What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

It is strange how it works though as I opened a brand new jar of Beetroot about a week ago, it's use by date is something like 2019 yet some how it's gone moldy.

 

Never seen pickles do that, in fact thought with the vinegar they couldn't. Will just take it back and get another

[oldcars]

Did a bit of time travelling earlier

 

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Only went out of date in 2007

 

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Still OK in the can

 

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Even better in the bowl and tasted normal.

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Morning, are you still alive?

[Jon]

I'm not one for adhering to all these silly food dates but admit from experience that a one-year-out-of-date Frey Bentos chicken pie is an exception to the rule. I had to take two days off work to recover!

[Richard]

Yes, but the same could be said of a fresh Fray Bentos pie.

[wuvvum]

I had fun last night harrassing a young lad in a mildly barried 306 along one of my favourite local roads.  Still can't get over how well this bloody Hyundai van goes round corners.  I reckon I can carry more speed through bends than I could in the Scudo (although admittedly that was slightly hampered by shit Chinese tyres).

[AlabamaShrimp]

Morning, are you still alive?

I can confirm I am officially alive!

[fordperv]

Mrs fp's grandad does pig roasts in his spare time, today im giving him a hand (he's well in to his 80s now), we get there to set up and I had to go and get the pig from the butchers that the organiser of the event had arranged so I went with the Chap to do the donkey work, this lovely volvo is what I was met with

 

 

Chucked the pig in the back

 

 

Took it back and set up, mrs fp's grandad built this machine himself from stainless he's a great fabricator who loves making things, the man himself is in the picture

 

 

It's great spending time with someone like him, we've had some fantastic conversations

[Sloth in a bowl]

The Puma, that which I paid £350 for 11 months ago, has just passed it's MoT with 0 advisories.

 

I love Cape Hill garages, they are so used to seeing the worst of Birmingham's cars that a slightly rusty and unloved Ford can be described as in good condition.

[Mr A Lawrence]

What makes me grin???

 

Getting a car out of hibernation after 8 months and going for a drive in it and to be reminded of why you bought it in the first place.

[nacho man]

 

Tommy is my work colleague. He wasn't impressed.

 

 

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[Station]

Found a tin of heinz curried beans in my old house (best before 2000!). The tin had swelled into a near perfect sphere.

I dared myself to open it and i had a perfect line of curried beans up my forehead and up on the ceiling behind me, and was rightfully billed by the landlord when i moved out because it kept absorbing into the paint. It exploded like an undiscovered ww2 hand grenade.

[beko1987]

Seems a cousin of mine was made an mbe today. At least someone in our family has made something of themselves!

[Wilko220]

Seems a cousin of mine was made an mbe today. At least someone in our family has made something of themselves!

Ant or Dec?

[vulgalour]

Out in the Applause with Chompy and spotting a very clean Mk3 Cavalier, a lovely gold SD1 and a Lancia Beta Spider going the other way.  Typically camera was too slow so no pictures but the Lancia had a lovely old car smell as it went past which probably means it was running way too rich and about to implode.

[beko1987]

Ant or Dec?

Thankfully neither!

[DSdriver]

We were out in the DS today when the heavens opened and I had to put the wipers into hyperdrive. The rubber started breaking away on the passenger side* so we popped into Halfrauds for some new. As we drove up a guy was just walking out the store with a new set of blades and as I walked in there was another chap at the till paying for some. "Where are they then?" I asked the cashier who new exactly what I was after, and just grinned and pointed.

I made good use of their little gazebo thing outside to fit the new one without getting too soaked - you can't get a whole DS bonnet under the shelter though.

 

*I usually buy one a year and put it on the drivers side, moving the year old one to the passenger side.

[purplebargeken]

Seeing a slightly shonkey 2 door Toledo at the Triumph Day at the Ace Cafe today. It had steelies on that were quite wide and he (young lad) had spinners as centre caps

[hairnet]

the football result that just happened

[jakebullet]

Bought a thermal label printer. I'm rather surprised, but managed to get it working on the old windows 2000 laptop I use as a print server, so now it's effectively a wireless thermal label printer. Just in case I want to send a parcel while I'm having a shit like.

 

I've got it 'cos for once royal mail are doing something useful. Starting 'summer 2016' you get free delivery confirmation if you use postal labels with 2D barcodes on. So no more thieving ebay bastards saying it didn't turn up m8. For even more win if you have an oba account royal mail will supply thermal labels free.

 

TL DR:

I'm excited about printers n post.

[trigger]

I found this house today which has 3 Prairies up the drive! The owner was reversing up the drive in the gold one as i went pass.

 

[anonymous user]

As long as he doesn't reverse too far, or he'd have a little Prairie on the house

[fred]

I found this house today which has 3 Prairies up the drive! The owner was reversing up the drive in the gold one as i went pass.

 

Would that be The  House on three Prairies then

[trigger]

Boom tish!

[greengartside]

SWMBO's Hyundai flew through the M.o.T this morning, only advisory being a worn tyre on the rear.

 

We have decided that a 7-seater is the way forwards, so it is now up for sale. Way too new to be Autoshite but someone who may want a large-ish MPV might find it useful?

[PhilA]

Decided the lawnmower's exhaust was too loud. Went and bought some lengths of cast iron pipe and parts and built a resonance muffler. Stuffed the large pipe with steel wool. It's nearly silent now and still more efficient than a pipe blocked with glass fibre fluff.

 

 

Proper shite thing it is, neighbor threw it away because it didn't run. Leaves behind it a proper A-series plume of blue smoke. Cuts the grass okay too

 

 

--Phil

[mjrose]

Lego Fiat 126!

 

https://imgur.com/gallery/DDOc5gp

[michael1703]

Decided the lawnmower's exhaust was too loud. Went and bought some lengths of cast iron pipe and parts and built a resonance muffler. Stuffed the large pipe with steel wool. It's nearly silent now and still more efficient than a pipe blocked with glass fibre fluff.Proper shite thing it is, neighbor threw it away because it didn't run. Leaves behind it a proper A-series plume of blue smoke. Cuts the grass okay too--Phil

Don't ever use Brillo pads thinking it will have the same effect as wire wool as it will start spewing molten pink soap out when up to temperature

[Cavcraft]

SWMBO's Hyundai flew through the M.o.T this morning, only advisory being a worn tyre on the rear.

 

We have decided that a 7-seater is the way forwards, so it is now up for sale. Way too new to be Autoshite but someone who may want a large-ish MPV might find it useful?

 

 

The only way to find out is to advertise it on here!

[Wilko220]

It took me more than three hours to drive home from Yeovil in the 960 yesterday. But despite that, and even though I had nowhere in particular to go, I still had to go out for a little drive in it again this morning, just because it's so brilliant.

[forddeliveryboy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMZflAEgisY