What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[JohnDeere]

Other half gets into car to drive down to London. Two minutes later there's a tap on the door. "There's a flashing red light on the dashboard, does that mean there's a problem?" he says.

 

That's because you haven't started it yet, it's the alarm that's been there for the last six years....

[Pillock]

Then I'm really chuffed for you Mo_Sterling, sounds like you're doing well

We've got a new system at work for claiming expenses, it's all done by smartphone now so you get a taxi or the train, take a photo of the receipt, upload it, tap a few details in about why you were doing what you were doing and the money just plops into your bank about a week later. Pretty good really.

[bub2006]

That is why I love tents, it means you are out and about, in the local pub, walking or doing whatever. With a caravan it's just a lot of sad old people doing exactly what they do at home with a smaller tv. I had a caravan briefly when our nipper was born and was just utterly embarrassed about using it, it felt like one step away from the care home.

 

And I love being in a tent in the rain as long as it's a good one. My fave is a cheap eurohike one I got from millets about twenty five years ago and has done about 100,000 miles on the back of my motorbikes and been reproved more times than I recall. One loop for a peg in the groundsheet has a repair with a big old fabric plaster that is still waterproof after twenty years and amazes me every time I think about it. It's been all round Europe, every corner of the U.K. And in every month of the year. I got a replacement a couple of years ago as it was new and free from a mate but we haven't bonded.

Only time we have stayed in the van when I was young was if it was absolutely hammering it down,board games time! Any other times we was out and about seeing things. My dad hated staying in watching TV.

[Tamworthbay]

Weird thing is I love staying in a static caravan, guess I should just get a list of care homes ready.......

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

[MarvinsMom]

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3579523/That-ll-engine-flooded-Three-cars-worth-total-91-000-swamped-tourists-caught-high-tide.html

[captain_70s]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3579523/That-ll-engine-flooded-Three-cars-worth-total-91-000-swamped-tourists-caught-high-tide.html

 

"Honda 4x4 CR-V - worth up to £32,000"

 

Aye, those '03 CR-Vs are really on the up now, especially the ones full of fucking diamonds.

[robinmasters]

It's twenty to eleven, and I'm sat on the garden, in a t-shirt, drinking beer and watching old Top Gear.

 

[robinmasters]

It's twenty to eleven, and I'm sat on the garden, in a t-shirt, drinking beer and watching old Top Gear.

 

As a secondary grin to this, old Clarkson has really big hair, wears cowboy boots, and tries very, very hard to sound like Quentin Wilson.

[michael1703]

I'm OK for storage. As for using it,I live in Derbyshire and there is lots of fields scattered around for caravan owners to pitch up on. Be nice to say bugger it and clear off for a night

Are you sure you're ok for storage?

 

Text received tonight. Bcan I move the vectra by Monday. I live in a small narrow cul de sac with a double drive. I have a trailer,xantia,moped,2 pushbikes and a fiesta there already and now the vectra has to be moved. Only one word can surmise this predicament. Bollocks.

[bub2006]

Yes. I'm pretty sure I am. I've found a friend who doesn't mind a shonky caravan on the drive. So yes storage is OK.

[bub2006]

Doesn't want any shonky cars though. Go figure that out!

[Lacquer Peel]

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3579523/That-ll-engine-flooded-Three-cars-worth-total-91-000-swamped-tourists-caught-high-tide.html "Honda 4x4 CR-V - worth up to £32,000" Aye, those '03 CR-Vs are really on the up now, especially the ones full of fucking diamonds.

It's a bloody Nissan X Trail!

[dollywobbler]

Three cars? BORING! We do things properly in Wales.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-36243086

[xtriple]

Just had a VERY interesting letter through the post.  I couldn't believe my eyes.... Being paid for something I did years (2013!) ago.... So just checked my bank account and there is a large payment to me there.

 

Fook me! I are rich beyond the dreams of avarice!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, not quite, but better off than I was as the dollop has eaten large amounts of disposable over the last 6 months and I was feeling a tad skint!

