What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[AMC Rebel]

Not grinning he was doing this, but grinning we have some coppers left to track him down, despite him using Belgian plates.  None of the news reports has any detail on the Belgian plates angle - I'd like to know more but probably never will.   You can skip the survey to read the article - last option on the pop-up.

 

 

Driver caught speeding 27 times on A127 disqualified for three years - Basildon Canvey Southend Echo

[twosmoke300]

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.

Or pulled for not wearing a seatbelt but have 1/2 cwt of coke in the boot!

[dave21478]

Not grinning he was doing this, but grinning we have some coppers left to track him down, despite him using Belgian plates.  None of the news reports has any detail on the Belgian plates angle - I'd like to know more but probably never will.   You can skip the survey to read the article - last option on the pop-up.

 

 

Driver caught speeding 27 times on A127 disqualified for three years - Basildon Canvey Southend Echo

 

18 grand fine and 2.5k court costs.

 

Verdict: arrogant flash cunt who thinks the law doesnt apply to him.

 

Good.

[beko1987]

[danthecapriman]

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.

I’ve thought the same this week, seen shit loads of old motors.

 

Notable ones were a lovely Saab 900 turbo in metallic maroon on the A27. I heard it coming and thought wtf is that. Then it shot past me in lane 2 like I was stood still! Clearly one of life’s winners!

A delightfully tatty D reg Fiesta mk2 1.4 Ghia. mk5 Cortina left me for dead on the backroads near Chichester, I tried to catch it up but couldn’t! There was a ww2 US army artic lowloader on the A3 too with another cab on the back, sounded absolutely glorious chugging along.

 

Must be the weather!

[Pieman]

And what all the franchisee owners of petrol stations will do. Hmmm.

 

Probably go back to cloning people's credit cards.  (Yes it happened to me and I am still pissed off about it several years later.)

[Joey spud]

[Joey spud]

My son has a unloved Mitsubishi FTO and the window has been wedged up with cardboard and a screwdriver for a weeks after the motor that had been clanking for a while made a break for freedom.

So a whole door was collected to get the required bits to make it good again.

Alas it needed more of the donor door than i realised.

Jeez that's not good.

 

I have called it the Frankenstein door.

[Joey spud]

With less than an hour of my shift left my thoughts have long since turned to going home and relaxing in the sun when i get despatched a VW steering job on the M20.

The extremely helpfull notes for this job just say ''noise''.

 

So oh how i chuckle when i pull up behind it and the owner of this fine steed is laughing and singing "three wheels on my wagon" to himself.

 

 

The wheels gone awol (last seen heading towards Farningham) but the threads are still ok in the hub so on goes the spare and some wheel bolts are found in my vans "they'll come in usefull" stash and despite the brake disc looking a bit mauled it's good enough to go back to the garage that fitted a bottom arm bush to it a few hours earlier.

 

[Pillock]

Got a new wallet today.

 

[Joey spud]

[beko1987]

With less than an hour of my shift left my thoughts have long since turned to going home and relaxing in the sun when i get despatched a VW steering job on the M20.

The extremely helpfull notes for this job just say ''noise''.

 

So oh how i chuckle when i pull up behind it and the owner of this fine steed is laughing and singing "three wheels on my wagon" to himself.

 

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The wheels gone awol (last seen heading towards Farningham) but the threads are still ok in the hub so on goes the spare and some wheel bolts are found in my vans "they'll come in usefull" stash and despite the brake disc looking a bit mauled it's good enough to go back to the garage that fitted a bottom arm bush to it a few hours earlier.

 

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My deepest sympathies to the man! He got lucky, when it happened to me I ground so much of the brake disc away gliding along the road onto the hard shoulder at 65mph they couldn't just put the spare on and have me on my way! Still use the 3/4 of the brake disc as a prop for the back gate! There's still hard shoulder paint on it too

[Bobthebeard]

Conversation in the van yesterday whilst on the way to work. Me, da boss and apprentice.

Boss to apprentice "You are very quiet today Billy. Are you ok?"

Billy "Yeah am fine"

Boss " Billy you are lying, what's up?"

Billy "Am thinking about girls.. I can't stop thinking about girls"

Boss " Yeah...So?"

Billy " Well I just can't stop thinking about girls. Am getting worried "

Boss " Billy, you are 17 for fucks sake. When I was 17 I had an erection that lasted for four years. Don't worry about it "

Billy "Oh.. Ok. Thanks"

[twosmoke300]

I know the feeling

[treehugger]

Got a new wallet today.

