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Posted
17 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Our Asda advertised that over their tannoy - good idea, except the shop doesn't have a cafe 😄

Is it real butter, tho?

Posted
3 hours ago, omegod said:

Our one does bloody good hot pizza and garlic bread 

Huyton?

 

Posted
15 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Is it real butter, tho?

How would he know? He can’t have it. Anyway, butter is the Devils semen, according to that famed literary tome, “How to be a complete Bastard” by Adrian Edmonson from the 1980s, iirc🙂

Posted
25 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Huyton?

 

Yurrrp, don't make the journey just on my say so though ! 

Posted
57 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

And it still ended up ugly.

I think it would look a lot better in a different colour, maybe a metallic racing green? but was going for the authentic literary recreation.

Posted

dropped a brand new tucson to a chap today

it had 5 miles on it and it had 50 on it when i gave to him

the laugh is it said in the notes small handover :D

im talking to him and he said hed never driven an auto before (>!>!>!?????!!!!!)

thats fair enuff so i go round his roads showing the gearshift (fuck you tesla)

its DNR - wtf is up with that not RND like it should be and has been for an awful long time

so tell him about reverse camera and how itll creep in gear if you ease pressure on the brake

so he gets a go and up a bit to dead end so he can turn round and he stops - only doing 5 mph and we both nearly go thru the windscreen :D

what did he do?? :D

 

Posted
17 minutes ago, hairnet said:

dropped a brand new tucson to a chap today

it had 5 miles on it and it had 50 on it when i gave to him

the laugh is it said in the notes small handover :D

im talking to him and he said hed never driven an auto before (>!>!>!?????!!!!!)

thats fair enuff so i go round his roads showing the gearshift (fuck you tesla)

its DNR - wtf is up with that not RND like it should be and has been for an awful long time

so tell him about reverse camera and how itll creep in gear if you ease pressure on the brake

so he gets a go and up a bit to dead end so he can turn round and he stops - only doing 5 mph and we both nearly go thru the windscreen :D

what did he do?? :D

 

Changed from D to P?

Posted
14 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Changed from D to P?

no the selector is upside down unlike every other auto 

edit no he used his left foot to brake :D

after id pointed it out and told just to right foot like in a manual (the foot is used to the effort/memory)

he took me to the station and didnt do it again

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Posted
Just now, hairnet said:

no the selector is upside down unlike every other auto 

Pressed the clutch on the brake pedal then?

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Posted
23 hours ago, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

Accidentally discovered something I didn’t know my phone can do - if you take a photo of a warning light on your dash it will tell you what the symbol means. Obviously we all know what these two mean but could be useful in a borrowed modern. 

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I'm going to take the tape off the Kangoo dash lights and see how long it takes for my phone to melt

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Posted
5 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Pressed the clutch on the brake pedal then?

i said to him hed prolly do that a few times

i still do it and im an old git :D

 

Posted
Just now, hairnet said:

i said to him hed prolly do that a few times

i still do it and im an old git :D

 

I’m ok that way round, my mistake tends to be stalling manuals coasting to a stop because I’ve forgotten to put the clutch in.

Posted
2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I’m ok that way round, my mistake tends to be stalling manuals coasting to a stop because I’ve forgotten to put the clutch in.

forgot your not sat at home on the sofa :P

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Posted
10 minutes ago, hairnet said:

forgot your not sat at home on the sofa :P

Well I’ve only driven three automatics. A CX prestige , my w124 coupe and a couple of xm. All of which could be like piloting a sofa at speed. Especially the cx.

Posted
54 minutes ago, hairnet said:

no the selector is upside down unlike every other auto 

edit no he used his left foot to brake :D

after id pointed it out and told just to right foot like in a manual (the foot is used to the effort/memory)

he took me to the station and didnt do it again

I have been guilty of that in a C6 and a Volvo.

Posted

surprised anti grump today

had my insurance renewal for the XM through

£150 cheaper than last year!

yes please

Posted
2 hours ago, Wibble said:

How would he know? He can’t have it. Anyway, butter is the Devils semen, according to that famed literary tome, “How to be a complete Bastard” by Adrian Edmonson from the 1980s, iirc🙂

If they advertise butter and don't deliver, I'll want my pound back #stickler

Posted

A few days ago I was scrabbling around in a little-used kitchen drawer and right at the back were two ancient and long-forgotten Siemens phones.

