What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

Is that her name?

[Guest Hooli]

Is that her name?

 

LOL, nope.

[Alfamale]

Just seen that RyanAir are now doing hotel rooms. Can you imagine it? Vending machine replaces the tea and coffee making facilities, €10 if you want an extra pillow or towel, no TV as you're only in there for the night so don't need one and just as you fall asleep some Irish twat will come over the tannoy to try and sell you a scratchcard.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

... I'll be on Bute in the morning

They usually give bute to horses as a painkiller.

[Kiltox]

Just seen that RyanAir are now doing hotel rooms. Can you imagine it? Vending machine replaces the tea and coffee making facilities, €10 if you want an extra pillow or towel, no TV as you're only in there for the night so don't need one and just as you fall asleep some Irish twat will come over the tannoy to try and sell you a scratchcard.

EasyJet beat them to it

 

www.easyhotel.com

 

YES it’s real and it’s almost as bad as you describe but worse because they’re horrible damp shit holes

[myglaren]

https://www.facebook.com/Readingry/videos/979969442137424/

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I met a man who wasn't there....

 

[Pillock]

Because motoring offences have an "Aiding and Abetting" and a "Causing or Permitting" variation where the offence code has 2 or 4 added to it. For example IN10 is driving without insurance, IN14 is Permitting someone to drive without insurance.

 

I guess they're covering their arse, if your insurance is invalid if you're not taxed.

 

What's it got to do with him whether the car is legal or not?  If you chose to drive a vehicle on the road untaxed, it's your affair and 2/10ths of bugger all business of anyone else.

 

He can suggest it might be a wise plan, but to insist?  Get Bent.

[overrun]

Bagged some Eminem tickets, despite Ticket Master trying its hardest to stop me.

[gm]

I spotted a car stereo that I fancied on gumtree, so made arrangements with the seller to go round yesterday evening. when I arrived, the chap was sitting in the car looking a bit embarrassed - his son had gone out and not bothered his arse removing it from the car.

 

of course we had no tools for the job but thankfully the son was a kack handed bodger and hadn't fitted it very well, using only my ignition key, the stereo was coaxed from the dash and the predictable mess of wiring disconnected.

 

all sorted now, turns out to be a pretty good piece of kit

 

[Talbot]

Because motoring offences have an "Aiding and Abetting" and a "Causing or Permitting" variation where the offence code has 2 or 4 added to it. For example IN10 is driving without insurance, IN14 is Permitting someone to drive without insurance.

 

I guess they're covering their arse, if your insurance is invalid if you're not taxed.

I see your point, but if the buyer of the car says "yes, I've taxed it" then that should be sufficient. It's not up to the vendor to go checking up. They have reasonably asked if it has been done, and the buyer has said yes. If that was a lie, then that's nothing to do with the vendor!. Also, driving without Tax is not an endorsable offence. It's a civil matter only.

 

.. and no motor insurance policy is dependent on tax. Tax is a completely seperate issue.

[beko1987]

Amys over at her aunts, who are back from their bi-monthly trip to their house in France. She's just excitedly called me saying uncle John has bought an old car to potter about and drive to and from France in, as their 2 year old Nissan puke is not far from the 3 year mileage limit.

 

 

Oooh, very good, what is it? (exotic images running through my head)

 

 

2004 Xara...

 

Very nice love. Hope it's not the 1. 4 for those trips?

 

He doesn't know...

 

Ah. Tell him to talk to me whwn it needs pads etc, don't want him to get ripped off (he always has stacks of beer...)

[Supernaut]

They usually give bute to horses as a painkiller.

 

That was exactly my first thought! Even though I know Bute is a place too.

My excuse is that I grew up with my parents owning horses (they still have 4 of them) and Bute was always mentioned alongside abscesses in hooves and bandaging them up etc. etc.

 

According to google maps, there's a Bute Way in Aberdeen, too! It's in the sort of area where you'd get stabbed for looking at somebody funny though, so I'm not going to go find it in person any time soon.

[busmansholiday]

[Talbot]

This:

 

 

Made me laugh somewhat. The most inaproprate application of a bumper step I have ever seen.

 

I wonder if it makes the car a bit light at the front now?

[Captain Furious]

I'm a month smoke free as of yesterday and i'm starting to think i've actually got this.  £300 up too.

[Talbot]

Bugger me! 300 sheets a month to smoke?

 

I've never smoked, so no idea how much it costs...

