What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Parky]

Drivers electric window has been very slow lately.

 

"It's yer motor mate, gonna cost ya"

 

"Nah, it's the regulator, with trims off and fiddlin' abaht it's gonna be a couple a hundred"

 

So using shiters logic of "if it's already fubar'd I can't make it worse" I sprayed a bit of grease along the window channels and bingo, smooth as. I had a feeling it was friction between the rubber and the glass creating the problem and looks like I was right. Total cost? 30 seconds and about 5p's worth of spray grease.

 

Verdict - Happy

[vulgalour]

I will try that on the Rover, sometimes the driver's window is v  e  r  y  s   l   o    w   until the glass gets wet.

[chaseracer]

Voyages sans frontières...

 

http://www.creativeboom.com/photography/abandoned-checkpoints-photographer-documents-europes-forgotten-borders/

 

[MarvinsMom]

a slurp or two of red wine (dunno what sort, its red, its wine and there is alcohol in it)

 

roast beef diner with onion gravy.

 

that is all

[phil_lihp]

This video has everything 1980s you could possibly want - lorries, cars, coaches, buses, trains and even a low-flying jet plane.  Also some timeless clothing choices.

 

https://youtu.be/G6HzjRHBQwo

[fordperv]

Self fixing cars, the passenger's window had stopped working on mrs fp's car, i hadn't had chance to look at it, went out in it earlier the thing started working again, no doubt being an old Ford it's an earth fault

[AlabamaShrimp]

This video has everything 1980s you could possibly want - lorries, cars, coaches, buses, trains and even a low-flying jet plane. Also some timeless clothing choices.

 

https://youtu.be/G6HzjRHBQwo

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[MarvinsMom]

the little nellie autogyro off "you only live twice"

 

watching this with the rest of the dinnertine wine.

[M'coli]

Drivers electric window has been very slow lately.

 

"It's yer motor mate, gonna cost ya"

 

"Nah, it's the regulator, with trims off and fiddlin' abaht it's gonna be a couple a hundred"

 

So using shiters logic of "if it's already fubar'd I can't make it worse" I sprayed a bit of grease along the window channels and bingo, smooth as. I had a feeling it was friction between the rubber and the glass creating the problem and looks like I was right. Total cost? 30 seconds and about 5p's worth of spray grease.

 

Verdict - Happy

 

I will try that on the Rover, sometimes the driver's window is v  e  r  y  s   l   o    w   until the glass gets wet.

I've used Rain-X on both inside and outside of electric windows in the past, it helps make the glass slippery.

[cort16]

I'm in! That half a tin of wd40 I sprayed through the top of the door two weeks ago must have released something.

 

image by cort16, on Flickr

[myglaren]

Made bolognaise sauce* and did a Keith Floyd, opened a bottle of red, splash in the sauce, splash in the glass.

Have consumed most of what remained in the bottle - Kumala 'Winemakers Release' Ruby Cabernet Merlot Pinotage*.

Excellent.  Been in the cupboard for yonks and haven't a clue where from or if it was cheap or expensive, not that that matters much.

 

Cut my thumb with the first slice of the onion, just sharpened the knife and it was like a bloody razor.

 

Washed and ironed the dining room curtains and discovered blood on the walls and ironed curtains, despite elastoplasts.

 

 

*not a bloody clue, was a nice bottle

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Good work!!!; I love doing a 'Keith Floyd' of a weekday evening.

[richardmorris]

Quite. If it's not good enough to drink, it's not good enough to cook with. Obviously you do need to check the quality first. Hic.

I'm doing pheasant with streaky bacon this evening with a dash of red wine in the gravy. Naturally it would be terrible just to open a bottle for the gravy...

[richardmorris]

Got shown that picture the other day and didn't see the bottom*

What bottom?

[fordperv]

When you glimpse at the picture the guys head and his right shoulder look like a bottom

[purplebargeken]

Oh god, you're right. 

[richardmorris]

When you glimpse at the picture the guys head and his right shoulder look like a bottom

If you say so, still can't see it. But then I was no good at those 1990s swirly pictures either.

