What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Wack]

just been into lidl, picked up 2 grey sheepskin car seat covers for £30 , marked at £19.99 but came up at £14.99 ea on the till , nice and warm

[wuvvum]

I assume they are sheepskin* rather than sheepskin?

[Andyrew]

Customer today under his car outside and brings in a knackerd exhaust rubber from his clapped out taxi. 

I order in a replacement for him to collect later.

Shortly after he leaves go out side to see old exhaust rubber and associated old cable ties dumped on the road where the taxi was parked. 

He returns to collect his new rubber, I hand him it and his old one and tell him to not dump his shit outside the shop. 

 

 

 

 

[anonymous user]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

I assume they are sheepskin* rather than sheepskin?

I had some, the facing that you sit on is proper sheepskin, the sides and back are nylon Womble.

[Wack]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

I assume they are sheepskin* rather than sheepskin?

 

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, paulplom said:

Tescos was rammed but I still managed this week shopping. Not looking forward to next week though.

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Shame they ran out of decent whisky though. ?

[Jerzy Woking]

56 minutes ago, Wack said:

 

I've been using a sheepskin cover on my motorbike seats for years now. For long distance riding they offer enhanced comfort-doubt you would notice any real benefit on short rides though.

[Skizzer]

Is it just me or is there something about the concept of ‘ULTIMATE SPEED’ that doesn’t entirely line up with sheepskin car seat covers?

[mrbenn]

18 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Is it just me or is there something about the concept of ‘ULTIMATE SPEED’ that doesn’t entirely line up with sheepskin car seat covers?

Perhaps it was meant to say "ULTIMATE SHEEP" but someone got confused.

[New POD]

33 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Shame they ran out of decent whisky though. ?

If you're mixing it with coke or ginger beer, or (not done since 1986 by me) white wine, any cheap shit will do. Or Grants if you can't get any cheap shit. 

 

[chaseracer]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-50810196

If you fart in the car, just open a window.  Maybe not like this chap, though...

[Andyrew]

Must have been this stuff ^ ^

 

 

 

 

 

[dozeydustman]

[paulplom]

9 hours ago, New POD said:

If you're mixing it with coke or ginger beer, or (not done since 1986 by me) white wine, any cheap shit will do. Or Grants if you can't get any cheap shit. 

 

Grants is the best of the blended stuff. They make Balvenie which is my favourite malt. Tescos currently have Auchentoshan for £20 a bottle. They have all the common spirits for £16 a litre so I'm stocking up.

[MikeR]

Just looking out the window at my frozen up  car .

 

Ho Ho Ho ...   I am in work 

[paulplom]

Heated screens are for winnaz!

[New POD]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Heated screens are patented by Ford

Neat screen wash and an ice scraper are for winnars.  

All Vauxhalls are not shite. 

[TataBobu]

6 hours ago, paulplom said:

Heated screens are for winnaz!

I've found something even better than heated windscreen. Heated undergound parking, paid by the company. Mine is the cheapest, oldest, least prestigious car in it, and my bay is right by the elevator. Proper grin right there!

[meggersdog]

Looking at a car for MoT this morning and the offside rear tyre looked like it had directional arrows pointing the wrong way.Spun the wheel round and there are raised letters about 1cm in size. The letters spell the word LEFT. Oh dear.  

[Aston Martin]

The problem with heated windscreens, is sometimes that's all my eyes can 'Focus' on.

[Remspoor]

23 hours ago, New POD said:

If you're mixing it with coke or ginger beer, or (not done since 1986 by me) white wine, any cheap shit will do. Or Grants if you can't get any cheap shit. 

 

A local restaurant to us pours cheap whisky over plain Viennetta ice cream for a dessert. It is a lot better than you think. ?

[richardmorris]

The far side is online after 25years!

https://www.thefarside.com/about

[richardmorris]

12 hours ago, paulplom said:

Heated screens are for winnaz!

Heated screens are for smug bastards who can’t see the lines. Unfortunately they have given me a migraine when I’ve been in a car with one.

[Stanky]

26 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Heated screens are for smug bastards who can’t see the lines. Unfortunately they have given me a migraine when I’ve been in a car with one.

