What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[ashmicro]

Seeing an BMW X5 totally stuck, bellowing its V8 heart out and not moving. While a 1986 Metro just drove past. I waved at the driver of the Metro, who looked a bit confused, but waved back anyway.

 

The snow here is a good depth, but it's not slowing down the police - 4 and a half ton armoured Land Rovers FTW! Saw one earlier doing a full-throttle 4 wheel drift.

[fiatdaft]

not from me you won't keyboard warrior.

[The Liberator]

i watched a man in a petrol station this morning spend a good five minutes (while i was getting petrol, paying for it , and walking back to my car) pondering over where to put screen wash in his alfa

 

At least he was sensible enough to ponder it - there are two stories on an Alfa forum about Mito owners putting screenwash in the brake fluid reservoir.

[ashmicro]

One of our neighbours put oil in the coolant reservoir of his Zafira. Cost a bloody fortune to get it fixed. This was the same bloke who broke a small bone in his neck trying to suck his own willy.

[Negative Creep]

This was the same bloke who broke a small bone in his neck trying to suck his own willy.

 

 

I'm not sure what's worse - trying so hard to do it you injury yourself, or telling people about it after

[CreepingJesus]

This was the same bloke who broke a small bone in his neck trying to suck his own willy.

 

 

I'm not sure what's worse - trying so hard to do it you injury yourself, or telling people about it after

 

Just hypothetically; on a scale of 1 to 10, how bad would it be to admit to being tempted to try it? Just saying, is all*...

 

Meanwhile, Peter Callesen's astonishing use of A4 paper continues to cheer me up, come what may. Such a simple joy, I can stare at these for hours!

 

*Ok, I admit: it's just as well I can't...I'd never get anything done.

[Negative Creep]

Ron Jeremy can apparently auto fellate.

[Pillock]

Driving these days is seen as a right. I hear no end of 18/19/20 year olds whinging because they keep failing their test, or cars are too expensive, or insurance is too much - basically because "the system" is stopping them from driving, and god damn it they have a right to drive.

 

So once they get their car, there is no way they're going back to walking. And as Louise says, cars are just another appliance - get in, turn key, wobble the wheel and pedals and that stick thing around for a bit, arrive. I've known of a car owner be surprised by a flat tyre - she (sorry, but she was a she) had no idea that those black bits around the wheels had air inside them. As for knowing which cap the screenwash goes in under the bonnet, shit no. Not that long ago, in our lifetimes, you had to know how a car worked in order to drive it - double-declutching was explained to you, for example, and you try explaining that without some sort of glimpse of how a gearbox works. You just knew that braking efficiency with the engine off was less, and why.

[myglaren]

i find that a lot of drivers have no idea what to do when they get stuck in snow and ice.

 

its their fault, totally their fault and i have no guilt when i drive past them

 

if you cant drive in snow and ice - get the bus

 

ps

whats going on here?

 

 

Don't know but here's another one:

[Cavcraft]

Thought this was the 'What makes you grin' thread?

 

Yesterday helped clear some paths and grit them and got a nice 'thankyou' off some old people who were struggling to get out. Just as bloody well we did, it's -10 here this morning and everything seems frozen solid.

Missus took the dog out (he was wearing his parka coat ) and he just kept rolling round in the snow and rubbing his face in it. He looked like a walking snowball at one point!

[chaseracer]

http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/library/language2.htm

 

Happy Holidays, ALL...

[Louise2cv]

Our dog has been sent nuts by the snow. He has spent the last three days in the window staring at it non-stop. Then when he does get out he dips his face in it before doing anything else. He cleared the front steps yesterday just by running up and down them with his mouth open

 

Dogs are Mad.

[autofive]

Our dog has been sent nuts by the snow. He has spent the last three days in the window staring at it non-stop. Then when he does get out he dips his face in it before doing anything else. He cleared the front steps yesterday just by running up and down them with his mouth open

 

Dogs are Mad.

 

 

my GF's dog likes to catch falling snow . When its snowing heavy the dog refuses to come back into the house

[Cavcraft]

-10 this morning and bleeding cold. Sod it: one thermal vest, two t-shirts, two hoodies and a bloody big coat along with thermal kex, jeans and gloves and good to go...