 

You spent money, taking it out your old wallet to fund purchase of new one?

[Jim Bell]

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

 

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What a colour!

Looks class. Like what I thought cars would look like in the future when me dad drove an Avenger.

[davehedgehog31]

Offered a council lockup near my house, I've no driveway or anything, so think it will come in handy. Going to go and have a looksie, want to check it's actually dry first...

[somewhatfoolish]

Got a new wallet today.

 

There's someone out there making wallets from old train seats? Niche.

[Pillock]

There's someone out there making wallets from old train seats? Niche.

Haha, close, Golf GTI.

I think you can also get M-Sport cushions etc from the same place.

 

And I did see in the National Tramway Museum you can buy cushions using various repro tram seat fabric.

[Pillock]

You spent money, taking it out your old wallet to fund purchase of new one?

Nope. Present.

[nacho man]

Got this for a couple of days

 

 

It’s a hybrid so greenpeace are happy. It’s also 462bhp so I am happy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Lord Sterling]

Wow man, what's going on?

 

The last few days/weeks and months have been pretty shit. Suddenly all that shit has stopped and made way for some grin things;

 

● Got offered a French-speaking customer service role near Tewkesbury, contract, nigh-on £20k (money to be negotiated)

● Got paid today by dole because someone forgot to say that I had attended last week.

● After having had my satellite blocked by scaffolding, a mate suggested I stick the arial plug into the back of the TV, I've now found over 70 channels! (Typically though, loads of channels and absolutely sod-all on)

● Got some proper food in for once. More to follow on tomorrow.

 

So yeah, a good day can give you some surprising grins.

[Stanky]

Glad to hear you've got some long overdue luck Mo, that role sounds promising too. Keep us posted.

[Tamworthbay]

Walked the long way back from picking daughter up tonight, happens to go past chippy and through the park, very low sun, beautiful park, wife and daughter, bag of chips laced with half a bottle of vinegar and enough salt to rid Kew Gardens of slugs for a year. Sometimes it’s the simple things.

[Pillock]

Glad to hear you've had a bit of luck Mo, fingers crossed it continues.

[Guest Hooli]

It's about time Mo, glad to hear it.

[LightBulbFun]

My grin for today: TL;DR was going to be a grump but turned into a grin as a I managed to save some crap from the bin (I hope im not breaking any rules here with such a wall of text...)

 

well this happened a few days ago but I have been quite knackered for you will see why later in this post 

 

so a few days ago I had to drag my ass out of the house for some stuff I really did not want to do, on top of this I have a bad chronic back injury which means its quite a Pain in the Arse (well back) to go out without proper means of transport which we dont have sadly

 

so on the 2nd to last day of being dragged out the house i noticed that one of the dilapidated buildings right at the end of my Route had its loading bay opened up and there was a pile-o-crap in the middle, where 2 Beige CRT monitors sat

 

being a computer nut, I decided to have a closer look and see if there was any other computer gear, I could not spot any other computer gear, But I did spot an 8ft fluorescent tube sitting in a corner (im also a LightBulb nutter) so I flagged someone down to enquire about the tube, first guy I flag down spoke no english and he calls over his mate/boss who does speak some basic english, and he tells me I cant have the tube because there using it to light up the place...

 

its pretty clear he was bullshitting me, so I leave and I think to my self, ill pop round on the way back home and if the bay is open still pop in and see if i can flag down a nicer person.

 

well on comming back the bay was open but this time there was a Stereotypical white(Now beige) Box PC from 2002 sitting outside the bay "Oooh" I think to my self   before I had even slightly lent over to have a closer look, 2 guys at the back single to me "Yes yes take the thing!"

 

so thought to my self "dont mind if I do!" completely ignoring the question of "How the hell am I going to get home with this" while I have a lot of vintage macintosh stuff im lacking quite badly in the vintage PC department (I only have a few mATX motherboards, parts and a 2002 Pentium 4 shuttle clone), so cue me lugging a computer tower one bus ride and a half a mile long walk home 

 

I was utterly broken by the time I got home (and im still feeling it very much even now) but luckily the PC fired right up after removing a dead CMOS battery   it booted up to an old win2K install (it has a w2k COA on the side) it seemed to of been part of a network of some kind as such there not much on the hard disk.

