What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

First PPI reclaim cheque has arrived for the CX gearbox rebuild fund. That was quicker than I thought.

[beko1987]

Aaaah the brief 20 minute window on payday when I'm a rich man, can afford any chod I fancy etc...

[Parky]

“Hi Parky, that company you interviewed with on Monday want you to go back in and present to their board as a final interview next week”

 

Shit! I mean it’s great but I haven’t presented for a while and I am already bricking myself. Haven’t seen what I need to present yet so have no idea how hard a time I am going to get on this.

 

Ultimately I dont work for that company so am going to struggle with some of the operational stuff (no idea how things work behind the scenes there, how could I possibly know?) but am excited and terrified in equal measure. Good though

[Parky]

One thing is it will be a largely field based role covering the East of England so will need better wheels.

 

Better job, better wheels....

 

Mrs P suggested a Merc on finance. I am thinking Volvo S80 Diesel Automatic. Will probably end up with whatever she wants, namely a Fiat 500 in a feminine colour.....

[purplebargeken]

PBIS contacted to make arranges to swap insurance from MGF to Toledo as of 12.01am tomorrow. No quibble re: 1998cc instead of 1296cc. All in all I got a 16 quid refund which meant I had to pay just 14 quid to get it all sorted. Plus Samantha sounded lovely

[Wack]

If I came out with £50-70k of debt and only had 16 hours a week I think I would be a bit pissed off value for money to say the least. Apprenticeship And traineeships are the way to go these days I think.

 

 

Agree totally, my son has just started his 2nd year of computer science , he only does 4 days so I don't see why a degree course takes 3 years , unless it's for the money, but universities are educational, they're not run as businesses suckering kids with barely a pass at A level into huge debt so they can get a degree

 

I read a few weeks ago some universities are even advertising how many 1sts they've achieved to pull more 9k money pots in to their uni

 

Not that I'm cynical about it at all , no jobs for 16-21 year olds any more so rather than paying them benefits we'll make them stop at school for 2 extra years if they haven't got a job , their parents can pay for that then instead of needing to be bright to go to university anyone can go so the 5k a year we would have given them to sit on their arses is now a 9k bill for them in the future

 

Good plan old boy , anyone for Pimms

[Ghosty]

'Your coursework will be to design a cryptographic ransomware'.

 

[Pillock]

Delivery earlier. Quite a nice yummy mummy type knocked on the door with a parcel (and was doing deliveries in a flippin' Touareg). Handed me the PDA to sign for it.

 

"Just use your finger in the box"

 

I perhaps should have waited to close the door before chortling as she went an impressive shade of red.

[somewhatfoolish]

One thing is it will be a largely field based role covering the East of England so will need better wheels.

 

Better job, better wheels....

 

Mrs P suggested a Merc on finance. I am thinking Volvo S80 Diesel Automatic. Will probably end up with whatever she wants, namely a Fiat 500 in a feminine colour.....

Thrusting young executives in east anglia drive these.

 

[hairnet]

ive sent someone a bad link

 

if they reply im soo fucked happy

[busmansholiday]

Bus porn

 

 

 

 

Christ, I didn't realise one of those was preserved. It's a Wadham Stringer bodied AEC Swift, used on airside passenger transfers. They also had some Leyland Nationals that were modified the same.

[mercrocker]

Sorry if this is old news, and it is....But it warmed the cockles of my heart. 

 

M25 wishing Good Numbers to the Bandit.    It is not often I miss the Seventies but this was really nice to see....

 

 

[PhilA]

It quit raining a little yesterday so I fitted the handbrake lever (red) to my new* mower, the crappy toggle switch arrangement removed for the blade clutch, and that hole filled with a red light (made in England for NAPA) connected up as oil pressure warning.

 

Phil

[Guest Hooli]

Got an email saying my final PPI claims have come through, that's a handy £3k ish after fees

 

Convenient* that I happen to be buying car sunday... now to resist spending all the rest on an old bike too.

 

 I just chased these as hadn't seen the cheques. Conveniently* First Direct had forgotten* to send me the final form for how I wanted paying, now I've chased that cheques should be in the post next week.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 I just chased these as hadn't seen the cheques. Conveniently* First Direct had forgotten* to send me the final form for how I wanted paying, now I've chased that cheques should be in the post next week.

 

Et tu, Brute? I've had a couple of FD claims myself.....

[Guest Hooli]

Aye & that's after they only do it postally to delay things & lost* the forms twice before processing them.

 

It reminds me why I stopped banking with the cunts.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Aye & that's after they only do it postally to delay things & lost* the forms twice before processing them.

 

It reminds me why I stopped banking with the cunts.

They already have all my details so they know exactly where to pay to...!

[Guest Hooli]

They decided to send* a form to ask if I want paying into a bank, which requires loads of ID etc. Rather than just sending a cheque like everyone else does.

 

 

 

*not send, but sit waiting for it to be returned anyway.

[Cheggers]

Sometimes, no matter what's going on in your life, all you need to do take a moment to look out of the window.

[Wack]

In a restaraunt somewhere on Anglesey, they've got a V8 and a V12 table, owner must be a petrolhead

[Mally]

I've just chucked* a V8 block away.

 

As an aside, alloy blocks were banned in Brisca F1 racing many years ago. A well known driver just painted his block black and raced on for a year or two.

[155V6]

Work today

Harry's owner had forgotten I was delivering hay & shavings,& had left him out in the field that I need to drive through to get to the stables.He kept trying to reach into the van to get some hay,& grabbed some when I was wheeling it past 

 

 

 

[Joey spud]

 

[Fumbler]

Ah. That shoe and skin tone really does bring it out. The Friday Grin for me is watching some Father Ted... Feck off cup.

[Fumbler]

Oh and this is a nice grin for me too. Gives me a lot to recreate in BeamNG.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Work today

Harry's owner had forgotten I was delivering hay & shavings,& had left him out in the field that I need to drive through to get to the stables.He kept trying to reach into the van to get some hay,& grabbed some when I was wheeling it past 

 

 

 

 

Beware the intelligent horse. 

[beko1987]

I followed an L plate ford maverick for a few miles earlier!

[MorrisItalSLX]

Petrol bowser shite

 

[AnthonyG]

Caught an episode of Minder yesterday morning as had the day off work. Was one of the best episodes I've seen in a very long time. The storyline was a property developer trying to scare a bomb site car dealer (not Arthur) off his lot, and there was a side story about a deal including a hearse and two limousines.

 

The highlights were so many, I'll just do a list of the best:

• June Whitfield played a randy widow undertaker who possibly seduced Arthur and was eyeing up Chisholm by the end of the episode - her pick-up line was 'you're the splitting image of my late husband'
• The bomb site car dealer's name was Wally West
• Wally's stock included a Sherpa pick-up and a dodgy looking series 1 Jag as the 'car of the week'
• The phrase 'there's a drink in it for both of us' was used by Wally about the hearse deal (selling low from a retired undertaker and high to June Whitfield)
• The two Daimler DS420 limousines were referred to as 'widow wagons'
• Jimmy Nail played a fair-minded gypsy driving an early 60s Jensen CV8
• Ray Winstone (running a crappy bodyshop) bodged a Datsun Bluebird so badly a customer complained about grass growing in the wing 
• Chisholm drove a doom blue Solara

Its definitely worth catching on the ITV hub, episode was called 'Car Lot Baggers' I think.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Can't be much fun being a Belgian politician...