What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

semana-santa-ganada-seville-1170x833.jpg

 

You sure bout that?

That tradition has nothing to do with racists and goes back many centres.

Unlike this

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/30/asda-england-flag-ku-klux-klan_n_5416941.html

[somewhatfoolish]

Received a heap of forms from the Swedish pension service to claim pension from the time I lived there.

Only five years since I originally asked the UK pension service to see to it, as they were supposed to.

 

Bit of a struggle trying to compose a cover letter in Swedish, 40 years after leaving there (under protest).

 

How do you annoy the swedes enough for them to send you into exile? Did you have a dump on Carl Gustav's doorstep?

[myglaren]

Unfortunately wife wasn't settled there.

We came back here amid the Thatcher chaos years.

 

Because of that and my old firm contacting me to see if I were interested in returning, we started selling stuff in preparation for the move and I went over to discuss it (when I arrived I saw in the papers that Columbia had exploded on launch, thought is was some kind of poor joke at first).

 

All went well except my passport had run out with the permanent work and residency permits in it.

 

A couple of months earlier and there would have been no obstacle.

Was blocked by the unions who wanted primarily only Swedes to work there at the time, although work and residence were guaranteed.

 

So the dream came crashing down around our ears.

Wife was all for it then as better prospects and better education for the kids.  Not to be, sadly.

[bub2006]

My trike has a KKK plate too as Hooli mentioned.

[beko1987]

It's on the third page of the open forum and took me about thirty seconds to find.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/20813-joke/page-16?do=findComment&comment=1688317

 

Also as you have previously posted in it you could have just checked through the 'your content' bit of your profile page.

Not difficult.

 

I hope that one day the grin, grump and news 24 threads might return to being about actual motoring related stuff rather than just a pseudo Facebook news feed full of shit memes, posts about what people have had for their dinner and the perennial nobheads shouting their inane comments and antagonistic opinions at internet strangers who aren't interested.

Id best stay away then, I've not done anything car related for a while, something I must snap out of soon as the Zafira needs an mot in Feb, and I need to look at my brakes and buy some tyres before march when mines up.

[SiC]

Our house sold (again after previously falling thru) before Xmas. Christmas Eve we had an offer accepted. Now just heard that she has just had an offer accepted today and it's a no chain place too.

 

Best bit and the real grin (and really the only thing I care about ) is this bit of the house we hopefully will get:

Yes both of them will be mine! :)

Not quite a dream (another set would be nice too but hey ) but something I've been lusting after for years. Especially when spannering outside in sub-zero temperatures and a cold breeze is blowing a bitterly wind.

 

Not getting my hopes up too far as a long way still to go and plenty of potential to things to fall apart very quickly. But it'll be a great day when I'm moving my tool chest into the best place in the garage and pushing my 1100 in through the door.

[myglaren]

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1080079857202143232

 

Morgan Freeman's review of 2018.

I feel fortunate to never have seen any of the things he mentions.

[Christine]

Talking of Morgans  .....Alice Morgan   tonight  in Luther     phworr    

[Ohdearme]

Have been worrying about an appropriate oil breather filter for the airbox on the galaxy for some time (it hasn't run right since I touched the crumpled pile of crap in there and it disintegrated. I hadn't held out much hope for a fairly obscure part but my periodic trawl of anything MK1 Galaxy on ebay has just swiped some genuine ford filters for £1.99.

[SiC]

[SierraMikeHotel]

I wasn't sure if grump or grin but settled here in the end.

 

Normally I get pissed off with stuff like incorrect cars that break my suspension of disbelief, but I enjoyed seeing an 18 year old BMW police car being hooned around in Dr Who so much that I forgave it and even grinned

[scdan4]

Frequently bought together.

 

Frequently.

 

[Pillock]

My coffee maker, that I paid £30 for three years ago, has slowly been getting more and more rubbish. Barely heats the water so you have to neck the coffee immediately or it goes cold

 

Bought a new one in the sales.

 

The old one has just sold on eBay, "spares or repairs - defective" mentioned multiple times, for £50

[MarvinsMom]

that Shurgard thing that burnt down in Croydon.

