What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Neil clark]

Just now, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Emperor's New Clothes?

 No, your buying customers that need taxis......

[808 Estate]

Sack of weed left as donation at charity shop.
Someone if going to get a surprise when the go to skin up and find a sack full of manky clothes.

 

[Wack]

I slow cooked a chicken all day ,had it with a beer 

This looks much more fun  I think I'll be waiting until they're actually open thanks 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

32 minutes ago, Wack said:

I slow cooked a chicken all day ,had it with a beer 

This looks much more fun  I think I'll be waiting until they're actually open thanks 

 

 

Iced pizza?

[Timewaster]

1 hour ago, Neil clark said:

My firm got sold, they owned nothing, no building, no taxis, nothing!.

They basically purchased a phone number, for almost half a million.......

That's quite a deal! 

Did they have council school contracts or something? 

[155V6]

BTCC is back tomorrow 😁

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Screen shot from CNN website.

Looks like Gib erish to me. Fake newz?

[High Jetter]

26 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

BTCC is back tomorrow 😁

Long awaited!

[Neil clark]

9 hours ago, Timewaster said:

That's quite a deal! 

Did they have council school contracts or something? 

Lots yes, and around 90 drivers

[New POD]

10 hours ago, Neil clark said:

My firm got sold, they owned nothing, no building, no taxis, nothing!.

They basically purchased a phone number, for almost half a million.......

Valuing the goodwill and intellectual property of any business is always interesting.  

What's to stop someone setting up and taking business.  

Whats is it about your business that stops the customer going somewhere else? 

Assuming a long term contract, you'd like to assume that a council, has a transparent purchasing strategy, which looks beyond the price, and looks at track record, quality of service, the way the employees of the competing taxi firms are treated, flexibility, business structure etc. The full supplier assessment and proper strategic sourcing. 

As opposed to always usingbwho you be used, or always using whoever has the best backhander. 

My thoughts are with a taxi contract, you only hold onto it because the risk of going to someone new is months of minor problems. 

[artdjones]

11 hours ago, Joey spud said:

My Sprinter went in for its first service yesterday (37500 miles) which is basically an oil and filter change,also while it was in they replaced the front pads and fitted the spare wheel to the rear.

Driving back to the dealer to collect it i guessed the bill would be about £375 tops.

"Shit the bed" how much !!

That'll upset the boss man. 😂😂

A lot of people don't realise how big the sumps are on Mercedes diesels. So it's a shock to see the oil coming out at £154+Vat.

I had a row with a customer once about this after the service of a 2.0DTi Zafira. They have an 8.5 litre sump and we were charging €6 per litre for 10/40 semi synthetic so the bill included €51 for oil. When he came in to pay he started moaning that he could buy a gallon of oil for €25 and why were we charging so much? As he had taken 5 months to come in and pay I reacted rather irritably.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, artdjones said:

A lot of people don't realise how big the sumps are on Mercedes diesels. So it's a shock to see the oil coming out at £154+Vat.

I had a row with a customer once about this after the service of a 2.0DTi Zafira. They have an 8.5 litre sump and we were charging €6 per litre for 10/40 semi synthetic so the bill included €51 for oil. When he came in to pay he started moaning that he could buy a gallon of oil for €25 and why were we charging so much? As he had taken 5 months to come in and pay I reacted rather irritably.

Fundamentally, loads of people just want jobs done for free.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

The fact I'm finally 7-14 days away from having my own place again with  garage I can get 2 motors in, plus a workshop space with electric and water in it and a hard standing in the garden for 2 maybe 3 more cars. And wont have to dick around to play with  fix cars in the street outside my parent house,  weather  allowing (or drive to Reading for the Jag) I'm going to celebrate with a shonky car purchase and quite likely  something V8 and American as well.  Supreme joy.

[New POD]

On 26/04/2021 at 23:12, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That would be much of Fujitsu, then.

If it can be proved that individuals knew the facts, and choose to keep quiet, then yes, everyone who let innocent people go to prison needs to be charged. 

[Remspoor]

[Remspoor]

19 hours ago, artdjones said:

Maybe a lot of UK expats have been taking a trip down the coast to get done?

Immigrates from the UK cannot do that there are different health regimes.

[Chas4545]

20 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Screen shot from CNN website.

The 103% is because they vaxxed everyone who comes across the border daily to work in Gib as well as the Gib population.   No mystery here, nothing to see.   

Gotta feel for holidaymakers returning to the horrors of uk airports this summer.

I am giving this years foreign trip a miss.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Chas4545 said:

....returning to the horrors of uk airports this summer....

It was bad enough even when things were normal. Good oul UK Border Farce

[cort1977]

7 hours ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

I'm going to celebrate with a shonky car purchase and quite likely  something V8 and American as well.  Supreme joy.

Can recommend 

[Stanky]

re-found a mega 90s Japanese youtube channel called 'Best MOTORing' where they get a bunch of actual professional racers to basically do real-life gran turismo

There is tonnes of this stuff, the camera work and quality of the videos is amazing considering its 1994. Well worth a look

[Low Horatio gearbox]

6 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

Can recommend 

I need no encouragement. The last 5 months have been unbearable  in fact I had to stop coming on here for the last month and avoid Ebay, car and classic, autotrader, gumtree and  faceach marketplace as it was painfully to see stuff I couldn't buy. Or more accurately couldn't get and certainly couldn't store, a lovely DAF, scores of Citroens...  tho I'd did dodge a bullet on a  cheap Mustang from the very shadiest of dealers   so 🤔🤷‍♂️

[myglaren]

 

 

[Jerzy Woking]

https://seoi.net/penint/

Childish, I know.

[Heidel_Kakao]

I found out for the first time in my life today that my father owned in his youth a Lotus Cortina 😀 It solves the mystery of the MK1 taillight in our garden shed. My Dad could drive! And he taught me everything he knew. He once broke his arm in the sea and was driving a Rover 800 Vitesse manual. And to get from Devon to Birmingham I changed gear and he did the clutch. I really wish he was alive so I could tell him I bought a truck.

[eddyramrod]

19 hours ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

The fact I'm finally 7-14 days away from having my own place again with  garage I can get 2 motors in, plus a workshop space with electric and water in it and a hard standing in the garden for 2 maybe 3 more cars. And wont have to dick around to play with  fix cars in the street outside my parent house,  weather  allowing (or drive to Reading for the Jag) I'm going to celebrate with a shonky car purchase and quite likely  something V8 and American as well.  Supreme joy.

 

11 hours ago, cort1977 said:

Can recommend 

Can HELP!

[MikeR]

Amazing Shite .... I found 2 aaa batteries that are some 9/10 years older than the batteries in my penlight ....same brand as well .

Is that luck ? 

[Wack]

This made me grin  

Phil Collins has spent decades buying up original Alamo artifacts for his collection , in 2014 he donated all of them to the Alamo museum so everyone could enjoy them 

They've built a new wing to house them , much better than many things that get passed about amongst those  rich enough to afford them and shut away in drawers 

https://www.thealamo.org/visit/whats-at-the-alamo/phil-collins-collection 

 

 

 

[SRi05]

Yeah Boi 

[Wack]

45 minutes ago, SRi05 said:

Yeah Boi 

Which one is that , I've lost track of your Saab history 

[SRi05]

1 minute ago, Wack said:

Which one is that , I've lost track of your Saab history 

This is the red one you briefly owned 😂