I have to say that my eyes would always focus in on the splinters of element in my old Mk2 Mondeo screen. It was a drag, but the insta-de-ice in the winter was well worth it. 

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, Stanky said:

I have to say that my eyes would always focus in on the splinters of element in my old Mk2 Mondeo screen. It was a drag, but the insta-de-ice in the winter was well worth it. 

My colleague has a new focus and is fine with it, but when he’s given me a lift I can’t help but focus on the lines snd have started to feel bad. I’d say it was a pain worth suffering as the last frosty morning I had to de ice the inside of the bloody car.

[vulgalour]

We finally, officialy, properly, have the keys to our new house.  Was it all plain sailing?  Of course not!  The previous owner had managed to lock the front door with the wrong key, snap the key off in the lock, not tell the estate agent, and leave the wrong keys with the estate agent.  So when other half attempted to unlock, he couldn't get in.  Queue a locksmith and £80 bill which is now getting passed on to the previous owner.  The correct keys were found inside the house, typically.  You've got to laugh I suppose.

We also learned the previous owners bought the house when it was about 8 years old, this would have been late 60s/early 70s.  Their approach to decorating, and apparently housework, was to just put fresh flooring and wallpaper over whatever was there before when it got dirty.  On the plus side, this means that the vast majority of the original 60s bits and bobs are still there, including a fabulous blue and white chequerboard Marley tile floor in the kitchen, a feature we'll be keeping even though Marley tiles seem to be about as popular as The Black Death currently.  We like them, that's all that matters.

Previous owner stung us again by doing the typical thing of "locusting" the property on their way out.  A couple of scabby blinds, some bad-ugly lampshades, and literally smelly flooring is all they left.  Annoyingly, that meant the white goods we were expecting to have on moving in that would see us through short term, werent' there, so that'll be another £170ish we're forking out for a new cooker then, since we didn't have one to bring with us and hadn't budgeted for it since we thought there was one with the property.  They also took the free-standing stove in the living room.  Initially this was something of a shame because we thought the metal panel covering up the hole in the original fireplace was because it was no longer functional.  Amazingly, the original open fire is still there, so we'll get the flue checked and a new ash pan thingy (dog grate?) since that's missing, but it still has the fire bricks and the grate that sits over them present.  I suspect it should be one of those irridescent finish jobs, like this:

There's some brilliantly daft electrics happening too.  There's a household plug on a wire hanging in the hallway closet, and when you plug it in a light in the living room comes on.  There's a light switch in another room that seems to do nothing at all.  The bathroom was originally a separate indoor toilet room and bathroom, the wall has been knocked down but both light pulls and ceiling lights retained.  One of the bathroom ceiling lights has a heater element incoporated in it, which is broken, and looks about as safe as you'd imagine such a thing.  One of the doors into the newly enlarged bathroom has been blocked off by removing the door handle after the door was closed, and then screwing a towel rail onto the door frame on the bathroom side.  The two bedrooms have had their doors switched around so the door opens against a wall, rather than into the middle of the room, which is fine until you realise that means the door opens over the light switch so to turn the light on you have to go into the room, shut the door, and fumble about in the dark for the light switch.  The kitchen door has disappeared and been replaced with a curtain rail, presumably for a beaded curtain.

Because of the many layers of wallpaper, we've taken to referring to it as the onion house.  It's going to be a fun adventure.  I'm really looking forward to it.

 

[meshking]

Just found Easy Rider on the Sony movies channel. Currently annoying my wife by singing along to every song ?

[myglaren]

[High Jetter]

Glad you got there in the end, Vulg

[paulplom]

8 hours ago, Stanky said:

I have to say that my eyes would always focus in on the splinters of element in my old Mk2 Mondeo screen. It was a drag, but the insta-de-ice in the winter was well worth it. 

Can't see the lines in my custom. I could now and then in my last van which was a 2010 transit. I'm gonna have a look later, or maybe not..

Maybe its because you sit farther away in a van. Either way they're for winners. Great for demisting as well, from when your soaked through from fixing a leak or whatever.