What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[blakey79]

Looks like someone took the instructions a bit too literally...

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Is that the A3 near Cobham ?

[meshking]

Is that the A3 near Cobham ?

It is. Absolutely stupid place for an off ramp. There was an accident the first day that coffee place opened.

 

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[beko1987]

Finally joined the family on holiday. Gooner wafted down to Poole after 3 days in Grantham earlier in the week, windscreen crack grows by the day though!

 

Currently drinking very expensive pints... Ruddy holiday parks

[Pillock]

My friends just turned up to their wedding reception...

[Alfamale]

Meanwhile, down at the bottom of Italy....

 

 

 

 

What could possibly go wrong? Has to be said it’s pretty flat around here. Luckily.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Mrs BMH is away at her sisters leaving the dog and I to fend for ourselves. She keeps worrying that I'll not eat correctly and all that crap as she does all the cooking.

 

Well, I've just sorted the next three days lunches out.

 

Who says I cannot cook ?

 

at least you have the actifry to do the noodles in a healthy fashion!

[richardmorris]

The vouchers won’t work there, I like trying as many different beers as possible but fook that for a bbq where most people won’t care. And fair do’s, I am the first to criticise big corporations (as you may have noticed) so it's only fair to comment when they do actually give good service. And to be fair the beer was decent, not the usual crap.

My fault, I read it as a cash refund not vouchers. I had a nice pint from dorking brewery today at the Capel show. Very oddly though they seem to have missed an opportunity by not selling bottles and memorabilia there too.

[busmansholiday]

at least you have the actifry to do the noodles in a healthy fashion!

Oh, is that what the thing in the corner is !!! ( Not that I've a fucking clue how it works)

[Pillock]

Wedding update: Chip vans are here!

[PhilA]

 

Went look at it.

[320touring]

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Bought it.

EFA hopefully

[drum]

Saturday night, large pour of my favoured tipple and pink floyd animals on the headphones. Time to close the eyes and enjoy

[Wack]

I think I just saw an escort in the local pub , blonde, about 45, 90% of her very large chest hanging out of a black dress , with a bloke about 60 , she smiled at a 57 year old overweight guy far too much as she caught me looking at her huge tits.

[PhilA]

EFA hopefully

Not today. Once the money coming in clears the bank and if it's still there (I think it will be), yes. Hoping middle of next week.

 

Overall, it's about as honest as I expected it to be (also why it's still there).

 

Good points:

It's a Pontiac Chieftain.

Straight eight, which has seen some mechanical love recently. Valve lash can be measured in feet by the sounds of it (think these are set by shim?) Edit: Nope, proper adjustment by screwing down a bolt with a locknut.

It sat and idled happily for fifteen minutes while I looked around it. Didn't boil but it did get up to temperature.

40 lbs oil pressure cold (relief), 35 hot rising up to 40 with a little throttle

It smells right

Wasn't overly oily out the exhaust

Most of the expensive bits are there

Gearbox engaged forward and reverse with no fuss and did gearboxy things

Brake pedal stayed put holding the brakes, feathering pressure on it for about 2 minutes without sinking or feeling spongy

Someone has cared for it in the past, for sure.

 

Bad points:

It's a wee bit rusty; the A pillars are bran flakes and air at the bottom, passenger door is being held up by one hinge and the driver's side is similar. There is some strength there yet because both doors still close with one finger tip.

Couple of the side windows are cracked- laminated glass on the side windows?!

Front screens have seen better days

There's not very much electrical on the car that actually works, 12V conversion is ropey at best.

Wiring is comical

Radiator has a few pinholes

Steering is very Series Land Rover. Brakes are too but just feel like they need adjustment

 

 

Good points in this case outweigh the bad. It's got an Ace Cafe sticker in the back window, too heh.

 

The bits I expected to be crispy were. Actually less of the car is crunchy or wobbly than I thought it would be.

 

In short, I would rather spend this on an honest example that's rough around the edges than a shiny one and find it to be rotten underneath.

 

Grin.

 

 

Phil

[320touring]

HUZZAH!

[vulgalour]

You'd better be making a thread on it when you get it.  A few of us tramps will be right on those particular chips.

[New POD]

We went off for a day trip to the lake district yesterday.

I should now be grumpy but i am not.

 

We had a great breakfast on the A66 just after leaving the M6.

 

We had a look around Cockermouth. I couldn't live there. We bought a couple of xmas presents and used our National Trust Cards to go around Wordswoths childhood home.

The trust staff were reslly nice. makes a change. usually they are prompted up themselves.

Then we headed to Maryport. What a dive.

Then we Drove to St Bees head.

There are some depressing places along that coast.

But we had a great time on the beach stealing stones.

Then we went to the tea rooms. It was like the 1970s Coffee was excellent. Toasted tea cake was yummy.

Then we Drove up the Hardknott Pass. Then I clipped a tiny rock and burst the side of my near side rear tyre.

