What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Ghosty]

How did you fit Nick Frost in the boot of a Smart?

[Mr A Lawrence]

Tv adverts make me grin.

 

Especially the ones that use common, copyrighted theme tunes but alter them ever so slightly as to not pay a fee to use the original.

 

They sound like someone has asked a band to play a well known song by humming it to them. Badly.

 

Two that spring to mind are one that uses the friends theme and one for life insurance that uses the chariots of fire tune.

 

Also, on cars that made Britain great they did a piece with a lotus in it and you could just hear a version of the bond theme played by a baboon that's found a bass guitar somewhere!!

[Slappy]

I had my first "scary clown" encounter while out for a run last night. I thought clowns were supposed to react well to being laughed at...

 

The local facebook gossip page keeps posting "sightings", seems to be a thing at the moment. A couple of years ago there was a lad, about 15 years old who walked into shops in the area and just stood there freaking the customers and staff out. Maybe it was him

[AMC Rebel]

Followed a very mucky Skoda Felicia lx yesterday - looked like it hadn't been washed since new - it had "Fabia VRS" written on the tailgate in scrapyard marker pen.

 

After a million years of speaking his stuff - albeit to music at times, John Cooper Clare has started singing - what next?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Today has been a good day,

MOT'd the Arosa, needed discs and pads plus 3 tyres( part worn winters for OMGSNOKAOS) £150 including ticket. Ready for another year of teenage abuse.

Replaced lower suspension arm on the Merc, £47 from Euro's , I know it'll be made of cheese, but genuine ones on,y last for 50,000 miles and they cost £130. Even as a mechanical idiot I managed this myself in 45 minutes- BFO hammer FTW!

Went to a posh MILF Fat Club to get weighed as I keep missing my Tuesday one, and I've lost a couple of pounds, making it 30 in total( not that it shows)

Got the dog groomed and fitted a new outside lamp.

I am feckin' Superman !

Just spoke to insurance co. Ref. No.2 Daughters C Class bump- £550 less £30 for the salvage- do I buy a bumper or just gaffer tape it? The C will be Cat C, but as I paid £300 for it and don't intend to sell it , I'm calling this one a win!

[Ghosty]

Guess what I'm up to...

 

 

Do you feel like we do?

[Bobthebeard]

My next door neighbour makes me grin. A lovely Polish lady who just takes care of everything when we are away. We are away a lot. She puts the bins out, takes delivery of my many parcels and is an all round good egg. She is also ever so slightly attractive but I won't dwell on that due to being happily married. Just a nice person in a world where nice people are thin on the ground. 

[anonymous user]

Getting excited for a new toy.

 

Off to pick up my Wbod tomorrow lunchtime, probably won't do a collection thread as it's only just over an hour away and a mate is giving me a lift. Things I am expecting from this motor are...

 

Terrible mpg

Rubbish at going round corners

allegedly they explode at the slightest whiff of a collision

 

wcpgw?

I predict a Chrysler Voyager, you are Tony and Cherie Blair and you claim my five pounds

[anonymous user]

Guess what I'm up to...

 

I dread to think, as you appear to have taken off all your clothes and chucked them on the floordrobe

[barmatt]

 

 

Grand Cherokee?

Been there, done that and would probably do again some time.

 

Leyland Olympian.

That would be the Wbod weiner for ever.

 

I predict a Chrysler Voyager, you are Tony and Cherie Blair and you claim my five pounds

I have toyed with the idea of the V6 engined voyager just for omgcomfyvan, but I'm scared because of all the horror stories I've heard of them.

 

 

So this years Wbod is....

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A 1997 Ford Exploder* 4l v6, low miles, loads of history and cheap enough that I won't mind chucking loads of firewood in the back of it.

 

[michael1703]

My next door neighbour makes me grin. A lovely Polish lady who just takes care of everything when we are away. We are away a lot. She puts the bins out, takes delivery of my many parcels and is an all round good egg. She is also ever so slightly attractive but I won't dwell on that due to being happily married. Just a nice person in a world where nice people are thin on the ground.

