What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

UK during the cold spell.

[Wack]

 

Married and struggling during lockdown

I recommend 

Not only do they sound fantastic the noise cancelling is epic 

She's sat 4ft away and the only indication she's speaking is her lips are moving 

Fantastic 

 

[artdjones]

[Wack]

[Zelandeth]

  On 14/02/2021 at 18:36, Wack said:

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Pretty much exactly what I was thinking I should do a couple of days ago before breaking the news to the family that I had an automotive refugee in need of safe harbour inbound towards my driveway!

[High Jetter]

  On 14/02/2021 at 17:38, Wack said:

 

Married and struggling during lockdown

I recommend 

Not only do they sound fantastic the noise cancelling is epic 

She's sat 4ft away and the only indication she's speaking is her lips are moving 

Fantastic 

 

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I'll have 2, her sis keeps coming round!

[gm]

This was just posted over on the bini fb group - not sure if europarts or amazon are to blame !

 

[warch]

Some early BINIs did have the Chrysler L-shaped cylinder head.

[Wack]

  On 14/02/2021 at 22:43, High Jetter said:

I'll have 2, her sis keeps coming round!

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They come in 2s , one for each ear

[Wack]

African reporter struggles with UK Town names, Sheffield proves especially difficult 

[Stanky]

  On 15/02/2021 at 12:00, Wack said:

African reporter struggles with UK Town names, Sheffield proves especially difficult 

 

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Many years ago I had a Luxembourgish girlfriend, she said that even her teachers at school had no idea how to pronounce 'Leicester' or 'Gloucester'

[myglaren]

[wuvvum]

He does look cold, bless him.

[artdjones]

  On 15/02/2021 at 12:09, Stanky said:

Many years ago I had a Luxembourgish girlfriend, she said that even her teachers at school had no idea how to pronounce 'Leicester' or 'Gloucester'

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If you split them up like you have to do with German words they're quite easy to work out.

[SRi05]

  On 14/02/2021 at 17:38, Wack said:

 

Married and struggling during lockdown

I recommend 

Not only do they sound fantastic the noise cancelling is epic 

She's sat 4ft away and the only indication she's speaking is her lips are moving 

Fantastic 

 

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I bought a pair of these a few months ago, they are tremendous. Can go out a walk with traffic whizzing past and hear nothing but the sweet moozak. 

[cobblers]

  On 15/02/2021 at 02:19, gm said:

This was just posted over on the bini fb group - not sure if europarts or amazon are to blame !

 

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I've told this story before somewhere, but about 15 years ago I worked at Halfords. One wet sunday afternoon at about 4pm, a bloke came in after a head gasket for a Nova. By this point, Halfords had long since stopped actively stocking anything like this but I was sure I'd seen one in a stack of old dead stuff in a dusty box in the back. The bloke was covered in oil and clearly mid-job, I think he'd got the wrong gasket or something. He was really desperate as he needed the gasket to put the car back together to drive to work in the morning.

So I climbed up the racking in the back and sifted through the big box of old stock and sure enough, a gasket for a for a 1400 cavalier masking taped to a floppy bit of cardboard! It was still on the stockfile, but since it'd been sat around for so many years, it had eventually automatically been reduced to 50p which was the default end price for anything obsolete. The bloke was absolutely made up! I couldn't take cash on the parts desk so I sent him off with it to the tills to pay for it, where the old dear took his 50p, and then neatly folded the gasket in half to put it into a carrier bag.

[LightBulbFun]

  On 15/02/2021 at 18:18, cobblers said:

I've told this story before somewhere, but about 15 years ago I worked at Halfords. One wet sunday afternoon at about 4pm, a bloke came in after a head gasket for a Nova. By this point, Halfords had long since stopped actively stocking anything like this but I was sure I'd seen one in a stack of old dead stuff in a dusty box in the back. The bloke was covered in oil and clearly mid-job, I think he'd got the wrong gasket or something. He was really desperate as he needed the gasket to put the car back together to drive to work in the morning.

So I climbed up the racking in the back and sifted through the big box of old stock and sure enough, a gasket for a for a 1400 cavalier masking taped to a floppy bit of cardboard! It was still on the stockfile, but since it'd been sat around for so many years, it had eventually automatically been reduced to 50p which was the default end price for anything obsolete. The bloke was absolutely made up! I couldn't take cash on the parts desk so I sent him off with it to the tills to pay for it, where the old dear took his 50p, and then neatly folded the gasket in half to put it into a carrier bag.

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I recall another shitter working a halfords type place also had a similar story where someone sent their wife for a head-gasket and she duly took the gasket folded it up stuck it in her hand bag and went home only to sheepishly return later for another one

 

ah here we go from the motor factor moments thread  by the sorely missed Dave of many numbers

  On 22/07/2018 at 20:34, dave21478 said:

Woman came in with a note from hubby with the car details for a head gasket (that dates these stories - remember when Halfords actually stocked stuff like that?) she paid for it, folded it in half and slipped it into her handbag. 

She was back the next day for another one.

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[andy18s]

How much wood,would a wood chuck chuck,if the wood chuck drove an Espace?

[myglaren]

What language is that in?

[andy18s]

  On 15/02/2021 at 21:40, myglaren said:

What language is that in?

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Facebook/Google from Bulgarian

Some of the automatically translated news stories are hilarious!

[myglaren]

I thought it was someone smashed out of their mind.

 

I keep seeing some comments on YouTube a bit like that - word spaghetti.

[Wack]

If in doubt ,flat out, doesn't work in all situations though 

 

[Minimad5]

Managed to get this working.

After fitting a complete 'service kit' (capacitors, trim pots etc) , and double checking everything, turns out the plug for my speaker was the culprit.

Note to self - Test stuff before firing out the parts cannon 😅

[Wilko220]

  On 15/02/2021 at 23:01, Wack said:

If in doubt ,flat out, doesn't work in all situations though 

 

 

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But.. but.. but.. I thought driving a new Audi was supposed to make me invincible...

[Wack]

Never been to benidorm , not feeling the need to either

[myglaren]

  On 16/02/2021 at 00:08, Minimad5 said:

Managed to get this working.

After fitting a complete 'service kit' (capacitors, trim pots etc) , and double checking everything, turns out the plug for my speaker was the culprit.

Note to self - Test stuff before firing out the parts cannon 😅

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I did that with a heat mat (for vivariums).  It had a potentiometer in the lead that I took to be faulty so cut it out and soldered the leads.  Still didn't work.  It was the 3-pin to 2-pin adaptor (new, with the mat) that was faulty. 

[myglaren]

 

[Wack]

I'd be thinking long and hard for payback on that one

[strangeangel]

Like everyone else, I have seen hardly any ads since we bought a PVR a million years ago, but by pure chance I caught sight of one promoting Citroen's latest characterless modern offering and did a double take. A quick visit to Youtube confirmed that I really had seen what I thought I had:

 

 

 

 

[cobblers]

You know you live on a nice street when the DVLA van comes out clamping and runs out of clamps within a few hundred yards. Counted 7 clamps down the bottom of the road followed by another 20+ "Untaxed vehicle" stickers, it's got to be about 15% of the cars!