What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

Aww Ronnie Pickering doesn't have a Wikipedia page. Might have to edit the section on the Picasso to say he's it's most famous driver

[AlabamaShrimp]

I can't. Mainly as I'm absolutely useless and lazy so will likely forget and you know that it'll be deleted nearly straight away by one of their editors*

[Kiltox]

MEGABARG*

 

[fordperv]

  On 29/01/2018 at 15:21, AlabamaShrimp said:

Aww Ronnie Pickering doesn't have a Wikipedia page. Might have to edit the section on the Picasso to say he's it's most famous driver

Your welcome

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_Xsara_Picasso

 

In case it gets taken down

[clayts450]

They'll probably advise 'needs citation'

 

You could link to Daily Fail

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251966/I-m-Ronnie-Pickering-Driver-embarrasses-angry-know-road-rage-rant-moped-rider.html

 

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Despite being a local at a nearby pub, its landlord is unaware of who he is

[DodgeRover]

It needs an entry in the IMBD cars database now!

[75`er]

Most of us have been there, lol`s and would work with the guy any day.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/7t8c0l/pedal_to_the_metal/

 

[FakeConcern]

Someone I know had their identity hacked and loads of stuff was bought on ebay.

 

It all turned up at his own address!

[dollywobbler]

  On 29/01/2018 at 19:34, FakeConcern said:

Someone I know had their identity hacked and loads of stuff was bought on ebay.

 

It all turned up at his own address!

 

How good is his security?

[strangeangel]

Bought a BX tailgate for 99p on eBay the other day, because I need the boot catch. That, and a wiper motor that doesn't smell of fire when I try to use it. The seller turns out to be a genuinely ace chap who, despite a clearly busy life, is trying to get a bright red TZD back on the road. I'll be heading back over that way to get a nice NSR door he has to replace the bent one on mine.

 

I have advised him of the existence of this place, here's hoping he turns up at some point.

[bub2006]

It's been taken off already!

[Kiltox]

 

Life and soul of the party

[robinmasters]

  On 29/01/2018 at 11:00, DVee8 said:

A mate telling me about a online spat,he had on a 1 make site about how a EGR valve works.

This spat started to get a little warm.With the other person shouting in SHOUTY text DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??

Said mate starts to think maybe i'm wrong and maybe this bloke knows something so googles him.No google doesn't know who he is either.A little bit more do yo know who I am goes by,it turns out he runs a modding company for these cars.

Last i heard still arguing.

How could anyone disagree about that? All it does is R's the EG's.

[AlabamaShrimp]

  On 29/01/2018 at 19:45, Kiltox said:

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Life and soul of the party

What a proper knob head

[richardmorris]

This reminds me of Reginald Perrin’s GROT.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/29/elon-musk-sells-21m-of-flamethrowers-in-a-day-plus-extinguishers

[seth]

SItting on a bus heading towards the West End today and I saw only one interesting car. But it was a Studebaker Avanti driving the other way near Swiss Cottage.  A bloody STUDEBAKER AVANTI!

[fordperv]

  On 29/01/2018 at 19:43, bub2006 said:

It's been taken off already!

Removed because its Unencyclopedic gossip

 

[bub2006]

Spoilsports

[Pillock]

So I applied for a couple of PPI jobbies a couple of years ago. One paid out, the other bounced because something something. I dunno, but I was happy to cash a cheque for £75 or whatever from one of them.

 

The one that didn't pay out wrote to me last month, apparently something has changed in the rules and they have to look at cases again. Would I like them to look at mine? Single tick box on a bit of paper, pre-paid envelope. Sat around for a couple of weeks but I finally posted it just before Christmas.

 

They sent me a pack today, opened it when I got the chance. Looks like just a load of leaflets and generic response stuff. Thank you for your complaint, yada yada blah blah, investigated blah blah we're gonna send you a cheque for £fourfigures blah blah blah. Hang on, read that last bit again.....

