What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Eddie Honda]

Still not found the advert I'm looking for though...

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[Guest Hooli]

Giffertastic!

 

 

My old goona came with the same roofrack!

[wuvvum]

Drove the Carina E into work today.  On the way I got a thumbs up from a chap driving in the opposite direction in a doom blue Carina E estate.  First time that's ever happened to me in a modern*.

[John F]

An Ethiopian chap has built his own aeroplane:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksWReUoTiuI

 

 

Fucking LOL at all the hairy yellow string-style bodges

[vulgalour]

Speaking of memes, I saw a pair of white Mokka twins today.

 

White Mokka Twins by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

** sounds a bit like white moccasins

[hairymel]

Also spoting loads of top shite old stock lights stored in the garage at work.

 

Seeing 305, tipo, solara etc etc written in big marker pen on a faded dusty box always makes me grin!

any avenger or sunbeam or samba lights in among them?

[Jim Bell]

Drove the Carina E into work today. On the way I got a thumbs up from a chap driving in the opposite direction in a doom blue Carina E estate. First time that's ever happened to me in a modern*.

 

Fwar. Have you got pics of it up anywhere? Ive got the right horn for Toyotas atm.

[bramz7]

I'll never forget this radio jingle:

 

' don't sign on the dotted line until you talk to Tempo!'

 

They went bust right after we bought a TV from them without a remote.

[SierraMikeHotel]

Fwar. Have you got pics of it up anywhere? Ive got the right horn for Toyotas atm.

You and I are probably the only people to say that! I'm a massive fan of the current lineup. I get properly excited when I see a plug in Prius.

[somewhatfoolish]

That was chatback iirc it became 0891 fifty fifty fifty I still remember the adverts from the 90s

I recall 0898 27 27 27, sung to an inane tune. There's a theme developing...

[andy18s]

Good old Google translate...

[Rod/b]

Today’s grin: someone sold me a 700 quid coffee machine for 60 quid. So it’s used, but still. Bye bye Nespresso machine!

[Bren]

Looking at audi s4's on ebay. What looks like an auction is actually a rant at somebody selling one.

[omegod]

Who needs wax/Immac when you are angle grinding in a pair of shorts 

[Lacquer Peel]

Looking at audi s4's on ebay. What looks like an auction is actually a rant at somebody selling one.

Link pls

[Bren]

I would if I knew how to do it.

[catsinthewelder]

From a PC

 

Left click on the web address at the top of the ebay page to make it turn blue

 

Hold down the Ctrl key and press C to cut the address

 

Click on the Autoshite tab and reply to topic

 

Hold down the Ctrl key again and press V to paste it into the reply

[beko1987]

Now it's summer/not going to freeze I can go back to using G101 and water as screenwash! It actually removes the bug splatter unlike the shit screenwash we buy... Gave the blades a good wipe down as well, no more streaky lines! Hoping the G101 will clean my tank out too, it went rancid again, emptied it on the way home, slosh of just water to flush it and now G101. It'll get half a bottle of bleach in it if it does it again/dismantled and cleaned properly

[wuvvum]

Fwar. Have you got pics of it up anywhere? Ive got the right horn for Toyotas atm.

Here it is.  The camera didn't capture its colour very well - it's more turquoise than that.

 

 

[Pillock]

There's an advert just been on telly, you can now pay for BP fuel using an app on your phone to save that 60ft walk to the till and back.

 

Have they now decided that using your phone on a petrol station forecourt will NOT result in an explosion, the size of which would knock the earth off its axis?

 

I once got yelled at by someone washing the petrol pumps on a little village filling station. I was walking past on the pavement, on the phone. "Gerrover there! Cross over! PETROL!" the mad bint yelled.

[Kiltox]

Shell have done it for ages. Think you’re meant to stay in your car when on the phone

[treehugger]

If u are on phone in car, isnt that technically being on phone while driving? Same as if u are pissed with car keys in pocket, thats drunk driving? Yes I know its bollox but..........................

[dollywobbler]

If u are on phone in car, isnt that technically being on phone while driving? Same as if u are pissed with car keys in pocket, thats drunk driving? Yes I know its bollox but..........................

 

Ah, but if you're using an app, is it a phone or is it a mobile computer? Remember Jimmy Carr got off a phone-while-driving charge because his Mr Loophole lawyer told the court he'd been recording a joke...

[Bren]

From a PC

 

Left click on the web address at the top of the ebay page to make it turn blue

 

Hold down the Ctrl key and press C to cut the address

 

Click on the Autoshite tab and reply to topic

 

Hold down the Ctrl key again and press V to paste it into the reply

I only have a phone unfortunately.

[Craig the Princess]

Ah, but if you're using an app, is it a phone or is it a mobile computer? Remember Jimmy Carr got off a phone-while-driving charge because his Mr Loophole lawyer told the court he'd been recording a joke...

It's a phone. The law was changed after Carr got off.

[myglaren]

 

Explanation

[Guest Hooli]

Shell have done it for ages. Think you’re meant to stay in your car when on the phone

 

Oh good, that means the OMGKILLEREXPLOSIONCAUSINGRADIOWAVES won't go outside your car either then....

[Kiltox]

If u are on phone in car, isnt that technically being on phone while driving? Same as if u are pissed with car keys in pocket, thats drunk driving? Yes I know its bollox but..........................

The drink drive offence for having keys in your pocket etc is “drunk in charge of a motor vehicle” - using a mobile phone when parked isn’t the same as when driving.

[Guest Hooli]

[Eddie Honda]

using a mobile phone when parked isn’t the same as when driving.

I'm not sure that it isn't. I'd have to look it up, but memory tells me that the using a moby offence occurs when the engine is running (moving or not makes no difference).