What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

Got stuck in traffic on the M1 on the way home and the Princess, bless her, didn't even try to overheat, or billow lots of oily smoke from under the bonnet, or stall when I set off when traffic started moving again. It felt special to have a car with such a reputation actually transport me home reliably, especially after the day I've had!

[vulgalour]

Got stuck in traffic on the M1 on the way home and the Princess, bless her, didn't even try to overheat, or billow lots of oily smoke from under the bonnet, or stall when I set off when traffic started moving again. It felt special to have a car with such a reputation actually transport me home reliably, especially after the day I've had!

[willswitchengage]

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I hope you did it the AS way and bunked in for nowt.

 

Or do what I did at the Yorkshire show once and climb up a horsebox that was parked next to the fence

 

Also WORD for also being from Harrogreat.

[willswitchengage]

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I hope you did it the AS way and bunked in for nowt.

 

Or do what I did at the Yorkshire show once and climb up a horsebox that was parked next to the fence

 

Also WORD for also being from Harrogreat.

[meshking]

The car journey I have just completed: From Pune to Mumbai in a truly shite Mahindra 4x4. The utter shite (both truck and car) on the road kept me awake for the 3 hour journey (to do 130 km). Well, the shite and the drivers bizarre driving style - roar up to 110 kph in fifth, knock into neutral and coast to 60kph. Repeat.

 

Unfortunately, due to the pissing rain I got no photos

[meshking]

The car journey I have just completed: From Pune to Mumbai in a truly shite Mahindra 4x4. The utter shite (both truck and car) on the road kept me awake for the 3 hour journey (to do 130 km). Well, the shite and the drivers bizarre driving style - roar up to 110 kph in fifth, knock into neutral and coast to 60kph. Repeat.

 

Unfortunately, due to the pissing rain I got no photos

[Guest]

Went to the ICCCR2012 show in Harrogate. Someone also told BBC Radio York and Minster FM travel about it. Glorious weather, salty enrty fee but a cracking show. There was a bit too much organic food and folk music for my liking, but these are old Citroens we're talking about.

[Guest]

Went to the ICCCR2012 show in Harrogate. Someone also told BBC Radio York and Minster FM travel about it. Glorious weather, salty enrty fee but a cracking show. There was a bit too much organic food and folk music for my liking, but these are old Citroens we're talking about.

[ayd]

eleventybillion Dad points earned today and it's a Pirelli

 

[ayd]

eleventybillion Dad points earned today and it's a Pirelli

 

[fiatdaft]

Should have used a uniroyal so you could have used it in the rain!

[fiatdaft]

Should have used a uniroyal so you could have used it in the rain!

[Albert Ross]

eleventybillion Dad points earned today and it's a Pirelli

 

 

 

Looks like your tyre pressures are about 20% too high, and your offside lower balljoint has play.

[Albert Ross]

eleventybillion Dad points earned today and it's a Pirelli

 

 

 

Looks like your tyre pressures are about 20% too high, and your offside lower balljoint has play.

[vulgalour]

Kudos on Dad endeavours. When I was little, the plastic seat on the garden swing broke, so Dad replaced it with a tyre and a bit of floor board and it became infinitely more awesome, especially because you could then get two kids on the swing and tip the whole thing over.

[vulgalour]

Kudos on Dad endeavours. When I was little, the plastic seat on the garden swing broke, so Dad replaced it with a tyre and a bit of floor board and it became infinitely more awesome, especially because you could then get two kids on the swing and tip the whole thing over.

[willswitchengage]

eleventybillion Dad points earned today and it's a Pirelli

 

 

 

Looks like your tyre pressures are about 20% too high, and your offside lower balljoint has play.

 

You are SO stuck in the nineties too. That needs to be stretched onto a 100Jx13 rim with a negative camber of at least 45 degrees.

[willswitchengage]

eleventybillion Dad points earned today and it's a Pirelli

 

 

 

Looks like your tyre pressures are about 20% too high, and your offside lower balljoint has play.

 

You are SO stuck in the nineties too. That needs to be stretched onto a 100Jx13 rim with a negative camber of at least 45 degrees.

[cms206]

Clearing up some boxes of assorted shit from when we moved into this house (now preparing to move out 12 years later and still not unpacked) and came across this. Grin for the subject, grump for not being able to see how bad the film actually is...

 

Buckaroo Banzai... on Betamax! by cms206, on Flickr

[cms206]

Clearing up some boxes of assorted shit from when we moved into this house (now preparing to move out 12 years later and still not unpacked) and came across this. Grin for the subject, grump for not being able to see how bad the film actually is...

 

Buckaroo Banzai... on Betamax! by cms206, on Flickr

[Cavcraft]

The Olympics and the BBC.

This closing ceremony is just utterly brilliant and shows that when Britain does something like this we're the best in the world. I don't give a flying f*ck how much the whole shebang has cost us, it's been worth every single penny and a lot more besides. The Beeb have absolutely excelled at the coverage and thank God we didn't have airheads, adverts and driss that itv would have bought us.

On top of all that and most importantly we've got some amazing, astounding athletes to be proud of, medals or no medals. I bloody love Britain and being British.

[Cavcraft]

The Olympics and the BBC.