 

WTaF? Even better, because the lender wrote to me directly we skipped the third party I used last time, so they don't get a cut. NICE.

[cobblers]

Last year I found a house to buy, the mrs didn't like it and we had mega arguments about it and I nearly ended up single because of it. Both of us have our heads screwed on a lot better as a result of that and it forced us to sit down and have a good word with ourselves, we're loads better for it.

Anyway, this house was one in a row of about 12 houses, with nice fields all around them. Since last year I've watched 6 or 7 of them come up for sale. Seems a lot, so I got more suspicious, turns out there's a flipping triple whammy that we've avoided.

To start, fracking is on the cards, but on top of that there's a travellers site planned about 500 yards away, and those nice fields? 650 houses to be built on them.

We still want to move and everything that comes on the market gets sold 25 minutes after we view it, but bloody hell we've dodged a right bullet with that one!

[AlabamaShrimp]

But he's got a blue plaque

 

[sierraman]

Isn't it weird what you have dreams about, dreamt last night I'd gone to a police impound auction and there was a Cortina GXL and a Simca Alpine. Where does random shit like that come from?

[Captain Furious]

Work colleague has been moping around the office because his boiler had failed - last thing I need right after xmas, it always happens this time of year etc etc

 

Had an engineer out to it last night, turns out he'd somehow managed to turn off the gas isolator valve.  Fortunately he got an honest one who only charged him £25 call out and didn't go ahead fitting a new boiler, radiators, shower etc.  He probably thought it was a trap and expected to Dominic Littlewood to leap out.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I sort of had that above when I used to fix computers.

 

Guy said it wouldn't turn on. Went to his house pressed the power button, it started. No charge, walked out. No point wasting your own time making up work.

[catsinthewelder]

I had that last week, drove down to a customers house to fix a window that wouldn't secure shut. Arrived to find it tied to the banisters with rope. Undid that opened it to look for anything obviously wrong. Couldn't see owt so tried to shut it and couldn't find anything wrong at all. Fixed the garage door in 2 minutes by bending the operating arms back into place then spent an hour cursing at a wobbly front door handle.

[DodgeRover]

The cynic in me wonders if some kind soul had turned the gas off outside in the box as they were walking past...

[xtriple]

It is a cold and drizzly sort of day down here in 'sunny' Devon so I was quite surprised to see a nearly brand new Lexmoto version of an old Lambretta/Vespa thing parked outside the Co-op. It looked pretty damn good to be honest and though I have never been a great fan of scooters, I could really see the appeal. Anyway, I met the lass who owns it (Pretty, young, mad!) and she was waxing lyrical about it, rides it everywhere in any weather and uses it for carrying her guiter (front rack) and amp (rear rack) for when she's  perfoming (street performer).

 

I was most impressed and the way she shot off up the road (to get away from me possibly   ) showed a decent turn of speed.

[xtriple]

Just been watching some Jay Leno videos (he is a cool guy - the bastard!) and he was testing a Honda S600. I nearly didn't watch it 'cos the car looked beaten to hell. But, my third ever car was a Honda S800 (NAF 5F) and so...

 

Brilliant!

 

The car is a beater, bodywise but it has a CBR1000RR motor and all sorts of trick bits scrounged from other bikes and scrapyards.  Worth a watch....

 

[fordperv]

Today I thought I'd have a look at why the heater motor had failed on my mk1 sierra, took the motor from the casing and saw that the tension spring on one of the brushes had corroded away meaning that the brush wasn't in contact, a pen spring later and it was working as it should

[chodweaver]

Opening up the Club XM forum on Tapatalk, and mistaking it for the beige...

 

How?

 

Someone started a new thread entitled 'New Ford Ad' and then proceeded to rip into it. This was quickly followed by some more derogatory remarks about small SUV ads from all the major manufacturers and seems to have concluded with much shaking of heads and mutterings of 'fings ain't wot they used to be'.

 

See what I mean?

 

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