What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[STUNO]

 The senior manager laid out some pads for the CBT service. Oh how we laughed, and laughed. 

 

Am I missing something about what you do for a living ?

[Bobthebeard]

Am I missing something about what you do for a living ?

Wondered about that myself, but laughed politely anyway!

[HillmanImp]

Nothing like your leaders fucking up

 

I fucked up my Visa leader yesterday if that counts?

[vulgalour]

Got the Princess summed up perfectly tonight.

 

 

I'LL GET IT

[purplebargeken]

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, not the other thing that CBT stands for. Fake 'prescription' pads for prescribing CBT only some bell end had okayed 'perscription' instead. The senior manager was actually gutted which made the laughing even more satisfying. 

[STUNO]

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, not the other thing that CBT stands for. Fake 'prescription' pads for prescribing CBT only some bell end had okayed 'perscription' instead. The senior manager was actually gutted which made the laughing even more satisfying. 

 

 

OH Silly me . But I do think the mis-spelling getting through is brilliant, remember , not even the printers proof-reader could spell.

OH Silly me . But they don't use those useless type people anymore.

[richardmorris]

OH Silly me . But I do think the mis-spelling getting through is brilliant, remember , not even the printers proof-reader could spell.

OH Silly me . But they don't use those useless type people anymore.

 

 

Printers don't tend to proof read things themselves anymore -- they put the onus back on you to check it's what you want and then give them the ok.

[Louise2cv]

Just having a quick look through OH's facebook (I'm nosy, and he has more friends than me WAH).

I thought you guys would *love* this little exchange:

it is a robin ?
20 mins · Like · 1

close,its a reliant kitten van like Del boy`s
19 mins · Like

ask its sitting in the tree thought it might be a robin lol
17 mins · Like · 1

some ppl call them a robin reliant kitten so i suppose you are correct lol.

 

 

 

Obviously it is a Rialto that they are talking about.

 

Also:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162039/Theyre-parking-wrong-tree-Villagers-shock-Reliant-Robin-perched-precariously-branches-15ft-ground.html

 

 

 

This is where the pic came from. (I think the DM originally reported on the Robin Reliant, but were contacted by enough pedants/geeks to at least correct the order of incorrect car name).

 

Happy Wednesday.

[Craig the Princess]

Mrs the Princess cannot open this post until tomorrow (if she is reading this).

 

 

I have been to the bodyshop today to pick up two Metro front wings for the Metro Mayfair, they look awsome. They are Mrs the Princess' birthday present tomorrow so I just need to find somewhere indoors safe to hide two freshly painted wings.

 

 

Before with rusty Oporto wings

 

 

As now with slightly less rusty blue wings.

 

I'm very excited.

 

[mat_the_cat]

Allow me a moment to fully consider the kind of reaction I would get if I purchased car body panels (freshly painted or otherwise) as a birthday present.

[320touring]

Autoshitists have been most supportive of my blog-thanks for all the help.

 

I've even joined twitter,despite it being the only thing I agree with Cameron on-"too many tweets makes a twat"

 

 

that, and the fact that the mg zt-t with lpg and eml on I found seems to have drawn out the estate fetishists on here

Cheers!

[320touring]

Allow me a moment to fully consider the kind of reaction I would get if I purchased car body panels (freshly painted or otherwise) as a birthday present.

The christmas after she got the mk1 golf cab, the burd received 500 quids worth of parts for it as her present.

 

To date, she's fitted about half of them-self taught with my supervision. The back end is complete-now its oil pumps etc..

 

She enjoys it but shifts can get in the way. Must crack the whip.

[xtriple]

I just got asked out! By a woman! What is the world coming to when a decrepit old insane cripple can't hobble about minding his own business without women asking them out?

 

No, she didn't have a white stick and a labrador (got a spanial) or a carer before any of you gits suggest such a thing....

 

I made a joke of it and turned her down though as I am just not in the mood to go out with another woman.

 

Oh, and she's got an Audi... enough reason to turn her down I felt!

[Skizzer]

How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Someday they may be scarce. 

 

(Claude Rains in Casablanca)

[DVee8]

 

This made me smile

[chaseracer]

(Of beetroot, a while back...)

 

Wor lass grates it and raw carrot up and puts it in salads. It's much nicer than all the green leafy things that go in too.

 

She makes a damn fine bacon sarnie too 

[chaseracer]

Quality I think it would be hilarious* if someone with a 70s vintage motor had the gash mag and put it on their passenger seat at car shows, that would get the bearded bunch hot under the collar when they spot it

 

"Trigger to the beige courtesy phone..."

