What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

When it stops pissing me off and I'm not 'a man on the edge' it shall be so!

 

We're gonna need a bigger boat carpark.

[eddyramrod]

We're gonna need our own car park!

[meshking]

Can't say I've seen it - where?

Ah, it's still there ( or was when the photo was taken) between bright house and card factory.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/gK6xkg9noUt

 

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[Kiltox]

Ah I see - I pretty much live in the Travelodge near East Croydon station, rarely any further away from it than George St

[FakeConcern]

Looking at Strava when I got back from a ride on my bike, I saw I went through a speed camera in a 30 zone at 37.9mph. Shame it didn't flash!

[Stanky]

Just managed to sell a pair of tyres I got from Freecycle for a tenner each to a guy on Gumtree. Arrived at the appointed time, looked over them, pronounced himself happy, paid the asking price and drove off. He's fitting them to his 116d that he's selling to WBAC so everyone wins.

 

Thats a takeaway for the family sorted then.

[purplebargeken]

Driving around in the Golf for the last couple of days. It really is a nice thing to drive.

[PhilA]

Got turned around today from our usual end of town and took a chance on a tiny little bakery in a crummy run down strip mall attached to a crappy gas station.

 

Best baked goods I've had in ages! $12 for 4 macaroons, 4 huge cookies with sprinkles on, 2 "shoe soles", two custard turnovers the size of Ginsters pasties and a couple big flat Mexican cookies.

 

Guy moved from San Fransisco and opened up shop over here. Quite a character but the place gets good reviews, rightly so.

 

Phil

[vulgalour]

What's a "shoe sole"?  Internet leaving me none the wiser.

[PhilA]

What's a "shoe sole"? Internet leaving me none the wiser.

They're called Orejas (ears). Shoe soles in English because they look like the sole of an old shoe. The big ones are palmiers (elephant ears).

 

https://theothersideofthetortilla.com/2014/11/how-to-make-orejas-recipe/

 

Bigger versions of these. They're popular here, I seen to recall you can get similar, miniature ones in the UK.

 

Phil

[xtriple]

Sat on the grass yesterday with Beth while the three doggles played, suddenly Chester spies a desirable little girl mutt with the delicious odour of 'I'm in heat!' and scarpers! The bastard. What made me grin was Beth running (I can't, too old/ill/fucked) after him shouting his name in that sing-song way girls do when they actually mean: 'come here you bastard I'm going to rip your ears off!'

 

She did eventually catch him and dragged him back on his lead... literally DRAGGED him back as there was no way he was leaving the canine equivalent of a '10' in a tiny bikini and high heels voluntarily! Oh and I took pictures of the sweaty mess that was both of them as they got back to me for which I earned a solid whack - richly deserved

[Heidel_Kakao]

Ryanair have given me a £80 travel voucher as a goodwill gesture for their recent debacle. I am thinking a nice beach holiday in February will go down nicely. With the full refund, EU compensation and this voucher I have effectively been paid not to go on holiday so I am ok with that. I feel sorry for everyone that was actually impacted negatively by it all though.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

This

 

 

Woohoo!

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

They're called Orejas (ears). Shoe soles in English because they look like the sole of an old shoe. The big ones are palmiers (elephant ears).

 

https://theothersideofthetortilla.com/2014/11/how-to-make-orejas-recipe/

 

Bigger versions of these. They're popular here, I seen to recall you can get similar, miniature ones in the UK.

 

Phil

 

Get 'em here too - Byron loves them.........  some shonky versions depepnding upon the baker in this area too though

[gordonbennet]

The Landcruiser has done 95k now, which is bugger all i know, and reading the LC forums around this mileage it's worth getting the injector values checked cos apparently if these bloody injectors on the 3.0D4D shit themselves they can really bollocks things up big time, ie holed pistons cracked liners the lot.

 

So as i'm on holiday this week took into the local Diesel workshop, and i fully expected a four figure invoice for 4 x recon injectors, a new EGR valve and lots of other things.

 

Got a phone call thismorning, its all good no faults found, carry on.

[twosmoke300]

I service a fleet of 3.0 and 2.5 hilux d4ds (15 of them ) with mileages from 75-220k and I've only ever changed one injector and that's only because the driver was a princess and the pea type . I had really slight diesel rattle at certain revs and one inj value was just out of spec so I changed it . Exactly the same afterwards and has done another 100k since .

[gordonbennet]

I had a 2007 Hilux 3 litre from new, and after three years it started to develop a light tinkling type injector sound, took it into Toyota who read the values and changed all 4 injectors, under goodwill cos technically out of warranty but Toyota as you know play fair.

I thought i could hear a similar slight rattle on mine when cold on a trailing throttle, and wanted to make sure all was well...rather spend a grand this year than eight buggers next.

The Diesel shop said they could spend a hell of a lot of money on it and it wouldn't make a scrap of difference and the slight rattle would still be there, far as they are concerned its spot on.

 

Handy to know those Hilux's continue to give good service though, thanks TwoSmoke for the reassurance, i've been right through the old girl, thoroughly rustproofed it, changed all the transmission oils etc and intend this old beasty to last a long long time.

