What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mike D]

Mr. B's location.... it has brought back many happy memories of my fido dido'd house speakered xr2 wheels 950 fezza pop

[Lankytim]

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.

 

WTF is going on there??? Thats unbelievable!

 

There are a few truckers who don't give a ginsters about driving over grass verges and wrecking them. Its one aspect of the job I never got my head around. The layby just off J16 heading towards Crewe is a good spot to see bogged down lorries. They often spend the night in the layby then try to do a U turn to get back towards the M6 by driving across the verge. I remember seeing an artic that had completely blocked the A500 and was hopelessly stuck up to its axles in the mud. It was dragged out by a wrecker, lost its bumpers, wheelarches, the lot. Tosser!

 

Anyway..... Gave the Audi a good wash and applied some "back to black" to the tyres and trim. It now looks a million dollars! The wife has said i'm not allowed to sell it, ever... Thats the first time she's said that about my shite ever!

[michiel]

The roasted pumpkin soup I made today was good (and nothing left...)

[pompei]

Just turned the gas off after 5 hours cooking bolognese incorporating a full bottle of red and an extra helping of YUM. That's tomorrow night's tea sorted then!

[brammy777]

Being pretty much deafened by an ERF EC with a Rolls Royce engine (I think?) as it passed me earlier today in Basingstoke made my day, those things sound incredible.

Actually it was probably the Caterpillar engine, I dont know. The one that sounds really meaty.

[outlaw118]

I've been silly and immature. But hey, what the hell.

Cockdribbler in Barried supra, giving it the large to "that fat old man in a Volvo estate".

said fat old man was me, location M25, Volvo Estate was my V40 T4.

To paraphrase Troy Queef "I just knocked it down a cog, and was away".

Supra soon a black spec, and best of all Mrs Outlaw didn't wake up.

[Cavcraft]

Being pretty much deafened by an ERF EC with a Rolls Royce engine (I think?) as it passed me earlier today in Basingstoke made my day, those things sound incredible.

Actually it was probably the Caterpillar engine, I dont know. The one that sounds really meaty.

 

Probably a Perkins/Roller engine, they couldn't half go some and sounded ace.

[eddyramrod]

+1 million, outlaw, well done, another blow struck for the fat old bloke in the dull-looking car! I used to do the same sort of thing with my plain-jane MG Maestro...

 

Also, brammy: I used to drive an EC with the 11-litre Cummins. 380bhp, 16 speed gearbox.

Delicious, and when empty with the 3rd axle lifted, I could fling it about like an old Transit at town speeds, using only 2 or 3 gears because of the massive torque. I did have to be mindful of the length though, especially the rear overhang, which was big enough even with all the wheels down. With the trailing axle up, it was enormous! Trucks are one place where I believe modern is great. Buckets of power, smooth easy gearshift, light power steering, capable brakes... mm, don't think I'd really want to drive a 1950s ERF after this one.

[ashmicro]

Just got one of these for the long-haired CO:

 

 

It's TINY! 2 gigs of RAM, a 160GB hard disk, Wifi, webcam and carcharger for a smidge less than 200 clams. Makes my (new) laptop look positively archaic.

[cms206]

*pulls away from bus stop* hmmm... this gearchange has gone very soggy... *into third* ... hmmm, might have to defect this... OH B%X!

 

 

 

2 missed runs, and a roadside gearstick change later, I was back on the road just in time for my teabreak...

[barrett]

spectacularly off-topic, but apart from being downright awesome, this video has now given me two great new catchphrases - "The pinnacle of wizardry" and "A furry turkey with human legs"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygh1-ul6E94

[Guest]

spectacularly off-topic, but apart from being downright awesome, this video has now given me two great new catchphrases - "The pinnacle of wizardry" and "A furry turkey with human legs"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygh1-ul6E94

 

Is that some kind of CGI piss take?

