What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MikeR]

At a triffid shop up north ...

[egg]

accidental Brent-ism's

[angle]

Based on my previous Laguna experience I am pretty confident in saying:

'your sunroof drains are blocked m8'

[reb]

9 hours ago, reb said:

Checking out the auction listing of the v70 last year

But what's this...

Rear facing child seats!! Bonus!

Utterly useless as a childless bloke in his 20s, but when I was small dad had a Renault Savannah estate with third row seats and I used to love sitting in them for some reason. 

Once I've taken the wheels out of the boot I'll unfold the seats and see if my lanky arse will fit in them.

Sure enough, there they are!

Do I fit in them?

Not in the slightest.

[iainrcz]

Just sat down and ate lunch.

Very fancy.

[Snake Charmer]

Bank of England drops the base rate 0.25% just as we get the mortgage down to £760. 🤣

[horriblemercedes]

Bought car late on Monday afternoon and did online keeper change. V5 arrived in the post this morning (Thursday). 

 

Fair play to the DVLA, that's good service 

[reb]

3 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Bought car late on Monday afternoon and did online keeper change. V5 arrived in the post this morning (Thursday). 

 

Fair play to the DVLA, that's good service 

I did one on Tuesday afternoon, so simple arithmetic says mine should arrive tomorrow!

[richardmorris]

[reb]

It is my v70s 26th birthday today, how exciting! I should have got it a card. Instead I have interrogated the manual pouch to try and figure out the original dealer. Seems to have been Evans Halshaw, then sold by Fords of Winsford for £10k in 2001 to a lady called Allison, who's address I now have because somehow the warranty slip is still with the car 8 keepers later.

[Rightnider]

On 31/07/2024 at 19:19, egg said:

 

accidental Brent-ism's

 

That’s absurdly similar!

[hairnet]

Lol at the nutters at gate 49

Final call for belfast please go to gate 150

Lmao

My flight has been arriving somwhwere between 49 and 56 so should be reet

[hairnet]

Lol at the nutters at gate 49

Final call for belfast please go to gate 150

Lmao

My flight has been arriving somwhwere between 49 and 56 so should be reet

[gm]

a Citroen Mehari ! 

 

[IronStar]

2 minutes ago, gm said:

a Citroen Mehari ! 

 

3/3 cars in that photo have somehow managed to park outside white lines. Amazing! 😄

[reb]

14 hours ago, reb said:

I did one on Tuesday afternoon, so simple arithmetic says mine should arrive tomorrow!

Sure enough, here it is!

It even has the right reg on it!

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, IronStar said:

3/3 cars in that photo have somehow managed to park outside white lines. Amazing! 😄

French rules of the road. White lines are only a suggestion.

[Remspoor]

17 hours ago, richardmorris said:

You are brave posting something in Dutch here. Not many of us have an understanding of it. More do of French naturally. As they say Boeuf a la mode

[reb]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

You are brave posting something in Dutch here. Not many of us have an understanding of it. More do of French naturally. As they say Boeuf a la mode

Dutch is just english with more vowels though

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, reb said:

Dutch is just english with more vowels though

I think the cartoon was understandable in any language.

[hairnet]

Think its a bit warm

Stuff seen today

2x c15 with the windows 

Many 206 battered to fuck 

And i think @wuvvum was here as i saw a renault 6!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also peugeot 301

Thanks to @Jerzy Woking col - nice to see you again

I keep thinking its saturday but wondered why the traffic was fucked past murcia 

Its friday

Crazy squiggly road tomorrow 

[myglaren]

I have two Quora pages open, one in English and the other in Swedish.  Also have DeepL (translator) active on the laptop, in the background, pops up an icon whenever there is text or I am typing and offers to translate.

I don't know if DeepL is responsible but this has never happened previously.

I was reading through the English pages and suddenly saw briefly Swedish text displayed that changed to English, then recognised the next answer as one that I had read in Swedish this morning, suddenly change to English.  All the subsequent ones had Swedish authors but changed to English.

Most odd.

[hairnet]

Not done ,that in an awful long time

 

Muoy bien etc

 

Will be walking back to parador in the dark and probably not.in a straight line lol

[hairnet]

Oh no 

You gave me what??

[155V6]

This should really be a grin,but it's more of a surprise.

I took my SLK in for an MOT this morning,I'd done no preparation & wasn't expecting it to pass.I was almost hoping it didn't,as the roof has stopped working,& there's a strange noise coming from the top of the engine.

I'd seen a possible replacement on Gumtree,& was going to message the seller when I got home

However,it only went & passed,with a couple of advisories for headlight lenses & a corroded exhaust. 

I guess I'll be keeping it then 🤨

[hairnet]

así que gira a la izquierda para ir al banco: las 3 millas más largas de la historia.

 

Another c15 seen and yhe shonkiest facelift clio even seen council estate and gaffa taped mondeo bumper not a straight panel on it and old fart smokjng a ducados natch

[hairnet]

Ffs

Better than the mk1 tho

Gearchange sucks

They have a pool here but el gordo blanco didn't take off shirt

Still damp now and its lovely as the dash says 44c ffs

Edit /rant theres no external boot handle have to use key

That pisses me iff why di they do that - nitnlike rhey can say clean lines as the opel badge is huge and it hás mokka written across the bottom like skoda

[hairnet]

Fek

Also you get vag dickheads here too

Between the first mountain bit south

Got to the bottom then left for maybe 5- 6 k till a roundabout the left agin and over gge itger side in tge straight bit a passatcome up behind and im not going slowly as its not a village

He sits on me then overtakes me and two others 

I overtake the other two but even then not going daft catch him by the roundabout

Wtf??

If ya gonna floor it floor it

 

Saw 175 kmh today lol theres not been many straight bits 

125 on the mountain when it was 60 and some of the corners were 40 and you could safely85-90 them

In 80k of mountain (there are km boards when you start) saw maybe 3 cars and two bikes and none on the a1100 it was like a one way lol

Couldnt stop on the way south as apart from two houses there were no pull offs and ta couldnt pull over as youd drop 3-4 feet mokka wouldn't have liked that other side youd have fell 1700m lol

 

[scaryoldcortina]

  In a Newcastle phone box...

 

[richardmorris]

I appeared in a local fb group bygones photo page today. I always look like I’m staring into the gates of hell. Guess which one. April 1978, I’m 5. I know most of the other boys, but am still remembering names - Philip, Peter, James, Ian, Christopher…