What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest]

Not so much a grin, more a broad smile. My little boy (he's 18!) is training to be a Police Officer.

I don't really know how to put this, but he looks just like a Philips Hi-Fi. I'm sure he's got a great personality though.

[Pete-M]

I have a small collection of old radios, do any other shiteists?

 

I've got a late 50's, Marconiphone job that still works fine and dandy. Bought new by my gran and still works fine.

 

It's ace, bakelite an' all that jazz. FM too!

[Guest]

I have a small collection of old radios, do any other shiteists?

 

I've got a late 50's, Marconiphone job that still works fine and dandy. Bought new by my gran and still works fine.

 

It's ace, bakelite an' all that jazz. FM too!

 

The Philco One O Two and my Zenith do FM (or UHF as it's listed on the Philco).

[seth]

 

I've got a late 50's, Marscopone job that still works fine and dandy.

 

Does it only play cheesy '60s/'70s easy listening tracks?

[seth]

[barrett]

 

My god that's depressingly cheery. I like it though.

[cobblers]

Just in the queue at Sainsburys behind some 45 ish year old businessman type, when a woman wanders up and says hello to him from a distance - seemed like they were work acquaintances or something. Anyway, she asks him what he's in come for, and he replies "oh, just some milk and wine" and turns the basket away from her. She peeks down to see what wine it was, and he swerves round again hiding the basket, at which point I notice it had three or four dirty weekend sized packs of rubber johnnies perched atop his two for £8 bottles of wine.

This painful charade went on infront of me for about 3 minutes, with him going more and more red in the face every second, trying to change the subject and manouvering the basket out of her view.

 

It was beautiful.

 

And FFS man, you're buying johnnies. Most blokes buy them, it's only natural. I could understand the shame if it was a Nickelback album.

[scaryoldcortina]

^^ Maybe he's had the snip, and the woman knows his wife.....

[AXrescuer]

This made me smile. Yahoo's most reliable sub £1000 cars!

 

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/24112010/36/po ... -po-0.html

 

As it happens, we are on the lookout for a good Audi 80.

[seth]

My god that's depressingly cheery. I like it though.

 

I quite liked that line about numbers of doors at the beginning.

 

Winning this on Ebay for £3 is making me grin.

 

 

Proper UK edition. Metcalfe and Mundy were the Uk concessionaires. Doesn't look very thick but will go nicely with the drivers handbook I've got.

[trigger]

I've just booked some holiday from work after a quick 'heads up' text from my mate, Because of the way my work pattern falls in April and with the Royal wedding being a bank holiday, 3 days holiday works out as 13 days off work!, I have to do a day shift on the Tuesday 19th then won't be back until Tuesday 3rd for a nightshift (the Monday is also a bank holiday). What a result!

[trigger]

Also just bought Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 of Amazon's Black Friday deal for £22.99 which sounds like a good price.

[wuvvum]

Golden Grahams are half price in Tesco's. Golden Grahams are my favourite cereal of EVAR.

[autofive]

seabrooks crips are half price in asda

[Tayne]

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[Cavcraft]

seabrooks crips are half price in asda

 

That's good of Ian to do such a deal.

 

[Louise2cv]

I thought I'd baffle my Facebook friends by using the latest bit of pregnancy advice for a status update, as it's pretty odd sounding:

 

Getting Dressed: let someone else help or use barbeque tongs

 

Within 5 minutes I got the following response:

 

Aww congrats hun. Not long left I take it?

 

perhaps women everywhere are dressing with barbeque tongs and thinking it quite normal...

[MrDuke]

Swap "Getting Dressed" for "Home Delivery" and it's even funnier.

[Gompo]

Saw two Rover Streetwise' yesterday in a couple of minutes, and neither were silver. Unfortunately I think both were wearing alloys rather than steels, but still made me grin.

[Cavcraft]

Dave was not well. Dave was close to losing his eyesight. Dave has had an operation. Dave is on the mend...

 

 

Dave is unamused by his light shade.

[Tayne]

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[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Poor Dave. Cute in his lampshade though!

 

Just checking out an eBay seller's feedback, and this neg made me laugh:

just to let you know that radio had to be destroyed. i do feel let down

___Car CD player JVC KD-S723R

It was so bad it had to be destroyed.

[seth]

Dave was not well. Dave was close to losing his eyesight. Dave has had an operation. Dave is on the mend...

 

[Guest]

MY WIFE IS CAT NOW.

 

Listening to Virgin Gold on my scabby old Ferguson 208U. It only picks up the station properly if I lean over my desk. So wrong. By way of compromise I've tied the aerial around the radiator tube. Actually, the signal is fine if the volume is absolutely blaring the fucking station out. Knackered volume pot?

 

RETURN TO SENDER (with accompanying tube dust-stink).

[brammy777]

Passed my theory!

[Tayne]

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[retrogeezer]

Talbot Alpine on Misfits!

 

And well done Brammy..

[Guest]

Congrats Bram.

[brammy777]

Tar wat and Tayne, seems like waking up at half six to revise was a good idea! Shame I ended up leaving my paper licence at the test centre, have to wait til Wednesday to get it back. The woman didnt half sound annoyed with me when she rang up to tell me, what about a postbox?!

[STUNO]

Dave was not well. Dave was close to losing his eyesight. Dave has had an operation. Dave is on the mend...

 

 

Dave is unamused by his light shade.

 

Is Dave praying for rain

 

Congrats Brammy