What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[scaryoldcortina]

Moon was so clear I got the big lens out.

 

[FakeConcern]

Just got asked in a survey " How do you like Windows 10". So I told them!

[fordperv]

the shite gods were smiling down on me, i picked up a replacement sump for the saph earlier that stixy kindly met me with, fitted it and put the car back together, there is no engine damage, she purrs like a kitten again

[michael1703]

This made me laugh, he's living in it

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bedford-Bambi-Rascal-Campervan-Motorhome-/222284645664?hash=item33c1328520:g:XFUAAOSwmLlYBNSz

[RoadworkUK]

This made me laugh, he's living in it

Fantastic. Yet at the same time, ewww.

[cobblers]

I can smell that from here. I might be casting massive aspersions here but any room with "metal" posters on the wall will stink like a pair of jeans worn in the rain for 3 months. I've had enough (much) younger siblings to learn that from, plus the apprentice at work who stinks like a pair of knackered wet converse.

A van lived in like that. Give me strength.

 

Oh and a dog too. Fuck me

[michael1703]

That's all very well, but this was in the car park of the hotel I stayed in this weekend.

 

2016-10-16_10-01-18 by RichardB5, on Flickr

 

2016-10-16_08-37-55 by RichardB5, on Flickr

Where was this? I passed this combo on Monday lunchtime in suffolk

[chaseracer]

Just got asked in a survey " How do you like Windows 10". So I told them!

 

I had a call today, purporting to be from Microsoft but clearly from the subcontinent rather than San Jose.  Apparently, my PC had warned them that it had downloaded naughties via email and had asked for help - hence their kind, thoughtful, timely and entirely altruistic intervention.

 

O NOES, cried I, WOT CAN I DO?  HAYULP MEEE!

 

Do not concern yourself, said my new friend, we will work with you to put it right.  Are you near your PC?  (I am.)  Have you switched it on?  (I have.)  Has it powered up OK?  (It has indeed.)  What can you see?

 

(A Mac operating system...)

 

 

[scaryoldcortina]

^ Last time I got that call I spent 10 minutes describing this screen before they hung up.

 

[trigger]

I've just slapped my forehead so hard that it now hurts, why? Because I've just seen this post that been shared on Facebook from some shit Brexit group.

 

 

It's clearly a photoshop piss take but the number of people replying thinking it's a real news item is staggering.

 

[dome]

I had a call today, purporting to be from Microsoft but clearly from the subcontinent rather than San Jose. Apparently, my PC had warned them that it had downloaded naughties via email and had asked for help - hence their kind, thoughtful, timely and entirely altruistic intervention.

 

O NOES, cried I, WOT CAN I DO? HAYULP MEEE!

 

Do not concern yourself, said my new friend, we will work with you to put it right. Are you near your PC? (I am.) Have you switched it on? (I have.) Has it powered up OK? (It has indeed.) What can you see?

 

(A Mac operating system...)

 

<click>

 

I've described a Commodore 64 screen to them before, they gave up before I did...

[FakeConcern]

I had a call today, purporting to be from Microsoft but clearly from the subcontinent rather than San Jose.  Apparently, my PC had warned them that it had downloaded naughties via email and had asked for help - hence their kind, thoughtful, timely and entirely altruistic intervention.

 

O NOES, cried I, WOT CAN I DO?  HAYULP MEEE!

 

Do not concern yourself, said my new friend, we will work with you to put it right.  Are you near your PC?  (I am.)  Have you switched it on?  (I have.)  Has it powered up OK?  (It has indeed.)  What can you see?

 

(A Mac operating system...)

 

<click>

 

I took a call similar to this while at my 89 year old mothers house. There is no computer and no internet. I toyed with getting her to speak to them, but in the end took pity and put the phone down.

[hairnet]

looking at spanish phrasebook - ok no problem - im gonna be shite

 

looking at the portugese one - it has a romance/chat up section

 

wtf

 

thought it was only the greeks and the italians that did that

[Richard]

Where was this? I passed this combo on Monday lunchtime in suffolk

Grangemouth, I think it might have retired early from the Mull rally.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Had to get the doctor out to see the missus as she's poorly and bedridden.

