What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

as mentioned in this thread http://autoshite.com/topic/32122-the-state-of-the-market-cheap-car-buyers-and-sellers/

 

"its not just cars"

 

I had an item end today with no bidders/buyers and I got this message from I guess one of the watchers?

 

 

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263763759944 this is the item in question. an obscure CPU upgrade for an 18 year old Apple laptop and yet still punters show up...

 

im surprised he did not offer me a broken xbox

I don't know why I'm asking this but if it's up at £100 and even though it didn't sell why would you offer even less than half?

 

I mean go down a bit then expect to come up a bit but £35??

[MorrisItalSLX]

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That Number Plate,

 

WHY?!?

[Mr A Lawrence]

jdm drift yo innit.

[Guest Hooli]

To ruin it I presume.

[Datsuncog]

It's the fact that the pointless square number plate almost completely obscures the n/s driving light that has me scratching my head.

 

And it's not like there's some sort of massive fuck-off oil cooler mounted front and centre to necessitate such a thing...

 

VERDICT: 1/10 SC3N3 TWAT

[fordperv]

That Number Plate,

 

WHY?!?

The worse thing its an old boy, the last time I saw this car it was as it should be, had a more appropriate number plate and im sure it had original wheels as well

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Sitting here just metres away from the social melting pot that is the EU...... I've overheard a typical 50ish upper middle class bitch moaning about the racism entrenched in the local regimes, the utter disregard the 'system' has for poor white folk being molested, attacked and ripped off by muslims. How she personally is paying for all these asylum seekers, due to her 'career' as an interpreter on a huge tax deal contract they all have (she loudly mentioned a mates name so I know her dept!) and bitching about her mum leaving all of her estate to 'so called' charities....... she is a nightmare of skin and bones.

 

Grin - old guy got up, went over - "Madam, you are the poorest excuse for a child of your departed mother and sorriest human being I have ever had the misfortune to be forced to listen to in my entire life. I can only think I would've disowned you a long time earlier" and walks off....... well done that man

 

She's now onto 'negative energy' associated with her dead parents things and 'spiritual cleansing' required...... my laughter has now seriously pissed her off I think.........

[nacho man]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180618/40e6c30daa4fb77c357486c03d8a106e.heic

 

Having to move into the shade as it’s a bit warm to read about Granada’s. Mrs T didn’t seem to interested when I was telling her about when I bought an auto estate for £120 years ago. Women hey.

 

 

 

 

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[Cavcraft]

[Kiltox]

Fuck these new MoT rules - a mate’s Corsa D failed the test because the EML is on (lambda sensor) yet it still pissed the emissions test

 

Code reader -> light off -> pass -> light back on half a mile up the road

 

[Guest Hooli]

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Actual laugh at that.

[kinkersaab]

 

not very pc, but nor am i. 

[Kiltox]

Laughed when I saw that earlier

[chaseracer]

Fuck these new MoT rules - a mate’s Corsa D failed the test because the EML is on (lambda sensor) yet it still pissed the emissions test

 

Code reader -> light off -> pass -> light back on half a mile up the road

 

 

This will be the Blingo in December, unless I fork out for a completely new EGR valve.

[meggersdog]

When I was at secondary school there were A stream kids, the clever  ones who probably wore a bowtie to the youthclub disco. The B stream, average kids who were either good at sport (not me) or clowned around in class (me).Then there were the C streamers who weren't allowed to do science lessons and did rural studies instead.This meant mucking about in the vegetable plot, tending the chickens and smoking in the greenhouse.

Today  a new customer came in to work. I remember my Saturday job as a teenager was ,partly, serving petrol and this chap had an account. I went to school with his son but didn't mix as we were in a different "stream". At the time this chap and his family lived in a big house with an outdoor swimming pool and always drove big newish cars.He still lives there and we got chatting when he came to collect the car.After a while he did vaguely recognise me from serving petrol.I told him I was at school with his boy but he must have been in the A stream as we didn't share a single class.I presumed 35 years ago that as the father seemed successful the kid must be bright.Not a bit of it." A stream, that's news to me.The boy was bloody thick and did nothing at school" said the father.

Ah, the illusion of success breeds success.