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To my astonishment, the blue one switched on when I pressed the button - it immediately gave a low battery warning, but still bloody impressive that it'd turn on at all after being untouched for at least 10 years.  The yellow one was dead so I bought a cheapo charger (the original having long since disappeared), and after charging for a bit it switched on.

This was my "daily" phone 20-odd years ago and I used it for quite a while, but there were a couple of little features that I'd completely forgotten about.  I bought the phone off a colleague who'd upgraded, and when he sold it to me he made a modification to the customisable welcome screen.  

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I'd also completely forgotten that the phone allows you to compose your own ring tones, and when I stuck a SIM card in it and rang it it started playing Turkey in the Straw, which I'd programmed in one evening when I was bored on a night shift having just watched this Simpsons episode.

Anyway, it brought back some enjoyable memories.

Posted
9 hours ago, GeorgeB said:

And it still ended up ugly.

It describes it as ugly in the book.

Posted
14 hours ago, omegod said:

Yurrrp, don't make the journey just on my say so though ! 

Been before for one on my lunch as I work a stone’s throw away.

Posted

House/cat sitting, making a cup of tea thought I'd check the fridge to see if they left me any milk...............................

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Posted
8 minutes ago, castros_bro said:

House/cat sitting, making a cup of tea thought I'd check the fridge to see if they left me any milk...............................

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That'll last you until the afternoon, what then?

Posted
38 minutes ago, castros_bro said:

House/cat sitting, making a cup of tea thought I'd check the fridge to see if they left me any milk...............................

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Long Drink! Corrrr!

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Posted
15 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Pressed the clutch on the brake pedal then?

My wife did that about a mile after we picked up a new car, went to change gear, foot hard down on the brake as if it was the clutch. Dead stop from 30mph. Luckily  the car behind wasn’t too close.

I don’t know why she did it because we always have automatic hire cars when on holiday. 
 

Posted
11 hours ago, wuvvum said:

A few days ago I was scrabbling around in a little-used kitchen drawer and right at the back were two ancient and long-forgotten Siemens phones.

20241108_221016.thumb.jpg.a405d6328f44fce159cbc37bc2ee52ec.jpg

To my astonishment, the blue one switched on when I pressed the button - it immediately gave a low battery warning, but still bloody impressive that it'd turn on at all after being untouched for at least 10 years.  The yellow one was dead so I bought a cheapo charger (the original having long since disappeared), and after charging for a bit it switched on.

This was my "daily" phone 20-odd years ago and I used it for quite a while, but there were a couple of little features that I'd completely forgotten about.  I bought the phone off a colleague who'd upgraded, and when he sold it to me he made a modification to the customisable welcome screen.  

20241108_221043.thumb.jpg.4abc65dbd50989aed60732bf046f33f0.jpg

I'd also completely forgotten that the phone allows you to compose your own ring tones, and when I stuck a SIM card in it and rang it it started playing Turkey in the Straw, which I'd programmed in one evening when I was bored on a night shift having just watched this Simpsons episode.

Anyway, it brought back some enjoyable memories.

I remember that blue Siemens model being really popular, I used to see tons when they were current! Always were fantastically tiny things. 

Posted

Watching the Lord Mayor’s parade on TV. Sally Army band comes into view. Women out front with their tambourines , all sweetness and light.

Followed by the band. Right in the middle big guy with the bass drum, really giving it some welly. By the look on his face he was having some particularly unchristian thoughts. 

Posted

8800 mile rs 200 190-210k

another one with 1900 miles  might make 250+

as he walks past them theres a labatts sierra on his left he doesnt even look at and looks at a 930 porsche zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

wtf 2001 clk and theyve made it look like a gullwing - 150k+

lancia stratos rep and hes looking at a 250swb rep no price on it hes just said mx5 underneath ZOMG

250 calif and its z3 under

omg 356 speedster with weird surround which he picked up on and its a metro which means engines in the front

actual fuck - do this person read a porsche history book first?? :D

madness

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