So on a slope of about 1 in 8. I set about putting on the Spare. Found three massive rocks to chocvk the other wheels. But could i get the locking wheel nut off?

A bloke had stopped to cool his brakes and without his help it would have been impossible.

proper nice bloke.

Then we Drove slowly over the rest of the pass. Amd Wrynose pass to Coniston.

Where obviously all the pubs were full of tourists.

But there was a couple sitting at a massive table. who on seeing us looking disappointed suggested we use the other end of the table. We had a chat with strangers. They made me grin too

 

 

My fish and chips were great.

 

We then drove home sticking to the 80 KMH limit the Spare has. it's not exactly skinny at 195x??x15 but it's not a 235x45x17 so I guess that the limiting factor is the strange handling ??

 

The range started out 2.5 hour return journey at 186 miles and increased gradually over the next 70 miles to 222 miles and then dropped back to 208 o ff the final 15 miles. Sitting on the motorway at 50 mph is an experience.

 

So now i need a new Rainsport.

 

Anyway I'm grinning. Got home after 10pm. knackard.

Im now wide awake.

Just wanted to say : Aren't some people nice.

[purplebargeken]

Escort in the pub................. immediately I wondered what type, trim level, colour. I iz sad bugger.

 

The other PBK family members went to Rome on Thursday morning and will be returning this evening. It's been great, me, the cats, TV until the wee hours.

 

Ace! Shame cats don't talk.

[LightBulbFun]

time to browse the interwebs like its 1998!

 

 

my Grin is that I got this first generation iMac G3 for only £12 yesterday  I have been wanting a tray-loading iMac for collection and experimental reasons but I had feared id missed my chance to do so as these days a Good First Generation iMac tends to go for £LOL esp if its a Bondi blue one like this one is.

 

extra Grin is that it came with 320MB of RAM which meant someone had put in a 256MB stick of ram, these iMacs (and other Gossamer based macs) only take Low density SDRAM sticks when dealing with 256MB sticks, which can be a right pain in the arse to find, I had 1 256MB LD stick on hand already so I was able to max the RAM out for the machine at 512MB. (theres 2 RAM slots and the biggest stick of RAM each can take is a 256MB stick)

 

(Side grin, is that ians bus stop, has used the same layout/design since its inception in the late 1990s which means to this very day its still perfectly compatible with shite like IE4 and Netscape or omni-web  I love finding websites like this esp if they are still updated with new content/maintained)

 

 

also both the CPU daughter card and the Logic-board (Motherboard in PC speak) are marked with Allegro so im half expecting this thing to break down and piss oil all over the hard shoulder on the M25 

[eddyramrod]

Shame cats don't talk.

 

Probably just as well!

[New POD]

Probably just as well!

Ours pukes on the ikea footstool weekly.

it has good taste.

At least the cover is washable.

 

if she could talk this morning she would say. " You are up late so I've pissed on the floor next to the litter tray. vomited on the furniture and left a big pooh for you in the litter tray. Feed me bitch....hey stop...i dont want to go out......I'll shit in your bed

[cort16]

From teuchtar wagons on Facebook

 

 

[Volksy]

Escort in the pub................. immediately I wondered what type, trim level, colour. I iz sad bugger.

 

Reminds me of a joke I heard the other day...

 

"Filled the Escort with Diesel yesterday......"

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"She Died."

[hairnet]

Got mugged

 

Ahairy man and a big hairy dog gave me these

 

Thanks rich

[hairnet]

Also drove thru great Whitley on way not far from Shelsey Walsh

 

Bummers in the petrol station going rrg

 

205 with roof rack and bicycles ( Solex and garlic Shirley) and blue MK2 Ghia fiesta

 

Various other VW's zzzzzzz

[jumpingjehovahs]

 

Just stumbled across this Focus Millennium up the Aldi in Cambridge. Was reassured to see it’s most recent MOT had no corrosion advisories.

 

 

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[Noel Tidybeard]

Oh, is that what the thing in the corner is !!! ( Not that I've a fucking clue how it works)

 

yes, plug in add chips and 2 teaspoons of oil and voila in 12-15 minutesr dinner!

[panhard65]

Had a good run in the hearse yesterday done about 5 hours driving and around 200 miles without the bloody thing breaking down. I think it might finally be reliable. I had the alternator rebuilt by Carwood rewind in Yeovil. I really can't praise these guys enough the parts for it were not available so they found a replacement and modified it for me, including a new regulator just over £100 one of the cheapest fixes on the bloody thing so far.

[hairnet]

I've been mooged

 

Thanks to Stephen (Bai :lol )

[Cavcraft]

After a (few) train journey(s) that could probs fill the entire ‘grumpy old man’ thread, my good lady wife and I have arrived at a posh hotel in that there London.

Highlight so far some incredibly angry bloke in a Saudi (I think) registered Ferrari type thing, who must’ve wasted about £227’s worth of petrol revving his car as he beeps his horn.