What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[twosmoke300]

Did you keep waking up in a panic every 2/3hrs because she hasn't woken you up and going to check on her?

 

No because we were so tired from a months shut sleep . We did panic when we woke up but a snuffle through the monitor fixed that 😄

[Sheefag]

I'd have the cupboard doors on Etsy for £100 and the chair for £150.

 

 

 

 

[Sheefag]

Check this out - £175

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Retro-70s-Velour-Chrome-Swivel-Chair-Gaming-Chair-Study-Office-Lounge-/371816113421?hash=item5691f7a50d:g:-4YAAOSwOtdYU~rV

 

 

Designed by Jan Des Bouvrie apparently.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-1970S-GELDERLAND-CHROME-SWIVEL-CHAIR-BY-JAN-DES-BOUVRIE-MATHSSON-STYLE-/262774025109?hash=item3d2e8d6b95:g:TUUAAOSw6DtYSZ1y

[rantingYoof]

Boxing Day and I'm naturally browsing Autotrader again.

 

I'm spying this GS300, which I have decided is the most likely 'fucking dumb' purchase of 2017. This particular specimen has been up for a while...

 

 

As you can see, it looks alright. Nice colour for a GS300. 102k on the clock and up for around £1900 - all reasonable so far.

 

Thinking about the free time I have tomorrow, I begin contemplating a road-trip. However, not being entirely fucking dumb, I check the MOT History site first. MOT until April 2017 - four month MOT on a £1900 is just about acceptable I suppose, but wait a minute...

 

Advisory notice item(s)

 

• All underside metal parts and panels very very rusty.
• nearside front Tyre worn close to the legal limit (4.1.E.1)
• offside front Tyre worn close to the legal limit (4.1.E.1)
• nearside front brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened (3.5.1i)
• offside front brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened (3.5.1i)
• nearside front Brake pad(s) wearing thin (3.5.1g)
• offside front Brake pad(s) wearing thin (3.5.1g)
• nearside front brake caliper repaired, but not inappropriately (3.5.1n)
• offside front brake caliper repaired, but not inappropriately (3.5.1n)
• nearside front Front suspension has slight play in a upper suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
• offside front Front suspension has slight play in a upper suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
• nearside front Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
• offside front Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
• nearside front Front suspension has slight play in a track control arm inner bush (2.5.B.2b)
• offside front Front suspension has slight play in a track control arm inner bush (2.5.B.2b)
• nearside front Front suspension has slight movement at a wishbone pin or bush (2.5.A.1c)
• offside front Front suspension has slight movement at a wishbone pin or bush (2.5.A.1c)
• nearside front Brake hose has slight corrosion to ferrules (3.6.B.4e)
• offside front Brake hose has slight corrosion to ferrules (3.6.B.4e)
• nearside rear Brake hose has slight corrosion to ferrules (3.6.B.4e)
• offside rear Brake hose has slight corrosion to ferrules (3.6.B.4e)
• nearside front Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)
• offside front Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)
• nearside rear Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)
• offside rear Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)
• centre rear Brake pipe slightly corroded x2 (3.6.B.2c)

 

Well if I didn't chuckle to myself in a slightly hysterical 'thank fuck for that website' way...my natural cynicism would lead me to believe any dealer inheriting such a wreck would probably ditch the advisory sheet if that's possible. If not, it explains its continued presence on Autotrader.

 

I thought about making a seperate thread catchily entitled 'MOT History Website Saves the Day', or preferably 'MOT History's Hidden Wrecks', but I fear it's repeating the purpose of other threads...

[Guest Hooli]

Bargain...

[beko1987]

I think we should have an mot lols thread, would go with the ebay tat and ebay fmwwtt threads, always good to scroll through for a laugh

[Bren]

To be honest at lot of that list is bollocks. It's an old car.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

My sister's racist, ignorant partner left his laptop and Facebook open.

[rantingYoof]

True that, some of the list items are a little spurious to my uninformed mind (never heard of ferrules ever).

 

But it's generally indicative of someone offloading a car to a dealer to avoid the impending repair bill. Even if you take out the harsher items on the list and DIY the others you're looking at increasing your purchase price by 30%.

