What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[808 Estate]

[Remspoor]

 

[richardmorris]

[Snake Charmer]

Chugga-Boom style car on Downton earlier, checked DVLA to see what it was.......

[GeorgeB]

17 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

Whoosh. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

3 hours ago, GeorgeB said:

Whoosh. 

Anyone for a BJ.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

This private sector malarkey isn't too bad.  Just back from Twickenham in a fully-catered hospitality box to watch England vs. Japan courtesy of a vendor we're about to sign up with.  A very good day out indeed.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

This private sector malarkey isn't too bad.  Just back from Twickenham in a fully-catered hospitality box to watch England vs. Japan courtesy of a vendor we're about to sign up with.  A very good day out indeed.

It should be at the prices they charge on top of the £100+ for a match ticket.

I used to get freebie rugby international  days at Murrayfield courteous of a subsidiary of an oil company. They took their clients to a nearby hotel with free bar because they considered the Murrayfield hospitality extortionately expensive.

[comfortablynumb]

7 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Anyone for a BJ.

Tbh I'd read it as NE fourteen, and it took me a while too

[GrumpiusMaximus]

6 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

It should be at the prices they charge on top of the £100+ for a match ticket.

I used to get freebie rugby international  days at Murrayfield courteous of a subsidiary of an oil company. They took their clients to a nearby hotel with free bar because they considered the Murrayfield hospitality extortionately expensive.

The vendor in question just got a private equity investment and have the box for a year.

I haven't been to Twickenham for 16 years.  It's a great stadium and a fantastic atmosphere even when it's under capacity.  I do wish it (and Rugby in general) were more accessible.  The fact that the autumn internationals weren't on any terrestrial television is a travesty of short-sightedness by the RFU...

[comfortablynumb]

I used to get access to free tickets and a start line box at Silverstone, because the car hire company I worked for had it, and for the smaller events nobody wanted to go, things like truckfest when it was there, and some of the smaller race series.

Used to be a great day out, you could see all the toffs in the nextdoor boxes in their dj's and suits looking at us and thinking " how did those oiks get in there?" 😁

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

The vendor in question just got a private equity investment and have the box for a year.

I haven't been to Twickenham for 16 years.  It's a great stadium and a fantastic atmosphere even when it's under capacity.  I do wish it (and Rugby in general) were more accessible.  The fact that the autumn internationals weren't on any terrestrial television is a travesty of short-sightedness by the RFU...

Just the ticket prices is ridiculous now. I was offered two tickets for the recent South Africa game at Twickenham. £109 each! They weren’t even the best seats.

It was 60p the first time I went. OK it was 1976 on a school trip , but that’s £4 in today’s prices.

[Westbay]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Just the ticket prices is ridiculous now. I was offered two tickets for the recent South Africa game at Twickenham. £109 each! They weren’t even the best seats.

It was 60p the first time I went. OK it was 1976 on a school trip , but that’s £4 in today’s prices.

...and it was still a sport rather than a commercial enterprise ...

[paulplom]

These scan and go things make my life so much easier.

[maxxo]

Nice to be thanked

couple of months ago stuck a jacket on the grandparents hot water cylinder

theyve told me how grateful they are for it, apparently they’ve still got hot water the next morning after having the heating on overnight

they also thanked me for actually bothering with them, I’m the only one in the family who actually does

[GeorgeB]

1 hour ago, maxxo said:

they’ve still got hot water the next morning after having the heating on overnight

Wow!

[Sunny Jim]

[myglaren]

[anonymous user]

6 hours ago, paulplom said:

These scan and go things make my life so much easier.

Bloody hell, I never knew they were personalised, I might try using one.

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, maxxo said:

Nice to be thanked

couple of months ago stuck a jacket on the grandparents hot water cylinder

theyve told me how grateful they are for it, apparently they’ve still got hot water the next morning after having the heating on overnight

they also thanked me for actually bothering with them, I’m the only one in the family who actually does

Missing a 'not' there, perhaps?

[Spiny Norman]

Bought new headlamp bulbs to replace the worn out candles that were in the CRV. Removal/refitting went as follows.
Open bonnet.
Locate headlamps, one left, one right. Nothing to remove, right there in front of me.
Pull off little plastic cover.
Pull off connector.
Ping off spring clip holding bulb in place.
Remove bulb.
Re-installation, as Haynes manuals like to say, is the reverse of removal. And repeat for other side.

Took almost as long to type that out as it did to do. I love 90s cars...

btw, Philips X-treme Vision Pro150 bulbs are a decent upgrade for under £20.

[andy18s]

15 hours ago, maxxo said:

Nice to be thanked

couple of months ago stuck a jacket on the grandparents hot water cylinder

theyve told me how grateful they are for it, apparently they’ve still got hot water the next morning after having the heating on overnight

they also thanked me for actually bothering with them, I’m the only one in the family who actually does

Are you sure they don't have an account on here? 😏

[maxxo]

5 days later

in a house where nothing lines up

finally got the alarm working

works well it does too

[iainrcz]

Bought a 10 pack of mozzarella sticks, and there was 11.

[Remspoor]

Snap

[gm]

the volvo freaking out on corners because my passenger wasn’t wearing his seatbelt ! 

hey kids, don’t drink and drive !

one pack for £11.50, three packs for £23.00, it would be rude not to  

[Hertz]

[myglaren]

 

[MikeR]

apparently ebykes kept being dumped on a private London car park , they asked for this not to happen and got no response .... so the fly tipping got sorted ..

[808 Estate]