What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[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 😂 

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, Wack said:

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 

 

 

 

When I went to the Alamo I was shocked to see it in the Down Town area. That was in back in the 1980s before I could research on the internet.

A shop front window near the entrance to the fort had a Mini in it. That was covered in copper coins. I cannot remember if they were cents or half cents.

[DVee8]

N01 son passed his driving test this morning.

Grabbing a cancellation  at 18.10 last night.

 

 

[wuvvum]

On 5/8/2021 at 8:51 PM, Floatylight said:

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/business/popular-stoke-trent-taxi-firm-5378169

Hope they've done their due diligence,  good chance they've paid millions for a fleet of very leggy Avensis and Almeras..

David Hunter, CEO at Take Me Group, said:

Quote

This presents a huge opportunity for continued growth for the transportation vertical within the MBH portfolio which we’re proud to be a part of.

Cunt.

[wuvvum]

On 5/9/2021 at 8:26 AM, New POD said:

you'd like to assume that a council, has a transparent purchasing strategy

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

5 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

David Hunter, CEO at Take Me Group, ...

WTAF is "transportation vertical"? Did the eejit just imagineer that?

[puddlethumper]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

 

WTAF is "transportation vertical"? Did the eejit just imagineer that?

Had the same thought. Heading off to the moon ? A Harrier ? Helicopter ?

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

 

WTAF is "transportation vertical"? Did the eejit just imagineer that?

Going forwards he's looking to team seamlessly across nodalities, synergistically leveraging flexible platforms to deliver joy.

Taxis are going to take people from where they are to where they want to go, hopefully the seats won't be sticky.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, DVee8 said:

N01 son passed his driving test this morning.

Grabbing a cancellation  at 18.10 last night.

 

 

Congrats to him and you - no hesitation, DVee8tion or repetition, presumably.

[artdjones]

16 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

hopefully the seats won't be sticky.

You seem an optimistic person. 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

David Hunter, CEO at Take Me Group, said:

Cunt.

Our local council had the brilliant* idea of buying the freehold of an out-of-town retail park. Recently. Then no Maplin, and Office Outlet failed. Great* decision. Then, covid.

[New POD]

16 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Our council bought Bootle New Strand. 

Fuckwittery beyond stupidity. 

https://tonyrobertson.mycouncillor.org.uk/tag/bootle-new-strand/

https://www.sefton.gov.uk/miscellaneous-pages/bootle-strand-investment-improvement/

To put that into context and no offence to anyone that lives in Bootle.  It's a shit hole, in a shit hole. The demographic of the likely customers of its facilities are not erm great. Given much better shopping just 10 minutes away in Liverpool, and the benefit class demographic of the locals, I feel my council tax has been wasted somewhat. 

If you are not from the area: 

On 12th Feb 1993 it became famous for all the wrong reasons. 

(Also my 26th birthday) 

[Wilko220]

Oops…

https://www.thecomet.net/news/grenade-found-in-hitchin-7962144?fbclid=IwAR2MNfdaAIYuDGVMBiJyYIeWGVv0KZWZGvc26HCbgGMUjRs6JkxHNVugWVQ

 

[Jerzy Woking]

My former employers had an office in the Triad building in Bootle. I had to attend a meeting there and found it to be a horribly depressing  place. I was told many staff suffered from "Sick Building Syndrome" and the building itself had concrete cancer.

They are moving to the India Building in Liverpool, but that seems to be blighted with asbestos. Out of the frying pan...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

50 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said:

....They are moving to the India Building in Liverpool, but that seems to be blighted with asbestos. Out of the frying pan...

The Home Office Nationality Directorate used to be in the India Building. That's decades' worth of asbestos...

[myglaren]

 

[iainrcz]

Won a tenner on a scratch card 😀

[DavidB]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, DavidB said:

I wonder what Crème de Lada tastes like....

[Garythesnail]

1 minute ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I wonder what Crème de Lada tastes like....

FFS don't eat it - just rub Lada Cream in to the rash.

[hairnet]

bought tv.

waited for tv.

want to collect tv.

couldnt find receipt.

found receipt.