What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[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...........

[hairnet]

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...........

 

village idiot?

[tooSavvy]

village idiot?

 

... if you translate that into TheWelsh the words start T..S..

 

My mam was Welsh

 

TS

[beko1987]

We're gathering ideas for our yearly departmental 'fun' day (that we fund every year with 'extra margin' made from our work.

 

I suggested banger racing, my idea hasn't been as shot down in flames as I thought, even my suggestion of using one of the recently fired sales guys 320d that's been in the carpark for a few weeks wasn't immediately poo-pooed...

 

I imagine we'll end up going to Thorpe park or something. I hate rollercoasters, I'll drink on the bus there and hopefully not remember anything...

[drum]

It's an old land rover for gods sake

[fordperv]

Should have told him it's the land rover auto rust proofing system

[Tayne]

Barrett might be happy about the price of this.

 

http://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/peugeot/404/1966/251960?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Classic%20Driver%20Daily%201552014&utm_content=Classic%20Driver%20Daily%201552014%20CID_c8eac4ba3fbe95ddd16911f7ee3bfafd&utm_source=newsletter

 

Not sure about the dish rack on the centre console though...

[vulgalour]

Fitting custom black vinyl trims in the boot of a car with strong contact adhesive.  I completely stopped worrying about... well... everything.

 

Remember, don't do drugs kids, just retrim cars.  It's fun AND productive!

[TimothyClaypole]

TV Licencing.  The "Detector Van" was at my house this evening. 

 

Come in madam, excuse the mess I'm fixing a bandsaw in the kitchen...

 

There's the tv, help yourself, there's the bare wires to the aerial I cut off outside.

 

Call again anytime. 

 

 

 

(I give it 3 months and they'll start with the red letters again...)

 

I watched a bit of tv while dog sitting on Saturday at my parent's house, I'd seen half of the stuff I watched even though I've had no licence for 6 months, waste of money.   

[Pillock]

It was my understanding you need a licence to own equipment capable of receiving TV signals, not to actually watch broadcasts. So a TV without aerial still needs one, unless it has a documented removal of the TV tuner parts inside.

[TimothyClaypole]

Nope:

 

"Many wrongly believe that you'll need to be covered by a TV licence if you have the ability to watch "live TV", this is even if you don't watch it.

This is an urban myth: just because you have the ability to watch "live TV" doesn't neccessarily mean you need a licence. You'll only need a licence if you actually watch "live TV".

So, if you've got an aerial on your roof/satellite dish/TV with built-in Freeview etc, but you don't actually watch "live TV", you don't need a licence".

 

 

Hence why the BBC would like you to need to register with your licence number or something to watch IPlayer. 

[Hertz]

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.

 

I did this the other night. Fantastic. I was trying to find some late 80's/early 90's dance music with classical Wagner (ride of the valkyries ) in it but gave up after a lengthy search. Sad I know. Anyone remember or know it as I would like to re live my yoof ragging my mum's Renault 11 TXE whilst listening to these tunes.

[minolman]

It wasn't Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round, was it..? circa mid 1980s?