 

specs of the computer for those that are as crazy as I am:

 

Gigabyte GA-7VKML Socket A (462) motherboard, quite a decent socket A mATX board, which has a universal AGP slot so works with Voodoo cards too Woop  the CPU is an Athlon XP 2000+ http://valid.x86.fr/3kk5r3

 

it had 256MB of RAM, a 20GB HDD, a 1.44MB FDD and a 52x CD-ROM drive.

 

(I upgraded the Ram to 512MB for the CPU-Z validation and I have since upgraded it from there to 1GB and it now runs windows XP, which runs surprisingly well)

 

its a very typical early 2000s PC built by a small system integrator. but this one was actually built with quality components even down to the PSU which was nice. (a lot of these had the shittiest of shit components in them)

 

so even though its completly broken me even more then I already was im pretty chuffed with this find, its a nice piece of early 2000s computing history thats getting rarer by the day.

 

but this is not the end of the story, oh no  on the last day of me going to where I was going, I pass the same building as they are loading a skip full of crap onto the back of a lorry and I spot a 2nd identicial looking PC poking out of the skip

 

but considering how badly broken i was and the fact I was going somewhere rather then comming back I decided to pass on trying to pick up this PC.

 

however on the way back I noticed a fresh pile of crap had grown so i pop in for another look, and low and behold there was now a bundle of flourcent tubes in the corner, so I ask again kindly if I can have a tube or 2 for the collection? sadly I get the same guy who refused me before, and he refused me with the same excuse as before but after me being quite persistent he let me take 1, result! 

 

so i grabbed the 8ft tube I eyed up the first time, which also was the only tube there that did not look utterly fucked, (which just proved to me even more that I was being bullshitted...)

 

so again I made my way home this time with an 8ft tube in hand, you should of seen the bus drivers face as he pulled into the bus stop, the look of "Oh what Have I got my self into" or "what have I done to deserve this" 

 

 as I expertly* threaded the tube onto the bus I said to the driver in a cheeky tone of voice "Do you think it will fit?" the driver said nothing  (the fun part of the bus ride was keeping the tube floating from the bus it self as it rumbled its way through the streets of Hackney) luckily 8ft tubes dont weigh that much so I managed to avoid* completely fucking my back over this time (although even without having to carry a PC it was still quite taxing on my back, especially as I had fucked my back the day before with the whole PC adventure, in general if i have to go out and walk around for a long period of time it always does my back in even without heavy computers)

 

I have not yet tested the tube but it looks to have minimal amounts of wear and looks to be in one pice although someone did push one of the pins in, so ill have to fix that. the tube in question is a 1990s to early 2000s British made GE 125W 8ft T12 tube colour 35 (3500K white), these are getting increasingly rare some im happy to of added one to the collection

 

so although I had to go somewhere I really did not want to go I at least managed to get some very nice loot out of it 

 

anyways times for pictures and as this is Autoshite I have a couple "Car" (if you can call the second one a car..) spots as well of course

 

picture of the pile-o-shite

 

 

 

picture of the computer I saved from said pile-o-shite

 

 

picture of the pile-o-shite being evicted (you can see the 2nd computer which I couldn't save to the bottom left of the pile in the skip)

 

 

picture of the 8ft tube I saved on the last day

 

 

and now the cars:

 

first up is

 

JDM Yo! (thats what the kids say these days right? im not sure how that reg plate is legal considering one circle is an O and the other one is a 0 and they look identical, right faff pulling that up on the DVLAs site)

 

 

and second up is:

 

whatever the fuck this is Yo?! (failed to grab a reg plate shot sadly, 57 plate tho IIRC) has DW "upgraded" from the invacar on the way to/from Bulgaria perhaps?

 

 

apologies for the mega post... 

[loserone]

Wow, I think we need a thread in the Open Forum dedicated to light bulbs now.

 

Purely because I really can't comprehend it, but there has to be something interesting about them

[SiC]

Wow, I think we need a thread in the Open Forum dedicated to light bulbs now.

 

Purely because I really can't comprehend it, but there has to be something interesting about them

Obviously not bright enough. Ba dum tsh.

 

*Gets coat*

[AlabamaShrimp]

Today I have been mostly walking on this

 

 

Just as I got to the top of the stairs (no phone out) about 4 or 5 Austin 7s in convoy just went through the toll.