What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[cort1977]

This week I realized it was 20 years since I started university and also about the same amount of time since I last drank 20/20, it's rank.   Other popular options at the time included Blastaway (Castaway topped up with half pint of cider), 50p pints at the Ritzy in Newcastle, Sherry, Safeway 'Export' lager and Buckfast for future Volvo drivers.

[Ghosty]

Right, let's try again. Applying to be a postman...

[Richard]

I tried MD once. If I was asked to describe the taste in one word that word would probably be Ronsonol.

[tooSavvy]

Just back from a family weekend in the Lake District during which we climbed Catbells. Not the greatest achievement ever, but with a combined age of 274 from 4 to 73 it wasn't too bad.

My parent's have both said today that they won't be up to climbing it again ( first climbed it with my sister and I in the late 1970's) but I had to try and reign in my eldest niece ( as she kept bounding ahead like a mountain goat. She and I were in the first phalanx as my sister and BIL coped with my parents and 4 yr old niece.

 

I think this is also going to seem like one-up-man ship on the school Homework stakes as she has to write about a walk she did at the weekend!

 

 

Only rare spot was a 1978? R reg Saab estate in seemingly pristine blue on someone's driveway.

 

... I have done that... no claim, I know. However I think (some BBC prog was all over it....) money has been spent properly hewing a path/steps [wheelchair access..??] into the route.

 

When I went up (late 70s) it was a gravelly slippery path + a rock scramble near the top.

 

Is it improved??

 

 

TS

[cms206]

Today I went into work early to help out, anyway, driving up I notice bus is pulling to the right and then hear a grinding noise, have a little look out and this greets me:

 

 

This might seem like a grump but I was sitting there waiting for our on call mechanic to come out, now the usual Transit Connect is not available so I was expecting them to show up in the Land Rover, oh no:

 

 

63 plate bus, 51 plate "breakdown van" ha!

 

Breakdown van you say?

 

 

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[fordperv]

i was washing my mk1 sierra earlier when i heard a group of teenage lads about 15 years old getting all excited, saying look at that black sierra its well nice, it was parked on the front, when they saw the 3 door one shouted to me "is that a cossy mate, your cars are well sick" it made me grin that they actually knew what the old cars were

[richardmorris]

... I have done that... no claim, I know. However I think (some BBC prog was all over it....) money has been spent properly hewing a path/steps [wheelchair access..??] into the route.

 

When I went up (late 70s) it was a gravelly slippery path + a rock scramble near the top.

 

Is it improved??

 

 

TS

No. The new path is very slippery in the wet. Not a wheelchair route as it's more stone steps then flat. We went up the ridge from hawse end which was actually a bit of a scramble as part of the path has been washed away last winter. The route down then follows that new stone path which I don't like all. I can see that parts of the route needed maintaining but to create a slippery stairway seems odd.

 

Photo of the path ( plus relatives)

[Sloth in a bowl]

https://youtu.be/esM41oWNW6Y

[RoadworkUK]

https://youtu.be/esM41oWNW6Y

Bookmarked for future viewing.

Superb. Plus high 800 content ratio.

[rainagain]

Never had a car with a bluetooth car kit thingy. The 75 has a parrot kit fitted but i have never used it before. Set it up Sunday and phone the good lady on the way home. I felt like a photocopier salesman in the mid 2000s. He must have hit his targets as he has the top spec 75. I then went on to phone countless folk because i can.

The bluetooth unit I fitted to Volvo is the first I've ever had as well. I particularly like it when someone texts you and it reads it out, it then gives you the option to reply, you just say your message and it texts them it, it's like living in a sci-fi film!

[gordonbennet]

Shumarialto, you're doing well with an old Parrot ki,t maybe like everything else these days they used to be better, the ones in our lorries can't manage 6 months without pegging out (bloke who comes to us must have his own clock card), and still not a patch on a £20 McDonalds drive-thru type headset.

[oldcars]

Shumarialto, you're doing well with an old Parrot ki,t maybe like everything else these days they used to be better, the ones in our lorries can't manage 6 months without pegging out (bloke who comes to us must have his own clock card), and still not a patch on a £20 McDonalds drive-thru type headset.

