What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tam]

This has changed my life

[Tadhg Tiogar]

...(I've been married 30 years, still waiting for any apology for anything).

You married a battleaxe?

[anonymous user]

You married a battleaxe?

I read it that he has never been in the wrong yet

[New POD]

I actually ventured into Curry's and bought a cheapo kettle for a fiver !! ...........

 

Your wife wanted a posh one.  

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I read it that he has never been in the wrong yet

She, surely?

[Noel Tidybeard]

I’ve been doing a fitness class at our local trampoline park for about 8 weeks now . Great fu n but hard work

 

that's not a nice way to describe the new young lady! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[eddyramrod]

The trouble with the lake district is that eddyramrod lives there.  Avoid Barrow!

EFA

[DeeJay]

You married a battleaxe?

I married the perfect woman, she's never wrong (so she keeps telling me)

[DodgeRover]

I married the perfect woman, she's never wrong (so she keeps telling me)

You married Kelly LeBrock?

[DeeJay]

Chance would be a fine thing.

[Guest Hooli]

I've got another interview next week.

[Simonsays]

What makes me grin?

 

Really grin?

 

The doner kebab I've just eaten.

 

I'm an easy man to please.

[hairymel]

https://xkcd.com/1911/

 

 

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

What makes me grin?

 

Really grin?

 

The doner kebab I've just eaten.

 

I'm an easy man to please.

 

The lady who runs my local kebab shop knows me by name and makes me "the usual" when I come in.

 

I really need to lay off the kebabs.

[Cavcraft]

It’s vulgar and obscene to talk about money, but my missus has never really had a lot, far from it in fact.

She inherited some after the sad loss of a very very close relative, and after having been entirely snubbed by the biscuit arsed bastards in a posh London shop, she went to another just up the road and spent a truly eye watering amount on a handbag and a couple of other bits. Chuffed to bits for the girl, no one deserves it more.

[omegod]

It’s vulgar and obscene to talk about money, but my missus has never really had a lot, far from it in fact.

She inherited some after the sad loss of a very very close relative, and after having been entirely snubbed by the biscuit arsed bastards in a posh London shop, she went to another just up the road and spent a truly eye watering amount on a handbag and a couple of other bits. Chuffed to bits for the girl, no one deserves it more.

 

I hope she went back into the other shop pretty woman style ! Good stuff either way 

[dollywobbler]

Wow fancy driving from flippin China!!!! Fantastic.

 

Friend of mine has driven his 2CV from the UK to South America. Via China. And Canada. Oh and yes, they have a small child with them. Just insane.

 

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I've got another interview next week.

 

 

Surely you have/had a cast iron alibi for the time mentioned......  if not - just let me know when you need cover for.....

 

 

edit - and WOW! for that trip - epic seems an understatement.....

[Tamworthbay]

It’s vulgar and obscene to talk about money, but my missus has never really had a lot, far from it in fact.

She inherited some after the sad loss of a very very close relative, and after having been entirely snubbed by the biscuit arsed bastards in a posh London shop, she went to another just up the road and spent a truly eye watering amount on a handbag and a couple of other bits. Chuffed to bits for the girl, no one deserves it more.

I never get this, some of the richest people I have met have been right scruffy bastards, the most obvious being the Earl of March. We met him a few times as the final of the racing we were involved with was at Goodwood and we would see him around and about. He was always in a dirty shirt and brown cords. I guess he has the accent though so they would probably be fawning over him, tossers.

[Guest Hooli]

Surely you have/had a cast iron alibi for the time mentioned......  if not - just let me know when you need cover for.....

 

 

:D This place etc

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I never get this, some of the richest people I have met have been right scruffy bastards, the most obvious being the Earl of March. We met him a few times as the final of the racing we were involved with was at Goodwood and we would see him around and about. He was always in a dirty shirt and brown cords. I guess he has the accent though so they would probably be fawning over him, tossers.

 

 

I used to work in customer collections at a large department store.  One day, a scruffy-looking chap turns up close to closing time and buys an absolute metric tonne of very expensive items.  He asks me if I can take it to his car on a trolley.  The second we get outside, he starts looking very confused and suddenly realises that his car must be parked elsewhere.  I know the shopping centre like the back of my hand and make a few suggestions, so we go around looking for it.

