meshking Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Getting ready for an mot on my Lotus, had an inadvertent 1996 gathering on my drive. Range rover looks menacing from drivers seat.... Also the illogical worry when I pulled into the mot bay to see the normal tester is on holidays. Currently the test has the bonnet up.... Eek. Sent from my SGP621 using Tapatalk FakeConcern, KruJoe, Jim Bergerac and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_lihp Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 My manky Hiace now has a year's MOT following a poke with the welding stick, many new brake pipes, a new towbar power socket and a rear light that doesn't have a hole in it. This is a good thing. I haven't seen the bill yet so the grin might fade a little when I pick it up tomorrow afternoon but for now I'm pleased. myglaren, RobT, Heidel_Kakao and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FakeConcern Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 I was buying some Beck's Blue at a Tesco self checkout and it needed store approval! myglaren, spike60, The Moog and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Yeah, alcohol free beer does for some reason. I don't get that.It's subject to ID in Wetherspoons as well but they don't actually bother in there. FakeConcern 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_70s Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 FakeConcern, KruJoe, somewhatfoolish and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 ^ until they think again and send you a bill for twice that Banger Kenny, FakeConcern, oldcars and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_70s Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 ^ until they think again and send you a bill for twice that I reckon I'll be OK due to being unemployed for the start of this year. Will get royally bummed next tax year instead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Driving along in the piss pouring rain on the M1 in the T25, in the dark. Steady away at 60 reclined in the comfy seats with the armrests deployed, Knobheads in x5s blasting past at 90mph through standing water etc.I stuck an old tape in the stereo and this came on: I'd found in a box of my old crap at my mums today, I think I got the tape off some scary older boy in the mid 90s when I was about 12,I've heard that track a load of times since but the way it was mixed in took me back 20 odd years, to when I was listening to it on an akai stereo I got out of a skip behind a shop. It sounds best on the cracklemasters in the van. In the house on my yuppy stereo it's not how I remember it. CGSB, tinribs, Cleon-Fonte and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moog Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Getting some replacement windows fitted today. Not started well when they asked me which ones they were supposed to be doing. Took a phone call outside and came back to find they had taken the living room window out - which wasn't to be replaced! Very laurel and hardy. Minor swearing/blaming each other and it was put back in. They dug around the van and found the fag packet the quote was written on so full steam ahead chodweaver, mercedade, privatewire and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 This that I saw on another forum https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/others-others-andere-barkas-wohnmobil-gasoline-green-98d1a3ba-8bd2-4857-a96e-ca9bcf559a3a Sheefag 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 The yard of a Peugeot/Citroen specialist in Williamsburg, Ontario (Canada): Look carefully... Ghosty, somewhatfoolish, Banger Kenny and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 I spotted these unusual suspects by the side of the road - does anyone want me to go back for anything ? somewhatfoolish and KruJoe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 ^ Is that an Austin Rover trim at right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 montego I think. also an early polo and a sierra chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo3002 Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 mk2 polo on the left..poverty sierra further along? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Breadvan Polo > ??? > 13" Ford, sure I've seen it on a couple of things > generic > phase 2 Clio > early Montego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 I'll have a closer look when I get home beko1987, NorfolkNWeigh, KruJoe and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 I know there's a YouTube thread somewhere, but I thought a video with rallying Volvo 240s, Saab 96 &99s and 164 deserved a to be here.Historic rallying with Quattros an Integrales makes me feel old too.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PVy2aC8_aKQ&ebc=ANyPxKqtjEDlql_IfPq5vtmYQ9qupaZF7Vm-JvmLK8T0l1tF5psBJtc89zO32GczO6dV65s_kgXIKl95OVJuN9YagUJf9HqEaw Vantman, Richard and chodweaver 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Breadvan Polo > ??? > 13" Ford, sure I've seen it on a couple of things > generic > phase 2 Clio > early Montego2nd from left has no markings at all - must be a poundland special, 4th from left has a citroen badge on it. if anyone has a want or need for any of these, do let me know. they will find a home as garage wall decorations for the time being 320touring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Someones just asked me via ebay if I would post a used LPG kit to south Africa, Hmmm let me think KruJoe, Cavcraft and Banger Kenny 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 As I've crap handwriting I wanted to get a typewriter to fill out my time sheets for work. Put a local one on ebay watch as listed at only £5. Went to my mother in laws today and this was on the side Bought for Mrs Shrimp when she was 18 to learn to type on. A good few years later and apparently it was still knocking about, mine now New ribbon for it ordered on £3.50 from Amazon. 