What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

Diane Abbott doesn't have enough grey matter to half fill a teaspoon.

Anyway, enough about that gormless cow.

Just sent in my entry form for the Club Triumph  2020 Round Britain Reliability Run. 

We are: Team Are We There Yet.

WCPGW

[MikeR]

sod it ,

went for the less healthy option this morning . complete with unrinsed mug and chipped plate ...

no doubt some this and that hugger will have an epi over it

[LightBulbFun]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

You want how much now?

Fek

they have clearly made a mistake

I don't see my AC designed 2 door convertible anywhere on that front cover!

[Joey spud]

I think the post might be a bit late today..

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, Joey spud said:

I think the post might be a bit late today..

What happened there? I can't make out if the front fell off or if it's in a gurt big hole.

[Remspoor]

Car passed it's annual inspection, with no advisories. Bonus with a Fiat Barchetta (2000Model) in front.

[SiC]

1 hour ago, PhilA said:

What happened there? I can't make out if the front fell off or if it's in a gurt big hole.

I think it's one very deep hole that had the roadworks barriers around it. They now appear to be on the side of the hole. Maybe wind blew them onto the side and Mr Postie drove through the wet patch, thinking it's just a puddle. 

[High Jetter]

There is, of course, a chance it was Mrs or Miss Postie (purely* for the sake of equality)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Car passed it's annual inspection, with no advisories. Bonus with a Fiat Barchetta (2000Model) in front.

ITV 1 and ITV 2! Do they go as far as ITV 3?

[richardmorris]

Watching old Keith floyd on France. Loads of old French tin plus this Volvo?

 

[richardmorris]

Plus he’s just poured a whole bottle of Gevrey-Chambertin ( £40-£100 ish now ) into the coq au vin!

[strangeangel]

29 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Plus he’s just poured a whole bottle of Gevrey-Chambertin ( £40-£100 ish now ) into the coq au vin!

 

Well, you know what he always said... "And remember, if it's not good enough to drink, it's not good enough to cook with!"

 

Can't beat a bit of Floyd.

 

[richardmorris]

28 minutes ago, strangeangel said:

 

Well, you know what he always said... "And remember, if it's not good enough to drink, it's not good enough to cook with!"

 

That’s my motto in life! I’ve said before that this does need plenty of quality checking, before and while cooking.

[New POD]

13 hours ago, MikeR said:

sod it ,

went for the less healthy option this morning . complete with unrinsed mug and chipped plate ...

no doubt some this and that hugger will have an epi over it

Wot no eggs? And where's the fried bread?  You ain't even trying.  

To be fair that looks fine.  Imagine it with maple syrup over the top. Fantastic. 

[eddyramrod]

23 hours ago, strangeangel said:

Well, you know what he always said... "And remember, if it's not good enough to drink, it's not good enough to cook with!

And to that I always say, if it's alcoholic, it has NO place in my food, at any stage, in even trace quantities.

 

Two grins now.

I was at Carer's Group yesterday and the three ladies and I were talking about common sense.  One said something to the effect of, men just don't have any (tbf she did preface it with an apology to me).  I said "I can smash your argument there with two words, and neither of them is Off.  Diane Abbott."  She couldn't fight that!

Today, I walked round to my local chippy for my usual Saturday treat of fish & chips for tea.  Except... they were shut.  I came home for the car (no other chippy within walking distance) and headed for one I've used maybe once or twice before.  I was the only customer in the shop, with two female staff (young one on the counter, more mature doing the actual frying).  We were having a bit of craic based on the principle that life's too short to be serious.  I told Youngster about my late friend Harry.  Whenever I went to see him, he would lead me in the direction of the kettle with his usual greeting, which wasn't "hello, how are you?" or anything like that; he always greeted me with "What happened then?"  I would then respond with something like "Well it all went to pot after you left" and we would have a conversation that lasted until the brews were made, and might have made sense if anyone knew what we were talking about; but nobody did, including both of us.  No actual event was ever specified.  The whole thing was nonsense, but it didn't half amuse us!  Youngster liked that and I have a feeling she might even use it herself.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Plus he’s just poured a whole bottle of Gevrey-Chambertin ( £40-£100 ish now ) into the coq au vin!

The horror! The horror!

[PhilA]

Put my father in control of some garden machinery. Funny to see him mow the same part of the yard 3 times before taking over. It's nice to see my folks again, they have come for a short visit.

 

Phil

[3VOM]

11 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

And to that I always say, if it's alcoholic, it has NO place in my food, at any stage, in even trace quantities.

If I remember correctly, Mr Floyd was the complete opposite.

[somewhatfoolish]

He was always careful to fully taste the vino before, during and after adding it to the pan.

[Wack]

On 12/6/2019 at 6:25 PM, strangeangel said:

 

Nicking someone's bike (especially in London) is effectively regarded as a victimless crime; all you'll get from the police is given a crime number and told to crack on with your insurance claim. If this human refuse thought there was a danger of getting turned into pizza by a 2 ton cop car, instead of the current "pursuit too dangerous because scum not wearing helmet" the bike theft statistics would tumble within weeks.

 

20 years ago a guy at work had a CX500 nicked in Wigan

He rang the police 

Here's your crime number 

Aren't you coming out to see if they left any evidence, fingerprints

No sorry all we do is issue crime numbers for your insurance claim but if you get it back please let us know.

I guess so that they can tick the crime solved  box for statistics 

[Asimo]

Seen yesterday outside the headquarters of the Monster Raving Loony party.

It is the official transport for the parliamentary candidate for Radnorshire.

(F reg., in daily use, sounds like it needs a bit of a tune. Front seats look modern.)

[PhilA]

Parents going for a jolly. 

 

Phil

[richardmorris]

11 minutes ago, Asimo said:

Seen yesterday outside the headquarters of the Monster Raving Loony party.

It is the official transport for the parliamentary candidate for Radnorshire.

(F reg., in daily use, sounds like it needs a bit of a tune. Front seats look modern.)

Not too raving loony then. They’re not even standing round here, although BJ in Uxbridge has two bucketheads standing against him. 

[scdan4]

[Eddie Honda]

8 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Not too raving loony then. They’re not even standing round here, although BJ in Uxbridge has two bucketheads standing against him. 

No, one Lord Buckethead and one ex-Buckethead, now Count Binface.

Anyway, I'll have to stop there before Ben Elton pops up.

[Remspoor]

On 12/5/2019 at 8:20 PM, dozeydustman said:

Not the first time Paul McCarthy done this:  Rotterdam 2001

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/paul-mccarthys-santa-claus

[Jamie]

Hopefully this will make me grin, just left a deposit on it collecting Saturday  no logical reason for buying it I have a perfectly good diesel estate with probably more power but I've just always wanted to scratch the itch. Cheapest fn2 type r which has been for sale recently  wcpgw? 

[clayts450]

1-59 please

[danthecapriman]

Just finished the last of my Xmas shopping! Did all of it online this year, just got to wait for a couple of deliveries then do a bit of wrapping up and then that’s that done for another year.

A couple more weeks of work to get through then it’s a week off and food and drink time!

[Jerzy Woking]

3 hours ago, jamiechod said:

Hopefully this will make me grin, just left a deposit on it collecting Saturday  no logical reason for buying it I have a perfectly good diesel estate with probably more power but I've just always wanted to scratch the itch. Cheapest fn2 type r which has been for sale recently  wcpgw? 

I think they may be to 2055 what the MkI Escort is to 2019. My 17 year old great niece thinks they are fantastic.

Always fancied a fast blast in one myself.