What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[New POD]

21 hours ago, jakebullet said:

It's my idiot sister's birthday tomorrow. To the supermarket! 

Strolling the booze aisle Ma says "I don't think she really likes prosecco".
"That's good then as it's too expensive",  as I casually pick up a large bottle of Lambrini. 3 quid, get in!

You don't like your sister very much do you? 

[catsinthewelder]

12 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

HFM?!?!?!

Euros 

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 minute ago, catsinthewelder said:

Euros 

Cheers, my dimwit head couldn't get round that for a second there. 😆

[mitsisigma01]

Prosecco is shit , only one thing worse ...champagne .

Cider and Perry anytime 👍🏽

[jakebullet]

24 minutes ago, New POD said:

You don't like your sister very much do you? 

Er, no. I think my reasons are valid enough.

As a child we was very poor. To the point where winter was survived by me going and collecting anything that would burn for heating. Skips raided, tree blown down, school's old parquet floor etc. In five years I had one day trip to Cleethorpes as a holiday. Idiot sister meanwhile got invited to go to Florida etc with her gormless mate's family, and it will only cost Kerching! pounds that we didn't have. Ma somehow made it happen. Could possibly explain why we had no money for heating.

I survived with an appreciation of money, and the attitude that if you can't pay cash you don't buy it. You also look after what you've got, make do & mend etc. She's more must have the latest things, and if you've not got money well just take out another loan. She has the concept that if you borrow £5000 you now have £5000 of savings*. 

The important thing to her is having a right keg*, and if things go tits well you can always get a loan, or Ma will bail her out, or I'll get conned into doing the work for her. Going to be a big crash one day.

Besides, she probably likes lambrini. Take her back to skiving school and drinking in the park with other drop kicks.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Was driving behind a Golf today and this cute German Shepherd popped up at the back window...

... a while later another head pops up and there's two of them in there. Almost like an overload of cuteness!

Now anyway, I'm no magician, but how the hell does someone get two full size adult alsatians in the boot of a MkV Golf?!

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

HFM?!?!?!

ROFL in euros but thats still 1.52

dizzle at dublin port was 1.95

 

[gm]

a random mx5 arrived in the post today 

i don’t recall ordering this - was it one of you ? if so, many thanks  

[Wack]

Bottom left wins most accurate description award 

[GeorgeB]

5 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Er, no. I think my reasons are valid enough.

As a child we was very poor. To the point where winter was survived by me going and collecting anything that would burn for heating. Skips raided, tree blown down, school's old parquet floor etc. In five years I had one day trip to Cleethorpes as a holiday. Idiot sister meanwhile got invited to go to Florida etc with her gormless mate's family, and it will only cost Kerching! pounds that we didn't have. Ma somehow made it happen. Could possibly explain why we had no money for heating.

I survived with an appreciation of money, and the attitude that if you can't pay cash you don't buy it. You also look after what you've got, make do & mend etc. She's more must have the latest things, and if you've not got money well just take out another loan. She has the concept that if you borrow £5000 you now have £5000 of savings*. 

The important thing to her is having a right keg*, and if things go tits well you can always get a loan, or Ma will bail her out, or I'll get conned into doing the work for her. Going to be a big crash one day.

Besides, she probably likes lambrini. Take her back to skiving school and drinking in the park with other drop kicks.

That all sounds like your mother's fault, not your sister's.

[Wack]

I think I'd have just carried on , you've already got ½ a new garage 

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

ROFL in euros but thats still 1.52

dizzle at dublin port was 1.95

 

But it can't be.  Everybody knows that the high price of fuel in the UK is due solely to Brexit, so it's impossible that prices are even higher anywhere in the EU.

[AnnoyingPentium]

[Spurious]

7 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

But it can't be.  Everybody knows that the high price of fuel in the UK is due solely to Brexit, so it's impossible that prices are even higher anywhere in the EU.

Tax a litre of petrol is approaching 60% in ROI. 

However, it's almost always been not far off what's going on in the UK. Either cheaper or dearer slightly. 

The border garages would always do well depending on the exchange rate and the price of fuel one side of the border or the other. 

My other half is saying the Polish news is saying they're getting loads of cross border trade as Diesel was about £1/l there now. Cheaper then Germany and Czech. 

