What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

The DVLA! 

 

Rang to chase up a V5 application from months ago, had missed something off the form and they've sent a letter saying it'll be sent out in early October. Not only that, they've sorted one application out quickly AND sent me a letter with a new V5 for one of my bikes saying it should have been registered as 'historic' and they'll refund the tax I paid. Knew at the time it was tax free but CBA applying for the V5 to state that.  

[MarvinsMom]

further to the grump at me needing to buy some new clothes, i have recently had a win doing this thankless task.

i have had to buy some new bottom coverings cos some of my other pants had passed their best.

again as i don't want to be bothered with the shops and other people, i ordered some on line.

2 pairs in the correct style but in a coffee colour in place of my usual black, cos the black ones were a few quid dearer were duly ordered.

they arrived towards the end of last week. right size, right (horrible) colour but a different style, and there were 4 of them not the 2 expected.

well these new pants do the job just fine, and the 4-packs are something like a tenner more than what i was expecting, so, win, win for me!!

 

[paulplom]

This just popped up as a fb memory. Me getting christened in 1972. I wonder whose the mg was.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 22/09/2020 at 07:25, paulplom said:

This just popped up as a fb memory. Me getting christened in 1972. I wonder whose the mg was.

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Is that a Silver Cross pram in the background?

[paulplom]

Looks like it. My mother isn't the one holdimg me. I'm not sure who the other woman is.

[cort16]

  On 22/09/2020 at 07:40, paulplom said:

Looks like it. My mother isn't the one holdimg me. I'm not sure who the other woman is.

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They're probably asking for some  plumbing advice .

"So if I fitted a new radiator in the bathroom do I have to drain the full system??"

[New POD]

  On 22/09/2020 at 07:25, paulplom said:

This just popped up as a fb memory. Me getting christened in 1972. I wonder whose the mg was.

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It was registered in your name, as some sort of bizare money laundering scheme by your Grandad and was sold to pay for your private education at Harrow. 

Or it belonged to your real father and he was later convicted of spying for the Russians 

[cort16]

They caught him when he tried to make a getaway from the hospital and it wouldn’t start .

[puddlethumper]

  On 21/09/2020 at 23:23, MarvinsMom said:

further to the grump at me needing to buy some new clothes, i have recently had a win doing this thankless task.

i have had to buy some new bottom coverings cos some of my other pants had passed their best.

again as i don't want to be bothered with the shops and other people, i ordered some on line.

2 pairs in the correct style but in a coffee colour in place of my usual black, cos the black ones were a few quid dearer were duly ordered.

they arrived towards the end of last week. right size, right (horrible) colour but a different style, and there were 4 of them not the 2 expected.

well these new pants do the job just fine, and the 4-packs are something like a tenner more than what i was expecting, so, win, win for me!!

 

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Well, that's just a load of pants !

[MikeR]

Good thing i checked it out , could of been fun ... Not 

[paulplom]

Seems legit.

[Pieman]

Got my phone back, and the lads at the shop were very apologetic for the time taken fixing it.

[High Jetter]

  On 22/09/2020 at 07:58, Rovorsche said:

I went to refill the dishwasher with salt and after a good rummage under the sink found the Funnel that makes the task much easier.

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I have one like that from our old dishwasher which I use for oil. Another 'thing' that Mrs H would have thrown away!

[myglaren]

  On 22/09/2020 at 07:26, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Is that a Silver Cross pram in the background?

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Certainly is - identical to the one we bought our first daughter, from Selfridges.  Was less there than anywhere else.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 22/09/2020 at 12:19, myglaren said:

Certainly is ....

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Silver Cross prams seem to be status symbols, for some unfathomable reason.

[MarvinsMom]

  On 22/09/2020 at 12:41, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Silver Cross prams seem to be status symbols, for some unfathomable reason.

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i think back in the olden dayz it was a silver cross pram or nothing.

i was wheeled around in one, as was my sister after me, 

and my cousins had used it before me and our kid, incidentally my sister had one of her own to push "dolly" about in too.

i suspect it went on to to carry the younger cousin around too.

again, that was the way of the world then.

[iainrcz]

Just been for a bottle of beer and bought a scratch card.
So now I have a beer AND a £5 winning scratch card

[New POD]

  On 19/09/2020 at 17:44, MikeR said:

apparently st Lukes road in Formby will be well parked up in the morning ....

 

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6058552/handsome-new-vicar-excites-locals/

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I was married in that church.  By a celebrity* vicar called Reverend Moon. 

[New POD]

  On 22/09/2020 at 10:59, paulplom said:

Seems legit.

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The negative connotations of the confederate flag would put me off. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 22/09/2020 at 18:42, New POD said:

I was married in that church.  By a celebrity* vicar called Reverend Moon. 

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That makes you a Moonie

[willswitchengage]

The council have painted around the Rover...

(That's not my bad parking - the space on the end is very narrow and my passenger side wheels are against the curb!)

[myglaren]

  On 22/09/2020 at 12:41, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Silver Cross prams seem to be status symbols, for some unfathomable reason.

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Agreed but we were on holiday in London, from Sweden, and needed transport for the baby.  Had to fold to go on the plane back.

It was a very affordable price and rugged, lasted for three of the five.  Not sure what happened to it after that.

[paulplom]

It'll have been made in to a bogey.

 

[mitsisigma01]

  On 22/09/2020 at 18:46, New POD said:

The negative connotations of the confederate flag would put me off. 

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Paint it over with a union flag of the UK   ..... Or would that upset some people as well

[SRi05]

Been searching the past couple of weeks for either a body coloured or mesh grill for the Jag, the all chrome one is just a bit too much for me. Cheapest one I found was £85, till this morning when I snapped this up for £26. Result! 

I do really like the XJR mesh style one though so will keep an eye on one popping up for a reasonable price 

 

[New POD]

  On 22/09/2020 at 18:49, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That makes you a Moonie

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The funny thing was when we went to visit the vicarage,  to organise the final arrangements, him and his wife, were having a massive row. 

[New POD]

  On 23/09/2020 at 09:41, mitsisigma01 said:

Paint it over with a union flag of the UK   ..... Or would that upset some people as well

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Flags have history. Our history includes some bad stuff and some good stuff but wouldn't want any flag on a car.  Maybe an east German flag on a trabant. 

 Maybe just a checkered flag on that. In blue and lime, for a change.  

[anonymous user]

What about a nice European Union flag for it

[SmokinWaffle]

A flag on a car has far too many possible connotations to even consider it a do-able thing in my book...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Did the earth move for anyone?

@Six-cylinder?

@Mrs6C?

@Zelandeth?