 

i designed that....... well some of it, mostly it was designed by a consulting engineer.

 

BUT-

 

its not the first time something i worked on has burnt to the ground.

 

just as well i decided to change my career! (not that i really had one, it was just a friggin' job)

[mrbenn]

Just watching Ronin - great film. Couple of absolutely brilliant car chases. Where else do you see a V6 XM being chased by an S8 with nitrous? I particularly like the engine note on the Peugeot 406 that Robert De Niro uses to chase Natascha McElhone around Paris. And don't even get me started on the first class rammel in the background.

[mrbenn]

This over on PH:

 

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=47&t=1785499

[Noel Tidybeard]

Went down the M6 today to pick my Panasports up.

 

A massive stretch of the smart motorway works are almost done and the speed limit has been raised to 60 accordingly. Takes a fair bit of time off the slog down to the Midlands - which I end up doing a lot for some reason these days.

 

yes your photograph has been circulated and we're watching you!

[vulgalour]

Top speed of a 1700 Princess is 97mph.  Having attempted early in my ownership to see how well it keeps up with traffic in the fast lane, I'm inclined to believe this book figure too.  So why on earth does my speedo go up to 130mph?  There's optimism, and then there's optimism.

[myglaren]

Same speedo across the range?

 

The speedo in my GS only went to - IIRC 100 but often hit the stop and continued to accelerate.

Quoted top speed was only 87mph.

[dollywobbler]

Not that unheard of. I'm pretty sure Cavalier Mk2s had at least 120mph speedos, if not 140. My 2CV is the only vehicle I've driven when you can actually use all of the speedometer (and a bit more). 

[anonymous user]

The top speed markings on speedometers are higher than a car's maximum speed to give children bragging rights about how fast dad's car can go

[Guest Hooli]

My Suzuki goes off the speedo, the speedo lies...

[purplebargeken]

My first ever Toledo speedo hit the stop several times whilst racing a new Ford XR3 in 1981, he could only get about 10 feet in front of me. I was happy.

[purplebargeken]

The Hyundai started to niff a bit when the heater was turned on, think steamy laundrette.

 

Obv pollen filter. Hmm, i only changed the bugger 3 years ago ffs.

 

New one from eBay, fitted in 2 minutes, no laundrette smells now. The old one was yuck.

[Timewaster]

I seem to remember MK2 Escort speedos going up to 140!

 

Standard Sierras read up to 150 but the Cosworth goes up to 170.

 

They aren't THAT fast!

[SiC]

Our A4 speedo goes upto 180mph. Being a standard diesel (which probably was the most common spec they sold), the top speed of this car is only around 130mph. That is around mid position on the dash. This irritatingly means that a good quarter of the gauge is even possible to be used. 70-80mph which is going to be the common max usage speed for like 90% of the world its sold in, is less than half way on the range. Sub 40mph you can't easily see as the steering wheel centre blocks it.

 

Utterly pointless and very annoying.

 

I usually leave the middle screen on speed as its far more useful.

[Tamworthbay]

Saw an absolutely mint ZR at Morrison’s today. Polished within an inch of its life and sporting a baby seat in the back so obviously in daily usage. It really looked like it was clean enough to be sat in a showroom. Nice to see someone looking after one.

[Bobthebeard]

Several huge potholes and crumbling tarmac in the road outside Beard Towers. Getting worse daily as now a bus route. Emailed the council to ask if any plans to resurface etc....

Two days later a van turns up, knock on the door and promises of repairs soon. Took pictures and sprayed white paint around the potholes. Nice. If it actually happens.

[oldcars]

Expenses lose their appeal when you own the company

[Guest Hooli]

Several huge potholes and crumbling tarmac in the road outside Beard Towers. Getting worse daily as now a bus route. Emailed the council to ask if any plans to resurface etc....

Two days later a van turns up, knock on the door and promises of repairs soon. Took pictures and sprayed white paint around the potholes. Nice. If it actually happens.

 

Get some more paint & circle all the ones they missed, I'm sure they'll have left at least half of them as they are pretending they aren't deep enough to be holes.