What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Bobthebeard]

This quote from another thread.....

"This. Plus there’s some bloody odd people at these events. Two things you are guaranteed to see...

A stall holder selling dried up tins of 25 year old paint. 

A rather rotund old fella sat on a stool with his bollocks hanging down one side of his jogging trousers, one of those padded waistcoat things and an absolutely filthy hat festooned with badges. Doing something absolutely pointless with a stationary engine like pumping water from one bucket to another. "

At a local show last Sunday I saw the stereotype. He was doing both. His wife was sat in a deck chair alongside him eating fish and chips and looking proudly on. He still had all the tins of paint left at 6pm and one full bucket. His wife had seemingly gone home.  

[twosmoke300]

Toyota and Isuzu must be laughing their cocks off having seen that new "defender"

Thank god they still do basic , practical steel wheeled working 4x4's

[5speedracer]

L-R seem to have made the Defender neither utilitarian or premium, looks wise anyway.

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[High Jetter]

  On 09/09/2019 at 16:51, Wack said:

There's just no helping some people , they're just born thick and that's it 

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You have to ask who actually thought it would be a really arty thing to put well-used folded bank notes in photo frames in the first place! Well bought, sir.

[reb]

I have a couple of sets of really good sturdy shelves saved from the skip at work because they get binned whenever there's a bit of rust on them in the name of food safety. I had the bigger of the two loaded up with alloys on every shelf and it still felt rock solid! I remember looking them up when I got the first set and they're £lots new.

Not quite as sturdy as the ones that the arches of gold use though, I'm reliably informed that they'll withstand having a 6'5" monkey climbing up to the top shelf because there's too much shit in the way to get the ladder up. Apparently...

[MorrisItalSLX]

My good friend from up the road is having a 2 post lift installed in his shed and he said I’m welcome to use it.

[cort1977]

  On 10/09/2019 at 11:20, twosmoke300 said:

Toyota and Isuzu must be laughing their cocks off having seen that new "defender"

Thank god they still do basic , practical steel wheeled working 4x4's

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Absolutely.  The press seem to be making a fuss about it but it doesn't look anything special, it's specced just below a discovery and it seems to be priced extremely high. 

[twosmoke300]

Whoop 

[xtriple]

Kyles shelving and workbench were delivered at 7:00a.m this morning!  He was barely out of bed and undecided as to be delighted his stuff had arrived or grumpy because it was so early!    As he's an utter twat, he woke me up at God forsaken oclcock to tell me/share the misery!

[Mally]

Had my speed awareness course this morning.  First 2 hours was fine, second 2 hours dragged a bit. Glad I don't go to school.

They told us we could decide to go along the road we are on now, or change our ways and become better drivers.

I've been pulled 3 times in 57 years. I'll stick with the road I'm on thanks.

[dozeydustman]

1 year of driving means we save a whopping £500 a year on insuring madam.

We've just run a few internet searches for father in law who's insurance runs out in 2 weeks - managed to save him £190 as well.

[willswitchengage]

  On 10/09/2019 at 15:31, cort1977 said:

Absolutely.  The press seem to be making a fuss about it but it doesn't look anything special, it's specced just below a discovery and it seems to be priced extremely high. 

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I'm pretty disappointed... yes, the Japanese people won the battle for utilitarian 4*4s 30 years ago. No real point continuing trying to compete there. But we do have other successful 'heritage' 4*4s on the market like the Suzuki Jimmy (there's a new one out), Jeep Wrangler and Toyota FJ Cruiser which are all a lot cheaper than the new Defender, are all capable off roaders but have a rough n tumble 'activity car' spec. Not leather and chrome like we've seen today. LR has half a dozen models now and all seem to have exactly the same target market. But why blame them? Suburban parents still love buying them. The only old Defenders I've ever been in were those of my Scout master and of a friend who liked to eat animals that he'd shot.

[Tamworthbay]

  On 10/09/2019 at 18:22, willswitchengage said:

I'm pretty disappointed... yes, the Japanese people won the battle for utilitarian 4*4s 30 years ago. No real point continuing trying to compete there. But we do have other successful 'heritage' 4*4s on the market like the Suzuki Jimmy (there's a new one out), Jeep Wrangler and Toyota FJ Cruiser which are all a lot cheaper than the new Defender, are all capable off roaders but have a rough n tumble 'activity car' spec. Not leather and chrome like we've seen today. LR has half a dozen models now and all seem to have exactly the same target market. But why blame them? Suburban parents still love buying them. The only old Defenders I've ever been in were those of my Scout master and of a friend who liked to eat animals that he'd shot.

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Yes but they aren’t good ol’ Blighty built cars that helped win the war are they?* I am sure Chelsea will be full of them, some of those kerbs are quite high...........

 

*note Defenders may not have existed in the war and aren’t made in the UK anymore

[brownnova]

[dozeydustman]

Also applies to Citroen, Peugeot, Fiat etc

[Floatylight]

Good news in the Floatylight Household! Mrs FL was offered a job yesterday and FL junior has been offered an apprenticeship as an accountant this morning, working for a motorhome company who let the staff take the vans out on holiday (result!!) his younger brother is currently having an interview to be apprentice grounds keeper at a well known football ground.. Here 's hoping it's a hat trick!

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[Wack]

  On 10/09/2019 at 13:24, MorrisItalSLX said:

My good friend from up the road is having a 2 post lift installed in his shed and he said I’m welcome to use it.

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He may come to regret that

[MorrisItalSLX]

  On 11/09/2019 at 12:07, Wack said:

He may come to regret that

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I think he just wants to use one of my cars to test it!

[LightBulbFun]

  On 11/09/2019 at 12:31, MorrisItalSLX said:

I think he just wants to use one of my cars to test it!

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you still have the Hyundai right?

[MorrisItalSLX]

  On 11/09/2019 at 12:36, LightBulbFun said:

you still have the Hyundai right?

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I’ll be buggered if I’m pushing it there, he lives uphill from me!

I also think that the rusted out passenger side strut will fall off if it was lifted up, the gap between the wheel and arch has significantly reduced in recent times.

[Fumbler]

Oh yes. It lives for another year... at least.

[Timewaster]

[Kiltox]

Seeing people who park on the private road outside my house to go to the newly opened Five Guys around the corner to buy an overpriced burger get parking tickets

You could’ve had a fillet steak in a nice restaurant for the £75 minimum it’s just cost you (or paid £2 for parking in an actual car park)  

[cort16]

Seriously why do folk go to 5 guys it costs fucking fortune? I can understand going once but after you've paid £20 for sub McD's burger why would you ever go back?

[Kiltox]

Dunno but after 4 months of hell whilst the building work was done to convert the unit they’re in, it better stick around 

[SiC]

They aren't even that amazing imo. Certainly in Bristol we have plenty of independent burger places that an order of magnitude better and around the same price.

Admittedly five guys are better than McD. 

[richardmorris]

  On 10/09/2019 at 15:58, twosmoke300 said:

Whoop 

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Is that real? I’d do something more official looking at home.

[twosmoke300]

That was the covering paperwork .Didn’t really want to put the original on the interwebs. It’s an important document you know ?

[reb]

Cars really do look better in the dark!

Can't even see the cobwebs!

Additional grin in wondering what the friends of a (fairly posh) friend thought when they were introduced to a scruffy man wearing an old army jacket and smoking a rollie perched on the bootlid of a manky Volvo...

[Wack]

  On 10/09/2019 at 15:58, twosmoke300 said:

Whoop 

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Is that the almost blind pensioner edition