What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest]

My friend Danny has a lesbian housemate.

I told him I didn't understand, she was fit.

[warren t claim]

I wonder if there is such a thing as a "lesbian car"?

 

In my experience (I've worked with a few) whatever it is will be small, Japanese and bought new or nearly-new. Even the hefty Phil-Mitchell-a-like who drove trucks with me had a Micra!

 

Oddly enough I was taught to drive an a truck by a woman and I also had a woman examiner. Neither munched carpet though (I asked).

[myglaren]

I wonder if there is such a thing as a "lesbian car"?

 

In my experience (I've worked with a few) whatever it is will be small, Japanese and bought new or nearly-new. Even the hefty Phil-Mitchell-a-like who drove trucks with me had a Micra!

 

Two I know drive a Corvette and a Firebird

[Cavcraft]

Lesbians hey, you can't lick it.

 

What's the difference between a woman saying no to sex and a woman saying 'Mmm, mmmm, mmm mmmmmmmm'?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duct tape.

 

 

*I'll get me coat.

[Claypole]

Time Team.

[dollywobbler]

Sebastian Loeb. Crikey that boy can drive!

 

Also amusing - one of the WRC rally stages was called Bitche Camp!

[Guest]

This evening I have scored my second best eBay bargain ever. A fully working 123GT pod revcounter for £16.50 posted.

These normally go for £100 + if they're listed correctly, which this wasn't. Had this been in the right section, he'd have been beating off rabid mongs from the VOC forum. It wasn't in the Volvo section at all. Hence 3 bids. Irritatingly, the damn thing looks in better condition than mine as well.

 

When I bought my other (non working) counter, there was a lot of 'OMG GENUINE 123GT' going on, and this meant muggins here paid £113 for a buggered counter that squeals whenever the ignition is on. Scene tax exists in every car movement. The daft thing is that you can make any other Amazon as quick as a 123GT for not a lot of pennies. They're just rare, and that's why people go gaga over them.

 

There was another variation on the rev counter, which very rarely come up. The face listed the revs in 10 x RPM rather than single digits and the bezel was chromed rather than plastic. They go for even stupider coin.

 

So kudos to MM5 for spotting it (whilst hunting down a meter for his Rebel) and telling me.

 

I've got an awesome little list going on here now:

Wat's top eBay wins

 

1. Isuzu Piazza HBL wheels with brand new 195 \ 60 R14 tyres. (Won for £1 after the vendor spent £250 on new tyres. No Reserve FAIL).

 

2. Volvo Amazon 123GT Revcounter (Won for £16.50 because it was wrongly listed).

 

3. Modest Mouse's Interstate 8 EP (Won for £2.78 because there was an error in the listing and only my bid went through, was worth about £40 at the time and rising).

 

I'm going to actively search the 'Not specified' section for any category I'm interested in on eBay now. I've made some pretty stupid mistakes on there myself, so perhaps this is just what goes around, er, coming back around.

 

If it does work, it'll go back on my car and I'll get mine fixed up and on the 'Bay. And believe me, mine will be properly listed.

[Albert Ross]

The Chuckle Brothers buy cars where I work............... As does "Marina" from Last of the Summer Wine, also the mother of that dancer that won "Pop factor" or whatever it's called, thing years back.. Johnny Shentall. Do they count as "Shite Celebrity Spotting"?

[Tayne]

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[Station]

Just looking through my old photobucket photos, and found this epic piece of graffiti:

 

[cobblers]

I turned this royally fucked mx5 hardtop

 

Into this

 

Bought for next to nowt from a scrappers it in the expectation that I'd not be able to fix it. 2 weekends later, £10 for a fibreglass kit from frauds, a bit of filler and the usual primer and paint and it's good as new. Never really done fibreglass repair on this scale before, and the picture of "pre repair" really flatters it. It was cracked all over the place, the frame was smashed in two and the skin was coming away from it all along the front.

 

It's nice to be able to see out of a glass window rather than the cracked, creased, shitty 10 inch wide bit of plastic that was the excuse for the back window before!

[Rusty Pelican]

Top work cobblers

[warren t claim]

M'coli. Thanks for the help and advice regarding some problems I'm having.

[M'coli]

No probs, anytime...

[trigger]

postcards0035 by Hugo90, on Flickr

 

I've never seen a Mk 1 Consul/Granada in 2 door spec before, But I'm in love now

[Angrydicky]

I wonder if there is such a thing as a "lesbian car"?

 

Daewoo Nexia. Seriously.

[seth]

I grinned earlier today because I was forced to drive around the block, with the family in the car, through a really dodgy looking estate near Euston station, in order to get a top shite spot photo.

[ChinaTom]

The two Geordies in the seats behind me on the plane this afternoon who described the China Southern stewardesses as "canny clart".

[eddyramrod]

postcards0035 by Hugo90, on Flickr

 

I've never seen a Mk 1 Consul/Granada in 2 door spec before, But I'm in love now

 

I don't believe I've ever seen the 2-door saloon version either, I think it was mainland-Europe only, but my mate had a Mk1 Ghia Coupe, when I had my saloon; both 3.0V6 autos...

[brammy777]

I grinned earlier today because I was forced to drive around the block, with the family in the car, through a really dodgy looking estate near Euston station, in order to get a top shite spot photo.

 

I went round a dodgy estate near Euston last year and the only thing I spotted was a Nissan Prairie loaded up for Export..... I wonder what you saw?

I went to Clapham today, really friendly welcoming place. I got 28 photos, RL has probably posted most of them but its always nice to get your own shots too. Quite a large amount of older Japanese cars still around.

[pogweasel]

I went to Clapham today, really friendly welcoming place.

On the common, sir? Ooh.

After dark, sir?? Ooh oof.

Looking for badgers, sir? OOh, suits you sir....

[Marshall]

postcards0035 by Hugo90, on Flickr

 

I've never seen a Mk 1 Consul/Granada in 2 door spec before, But I'm in love now

 

I've never seen one either - Very nice indeed!

[chaseracer]

The mk1 just works as a 2-door...

[ashmicro]

Sir Norman Wisdom made me grin. And laugh out loud.

 

RIP lad.

[trigger]

The mighty Talbot Tagora features in this months new issue of Practical Classics magazine in a classic survivors feature.

 

FYI they sold 2200 between 1980 - 1983 in the UK, only 5 are still on the road (most are booby's), 15 on are SORN, 2180 are AWOL and there was 19500 built in total.

[cms206]

"and what's your name?"

"LAGER FANNY! HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!"

 

 

Not sure if this has been posted, but I've been pissing myself laughing for the past hour...

[Volksy]

I was made a freeman of York yesterday, the benefits seem to be that I can graze cattle within the walls, and wear a daft hat!

[warren t claim]

I'm finally coming to terms with the fact that I'm totally out of touch with the world around me. Whilst having lunch in a cafe I picked up a copy of the Mirror and honestly didn't know about 75% of the people that were featured in it's pages. Even the ones I have some sort of "brand awareness" of like Christine Bleakley and Tess Daly I can say I've never watched on TV. To be honest I probably wouldn't even regognise the vast majority of the actors in Coronation Street these days. Apparently the X Factor is big news these days but I would struggle to name any of it's previous winners.

 

People moan about living in a era of celebrity but I'm quite happy living in my little bubble thank you very much.

[AXrescuer]

I have been smiling at this for a short while....

 

[M'coli]

"and what's your name?"

"LAGER FANNY! HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!"

 

 

Not sure if this has been posted, but I've been pissing myself laughing for the past hour...

I watched this last night, it's the first time that joke's made me laugh!