What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[DodgeRover]

Went to the tip today, fucking nails and screws and bits of shit all over the place. Instead of doing their job and clearing all this up the tip workers were looking through all the crap for stuff they can flog. Could see one of them had put a load of stuff to one side, looked like a miniature roulette wheel and load of other stuff on the gangway, presumably to flog on in his spare time, anyway he pissed off for a moment. After chucking my own stuff in I slung all the shit he’d hoarded right to the back of the skip. Lot went into a thousand bits at the bottom of the skip. Arseholes!!

Why don't you message the council or twitter them from an anonymous account a lot of staff were fired locally for theft.

[purplebargeken]

Went to the Capel Manor car show today, it's only 10 minutes down the road and for £7 you get access to the famous gardens and posh house too. Cracking selection of cars, modified classics, concourse jobbies and scruffy old regular use cars. Brilliant. Haggled on some car care stuff and got a free sample of Guinness Punch. 

[LightBulbFun]

Just as long as people are still allowed to take stuff from the Lightbulb recycling section 

 

a Lot of rare lightbulbs and fluorescent tubes have been saved from council tips and the like (most tip locations are alright with you helping yourself to tubes and bulbs as generally it costs them money to recycle them so the less lightbulbs they have to deal with the better)

[sierraman]

Why don't you message the council or twitter them from an anonymous account a lot of staff were fired locally for theft.

I’m not into getting people sacked but I’m bitter about it after having a pair of Avons fitted a few years back and picking up a nail on the shoulder at the tip about half hour after I’d fitted them. I’d have no problem with them saving stuff but when it takes priority over them doing their job it’s a piss take.

[sierraman]

My new neighbour has had a dead Corrado delivered today on a flatbed. That’s restored my faith in the human race in my area.

[richardmorris]

I’m on the cover of 2cvgb news this month.

[beko1987]

Went to the tip today, fucking nails and screws and bits of shit all over the place. Instead of doing their job and clearing all this up the tip workers were looking through all the crap for stuff they can flog. Could see one of them had put a load of stuff to one side, looked like a miniature roulette wheel and load of other stuff on the gangway, presumably to flog on in his spare time, anyway he pissed off for a moment. After chucking my own stuff in I slung all the shit he’d hoarded right to the back of the skip. Lot went into a thousand bits at the bottom of the skip. Arseholes!!

Ours doesn't have the nails or screws, but ours pour through the bags too! We had a big clear out the other month, and when I was emptying the car one guy had opened one of our bags and was taking all the pens, highlighters, sticky notes and all the other stationary crap we hadn't used in years so we threw it...

 

Went over with a HD webcam thing that sheefag gave me, and a working hoover that I didn't want and he said nah, sling it in the scrap bin... Shook my head as I walked away! He went back to pulling the dried up flip chart markers out of the bags

[Kiltox]

You binned a hoover?!?!

[Guest Hooli]

You binned a hoover?!?!

I don't believe that either.

[beko1987]

Yep! Worked fine, had all its tools but it was cheap, shitty and as I said, we had a big clearout!

 

(and I got 5 that week, so publically taking one to the tip helped...)

[andy18s]

Put in a sly "see if it works" PPI search with MBNA a few weeks ago,and they found a policy for a card I had way back on 2000

I never used the card, i only applied for it to boost my credit rating prior to a mortgage application

Just had a cheque sent out for a tad over 2k so time to go shopping I reckon

New welder and stuff to replace the kit I had robbed from my workshop to start with i think

[DodgeRover]

I’d have no problem with them saving stuff but when it takes priority over them doing their job it’s a piss take.

That was really what I was meaning to have a bitch about really.....no issue with saving stuff but not when you are supposed to be doing something else.

[SiC]

Really good day today. I'll do a full write up later.

 

Went to Haynes Breakfast meet this morning and saw a couple of mates.

Taster pic.

 

 

Also got some more welding done on the 1100.

[gm]

These guys having fun in their hot rod around the streets of Edinburgh yesterday evening.

 

 

I hope the police car that was behind them wasn't about to spoil the party

[eddyramrod]

Over on Facebook someone reposted a scan of an old postcard of Southport, where I was born.  It's a street scene including parked cars, and one of them is quite clearly a navy blue Zephyr 4 mk3.  My dad had one from new, which I remember very well.  Wouldn't it be funny if that was his car?

