What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mr A Lawrence]

[hairnet]

kiwi muthfukas that send me links to stuff i could buy but i wanna do summat else

 

but they keep trying

 

feckers

[richardmorris]

mrpresident.gif

I’ve bought the Wolff book mainly just to annoy him with the increased sales figures.

[vulgalour]

https://twitter.com/1700hl/status/952991717413867521

 

 

 

William is 17 and for his first car he's rescued a 1700 HL Princess 2 from storage and will soon be out on the highways and byways.  He's just got to finish changing the clutch (!) first.  An inspiration to us ALL.  I don't envy him his insurance costs though.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

There is hope for us all! He is going to be beating off the flange with a jam-coated telegraph pole when the lasses in the 6th form common room (do those still exist??) clock that Wedge!!!

[vulgalour]

Guess what car he's raiding for parts.  I bet you can't.

 

 

It's only frigging OKK!

 

Unfortunately it looks like after Phil sold it, time has been unkind to OKK and now it's being broken to save others.  At least others will live on, which they wouldn't if Phil and I hadn't gone to the lengths we did to save it, Phil perhaps more so than me given his ill-fated attempt to drive it home.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I’ve bought the Wolff book mainly just to annoy him with the increased sales figures.

On sale at WH Smith - 75% off.

[richardmorris]

On sale at WH Smith - 75% off.

 

I didn’t pay full price either!

[Pillock]

Oh, poor OKK. Fond memories of every layby on the A42.

 

[vulgalour]

It's a bit weird that I've kept tabs on it for all this time.  Made quite an impression on me (and possibly some enemies too) did that car.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Red5 took my Frontera (when it was his) to save the Princess! It must have cost a fortune in petrol

[trigger]

I trying to remember the story behind that princess but there was a bit of a who haa on Facebook about it, basically someone offered it on the Princess group page for free, a few people were interested but William said he wanted it and ended up being given it, he then said he couldn't afford to do the work and wasn't going to sort the suspension out properly, loads of people told him he'll have to replace the displacers after all that time, he said he couldn't afford too and then got all arsey and deleted his post.

 

I think a few people are annoyed with him as kept begging for free cars and he had a few and kept selling him, saying that the Princess does look great in that photo now.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....I think a few people are annoyed with him as kept begging for free cars and he had a few and kept selling him, ....

Born capitalist.

[vulgalour]

There are a couple of folks in the club who live over on Facebook who seem to be a bit armchair warrior and very good at rubbing people up the wrong way, so I take anything that goes on there with a large pinch of salt.  It's the very reason I'm not a part of FB, too much drama.  Still, it looks like William's got himself sorted with a nice car now and if OKK is being used to help it and others along then that's all good.  I'd like to say I'm surprised the club haven't made OKK common knowledge on the forum and kept it to Facebook, but I'm not.  They're much more Facebook-centric lately which is a bit rubbish for those of us who aren't there.

[cobblers]

Years ago the "proper internet" was just obscure bulletin boards and stuff on usenet, and the general public were absolutely ignorant of it - It was mainly used by intellectuals, hobbyists etc. A good place, unsoiled by the general public - If you wanted access to it, you had to work for it. 

One day in September 1993, AOL included Usenet access in their internet package for the general public, and this basically ruined the place.

 

Car forums experienced a similar thing in the mid/late 2000s, where loads of idiots turned up and ruined the game. Before then you could safely presume anyone you were talking to on a forum was probably a decent person, but once word got round to the nobheads, it dragged the whole place down.

 

I really can't stand facebook, but all the dickheads who ruined forums are now on facebook instead, and forums are slowly falling back into the hands of mostly good people, and I'm really happy about that.

 

[PhilA]

I smell of two stroke exhaust and have a big grin on my face.

 

Phil

[vulgalour]

Bugs in your teeth?

[PhilA]

No, if it were summer time though? Yes. And in my eyes, trousers, shirt, fuel, leading edge of any part of bike frame and probably in my ears too.

 

Phil

[155V6]

Bumped into my mate from round the corner who's into all sorts of American stuff.He went into a nearby Ford dealer to sort out his Mum's Motability car & came out owning a 2 year old Mustang 5.0 V8 

[Roobarb]

Damn you Christmas pudding and mince pies!

[dome]

This memory cropped up on my Facebook timeline of some high quality* bodywork repairs on my old Grand Cherokee.

 

[Pillock]

 

 

Years ago the "proper internet" was just obscure bulletin boards and stuff on usenet, and the general public were absolutely ignorant of it - It was mainly used by intellectuals, hobbyists etc. A good place, unsoiled by the general public - If you wanted access to it, you had to work for it.

 

I remember installing a TCP stack back in 1994 that had about 100 pages of documentation saying what services to enable, what your SLIP MTU needed to be, how to telnet into a chat room etc. It took people weeks to get online, and the internet was a better place for it.

 

I rue the day they put pictures on websites. That was the beginning of the end.

[BavarianRetro]

This memory cropped up on my Facebook timeline of some high quality* bodywork repairs on my old Grand Cherokee.

 

 

It took a lot less effort to get it like that.

[fordperv]

https://twitter.com/1700hl/status/952991717413867521

 

 

 

William is 17 and for his first car he's rescued a 1700 HL Princess 2 from storage and will soon be out on the highways and byways. He's just got to finish changing the clutch (!) first. An inspiration to us ALL. I don't envy him his insurance costs though.

This lad needs to join the fold, he is obviously a winner in life, there is hope for the next generation

[andy18s]

.

[beko1987]

Eh? What are these doing in here?

[Guest Hooli]

https://twitter.com/1700hl/status/952991717413867521

 

 

 

William is 17 and for his first car he's rescued a 1700 HL Princess 2 from storage and will soon be out on the highways and byways.  He's just got to finish changing the clutch (!) first.  An inspiration to us ALL.  I don't envy him his insurance costs though.

 

I'd suspect the insurance isn't as bad as you're thinking. After all how many 17 year olds are crashing those currently to make them seem a bad risk?

 

I recall a lad on PH who had a XJ40, cost less to insure than a Saxo at 17.

[vulgalour]

£2500 is a lot of money.  It's not bad for a 17 year old who has only just started driving, but it's still a lot of money.

[Slartibartfast]

£2500 is a lot of money. It's not bad for a 17 year old who has only just started driving, but it's still a lot of money.

Yeah but it's basically impossible to get it lower than that for a new driver. Young or otherwise. My first year was more than that in 2012 on a first gen Laguna 1.8.

[scaryoldcortina]

DELIBERATELY IN THE RONG FRED.

 

 

PLZ STOP MOVING STUFF FOR NO GO0D REASON. K THX.