 

Bluddy polish wimmin,coming over ere, being attractive... grrr

[Tamworthbay]

My brothers house has been completely trashed by the big windy thing upsetting that strange place 'over there' at the moment. So why the grin? He was away from home for a month and probably wouldn't still be here if he wasn't. Houses are easier to fix than people.

[Asimo]

Guess what I'm up to...

 

 

Do you feel like we do?

A ferrofluid change on that tweeter?

[DeeJay]

 

Seeing how you've stripped off I hope that's not your todger in the photo.

[Ghosty]

I am clothed, and that's a finger.

 

For all those wondering I'm making a talkbox.

 

NOT PETER FRAMPTON ZAPP ETC

[Craig the Princess]

The white Rover 414 did this

 

[Tamworthbay]

The white Rover 414 did this

It started!

[Craig the Princess]

It started!

Always a bonus

[scaryoldcortina]

Has Geoff found a new home then ????? I was getting worried that I might have to buy him back for a while there.

Yes, new home. Can I ask why it's called Geoff?

[PhilA]

Replaced the drop links on the truck today with only 2 15mm spanners and the jack to raise things up a bit for clearance.

 

No more clunk rattle squeak going over bumps.

 

Been ignoring it for too long, body simple job, only took fifteen minutes for both sides.

 

Proves that modern rubber is shit though, it's only done 55,000 miles

 

Phil

[Tamworthbay]

Post 56474

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/22252-the-grumpy-old-manpedant-post-feel-free-to-add/page-1883

[panhard65]

Yes, new home. Can I ask why it's called Geoff?

When I got my first hearse I took it to Le Mans with a large group of blokes and one of them named it Geoff after Geoff Hurst. It seems that a lot of people call them Hurst's. I have no idea why but the name stuck so when I bought this one he had to be Geoff as well. I am sure you will be calling him plenty of other names if your going to do a full resto job on him.

[Cavcraft]

Danny McCaskills latest video. The boy is a legend on a bike.

 

https://www.redbull.com/uk/en/bike/stories/1331821751376/danny-macaskill-wee-day-out

That's class, made my day watching that. It must be ace to have that much skill, every ride would be an adventure.

[M'coli]

http://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/motors/2016/1006/822008-on-the-road-to-love-in-a/

[Negative Creep]

Going through my grandparent's loft again, found a box of what seem to be random theatre programmes and tourist info about Dorset from the 1970s. But the real gems were hidden at the bottom

 

 

 

 

[quicksilver]

Couple of small grins. One of my grandparents' neighbours has a Toyota Aygo (that's not a grin, its only redeeming feature is that it's a nice coppery colour) and we parked next to it the other day. There on the steering wheel was an old-school giffer security device, a Stoplock no less! It's been years since I last saw one of those and it looked rather incongruous on such a modern car. I can't imagine it does much good either but it amused me to see it.

 

Grin #2 occurred on Facebook. One of its 'suggested stories you may like' was an advert for Steel Seal. I haven't even been looking at K-series Rovers!

[beko1987]

Just driven to Watford to pick up a rare hoover and the car didn't break! Watford traffic can get to fuck though, sod that again!

[Kiltox]

Halfords just gave me a trade card without looking at any of the supporting documentation they ask for to prove I'm in the trade

[dome]

That's class, made my day watching that. It must be ace to have that much skill, every ride would be an adventure.

 

The behind the sceens stuff is worth a watch too.

 

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/danny-macaskills-wee-day-out-behind-the-scenes-2016.html

[Tamworthbay]

Did you know the little chevron next to the post number will give you a direct link to the post.http://autoshite.com/topic/22252-the-grumpy-old-manpedant-post-feel-free-to-add/page-1883?do=findComment&comment=1083389

Nope, every day is a school day as they say.