 

Why's this in the grin thread you ask??

 

Cos he turned up on this!!

 

 

 

 

We talked more about bikes than what was wrong with the missus 😊

 

He'd had it from when it was 5 years old and it had 93,000 miles on it!!!

[Frogchod]

Going to that there England tomorrow. This is normally a grump.

But this time no Mrs Frogchod so mucho real beer and proper curries will be had

Taking the XM too

[michael1703]

Had to get the doctor out to see the missus as she's poorly and bedridden.

Why's this in the grin thread you ask??

Cos he turned up on this!!

image.jpeg

We talked more about bikes than what was wrong with the missus

He'd had it from when it was 5 years old and it had 93,000 miles on it!!!

I did 32k in a year on mine, the exhausts were crap,the rev counter and speedo drives seized but they were good bikes

[doobietoo]

drum, on 17 Oct 2016 - 6:11 PM, said:

...modern non-matching wheel trims.

I imagine the owner seeing those trims in Lidl and thinking "just what the marina needs".
 

 

Lidl? The rear one is mid '90s  Escort/Fiesta, front one is Daewoo Lanos

 

 

 

Only on Autoshite...... still grinning now.....

[LC Torana]

Had to get the doctor out to see the missus as she's poorly and bedridden.

 

Why's this in the grin thread you ask??

 

Cos he turned up on this!!

 

 

 

image.jpeg

 

We talked more about bikes than what was wrong with the missus

 

He'd had it from when it was 5 years old and it had 93,000 miles on it!!!

Do ya think he could have parked it any further out into the middle of the road?

[Guest Hooli]

I had a call today, purporting to be from Microsoft but clearly from the subcontinent rather than San Jose.  Apparently, my PC had warned them that it had downloaded naughties via email and had asked for help - hence their kind, thoughtful, timely and entirely altruistic intervention.

 

O NOES, cried I, WOT CAN I DO?  HAYULP MEEE!

 

Do not concern yourself, said my new friend, we will work with you to put it right.  Are you near your PC?  (I am.)  Have you switched it on?  (I have.)  Has it powered up OK?  (It has indeed.)  What can you see?

 

(A Mac operating system...)

 

<click>

 

 

We get them at work. One of our chaps managed to get told to 'fuck off' by the scammer after 10mins of leading them on before asking 'which PC? I work in a datacentre with over 400 virtual servers'.

[quicksilver]

Working in IT at a university, I have a good response when they claim they can take remote control of my PC to fix the virus. I tell them that the doctors and professors who teach computer science at work believe that is impossible and then invite them to the university to give a guest lecture explaining how they do it as we would all love to know. They don't usually know how to respond and just put the phone down.

[scaryoldcortina]

I just had a very random but quite fun evening. I went to a club I haven't been to in over 20 years with someone I only just met to see a punk band I'd never heard of. I've come away with an audition to be their new bass player because their old one is leaving to join the UK Subs.

[fordperv]

just look at that sky, gets your workday off to a good start

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Last night at an auction I only went to to drive home a van my brother was intending to buy. I bid on a very stupid car, guaranteed future Autoshite, in fact it was a very early one (2003) and potentially more ruinous than a P38.

I bid it to £3600, which would have been £4K with indemnity ,buyers fee etc. I t was sold for £3,700, wasn't sure whether to be pissed off or relieved, it would have been the cheapest I've seen but also not the sort of thing you should buy from an auction.

 

Any guesses? On a recent thread someone asked who would be first on here stupid enough to buy one and when I told Mrs N, she said she would've been happy to drive it around( I may have suggested it would do 25mpg which would be pure fantasy).

[155V6]

MG ZT 260?

[taxi paul]

Tour again.

[Tickman]

Any guesses? On a recent thread someone asked who would be first on here stupid enough to buy one and when I told Mrs N, she said she would've been happy to drive it around( I may have suggested it would do 25mpg which would be pure fantasy).

porsche cayenne?

[Supernaut]

Porsche Cayenne.

 

*shakes fist at Tickman*

[doobietoo]

Came back from my holidays with no work booked one week later I am booked up until xmas..... bring on the recession  

[phil_lihp]

VW Phaeton?