What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

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).

 

I think parked is defined in the Highway Code as engine off & handbrake on. Interesting one for all those auto drivers who never use the handbrake these days.

[Kiltox]

I suppose it’s not technically legal to “park” with the engine running (you can be fined for idling unnecessarily in certain areas right?)

 

You’d need to be stopped somewhere stupid or fail the attitude test for a copper to give a shit though

[clayts450]

Engine deffo off to use mobile - was on my What's Driving Us ? course.

[yellowperil]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KxN7m23AQkc

 

A motorcycle and sidecar and caravan...

 

With a funny ending.

[Lord Sterling]

How many hours have you spent?Premium Search...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43t0mycG-eI

Lol, no, the advert I was looking for was for some bank in the late 90s:

 

Lol, been looking up some old late 90s adverts for a pretty cool advert I last saw around 97/98 related to banking which involved;

 

...some chap running and getting cornered by some "gangsters" then for some unknown reason they start playing rounders/baseball (it was a UK based advert) and some car windows got smashed. I remember there being a BMW 635i and a P38 Range Rover in the advert, still not found it mind...

I just happened to come across the Ginger XR2 bloke and the advert that went with him. Cheers though

[PhilA]

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Explanation

 

Got sent this in my inbox this morning.

 

Phil

[John F]

Yick! That's the first time I've seen her. She's got a face like a snowplough.

[PhilA]

Yick! That's the first time I've seen her. She's got a face like a snowplough.

Isn't it ironic?

[John F]

It'd have been OK if they'd had snow instead of rain on their wedding day though 

[vulgalour]

It's all the spoons that's causing the real problem.

[dollywobbler]

Helium.

https://www.facebook.com/yanseabrook/videos/10156456668953200/ 

[treehugger]

I suppose it’s not technically legal to “park” with the engine running (you can be fined for idling unnecessarily in certain areas right?)

 

You’d need to be stopped somewhere stupid or fail the attitude test for a copper to give a shit though

I never understand anybody giving lip to a copper who pulls you up. Suicide.

[Slartibartfast]

Helium.

https://www.facebook.com/yanseabrook/videos/10156456668953200/ 

 

Many happy returns!

[xtriple]

Just transferred the insurance from dollop to MB, got a whole £4.91 refund   Took me ages to recall who the damn thing was insured with: the joys of doing everything online, no paper trail to find.... though I spent ages looking!

[loserone]

^ xtriple, the new Martin Lewis

[Eddie Honda]

Lol, no, the advert I was looking for was for some bank in the late 90s:

I realised that after I posted Angry Ginger Lad. 

 

Are you sure it was a bank?

[Aston Martin]

My buddy just told me this story. She had a Rover bubble 200 in BRG with a fake wood dash. I asked if the head gasket failed?

 

Of course it had, anyway she sold it to a friend and after a few months he was coming back from Scarborough and it kept conking out. So he set fire to it, the police saw him doing this so he legged it.

 

She believes they could only do him with littering.

[3VOM]

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.

The interesting effect of this if widely adopted will be how it affects petrol price margins when no one bothers buying overpriced goods in the shop. And what all the franchisee owners of petrol stations will do. Hmmm.

[dave21478]

I never understand anybody giving lip to a copper who pulls you up. Suicide.

 

A large amount of interactions on the endless stream of Police Stop Interceptor Traffic Cops shows start with the pulled guy immediately being huffy/cocky/aggressive "I pay your wage/got nothing better to do?/aint done nuffink m8" and they all end up in cuffs in the back of a van, with acting like a nob while having a warrant for their arrest being a favourite.

Apparently people are even fucking dumber than I thought they were.

[oldcars]

GDPR right to Erasure, got me thinking of the lyrics to the Erasure song A Little Respect. I think these fit in well. 

 

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

[dollywobbler]

Birthday joy continues. First, I went for a drive in TWC, to where P38s go to die.

 

Then I went in to town to buy whipped cream and other delicious things. I found this.

 

Pretty early, and I reckon it's local too. I've definitely seen it before. Even had a period crooklock on  the steering wheel! Fantastic.

 

Also, my wife is amazing. The cream is for home-made profiteroles. YUM.

[Wack]

I’ve had a lovely weekend , date today and lots of top down action

 Result

[MarinaJosh]

Birthday joy continues. First, I went for a drive in TWC, to where P38s go to die.

 

Then I went in to town to buy whipped cream and other delicious things. I found this.

 

Pretty early, and I reckon it's local too. I've definitely seen it before. Even had a period crooklock on  the steering wheel! Fantastic.

 

Also, my wife is amazing. The cream is for home-made profiteroles. YUM.

 

That Marina belongs to a mate of mine who lives in Norfolk. He's currently on holiday in your part of the world. It's his daily driver with over 180k on the clock- all original running gear. There is a Limeflower one in Carmarthenshire though which you may have seen.

[Pillock]

The interesting effect of this if widely adopted will be how it affects petrol price margins when no one bothers buying overpriced goods in the shop. And what all the franchisee owners of petrol stations will do. Hmmm.

Also, this is probably easier to fraudulently pay than it is with a card. Presumably the phone app is linked to a bank, so if you guess someone's app password you just get to fill up out their account.

 

In fact I can't see what the benefit is for BP. Keeps people out the shop, more complex, people hanging around at pumps sat in their car for longer....

[dollywobbler]

That Marina belongs to a mate of mine who lives in Norfolk. He's currently on holiday in your part of the world. It's his daily driver with over 180k on the clock- all original running gear. There is a Limeflower one in Carmarthenshire though which you may have seen.

 

Excellent! He is well travelled then. I noticed the 83k on the clock and wondered if it was first time around. Just think how many miles those two cars have covered between them!

[MarinaJosh]

He's been in to Marinas for years and has six others but this one is his favourite despite being the tattiest as he's been all over the country in it several times. He bought it in the 1990s and realised that it was the same car bought new by a friend of his dad!

[Datsuncog]

That Marina belongs to a mate of mine who lives in Norfolk. He's currently on holiday in your part of the world.

The fact that Autoshite has its very own Morris Marina Location Information Service is enough to give me a massive grin.

 

Brilliant that shiters are always on the lookout for one another - and that one's a real beauty too. Big miles!

[DeeJay]

Mythbusters covered the mobile causing an explosion in a petrol station.

 

[wuvvum]

Not sure what's going on today but within the first ten minutes of my drive home I saw two 205s (including one LRM P plater), a beige Allegro 3, a gold Mk2 Cortina 1600E and a delightfully tatty povvo spec W reg Metro. All apparently just going about daily duties. I felt rather inadequate in my Perodua.

[Spottedlaurel]

Not sure what's going on today but within the first ten minutes of my drive home I saw...............

 

Good weather bringing stuff out? I'm using my old things as much as possible right now, yesterday I was in the Laurel and I ended up one car back from a tidy GT6 at 7.30am on the A140.