What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

Went to hospital

 

All kinds of dire shit in the letter you won't be able to drive home it'll take two hours etc etc

 

Done and dusted in half an hour and its not what the 3 doctors over 4 months told me it was

 

Dermatologist now just gotta see them

[Roobarb]

Grim up North? It’s bloody grim out West at the moment...

Focus on Saturday, focus on Saturday, focus...

[Guest Hooli]

Which degrees are those? F or C?

[LightBulbFun]

Which degrees are those? F or C?

 

if it gets much colder it wont matter 

 

(also woo 882th post, free internet cookie if you can figure out the relevancy of that )

[Wack]

Grim up North? It’s bloody grim out West at the moment...

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Focus on Saturday, focus on Saturday, focus...

 

 

I do like a clear mound

[Jim Bell]

 

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/driver-caught-masquerading-renault-megane-15744145?fbclid=IwAR0P3TIiztAc2T9aeIJ10jfdD39gLYhVmA2NIcOGJpkp1lx9jRbmWym-gtU

[busmansholiday]

Last year I visited Doncaster and I think I posted my impressions here, I've since tried to banish the memory, but good news, I've found a competitor for character*

On Friday I went to Port Talbot, WTAF?

On the positive side, I looked in an estate agents window and I could probably have bought a house if I'd maxed my cards and overdraft. And I don't have very high credit limits .

Oh, dear old Port Talbot. Every time we had to go and see colleagues there we stayed in Swansea. You really don't want to look up what comes out of those chimneys and where the environmental modeling shows it hits the ground.

[oldcars]

This. Saw it online.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Grim in the Midlands and the North? Has anyone ever been to Staines or Guildford? Or Portsmouth or Southampton for that matter, or London, Maidenhead, etc etc etc ....

 

....and then there's Cricklewood.....

[DoctorRetro]

Finally being recognised at work for hitting year end targets (I was the only one out of 10 regions), and I'll be getting £150 of vouchers of my choice. Result!

[Tayne]

if it gets much colder it wont matter 

 

(also woo 882th post, free internet cookie if you can figure out the relevancy of that )

That’s a bit cheeky, most websites just give you free internet cookies without the need to answer numerical questions.

[Aston Martin]

I arrived in Dublin at 6am, I arrived back at the dock at 9:30am for the 3pm ferry (nobody knows why we do this run)... and there's 10 lorries and a Sprinter getting it back. This is not a passenger ferry persay, you can take a car. But there's no one else here. (Last night maybe 50+ of us)

 

They've shunted a load of trailers onboard, so I guess P&O are making their money that way.

 

Which means less chance of random drivers talking absolute bollocks (Paul/Mike/Ken talking about how they sued the council for several trillion pounds) and no old man ruining my eyes.

 

The fact that I'm getting paid for doing fuck all... Plus night-out pay... Plus "ok" free food ain't bad.

 

 

....

 

EDIT: I looked at the check in list. 13 people are onboard the European Endeavour.

 

On the downside a bottle of Heineken cost me £3.70.

[Aston Martin]

This. Saw it online.

I'm pretty sure I saw him twice in two weeks bombing down the A74.

[Roobarb]

It’s ‘C’ as I thought it was more internationally accepted

 

Tonight with windchill it will be -50F. Not sure what that is in C. Other than ‘stay in doors’ and wish you were living within a few miles of Phil A!

[purplebargeken]

I've been once. 
My dad grew up there in the 40s and has no interest in returning.

Apparently it was a shit hole back then too. 

 

Edmonton or Rhyl? Or both?

[oldcars]

I'm pretty sure I saw him twice in two weeks bombing down the A74.

Makes sense, says it was in that area. Chap seems to do some miles in it from mot history.

[Tickman]

Finally being recognised at work for hitting year end targets (I was the only one out of 10 regions), and I'll be getting £150 of vouchers of my choice. Result!

£150 of Roffle vouchers, excellent

[New POD]

What's just made me grin. My totally random approach to finding work closer to home.

Recruitment agency contacted me ref a permanent job which includes a car and pension.

Asked me what I'd need to be paid.

Now, permanent jobs are not my thing, and I don't value a company car.

I gave them a figure which is silly.

Well i dont really want it.

If they paid me that I'd put 50% into my pension pot so I didn't go into the top tax bracket.

[Tickman]

I have been driving a bus.

Left turns are interesting

[purplebargeken]

After all the horrible things of late, an old school mates sister who used to knock about with all of us back in the day has been in touch over the last few weeks following a spate of sad deaths of some of the old gang.

 

Lovely chatting to her after all these years despite sad reasons behind getting in touch. 