[Captain Furious]

Got to be honest, it was one of the things that prompted me to quit...someone asked me how much it cost nowadays, and I was actually embarrassed to have to admit - £10 for 20! 

 

Well its actually between £9 and £11 depending whether its a supermarket or motorway service station...but around £10 is the average

 

Bonkers.

[dollywobbler]

Nice work! Quitting gets easier and easier as time goes by. I missed it when driving for a while, but you soon forget you ever did it.

[SierraMikeHotel]

We had my grandmother's funeral this week, which is not usually a cause for grinning but bear with me...

 

A distant cousin who I've not met since she was a baby was there, and it turns out she's now studying just down the road from here. Lovely kid, and we've swapped numbers with a promise to meet up again.

 

I was always very much the baby of the family and I'm really thrilled to have a younger relative nearby that I can spoil sometimes.

 

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[eddyramrod]

Top job there Captain!  Keep it up!

[omegod]

I'm a month smoke free as of yesterday and i'm starting to think i've actually got this.  £300 up too.

 

well done mate , i'm at 14 months now , I think when you smell smoke and it makes you want to spew up rather than it smelling nice is the tipping point 

[Ghosty]

A friend of my mum's is regularly passing on current copies of CCW to me gratis, that's nice. There's the occasional CCB and Craptical Plastics in there too which is an added bonus - just got the current issue of PC today.

 

It's the small things

[Captain Furious]

well done mate , i'm at 14 months now , I think when you smell smoke and it makes you want to spew up rather than it smelling nice is the tipping point

 

Some way to go then, I have to walk through the smoking area to get to the office and it still smells like the greatest thing ever lol

 

Cheers tho and well done yourself

[loserone]

A well made roll up still smells as good as fresh bread to me, five years on.  L1_snr reckons he gets stopped in his tracks any time someone is smoking a pipe nearby, and that's 30 years plus..

[spike60]

And back to grins.

 

Interview seemed to go well, I should find out today or tomorrow.

 

More importantly at the moment it means I'm now shortly going to start packing for a weekend with my new lass, I'll be on Bute in the morning

Until a few years ago my Pa had a flat in Kilchattan Bay on the island so I;ve done a bit there myself. The only place I've been where you can view the Gents toilets!  A tourist attraction, apparently.

[mercrocker]

Yes, I can vouch for the smoke memory.   Gave up the fags in 2004 after meeting the current Mrs Rocker who was far too fragrant and delightful to surround in a fog of burnt Samson.   Gave her an insight to what a grumpy cunt I can be too, unfortunately.    Never mind, still together and still not touched a smoke. 

 

Except on the last night when it was legal to smoke in a pub when I had a celebratory Marlboro for old times sake.... 

 

 Luckily most folk suck that vapour shit up a glass tube now so I rarely get that 2nd hand tobacco hit to niggle the craving. 

 

 

In other news, this little chain of Ebay suggestions made me smile when I searched Ford Granada...

 

[tooSavvy]

"..Well,[for 20 pack] its actually between £9 and £11 depending whether its a supermarket or motorway service station...but around £10 is the average.."

 

Along the daughters landing you can be 'kitted up' for 7days + enough baccy thrown in @£10

 

*no motorway service station/Morrison's petrol station was visited in the making of the infomotion report

 

TS

[omegod]

A well made roll up still smells as good as fresh bread to me, five years on.  L1_snr reckons he gets stopped in his tracks any time someone is smoking a pipe nearby, and that's 30 years plus..

 

Now pipe smoke is something special, I have been known to pop into an old school tobacconist shop for a sniff 

[wuvvum]

Because motoring offences have an "Aiding and Abetting" and a "Causing or Permitting" variation where the offence code has 2 or 4 added to it. For example IN10 is driving without insurance, IN14 is Permitting someone to drive without insurance.

 

I guess they're covering their arse, if your insurance is invalid if you're not taxed.

The "aiding and abetting" wouldn't apply in those circumstances, and the "causing or permitting" only applies if you are actually in a position to (cause or) permit the illegal use of the vehicle - i.e. if it's your car and you lend it to someone who hasn't got cover to drive other vehicles.  If you've sold the vehicle then you no longer have any control over it and are not in a position to cause or permit its use or otherwise.

 

Besides, despite what insurers may want you to believe, the Road Traffic Act makes it almost impossible to invalidate third party motor insurance, and something as trivial as lack of tax certainly wouldn't do it.