What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[paulplom]

Also I just bought some snide 6ah batteries off ebay. Fantastic up to now.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2x-BL1860-6-0ah-18v-battery-for-Makita-18v-BL1830-with-LED-indicator-Li-ion-6ah/173888752507?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

[Sir Snipes]

I just thinking that power switch and grab combination looks awful until I realised it's probably set up for left hookers. 

[95 quid Peugeot]

On 5/31/2019 at 2:15 PM, purplebargeken said:

Lad called Simon who is wel known for blagging his way around the world. He and his brother plus 2 mates are driving to Madrid for this football thing. They are driving in a 40 quid Skoda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVuUuAdxQHw

Just seen them on national TV post match interview. It got there 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

18 minutes ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

Just seen them on national TV post match interview. It got there 

.... but will they bring it back?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Just driven through Goole.  Didn’t meet Steve the Welder from the ‘Sad and Single’ thread though...

[Joey spud]

 

Ok own up who was it...  ??

[Joey spud]

Venturing out on a blowy day in this must cause many a brown trouser moment.

Perhaps there's a small washing machine / tumble dryer in the back too.

[MorrisItalSLX]

35 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

 

Ok own up who was it...  ??

I've been to Tweed Heads. I am not surprised in the slightest.

[paulplom]

Just walked past this in Shields. It's in quite good condition. Who are the omega lickers on here?

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[Joey spud]

1 hour ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I've been to Tweed Heads. I am not surprised in the slightest.

"Fire fighters said it was not uncommon".

I follow a couple of Aussie Subaru Brumby groups on facebook so understand it must get lonely in the out back. ?

[cort16]

1 hour ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I've been to Tweed Heads. I am not surprised in the slightest.

10mm?

[Joey spud]

This is one impressive (i hope) vehicle wrap.

[MorrisItalSLX]

"Fire fighters said it was not uncommon".

I follow a couple of Aussie Subaru Brumby groups on facebook so understand it must get lonely in the out back. 

 

The strange thing is Tweed Heads is on the fringe of the Gold Coast, Australia’s prostitute capital. So you have to be pretty desperate to be breaking out the spanners (and WD40 I presume).

[MorrisItalSLX]

10mm?

No wonder the poor chap got stuck.

[anonymous user]

3 hours ago, Joey spud said:

 

Ok own up who was it...  ??

Tightening his nuts?

[Floatylight]

Paging The Doctor, something for you to aspire to..

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[GrumpiusMaximus]

3 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I've been to Tweed Heads. I am not surprised in the slightest.

 

3 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I've been to Tweed Heads. I am not surprised in the slightest.

Playing with his ring piece?

[clayts450]

Somehow I managed to get lost on the A14 yesterday on the way back from my folks. I'd boasted to my Mum that I didn't need  Google Maps anymore, but incredibly I made a wrong lane selection (on the roadworky bit near Cambridge, the 40mph bit). I ended up on the A428 but rather than being sensible and pulling over, I stubbornly kept going.

No major heartache, as I knew even if I ended up in Bedford I'd find my way back from there, but miraculously the A1 appeared, then the A14 again and I was back en route. My navigational skills* (or my internal compass) saved the day.

Didn't really care, to be honest, as I was in the 620 and I'd happily drive from John O'Groats to Lands End in the old barge.

But it did make me think of this thread on Pistonheads where millennials got a kicking for not having a clue how to use roadsigns, maps, and basic geographical knowledge of the country wot they live in:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1812571

Turns out I still have internal map skillz (and only ended up doing 8 extra miles in the end)

[Joey spud]

Citroen lickers look away now.

 

 

[Tamworthbay]

Ouch!

 

[twosmoke300]

Common issue that isn’t it ? 

[Eddie Honda]

1 hour ago, Joey spud said:

Citroen lickers look away now.

 

 

Can I borrow those pics?  - as I've just noticed that the FCF doesn't have them on their wiki...

https://frenchcarforum.co.uk/wiki/XM_and_Xantia_Strut_top_failures

[Joey spud]

Borrow away.

[Pillock]

The Firefighters / Spanner / Knob post (I'm not gonna quote it again!)

.... "firefighters used a mini grinder and measuring tape"

Is that the right type of tape they meant? Seems a bit of a pisstake to mock the poor guy's manhood size before the get him free.

[Mally]

I've seen it done, not on a penis though.

They slide a bit of steel tape measure upside down between the offending article.

Stops the shit hitting the fan  or something similar.

[iainrcz]

Free scotch eggs.

Proper jobbies.

 

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[NorfolkNWeigh]

On Friday I went to a funeral. No that's not the grin, it was my wife's Grandmother, who had made it to 98 still living in the house she had lived in since 1947 and had passed away after a very short illness , in the hospital that she was born in( St Mary's in Paddington) so not a desperately sad occaision.

Three things made me smile, the hearse and limo were both Saab 9-5 s. Far classier than the ugly glitzy Insignia and Jag outside the crematorium.

There was a massive " Remain"  bouquet in the remembrance garden, whether it was the deceased wishes or from a relative that wanted the last word- who knows. 

And a bright red Mk2 Consul, I  rember seeing it at a family function 30 years ago , it belongs to an old workmate of Mrs N's long dead Grandad , I didn't get to speak to him, but it looks as if it's 75% wob.

 

[Tayne]

16 hours ago, Snipes said:

I just thinking that power switch and grab combination looks awful until I realised it's probably set up for left hookers. 

 

I have a cheap mains angle grinder that I bought over 20 years ago, I don’t use it that often, but it has the option to switch between left and right handed operation.

At some point I’ll buy an 18volt grinder (same batteries as the other tools I have) and hopefully it will have the same option.

[STUNO]

I needed two ink cartridges for my Canon Pixma printer. It cost $30.00 a year or two ago. So into the shop where I bought it as they will have cartridges.  Looked about the shop and they had new Pixmas out for sale just the same as I had. So over to the counter and asked for the Cartridges I wanted, Price for Black is $30.00 and Colour is $42.00 . Price of a new printer with cartridges is now $18.00  YES eighteen dollars.

Anyone want a brand new printer with no cartridges ! Thought not....

It really should be a grump.

https://www.noelleeming.co.nz/shop/computers-tablets/printers/printer/canon-pixma-mg2560-multifunction-printer/prod144653.html

[iainrcz]

On Friday I went to a funeral. No that's not the grin, it was my wife's Grandmother, who had made it to 98 still living in the house she had lived in since 1947 and had passed away after a very short illness , in the hospital that she was born in( St Mary's in Paddington) so not a desperately sad occaision.
Three things made me smile, the hearse and limo were both Saab 9-5 s. Far classier than the ugly glitzy Insignia and Jag outside the crematorium.
There was a massive " Remain"  bouquet in the remembrance garden, whether it was the deceased wishes or from a relative that wanted the last word- who knows. 
And a bright red Mk2 Consul, I  rember seeing it at a family function 30 years ago , it belongs to an old workmate of Mrs N's long dead Grandad , I didn't get to speak to him, but it looks as if it's 75% wob.
 

When my nan died we had a piper lead the cars to the church (my grandad got one because he was a Normandy veteran or something, and she joked she wanted one too)
We held the WHOLE village up for about 30 minutes and blocked a roundabout while the cars unloaded.

She'd have fucking loved it.

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