What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Thanks

Reminds me I have to send in my paper assessment form by the end of this month.

[Fumbler]

I love the chkdsk utility. Perhaps I can revive a pointless 80 gigabyte hard drive after all!

[Guest Hooli]

Also don't use adblock plus - use uOrigin instead.

 

Many reasons why. Some here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4b8qzc/why_have_people_stopped_recommending_adblock_plus/

 

TL;DR the original developers sold out.

 

Just swapped mine, will see if I notice any difference

[Stanky]

Reminds me I have to send in my paper assessment form by the end of this month.

 

Ha, snap! I saw the HMRC letter pic and immediately went and filled out my tax return which I've been forgetting to do for about 3 months. Its done now and will go in the post in the morning! Thanks Aston Martin!

[dozeydustman]

POKE 59458,62 sorts a lot of problems out......

[Fumbler]

Goodbye PET if you did that. Might try if I don't mind being burned at the stake by all the Commmodore people.

[AMC Rebel]

Roger Daltrey on radio 5 earlier - his description of the day Gary Glitter almost took his eye out with a mic stand was amazing.

[PhilA]

 

Taxed worse

[SiC]

 

Well I guess adverts for Harley's is a bit different from the usual adverts for Triumph bras I usually get...

[LightBulbFun]

reminds me of when i saw this the other day on my ebay home page

 

 

im gonna confuse the fuck out of the ebay algorithms 

[andy18s]

LEAVER: I want an omelette.

 

REMAINER: Right. It’s just we haven’t got any eggs.

 

LEAVER: Yes, we have. There they are. [HE POINTS AT A CAKE]

 

REMAINER: They’re in the cake.

 

LEAVER: Yes, get them out of the cake, please.

 

REMAINER: But we voted in 1974 to put them into a cake.

 

LEAVER: Yes, but that cake has got icing on it. Nobody said there was going to be icing on it.

 

REMAINER: Icing is good.

 

LEAVER: And there are raisins in it. I don’t like raisins. Nobody mentioned raisins. I demand another vote.

 

DAVID CAMERON ENTERS.

 

DAVID CAMERON: OK.

 

DAVID CAMERON SCARPERS.

 

LEAVER: Right, where’s my omelette?

 

REMAINER: I told you, the eggs are in the cake.

 

LEAVER: Well, get them out.

 

EU: It’s our cake.

 

JEREMY CORBYN: Yes, get them out now.

 

REMAINER: I have absolutely no idea how to get them out. Don’t you know how to get them out?

 

LEAVER: Yes! You just get them out and then you make an omelette.

 

REMAINER: But how?! Didn’t you give this any thought?

 

LEAVER: Saboteur! You’re talking eggs down. We could make omelettes before the eggs went into the cake, so there’s no reason why we can’t make them now.

 

THERESA MAY: It’s OK, I can do it.

 

REMAINER: How?

 

THERESA MAY: There was a vote to remove the eggs from the cake, and so the eggs will be removed from the cake.

 

REMAINER: Yeah, but…

 

LEAVER: Hang on, if we take the eggs out of the cake, does that mean we don’t have any cake? I didn’t say I didn’t want the cake, just the bits I don’t like.

 

EU: It’s our cake.

 

REMAINER: But you can’t take the eggs out of the cake and then still have a cake.

 

LEAVER: You can. I saw the latest Bake Off and you can definitely make cakes without eggs in them. It’s just that they’re horrible.

 

REMAINER: Fine. Take the eggs out. See what happens.

 

LEAVER: It’s not my responsibility to take the eggs out. Get on with it.

 

REMAINER: Why should I have to come up with some long-winded incredibly difficult chemical process to extract eggs that have bonded at the molecular level to the cake, while somehow still having the cake?

 

LEAVER: You lost, get over it.

 

THERESA MAY: By the way, I’ve started the clock on this.

 

REMAINER: So I assume you have a plan?

 

THERESA MAY: Actually, back in a bit. Just having another election.

 

REMAINER: Jeremy, are you going to sort this out?

 

JEREMY CORBYN: Yes. No. Maybe.

 

EU: It’s our cake.

 

LEAVER: Where’s my omelette? I voted for an omelette.

 

REMAINER: This is ridiculous. This is never going to work. We should have another vote, or at least stop what we’re doing until we know how to get the eggs out of the cake while keeping the bits of the cake that we all like.

 

LEAVER/MAY/CORBYN: WE HAD A VOTE. STOP SABOTAGING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. EGGSIT MEANS EGGSIT.

 

REMAINER: Fine, I’m moving to France. The cakes are nicer there.

 

LEAVER: You can’t. We’ve taken your freedom of movement.

[DodgeRover]

Not really, more like seperating salt and sand difficult but not impossible.

