What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

16 hours ago, Wack said:

Have you seen Deutschland 86 , that's really good 

Deutschland 83 ist sehr gut.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, strangeangel said:

Wild camping fun ahoy:

 

Tell us more please.

[Asimo]

After many years, tonight & unexpectedly, I met the local mechanic, who had a bad stroke eight years ago.  He has tentatively started driving again, in a wonderfully-pogweasled Peugeot 106 Diesel.

[strangeangel]

54 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Tell us more please.

 

Ah, it's not that exciting... it's just that Mrs_SA will only really stay on sites where's there's mains etc. So, I read The Manual, and the  distribution panel on our van allows for connection of a solar charge controller. Those two folding panels provide 200W, so should be able to keep our leisure battery going in more remote locations, I've bought all the bits and pieces needed to install them; might write it up in the caravan thread.

 

[richardmorris]

From a photo in the Citroen centenary Facebook page....

[taxi paul]

Took the kids into tavistock today. Walking round the market and my little lad ,in his loud voice shouts. "Why is everyone here so old". Never mind be back oop north tomorrow. Where when you speak to a stranger they don't look at you in a mad way and scurry off. There was also a glimmering hope for shitefest visit on Saturday.  Social worker rang me to say the little cherub who was coming Friday seems to be helping police with some enquiries. Woo , thought I.  No need to go back. This was short-lived has another young person is coming to stay permanently. 

[clayts450]

This post on the 'one single thing that makes you think knob' thread on Pistonheads:

Quote

Small dead end street with terraced houses each side. I park up and just about to get out of the van when the resident of the house I've parked outside storms outside.

'Did you not see the sign?!'
'What sign?'
'RESIDENTS ONLY!!'
'Oh no, sorry, I'm just..'
'I don't care! Move your van! I don't want to look at it through my window!'
'But I'm...'
'GET YOUR VAN OFF MY STREET'

30 minutes later I get a phone call...

'Hello mate, just wondering when you're going to be turning up, my internet still isn't working and you said you'd be here at 11'
'Yes I turned up but you told me to get off your street, so I did'
'Sorry mate, I didn't mean it. Can you come back?'
'No'. Hung up and rejected his next two attempts to call.

 

[Wack]

13 hours ago, omegod said:

Yes really enjoyed it, spent a fair bit of time in 80's Germany as a kid  so it was quite familiar

 

I haven't watched the 89 series yet , hope it's as good 

[Datsuncog]

Surprise arrival by post from Tenmil Socket...

Nice one!

I believe it would originally have graced the flanks of one of these beasts...

Mebbe if I bury it in the border and water it, a new Datsun Bluebird will grow...

[Floatylight]

Found another dollywobbler!

Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk

[Tamworthbay]

19 hours ago, richardmorris said:

From a photo in the Citroen centenary Facebook page....

That should have been on the back of my old bus!

[gm]

spotted causing traffic chaos in York this afternoon

 

 

the family of 9 went on to cross the busy two lane roundabout where the red and white van is - must be a regular occurrence as the birds were totally confident in the traffic 

[flat4alfa]

9 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

believe it would originally have graced the flanks of one of these beasts...

when I lived in Australia I drove one of those about. It was my cousins car and didn't it go!

It left streaks of rubber, didn't shake about like Escorts, yet (to me in my Blighty Blinkered era) I expected it to be so Grandad. I was blinkered, growing up in the eighties when these cars were still laughed at. It was eye opening, after the Marina. 

[reb]

I bought some pizza delivery juice from Tesco.

It actually represents quite a good saving, and I swear MavisNotMavis gains a bit of power on it!

Edited to add: small grump in that now I have 10 empty 3L bottles to dispose of.

Edited June 6, 2019 by reb

[reb]

First 100% vegetarian cold start.

Maybe 100% isn't the way to go then. Took a lot of cranking and it smoked like that on the throttle until it was hot. A haze developed around the yard while a slightly lumpy idle coughed out chip shop smoke. I think it's funny, but not hugely practical.

[omegod]

When your personal plate is utter. Bollocks so you have to add what you wished it spelled in small letters underneath ,M Booth apparently !

also got a bit of sick in my mouth when I saw this abortion in town 

 

 

Edited June 7, 2019 by omegod

[brownnova]

On 6/5/2019 at 10:12 PM, richardmorris said:

From a photo in the Citroen centenary Facebook page....

I have one of those someone gave me for the Campervan, but I feel it’s more fitting for the 2CV 

[sierraman]

Why on earth didn’t Audi produce this in 1991? It looks fantastic!

[clayts450]

1 hour ago, omegod said:

When your personal plate is utter. Bollocks so you have to add what you wished it spelled in small letters underneath ,M Booth apparently !

 

 

 

 

I just thought M 'Bob The" what ?

Builder.

Boothe ?

FFS

[LightBulbFun]

Booth?

didn't know @beko1987 had gotten into the private number plate game

[clayts450]

On the subject of private regs, a colleague has KA51ER K.

His name is Kaiser (K is the surname)

I now call him Kasier.

It's a BMW.

With a dyslexic private reg.

[brownnova]

[Stanky]

1 hour ago, clayts450 said:

I just thought M 'Bob The" what ?

Builder.

Boothe ?

FFS

BEARD, obvs! If he got this one, and another one with the reg 'B3 ARD' and parked the avensis on the right and the '83ARD' car on the right and then it'd be really funny for about 200 weird people on the internet for like 18 seconds?

[Cavcraft]

Our 13 year old cat comes in every morning and goes absolutely nuts. She's excelled herself today, besides seemingly being chased by imaginary creatures, running behind the couch and catching invisible flies, she's managed to clear the full length of the coffee table at top speed.

[greengartside]

Small grin, but I was having a clear out in the shed just now and found an old time clock removed from a 1984 Mk2 Fiesta back when I used to work on it at college in 2002. It was removed from the car after apparently short circuiting and smoke began to come out of the back of it. I rescued it from the bin as I wanted to see if I could get it working again. Anyway, I forgot about it until this afternoon and thought I’d rig it up to my portable jump starter for shits and gigs. Well bugger me if the thing has magically cured itself and started working again. I think I will keep it for another 18 years and flog it on eBay.

[somewhatfoolish]

[LightBulbFun]

so my brother told me has was making cookies...

im not complaining! *om nom nom nom*

[Wack]

On 6/4/2019 at 8:33 PM, Wack said:

Just got a phone call from a mate I've not seen in a while 

Can you get Thursday, Friday and Monday off work 

I think so ,it's pretty quiet, why 

Do you want to go to the IOM TT for free 

Fuck yeah

so I'm going Thursday, foot passenger on the ferry and camping though , unless I spot a vacancies sign in a B&B from the bus 

STOP THE BUS

Quick update , saw racing Thursday, the whole of the senior TT yesterday and the southern 100 Road races today , drunk more than I have in my life ever and experienced the most fantastic weekend of loved up bikers

Saw a guy In a bar I haven't seen for 5 years who's now organised a reunion with some other guys I have seen in a similar period 

The IOM is a place everybody should visit, it's addictive and a beautiful island 

 

 

 

[Zelandeth]

[brownnova]

Not at all car related from but... 

The reason I couldn’t make Shitefest was because I was fulfilling one of my all time desires, seeing my favourite band perform last night. 

Muse were simply awesome! Musically, the show, the staging... all fucking awesome!! The best gig I’ve been to by far! 

The wonderful Mrs_brownnova bought me these tickets as she knows I’ve always wanted to see them! It’s about the one thing it was worth missing shitefest for!