[paulplom]

A fb memory from seven years ago. An mx-5 I had swapped for my metro.
I then swapped the mx5 for my favourite ever car. An S70 t-5 in metallic charcoal grey. I wished I'd kept the fucker.

[paulplom]

It looks like that mx5 hasn't had tax or test for six years. I wonder what happened to it.

[mitsisigma01]

11 hours ago, wuvvum said:

But it can't be.  Everybody knows that the high price of fuel in the UK is due solely to Brexit, so it's impossible that prices are even higher anywhere in the EU.

[mitsisigma01]

[Remspoor]

17 hours ago, wuvvum said:

But it can't be.  Everybody knows that the high price of fuel in the UK is due solely to Brexit, so it's impossible that prices are even higher anywhere in the EU.

Maybe the Dutch have left the EU The price of petrol(95) is around +2.00€ per litre (higher the grade the higher the price)and diesel is 1.86€

Here in Spain it depends on the region as some add taxes to the costs. This article from 6 days ago says the petrol is 1.52€ and diesel is 1.42€. The way things are going those figs are out of date. Wages and pensions here in Spain are a lot lower then say Northern Europe and they are really  feeling the squeeze.

We are all in the same boat in Europe, prices of petrol, food, gas and electric are all going up. Yet some British newspapers are in denial of this.

[Wack]

My little Berlingo is making me grin since it got fixed , glad everybody chickened out when I put it up for sale last year , I really like driving it 

Have a picture, no idea who that fat fuckers shadow is though 

 

[myglaren]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

Have a picture, no idea who that fat fuckers shadow is though 

Could it be the Sandyman fellow, who has become somewhat portly?

[richardmorris]

On 2/10/2022 at 7:56 AM, paulplom said:

It looks like that mx5 hasn't had tax or test for six years. I wonder what happened to it.

My neighbour’s pop up headlight model hasn’t moved since he moved in. Five or more years. He’s had it from new and it’s low mileage.  It’s under a cover now.

[Wack]

57 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Could it be the Sandyman fellow, who has become somewhat portly?

Somewhat portly , that sounds polite for you fat bastard , anyone who salutes Berlingo's can't be all bad 

[Noel Tidybeard]

4 hours ago, Wack said:

My little Berlingo is making me grin since it got fixed , glad everybody chickened out when I put it up for sale last year , I really like driving it 

Have a picture, no idea who that fat fuckers shadow is though 

 

yes and who is he saluting? 😁

[JeeExEll]

What makes me laugh.

Boris, he's the clown of the circus still playing the act at 10.30pm after everyone's gone home. Every time I see him I have clown music playing in my head. Representative of the entire UK. Thanks for that Boris.

I absolutely hate the cunt.

WTF? Is this the very best we can do?

Get the cheating lying cunt out of there. A hard drop-kick punt up the arse, along with arrogant ignorant Rees-Mogg who looks like something out of The Beano. 

It gets very depressing but we can only move forward, these juggling nobbers have had their day.

It's Spitting Image but for real, we don't actually need Spitting Image at the moment. Scary times, something to look back on as a warning. It's laugh or cry.

[Mr Livered]

35 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Spitting Image but for real. Scary times.

This lot are so bad that it's impossible to satirise them without overdoing it. In the most recent Spitting Image run, I was struck by the fact that the Priti Patel dummy was actually less unpleasant and sinister than the real thing.

[Metal Guru]

24 minutes ago, Mr Livered said:

This lot are so bad that it's impossible to satirise them without overdoing it. In the most recent Spitting Image run, I was struck by the fact that the Priti Patel dummy was actually less unpleasant and sinister than the real thing.

Last night on the news there was Cressida Dick, Priti Patel and Sadiq Khan together.

Never thought I’d feel sorry for Cressida Dick.

[inconsistant]

[Dick Cheeseburger]

17 hours ago, Wack said:

My little Berlingo is making me grin since it got fixed , glad everybody chickened out when I put it up for sale last year , I really like driving it 

Have a picture, no idea who that fat fuckers shadow is though 

 

Be careful around him Noel. He's not to be trusted. 

[hairnet]

16 hours ago, myglaren said:

Could it be the Sandyman fellow, who has become somewhat portly?

a certain brummie who wont fix his?