What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Bren]

I think the Edinburgh branch is grim even by Ikea standards. The restaurant in there was the dirtiest eatery I have ever seen, and I've been to Blackpool.

People travel far and wide to visit Ikea.

 

They buy meatballs.

 

I cannot understand the attraction in buying furniture that looks like it has'nt been finished.

[Timewaster]

The last time I was in ikea I very selflessly and generously helped a particularly fit bird and her mum load up a Trolley with a flat pack Wardrobe.

 

Good deed done, fit bird turns to her mum and in the gobbiest Essex accent yells "Ahma gonna get this in me fakin car?"

 

despite loitering in the car park later I didn't spot them loading up. I'd love to think it was a Ka or a Bini.

I struggled to get one in the Galaxy.

[Inspector Morose]

Driving in to Norwich this morning to see a man about a garage, I was passed by an old biddy in an immaculate blue locally-registered F-plate Hyundai Stellar.  Then on the way home I passed a middle-aged woman driving a cream-coloured Austin 3 litre.  Not bad for a Friday morning in the arse end of September.

Ah, but you missed the multi coloured '86 Metrobus though!

[eddyramrod]

On a whim, I'm looking at car chase clips on YouTube.  I've literally just been watching one that I think must be Russian, with the baddies getting away in a grey pre-facelift Sierra estate, and the cops chasing after them (and keeping up!) in...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...a red Samara!

[catsinthewelder]

I just got a clout off Ms C because she thought I'd arranged this deliberately,

[inconsistant]

ORL SOFA BEDS R SHIT

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

ORL SOFA BEDS R SHIT

 

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ALL VAUXHALLS ARE SIT

[Jim Bergerac]

That looks grim. I'd think I'd rather kip in a Vauxhall than on that.

[cobblers]

it looks like what you'd sit on in Jonathan James while trying on a pair of £4 trainers.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I'm looking for a new* work car and someone suggested a 7series, they're no more than 5's usually and obviously a bit more room, only downside is the Russian Gangster image. Ridiculous stereotype,I thought......

 

This was the first one I saw on Autotrader

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201409187500876/sort/atcustom/radius/1500/quicksearch/true/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew/make/bmw/usedcars/page/1/model/7_series/postcode/mk109au/maximum-age/up_to_6_years_old?logcode=p

 

Mmm, perhaps I should get a C6.

[fordperv]

Mrs fordperv has purchased a front crossmember for her rs turbo, after searching she has got a new genuine one for the price of a Taiwanese pattern one, the grin is omgnoRStax at all shock

[plasticvandan]

my 88 Polo "comet" that i got from this very forum,passed its mot yesterday after 12 years off the road,and today i just went and got its last ever tax disc (with 2 working days to spare before they dissapear) my goal was to get it on the road and get one of the last discs before they were withdrawn,happy days! once ive got it home near my digital photograph machine i will do a thread as i think there is much you will enjoy

[cort16]

I wouldn't touch one of those 7 series they're built with the ambition of the Germans (over engineered ) and have the electric system of a 2002 renault Laguna .

The a8 is much nicer and you can get the supa sweet 4.2 v8

[plasticvandan]

in other news,im really enjoying this forum of late,seems to be lot of activity,well* crafted posts and general lovelyness

[chaseracer]

I think it was chipboard or something similar. Whatever it was made from it wasn't book supporting standard.

 

Billy**: not what it used to be.

 

© Autoshite 2014

 

 

 

** the shite bookcase of (limited) choice, not Chester's finest serial chod purveyor...

[DVee8]

I'll just leave this here lol

 

 

[DS20]

It is a fine afternoon here in Lincolnshire, which means that the Saab is in use, top down an' all.  This makes me happy  

[daveb47]

Much happier today,on diet thursday,then no food at all from 7 am friday,Then nasty picolax enema at 2 pm,only clear liquid till having a colonospcopy this morning.

Had my first food fo over 24 hours few minutes ago when i had beans on toast.

Everything is totally clear so thats a huge worry off my mind.

[vulgalour]

I bet they were the best beans on toast ever too, had to do the same thing myself not so long ago and got given the "we need to do this because there's a risk of cancer" bit... scary times until the all clear.

[purplebargeken]

Picolax enema............... that'll be a huge amount out of your bowls too.

 

Picolax is like the enema version of the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima. I could tell many a tale about Picolax, oh yes.

[fordperv]

i took a picture of this at the bodyshop to boost vulgs mojo, its in for a respray but looks fair straight

 

 

 

 

i had a good look around the princess at my mates shop today, it is owned by an old fella who is ex raf, the other day i didnt notice that it was an auto and the main beam flash and indicators are on a device attatched to the steering wheel

 

 

 

this has got to be all kinds of winning 

[chaseracer]

Went to Stafford earlier.  This does not make me grin as I despise Stafford with a passion, having worked there for more than six years attempting to ameliorate the worst efforts of the venal cretins running the county council.  No, I grin because I went in the 205, which always brings a smile to my otherwise haggard visage   

 

Not only but also: at various points, I was following a K-reg Golf cabrio in that lovely dark blue, a white pov-spec mk2 Astra estate and a proper rumbly P5B.  And a bunch of likely lads in a 206 gave a big thumbs-up to the 205.

 

Marvellous 

[vulgalour]

That's the second Reynard Princess with hand controls I've seen, though the other one was very different and allowed you to drive it without using the pedals, which is pretty amazing.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Had quite a nice trip to town, which is a first for a Saturday, saw a girl with a very nice bottom and then had a most excellent drive home seeing a silver mk3 granada on way

[Pillock]

http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/27/vauxhall-warns-owners-of-steering-problem-in-3000-models-4883957/

 

My "All Vauxhalls are shit m8" and my "All new cars are crap" glands are literally popping.

 

On the plus side, with three thousand new Corsas not being driven, the roads just got about three thousand times safer.

[Ghosty]

I wonder how many of these Corsas are fleet models for BSM etc? That could be interesting if one borked on someone's drving test.

[skattrd]

I wonder how many of these Corsas are fleet models for BSM etc? That could be interesting if one borked on someone's drving test.

 

I reckon a good chunk will be hire cars.

[Tayne]

Free Booze and dinner.

 

For Charidy!

[Cavcraft]

Erm, excuse me: I just got a lift home from the pub(l)ic ale house in my son's 2014 Corsa. Pick the bones out of that one, MUTHAFLIPPERS.

[Tayne]

That Voxhal curtailed your drinking.

 

Ergo, all Voxhals are shit.

M8.