What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

You've also saved yourself eleven million man hours piss arsing about in the basement of Ikea picking all the individual bastarding bits up.

[Pillock]

True. I only went for a look around and got stressed, I'd probably end up in prison or hospital if I actually wanted to make a major purchase. We'd had an argument before even getting out of the car and then all the way around, couples snapping at each other.

 

I did once buy a TV cabinet from the "bargain" section (i.e. damaged chod) not really thinking that it wouldn't go in the car, so had to stand in Ikea taking the bastard bleeding thing apart so I could reassemble at home. And then it was an inch too narrow for the TV, so I got the angle grinder onto the television to make it fit. By that stage, I was less than chuffed at my bargain.

[seth]

I picked up a couple of copies of "On Four Wheels" that had been at my mums for ages. One has a couple of technical engine articles by LJKS

 

Efficient breathing and efficient burning are the basic requirements of a good engine; mechanical imperturbability is merely a condition of their realisation.

 

Dictionary at the ready!

[pogweasel]

IKEA is the devils work, you spend hours picking stuff in the showroom, surrounded by rude foreign people (where are these people from? They are always rude. And foreign). Then you get to the warehouse and most of the stuff is not in fugging stock. The bit where you buy plates and rugs is moar bearable though, and of course the reward of half a dozen hot-dogs and unlimited fizzy pop just beyond the checkout always suckers me in.

[dollywobbler]

What makes me grin is having the Landy money already in my account. These new, faster bank transfers are great. I've still got the Land Rover as well! Double win! Should be collected in the next few days. Then I've got to wait until Friday. I'm meeting a friend in the Midlands to see a band on Friday night, then he's having the BX and I'm collecting my Scimitar the next day. I love it when a plan comes together. As the Landy went for more than the Scimitar is costing, I stupidly splurged a load of cash on a new camera - that still makes me grin, even though I really need to spend the money on important things like food, and new glasses...

[wuvvum]

I picked up a couple of copies of "On Four Wheels" that had been at my mums for ages. One has a couple of technical engine articles by LJKS

Does either of the articles mention Brake Mean Effective Pressure? That seems to have been one of LJK's little leitmotivs - I'd never even heard of it before reading his technical articles.

[scaryoldcortina]

I had no clue what you were all talking about, so I googled IKEA and wow! I never realized there was a place you could go when the missus says "I want some shelves for the front room" and just buy some!

 

Although, it is a very satisfying use of a sunday to make this out of some random planks.

AND I didn't have to use any petrol, find somewhere to park OR deal with any rude morons (family excepted)

[M'coli]

I picked up a couple of copies of "On Four Wheels" that had been at my mums for ages. One has a couple of technical engine articles by LJKS

Does either of the articles mention Brake Mean Effective Pressure? That seems to have been one of LJK's little leitmotivs - I'd never even heard of it before reading his technical articles.

BMEP? Vic Willoughby mentions it quite a bit too...

[seth]

Does either of the articles mention Brake Mean Effective Pressure? That seems to have been one of LJK's little leitmotivs - I'd never even heard of it before reading his technical articles.

 

Doesn't seem to. One is about the cylinders/block and the other about cylinder head/valve layouts.

[greengartside]

Toy Story 3 - that is all grinning like a loon from start to finish!

[Pillock]

IKEA is the devils work, you spend hours picking stuff in the showroom, surrounded by rude foreign people (where are these people from? They are always rude. And foreign). Then you get to the warehouse and most of the stuff is not in fugging stock. The bit where you buy plates and rugs is moar bearable though, and of course the reward of half a dozen hot-dogs and unlimited fizzy pop just beyond the checkout always suckers me in.

 

Aye, the Marketplace is quite good. Except they must pump some drugs through the aircon, drugs that make you buy things you have no real need for. I always do that, little storage boxes or a set of plastic pinking shears or something.

 

The hotdogs are nice, as are the bags of frozen meatballs. And massive bags of miniature Daim bars which you think would last weeks but don't.

[M'coli]

Taken from the Autoshite News 24 thread:

 

There's something very strange about watching Cock Smoking & the Bum Bandit of the back seat of your car on two TV screens...

LOL!!!

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

The hotdogs are nice, as are the bags of frozen meatballs. And massive bags of miniature Daim bars which you think would last weeks but don't.

