What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Oh, and I accidentally* bought another car.

[andy18s]

Sold the alloy wheels that the Vivaro came on today

Being they were a special order to cope with the weight of the van,and being a particularly odd Pcd of 5x118 meant I could ask,and got a fair bit of wedge for them....

Enough to pay a for full diagnostic check over,and a remap to give a bit more pep

It's totally transformed the van.Made it run sooo much smoother and has made 5th and 6th into usable gears,rather than the Overdrive gears they felt before..

Very happy with it now

[beko1987]

Can't post a pic becuase it's a massive thread but there's a right hoo-hah going on on one of our local selling sites! Someone bought a phone without properly checking it and the screen is slightly broken on one corner (looks like a bubble), and they are demanding a refund! Seller says no and about 45 other people are giving their opinion, most of which is shut up you silly woman, your husband didnt properly inspect it, it's a facebook site, tough shit!

 

I may be stirring it up here and there though

[beko1987]

 

 

 

 

Even the local ethnic phone selling and buying dude commented saying it's a £100 galaxy S5 worth £2/300 in mint condition bar that bubble, he offered her £80 for it!

[beko1987]

I think Autoshite spoils us, when I bought the Xantia from bub, all I was really interested in was it had 4 wheels and moved quite fast because it WAS A CHEAP CAR, yet look how entitled people feel when buying a cheap phone on facebook!

 

 

I'm going for a rolly then the washing up needs doing then I might have calmed down. Their sucking me in, I don't like it!

[hairnet]

Ramada Newport pagnell

 

Nice lady was explaining stuff

 

Last thing she said brekky is from 0630

 

Its 11.75

 

Room is only 37 quid lol

[beko1987]

Damn the original poster deleted it on facebook. Fun over 

[MarvinsMom]

look what this old boy and his friend have been building over the last couple of years......

 

 

the skills that some people possess amaze me. its a real steam engine..... i iz jealous...

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3815645/Grandfather-spends-three-years-building-exact-replica-1870s-steam-engine.html

[robinmasters]

Music: brilliant.

 

[vulgalour]

I want a four door Studebaker Commander.  I'll just add it to The List.

 

It's entirely the fault of TheCorvetteBen over on Youtube: https://youtu.be/tGFiuys0U-I?list=PLc_UqhyZpC_2XUgqEhx2snOwVvnygo12x

 

They're cheap, undesireable, impossible to get most parts for and nobody would know wtf it was in the UK.  It's PERFECT.

 

[Cavcraft]

That Facebook thing is mild compartred to some of the ones I've seen locally. What never fails to amaze me is when it seems everyone who comaplins bought the 94" telly, £70 Ford Focus, £50 phone for their disabled child with learning difficulties.

[beko1987]

we didn't have that one, they just felt wronged that they didn't check the item over fully before parting with cash, and thought it worked like ebay where you can cry and get your money back! it's a shame they deleted their post

[wuvvum]

 

Finally...

[Sheefag]

.....but live in hope

 

 

... and die in Caergwrle.  (It's a North Walian thing)

[Sheefag]

Excellent Grumpy Old Man rant from Cros.

 

 

Cars that made Britain Great, a Programme that makes TV Shit. I watched a succession of know-nothing 'guests' call series Landrovers 'Defenders'. Then the presenter tried to drive an early series 1 and proved to be completely incapable of changing gear. Quentin Wilson claimed that he'd driven his leaf sprung model at 125 mph, and I wish that it was true as that would mean that he'd gone over a cliff and was speaking through a medium.
When they started menstruating over a Triumph Spitfire I couldn't endure any more and was compelled to snip through the tv's mains lead with a pair of scissors.

[Supernaut]

I got creative* in the vinyl editor in Forza Horizon 3.

 

[Richard]

A few weeks ago my wife and her friends went to a wanky restaurant where one of them had a roll served in what appeared to be a cat litter tray.

 

 

As a punishment I've been serving her lunch on things that aren't plates, this is today's offering.

 

[andy18s]

... and die in Caergwrle. (It's a North Walian thing)

Not heard that for a while.....

[andy18s]

I got creative* in the vinyl editor in Forza Horizon 3.

 

Forza Horizon 3 01_10_2016 12_46_07.png

Right, that's it......off to buy it now

[wuvvum]

Bugger me, the Toyota's only gone and passed as well.  Two passes in one day is unprecedented in the wuvvum fleet as far as I can recall.

 

It actually failed on a wiper blade, but they just fitted a new one (charging me the grand sum of £6.59 for the privilege) then passed it.  So, including the Spacy, I now have 12 MOT'd vehicles in the fleet.

 

Also, last night I went to see my mate who I bought the MG off.  I mentioned the leaking coolant pipe and he told me that he had a spare pair that had come with his other F which I could have for nowt.  They're not immaculate but they're perfectly servicable - I've just given them a wire brush and Kurust on the surface-rusty bits, later on I'll give them a coat of black enamel and then weather permitting I'll fit them tomorrow.  Certainly beats forking out 70 quid for a new pair of stainless pipes...

[Supernaut]

Right, that's it......off to buy it now

Look what else is in the game!

 

 

 

I didn't keep it standard for long. It now has a supercharger and a 6 speed gearbox. The suspension and brakes are completely standard though. It's quite amusing to wallow around in.

[M'coli]

If you really want to be an environmental bastard, run a diesel on whale oil.

It turns out, you really could...

"Whale carcass on Devon beach to be used for biofuel"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-37529769

[fordperv]

my mate sent me a picture of what met him when he said he would change the brake pads on a mates celica

 

 

yes some fucker has welded the retaining pins in place because they snapped the lugs off

[hairnet]

Posh or what

 

Only down side

 

All traffic inside m25

[messerschmitt owner]

it's a fabulous building and truly amazing if you're in the rafters!

[andy18s]

How does that work then? Hover pack?

 

Ben

Works by leaving the text intact,and not editing it so it makes you look "funny"......

[wuvvum]

Just got home to find a "sorry I missed you" card from MyHermes.  It didn't have a reference number or a redelivery date but it did have a contact number so rang it and spoke to the courier.  "What address was it mate?"  I told him my address.  "Oh yeah, green Volvo, dodgy paint job".  I can guarantee that if I'd had a silver Hyundai i20 on the drive he wouldn't have remembered the house...

[richardmorris]

I took three parcels in today for the Amazon courier for my neighbours- perhaps I should set myself up as a hub?

[The Moog]

 

 

As a punishment I've been serving her lunch on things that aren't plates, this is today's offering.

 

Much lolage

[Timewaster]

A few weeks ago my wife and her friends went to a wanky restaurant where one of them had a roll served in what appeared to be a cat litter tray.

 

 

As a punishment I've been serving her lunch on things that aren't plates, this is today's offering.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6J2Wv_JGXo

I do hope you trundled the jack into the room and raised the bap up to her hydraulically.