[DSdriver]

Aren't we getting a bit political for the main forum?

[Bobthebeard]

Cakes and eggs apart..

My grin. The AA actually.

Mrs Beard had a FTP in the MX-5 last night at a particularly busy bit of the M66. Usual horrible traffic around Manchester. EML on and no power despite engine still running. Called the AA to be told that the membership had expired ten days ago despite us being on a 'two year price guarantee' deal. Seems the card date had expired so payment not taken. They didn't actually tell us at the time so we assumed we were still covered.

Mrs B in floods of tears and stuck on hard shoulder in shitty Manchester motorway traffic with no means of payment to renew as purse forgotten and still at home.

AA brilliant. Honoured the call and Patrolman out and with her 20 minutes later. Despite the expired membership, on the promise we would renew ASAP. Mrs B not coping well at this point so the AA guy sat her down in his van and gave her some tea from his flask. Turned out to be a faulty crank position sensor throwing on the EML. Code reset, clean of the pulley and sensor and he followed her almost home to make sure she was ok.

Mrs B and car made it back ok so a replacement sensor on order. Membership renewed today.

Happy ending.

[New POD]

Aren't we getting a bit political for the main forum?

yes no maybe

[Ghosty]

I've found the AA are quite good for things like that. They gave me a free hire car to get home on Relay even though I didn't have it on my cover, since I had 200 miles to go.

[Guest Hooli]

Aren't we getting a bit political for the main forum?

 

 

Lets have a vote on that.....

[mrbenn]

Cakes and eggs apart..

My grin. The AA actually.

Mrs Beard had a FTP in the MX-5 last night at a particularly busy bit of the M66. Usual horrible traffic around Manchester. EML on and no power despite engine still running. Called the AA to be told that the membership had expired ten days ago despite us being on a 'two year price guarantee' deal. Seems the card date had expired so payment not taken. They didn't actually tell us at the time so we assumed we were still covered.

Mrs B in floods of tears and stuck on hard shoulder in shitty Manchester motorway traffic with no means of payment to renew as purse forgotten and still at home.

AA brilliant. Honoured the call and Patrolman out and with her 20 minutes later. Despite the expired membership, on the promise we would renew ASAP. Mrs B not coping well at this point so the AA guy sat her down in his van and gave her some tea from his flask. Turned out to be a faulty crank position sensor throwing on the EML. Code reset, clean of the pulley and sensor and he followed her almost home to make sure she was ok.

Mrs B and car made it back ok so a replacement sensor on order. Membership renewed today.

Happy ending.

 

Great to hear of someone actually going the extra mile nowadays.

 

Even more betterer, as I've just renewed my cover with them. Was looking around and hovering over the "go" button with Auto Aid but AA did me a very good price and, on the two occasions we've used them, they have been excellent. Plus, my brother paid cos I R SKINT. Which was doubly nice.

[barefoot]

Does anyone see the time & think of cars - eg 14:42 - Simca?

[barefoot]

9:44 - Porsche etc?

[SierraMikeHotel]

Does anyone see the time & think of cars - eg 14:42 - Simca?

No but I always seem to glance at a clock at 17:01 which puts me in the mood to watch Star Trek. And there aren't many places I'd admit to that...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I'm watching Star Trek IV right now...

[mrbenn]

Just took the Focus for an early MOT. Has always run out at the end of December which isn't a brilliant time. Passed with no advisories for the 6th year running.

 

I'll take that

[Guest Hooli]

No but I always seem to glance at a clock at 17:01 which puts me in the mood to watch Star Trek. And there aren't many places I'd admit to that...

 

 

I have confused people by referring to 6:17 as Dambusters o'clock.

[clayts450]

This is our agreed work 'time', either 5pm or 6pm on a Friday dependant upon shift and nearest pub

 

[Guest Hooli]

Sorting through some of the stuff I reclaimed from my parent's loft to find these unused quality* Italian made car speakers.

 

[DodgeRover]

Its always 5 o'clock somewhere*

 

*according to Alan Jackson.

[wuvvum]

Does anyone see the time & think of cars - eg 14:42 - Simca?

I do that all the time, and worse.  Recently I saw a Mazda 2 Antares, and I said to myself "wouldn't it be cool if it had a 1274cc engine?"

 

 

(I fervently hope that there isn't anyone on here sad enough to get that.)

[STUNO]

Its always 5 o'clock somewhere*

 

*according to Alan Jackson.

It's always tomorrow here and right now the  clock reads 10:40 am 19/10/2018 so there, I know your future.

[M'coli]

Does anyone see the time & think of cars - eg 14:42 - Simca?

I recently drew an as-built clean water scheme that had pipework that added up to 1147 metres of pipe.

I've no idea why this would make me think of Triumph Herald 1200s.