What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Louise2cv]

Its a bit harsh though that they've chosen to run with the "eye witness" guesstimation of 20 stone rather than the "official" estimate of 16 stone

 

Still. I see what you're saying

[RedSparrow]

 

She is pretty awesome. I would like to re-submit my suggestion that she replace Hammond on Top Gear.

[Guest]

 

She is pretty awesome. I would like to re-submit my suggestion that she replace Hammond on Top Gear.

 

I would like to submit my suggestion she replaces my other half

[retrogeezer]

This twat of a lorry driver made me laugh (but not all the motorists that were stuck in traffic because of him!)

 

 

No idea how he got there, guess he didn't want to go around the roundabout but then he should have had the brains to stay the other side of the keep left signs. After all, he had already gone the wrong way around the rounabout.

 

Having said that, as a grump it does annoy me that these truckers think it's o.k to just mash up nice grass verges with the lorries.

[meggersdog]

After spending an eternity welding up an inner wheel-arch,boot floor and door pillar then an hour crawling about underneath fitting a new exhaust my twenty year old Discovery was awarded an MOT pass at lunchtime.I celebrated by buying some jam filled doughnuts from the bakers.Mmmmm doughnuts.

[Louise2cv]

[ChinaTom]

...from the Grumpy thread (where the BMW had blown its header tank on a busy rainy dark street in Norwich and I had called Kwik-fit from where I had just driven after an MOT and service).

 

Chap comes out to my assistance, shone a torch, diagnosed, poured a load of antifreeze and water in the system and sorted out a truck to get the car back to them (only a mile or so). Gave me a lift back to Kwikfit. Realizing I was stranded, the chap drives me home to New Buckenham - a cool 20 miles out of his way where we spoke of little other than shite cars and how we love them. Thanks Gavin. Beyond the call of duty by a mile. Look what I came home in:

 

 

Seriously good service from Kwik-fit, although I suspect it's because they are a really great bunch of chaps there, rather than normal service standards.

[Pillock]

Tiger stripes FTW!! Bless.

Yeah I can't imagine that's standard KwikFit service but props nontheless. Maybe worth an email to their head office saying how good they all are, often means they get pressies and bonuses etc.

[Guest]

Tiger stripes FTW!! Bless.

Yeah I can't imagine that's standard KwikFit service but props nontheless. Maybe worth an email to their head office saying how good they all are, often means they get pressies and bonuses etc.

 

Aye, worth a pop.

[ashmicro]

Yeah, what Pillock said. One day lately when my Mum was at home alone, the cat had brought in a VERY dead pigeon. Birds scare the hell out of my mother. A while later, DHL arrived with a parcel, and the bloke agreed to come in and get rid of said deceased avian. Mum wrote to head office, and some weeks later the DHL bloke was in the area and came to the door. Apparently his bosses were well chuffed with him, good PR and all that.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Two bits of good news today:

 

These cakes arehalf price at morrisons, so i have bought and eaten one already.

 

 

And, obnoxious South Yorkshire MP Phil Woolas, who I have a particular hatred for, has had his election campaign techniques declared 'bollocks' by a court, so meaning he's no longer the MP and has been booted out of the Labour party. Trebles all round!

 

 

Get to the back of the dole queue loser!

[Guest]

BEHEAD THOSE WHO TRIM PICTURES OF EXTREMISTS USING MS PAINT

[pogweasel]

Golden Syrup Cake is made from cake, syrup and WIN.

I thought that Phil Woolas' career highlight was when Joanna Lumley made him look like a naughty little boy.

[AnthonyG]

I thought that Phil Woolas' career highlight was when Joanna Lumley made him look like a naughty little boy.

 

Happily they showed that clip again on the 6 o'clock news last night!

 

Phil Woolas wrote a election diary which got published in a paper (poss. the Guardian). It was hilarious - full of swearing, comments like 'Gordon's just fucked us over again', 'Oh I'm up shit creek' etc etc.

 

I'm not really sure if it was meant to be published or not!

[pogweasel]

Obtaining a 64-pc Halford's Pro socket set for £49, when it was supposed to be £110.

[Mr Lobster]

Don't think I've ever had Golden Syrup cake before. However it sounds like it would be GR8 4 OM NOM NOM so I might have to go get one / some.

[Cavcraft]

Just got some rather nice live rock and corals for my marine fish tank for £40 from a top geezer near Manchester, which would have cost me a good £100 in a fish shop. Cost me next to sod all in dizzle juice to get there so a good trip out.

[ashmicro]

Golden Syrup Cake is for winnars. Also, if you eat 2, it'll make you sleep.

[barrett]

Much as I enjoy a Golden Syrup cake, I think you'll find that this is the true cake of choice for real winnars

 

And it's impossible to not eat it all in one go

[trigger]

Old cars are making me grin again today.

 

I haven't used my Kadett for a few weeks and as my Bora is a bit of a shitta and as I'm thinking about getting shot of it soon i thought I'd take the Kadett out for a spin to a few garages.

 

So i nipped of to my local Vauxhall garage just to see what they had (sweet fa) and all the sales staff come out to have a look around my car, then the workshop boys all came out and had a chat about it say how nice it was and how they wish all modern cars were as simple to work on.