[Captain Furious]

I could do with some of that luck, all I ever seem to get are surprise letters from the tax man, informing me he has somehow calculated I've underpaid yet again, despite the fact I am PAYE and have no extra taxable benefits.

[doobietoo]

Some muppet decided today would be a good day to paint the lampposts on the industrial estate I frequent while proporting to earn a living. Why is this a grin? Because today is the day the many cherry trees on the estate have picked to divulge themselves of about 100,000 billion blossom petals so we now have lovely pink lampposts

[fordperv]

The sun is shining and I have had mrs fp's mums corsa c to repair for m.o.t, nice easy work 2 broken front springs, cv boots inner and outer and handbrake low efficiency, even though every bolt I came to was seized, I enjoyed not having a care in the world

[andy18s]

I could do with some of that luck, all I ever seem to get are surprise letters from the tax man, informing me he has somehow calculated I've underpaid yet again, despite the fact I am PAYE and have no extra taxable benefits.

I had a letter from HMRC telling me I owed xxx from last year due to taking a second full time job............that lead to an interesting phone call ............

[Captain Furious]

I never had a problem until I had a company car in 2012, ever since then it seems to be a never ending cycle of you've underpaid, you've overpaid so we'll give you some back, oh now you've underpaid again...I haven't even had the car since 2014.

 

Back end of last year I suddenly got charged about £500 extra tax in November (cheers, great timing) rang them up to ask wtf...and in their defence, after an exceedingly long time on hold, they rectified it and I got refunded in January, great, must be all square now surely, they've tallied it all up and given me a refund...no taxable benefits to confuse matters, just straight basic rate PAYE

 

Letter through in March "we have calculated that you have underpaid by xxx"

 

Give up

[Captain Furious]

Should be in the grumpy thread really, apols..

[jakebullet]

I haz survived national express holiday. Bit of a wibble when I made kinky girl cry for an hour or two. I got put into an anxiety off the scale situation for 2 hours, and told her to leave me alone when she was going on about it afterwards. This of course means that its all over for some women logic reason.  Plus bonus bout of shitting for England all Saturday night.

 

Blists hill museum they took us to was amazeballs. There is serious machine porn there, well worth a visit. It feels like Beamish, but with less gouging and the people staffing it feel to have more interest rather than it being a job.

[Kiltox]

Just been reunited with my intact wallet after clearly leaving it on the roof of my car after filling up with fuel - the person who found it rang my work number from the business cards I keep in there

 

Faith in humanity restored!

[KruJoe]

Samara hoon.

[Tamworthbay]

I got a spare set of wheels for my dolomite for when I am refurbing my set. One has a decent tyre that I will use as a spare, I noticed today it was made in Argentina (known hot bed of tyre technology?) but rather ominously called 'fate', so I wonder if the insurance company would accept 'it was fate' in the event of an accident?

[doobietoo]

Still watching wheeler dealers 3 hours after it started due to short attention span.....keep getting sidetracked by threads on here and forgetting its on....

[trigger]

I shouldn't bother, I've just watched it and its gone even shitter now, it's all American and they gloss over everything, Edd seems to be in a bad mood too, probably sick of Mike chasing for the money over in the USA.

[michael1703]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/awkward-moment-lingerie-tycoon-michelle-mone-picks-up-adorable-vietnamese-child-who-turns-out-to-be-grown-man/ar-BBsLv8R?li=BBoPOOl&ocid=mailsignout#image=4

[oldcars]

Shuma dropped off at the bodyshop. I told my pal it was bad, he got the official hammer out and said, that's not bad, no where near x type levels of rot  Will be fixed next week then off for mot.

I have just had a text from the bodyshop "bucket ready" Cheeky sod 

[Cavcraft]

Can I modernise an old dyanamo front light? Yes, even if it is a bit Heath Robinson.

 

 

 

Tadaaaaaaa

 

 

 

Had to drill a hole in the back of the shell to get to the on/off/different mode switch (will need an Allen key or something to operate that) and an extra one underneath to mount the light unit itself to the shell. It's really a bigger bodge than it looks as had to stuff a rag inside to keep it central and the lens cutting was awful. It works though and should look better when fitted, plus it's only the 'Mk1' version.