What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[scaryoldcortina]

We've been decorating Conor's room this week - mrs and daughter are on holiday in Greece so on thursday we started to empty and strip his bedroom, it's not been done since before he was born and he was getting a bit tired of the baby paper (not to mention all the accumulated rubbish of 20 years). It's a tiny room and he wants to get a HTC Vive (VR thingy) that means you need space to move around and he didn't have that, there was far too much clutter and wasted space.

 

By saturday, all the junk was gone, mostly straight to the tip, and we'd stripped the wallpaper. It looked like this...

 

 

and I was starting to worry that we were taking too long. Too much to do, they are back thursday lunchtime and the whole house is a bombsite because decorating.

 

Anyway, last few days has been painting, papering, more painting, more papering and some bonus floor laying. Looks like this now, and I'm pretty pleased with it.

 

 

There is still a full day's work ahead, but the end is in sight.

[RoadworkUK]

That's some transformation! It's grown pretty noticeably, too.

[phil_lihp]

Brilliant demo of what happens with different weight distribution on trailers:

 

http://i.imgur.com/dYz2tCE.gifv

[burraston2006]

^ Did you knock through to next door and have they noticed?!!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

We have a normal kerb outside our house where the driveway is. Not a dropped kerb so for years I've been meaning to make a wee concrete ramp to assist getting on / off the drive.

Imagine how pleased I was to come home today to find the roads people have been round and started doing all the "unofficial" driveways in the street

See, if you wait long enough someone will do shit for you

 

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[MarvinsMom]

was looking fleabay at dinnertime and a spotted a second hand toy train with a BIN/best offer listing.

 

so i put in a insultingly low cheeky offer on said locomotive, only to have it accepted!!

 

bugger....

 

now to explain to the memsahib why there is another toy train that's going to sit in a draw/cupboard.shelf ect.

 

i'm going to say that it, and the rest of the train set are not cluttering up the wardrobe, but are in fact my pension plan, and see how far that gets me!

[twosmoke300]

That trailer weighting vid was pretty interesting

[dave21478]

Bailey Caravans have a similar demo rig for trailer snaking. Plenty of videos on the youtubes about it.

[LC Torana]

was looking fleabay at dinnertime and a spotted a second hand toy train with a BIN/best offer listing.

 

so i put in a insultingly low cheeky offer on said locomotive, only to have it accepted!!

 

bugger....

 

now to explain to the memsahib why there is another toy train that's going to sit in a draw/cupboard.shelf ect.

 

i'm going to say that it, and the rest of the train set are not cluttering up the wardrobe, but are in fact my pension plan, and see how far that gets me!

 

Hornby Dublo?

[andy18s]

😆

[Pillock]

Lol. Morning wood.

[MarvinsMom]

Hornby Dublo?

no, hornby D49 "The Cattistock" in BR lined black, with the later crest on the tender.

 

not the most detailed, or 100% accurate for that matter, a model. but its a model that i do like. 

 

and its one from the end of production at Margate, and as i have the other BR versions "The Pytchley" and best of all, "Yorkshire" it kinda makes the set!

[cobblers]

5 months after buying A BRAND NEW FUCKING CAR the dealer has finally stopped the back suspension knocking like a shithouse door, and put the correct ECU map on so I've now got about 20% more power. 

 

I stand by my decision to buy a new car (in 2030, a 19 year old version of me will buy it for about £500 and I've done him a right favour) but I dropped a massive bollock buying it from where I did because they're just completely shit.

[cort16]

Glyn Hopkins Fiat?

[MarvinsMom]

arnold shark?

[cobblers]

Nah, Autoworld. Started off with car salesmen doing their usual greasy thing, and then the workshop that doesn't really properly specialise in any car cos they've got less bays than brands.

[cort16]

Are these the guys that complemented your socks?

I've been pretty lucky with my new cars, any issues I've had have been picked up during the service.

 

At least your not paying for it!

[cobblers]

Yeah he said somert like "Did I put your socks on this morning?". We'd got back off a test drive and I was quite happy the car but I said there's absolutely no way I'm signing owt without going home and properly doing a bit of research into which model I wanted and how I'd want to finance it. I'm still not sure what he was getting at tbh, I don't know if it was some mega jedi mind trick he was doing to put me off guard or something. Anyway when I did end up buying the car I rang up the dealers and ended up with some other bloke who probably got the commission instead. 

It's a shit state of affairs really, same goes with loads of industries where you've got to argue with people to not get ripped off. 

[cort16]

If it's a repair under manufacturer warranty then you don't have to take it to them you can take it to any Fiat dealer. I bought my car in Inverness but get it serviced and fixed at a local Nissan dealer.

I guess it's what's convenient though?

[STUNO]

A trip to the supermarket, with a grump too. I did not have a camera with me..grump. The smile was 3 cars there. first a Datsun 1200 utility, then an old couple in the disabled parking were in a 3.0 litre Capri, quite a rare beast here. Then thirdly a very ordinary looking,but well looked after Mitsubishi L300 van that had a very nice deep V8 rumble coming from the exhaust ! Driven by mum doing the groceries.

[DVee8]

X-trail passed it's mot this morning

[Cavcraft]

Whenever my mate and I drive round site, whoever is passenger beeps the horn at random people. Had the best result ever yesterday when some bloke who was reversing at the time went off the scale ANGRY FACE at us. I reckon he was a split second away from getting out and twatting me one, it was brilliant!

[vulgalour]

The Princess did not sink overnight so I'm calling that Hydragas leak CURED.  What a relief.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The Princess did not sink overnight so I'm calling that Hydragas leak CURED.  What a relief.

You are a British Leyland Quality Control inspector AICMFP.

[Tamworthbay]

I called the much slagged off by some Adrian Flux about ea change I needed on a policy, sorted very easily by a nice lady who also said because the policy hadn't been active long they would wave the fee for the change.

[cms206]

Never seen so many nervous looking salesmen.

 

 

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[M'coli]

Googling shite trikes landed me on this page: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/can-we-please-stop-hotlinking-pics/20411/page2870/

 

Further along was a series of posts (the pictures of which are below) about a Racoon that had been killed in Toronto in 2015, it got a tad surreal...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: I really lost it at this picture, I couldn't stop chortling away to myself, it's like its been given the gravitas of that moment you heard that Chapman/Senna/Rover/Chris Amon etc. had died:

 

 

The poor beast had its own hashtag and that, and that's still going:

#deadraccoonTO

[Negative Creep]

RIP HUN YOUR SLEEPIN WIV THE ANGLES NOW XXXXXX

[Eddie Honda]

Never seen so many nervous looking salesmen.

 

Hairymill Rd.

 

At least they're part of Lookers PLC and not Arnold.

[bramz7]

Finally came across another ZX locally and got a comparison shot of a phase one and two car. The newer one has half the mileage mine does, but looks twice as abused. 

What also made me grin is that I had to wait for an OAP in an N reg 306 to go away before I could park here…..