What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[drum]

I feel compelled to correct the bad maths on this thread.

 

1 British gallon = 4.55 litres

$2 = £1.33

 

Jammy sods are paying 34p per litre

[bub2006]

I know how many litres are in a gallon,was just a bit unsure on the current exchange rate! Still very cheap

[MarvinsMom]

i remember me dad complaining bitterly when petrol went over £2 a gallon...

[beko1987]

ALL VOXHALLS ARE EYESORES

 

I thought this looked familiar

 

 

Lucky bastard gets a free pot of wax!

[Inspector Morose]

Prominent AS member has an off.

He's okay.

[MarvinsMom]

charlie brooker on tonights telly have had a montage for twatgear, it summed the program up perfectly. bloody rubbish.

[155V6]

My ex posting this picture from about 1993 of me on Facebook,both of the Cortinas were hers 

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

Mercy!

[Richard]

This picture appeared on a bike forum thread about transporting bikes...

 

[quicksilver]

I've been laid low with the flu (which is definitely not a grin) but my flu-addled brain did provide a moment of unexpected genius when in the midst of my slumber it made a very surprising connection and came up with a car called the Ferrari Dido. It sounded quite pleasant the first time I heard it but gradually got more and more bland until it just blended into the background noise and eventually faded away completely. No idea what it looked like, seemingly quite attractive but a bit generic and nondescript with no really distinctive features if it's anything like its namesake I guess.

[320touring]

It is friday,and nearly friday afternoon

[EssDeeWon]

And mine too. Trying to find metro parts are nigh on impossible and mini specialists seem to have a scene tax

 

I hate Mini's, all driven by people who drive around waving at each other because they are sooo 'Quirky'

 

Please find a really nice one with FSH and long MOT then break it for your rare Metro, then stick the remainder of the Mini on Ebay stating the engine and box have been removed to save a Metro, highlighting the fact it was a low mileage one owner example with FSH.

[bub2006]

I like that idea! Trouble is the price of minis cancel out that idea

[dave21478]

Dont do that - When I chopped up a perfectly rust-free mini shell to use as a panels and floor donor when rebuilding the van I had, the mini forum I posted the thread on went completely ape-shit. 

 

Most single-marque forums tend to be a bit quick with the pitchforks and flaming torches but mini ones seem even worse than normal!

[bub2006]

I'd love to see that. They don't care when they are trashing good solid metros for the engine though!

[M'coli]

We're back on the beige! Thanks Dave.

[Bucketeer]

[mat_the_cat]

I found a tenner in Sainsburys. I picked it up and handed it in, the lady on customer services looked at me like I was crazy.

 

When I was about 5 or 6 I found a pound coin in Marks and Spencers (I'd wandered off from my family, clearly bored) and handed it in. The lady said that if no-one claimed it after 4 weeks, I could keep it. And with great excitement I went back there a month later to find that (unsurprisingly) nobody had stepped forward and I was rich!

[steve_earwig]

When I was a kid I found a credit card tucked down the side of the centre console of an Alpine (I think) my dad had just bought and tasked me with cleaning out. I took it to the bank indicated and they gave me a new pound note as a reward, the first time I'd seen one of the smaller notes so that probably dates that ( Wiki says February 1978, so I'd have been 12)

[Luckythirteen]

I found a newish Iphone and a purse quite near each other, outside a McD's last year. I went back in to hand them over, and the guy behind the counter looked bewildered!

After the manager came, he struggled to find the right book to take my name and address.

I assume they were claimed, cos I didn't get free money/phone. I wouldn't buy an Iphone (again) but I'd take a free one...

[beko1987]

An old lady dropped a tenner in the queue in front of me earlier in Clintons. I picked it up, gave it to Eva and told her to give it back to the old lady.

 

She nearly cried with joy when she was tapped on the leg by a 2 year old and asked if she'd dropped this money. She turned to me, I confirmed she had and she was very thankful.

 

Teach them young! I thanked Eva by driving the long way home and twatting it through every puddle I found at speed so it covered the windscreen. Was fun

[andy18s]

Found out the Disco has a heated front screen this morning,and has (sort of) working aircon !

Needs a re-gas I think but it's definately blowing colder than ambient temperature

JUst got the cruise control to look at now and it will be a full house as it gets prepped for it's mot

[Rover414]

Another shot of the freshly cleaned car this time:

 

 

I realise I didn't give a lot away about it in the last post, excitement took over a bit. It's done 92,000 miles but had a factory recall brand new engine at around 65,000 miles and has had loads of money spent on it by its previous owner. Solid in all the usual rot spots and everything works, it only really needs a few bits and pieces sorting for it to be almost perfect but as it stands is well usable at the moment.

[hairnet]

watching motorway patrol on pick (waiting for final score)

 

someone crashes off nz motorway into a small ditch at side

 

as the traffic is going poast - a cockfluffer obv not watching what theyre doing crashes 75 ft from the first one into the same ditch

 

they called an ambulance and it was an ldv

 

2nd cockfluffer got fined 200 for not being in proper control lol

[Timewaster]

Reminds me of the story told by my local recovery man.

One icy winter morning he was called to pull a car out of a drainage ditch. Not uncommon in these parts.

When he arrived he was surprised to see a rival local firm there already.

He knew the guy who said "are you here to get a Honda?"

"Yes that's right"

"Well could you hurry up so I can get the Renault that's underneath it!"

Amazing no one was hurt after both cars had slid into the same ditch one on top of the other.

[dave21478]

I found a blackberry (phone, not fruit) in the street a while back and took it to the local cop shop. They refused to take it and directed me to the lost property section of the cop mega-shop in a city 45 minutes drive away. well fuck that. So I took it to the Orange shop (phone, not fruit again) as it was an Orange branded phone. They couldnt have been less interested and told me to throw it in the bin. I insisted and the dude looked up the sim number, told me the owner had been issued a replacement and that if I insisted in handing it in he would just bin it, so I took it home. I found a charger that would fit so fired it up, entered the wrong PIN code 10 times after increasingly dire warnings and it finally did a factory re-set an formatted its memory card. 

Free phone!

And then I found my fat fingers had trouble with its teeny wee buttons so it got relegated to the drawer full of broken or unwanted Gadgets, batteries and junk in the kitchen.

[Pillock]

Blackberries are odd in that even with a factory reset, if it's linked to a corporate account it'll immediately start getting emails.

 

My mate bought one years ago from eBay, fired it up and loads of emails came down, most of them relating to a blackberry that had been stolen... Insurance claims, emailing the IT department etc. Quickly handed over to cops and the seller grassed up.

[RoadworkUK]

Suddenly remembered how much I enjoy drawing. Apart from doodling with a biro when I'm on the phone at work, I never give myself any time for it these days.

 

 

While watching telly tonight. Just pencil, biro and marker, and I'm a bit cross that all my nice Chartpak markers have dried out since I left uni. Never mind.

 

I've just rekindled an old passion and it makes me feel all warm inside.

[Luckythirteen]

Cool. I quit drawing when I failed higher art. In fact I gave away a load of stuff like Posca and Letraset markers, and half squished paint tubes. The recipient was delighted...

[RoadworkUK]

Cool. I quit drawing when I failed higher art. In fact I gave away a load of stuff like Posca and Letraset markers, and half squished paint tubes. The recipient was delighted...

 

I'll bet! It's so much fun. You start with a blank sheet and have absolutely no idea what you're going to end up with.

 

I started this next one with a view towards some kind of retro-futurist off-road nonsense, and ended up with something between a moon buggy and a playful puppy. A lunar rover, if you will.

 

Sorry about this. Didn't mean to make the place look like The Gallery.