What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[DeeJay]

 amys just gone to get a kebab and their still pumping roads out

As long as it's not the drains after the kebab.

[Cavcraft]

I remember a child who could tell the car from the tyre marks

 

Perhaps there is a spot for Cav to smell a slightly used corsa whilst blindfolded 

 

When I worked at the auctions I reckon I could identify probably 80% of cars from their interior smells no problem. It's actually one reason I still get that cold water paralysis feeling if I sit in a 1990s Ford diesel. Urgh.

 

 

Anyhow, what made me laugh was thinking that Gumtree had turned a corner as have meet some brilliant people via the website recently, but was bought back to earth with a bump by someone asking me to drive to Preston (it's 'halfway' apparently) so they could buy my £100 mobility scooter. They 'definitely want it' which makes all the difference of course. Not.

[320touring]

Followed a beige m reg Transit camper for the last couple of miles into work this morning..

 

even better was the "dun-tentin" message at the bottom of their rear numberplate.

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I was so into You Bet! as a child, I constructed a crude cardboard replica YES/NO desk for playing along at home. Such childish pursuits are long behind me now. 

 

In unrelated matter, I have built a land drone. 

 

 

On the streaming app's lowest quality video setting there's almost no lag so it's quite controllable. The only issues are the slightly feeble power of the car means it gets stuck quite easily.

[castros_bro]

Management may have an issue retain staff in an organisation which "prides" itself on their management/staff relations.   ****Edited****  email from earlier today from someone on an invite to their own leaving do.  Noted that another leaver has had their email account deleted before the announcement of them leaving. 

 

 

 

 

While I am touched by this gesture, I will not be attending.

It would be more than a little hypocritical of me to do so.
I am leaving because of the way I have been undervalued and treated while here, in no small measure due to emails such as yesterday’s from a boss I have never met nor been introduced to.

As a ‘lower grade’ member of the *********** team, I was never introduced as a member of staff/part of the ‘team’ in the first place (sadly, this applies to all ************ staff of grades not considered worthy of note….), so a farewell gathering seems a little out of place, in my opinion.

I do wish ****** the very best, but I do not feel it is right, given the circumstances, for me to be there.
I thank all those colleagues who have bucked the management style deemed appropriate at  **************, and treated me as a valued team member. I also wish them the very best.

 

 

[Stanky]

I was so into You Bet! as a child, I constructed a crude cardboard replica YES/NO desk for playing along at home. Such childish pursuits are long behind me now. 

 

In unrelated matter, I have built a land drone. 

 

landdrone.jpg

 

On the streaming app's lowest quality video setting there's almost no lag so it's quite controllable. The only issues are the slightly feeble power of the car means it gets stuck quite easily.

 

Fit a 1275cc A+ from a later metro m8

[Sheefag]

Re Post 35211

 

That Poppy field has been sown with Linseed which should give a stunning blue contrast to the existing red, in the next week or two.

 

If you're local and want to take a look, it's across the road from the layby on the A505 between Imperial War Museum Duxford and Royston. 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir//52.0506072,0.0168356/@52.0503261,0.0156372,14.72z

[The Moog]

Good constructive morning at work, afternoon off, bag full of beer, empty house and a game of kickball on at 2pm.

bliss

[RoadworkUK]

What was Michael Jackson's favourite Maserati?

 

Shamal.

 

sorry

[vulgalour]

One of these following Mike and I when we were running errands yesterday.  In fact, it was so like this one that it might have been the same van, even down to the wheel trims.  Mike took a picture with his phone but I've not seen it yet.

 

[Wilko220]

One of these following Mike and I when we were running errands yesterday. In fact, it was so like this one that it might have been the same van, even down to the wheel trims. Mike took a picture with his phone but I've not seen it yet.

 

From the eBay tat thread - get on it Vulgalour!

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1989-BEDFORD-ASTRA-9-DIESEL-DY-/122014460630?hash=item1c68a0ead6:g:cUAAAOSwLpdW9uhu

[Noel Tidybeard]

Why don't you suggest that they do a Laguna II based show?  Ten Shiters set off from Lands End in a DCi automatic Laguna. In the unlikely event that any of them reaches John O'Groats (or indeed Bristol) without a FTP, they win a million pound cash prize.

 

THE TOP GEAR AUTOSHITE CHALLENGE

three "idiots" start at the same place with three different lagoonas the winner is the one who drives to copart first

[Wilko220]

I had a chuckle at this in the paper this morning...

[fordperv]

But where was it hidden??

[Tamworthbay]

Tamworth according to our local paper.

[inconsistant]

Tumworth.

[doobietoo]

Buying an OE front valance for £75, the only other one I have seen for sale was £450......

 

and Bremainers chatting to themselves in the EU thread.....

[AlabamaShrimp]

Got a letter today asking can I judge the light commercial category at Wakefield car show thing in a couple weeks

 

No idea what I'm looking for, will just pick the one with the big wheels.

[fred]

Just won a Vanguards Rover set RC1003 for 8 quid

Ok not perfect , windscreen wipers are a bit amiss, and there are two little chips on the P4 , but hell 8 quid ,I happy

 

 

[fordperv]

I have not long got in from dropping mrs fp off at Manchester airport so she can go out to her mum in Spain.

[michael1703]

Had a DVSA site visit to my shithole of a workshop, I had a tip off but I was actually pre empting it and had kept it just about legal but with the tip off I painted some more lines on the floor and moved some junk and after 2 and a half hours the man from the ministry was happy.

 

Minor marks for not calibrating my tyre tread depth gauge was all

[Tamworthbay]

Tumworth.

? You have obviously never been, it's never a U, it's pronounced Tammuth, Wilnecote is pronounced Win-cut etc etc, but the Tamworth dialect is closer to Derby than Brum and if you hear a brummie accent that's down to the post war overspill or someone who can't navigate the spaghetti junction. Confused me a bit when I first moved here twenty years back

[Richard]

I think the tum bit was referring to the slightly corpulent gentleman in the picture.

[Coprolalia]

Staying with parents for the weekend.

 

Today will mainly be spent rebuilding and testing the racing mower.

 

Tomorrow will be West's Wood Fair which seems a very Autoshite event. Lumberjacking, chainsaw work, axe throwing, archery, steam powered saws.

Any Autoshiters going? I know there's a few on the Sussex/ Hampshire border.

 

Almost makes up for the OMGHGF debacle!

[Asimo]

[myglaren]

Got the oil and filters changed, only six months and 6,000 miles past the time I was going to do it.

[Ghosty]

Parked next to this is in Sainsbury's:

 

 

Phone number edited out obvs.

[twosmoke300]

Jesus Wept !

[Tamworthbay]

I think the tum bit was referring to the slightly corpulent gentleman in the picture.

ah, makes sense, I didnt get it because I didn't see the tum, was it hidden behind the outrageously fat bastard?

[Pillock]