 

 

[chaseracer]

And in other news: I got published!  Cheers, Dugong!

 

 

[EssDeeWon]

Following the problems with Santander over the last week or so I complained officially yesterday, anyway I got the funds returned again by COB yesterday so thats good...

 

Then today I get a phone call from someone on the complaints team "Hi Mr Customer we are very sorry about whats happened would you like 45 quid paid into your account as an apology from us?"

 

Err yeah sure, just an apology would of done but I'll take the 45 sovs anyway 

[Caffiend]

... I'll take the 45 sovs anyway 

Caveat um, whatever the Latin for customer is. Check there's no conditions attached. After right royally fucking me over, Santander offered me 75 quid compensation provided that I signed a form promising that I wouldn't report them to the Financial Ombudsman for right royally fucking me over. Bear in mind that at this point I'm in 3 months arrears on my mortgage* and unemployed. I was SO pissed off with them that I told them where they could stick their derisory £75 as I'd like to keep my options open, thx. Following that conversation I had no further problems with said fuckery until I got a job and had to repay the lot instantly, or pay £25 a month for the additional pleasure** of them sending me a letter every month to remind me about my mortgage arrears until I'd paid them back. Fucking bastards. (I'm now with HSBC. They're fucking bastards as well, just ones that haven't managed to really piss me off yet.)

 

*I wished to consult with Santander about An Arrangement following 2009 redundancy. Apparently, I wasn't supposed to press the button for "having difficulty paying my mortgage" until *after* I hadn't been able to pay it, rather than before ... so much for trying to be responsible. Lost in system, blah blah blah, several months of increasingly shouty - on my part - phone calls being passed from pillar to post trying to Get Something Done.

[ruffgeezer]

The late 70s must have been the time for hiding tit mags, I found a decent stash when repairing the floorboards in my house, complete with muffs like Doyle's head.

[dave21478]

When I stripped out the brown and orange formica kitchen in the house my sister had bought, I found a load of 70's jazz mags under one of the kitchen units. They were properly ropey Readers Wives and 40+ kind of things. Crotches like roadkill badger.

[Pillock]

Do you lot not have scanners or something?

[wuvvum]

I went for a walk today along a local footpath that I'd not really explored before (it was actually a railway line before Beeching fucked everything up). Bit overgrown in places, but quiet and quite pleasant, with loads of blackberries to nom. Then after a couple of miles I came across a field full of llamas.  I had no idea there were llamas in Norfolk.

[richardmorris]

There are Llamas in the field next to the hotel I regularly stay in at the foot of Helvellyn at Thirlmere. Makes a change from sheep!

[purplebargeken]

Doyle's head was a muff.

[beko1987]

However Mrs Imp drives a manual and never changes gear, instead screaming along the road at 6,000 rpm in 2nd for 3/4 of a mile until she thinks its a good time to change up to 3rd. I am currently trying to convince her to get an Auto as I suspect she will be considerably better off with one one. She has driven the Jaguar okay.

 

Like I have always said, an auto is better 95% of the time but when you get that bendy country road, its got to be a manual.

This is why my grandparents need an auto, even an auto version of the horrible i20 they have now. Never though I'd feel sorry for a 60 plate washing machine but my heart went out for the poor thing when I got a lift with grandad one day.

 

I always thought the xm would be bearable in manual, especially for the first 8 and llast 8 miles of my commute. The amount of times I shouted at it to change down. And whilst it did kick down and fucking go when asked (which was rare as I could watch a tenner go in one trip, and I refuse to pay through the nose to commute) the ZX is just better, from keeping the revs below 1.5k for mingebaggery, or going all the way up to 6k when a decent song comes on the 10 minute takeover, or IIpit Dream Theaters In the Name of God on just before chinnor...

 

Can also go the other way, Amy's in 5th at anything above 25, often forgetting to change down for corners, inclines etc, as you all know the sodding thing gums up constantly...

[bub2006]

My wife is exactly the same beko. She was always taught to get in a higher gear as soon as possible. Only changes down when the car starts juddering. Even on the bypass if we come up behind a slow car she will indicate and pull out in top at 55/60 and pin throttle to accelerate. I get a bollocking if i leave car in third around town or drop a gear or two to overtake. She would be better with an auto but the omega 2.2 we borrowed and the merc e200 we owned where so woefully underpowered with an auto box it put her off them.

[dollywobbler]

As this is the grin thread, I shall add balance by pointing out that my wife is quite capable of using a gearbox. I knew it was love when she performed a perfect double-declutch into first gear during her first ever drive of the 2CV. What a woman.

[TagoraSX]