 

Then next door is the Ford garage so I popped there, Straight away a salesman come out nearly tripping over him self, He love it too, He owns a 1950's Daimler Conquest that he's owned 30 years that he shows, Really nice bloke, we started talking about car brochures and magazines and he said he has a room full of them he collected them as a lad back in the 70's and that he needs a clear out, He tells me that i can have a load of them! He took my number and gave me his business card and told me that if i haven't heard anything for a few weeks to call him to arrange getting them, I'm well chuffed with that.

 

We also spoke about the part x's and he was telling me about this XM Turbo.

 

1994 Citroen XM 2.0i Turbo in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Turns out it was a trade in that there was nothing wrong with that they was going to scrap, So he bought it for £50 and now his Citroen mad mate owns it, which is nice, And he said how he saved a mint Triumph TR7 that came in on scrappage as well, It cost £1700 to save it though.

 

Also saw one of these new Honda CR-Z's at my local Honda garage, what a fugly looking car, The interior has this long really plasticy centre column and the most impractical rear seats ever.

 

2010 White Honda CRZ Hybrid Low Front Quarter by NWVT.co.uk, on Flickr

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The ginger cakes are half price too, so FILL YA BOOTS LOBSTA!!!! The Jamaica ginger cake is exaclty the same as the syrup cake TBH. Some folk reckon that one of them has a dash of extra WIN in the mix, i'm not convinced seeing as they are both made from 100% PWN.

[Vin]

After about 12 months of on and off fettling (new brake pipes, inner sill repair, etc) my Panda 750 finally got an MOT this morning

 

I'll probably get a refurb kit for the carb though. She idles lovely, but any 'sudden' foot on the pedal action when stationary and it stalls......

 

I've also got a set of Kingpins on order for it, so the plan is it will become my WINTER WEAPON as the season progresses....

[Richard]

The NUJ strike. This morning was some of the best output I have heard in years on BBC Radio 4 and 5.

 

R5 - from 1 am - a look back at the Beijing Olympics with housewives fave John Inverdale, followed by a bio of some mad boxer from a hundred years ago callled Johnston who liked teenage prozzies (Hirst?) Therefore, no "intersting" phone in (zzzzz) with Dotun Adebayo, STUPIDLY LOUD adverts for upcoming football matches, no Nicky Campbell or the the former wife of Mr Magoo (Adrian Chiles ex bird, forget her name) giggling or losing the plot.

 

 

Radio 4 - This morning, 2 programs about bird life near The Wash, with Great Lives with Matthew Parris on Churchill in betweeen the 2. So, no Toady (Sic) Programme with John Humphrys' voice fluctuating between 185dB and a whisper, and none of that swivel-eyed mong off Dragon's Den either.

 

Let 'em strike, I say!

 

I'm now off to listen to Desert Island Discs.

 

It's great isn't it.

[Mr Lobster]

This amused me, if only for the following bit

 

one of six doctors and nurses working for the medical charity SIMCAS alongside the South-East Coast Ambulance and St John Ambulance services at the event.

 

So I do hope there is some medical squad dashing around the south coast dispensing medical assistance from the back of 1100 vans, Chambords and the like.

[warren t claim]

This amused me, if only for the following bit

 

one of six doctors and nurses working for the medical charity SIMCAS alongside the South-East Coast Ambulance and St John Ambulance services at the event.

 

So I do hope there is some medical squad dashing around the south coast dispensing medical assistance from the back of 1100 vans, Chambords and the like.

 

I may be having a senior moment but didn't the RSPCA have a fleet of Simca vans?

[MrDuke]

Today, 2 truly epic things happened in my tiny little world.

 

1. We had a letter from our local MP, telling us that thanks to his intervention, the cnuts at HMRC have totally written off the £3,500 in overpaid tax credits that they were trying to screw us for. Apparently 'justice' is still alive and jerking spasmodically.

 

2. After a 20-mile journey in pouring rain, with no wipers or demister (and failing heater), Mrs_Duke has officially instructed me to get the Lada sorted, so that she can feel relatively safe on the road. Actually, she told me to "get that car from Kev that you keep banging on about, I don't care how much money he wants", at which point I told her for the first time that it was in fact a chocolate brown Riva... her face was indescribable.

 

Also, my 2 weeks without interwebz is over. AND despite coming down with a chest infection yesterday, I managed to completely pwn it with whisky last night. So I am indeed grinning.

 

[mattblack]

Did someone say cake?

 

 

 

Homemade christmas cake FTW!

[seth]

I'm grinning because while most people were still in bed this morning I was enjoying one of the worlds great motor events and am now back home in time for breakfast. I'll stick some photos up of the old crocks later!

[Negative Creep]

 

 

 

If you laugh at this then we are truly kindred spirits

[scaryoldcortina]

Cooking and Food...

 

I just made a full sunday dinner for 4 people.. Roast, mash, carrots and swede, 2 sorts of stuffing, homemade applesauce, yorkshire puddings and gravy. 2 hours to prepare, 20 minutes to eat... I'm now well and truly stuffed and onto the asda's 3-for-a-tenner wine selection. Om nom firkin nom!