What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[D Spares & Tyres]

This is the best day of my life. Autoshite talking about the Wildhearts!

 

And his real name is now officially Ginger Wildheart - he changed it

He has been having some real problems recently, hopefully he will get it all together. 

 

 

Wildhearts are the best band ever I reckon.

 

Ginger always seems to have some really bad phases, I haven't read the latest but I'm not suprised

[D Spares & Tyres]

Possibly one of the best gigs I've ever been to - supported by THERAPY? at Leeds Met.

I saw them on that tour too. It was a joint headlining thing I think. I was at Wolverhampton not Leeds though.

 

Probably one of the best gigs I have ever been too, and I've been to hundreds. Therapy and Wildhearts in the same place, wow!

 

I even pulled a gorgeous rock chick that night. Then I got too pissed and must have put her off. Never saw her again. Great night all the same though.

[gordonbennet]

Oh dear I didn't think this still happened

 

Have a bonus rover 45

 

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Doesn't still happen !!! if only.

 

On the lorry drivers forum i frequent there are whole threads on bloody bridge strikes, its every day now and far far worse usually than that little scrape.

If it aint bridge strikes it bloody massive crashes, often fatal, involving several lorries at a time, usually on a motorway where they're all going the same way with on average a max 5mph speed differential, HTF do they manage it.

 

Can't understand it meself we've all passed a strenuous test (lots of them in an auto lorry), had 35 hours of classroom training* and the walk round check has seen all boxes well and truly ticked, the gearlever has been switched to D and the cheap as chips steering wheel attendee is in place, WCPGW...

the sarcasm is strong in this one Obiwan.

[panhard65]

The Wildhearts were the dogs dangly bits. I saw them many times back in the 90's I remember them at the corn exchange in Cambridge so loud the bass was making rings on the top of my pint. Stood next to ginger watching the sex pistols at finsbury park some years ago, there were some cracking bands on that afternoon.

[Alfamale]

Doesn't still happen !!! if only.

 

On the lorry drivers forum i frequent there are whole threads on bloody bridge strikes, its every day now and far far worse usually than that little scrape.

If it aint bridge strikes it bloody massive crashes, often fatal, involving several lorries at a time, usually on a motorway where they're all going the same way with on average a max 5mph speed differential, HTF do they manage it.

 

Can't understand it meself we've all passed a strenuous test (lots of them in an auto lorry), had 35 hours of classroom training* and the walk round check has seen all boxes well and truly ticked, the gearlever has been switched to D and the cheap as chips steering wheel attendee is in place, WCPGW...

the sarcasm is strong in this one Obiwan.

Last time I was on a coach on the motorway at their level I couldn't believe how many were cocking about on laptops or watching a film or box set. That may have something to do with it maybe?

[gordonbennet]

I've only ever once seen a bloke at the wheel of a lorry with a film playing,  in the dark too,  that was a johnny foreigner.

 

Don't see many lorry drivers fiddling with phones any more, haven't seen a texter for a long time, nothing wrong with using a hands free device on the phone for speaking mind though i suspect that will be the next thing to be banned.

 

See dozens of people in company cars texting with the phones on their laps every day, lots read reports or some bumf too on A4 printed sheets.

 

Lorry driving standards took a steep dive when they replaced the gearstick with a switch, now any bloody fool can attend a lorry wheel so any fool is attending.

[dollywobbler]

Actually, I find hands-free phonecalls seriously distracting, so I avoid them by not having a hands-free kit. Oddly, making videos I find less distracting, but then you don't see the chopped bits where I've stopped talking because I'm concentrating on actually not crashing. 

[The Moog]

I have a big package on a pallet waiting outside for me to open tomorrow.

 

It might contain Puma bits

[D Spares & Tyres]

How times have changed...

 

After mentioning The Wildhearts I played Earth Vs whilst cooking a stir fry. Bits of vegetables and noodles everywhere.

[Tickman]

I have a big package on a pallet waiting outside for me to open tomorrow.

 

It might contain Puma bits

 

Seats? They might get wet outside!

[xtriple]

I never do the lottery. But, today I bought a ticket for the first time in years and while I haven't won as such, I got two numbers so I get another go apparently. I can feel it in my water, I'm gonna win MILLIONS!   

[Pillock]

... which were also logged on the system, and programmed to alert the operator if a winning one is presented.

 

Someone round here nicked the display case full of lottery tickets, and was surprised when the CCTV of them presenting a winning one was handed to the police the next day.

[The Moog]

Seats? They might get wet outside!

Under lots of plastic......

 

It definitely has nothing to do with missus Moog getting angry at 6 30am tomorrow morning when climbing over seats..