 

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[Eddie Honda]

watched Comfort and Joy ( loads of quality chod on display)

"IT'S DICKY BIRD"

 

Love that film.

[Tamworthbay]

My sister's racist, ignorant partner left his laptop and Facebook open.

Surely that was time for him to come out of the closet.........

[Lacquer Peel]

I think that would have pushed him over the edge, being seen as a "left wing prick" by his degenerate neo-Nazi Facebook friends was bad enough. I'm hiding.

[fordperv]

Surely that was time for him to come out of the closet.........

With an ethnic minority partner who he is going to have a civil partnership with as he popped the question on Christmas day

[Sigmund Fraud]

To be honest at lot of that list is bollocks. It's an old car.

Agreed, he could have condensed all those advisories into one : "The car is not new, and has appropriate wear and tear for its mileage."

[MrDuke]

I'm giving him a feckin' good hiding.

 

FTFY

[Cavcraft]

 

My sister's racist, ignorant partner left his laptop and Facebook open.

 

I can't make that out Is it some sort of Britain First fucking nonsense?

[Lacquer Peel]

It's a status I posted on his wall of racist meathead shit, you can't see it.

[Cavcraft]

Talking  of FaceAche, I've just found this as I was snooping round: John Jackson (tattoo)

 

 

 

It doesn't even seem to be a Photoshop. Fabulous.

[MrDuke]

Can someone tell me what the second sentence is supposed to say? I mean, I'm LOLing heartily at the whole 'eyes turned skyward' thing, but still feel I'm missing something?

 

EDIT: Hang on, I've just looked closer at it. Apparently he's threatening to kick a fox so hard between the back legs, that not only will it leave the ground for an appreciable length of time, it will likely spend the rest of its life squitty-eyed. I still can't quite make sense of the second half. Help?

[Stanky]

I thought I had it, but no, the second sentence is actual drivel and makes no sense whatsoever.

[rantingYoof]

Agreed, he could have condensed all those advisories into one : "The car is not new, and has appropriate wear and tear for its mileage."

 

My car is around the same age and I'd be mortified if the underneath was 'very very rusty'!

 

If it were a 1996 GS300 then I'd understand a wee bit more.

 

Still, what you have done is accidentally challenge me to find the newest car with the worst list of advisories.

 

I mean, you've given me an excuse to go on Autotrader again, really

[Sheefag]

I had a 93, Mk1 GS300, it was reliable, dependable, dull, thirsty and underpowered. It was difficult to believe it came from the same firm that produced the LS400.

I seem to remember that the Mk2, and this is a Mk2, was different only cosmetically from the Mk1.

[Ghosty]

Visited my parent's new house for the first time. it was bought by a lady in the mid 1970s and rebuilt and boy does it show...

 

 

It's all getting torn out and refurbished so I took some photos so you too can bask in it's 1970s awfulness.

 

That vaguely resembles my uncle's flat in south London that hasn't been done up since some time in the 1980s. He has a cooker with a gas grill...

 

My mate bought some bikes off a giffer on eBay, and he had a proper late '70s timewarp house too. He drove a Volvo V40 that stank of stale smoke and the wheels on either side didn't match, two were off a Rover 25 and fuck knows what was on the other side.

[Pillock]

A friend bought us the best pressie ever this year.

 

We now have a light up toilet, activated by dark and motion....

 

[Richard]

A friend bought us the best pressure ever this year.

 

We now have a light up toilet, activated by dark and motions....

 

 

FTFY

[Kiltox]

Give me strength Autoshite for I am seriously considering flogging everything and buying a Dacia with a warranty and service plan!

 

Edit - thought I was on the grumpy thread, bugger

[bub2006]

A dacia is modern shite though. I toyed with the idea of a new duster briefly

[beko1987]

I'd roll in a new dacia if the opportunity presented itself.

 

In 8 to 10 years I fully expect them to be the new goona2 and everyone have one, then the fresh wave of 'this place isn't what it used to be' can start

[privatewire]

I've got a Duster, I can confirm that they are shite. They are a hoot to drive though.

[Kiltox]

I've got a Duster, I can confirm that they are shite. They are a hoot to drive though.

What spec?