What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[cort16]

The gang all together for one last time. I imagine this is what AA mens nightmares look like

 

image by cort16, on Flickr

[HillmanImp]

I imagine this is what AA mens nightmares look like

 

 

 

EFA

[Cavcraft]

 

 

EFA-ier.

[dollywobbler]

Hooray, another year's MOT certificate on my BX (actually, 54 weeks as I remembered to take the old certificate in). Failed on a couple minor LHM leaks (witness my entire lack of astonishment) and o/s/f ball joint, which I knew was u/s, so doesn't count (my theory is that only expensive things and/or nasty surprises count as proper MOT failures, rest is just normal servicing, works wonders for my attitude to cost of shite motoring).

 

Might be moving it on next year sometime if I can find something fun to replace it with. With which to replace it.

 

Good stuff. You don't need the old certificate any more though. Digital automatically recognises if the test is early and adds the time on. 

[michael1703]

And also alerts you if presented too early

[Ratdat]

Just got my insurance renewal through from FJ. For 7 cars fully comp including one modified one... £431. It's not often insurance and good news arrive hand in hand!

[Ghosty]

Seems everyone was having shite dreams the other night.

Mine consisted of trying to buy a free maroon Rover 75 off an Autoshite memeber who turned out to be Ian Wright who was wearing a suit the same colour as the car, and lived in an exact copy of my house, except not on my road and instead in the Midlands somewhere. When I arrived he wasn't in and the garden was full of gardeners that didn't notice me, so I found the keys to the Rover somewhere, took some paperwork and left a note, and went inside the inexplicably open copy of house to wait for Mr Wright to get back. 

 

Also my mum's been in the AA for 25 years, so they're giving her access to some offers and a van-tracking thing on the AA app...

[Spiny Norman]

Since I've yet to find new wheels I thought I'd better phone my insurer (Privilege) and tell them I no longer had the Jaaag.

I'd mentally prepared myself for an epic long wait in the queue listening to fucking Vivaldi but got through to a real human being within seconds. Told him I'd got shot of my car but wanted to keep the policy going so I could use the 'Driving other cars....' bit of it, and he surprised me by first by saying that was no problem at all and secondly by launching into a long conversation about what great cars old Jaaags were.
Seemingly his whole family had been employed at Browns Lane and he told me they'd had all manner of old Mk2s, early XJs, XJ40s, S types and his dream car was a V8 XJR.

Best call to an insurance company EVAR!

[beko1987]

Ha! Just spat some of my dinner out...

[vulgalour]

For 7 cars fully comp including one modified one... £431. 

 

You must have been driving since cars began to achieve that, I'd have to add at least one more 0 to the price.

[jonathan_dyane]

I've been putting up with the laptop running slow for ages and I finally got round to doing a clean install. On a whim I replaced windows 7 with Lubuntu and not only did it work beautifully out of the box with no driver issues it runs like lightening now!

[outlaw118]

Not car related (except I drove there) saw this band, featuring my musical hero Devin Townsend, on Thursday night, at Union Chapel, Islington. Just beautiful. Not metal, I promise.

 

[chaseracer]

 

Made oi larf.

 

[inconsistant]

Not car related (except I drove there) saw this band, featuring my musical hero Devin Townsend, on Thursday night, at Union Chapel, Islington. Just beautiful. Not metal, I promise.

So did I. Wasn't it absolutely fantastic?! First time at the Union Chapel and its a great venue for the right sort of music.

I shook Dev's hand at the end and I haven't washed it since.

[castros_bro]

At brands H just watched rust racing saloons p6, dolly sprint, xj12 n other shite, the smell n sight of burning engine oil takes me back to 70~80s and the same saloons at brands H. SD1 spun out at hairpin YEAH

[dugong]

So did I. Wasn't it absolutely fantastic?! First time at the Union Chapel and its a great venue for the right sort of music.

I shook Dev's hand at the end and I haven't washed it since.