[Zelandeth]

Grinned like a lunatic a couple of days back.

 

Car full of...I'll be polite and call them "youths" pulled up next to me at the lights. The car in question was...or at least had at some point been a Seat Arosa, in baby poo brown. It had also been lowered to a couple of inches below ground level, spotted an exhaust pipe I could probably park a coach in, and had wheel that were at least two inches too wide for the tyres. To top that all off, it looked like it had driven backwards through the chavvy accessories aisle at Halfords at high velocity.

 

The driver decided to make some choice remarks about the Lada, and started bouncing the poor engine in his car off the rev limiter. I did some quick checks - road utterly empty other than the numpties and me. Me in the Lada on my own. 1000kg, not entirely sure what power/torque since I added fuel injection other than "more than stock" and very short gearing...five adults in the Seat, which as I recall is pushing something like 60bhp, and is geared for economy. They didn't stand a chance.

 

Did I out drag them away from the lights? Nope...I absolutely *destroyed* them away from the lights. Let them catch up at the next roundabout...then did it again. The driver was absolutely livid...his passengers thought it was hilarious though. As did I.

 

I then gave myself a firm slap on the wrist for getting pulled into such juvenile nonsense and behaved myself the rest of the way home.

 

Kinda wish I had a dash cam as that would have been gold for YouTube...

[Ghosty]

Ha! I pissed off some similar crowds in Astras and the like with my old 216 auto. Nobody expects a two tone Rover to keep up with anything, but short gears, 110bhp, and not much over a ton makes for a fun little car.

[PhilA]

Bought some appliques to iron onto my boiler suit for working on the car:

 

 

Phil

 

 

(Yes, I know it's Fe₂O₃).

[PhilA]

Ha! I pissed off some similar crowds in Astras and the like with my old 216 auto. Nobody expects a two tone Rover to keep up with anything, but short gears, 110bhp, and not much over a ton makes for a fun little car.

Yup, 0-60 a lot of stuff will trounce all over the Renault, but beyond that (50-90) most big pickup trucks around here who think they can trace start to fall foul of inverse square law of aerodynamics. Low frontal area and low ratios win.

 

Phil

[doobietoo]

Marea soft top

[Stanky]

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Is that a super-niche gathering for the 'white-cars-which-were-built-as-tin-tops-which-have-had-their-rooves-inexpertly-removed' society?

 

Did you have to do a funny handshake to get in?

[purplebargeken]

Saw a really weird one yesterday. Looked like a sort of gwizz pick up. That's the only way I could describe it.

 

Stupid name too. So stupid I've forgotten it.

[The Moog]

Presenting at a conference today and the organiser showed me the entries for their competition last night.

 

Theme was worst date.

 

Runner up

 

I managed to woo a young lady,partly because I had a ford fiesta. I collected her for our first date and took her up to a local quarry for some quiet time. Lionel Richie playing on the cassette to help the mood.

 

Once there we started smooching and moved to the back seats. Sadly the hand brake wasnt on properly, which resulted in the car rolling down the hill and into the water.

 

Date ended by me calling my mates to come and help pull the car out. I never even got to second base that night

 

 

The winner

 

I had a very drunken date with a girl where we rowed and ended up splitting up. The next day she didn't remember any of it, and I couldn't be bothered to correct her.

 

We are now married.

[Aston Martin]

How many drugs were taken?

 

[cort1977]

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Is that a super-niche gathering for the 'white-cars-which-were-built-as-tin-tops-which-have-had-their-rooves-inexpertly-removed' society?

 

Did you have to do a funny handshake to get in?

I for one am interested in such a society and want to learn more.

[captain_70s]

The mighty Civic managed to acquire another year's ticket with the fitting of a drop link, an exhaust hanger and some numberplate bulbs.

The fact the rear calipers are binding and the handbrake won't hold the car on any sort of incline seems to have no effect on it's apparent roadworthy status.

 

Perhaps the 40 year exemption really does mean sod all...

[stephen01]

saw a 03 Clio, Looked tidy TBF, sporting 4 x new Michelins  - I don't think they were conned into new tyres otherwise it would have been 4 x new Chinese style cheapies. 

[Talbot]

After last night's vile journey to collect the Blingo of much cheapness, I had a quick look over the Mercedes of Doom to make sure I hadn't buggered it even more, and give all the glass a clean.  Spotted a bit of shoulder wear on one of the rear tyres.  Looked closer (it's quite hard to see the tyres on a W210 Avantgarde as the arches are so close to the tyres) and bollocks... that'll be two completely unlawful rear tyres then.  Smooth in places, and a maximum of about 0.3mm tread in other places.  How the hell did they get *that* bad?

 

A swift trip to a local part-worn tyre place at lunchtime today sees two bascally new 225/55R16 tyres (one still had the rubber sprues on the sidewall) fitted for the very reasonable sum of £60.. Ta muchly!

 

It's a really shitty looking tyre place on the cackiest "industrial" estate you've ever seen, but the guys there actually know what they're doing and don't rattle gun up your wheels to 1000000 lb-ft meaning you'll never get them off again.