11001010, FakeConcern, purplebargeken and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Do you have a beard or own braces or plaid shirts? You may have latent hipster syndrome. purplebargeken, cobblers, Brodders and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 My wife and I both had one of those each, before we were married.Hers was much better than mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 My wife and I both had one of those each, before we were married.Hers was much better than mine.You both had beards? blakey79, purplebargeken, Pillock and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Do you have a beard or own braces or plaid shirts? You may have latent hipster syndrome.Sorry to disappoint but no I do have hand writing that bad that I was thinking of changing my signature to an X to make it easier to read somewhatfoolish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Alabamashrimp earlier today The Moog, AlabamaShrimp, Bobthebeard and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Proof God has a sense of humour FIFY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Alabamashrimp earlier today hqdefault.jpgWell I do love it when a plan comes together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr A Lawrence Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Are we all rich tea biscuit eaters?? Banger Kenny, 11001010, Sigmund Fraud and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr A Lawrence Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 *** MAN RULES *** 1. OPENING JARS - She's struggling. You take it from her hands, open it effortlessly and pretend she loosened it for you. She didn't. Jars are men's work.2. CALLING SOMEONE 'SON' - Especially policeman but even saying it to kids makes you the man.3. DOING A PROPER SLIDE TACKLE - Beckham free kicks - camp. A Stuart Pearce tackle is the pinnacle of the game, simultaneously winning the ball and crippling the man. Magic.4. SHARPENING A PENCIL WITH A STANLEY KNIFE - Blunt, is it? Hand it here love. No, I don't need a sharpener, I've got a knife thanks!5. GOING TO THE TIP - A manly act which combines driving, lifting and - as you thrillingly drop your rubbish into another huge pile of other rubbish - noisy destruction.6. DRINKING UP - Specifically, rising from the table, slinging your coat on and downing two thirds of a pint in one fluid movement. Then nodding towards the door, saying, "Let's go" and striding out while everyone else struggles to catch up with you. You're hard.7. HAVING A THIN BIT OF WOOD - in the shed, solely to stir paint with.8. HAVING A SCAR - Ideally it'll be a facial knife wound, but even an iron burn on the wrist is good. "Ooh, did it hurt". "Nah".9. HAVING A HANGOVER AND THICK STUBBLE - When birds have been partying they just whinge. You on the other hand have physical evidence of your hardness, sprouting from your face. "Big night?" Grr, what does it look like.10. USING POWER TOOLS - Slightly more powerful than you need or can safely handle. Pneumatic drilling while smoking a fag? Superb.11. ARRIVING IN A PUB LATE - And everyone cheers you. It doesn't mean you're popular, it just means your mates are drunk However, the rest of the pub doesn't know that.12. NOT WATCHING YOUR WEIGHT - Fat is a feminist issue, apparently. Brilliant. Pass the pork scratchings.13. CARVING THE ROAST - And saying "are you a leg or breast man?" to the blokes and "do you want stuffing?" to the women. Congratulations, you are now your dad.14. WINKING - Turns women to putty. Doesn't it?15. TEST SWINGING HAMMERS - Ideally, B&Q should have little changing rooms with mirrors so you could see how rugged you look with any DIY item. Until then, we'll make do with the aisles.16. TAKING OUT 200 POUNDS FROM A CASHPOINT - Okay, so its for paying the plumber later but with that much cash you feel like a mafia don. The only thing better is peeling notes off the roll later.17. PHONE CALLS THAT LAST LESS THAN A MINUTE - Unlike birds, we get straight to the point. "Alright? Yep. Drink? Red lion? George, it is then. Seven. See ya."18. PARALLEL PARKING - Bosh, straight in. First time. Can Schumacher do that? No, because his cars got no reverse gear which, technically, makes you the worlds best driver.19. HAVING EARNED THAT PINT - Since the dawn of time, men have toiled in the fields in blistering heat. Why? So, when it's over we can stand there in silence, surveying our work with one hand resting on the beer gut while the other nurses a foaming jug of ale. Aaaah.20. HAVING SOMETHING PROPERLY WRONG WITH YOU - Especially if you didn't make a fuss. "Why was I off, nothing much, just a brain haemorrhage".21. KNOWING WHICH SCREWDRIVER IS WHICH - "A Phillips? For that? Are you mad, bint?"22. TAKING A NEWSPAPER INTO THE LOO - A visual code that says that's right, I'm going in there for a huge, long, man-sized poo. Brodders, AlabamaShrimp, Essex V6 and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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