[M'coli]

No - there's enough info on the web for it to be pukka. The colour changing is nowt for an octopus, they (and things like cuttlefish) can do that sort of stuff for fun.

 

Cephalopod molluscs are cool, as are most molluscs. Especially Bantry Bay mussels.

[barrett]

Not at all, there was a whole documentary about them on last year. Very interesting stuff

[Inspector Morose]

What makes me grin?

This place. It seems to have got it's mojo back.

[Barry Cade]

David Meshow. car music

 

[ashmicro]

...got its mojo back.

 

 

You are Cheryl Cole and I claim my 10p mix.

[autofive]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akeSsZe1018

 

the sound of this 5 litre v8 in a scimitar

[eddyramrod]

the sound of any v8 in any car!

EFA

[wuvvum]

Just got one of these for the long-haired CO:

 

Forgive my ludditeness, but what exactly is that thing? I quite like the look of it, and looks good value too - I might ask Santa to get me one.

[brammy777]

Well I was going to post in the grumpy old man thread about not being able to go to the NEC this weekend, but the amount of shite I have seen in Basingstoke lately has made me pretty happy! Also, I do enjoy winter, the rain went away at 12 today and it really brightened up, into a pleasent (but cold) day.

[trigger]

I was just coming out of Screwfix up to the roadabout when i saw the most amazing Mk 3 Cortina 2000E, It was being driven by Sid and Vera and was complete with the AA badge on the front grill and a local number plate (NJN ***P), It was mint and was painted in this really nice Royal Blue colour.

 

I took chase but got stuck at every traffic light and roundabout there was and lost them in the traffic, I'm gutted!, It was the last thing I expected to see in all this rain.

[Cavcraft]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0512703522

 

Inspirational feedback for the same item too

[trigger]

 

 

 

[Negative Creep]

[brammy777]

I was just coming out of Screwfix up to the roadabout when i saw the most amazing Mk 3 Cortina 2000E, It was being driven by Sid and Vera and was complete with the AA badge on the front grill and a local number plate (NJN ***P), It was mint and was painted in this really nice Royal Blue colour.

 

I took chase but got stuck at every traffic light and roundabout there was and lost them in the traffic, I'm gutted!, It was the last thing I expected to see in all this rain.

 

Okay that is scarily similar to what happened to me yesterday?! Whats bringing out all the old Fords?

[Negative Creep]

Cashier’s breasts add £5 to shopper’s fruit and veg bill

 

http://swns.com/scales-of-bust-ice-cash ... 91258.html

[RedSparrow]

Cashier’s breasts add £5 to shopper’s fruit and veg bill

 

http://swns.com/scales-of-bust-ice-cash ... 91258.html

 

LOL, but I do tend to agree with one comment:

 

Right, I clicked for the boobs, and what do i get? text. this is bullshit.

[Guest]

Folder found.

 

Volvo electrics - sorted for the moment.

 

Called next door at the unit a cunt.

 

Sorted.

[Guest]

Just got one of these for the long-haired CO:

 

Forgive my ludditeness, but what exactly is that thing? I quite like the look of it, and looks good value too - I might ask Santa to get me one.

 

It's a Samsung ePC - a sort of mini laptop running a basic version of Windows and internet ready. A lad on my course at Uni has one and I'm quite impressed with it. The battery seems to last an age compared to the lumbering pile of wank currently powering my laptop.

 

In fact, yours is identical to my mate's in all but colour. Wait, that sounds SO wrong. His was about £200 nearly new.

 

I might get one as a riposte to the rich kid MacBook Pro mafia that seem to be everywhere at Uni these days. 'I'm so skint' one of them says, 'I've spent £1100 on a MacBook' (the same girl has a fully loaded '10 plate Qashqai).

 

Fuck me, that's an expensive way of taking notes in a lecture. My method costs me about £2.30 a time (with fags and pen) and I get to spend a bit of my loan on a bished Dutch fusebox to smoke about in.