What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Home from work at 2 today, so grabbed half an hour with a vacuum and gave the ZX a muck out! No pics because I was just very into it. 

Do need to carry on with the interior cleaning though... Feel a drill brush and a cheap drill is a good thing to buy next year. 

Did enquire about a new interior for it, and found one but the rear seats were different. Do the sliding rear bench seats bolt up as the fixed/folding rear seats do on mine? 

Was a well nice L reg brown cloth interior too, from a breaker up in Worcester if anyone wants details, he still has the car I think (it's white) 

[beko1987]

5 minutes ago, jamiechod said:

I mean it does look a bit gay times weekly cover pic... 

Looks like your about to order a coffee that'll take 23 minutes to make... 

[somewhatfoolish]

Coffee with a fish supper? Or is the hipster haunt du jour now chippies ironically converted into espresso bars?

[beko1987]

Ours has a nespresso type machine in it... 

[HillmanImp]

13 minutes ago, jamiechod said:

I mean it does look a bit gay times weekly cover pic... 

I thought you were posing for a photo in some public toilets for a minute there.

[Lord Sterling]

53 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Was in TK Maxx buying some unfashionable and unflattering jeans and saw this BMW next to the tills. 

Well, its German so they're not miles away. 

Did you buy it? I may be interested.

[HillmanImp]

25 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

Did you buy it? I may be interested.

No, sorry.

I can pop in tomorrow and see if its still there. Think it was only a fiver. 

[Jamie]

54 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

I thought you were posing for a photo in some public toilets for a minute there.

??? It had the appeal of a public toilet to be fair 

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Looks like your about to order a coffee that'll take 23 minutes to make... 

Hahaha genuinely lolled! 

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Coffee with a fish supper? Or is the hipster haunt du jour now chippies ironically converted into espresso bars?

Could be a gay bar with unconventional dining service? 

[Joey spud]

I got a spanking new company van a month or so back and for xmas i received a selection of ebay tin signs to decorate the workshop area with.

Much more homely.

[Roobarb]

for what it’s worth, I like it Arthur... um... Jamie!

Sorry, couldn’t find a pic of his Jaaaag.

[Jamie]

9 minutes ago, Roobarb said:

for what it’s worth, I like it Arthur... um... Jamie!

Sorry, couldn’t find a pic of his Jaaaag.

This is why I love AS ??? quality 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

43 minutes ago, Roobarb said:

 

Given the gay references, should that not be Mindr?

[Wack]

2 hours ago, jamiechod said:

I mean it does look a bit gay times weekly cover pic... 

To be fair it looks better on than it did on the rack , not as feminine as I was expecting , must be the way you're rocking the collar 

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, jamiechod said:

I mean it does look a bit gay times weekly cover pic... 

sausage and chips please

[SiC]

20 minutes ago, hairnet said:

sausage and chips please

Sausage and meatballs surely?

[hairnet]

one or the other

 

[Jamie]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

To be fair it looks better on than it did on the rack , not as feminine as I was expecting , must be the way you're rocking the collar 

Glad I could pull it off in a manly way. AS win ?

[Jamie]

13 minutes ago, SiC said:

Sausage and meatballs surely?

Everything has its price 

[hairnet]

meat pie, sausage roll........

oh wait thats oldham

 

[hairymel]

4 hours ago, Fumbler said:

200 amps. Ha ha ha haaaaa......
.... research ...

Guess you have already found out that generally these type of Chinesium 200a inverters are not bad for the money as long as you factor in that the display shows about twice the actual current. And of course the 200a rating is nearer 100a.

[MarvinsMom]

21 hours ago, xtriple said:

I just heard of a car company that has recently set up a plant in China to make one specific model. All the cars have certain tolerences by design but apparently some have been 'pushed' a bit... to the extent that certain parts (namely headlights) from a UK built car will not fit the exact same car being built by the same company in a new factory in that there China.

thats gotta be JLR - some of their bits made in this country don't fit on cars assembled in this country!

[Wack]

6 hours ago, Rovorsche said:

Tesco Insurance are CUNTS!

My Mother In Law stayed with them for Ten years, and was paying £650 for a 1.4 seat, the yearly increments were excessive but affordable to her.

Switched to RAC for £280 including breakdown cover and hasnt looked back.

They all are, my dad was with the same company for decades , they were charging him over £600 , I got it for less than 50%  of that

Didn't go so well though , 18 months later he rang me up , who was that insurance with , I can't find the certificate and I need to tax my car 

That's when I found out it hadn't auto renewed and he'd been driving with no insurance for 6 months 

Oops 

[Jamie]

21 minutes ago, hairnet said:

meat pie, sausage roll........

oh wait thats oldham

 

Im in Rochdale so pretty accurate to be fair 

[Timewaster]

22 hours ago, xtriple said:

I just heard of a car company that has recently set up a plant in China to make one specific model. All the cars have certain tolerences by design but apparently some have been 'pushed' a bit... to the extent that certain parts (namely headlights) from a UK built car will not fit the exact same car being built by the same company in a new factory in that there China.

A friend of mine worked in his dad's business selling industrial machines. 

Manufacturing by contractors in China, they would produce the first batch perfectly. 

Then gradually the spec began to drift. 

Titanium fixings became stainless, stainless fittings became mild. 

Non vital components start to disappear. 

Sizes begin to shrink. Metal got thinner and thinner. 

The company would have the machines shipped directly to the customer and only discover these cut corners when they went to maintain or repair them. 

A swift flight to China and a bollocking given, the spec returned to normal for a bit. 

[Fumbler]

49 minutes ago, hairymel said:

Guess you have already found out that generally these type of Chinesium 200a inverters are not bad for the money as long as you factor in that the display shows about twice the actual current. And of course the 200a rating is nearer 100a.

Indeed, people's current readings on Youtube show this. In the case of This Old Tony, switching polarity makes the weld better, however I don't know if this applies to all of them.

[Joey spud]

This made me larf.

[Roobarb]

^^^

I always wondered how ‘The ox and lamb kept time’

In a Flaver Flav kind of way or with a baton like the Conductor on the Last night of the Proms?

EDIT: Google is your friend

[hairymel]

4 hours ago, Fumbler said:

 This Old Tony

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[MarvinsMom]

14 hours ago, Joey spud said:

This made me larf.

which reminds me of this, an all time favourite

"i brought these gifts for you, their upper my bum......"

[Tadhg Tiogar]

14 hours ago, Timewaster said:

A friend of mine worked in his dad's business selling industrial machines. 

Manufacturing by contractors in China, they would produce the first batch perfectly. 

Then gradually the spec began to drift. 

Titanium fixings became stainless, stainless fittings became mild. 

Non vital components start to disappear. 

Sizes begin to shrink. Metal got thinner and thinner. 

The company would have the machines shipped directly to the customer and only discover these cut corners when they went to maintain or repair them. 

A swift flight to China and a bollocking given, the spec returned to normal for a bit. 

"Heaven is high, and the Emperor is far away"

Alternatively, when the cat's away,  the mice mitch off early.