 

She's going to pop over to tourist London for a catch up day in a few weeks. Should be a really nice day out. 

[yellowperil]

We finished our work early today, so we were given some bin deliveries to do.

One of the service requests we had, stated...

 

Reason for new bin...

Grafiti, someone has drawn a penis on the side of the bin and we can't get it off.

 

My advice to tell them to rub a bit harder wasn't acted upon.

[Guest Hooli]

I have been driving a bus.

Left turns are interesting

 

Takes a while to remember to use your mirrors enough to drive forwards safely doesn't it?

[5speedracer]

Seeing this heading North out of Aberdeen this afternoon.

Salt !!!!!

 

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[dozeydustman]

Wife's just walked in. "Why are you watching Mr Autoshite drive an Allegro, dear?"

 

Because I can and it's baby poo coloured.

[Wack]

I have been driving a bus.

Left turns are interesting

Around 1990 I got a job driving a 7.5t box van for ANC round Northampton picking parcels up , I'd bullshitted my experience , had the licence but never driven a 7.5t truck and didn't know Northampton at all , pre sat nav so an AtoZ and a map

 

This box van was massive , must've been the biggest one you could drive on a 7.5t licence , a few times I got lost and ended up doing a circuit of the ring road until I saw somewhere I recognised , they'd be on the radio ANC 5 where are you , stuck in traffic , I was doing 50 in a Ford cargo , it didn't sound like I was in traffic even on the radio

 

I missed a turning off a main road so thought I'll go down the next one and go round , I only noticed the dead end sign as it flashed past me , oh fuck , I'll turn round , there must be somewhere , nope , got to the bottom and had to reverse back to the top , rounded up some members of the public to stop traffic and reversed out into a main road bringing Wellingborough road to a halt for 1/2m in each direction while I did a 15 point turn between the parked cars

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Oh, dear old Port Talbot. Every time we had to go and see colleagues there we stayed in Swansea. You really don't want to look up what comes out of those chimneys and where the environmental modeling shows it hits the ground.

I was quite pleased to see the pollution, I didn't think we had any working chimneys in this country ( the UK) any more.

I was also surprised to hear a lady in one of the many charity shops say to a colleague " It's payday at the steelworks today, people will be collecting stuff we've put to one side"

I didn't know there were any steelworks left , but how poorly paid must they be if they have to wait for payday to buy stuff from a charity shop? I bet once upon a time it was a very well paid job.

 

No diecast in any of the charity shops either!

[NorthernMonkey]

Around 1990 I got a job driving a 7.5t box van for ANC round Northampton picking parcels up , I'd bullshitted my experience , had the licence but never driven a 7.5t truck and didn't know Northampton at all , pre sat nav so an AtoZ and a map

 

 

That’s proper weird....I did exactly the same and blagged a job at ANC in Leeds back in 1990 having never driven a 7.5t before. We had a fleet of Merc 814s which were decent old things...one in particular was known as the lamp van as it was previously owned by British Lamps and as such had an extended box as it had previously carried light bulbs, a bulky but relatively light commodity.

 

Being the new driver, I was allocated the Leeds city centre route, van 1, driving yes, you guessed it, the lamp van...fuck knows who thought it a good idea to put the biggest truck on the tightest route, in and out of underground delivery bays and through the pedestrian areas, but it didn’t half enable you to hone your manoeuvring skills.

 

Used to have to sort your own route, load your truck and get out into the city with 130+ drops a day of which around twenty-thirty had to be completed by 10am when the bollards went up in the city centre precincts.

Then it was onto the office blocks, dropping of reams and reams of printer paper which was always fun when they had to go to the 12th floor and the lift was out of order.

Next it was the hospitals, LGI and Jimmys where all the major departments had their own goods in bays scattered across vast areas, before heading up to Leeds university where once again, you could find you had maybe 20 different drops all over the campus.

Finally, there was 6-7 collections to do scattered around the suburbs before you could finally head back to the depot.

God, I really, really* loved that job.

[Joey spud]

 

Got a new sound system for my Hiace today.

[iainrcz]

I'll get shit for this but...

 

I seem to have become 9 years old again.

 

I've been Barrying my GT 86.

 

I like it, even if no fucker else does.

 

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[wuvvum]

Just been out to shift cars around.  Started the Buick up and backed it out of its space so I could replace it with the Saab.  Left it idling while I moved the Saab, and looking at it over the other side of the car park with its eleventy million lights on, the V6 idling and the radiator fan roaring away, it looked like some kind of massive beast poised to pounce.  Brilliant.