What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

You know my courtesy Sandero?

The one that's two months old?

 

Indicators packed up on the way home.

[320touring]

  On 07/12/2017 at 18:33, Pillock said:

You know my courtesy Sandero?

The one that's two months old?

 

Indicators packed up on the way home.

That's Clio provenance for you!

 

Try pulling out and waggling the hazard light switch, or rattling the stalk about

[Pillock]

I'm gonna chuck it back at the garage. See grumpy thread.

[beko1987]

And you were singing it's praises earlier... Ah wait, no you weren't!

[Pillock]

  On 07/12/2017 at 18:46, beko1987 said:

And you were singing it's praises earlier... Ah wait, no you weren't!

Hang on, you touched my Dacia and now it doesn't work!

 

HE'S CURSED! CURSED!

[Pillock]

  On 07/12/2017 at 18:38, 320touring said:

That's Clio provenance for you!

 

Try pulling out and waggling the hazard light switch, or rattling the stalk about

Oh, the switch works. All offside indicators are dead, but the light on the dash flashes double time. Nearside works fine.

 

The irony of being stuck with a non-indicating courtesy car whilst my BMW is in for a service is not lost on me.

[beko1987]

  On 07/12/2017 at 18:49, Pillock said:

Hang on, you touched my Dacia and now it doesn't work!

 

HE'S CURSED! CURSED!

No, do t be silly, you just parked next to my laguna, the renault spread... Poor chap who parked the other side probably has no working headlights by now

[Timewaster]

  On 07/12/2017 at 11:54, bramz7 said:

Handed in my notice today due to impending job change. Oddly timed well as my pay was going to be coming down slightly, now not a worry. My new job has something like 8 weeks of training though....yikes.

Exciting stuff.

This is all good. Any company that invests 8 weeks worth of training is much less likely to kick you out when the chips are down as it will cost them a fortune to retrain someone else when it picks up again.

[DeeJay]

The one and only Sunday Sport.

 

[richardmorris]

  On 07/12/2017 at 11:49, dollywobbler said:

Latest issue of Retro Japanese is making me smile. That's our eighth issue done, and I got given complete free rein. Hirst talks about the Subaru Legacy, Ratdat talks about the surprising number of Nissan N12 Pulsar/Cherry spin-offs and I drive a peach of a Honda Civic second-gen. And a Nissan President. And a Datsun Fairlady 1500 that was sold new in Rhodesia. Happy times! I also compared my Honda with a Nissan Cube. 

 

It's on sale 15th December. If it sells well, despite this motley collection of non-commercial motors, I'll be thrilled. We even had a Daihatsu Sportrak buyer's guide FFS!

 

What’s a Nissan president?

[Kiltox]

@pillock my dad has a 16 plate Sandero and I’m pretty sure it’s had an indicator stalk!

[Sheefag]

  On 07/12/2017 at 00:27, robinmasters said:

Made redundant last week, but it means I'm officially employed until the end of the month, then get paid my notice, then get some more on top for being a good boy and agreeing to it without a fight.

 

Time off just before Christmas, and sufficient money to fund starting a business/compensate for changing career and starting from the bottom again/allow me to have an extended period off. WCPGW?

 

It also means the company car goes back, so I can drive something less bland.

 

Am I the only one who immediately thought of this?

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Got this plugged into the big fancy telly today.

 

 

Boss at work says he's been bought one for Xmas and can't make it work on his new telly. Said I'd see with mine and all was good. Couldn't find the rest of my games though. Jr. Pac-man, bit poo!

[fordperv]

^ I have 2 Atari 2600 and a ruck of games I occasionally play on, have only ever put it on my older tv that i kept for the old computers though

[AlabamaShrimp]

Yeah I've got a wooden VCS as well it's just he's got a junior so I was making sure it would do the same.

 

I don't have many games and god knows where they've got to. Of course I managed to find games for the 400, 7800 and intellivision but sod all 2600.

[dollywobbler]

  On 07/12/2017 at 18:14, DeeJay said:

 

No it didn't.

Error 404

This back issue is not currently available.

FFS. Thanks folks. I'll look into it.

[spike60]

Less of a grin, more of a WTF?  Is this a thing in the Midlands?

 

 

Man 'cements microwave to head' in Wolverhampton

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42271150

[dollywobbler]

  On 07/12/2017 at 17:52, dollywobbler said:

Ah! Anyway, can be bought online and delivered where you like.

 

CLICK HERE

 

Ok. For some reason, if I just paste the URL, it doesn't work. However, if you now click Click Here, it should work. Odd.

[5speedracer]

  On 08/12/2017 at 09:05, spike60 said:

Less of a grin, more of a WTF? Is this a thing in the Midlands?

 

 

Man 'cements microwave to head' in Wolverhampton

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42271150

Nearly a Darwin award candidate.

 

Sent from my Redmi 4 using Tapatalk

[oldcars]

  On 08/12/2017 at 09:05, spike60 said:

Less of a grin, more of a WTF?  Is this a thing in the Midlands?

 

 

Man 'cements microwave to head' in Wolverhampton

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42271150

 we need a cull of idiots like this. Leave him, moron.

[andy18s]

Currently sat in Veliko Tarnova city park watching the Christmas decorations to up in prep for the festival

Having a cracking hot chocolate with cream and people watching as the locals deal with the weather....

This time last year we were under half a metre of snow and the Mrs was stuck in Romania due to closed roads

We had our 1st good frost last night

[oldcars]

  On 08/12/2017 at 10:15, andy18s said:

Currently sat in Veliko Tarnova city park watching the Christmas decorations to up in prep for the festival

Having a cracking hot chocolate with cream and people watching as the locals deal with the weather....

This time last year we were under half a metre of snow and the Mrs was stuck in Romania due to closed roads

We had our 1st good frost last night

Colder here, we don't get above freezing over the weekend and we are near the coast. 

[Supernaut]

I'm the only person in the office this afternoon, so put on a spot of last.fm

 

Stumbled across this video featuring Noel Fielding, Nick Frost, and some prime chod complete with a dash-top portable CD player.

 

[Supernaut]

I've not seen Baby Driver, but I don't want to now, knowing it doesn't feature Noel Fielding and a scabby old Granada.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

  On 07/12/2017 at 21:08, richardmorris said:

What’s a Nissan president?

 

A money grabbing, nepotistic, defrauding sheister?

[Sloth in a bowl]

One for the Junkman

 

[FakeConcern]

Somebody on AS suggested Ublock Origin.

I tried it and it's really good, better than I would have thought possible, even Youtube is watchable now! I would thank whoever it was, but I can't remember which thread it was in.

Thank you anyway!

[Vin]

Now on holiday. No more work now until 2018... :-D

[meggersdog]

A little light relief to an otherwise shit   day.

I run a small MOT station as a couple of you know.One of my good customers, Nene Overland, came in today with one of their specials.A Land Rover 110 double cab pick-up.The car had been lowered slightly had uprated brakes and suspension and was fitted with a Corvette 6.2 LS3 v8 engine and auto box mated to the original transfer box.Due to the auto box I had to  use the tapley meter to test the brakes which meant taking the car out.

When I came back I said to the technician "one word, MENTAL"

He replied "one word, UNNECESSARY"  

[D Spares & Tyres]

Snow!

 

LWB Terrano with an LSD and grippy tyres!

 

No way am I putting it in 4WD, that would spoil the fun!