This closing ceremony is just utterly brilliant and shows that when Britain does something like this we're the best in the world. I don't give a flying f*ck how much the whole shebang has cost us, it's been worth every single penny and a lot more besides. The Beeb have absolutely excelled at the coverage and thank God we didn't have airheads, adverts and driss that itv would have bought us.

On top of all that and most importantly we've got some amazing, astounding athletes to be proud of, medals or no medals. I bloody love Britain and being British.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

The Olympics and the BBC.

This closing ceremony is just utterly brilliant and shows that when Britain does something like this we're the best in the world. I don't give a flying f*ck how much the whole shebang has cost us, it's been worth every single penny and a lot more besides. The Beeb have absolutely excelled at the coverage and thank God we didn't have airheads, adverts and driss that itv would have bought us.

On top of all that and most importantly we've got some amazing, astounding athletes to be proud of, medals or no medals. I bloody love Britain and being British.

 

+1

 

I wasn't particularly excited during the buildup, not being into sports, but now I'm sad it's finishing. Astonishing performance from the British athletes, the BBC and the people who organised the whole thing. CLASS packed closing ceremony too!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

The Olympics and the BBC.

This closing ceremony is just utterly brilliant and shows that when Britain does something like this we're the best in the world. I don't give a flying f*ck how much the whole shebang has cost us, it's been worth every single penny and a lot more besides. The Beeb have absolutely excelled at the coverage and thank God we didn't have airheads, adverts and driss that itv would have bought us.

On top of all that and most importantly we've got some amazing, astounding athletes to be proud of, medals or no medals. I bloody love Britain and being British.

 

+1

 

I wasn't particularly excited during the buildup, not being into sports, but now I'm sad it's finishing. Astonishing performance from the British athletes, the BBC and the people who organised the whole thing. CLASS packed closing ceremony too!

[willswitchengage]

Trying to work out what all the little paper cars were towards the beginning. Saw a Fairway, TXii, BMW, new mini and lots of DAFs : D

[willswitchengage]

Trying to work out what all the little paper cars were towards the beginning. Saw a Fairway, TXii, BMW, new mini and lots of DAFs : D

[Timewaster]

Trying to work out what all the little paper cars were towards the beginning. Saw a Fairway, TXii, BMW, new mini and lots of DAFs : D

 

I didn't see any Dafs. I did spot an Alfa Mito.

The whole thing made me think of the Hans Lermann spyshots in 80's magazines.

[Timewaster]

Trying to work out what all the little paper cars were towards the beginning. Saw a Fairway, TXii, BMW, new mini and lots of DAFs : D

 

I didn't see any Dafs. I did spot an Alfa Mito.

The whole thing made me think of the Hans Lermann spyshots in 80's magazines.

[cobblers]

Since many years ago I've been one of those iPhone idiots, I worked round the main massive flaw (itunes pile of shit) and was even sad enough to turn up at about 6am at Meadowhall to pay loadsamoney for an iphone 4.

 

Lately things were getting just too awful - the phone wouldn't phone people right and I realised I was avoiding using most of the features of the phone cos itunes was just such a fucking massive ballache to deal with, so I fucked the thing off to envirophone for £210 and got this new free samsung galaxy doodaa, and it's honestly absolutely loads better. I plugged it into the PC, it popped up as a removable drive and within 10 seconds I'd set every episode of blackadder, red dwarf and porridge copying over to it with the files downloaded off bittorrent years ago (I have the DVDS but its easier to download than rip). Not long after I just opened them on the phone and was on my way, and I can plug it into any machine to do the same.

 

With an iphone I'd have had to spend weeks trying to re encode them and then itunes would have pissed me about for hours to get them on the phone, and god forbid I try and put a file off one of my other machines onto it - the piece of shit would want to do a full wipe before allowing me to upload a single track.

 

Most importantly I can phone people now, and actually hear what they are saying!

 

I'm so happy that I've never ever got to use itunes again, not just for my own benefit but for the dozens of people I know who have iphones and see me with one and ask me to try and load their music cds onto their phone - Now I can just claim I know nothing about itunes and leave them to deal with the whole mess on their own.

[cobblers]

Since many years ago I've been one of those iPhone idiots, I worked round the main massive flaw (itunes pile of shit) and was even sad enough to turn up at about 6am at Meadowhall to pay loadsamoney for an iphone 4.

 

Lately things were getting just too awful - the phone wouldn't phone people right and I realised I was avoiding using most of the features of the phone cos itunes was just such a fucking massive ballache to deal with, so I fucked the thing off to envirophone for £210 and got this new free samsung galaxy doodaa, and it's honestly absolutely loads better. I plugged it into the PC, it popped up as a removable drive and within 10 seconds I'd set every episode of blackadder, red dwarf and porridge copying over to it with the files downloaded off bittorrent years ago (I have the DVDS but its easier to download than rip). Not long after I just opened them on the phone and was on my way, and I can plug it into any machine to do the same.

 

With an iphone I'd have had to spend weeks trying to re encode them and then itunes would have pissed me about for hours to get them on the phone, and god forbid I try and put a file off one of my other machines onto it - the piece of shit would want to do a full wipe before allowing me to upload a single track.

 

Most importantly I can phone people now, and actually hear what they are saying!

 

I'm so happy that I've never ever got to use itunes again, not just for my own benefit but for the dozens of people I know who have iphones and see me with one and ask me to try and load their music cds onto their phone - Now I can just claim I know nothing about itunes and leave them to deal with the whole mess on their own.