What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[oldford]

Trig man, I can't believe you dindt wear the christmas jumper for your photoshoot. What a wasted opportunity to get that bad boy out to the nation.

 

Artists impression, if he'd worn it.

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Much better!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[wuvvum]

Innocenti and Punto both passed their MoTs this morning. Innocenti wasn't unexpected (that car is unbelievably clean underneath for an 18-year-old Italian) but I was rather expecting the Punto to fail on emissions, what with having been stood up for 8 months and not serviced in years. It passed though, just. Innocenti had a CO reading of 0.00% and HC of 64ppm - bloody good for a carburettor'd engine I reckon.

[pogweasel]

I am well pleased, I managed to nick off with some bald lad's credit card details and have successfully ordered myself a brand new land rover, registration D701SWL.

W00t!

[Station]

He'll get refunded, and you'll get away with it.

[ashmicro]

Getting back a book I thought I had lost. I had forgotten I had lent it to my best mate, who had in turn really lost it. 11 years later, he found it, and gave me it back, looking rather guilty as he knew he'd lost it, and was secretly dreading me asking for it back. We're both 38, and have been bezzie mates for 34 of those.

[eddyramrod]

Getting back a book I thought I had lost. I had forgotten I had lent it to my best mate

 

Almost exactly what happened to me today! I lent out a Haynes in December, and it came back today. I'd actually forgotten I ever had it!

 

In other news...

"How much do you want for it?"

"Oh just take it away, here's the key..."

 

1.8 dohc, 1990, not used for two years. Steel sunroof pretty rotten, battery and at least one tyre shot. Manual box. Anything I should know before I start fettling it? (New thread opened for this purpose)

[chaseracer]

From a post by Sir Michael Trigsworthy, in another place:

 

 

So... they get rid of the only bit - other than (usually) the glass - that DOESN'T rust...

[maxpower]

Getting back a book I thought I had lost. I had forgotten I had lent it to my best mate, who had in turn really lost it. 11 years later, he found it, and gave me it back, looking rather guilty as he knew he'd lost it, and was secretly dreading me asking for it back. We're both 38, and have been bezzie mates for 34 of those.

 

in the economic climate we are in at the mo and seeing as he is your bezzie mate you should just charge him 10p a day late return fees

 

let's see thats £40,150.00 he owes you, you can buy plenty of autoshite with that

[M'coli]

The look on the faces of the staff at Larkspeed when I took a genuine Allycat wheel in to get some 7/16" wheelnuts for it. Then getting discount because they weren't all the same shape (but were the right taper)!

[seth]

"He didn't look at all like I imagined he would. He looked a bit like a Maths teacher"

 

-A well known Autoshiter is described.

[barrett]

That could easily describe 95% of you lot

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Chemistry teachers

[Albert Ross]

Nah. Not me, I look like a complete cunt.

[Guest]

Most Autoshite members look like the sort of person who might turn up in an episode of NCIS, they're not actually the bad guy but they become a suspect because of some sort of previous offence - nothing serious, say along the lines of indecent exposure or some form of voyeurism. Their car would be something along the lines of a bashed-up Cutlass, Sentra or Saturn SL2.

 

Not sure who off here would look like a maths teacher though. Probably Pog, he looks the most like he might have a proper job.

[trigger]

I'm trying to work out who it is as well. Mind you with that brown suit on you could get away with being a 1980's geography teacher Hirst!

[CIH]

actually Hirst's avatar could easily be my old man. Glasses tash 'n' all.

[HillmanImp]

NEVER play Hirst's avatar at Pong. Especially when your sister in law is coming to visit.

[Vin]

I'm loving 'The killing' on BBC4. It is the BESTEST Telly there is at the moment. IT'S ORSUMZ

 

Also, Wes 'THE MIGHTY OAK' Morgan made my Saturday afternoon

[fotorabia]

when i put on my best suit i look like a social sciences teacher trapped in some retro horror timewarp..

[Negative Creep]

I'm not sure what I look like, although............................actually best not to answer that. I feel like a right prick in a suit or anything formal though; it's always the chav-tastic hoodie and white trainers for me. Or whatever clothes happen to be closest to the bed when I wake up.

 

 

Also spent the last 5 hours writing and rewriting a personal statement for a job application and it feels good to have sent the damn thing. Spoke to the careers advisor at Uni who gave me lots of useful advice on finding and applying for graduate jobs, instead of minimum wage shite I would do if I left school at 16

[ashmicro]

Flippy lights eddyramrod! For nowt too.

[scaryoldcortina]

I have been variously compared to swampy, Gorden Ramsay and the Unabomber. If you discount my hair, dress and general appearance, I look quite like my dad, who was a Chemistry teacher.

 

What makes me grin tonight is getting 6 gallons of pez out of a car I was given for nothing. GR9 for not buying fuel this week.

[M'coli]

I've just won a Talbot Sunbeam 930cc engine off of eBay for £50!!! Ok, it's in Inverness, but I'm going to Glencoe next month ayway and the vendor wil keep it for me! WIN!!!

[ashmicro]

SORT IT OUT CAMERON!

 

Scary's very statement illustrates how FUCKING STUPID this has got. We can build nuclear powerplants. We had the world's first @ Calder Hall. I know this shit - I build powerplants for a living. Reduce the oil price by telling the ragheads that they cannot any longer hold us to ransom. FUCK! This winds me right up.

 

 

 

 

Soz Wrong thread, but someone needs to speak the truth. and before Norm chips in, :

 

Norm, The Inconvenient Truth is, it's the USA's fault. And so is the credit crunch.

 

 

bla bla bla we rescued you from Winston Hitler. You cunts made a fortune from the war. Thats $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Helped us? Poor GIs paid for it, we didn't finish paying for it until 2006. Fucking Obongo was talking shit about "global responsibility" with about 10 Chevy Blazers in shot.

 

rant over

[Negative Creep]

We can't use nuclear power, the Greenies would never allow it. Mind you, we could say we're making them then use their self righteous indignation as a fuel

[ashmicro]

Greenies cant have it both ways. Nuke stations are ZE

[scaryoldcortina]

Way back when I was a kid growing up on Teeside, the only time we ever heard the words "Carbon Dioxide" and the word "Danger" in the same sentence is when the AGR* at Hartlepool had an unscheduled release of coolant.

 

*Advanced Gas cooled Reactor - A bit like the nuclear equivalent of a K series.

[M'coli]

What gets me about nuclear power is that all these countries who don't have a scooby about it build "research" reactors to generate power - FFS, why cant the UN just say "you can build a CANDU job and that's it?", seeing as that type can run on unenriched uranium???

[autofive]

Atoomenergie? Nee Bandankt

 

 

 

oh, and i found this