What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Freedom is making me grin. Goodbye 9-5. I'm now my own boss and pleasingly, work offers are already being hurled in my direction.

 

Excellent! Might be goodbye 9-5 but in my experience its been Hello 8-8. Its worth it though!

Yeah, that is the big downside - as I think Pog discovered. Work boom! Still, the only management I can complain about it myself!

[eddyramrod]

Sod off with your talk of sun! It's been raining for days here!

Work stops here before 11am, it's just too hot to do any more... Sorry...

[M'coli]

Sitting reading this in the pub in Applecross while considering another pint, logging off, going outside and enjoying the sunshine.

How did you get on with the Pass of The Cattle?

Well, considering that I'm 18 stone and 5'6"(i.e. clinically obese) and was riding this:

which has no granny ring - 42x28 is the lowest gear it's got! - I did pretty well. I did ride up the "easy" side, the side from Applecross itself, stopped a few times to wipe the midgie repellant and sweat from my eyes/let cars past, but got to about 450m above sea level before I ran out of gears.

This is the route on Google maps, http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&sourc ... 5&t=k&z=15

 

The van on the other hand, had no problem coming up the hard side, we just took it steady at about 20mph for the most and dropped into 1st gear at the hairpins!

[dollywobbler]

Sod off with your talk of sun! It's been raining for days here!

Work stops here before 11am, it's just too hot to do any more... Sorry...

That's alright. Can't stand the heat! If I find Switzerland too hot, even when high up in the mountains, I think I'll get on ok in Wales!

[Station]

+101 on that. The Specials and The Selector are the providers of some orsumz croozin trax.

+1 on going into some random back street pub in Liverpool and hearing pure Ska + Twin/Tone stuff.

[pompei]

This made me howl

 

 

Apparently the 57 year old male Madonna "impersonator" is suing Simon Cowell!

[Tayne]

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[Rusty Pelican]

Did a tiny car show today at henstridge runway , thats irrelavent really , there was a few old planes flying about , then a model F15 C/W working jet engine which was ace ,

THEN the last still flying Lancaster bomber flew over four times , the sound was brilliant , made all my hair stand on end

No bloody camera on me as i didnt know this was happening

What a bonus

[CIH]

I see that Lancaster from time to time as my work is on the flightpath between a nearby RAF base and London. We get to see all the formations flying by for special events. Kinda surreal randomly seeing WW2 aircraft cruise over head every few weeks or so.

 

For the queen's birthday we saw the Eurofighters, Tornados etc fly over head in formation. Pretty awesome stuff.

[ashmicro]

Eurofighters

Typhoons, old boy.

[Vin]

The Lancaster did a low circle of our village this afternoon. I wasn't here but Papa Vin saw it. He siad it was here for the anniversary flypast for the old airbase up on Elsham Wolds.

 

I did see it briefly as I was on the A46 north of Nottingham (I've been to Auto Italia at Gaydon today) it was probably on it's way back to base at Coningsby. I also saw what looked like a Dakota as I approached Lincoln.

[Louise2cv]

My 'rents have come to stay this weekend, and his car club mates are doing a camping weekend at Betws-y-Coed, we used to do the camp every year so I thought I'd take Ma and Pa they could have a drink and I could show off the Allegro.

 

First thing I heard:

 

"it's even a crap colour!"

 

A compliment for an Autoshite type, surely?

[Cavcraft]

Drinking.xx

[trigger]

Me too, Sleepy now though. YAWN

[Mr Lobster]

Flicking through the TV channels, came across Renault TV showing a nice film of an R14 following a hot air baloon across French countryside. Nice!

[Station]

A Harrier Jump Jet did a fly-past (and a few hovers) of New Brighton a few years ago as part of the Wirral Show and the sound was so unbelievably immense. The most shocking thing was the time it took from actually seeing it and the sound reaching us, and it was still loud!

 

Part of me was wishing it would take out a few JJB sports wear wearing twats as part of the show.

[Cavcraft]

Shanksy's pony again.

 

Just back from a 3.5 hour walk (must have done about nine miles or so) with little Miss CM which involved a nature trail type thing, a ferry across the river and an al fresco chip dinner in the Roman gardens.

Sometimes you can forget how nice an area you live in.

[Mike D]

I am happy today as a random drive yesterday turned up a K10 Micra, i've been after one to rob the suspension off for the Pao, and I've just got back from buying it for £100. It's a 24K from new 2 owner job, 1.2 5 speed.

 

That might make the Pao a bit more bearable!

[Albert Ross]

Why not LOWER the Micra with the PAO stuff, paint it matt black and besticker it, and Ebay it..... ££££££££!!!!!!!!

[Mike D]

Why not LOWER the Micra with the PAO stuff, paint it matt black and besticker it, and Ebay it..... ££££££££!!!!!!!!

haha, don't joke! It's getting the Pao suspension, fail sheet says it wants 2 brake pipes and a 6" bit of welding to the rear of one sill, may well be worth doing! Or i could convert the Pao to manual with its engine....

[Albert Ross]

MOT it with the standard suspension, after the pipes and welding, then do the swap, otherwise you may open up another can of worms......

[eddyramrod]

How old is that Micra? For the work it wants, I say keep it as a coming-classic, find another one for the bits you need for the Pao. But that might just be me... I've always said, look after the 20 year old cars so that in 20 years there will be 40 year old cars still around to admire.

[outlaw118]

The latest offering from kunt and the gang...

http://www.youtube.com/user/kuntandthegang?blend=1&ob=4

[warren t claim]

The latest offering from kunt and the gang...

http://www.youtube.com/user/kuntandthegang?blend=1&ob=4

ROFFLE!!!!!

[Minimad5]

Warren and Taynes Avatars have made me grin stupidly

 

Ooh and there is a new "Miss Minimad5"

 

More Distractions from the Rebel

[warren t claim]

Warren and Taynes Avatars have made me grin stupidly

 

Ooh and there is a new "Miss Minimad5"

 

More Distractions from the Rebel

Thank you!

 

What's she like then? Any chance of some tasteful nudes draped over the fezza bonnet, Whitesnake style?

[Minimad5]

Thank you!

 

What's she like then? Any chance of some tasteful nudes draped over the fezza bonnet, Whitesnake style?

Haha , Sorry Mark no can do .

Maybe you could hire out your Merc' like a Pimp Wagon .... then maybe we could make an Amateur "shite" film .

 

Moving SWIFTLY on ....

[Tayne]

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[Mike D]

How old is that Micra? For the work it wants, I say keep it as a coming-classic, find another one for the bits you need for the Pao. But that might just be me... I've always said, look after the 20 year old cars so that in 20 years there will be 40 year old cars still around to admire.

Its a nasty old 5 door micra! Obv one day it may be a classic, but today it's going to line my pockets making the Pao saleable! The Pao is older, rarer, more desireable and worth more. Yeah, that might be the anti-autoshite, but its saved me a trip to Merseyside and I'll mke money rather than spending it. Soz Micra, Ur a Donor!

[Guest]

Hey Mike, why don't you swap all the Pao stuff into the Micra and make a 1.0 auto one? Would be a real "weapon".