I went to see Goblin play their Dawn of The Dead score at Union Chapel. It was great.

[outlaw118]

My second time at Union Chapel, 1st time was Devin doing "Ghost" and then this one. Splendid venue, unless you wish to buy refreshments. Then it's HIDEOUSLY expensive.

A musical Legend, and a fat bloke, at The Borderline. Top geezer.

[dugong]

I missed the CCB piece unfortunately.

I R SENDING COPY

[Ratdat]

I R SENDING COPY

 

U R HERO

[Cavcraft]

Went for a bike ride and thought I'd just follow the river back. It's not hard following a BFO water course back to my home city, I mean, it can't be, can it? 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, yes it can. I ended up following the wrong river and got lost.

[mat_the_cat]

/\ I managed to get lost following an estuary once, resulting in much piss-taking. In my defence, we couldn't follow it along the water line all the way due to the terrain, but as soon as I lost sight of the water that was it!

[Bobthebeard]

 

I hope you didn't follow our local river back to its source... If so you would have ended up in a sewer in Nelson.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I went up to see the stock car and banger racing at Buxton today. Do you know what, it was flipping brilliant. I loved it, a proper good days entertainment. Obv the deafening racket and pungent smells of the cars whanging past right in front of your nose is pretty gripping, as is trying to somehow watch the entire oval all at once so you dont miss any carnage. But also the general vibe of the place was just great, all manner of kids mums dads and grannys all milling round, kids running amok shouting stuff like "MUM MUM MY CARS JUST GONE ON ITS SIDE LOOK! COME ON 126" and everyone having a great time with picnics, deck chars and all that. I had a tray of chips and curry sauce cooked in a converted shipping container, bloody delicious, then I had a can of lukewarm beer from a bar made out of another shipping container. The only downside was there was one lad, perhaps in his late teens and I think handicapped, running round with some balloons. Nowt wrong with that of course, but his tracky bottoms covered 30% max of his arse, meaning that on the many occasions when he dropped the baloons and had to pick them up, anyone stood nearby got a DIRECT HIGH INTENSITY BEAM from his full moon which was a bit disconcerting. i think a few mums went home with mild trauma from seeing that at close quarters.

 

In terms of car smashage, there was nowt that I felt like shedding a tear over - just any amount of old Honda Civics, a Nissan Sunny ZX coupe, a BMW 316 compact and a Rover R8 estate that went on its roof. Oh and during one of the races, one of the cars whanged off into the middle and to everyones surprise ploughed straight into a Hilux 4x4 that was part of the 'support' machinery for the race. Unlucky!!! To be fair I was amazed no marshals got squashed during that incident.

[DS20]

I like my dishwasher. That is all

[Bren]

Got in from work just before midnight.

 

House to myself - a can and a couple of jack daniels before bed.

 

Listening to music on youtube - dance remixes of crockett's theme from miami vice.

 

Fab.

[Jon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLBmCtOoUU

[Cavcraft]

I like my dishwasher. That is all

 

 

+1. Mine cooks a pretty good meal, too.

[HillmanImp]

3rd paragraph:

 

http://www.breathecast.com/articles/michael-schumacher-condition-latest-news-update-slow-but-steady-progress-19505/

 

I am quite self sufficient in that area myself.

 

*EDITED as somehow I had put in a link to this thread instead of the link to the article as I am a doofus.

[dave21478]

I caught this on the dashcam. It seems to have struck about 50 meters from my house. The neighbours reckon it made stuff jump off shelves in their house.

 

 

Thunder and lightning has been booming all afternoon and earlier we had a rainstorm the like of which I have never seen in my life - it was like some kind of Hollywood disaster movie.

I guess thats another enforced afternoon off work then.

[Asimo]

Getting out of the Insight, a little guy with a Cardiff accent:

 

"nice cars those Citroens, not seen one for years"

 

me - "it's a Honda"

 

"yeah, I likes the way them Citroens kneel down for yer, amazing, compressed air it is, is it"

 

And he wanders off...........