What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

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Simply Saab in Bristol. Apparently they've got this in to replace a Honda 360 they just sold.

[Eddie Honda]

That way madness lies, you end up with every day leaving the house at 6am and getting back in at 8pm.

 

Hours like that are a piece of piss compared to lorrying...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

.....to live as far out of London as possible for cheaper housing, but work in London for more money. That way madness lies, you end up with every day leaving the house at 6am and getting back in at 8pm....

 

And much of the increase in income is spent on commuting. Running just to stand still?

 

And ten million people live there....

 

Most of those will have been accounted for. There'll always be some who don't appear on any census. Next one due in 2021.

[Supernaut]

I love the smell of burnt caps in the afternoon. I sniggered at how professionally I just wrote my fault report to HP:

 

"Power supply failure.
Switch went down while in production environment, when connected to power in our test environment the power supply audibly failed, tripping the electrical circuit breaker for the room.

Cannot provide logs."

 

 

Basically, we had a network switch go down this morning. We replaced it with another from our stock. My colleague decided to power it on in our office and it went BANG rather spectacularly.

[Inspector Morose]

The sun is shining, I've just come back from a drive in the countryside where I stopped at a country hostilely for a swift drink and a bag of scratchings. I shall now retire upstairs and rest quietly with a book or the radio.

It's my birthday, the time to enjoy the simple things in life.

[Soap Distant]

It's my birthday.

Crikey, it's mine too!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

And much of the increase in income is spent on commuting. Running just to stand still? Most of those will have been accounted for. There'll always be some who don't appear on any census. Next one due in 2021.

One of my daughters was offered a job in Kensington, the pay was £7,500 more than she was on . Great, except the travel costs including parking at Milton Keynes station, train and tube adds up to just over £8,000...

She took a job locally that only* paid a couple of thousand more than her old job and only takes 10 mins to drive to.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

One of my daughters was offered a job in Kensington, the pay was £7,500 more than she was on . Great, except the travel costs including parking at Milton Keynes station, train and tube adds up to just over £8,000...

She took a job locally that only* paid a couple of thousand more than her old job and only takes 10 mins to drive to.

Sometimes the grass isn't greener. If anything, it may look wilted.

[vulgalour]

The sun is shining, I'm putting paint on the Princess, and while I was out on errands I saw a Sierra with a massive spoiler and a Lincoln Towncar with the keypad on the outside of the door.  I've also had a Nobbly Bobbly, because it's finally warm enough to justify ice cream.

 

It is a good day.

[59Impala]

Yes the sun is shining and I am happy as my elderly Primera has passed the MoT so I shall continue to drive it around that Sarf Lincs where I now reside. I am a happy bunny.

[Wack]

A lot of them teenagers.

Stabbed by other teenagers.

I had a job to scholes near holmfirth today , what a lovely place , remove the cars and it could've been 1955 or 1855 , saw an old guy sat in front of the pub with a pint in his hand , it looked idyllic

 

Cant see much of this going on there, I know where I'd prefer to be

 

 

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

[richardthestag]

The sun is shining, I've just come back from a drive in the countryside where I stopped at a country hostilely for a swift drink and a bag of scratchings. I shall now retire upstairs and rest quietly with a book or the radio.

It's my birthday, the time to enjoy the simple things in life.

 

Happy birthday

Crikey, it's mine too!

 

[richardthestag]

Crikey, it's mine too!

 

Happy Birthday to you

 

etc

[richardthestag]

fatha Thestag and I debating his new April Calendar pic.

 

We agreed a Merc SL, but not a gullwing for some reasons that I forgets right now

 

But then why is the young lady trying to remove the wheel while the nuts are still on it

 

And since when did they have hubcaps

 

do we need help?

 

 

[panhard65]

Could be a Jensen 541 they have hubcaps

[NorfolkNWeigh]

fatha Thestag and I debating his new April Calendar pic.

 

We agreed a Merc SL, but not a gullwing for some reasons that I forgets right now

 

But then why is the young lady trying to remove the wheel while the nuts are still on it

 

And since when did they have hubcaps

 

do we need help?

 

 

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Most SLs had hubcaps, but good work on a stealth cars and girls.

Just to make sure it isn't a Gullwing:

More likely a 190.

 

[Kiltox]

One of my daughters was offered a job in Kensington, the pay was £7,500 more than she was on . Great, except the travel costs including parking at Milton Keynes station, train and tube adds up to just over £8,000...

She took a job locally that only* paid a couple of thousand more than her old job and only takes 10 mins to drive to.

Who is accepting these jobs with massive commutes for no real world increase though?

 

I have a MASSIVE commute to London but the rate is... significantly more than it costs

[Guest Hooli]

Who is accepting these jobs with massive commutes for no real world increase though?

 

I have a MASSIVE commute to London but the rate is... significantly more than it costs

 

I did as I planned to move nearer the job anyway & the job came up before housing.

[Kiltox]

Fair one - I meant more the kind of people that just do a huge commute because they can’t afford to live in London but barely earn more than the commute costs in increased salary (so would be better off in a job near home, like NNW’a daughter)

[M'coli]

Has this been posted up yet?

[Kiltox]

Hahahahahaha what the fuck???

[Guest Hooli]

Fair one - I meant more the kind of people that just do a huge commute because they can’t afford to live in London but barely earn more than the commute costs in increased salary (so would be better off in a job near home, like NNW’a daughter)

 

Oh them? they're just fucking stupid cunts.

 

Or hoping it's a foot in the door to a better paid job that makes it worthwhile.

[Kiltox]

Some people I work with do think London is the centre of the universe though

[Tamworthbay]

When you think you're having a bad day, . . .

Q, - "How much worse could it get??".

"A lot".

Ahh well, carry on.

I know an ex tanker captain who crashed a tanker into Calais. He claims it was the Pilots fault but it is the reason he is an ex tanker captain. Guy is in his 80s now and has a wicked sense of humour. At his daughters wedding the inlaws brought a gavel (ffs) to get attention for the speechs. As the groom’sfather lifted up the gavel David slipped a couple of crackers from the cheese board underneath which were smashed to pieces when the gavel came down. Everyone, but one, in the room found it hilarious.

[dollywobbler]

I like this man.

[Guest Hooli]

Some people I work with do think London is the centre of the universe though

 

A lot of people are freaks, I find the older I get the greater the percentage of people who wouldn't survive my cull exist.

[vulgalour]

The lady with the Mercedes there has the hubcap off to check the wheelnuts aren't loose.  She's now checking for play in the suspension and steering.  She's a smart one, you see, making use of the process of elimination to hopefully find the problem and perhaps even fix it before the recovery folks arrive.  I'm absolutely positive I've totally understood what that calendar is all about.

[Tayne]

I know an ex tanker captain who crashed a tanker into Calais. 

 

 

 

Did he get distracted looking at Brest through a Jersey?

[dome]

OK, own up. Who was it?

 

 

Written in the dirt...

 

Also, the Locost and I had a most pleasant blat tonight and I think it arrived home with the same number of parts attached that it left with.

[Tamworthbay]

Can’t be anyone on here, it’s spelt wrong. It would cause the collective forum ocd head to explode.