I went to IKEA yesterday and ended up eating a whole bag of little Daims. They're awesome, and I'm a fat pig.

[shite_meister]

Richard Briers' teeth. I don't know why but they always make me grin.

 

[Cavcraft]

Just flittingg round the web as you do and briefly left a picture of a Mongdeo on the screen. My daughter walked in, asked what car it was and when I told her she said 'where's the sellotape on the bumpers?'

[ashmicro]

Just flittingg round the web as you do and briefly left a picture of a Mongdeo on the screen. My daughter walked in, asked what car it was and when I told her she said 'where's the sellotape on the bumpers?'

 

 

Billy=model parent. That's quality!

[autofive]

slightly off topic (very off topic for this forum) but i thought some members might like to see em;

 

Normandy 1944 and now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Richard]

They're amazing aren't they. There are a lot more of them here. http://acidcow.com/pics/3772-normandy_1 ... _pics.html

 

 

 

[pompei]

The ex Mrs P used to like Ikea "as a day out"

 

I once went at about 8 pm on a Tuesday - no-one there, wonderful!

[retrogeezer]

Love those photos autofive....cheers for posting them up.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I picked up a couple of copies of "On Four Wheels" that had been at my mums for ages. One has a couple of technical engine articles by LJKS

Does either of the articles mention Brake Mean Effective Pressure? That seems to have been one of LJK's little leitmotivs - I'd never even heard of it before reading his technical articles.

BMEP? Vic Willoughby mentions it quite a bit too...

 

 

BMEP is a good measure for comparing one engine with another, it basically tells you how big a bang you are getting inside the cylinder, so its a good measure of an engine's ability to suck in a good lungful of mixture, mix it up properly and pop it at the right time. It negates the problems you can get when comparing a high-revving japanese 1.6 DOHC whizzer with a post-war austin truck engine and tells you which of the two was getting the most out of each firing event.

[ashmicro]

Brilliant stuff Autofive! I have some family in Normandie, it's a beautiful part of the world, and has HUGE amounts of shite. Many moons ago me and my then long-haired CO went to visit said family when I had the 944. Blasting through the countryside and generally having a good time we came across a little monument. Upon closer inspection, it was for some local folks who had been shot out of hand by the Germans in the Second World War. It made me ashamed to be driving a German car.

 

I think it was in Rouen where we saw the town hall (?) or whatever it was which had been the German Area HQ during the occupation, still bearing the bullet holes where the R.A.F. had attacked it by flying a DeHavilland Mosquito at stupidly low altitude and giving it the good news with the cannon.

 

We got talking to an oul fella who had seen the R.A.F. dropping a French Tricolour on the Arc de Triomphe. Bristol Beaufighter (yes, same company as Bristol Cars) On 12th June, 1942, crewed by Flight Lieutenant A.K. Gatward (Pilot) & Sergeant G. Fern (Observer), this aircraft dropped a French Tricolore on the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, and then strafed the nearby Headquarters of the Kriegsmarine.

 

I will dig out our French vacance photos and post them.

[dollywobbler]

Excellent. On the BXagon, we had a break at Arramanches. Felt VERY peculiar eating our lunch at a place where utter chaos took place 54 years earlier.

[chaseracer]

Felt VERY peculiar eating our lunch at a place where utter chaos took place 54 years earlier.

The 10th anniversary of D-Day? I'd heard that was quite a party...

 

[trigger]

Thanks for posting that A5, I've seen the site before after a feature about it in the Sun newspaper, I find stuff like that fascinating.

[dollywobbler]

Balls. I'm crap at maths...

 

Anyway, I'm grinning because I've met another top Scimmie owner who let me have a drive of his shite-looking but mechanically sound GTE. A nice taster while I wait for my own. Was for a photo shoot - makes a change to have something scruffy to shoot! Really liking the club already.

[autofive]

oooooohhhhh

 

any pictures?

[boobydoo]

Those wartime pics are always very emotive. Thanks for posting them.

[dollywobbler]

oooooohhhhh

 

any pictures?

 

I need to keep them close to my chest until they're in print. It's for a weekly though, so won't be too long.

[BMC Dan]

The Austin Morris show at Brooklands today, some prize chod in amongst the Moggys ranging from a brown A70 Hereford to an absolutely filthy Mk1 Metro, photos to come shortly. Great to meet Angry Dicky and his family with their A35 and beige Maestro too.