monthly bill would be going from £165 to £80. Hooray!

This seemed odd, so I logged into my account to submit a meter reading and make sure it was ok. I was slightly* startled to see that I owed them £3,917.83. Booo!

I gave them a ring to explain that I thought that something was possibly not quite right and that I didn't think I owed quite that much. A helpful man agreed that it didn't seem quite right, and after looking at it, found and fixed the issue, but that he couldn't sort it out properly and needed to escalate it to the billing team. But that rest assured they'd not be kicking my door down and taking the telly away. Hooray!

I've gone into the account again just now to see that the balance has gone from -£3,917.83 to +£3040.62 and I'm now having to try VERY HARD not to click on the button to withdraw the credit balance before they notice and properly fix whatever is wrong! I'm quite proud that I have had my domestic fuel supply account change by almost £7,000 in 12 hours, to my (as of right now) benefit!

 

[myglaren]

13 minutes ago, Stanky said:

I've had a bit of a rollercoaster ride of a day today. Early on, I got an email from my gas and electricity provider saying my monthly bill would be going from £165 to £80. Hooray!

This seemed odd, so I logged into my account to submit a meter reading and make sure it was ok. I was slightly* startled to see that I owed them £3,917.83. Booo!

I gave them a ring to explain that I thought that something was possibly not quite right and that I didn't think I owed quite that much. A helpful man agreed that it didn't seem quite right, and after looking at it, found and fixed the issue, but that he couldn't sort it out properly and needed to escalate it to the billing team. But that rest assured they'd not be kicking my door down and taking the telly away. Hooray!

I've gone into the account again just now to see that the balance has gone from -£3,917.83 to +£3040.62 and I'm now having to try VERY HARD not to click on the button to withdraw the credit balance before they notice and properly fix whatever is wrong! I'm quite proud that I have had my domestic fuel supply account change by almost £7,000 in 12 hours, to my (as of right now) benefit!

 

They must think that you were running an aluminium smelting plant.

[iainrcz]

33 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

And now tonight you can sit down for a nice night infront of the TV and find out all the things the update has changed/moved/broken/killed... 

(my old 4g network box pulled an update down that nuked several handy techie screens and api's, was the main reason 7 months later I switched to fttp and binned it off, the customer service person who asked 'why I was leaving' stopped listening after the first 2 minutes I could tell 😂 Was a quick cancellation after that... 

It'll still be as slow as arseholes 😂

I run hacked sound drivers on my pc. Not long after getting them to work which took countless hours, windows updated, and immediately broke them again.

I always make sure I vet updates now.

[Stanky]

16 minutes ago, myglaren said:

They must think that you were running an aluminium smelting plant.

[Remspoor]

30 minutes ago, myglaren said:

They must think that you were running a  plantation.

 

[puddlethumper]

3 hours ago, Stanky said:

I've had a bit of a rollercoaster ride of a day today. Early on, I got an email from my gas and electricity provider saying my monthly bill would be going from £165 to £80. Hooray!

This seemed odd, so I logged into my account to submit a meter reading and make sure it was ok. I was slightly* startled to see that I owed them £3,917.83. Booo!

I gave them a ring to explain that I thought that something was possibly not quite right and that I didn't think I owed quite that much. A helpful man agreed that it didn't seem quite right, and after looking at it, found and fixed the issue, but that he couldn't sort it out properly and needed to escalate it to the billing team. But that rest assured they'd not be kicking my door down and taking the telly away. Hooray!

I've gone into the account again just now to see that the balance has gone from -£3,917.83 to +£3040.62 and I'm now having to try VERY HARD not to click on the button to withdraw the credit balance before they notice and properly fix whatever is wrong! I'm quite proud that I have had my domestic fuel supply account change by almost £7,000 in 12 hours, to my (as of right now) benefit!

 

By this time next year you could be a millionaire.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, puddlethumper said:

By this time next year you could be a millionaire.

Nah, he's an accountant, it won't show! 🤣

[62 Austin]

2 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

By this time next year you could be a millionaire.

Buy a used Roller and if they get cranky about too much money in your favor tell 'em to come and get it. Lots more fun to have the power company repo a Rolls than just shuffle some numbers!