A mk3 Zephyr is one of the few cars that could queuejump a CF for me.

[Zelandeth]

Our recycling centre is relatively orderly - but they're ABSOLUTELY strict about the nothing leaves once it's come in rule.

 

The whole place is (remotely) monitored by CCTV, and speaking to one of the guys there, it's continuously monitored, and anyone not doing everything they can to stop a member of the public making off with anything or pocketing stuff themselves will be subject to immediate dismissal. They did it too to a couple of guys.

 

Does mean they get snarky if you drop anything as they have to immediately get to clearing it up. ...you try stuffing half a tonne of conifer tree clippings out of a trailer into a skip without dropping some...

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Very strict here in Belgium too..... although run by the commune and not privatised (yet) they are extremely tough - to the point I had an argument when I entered to drop only 4bags of rubble whilst having the spare wheels for the Spitfire in the back along with some tools. They tried to tell me I wanted to dump all them too!! My French wasn't good enough initially - but apparently - Fuck Off pal you're taking the piss, that's my car stuff! -  worked at the 5th attempt.

 

Note to self - not everyone appreciates my stuff is not just for the tip! 

[angle]

Best* camper conversion ever.

 

[Fumbler]

When the grandmother living in the annex reverses her Rav4 into the middle of the road, rides the pavement in 1st and then revvs the diesel engine's tits off to about 5000 before changing into second. "It's alright dear. Diesel has no torque dear. I'll just put it here dea-CRUNCH"

[DVee8]

Ha some people just deserve what they get 

 

[Fumbler]

What an absolute clot. If he wanted easy peel then he should have used plastidip.

[Floatylight]

Two things to make me grin so far today

1 - The full size car transporter on the A14 this morning full of MK1 Escorts and Cortina's which all looked to be in showroom condition, shame I didn't get a pic..

 

2 - The two fellas who seemed to have stripped a Saxo to its component pieces in a layby on the A14 this afternoon, they'd got bonnet, wings, headlights and many other bits of by the looks of it.. Fair play to you sirs!

 

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[drum]

[richardthestag]

#2 son thestag passed his test and has been itching to get some wheels

 

there is a lot of shit out there but spotted this.

 

 

went and had a look, PAS amber light is on, will be pump or switch, I need to read the fault code and MOT is only till 23 Sept. but otherwise very well maintained and a set of new tyres on it also. Previous owner was lass whose dad seems to have spent a smoll fortune keeping it tidy. it runs and handles beautifully. Fair bit of lacquer peel and keep-fit everything but still a tidy and solid little car

 

Mrs thestag went in next day to haggle and bagged it for £235 

 

#2 is a happy chappy, we might have to do something about those trimz though

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

2 - The two fellas who seemed to have stripped a Saxo to its component pieces in a layby on the A14 this afternoon, they'd got bonnet, wings, headlights and many other bits of by the looks of it.. Fair play to you sirs!

 

Sent from the other side of the mucky internet

 

Did it not occur to you that it might not be their Saxo?

[Fumbler]

Perhaps their hooning took a turn for the worse.

[Pillock]

Aye, them trims need to "flyer than most" into the canal. JuniorTheStag looks well chuffed though! I like them Polos, they look quite cheerful.

[Guest Hooli]

Polo, mint!

[Guest Hooli]

A vegan tried to tell me that selling meat is disgusting.

 

I replied selling vegetables is grocer.

[myglaren]

Our recycling centre is relatively orderly - but they're ABSOLUTELY strict about the nothing leaves once it's come in rule.

 

The whole place is (remotely) monitored by CCTV, and speaking to one of the guys there, it's continuously monitored, and anyone not doing everything they can to stop a member of the public making off with anything or pocketing stuff themselves will be subject to immediate dismissal. They did it too to a couple of guys.

 

Does mean they get snarky if you drop anything as they have to immediately get to clearing it up. ...you try stuffing half a tonne of conifer tree clippings out of a trailer into a skip without dropping some...

Our local one is very amenable to "swapping".  I dropped a load of crap in and left with an almost new Vax vacuum cleaner not long ago.

 

My daughter generally leaves with as much as she took there in the first place, just not the same stuff.

She does seem to have made friends with the staff there though.