 

That definitely have always been in the puma .... Definitely

[Cavcraft]

Talking of stolen, a few years back someone robbed a bouncy castle from a local pub. The OB found it a week later, fully inflated in someone's back garden about a mile away.

[strangeangel]

After years of festering in a shed in North Yorkshire, this spectacularly rank moped:

 

 

 

has successfully turned a wheel on the Queen's highway!

 

 

Love it

[beko1987]

Just picked amy up from the hospital. Driving down a rat run of speedbumps, we were down to 15mph due to her crying in pain on each one, which was annoying.

 

Clearly this was annoying to the Chavez dick head behind us who overtook. We are in a 20,so I wasn't going that slowly.

 

Whatever, fuck off then. Except there's traffic uo ahead, so we stay behind her.

 

Turns out, she hasn't quite mastered clutch control, and rolled back every time she moved away (we are going up a hill)

 

I made sure I stayed as far up her arse as I could at all times, we could see her panicking every time she pulled away for the 1/2 mile to the ring road, trying not to roll backwards into us. If she had, I'd have gone full arsehole initially right up to the point she probably would have started to cry, then I'd have given her a life lesson of not overtaking without checking infront that it's worth it! (c1 on p plates)

 

That'll teach her! Even amy laughed. Id have honked the horn too, but it doesn't work very well...

[eddyramrod]

Not really sure if this is a Grin or a Grump...

Today is the fifth anniversary of me starting at the bakery.

On balance, I'll go for Grin, because holding onto a job, any job, for five years is a bit of an achievement these days.

[Cavcraft]

Well in there, StrangeAngel, you did well to get that back on the road by the look of it.

[Kiltox]

I probably wore the horn out

 

Not that hard to change, had to do it on the ex SiC Scenic for MOT

[beko1987]

I probably wore the horn out

 

Not that hard to change, had to do it on the ex SiC Scenic for MOT

No I was in the Zafira. Easier for Amy to get in, and I didn't have to empty the gooner to swap the car seats

 

If I was in the gooner on my own I wouldn't have been doing 15mph/she wouldn't have got past

 

Horn on the gooner works fine, gets plenty of excersise

[Kiltox]

 

Horn on the gooner works fine, gets plenty of excersise

Good lad, keep it in what it’s used to

[fordperv]

Spotted a local registered, lesser spotted sad face fiesta earlier in non pogweasel red shock, it looked a tidying old girl there was a little rust on the back of sills/arch but other than that and the gash wheel trims it looked nice

 

 

Oh shit I just checked the m.o.t status and the m.o.t has lapsed in may

[willswitchengage]

Was watching a Vietnam war documentary and saw these LARCs which I'd never heard of before. How big?!

 

[cobblers]

Yeah, the reason I got a dashcam is when a Ford Galaxy full of people rolled back down a hill in traffic towards me and stopped with millimeters to spare.

[hairnet]

all accomdation for usa nz trip booked

 

hiring this

 

 

just have to book flight to nz from yank and the flight home

 

and its 4 months and two week to go

[Ghosty]

Passed a house in Sheffield earlier - two tone Alfa 165 on the drive, and a Merc W115 and an SVX outside

[Jon]

An elderly neighbour came round today all in a panic, as she'd doofed a large metal bin in a local supermarket car park at low speed and was worried that she'd written her Mitsubishi Mirage off. Here's the result:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographer's Guild qualz images courtesy of the iphone 4 sitting in my pocket at the time.

 

 

 

Anyway, 25 minutes later (most of which were used trying to locate my best bodging tools) we had this:

 

 

 

Again, hark at the mastery of my framing and overexposure, but you get the idea. I also found out that Autosol is good for removing paint scuffs. Anyway, Pebble Beach entrants will hardly be quivering in their handmade Italian brogues but our neighbour was over the moon and insisted on trying to pay me. 

 

I told her that the 2 hours each day she'd spent visiting and overfeeding our cat  whilst we were away for over a month was probably enough payment....

[steveo3002]

whats the black thing sticking out?

[BavarianRetro]

Talking of stolen, a few years back someone robbed a bouncy castle from a local pub. The OB found it a week later, fully inflated in someone's back garden about a mile away.

Many years ago a post van or post man in the Glasgow area was robbed on a Thursday morning

 

A couple of hours later two masked men brandishing a sawn off shotgun entered a post office, marched up to the counter and tipped over 100 Giro cheques out of a carrier bag and pointed the gun at the teller, shouting

 

"Fucking cash thaim!"

[Stanky]

Was watching a Vietnam war documentary and saw these LARCs which I'd never heard of before. How big?!

 

 

There used to be 3 of these parked up on some waste ground on the right as you drove into Portsmouth - near the old dog track. They are flipping MASSIVE