What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

catching up with the athletics = world indoors

and 60m and crams talking about one guy and outdoors he ran a quick time with a following wind

then he says theres one in the stadium here 1.4ms according to the officials

'maybe they left the doors open at the far end or summat' itll help the long jumpers too

dont know if he was joking or not

 

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, hairnet said:

catching up with the athletics = world indoors

and 60m and crams talking about one guy and outdoors he ran a quick time with a following wind

then he says theres one in the stadium here 1.4ms according to the officials

'maybe they left the doors open at the far end or summat' itll help the long jumpers too

dont know if he was joking or not

 

Maybe the entire squad went out for a curry the night before.

[hairnet]

Cram again - comedy 

Introducing again and french athlete

Dumass

'Dumas - you know what that about.....?'

 

[DavieW]

Overheard a conversation on the bus this morning. Guy is speaking to his companion about a mutual friend and says "she always has springer spaniels,  I asked her why she doesn't get a sensible dog" 😂

[HillmanImp]

Apologies if this have been posted elsewhere but this made me chuckle on B3ta:

https://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/50013/1773308030/knightrider.png

[myglaren]

 

[goosey]

10 years since the Mannequin Challenge! 

[myglaren]

Just been out in the garden and there is a blackbird emulating a police siren

Not so amusing, eggshell from the pigeons nesting under the solar panels.  Must get a shotgun, or have pigeon barriers fitted.  Pigeon shit everywhere.

[reb]

10 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Just been out in the garden and there is a blackbird emulating a police siren

Not so amusing, eggshell from the pigeons nesting under the solar panels.  Must get a shotgun, or have pigeon barriers fitted.  Pigeon shit everywhere.

When I was in San Antonio in 2020 I was staying in the suburbs and the birds there were emulating every possible city noise. My favourites were the ones emulating a motorbike exhaust.

[jakebullet]

Last fill a wheel barrow day I may have gone slightly mad on top quality* radios. The citybug group widely mocked my sanity as they are totally unsalable and need putting in a skip.

I've only got 3 left now, and have a bonus of 2 free crap cd's, and a 20p coin that fell out of one of them. 5 sold is 2/3rds of the way to paying for wheel barrow day.  

Most of my barrow was these beauties, but only shifted half of them so far:

 

[jim89]

"fill a wheelbarrow day" whassat then?

[jakebullet]

2 hours ago, jim89 said:

"fill a wheelbarrow day" whassat then?

You give them £120, they give you a wheelbarrow and point you to the 1000 scrap cars outside. Anything you can get in / on the wheelbarrow and push thru the goal posts afterwards is yours. (No cats / alloys / engines or gearboxes)

So this sort of thing:

 

[Westbay]

7 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

You give them £120, they give you a wheelbarrow and point you to the 1000 scrap cars outside. Anything you can get in / on the wheelbarrow and push thru the goal posts afterwards is yours. (No cats / alloys / engines or gearboxes)

So this sort of thing:

 

Wow! great idea ...

[MorrisItalSLX]

I may have told this story before, but back in the day my Dad had a share in a VW beach buggy. The local breaking yard had a similar offer where you could have anything you could carry for $X. He and 3 mates carried a whole Beetle out of the yard for $4X.

[DavieW]

A happy potato in the local supermarket 

[jim89]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

A happy potato in the local supermarket 

Are they organically filled with worms or something?

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

[AnthonyG]

On 23/03/2026 at 10:28, jakebullet said:

You give them £120, they give you a wheelbarrow and point you to the 1000 scrap cars outside. Anything you can get in / on the wheelbarrow and push thru the goal posts afterwards is yours. (No cats / alloys / engines or gearboxes)

 

It’s been a staple of American ‘wrecking yards’ for decades. Interesting that U Pull-it have bought it over here. 

One of the American ‘beater’ bloggers managed to get an engine for $100 or whatever, he had to drag it out on an upside down bonnet (hood) with some tow rope he’d found!  No wheelbarrows were involved and there wasn’t a size limit - it was just whatever you could ‘pull’ and carry, or otherwise get, out yourself, the only exception was you couldn’t take a whole car out. But pictures showed people with the whole body tub of something like a Spitfire or Beetle balanced on a makeshift trolley.  This was some massive 200 acre place in Texas or similar where some of the stock had been there for 30 years. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 23/03/2026 at 10:36, Westbay said:

Wow! great idea ...

York is my nearest (about 5 hours) but it's almost* worth the trip for a laugh.
We used to just wander around scrapyards (leave the toolbox by the gate, we reserve the right to frisk you on the way out) and unbolt crap that they'd then charge you pennies for.
Then, it all went a bit silly/weird/health and safety?

