What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[beko1987]

And?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Today I went to see the solicitor about this pecuniary bequest letter he sent me.....  

 

   

 

Wasn't me.

[Christine]

A lot..  almost fell over TBH.

 

I was driving home, trembling a bit ,(  as me cambelt is  on 100k , but i don't need to worry if it snaps now ) looking at other peoples cars thinking

"After i've paid off my credit card ,  I could have a car like that.."  and 

 

" I could buy a Miele  vacuum....give Beko my Sebo"  and

 

"I wonder how many houses i could buy in Bulgaria ?"...  

[vulgalour]

"You and me, we've always been good friends, haven't we?  Only, there's this thing..."

 

Moving to Bulgaria may well avoid this conversation with people that hear of your good fortune but only vaguely know who you are.

[Eddie Honda]

looking at other peoples cars thinking

"After i've paid off my credit card ,  I could have a car like that.."

You've gone soft in the head. (I know you said "could", but that's a slippery slope)

 

Even if I one the Euromillions, I'd never be looking at other people's cars thinking "I could have a car like that..." Wouldn't enter my head. Last time I accidently ran into some cash after my Great Uncle Honda passed away I went out and bought a rough Volvo 343 with 1/26th of the proceeds and did a collection holiday in it.

[PhilA]

Turns out I wasn't hearing things back at Christmas- haven't seen any more red cardinals in the yard but the screech of a bird of prey turns out to have been a bald eagle, which buzzed the car on the way home, flapping furiously to gain some height over the road, carrying a fish.

Really rare to see them around here, iconic bird.

 

Dunno if this is a grump or a grin but this morning started out with the air conditioning on in the house, this evening the heating is switched on. A drop of nearly 20c in 12 hours and the forecast says by Tuesday is going to be -4 so the fruit trees are all covered up again looking like the bushes along the side of the M4 near London, all covered in plastic bags blowing in the wind

[The Moog]

A lot.. almost fell over TBH.

 

I was driving home, trembling a bit ,( as me cambelt is on 100k , but i don't need to worry if it snaps now ) looking at other peoples cars thinking

"After i've paid off my credit card , I could have a car like that.." and

 

" I could buy a Miele vacuum....give Beko my Sebo" and

 

"I wonder how many houses i could buy in Bulgaria ?"...

It shows that it pays to be nice to people.

 

By the way, did anyone tell you have a lovely smile?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

...Even if I won the Euromillions, ....

... nobody would know.

[beko1987]

It shows that it pays to be nice to people.

 

By the way, did anyone tell you have a lovely smile?

Ill smile as much as you like if you give me a sebo!

[Eddie Honda]

... nobody would know.

True. I'd be prentending to go to work my usual long shifts while secretly hoarding/fixing more shite.

 

Sort of a Secret Shiteneer.

 

I'd reckon I'd last a good few years before even anyone was remotely suspicious.

[Guest Hooli]

People would know in no time with me. I'd have moved, got loads of shite & be touring the world in it within weeks.

[The Moog]

There is a brilliant thread on Reddit on what to do if you win big. Well worth a read

[beko1987]

There is a brilliant thread on Reddit on what to do if you win big. Well worth a read

Link? Putting the boy to bed, could do with something to occupy 30 minutes

[The Moog]

Link? Putting the boy to bed, could do with something to occupy 30 minutes

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/

[FakeConcern]

I know there's a good number plate thread, but I couldn't see it right away so CBA to find it. I also have a spotted thread of my own, but almost no one ever looked at it so............

 

 

In Battle

 

 

When did you last see a 4x4 Cav?

[DodgeRover]

Pleased for Christine, wow that reddit thread, I'm glad I have no chance of winning the lottery in the US!

 

I'm ticking the no publicity box and having my own lpg tank installed to run a small fleet of V8s!

[Cavcraft]

Was on my work's do last night and won a ten spot on the bandit in my new favourite bargain price pub. Believing in spending money locally, it went straight on four double vodka and cokes. 

[andy18s]

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[purplebargeken]

Mirror switch was a bit reluctant to make the mirrors move through the full range on the R75. Quick look on the interweb.

 

10 mins later fully functioning mirrors! I also have a spare switch that has now been cleaned and that was taken from the R75 that borked itself on the collection. That gave £120 from the scrappers by the way. That was a most profitable buyage. 

 

Yay!

[wuvvum]

Been a dry weekend here so a few interesting motors out and about today.  Oldest I saw was a pre-war Austin 16, favourite was a 1972 Lotus Elan with a rorty exhaust which was being driven in a very spirited manner round a roundabout and then off up the new northern bypass.

 

The northern bypass is quite good fun at the moment too - it's not open all the way yet so is a bit pointless from a "bypassing the city" point of view, but that does mean that it's a stretch of brand new and very sparsely trafficked dual carriageway, and thus one of the very few roads in north Norfolk where one can get a proper move on.  I took full advantage of it and the 205's newfound ability to drive in a straight line this evening and found that the Pug will happily wind up to quite some speed, although the brakes are probably best described as "adequate".

[cobblers]

Shed at the bottom of our garden is rotten, it's at least 20 years old if aerial photos are owt to go by. I've made jokes to people about how it's not as tall as it used to be. It's knackered but the mrs won't let me replace it because it "looks fine to her and we're moving soon anyway"

 

There's some old kitchen worktop screwed around it as a shelf - a few years back I stuffed an old freezer under it out of the way cos the mrs didn't want to skip it. 

Today I decided she'd finally forgot about it so I went to get it out, and the fuckin thing was wedged solid! I managed to pry it out with spade and when it slipped out from under the worktop the whole shed dropped about 2", the glass in the window cracked and and the door (at the opposite end) wedged itself shut so I had to kick my way out.

 

There's some kind of animal been living back there, by the size of the turds its left I'd say it's either a terrifyingly massive rat or a normal sized rat that only eats guinness and bricks.

[Tayne]

I think you need to demolish that shed if you’re going to sell the house soon.

[Kiltox]

[Zelandeth]

Had forgotten this one until someone referenced it in conversation a couple of days ago.

 

Didn't half make me grin when one of my hobbies crossed paths with daytime TV a year or so back (This Morning I think it was, or some equally woeful waste of air-time) which I only heard about by pure random chance, so was able to watch.

 

Didn't half make me grin when the guy who was co-presenting it decided to try to have a few cheap laughs at the expense of who he was interviewed - only to discover that who he was speaking to had patently had prior experience in dealing with the media, so they were ready for it.  As a result it didn't work. 

 

In fact, all it did was make the presenter look like a complete moron - and he patently had absolutely no idea how to deal with someone who wasn't going to react to their baiting, meaning they actually had to resort to intelligent conversation.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Further to the bike shite thread - I'm sorted for collecting this Saturday/Sunday depending on how the weekend pans out....... (read - GF's reaction!)

 

 

Like a dog with two dicks.......... yeeeehaaaaaaaaa

[fordperv]

Full power model?

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Oh yes indeedy!

[fordperv]

Awesome, they were rapid little things, your a bad person you've got me thinking about them again now

[Coprolalia]

I am informed that the Scirocco should be MOT-ed in the next fortnight, after 18 months of it sitting awaiting work in matey's yard. This is a good thing.

[Vantman]

1949 Duckhams Oil price card found in my folder of stuff from when I left my first job in 1963---