[captain_70s]

As many people know I have been a proud supporter of 1970s fashion and styling motifs for a good few years. Here is a blurry picture of me dressed up for my works night out for an example of how I usually look like the protagonist of some early 70s slapstick comedy series:

 

 

That is the classic example of a man who'd fall down a flight of stairs while carrying a custard pie and land face first in the cleavage of girl he was trying to woo, much to the delight of a studio audience.

 

However sadly my glorious shoulder length barnet had become a dry, uncontrollable mess and the length meant that my thinning hair up top was starting to become glaringly obvious due to the weight pulling it down. The sideburns were also attracting moans from management at work because I'm not allowed facial hair due to food industry reasons.

So the hair and sideburns had to go, many people were excited about this turn of events. Rumours of my concession to modernity spread, people pondered whether I'd get a stylish 'do, perhaps even use hair gel or something.

 

Naturally I couldn't be doing with any of that and have instead slipped back another decade in time, leaving me living circa 1963.

 

 

So, don't suppose anybody wants to swap a Dolomite 1850HL for a Standard Vanguard Phase III?

[michael1703]

From peado to joe90, good transformation

[michael1703]

Bollocks, I've got the joe90 theme stuck in my head now

[Cavcraft]

I got as pissed as you like last night and still came home with £30 in my jet rocket. Happy days. Except the bit where the DJ took exception to me being in his booth thing pretending to mix it up and telling people to 'have it'

[STUNO]

He's like a bloody hoarder, got rid of most but the sideburns still exist and there's some storage round the bottom half for later, just in case

[oldcars]

Was driving on the A1 yesterday and i saw a 2CV and a mint looking J plate BX Estate in a gunmetal colour. Wonder if a Citroen event was on.

[oldcars]

I got as pissed as you like last night and still came home with £30 in my jet rocket. Happy days. Except the bit where the DJ took exception to me being in his booth thing pretending to mix it up and telling people to 'have it'

"please keep your drinks off the dancefloor" 

[Bren]

At least you weren't dancing around your handbag....

[dugong]

Find rare parts for Amazon on eBay at a sensible price.

 

Buy item. Item lost in Parcel Force system. Seller gives gibberish code which doesn't work.

Complain to seller and he responds with the same code I told him didn't work previously.

 

Brilliant. Been after a pair of rear hinged vent quarter lights for years; a pair finally turn up at a sane price and they're probably getting kicked to pieces in the back of an Iveco Daily somewhere.

And with that, they turned up!

No wonder I couldn't track the sodding things - the bloke had added too many digits to the reference number!

 

They're about a week late, but I'm relieved. The chances of me finding another set of rear vent quarterlights at sane money were few and far between.

 

In other news, I have embraced the automotive VAG and bought a Seat Leon SE. I'm still getting used to it, but hard ride aside, I think we'll get on fine. My C4 will live on, too - a garage owning friend of the family has bought it as a run around. It'll be getting a reconditioned engine and gearbox next month.

 

Why the Leon? It was one of the very few cars I could insure on my dire postcode loading. Also, 2015 was something of a crash-fest for me; dear Christ did I get reamed for it.

[dollywobbler]

HAPPY DUGONG? WAT NU TRICKERY IS THIS?

 

Seriously, chuffed for you. Lost items can be insanely frustrating, especially if it's rare treats like that. 

[dugong]

HAPPY DUGONG? WAT NU TRICKERY IS THIS?

 

Seriously, chuffed for you. Lost items can be insanely frustrating, especially if it's rare treats like that.

I think it's the medication. Enjoy it while it lasts, bassa.

[Urko]

The only thing I've ever had go missing was a rare set of NOS window switches for my AMC. I clean forgot until months later, by which time it was too late to do anything about it. That was 7 years ago and I've never seen another set.

[Pillock]

Nothing wrong with a Leon, handsome cars with good kit on the SE. And a million Golfs being broken for spares if you need bits. I really enjoyed mine apart from the massive failures due to buying a badly repaired lemon.

 

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