What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[andy18s]

 

 

[Richard]

I keep thinking nobody should fall for that sort of shit but then I remember how dumb and/or greedy some people are and its no fucking wonder.

Last time I was in UK I stopped for pez at a motorway service station and two of the most irish sounding guys in a scruffy white Transit were cruising the carpark  "oi mate dyer wanna buy a telly?"

 

Really? 2 irish guys flogging flatscreens out the back of a Transit in a carpark off the M6? talk about stereotypes.

 

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But it's so expensive to buy a telly from Argos or a supermarket.

[cobblers]

Yeah two chaps in a fucking transit tipper came up to me in the carpark of "Job Lots" trying to sell me a 4k HD  40" telly and a snap on impact gun for a couple of hundred quid for the pair.

The people buying the stuff think it's knocked off and they're getting a cheap hooky bargain, then get all upset when they're the people getting robbed rather than whoever lost the telly in the first place.

Like they say, you can't con an honest man. 

[scaryoldcortina]

I knew a guy once whose favorite scam was to collect boxes from expensive electrical goods (bin day in a posh district) and then sell people two bricks in a nice box by pretending they were stolen and only wanting £50 for a £400 video recorder. He wasn't even paying for the bricks, they came out of the back yard wall of his council flat!

[Cavcraft]

The post got removed in the end, it didn't end well (the piss taking wasn't appreciated) and seemingly because her fella wasn't from the area he thought he could trust people.

 

I wonder if he fancies a fully restored MG under a tarpaulin for £500?

[anonymous user]

I had to fix a door handle today........

 

In a bedroom containing the bride to be, and all the bridesmaids, getting ready to put their dresses on whilst not wearing very much at all.........

 

I'm still grinning now.....................................

You are Robin Askwith AICMFP

[Negative Creep]

 

 

6000th post! Time well spent.

[Negative Creep]

What? Still the same rank? WAIST OV TIME M8 SHUDN'T OF BOVVERED

[Cavcraft]

Testing

[155V6]

I got a call from Father_155 yesterday,the clutch had gone on his Fiat Seicento & could I come out & tow him home.Today,another call,his other Seicento is running rough,he thinks he needs to get something else.

 The grin?,I'm taking him to look at a Renault 25 later today 

[155V6]

I got £25 for the remains of my 2nd donor C70 today,I thought I was going to struggle to get rid of it or even have to pay someone to collect it 

[Tamworthbay]

Just got back off holiday. Had a okish pizza from the Bridge grill in Looe, on the menu was a 'sexy burger', I just had to ask why, apparently if you add donner meat to a burger it becomes sexy, fook knows why but made me laugh.

[Pillock]

We had a guy bring back a fridge freezer to one of our stores, big double door thing. He'd bought it earlier, "girlfriend has gone mental, never even got it in the house, can I have a refund?"

 

Just about to get his refund, cashier decides to check it even though it's sealed, and there's basically a few breezeblocks and some chopped up doors to fill the box out.

 

Man legs it.

[fordperv]

Just got back off holiday. Had a okish pizza from the Bridge grill in Looe, on the menu was a 'sexy burger', I just had to ask why, apparently if you add donner meat to a burger it becomes sexy, fook knows why but made me laugh.

Never heard it called a sexy burger, but add donner meat and an egg to a cheeseburger and you've got a fantastic munch

[Cavcraft]

280 miles on the nail, two stops about half a tank of juice...

 

[doobietoo]

Maxed out on the autobahn

[xtriple]

My new telly box makes me grin. Watched loads of good films - Deadpool (hilarious) Gods of Egypt (good) Imitation game (excellent) Lucy (good) The Intern (really good) Minions (good) and loads more. £50 well spent... for once!

[Tamworthbay]

My new telly box makes me grin. Watched loads of good films - Deadpool (hilarious) Gods of Egypt (good) Imitation game (excellent) Lucy (good) The Intern (really good) Minions (good) and loads more. £50 well spent... for once!

which one is it?

[Skizzer]

Picked the Jag up this morning, all fixed and MOTd.  It goes and stops like it's supposed to now.

 

I'm a bit* happy with it.

 

 

Proper post with pics tomorrow.  Didn't want to stop driving and get out to take photos today.

[DVee8]

309 miles to half a tank of diesel.

[HillmanImp]

Shit the bed. I had left Imp Jr playing with my phone and when I got it back, for a split second I thought he had bought a brown Morris Ital estate.

 

 

By the time I noticed the "sorry, you missed out on this item" I had already broken into a panic sweat.

[skattrd]

I think you need to give Imp Jnr the phone more often if he's bidding on Itals ... Just keep him away from the psp ads.

[purplebargeken]

FINALLY! Managed to actually purchase a repair panel for the Amazons rear O/S wheel arch.

[Richard]

I saw an Amazon with L plates today. I wonder if learning in a classic is becoming a "thing".

[richardmorris]

On the way back from Chichester over the South Downs in the 2cv, I was being held up by a White RR sport with Chavy plate. D11100001 or something. Anyway, I overtook it (downhill obviously), but she was really dawdling and somewhat surprised to be passed by a fully loaded roofless 2cv with boot box at 60mph with classic fm blasting William W-altons 633 squadron out of the speakers.

[anonymous user]

Shit the bed. I had left Imp Jr playing with my phone and when I got it back, for a split second I thought he had bought a brown Morris Ital estate.

 

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By the time I noticed the "sorry, you missed out on this item" I had already broken into a panic sweat.

It's not so long ago Ted my spaniel nudged me when I was looking at a Jensen Interceptor on ebay, fortunately there is an "are you really, really, sure" bit after the buy it now is pressed so I did not have to apologise or grovel to the vendor. Actually, as I hate to cause offence or inconvenience, I would probably have felt obliged to go through with it.

[HillmanImp]

Actually, as I hate to cause offence or inconvenience, I would probably have felt obliged to go through with it.

If and when this actually happens I will too. Lets hope he doesn't accidentally buy a Vauxhall.

[mat_the_cat]

I went to a French car boot sale today, and bought this for €4:

 

 

A plastic case, containing a foldable barbecue...

 

 

What appealed was the quality of it - none of your modern pressed steel rubbish here but a proper cast iron base, with a stainless steel wind break and side plates which are a couple of mm thick!

 

 

The hinge screws are drilled and tapped into the metalwork, and the whole thing feels bombproof. Much more satisfying than those £2.99 disposable ones. Ideal for the van, and I'll probably be bringing it down to SF for testing purposes

 

EDIT - they also had brand new 205 driveshafts for €15, and ones for a Renault 9/11 for €20. I did wonder about stocking up to sell on eBay!

[Cavcraft]

Sounds ridiculous, but I smoked an E-Type Jag off at the lights before in my 405. He'd been on my bumper for a bit flashing his lights at me so like last night I just slowed down a bit. Came to two lanes at the lights, he shot into the right hand one and to be fair mustn't have expected me to even bother trying to have him off, and by the time he twigged it went back to one lane and he was behind me. The inner dickhead in me found it highly amusing.

[robinmasters]

Evidently the Lada Samara was based on plans smuggled out via East Berlin in 1982.