What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, willswitchengage said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-63328168

Fantastic news, now get that cowardly bitch extradited over here.

Never going to happen. She’ll get a small fine and community service, suspended.

[wuvvum]

To be fair, that's all Harry Dunn's family wants - for her to be held accountable and face up to what she's done in a court of law.  They have no desire to see her locked up for a lengthy period.

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

What, to get a suspended or 'community punishment'? At tax-payers expense? It'd be fine if she was going down, but what are the chances?

apparently shes going down they wouldnt call her in otherwise i think

[Wack]

I've been looking for a car that's insurable for my daughter to drive, a guy I know has a suzuki splash 1.0 that's had a bump at the back, he's fixing it ( very slowly) but it's 40 miles away

I've been trying to find one to show my wife, scouring car parks for weeks to no avail 

Then this afternoon, there's one, in front of us at the lights, a red one, turned into lidl and there's a white one parked, went in came out and there's a blue one next to our car 

At this point I'm starting to think someone is taking the piss and arranged a suzuki splash meet at lidl 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

I've been looking for a car that's insurable for my daughter to drive, a guy I know has a suzuki splash 1.0 that's had a bump at the back, he's fixing it ( very slowly) but it's 40 miles away

I've been trying to find one to show my wife, scouring car parks for weeks to no avail 

Then this afternoon, there's one, in front of us at the lights, a red one, turned into lidl and there's a white one parked, went in came out and there's a blue one next to our car 

At this point I'm starting to think someone is taking the piss and arranged a suzuki splash meet at lidl 

They’re for pensioners . Your daughter will hate you.

[Wack]

9 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

They’re for pensioners . Your daughter will hate you.

There's nothing around 2k that isn't 15+ years old and fucked, this is a 13 plate with 73k on it, she'll be fine with it for a first car 

[Remspoor]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

They’re for pensioners . Your daughter will hate you.

Ageist comment.

When we all started driving we wanted  fast and desirable cars. We could not afford them we ended up with small engined cars. The situation is even worse now insurance premiums are quite costly.

Personally do not see why it has to be a Splash when the Agila is basically the same car.

[catsinthewelder]

I wonder if the number of Corsas left in hedges by teenagers puts Agila insurance up?

[AnnoyingPentium]

32 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

I wonder if the number of Corsas left in hedges by teenagers puts Agila insurance up?

The trend still continues. Saw a base spec corsa on its side in a hedge, on a straight bit of road.

[cobblers]

17 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

The trend still continues. Saw a base spec corsa on its side in a hedge, on a straight bit of road.

Haha! there are two corsas on their roofs in fields on my commute, and the other day a local recovery company did a facebook post where they recovered three upside down black corsas in a row on one night

[AnnoyingPentium]

32 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Haha! there are two corsas on their roofs in fields on my commute, and the other day a local recovery company did a facebook post where they recovered three upside down black corsas in a row on one night

Not the one I saw, but this was doing the rounds on Facebook.

[Wack]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Ageist comment.

When we all started driving we wanted  fast and desirable cars. We could not afford them we ended up with small engined cars. The situation is even worse now insurance premiums are quite costly.

Personally do not see why it has to be a Splash when the Agila is basically the same car.

This splash is a cat S because it's had a punt up the rear, new tailgate, bumper & paint, fixed it'll be £1800 on a 13 plate, 75k SZ3 so decent spec with AC etc plus I know the guy so it'll be fixed properly 

I can't find anything for that kind of money that isn't at least 5 years older 

[cobblers]

Very thick fog again this morning driving to work in the T25 - I was doing 35mph or so which really is plenty quick enough but I'm very familiar with the roads. Despite this I had a car following me a bit too closely for a few miles.

I got to this junction, usually you'd turn left but straight over is an old gravel road that 4x4s go down

I decided to take the scenic route so I just went straight across (the road is closed to the right so there's no need to slow down to give way), and the Mondeo behind followed me 

 

[beko1987]

That'll be the Daewoo 👌

From a vacuum cleaner a shitter gave me a few years ago now! 

[cobblers]

14 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

That'll be the Daewoo 👌

From a vacuum cleaner a shitter gave me a few years ago now! 

That's actually a rebadged blower motor from a mk2 astra

[willswitchengage]

Small cars are fun and hilarious. For teenagers I hope that they all get the same right of passage that I did as a 17 year old thrashing around a Corsa.

Yolo etc.

[myglaren]

 

[808 Estate]

[EyesWeldedShut]

6 hours ago, myglaren said:

 

Radio too - I was internet radio'ing Radio Bob at 9pm last night and on comes a German lady reading the news ' Grosse Bretagne .. lizz Truss' for two minutes and then back to the Kushelrock - I don't have a word of German but the tone/thread was followable (and that's not a word in English either).
Methinks we're being larfed at by those continental types?

 

[edit] - https://www.radiobob.de/ plenty of genres, no ads (other than for themselves) and very little gabbing

[hairnet]

20 hours ago, Wack said:

I've been looking for a car that's insurable for my daughter to drive,

rangie cos classic innit

 

[camryv6]

1 minute ago, hairnet said:

rangie cos classic innit

 

He would never sleep when she was out in it at night when, erm i mean in case it broke down

[hairnet]

19 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Radio too - I was internet radio'ing Radio Bob at 9pm last night and on comes a German lady reading the news ' Grosse Bretagne .. lizz Truss' for two minutes and then back to the Kushelrock - I don't have a word of German but the tone/thread was followable (and that's not a word in English either).
Methinks we're being larfed at by those continental types?

 

[edit] - https://www.radiobob.de/ plenty of genres, no ads (other than for themselves) and very little gabbing

theres actually a piece on the bbc website about are other people larfing 

and apparently not too hard as they mostly have their own problems/fucked up govts also (germans not run without coalition for example for awful long time)

japanese currency on it arse/ govt being killed by nutters so bit more serious

[hairnet]

Just now, camryv6 said:

He would never sleep when she was out in it at night when, erm i mean in case it broke down

how close to the aa depot do you live wack

 

[camryv6]

8 hours ago, Wack said:

This splash is a cat S because it's had a punt up the rear, new tailgate, bumper & paint, fixed it'll be £1800 on a 13 plate, 75k SZ3 so decent spec with AC etc plus I know the guy so it'll be fixed properly 

I can't find anything for that kind of money that isn't at least 5 years older 

Just buy a Fiat 500 like everybody else !!

[Wack]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

rangie cos classic innit

 

Got one, 400bhp supercharged, she's likely to come home with a free fiat 500 attached to the front bumper though 

[gm]

think you’ve got the smollest smoll car in the car park there,  mr toyota ? 

we’ll soon see about that ! 

 

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

[Asimo]

I smell Moscow troll…

[Bren]

I am at our caravan. In the interests of a green agenda and saving money on energy I have tried wearing a onesie to keep warm.

I am warm but I look like sasquatch from the six million dollar man.