 

He then starts talking and it turns out that he's landed gentry, very wealthy and has absolutely no idea about the outside world.  Nevertheless, he's a very pleasant and polite chap and we chat amenably while we're looking for his car.  Twenty minutes later and in the furthest possible car park from my employer, we find it and it's a battered, pogweaseled Sierra that Borniteidentity would turn down, we load into his car and he drives off with a friendly wave and a thank you.

 

Get back to work, place is completely shut apart from the staff door.  I've been out half an hour past closing.  The next week I come in and the chap has phoned in and thanked the store.  I end up with some kind of award.

 

My point is that sometimes the poshest people can look the scruffiest, drive the most battered chod and it can be a real surprise!  He was a very nice bloke.

 

Of course, appearance and wealth have nothing to do with the value of a person... but I found it an interesting encounter.

[Guest Hooli]

Some of the nicest people I've met have been richer than even LP can imagine mid communist rant. Some of the worst have been slightly less rich...

[twosmoke300]

The genuine , old money , rich are usually lovely . Its the pretenders that are flash arseholes

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I forgot I owned a car....... After the pain in the arse that was the failed collekshun from Craig. I had the motorbike accident and trashed my knee.... so all thoughts of everything tainted by drugs and pain. 

The lovely - and I won't have it said any other way - AlcyOne... reminded me in a roundabout fashion, that I had beaten him to the lovely 50quid Volvo ...... after losing out to him on the Impreza...... 

Although a swap isn't in the offing..... I now remember it's sitting on the island awaiting my attentions. 

Craig has since confirmed - it started right up the next time he went to it and its been in regular use since...... 

 

I now have another adventure to his place and a gopping T5 to cruise back in from southern(ish) France. Happy days.......

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Last week I went in a cave in a boat, it was quite boring, but whilst queuing to go into the cave I noticed this glaring mistake.

 

Mrs N, suggested I didn't point it out to the cave owners as " Nobody likes a smart arse and who else would care or even notice"

I told her I knew some people who would...

[Guest Hooli]

I've been there, show caves are never as impressive as made out are they?

 

Still can't see the mistake mind.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've since discovered there are two mistakes!

One I had to research, both not obvious to young whippersnappers, I suppose.

[somewhatfoolish]

Given this is autoshite I'll take a guess that the ADO16 couldn't have been photographed in 1962 or whatever Newman is about to climb into wasn't available in 1964.

[Snipes]

I used to work in customer collections at a large department store. One day, a scruffy-looking chap turns up close to closing time and buys an absolute metric tonne of very expensive items. He asks me if I can take it to his car on a trolley. The second we get outside, he starts looking very confused and suddenly realises that his car must be parked elsewhere. I know the shopping centre like the back of my hand and make a few suggestions, so we go around looking for it.

 

He then starts talking and it turns out that he's landed gentry, very wealthy and has absolutely no idea about the outside world. Nevertheless, he's a very pleasant and polite chap and we chat amenably while we're looking for his car. Twenty minutes later and in the furthest possible car park from my employer, we find it and it's a battered, pogweaseled Sierra that Borniteidentity would turn down, we load into his car and he drives off with a friendly wave and a thank you.

 

Get back to work, place is completely shut apart from the staff door. I've been out half an hour past closing. The next week I come in and the chap has phoned in and thanked the store. I end up with some kind of award.

 

My point is that sometimes the poshest people can look the scruffiest, drive the most battered chod and it can be a real surprise! He was a very nice bloke.

 

Of course, appearance and wealth have nothing to do with the value of a person... but I found it an interesting encounter.

I just watched an old couple trying as hard as they can to get into my work's X-Trail. She was blipping the fob, trying the doors etc at the while the Qashqai  two spaces down was winking it's hazards in time! (Not the same story I know but kinda similar).

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I'm afraid I'm not a BMC expert, so can't identify what particular flVour that 1100 is. At launch ( in 1962) they were all Morrisis, so an ADO 16 could have been there in 62.

No, that one is to do with the people.

 

Although you're spot on about the Newman pic.