 

...for the toy run to the local hospital. 13 scooters made it (weather obv. didn't attract many) and a couple of cars. Must have got about four big bags full of toys and I went round with 'Father Christmas' for a short while. Not ashamed to say I think I must have had dust in my eye at on point as seeing those poorly kids (including a couple of very young babies) certainly makes you realise how much we take things for granted.

 

Anyhow back to the pub, decent raffle and maged to win twice so happy days. Didn't even really feel the cold, must have been all the layers I had on.

Oh, and to keep with tradition my scooter got another flat tyre

[chaseracer]

Our cat keeps stealing the wife's earrings off her dresser and hiding them all over the house!

With or without alimentary transit...?

[chaseracer]

Nice one. My son spent a long time in hospital when he was tiny, and this sort of thing is properly appreciated.

[Louise2cv]

The out and out stupidy of my dog has caused much LOLs today.

 

We went a walk and the only place he wanted to be was the deepest parts... getting cold "bits" seems to be the main aim. Also you can't go for more than three metres without him wanting to dip his face right in it. I've nearly been pulled over countless times trying to keep him out of icy water.

 

Then when we got back I was a bit worried about the snow on the outhouse roof avalanching over to nextdoor:

 

This was yesterday morning, probably gained an inch since then...

 

So I started scraping it off onto our yard... of course the dog decided to stand directly underneath the guttering looking to the sky with his mouth open. Judging by the moaning noises and the mixture of snorting and choking it wasn't a pleasant experience, but do you think I could keep him away?

 

I'm wondering whether dogs reaction to snow is about having fun, or is it a fear/fight thing? "this cold stuff is evil and must be destroyed om nom nom snort snort"

[Inspector Morose]

OMG Deltic look VW scene!

 

[Pillock]

My cap is duly doffed, cavette. What a most excellent way to spend the day, but that dust's always a bugger....

[Lord Sterling]

The Micra has been fantastic through this OMG SNO KAOS! Apart from a a few small slips it just seems to plow through the snow without complaint, its a bit crap at stopping due to lack of ABS but thats when you need to use a little common sense and gently brake earlier than usual. What a great little car!

 

Cavette - Hats off to you fella.

[cms206]

OMG Deltic look VW scene!

 

 

 

I suspect that's possibly one of the most appealing bastardised VW Golfs I've seen in a long time. Wonder if the same fella has a Vento painted as a 37 for added gits and shiggles... ?!

[RedSparrow]

That Golf isn't even ratlook, its just, well, shit.

Looks like someone has chucked a can of paint on the windscreen and then put the wipers on.

[myglaren]

Great work Cavette. I'm suitably impressed.

[Formula Autos]

OMG Deltic look VW scene!

 

 

Guaranteed MOT failure with the front wing before they even started - that would cut a pedestrian's leg to ribbons. Why bother with all the effort of that paint job, but not bother putting half a tub of Plastic Padding in that wing? That's aside from the visibility issue ...

 

Still, common sense obviously doesn't apply here.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I dont think that Golf's actually on the road or anyone's rat look statement, I think its just an ornament.

[Inspector Morose]

Indeed it is sir Bol! Just thought it was a different thing to do instead of the never ending yellow painted Robin/Rialto/Regal.

[trigger]

This Beetle sits in the car park of a local pub and is used as a pond complete with goldfish.

 

Volkswagen Beetle 1303 Pond by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Richard]

I dont think that Golf's actually on the road or anyone's rat look statement, I think its just an ornament.

 

 

[eddyramrod]

Cavette, excellent work! Something similar going on over here, where a Brit expat (wasn't me, I joined in later) has heard about a family about to become homeless (2 weeks before Christmas, real heart-tugging Dickensian stuff!), and posted their story on a local web forum. The expat community rallied round and things are now looking up for this couple with their two small children. At the moment I'm fixing up a Honda scooter that someone has donated so the husband can look further afield for work, and if he finds any, can get to it independantly. People have been marvellous and donated all kinds of stuff. A Brit-run shop donated a trolleyload of shopping, just for example. Cyprus doesn't have any sort of welfare state, so this family would have been in fairly deep doodoo. Christmas hasn't been cancelled after all...

[Louise2cv]

A package with "Merry Xmas Autoshite!" written across the front. A fab Allegro manual from New Zealand! Thank you fotorabia!