[Lacquer Peel]

Was reminded of this earlier, while listening to football BANTZ all day. England will definitely win the world cup, and so on.

 

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

The Armando Iannucci Shows are excellent.

[wuvvum]

Popped into Halfrauds on the way home from work to enquire about a new rear wheel for my bike (£100+, FRO) and they had some ex-display 5 1/4" speakers on sale for 12 quid.  So I bought them, and have just fitted them to the 205 to replace the fucked originals.  Bugger me does it sound better!

 

I now have to sort the rears, but that entails taking the C-pillar panels off so will have to wait a bit.  For now I've just cranked the fader all the way to the front.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

That Number Plate,

 

WHY?!?

  jdm drift yo innit.

I blame the Alfa 156.

[yes oui si]

Got an interview on Wednesday.

Just been asked to be my best friend's best man.

...and I've paid up for a roffle for a car I don't even fit in.

 

If these come in threes, God plays with loaded dice.

[yes oui si]

Popped into Halfrauds on the way home from work to enquire about a new rear wheel for my bike (£100+, FRO) and they had some ex-display 5 1/4" speakers on sale for 12 quid. So I bought them, and have just fitted them to the 205 to replace the fucked originals. Bugger me does it sound better!

 

I now have to sort the rears, but that entails taking the C-pillar panels off so will have to wait a bit. For now I've just cranked the fader all the way to the front.

Cheap new speakers in the doors revitalises the stock head unit - first thing I do in any older car tbh.

[Ghosty]

On my way over to Wakefield tonight, I headed over the moors through Saddleworth, through Holmfirth then over past Denby Dale.

 

Climbing up onto Saddleworth Moor I managed to piss off a BMW driver in a new 5 series by massively outhandling him while trying to tailgate me up the hill, on every corner he'd be over the solid lines or overcooking it trying to keep up while I just stayed at a constant 50 and swung through everything. At the top of the hill, the road becomes straight and level, and the road goes from 50 to NSL. As I rolled up to 60 he just blasted away, silly bugger. Great laugh watching him desperately try to keep ground in the corners to get past.

 

Then just before I reached Denby Dale, I noticed a mintola BRG Rover Metro GTa waiting to pull out of a side road. After I passed, it shot down the hill to catch me, merrily keeping up with me for quite a few miles, before turning off with a flash of the lights to say bye (or maybe he wanted to stop and talk, who knows). Really made me smile.

 

The amount of positive comments the Rover has been garnering, even in its giffer bashed state, have really taken me aback - I think they're really starting to become appreciated classics, especially by the general public - I get a lot of fond remarks and happy memories, and as well a lot of young people seem really keen on it too. I think the time is coming that they'll become proper classics, instead of going into a weird limbo like the Acclaim and SD3 seemed to before it where hardly anyone cares about them any more.

[Datsuncog]

I blame the Alfa 156.

 

If it helps, I blame my Alfa 156 for everything. Up to and including the pressure valve malfunction on our oil boiler this evening.

 

Hell, the Alfa was parked next to the boilerhouse in disgrace for long enough - it must have started sharing its dark ideas of chaos and destruction.

 

Long may the shade of its unreliable flyblown corpse lurk in Hades.

[Aston Martin]

£29 delivered, double din touch screen stereo.

 

Who the fuck would buy this?

[Ghosty]

Quite a few people actually, none of which are on here.

[wuvvum]

What is MP5?

[HMC]

A gun?

[nacho man]

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My new favourite brand

 

 

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[Kiltox]

What is MP5?

I think it’s technically a type of video codec however it’s most common use like here is a Chinese Elevenerife-type scenario where they put it in a spec “because 5 is better than 4”

[Pillock]

Fuck these new MoT rules - a mate’s Corsa D failed the test because the EML is on (lambda sensor) yet it still pissed the emissions test

 

Code reader -> light off -> pass -> light back on half a mile up the road

 

Did this for a mate and his Zafira, lent him my dongle and showed him how to use Torque.

Light off, retest, light popped back on during the drive home where it will stay on for another 364 days since the car drives perfectly and the emissions were spot on.

[STUNO]

Looking at the Flightaware site yesterday, I found the place where aircraft go to die.

 

 

I live underneath that lot !!!