Fantasy shopping unbolting?
(1) Fuckoff big set of front calipers for the CLK as it does need something better (imho)
(2) Supercharger off an AMG32 for my wife's car (absolutely no chance of finding one of those)
(3) Something Bini related - again I'm thinking  either front calipers or a complete 'lounge leather' interior (but that latter would probably*not fit in a single wheelbarrow?)
(4) Maybe just a set of wheels + tyres - is that allowed under the rules?

[jakebullet]

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

York is my nearest (about 5 hours) but it's almost* worth the trip for a laugh.
We used to just wander around scrapyards (leave the toolbox by the gate, we reserve the right to frisk you on the way out) and unbolt crap that they'd then charge you pennies for.
Then, it all went a bit silly/weird/health and safety?

Fantasy shopping unbolting?
(1) Fuckoff big set of front calipers for the CLK as it does need something better (imho)
(2) Supercharger off an AMG32 for my wife's car (absolutely no chance of finding one of those)
(3) Something Bini related - again I'm thinking  either front calipers or a complete 'lounge leather' interior (but that latter would probably*not fit in a single wheelbarrow?)
(4) Maybe just a set of wheels + tyres - is that allowed under the rules?

I've seen more than one barrow with a complete interior, so it's doable. One time I went I was still learning stacking and couldn't get both the door and bumper on, so left the door intending to just buy it. Mentioned it to the bloke and he said leave your barrow here and go get it. No extra charge

No alloy wheelz allowed.

I made the mistake of getting there at 9:30 and the man said we had 50 barrows and they're all out in the yard. Had to wait around until they bought some more barrows. You are competing with everyone else, and you have to pay up front so you have to have ideas that will fill the barrow. (You can go look first, but it's a warzone out there). There isn't a headlight / rear light or mirror left by the end.

There was a Polish chap who was grabbing abs pumps by the shitload. It's better if you have someone to help drag tools.

Last one was 28th Feb. With fuel & jelly babies it's £150 for me to go. My spreadsheet says after evilbay fees & post I've made £970 profit since then, so I'm getting better at it. Trouble is you never know when they're coming. 2 in February, but one before that was July.

[DavieW]

On the other side of the coin, I paid my entrance fee and couldn't find a jack and spare wheel for a Fiat Panda despite there being 6 or 7 of them. Came out empty handed. 

[jakebullet]

8 hours ago, DavieW said:

On the other side of the coin, I paid my entrance fee and couldn't find a jack and spare wheel for a Fiat Panda despite there being 6 or 7 of them. Came out empty handed. 

Ouch! They're taking the piss now at £5 to get in. I have membership so don't have to pay but it runs out soon. 

A lot of the cars have a shopping list written on a window, so someones getting first dibs before the cars get put out. So high demand / super valuable stuff is almost certainly not going to be there.

[myglaren]

 

[Mr Livered]

30 minutes ago, myglaren said:

 

I just had a quick look at her posts. Basically she's got a cracking pair of Bristols and every single one of her videos seems to be all about showing them off, regardless of what the topic ostensibly is. I'm no prude and I've got absolutely no problem with this lady deploying her big guns for money or attention or whatever she's motivated by. However the faux- sardonic outrage because a doc made an unprofessional remark comes across as opportunistic and inauthentic.

They are magnificent though.

[reb]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

£5 to get in

The absolute state of the world! It was always £1 when I used to go, the Edinburgh one would only take cash for the entrance fee iirc and would say "don't worry about it" if you said you only had card/big notes

[danthecapriman]

Went to the tip today.

Not the reason for the grin, but this is,     
I took the Volvo, which I haven’t used in months. Hooked the battery up and it barked straight into life. The grin though, it still amazes me just how much shite you can fit into those old Volvo estates. I had an entire bathroom suite and most of a shower room suite in there and all the waste from the new decorative stuff in the new rooms, cardboard boxes from the wall cladding, all the old plumbing fixtures and pipe, 4 big glass shower doors/sides (which were so much fun to launch into the skip and smash!). The old shower base weighed a lot too, yet the old Volvo swallowed the lot and drove fine with all the weight.

It’s funny too walking back to your car from the skips. Oldest by miles and strangely I still can’t help but admire my own rig!😆

Bloody good cars those old bricks.

[grizz]

Inspiration 

 

Confession

 

Confusion 

[grogee]

Ordered a NOS dizzy cap for the Maestro, and got a lovely handwritten note with it. Made me smile

[DavieW]