Its class, it has an ipod connection thing i found too in the glovebox. Really good bit of kit, see how long it lasts 

[oldcars]

The bluetooth unit I fitted to Volvo is the first I've ever had as well. I particularly like it when someone texts you and it reads it out, it then gives you the option to reply, you just say your message and it texts them it, it's like living in a sci-fi film!

 cool need to see what happens with mine when i get a text.

[Pillock]

Depends on the phone whether it does it or not. Windows phones are the best at this, surprisingly! 

[oldcars]

Depends on the phone whether it does it or not. Windows phones are the best at this, surprisingly! 

Its an android phone, fingers crossed it does. 

[vulgalour]

If we could all just take a moment to appreciate this fine specimen I shot (with my camera) in the wild earlier this month.

 

 

[fordperv]

rovers of this era just keep getting more handsome as each year passes

[oldcars]

Rover mudflaps and dealer plates too. Just needs some correct trims. Lovely.

[Tamworthbay]

Idiot cyclist this morning (who continually weaves in and out of the two lanes of static traffic and the path, and he ignores the red light) decides to do his usual who can play chicken with a car the best and swerves up the inside of a car that is changing lanes, but the car is changing lanes due to lots of cones and a BIG trench, sadly he don't quite fall in but did look a complete dick backing up and having to wait for a space.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

 

This Range Rover Sport hasn't moved for months and neither has whatever is sitting next to it. It's usually dark when I pass and I thought it was a pimped XG30 or Grandeur or something , this morning I pulled into the road and had a closer look.

 

It's only a flippin Maybach ! According to the MOT history it hasn't gone far between tests, scarily it seems it's always got dodgy tyres too -3 tonnes and 180 mph - who needs tread,eh?

The house opposite looks empty, so probably Arabs who just visit for a couple of weeks in July, I might knock on the door and offer £300 for the pair.

[twosmoke300]

rovers of this era just keep getting more rusty and leaky as each year passes

 

Ftfy

[Aston Martin]

Dropped a trailer at the docks, on the way out they wouldn't let me out yet.

 

Why?

 

Because the guy coming in is radioactive.

 

Surely that means you should let me out faster???

 

 

 

Anyway, the wagon comes in it had silver tubes about 12 feet long and at the back a bright yellow ball inside a metal cube. It certainly looked radioactive.

[Aston Martin]

A few things that haven't been mentioned yet.

 

Last week a guy on Chris Evans radio said he owns 2 cars, I'm pretty sure he said he owns a 620ti and a new maserati quattroporte. Which is the worst two car garage I can think of.

 

I passed a freelander towing a focus on the M1, the freelander was billowing out smoke and should have switched places with the focus.

 

... And today driving down the A1 I pass 'Trophy Garage' a dealer specialising in MG/TFs he must have had around 50 of them outside, combined they must be worth at least £10k.

[The Moog]

Winners shop at lidl

 

 

It had what looked to be a cement mixer in the back

[M'coli]

Does that look like a late Maxi2 paint colour to you?  It's setting off some sort of alarm bells or ringing sound to me...

[Mr A Lawrence]

... And today driving down the A1 I pass 'Trophy Garage' a dealer specialising in MG/TFs he must have had around 50 of them outside, combined they must be worth at least £10k.

Have you seen the prices they charge??

 

More like a combined value of at least £150k

[Craig the Princess]

Looks like Reynard metallic, which was introduced in 1974.

[Inspector Morose]

Very relaxed and long distance collection wheeze starting tomorrow.

[scaryoldcortina]

I just found my wedding ring! It's only been missing since the 1990s.

[danthecapriman]

I was working in Bognor today, me and my apprentice were driving down the road and spotted another van stopped on the other side of the road with the driver pissing himself laughing! He started pointing to something on the pavement so we look over and it's a man staggering around wearing a ladies floral pattern summer dress!!

He was a butch older guy too, facial hair, tattoos the lot. I think he was wasted tbh but it was hilarious.