What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 18/12/2019 at 19:34, 155V6 said:

My colleague comes to work in this Bentley

She earns just above minimum wage,but her husband is a farrier & earns good money.Last week it went in for a service & some new tyres.I was walking past today & noticed Jinlu written on the rear tyre ?

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What was the oul saying about the cobbler's children being the worst-shod?

[richardmorris]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50849559

 

The US Department of Agriculture listed Wakanda as a free-trade partner - despite it being a fictional country.

[Bobthebeard]

Just back from our annual meet up with two friends. We do a pre Christmas three day short holiday break at Portmeirion. We took the Rover 75 (as we always do, a tradition) because Mrs Beard loves it and it is only used occasionally when going away without the dog. I was a bit nervous as we haven't used it in almost a year and a FTP was a distinct possibility in my mind. No FTP ensued and all went smoothly. It is a British Racing Green KV6 Connie SE early model and lovely IMHO. We were parked next to a Bentley two door coupe thingy and the Rover got several admiring comments from passing folks, the Bentley didn't get a mention. Great! 

[MikeR]

Come home for the xmas hols  with biscuits . wine . chocolate . 20 note. 

And a 25 pound win on the bonds on the doorstep !!!!!

Things are looking up 

[vulgalour]

Do you want to see what a kitchen waste pipe made of electrical tape looks like?  I bet you do.

Astonishingly, it doesn't leak, the backboard of the cupboard has instead been ruined by a leak from something else that isn't leaking any more.

[clayts450]

Finally got the (hopefully correct) keys to the Council garage I started paying rent on back in October. Won't be able to get over there till the weekend to check, mind....

[myglaren]

Ceramic disc brakes

[Wack]

  On 18/12/2019 at 18:48, MondeoBlues said:

The Volvo now has a matching set of tyres. Bridgestones, no less. No Chinese death-rings for my waft-o-brick, no siree. Absolutely dominate standing water they do

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The one thing I do with cars is buy good tyres and change them at 3mm , I was looking at some of the pile of tyres they'd removed , it was shocking how many illegal tyres they'd changed 

[Wack]

  On 19/12/2019 at 17:12, vulgalour said:

Do you want to see what a kitchen waste pipe made of electrical tape looks like?  I bet you do.

Astonishingly, it doesn't leak, the backboard of the cupboard has instead been ruined by a leak from something else that isn't leaking any more.

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Is it sticky insulation tape or the rubber self amalgamating tape , the latter is really useful 

[Andyrew]

Ordered a wheel arch / end of sill repair panel for the Astra.  Guess they really didn't want to find a box to fit it in.  So they flattened it.

 

 

[loserone]

Wow.

[Fumbler]

Father Fumbler just sent me this:

[clayts450]

Left the dashcam on in the 620 when I parked it up for work today. Was concerned that the dashboard seemed very dim when I fired it up, so used minimal electrics on the way home in case the alternator was fucked.

Pissing with rain and  all round vision terrible on the journey home this evening.

Wasn't until I was about 200 yards from home that I realised that I'd somehow located the wrong glasses from my bag and plonked them on my face. You know, clayts, the prescription sunglasses....them.

Twat.

 

[High Jetter]

Many, many years ago, in the galaxy of 1980s, I fitted a stereo to a 3-door Marina. Somehow the choke cable got involved in the electrical circuit and started smokin...

[Wack]

  On 20/12/2019 at 23:20, High Jetter said:

Many, many years ago, in the galaxy of 1980s, I fitted a stereo to a 3-door Marina. Somehow the choke cable got involved in the electrical circuit and started smokin...

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For my first car when I was 18 I bought a sharp stereo from a catalogue , I also fitted a flashy roof aerial which obviously made the Mk3 Cortina a lady magnet.

Wired the stereo up and nothing , dead, sent it back , they sent me another , that did the same dead out of the box , must be a faulty batch.

They sent another , it was at this point I noticed the live from the interior light was touching the aerial wire , oops

[Wack]

If you get a link called 'free p0rn' dont opin it. It is a birus wich deactivates your spelcheck and fcuks up you riting. I also receibed it but lukily I dont uatch p0rn so I dint opin it. Plaese warm yu frends, w4nks

[HillmanImp]

Same bus crashes into same  hospital foyer 7 yrs apart. 

Last night

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/bus-hits-ipswich-hospital-accident-and-emergency-1-6433899

2012

https://www.dunmowbroadcast.co.uk/news/ipswich-double-decker-bus-wedged-under-canopy-at-ipswich-hospital-1-1382938

The bus said it will happen every 7 years until legislation is passed that makes cheese moments mandatory stock in all UK pubs. 

[wuvvum]

  On 20/12/2019 at 05:38, Wack said:

Is it sticky insulation tape or the rubber self amalgamating tape , the latter is really useful 

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Yep, I've used self amalgamating tape to repair leaks in the past - seems to last for ages.

[richardmorris]

People said I’d never get over my Phil Collins obsession, but take a look at me now!

 

[Joey spud]

I think i'll pass on plugging in here today.

[angle]

Lanarkshire has a new gritter. 

[Skizzer]

  On 21/12/2019 at 14:25, angle said:

Lanarkshire has a new gritter. 

 

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I love the gritting lorry naming thing in Scotland.  There’s a live map showing all of them here:

http://scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2de764a9303848ffb9a4cac0bd0b1aab

Sir Salter Scott and Plougher Of Scotland are my other favourites.

[HillmanImp]

  On 21/12/2019 at 15:58, Skizzer said:

I love the gritting lorry naming thing in Scotland.  There’s a live map showing all of them here:

http://scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2de764a9303848ffb9a4cac0bd0b1aab

Sir Salter Scott and Plougher Of Scotland are my other favourites.

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I like Spready Mercury. 

[Jamie]

As content in meme 

 

 

[Roobarb]

[Roobarb]

[myglaren]

^ Two!

[Remspoor]

  On 21/12/2019 at 13:58, Joey spud said:

I think i'll pass on plugging in here today.

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I found that on a newspaper covering Berkshire.I posted it under the shite picture thread. Sorry for the cross post peeps.

[anonymous user]

I've just been dog food shopping at Lidl, it was packed with a full car park, that wasn't the grin. It was the sight of the glamorous lady,  dressed in fur coat and hat, circling the car park in her drop-top Bentley, she had her window down and music on, Pulp's "Common People"

I've been alongside her at traffic lights before, that time the music was Shirley Bassey "I who have nothing"

I like her.

[Christine]

What was you playing ? Little Red Roadster?