What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[AnnoyingPentium]

  On 21/10/2022 at 08:38, 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

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

[Wack]

  On 21/10/2022 at 07:30, 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.

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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]

  On 21/10/2022 at 11:04, beko1987 said:

That'll be the Daewoo 👌

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

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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]

  On 21/10/2022 at 12:00, myglaren said:

 

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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]

  On 20/10/2022 at 21:48, Wack said:

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

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rangie cos classic innit

 

[camryv6]

  On 21/10/2022 at 18:20, hairnet said:

rangie cos classic innit

 

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

[hairnet]

  On 21/10/2022 at 18:01, 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

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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]

  On 21/10/2022 at 18:23, camryv6 said:

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

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how close to the aa depot do you live wack

 

[camryv6]

  On 21/10/2022 at 09:28, 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 

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Just buy a Fiat 500 like everybody else !!

[Wack]

  On 21/10/2022 at 18:20, hairnet said:

rangie cos classic innit

 

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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.

[SRi05]

It's that time of the year 

[Fumbler]

Dad and I did actual engine mechanical shizz and even managed to succeed!

...it was on a lawnmower engine but anyway, our mower has been poorly as of late and was fouling up spark plugs with oily soot, surging, and generally was being sluggish and down on power. We had a thought that maybe the piston rings weren't doing their thing anymore so after buying a set we went about dismantling the engine and popping the piston out.

Trust Honda to turn up a mower engine to 11- OHC, wet cam belt and even a rudimentary kind of VTEC. The annoying bit was that there's no cylinder head so the crankshaft has to come out to get the piston out. We put the new set of rings on, then attempted to shove the piston back in without a ring compression sleeve... Took a few goes (and I'm sure it hasn't done anything any favours) but it slid in there.

Best part of all was that it actually ran (really well too) after we put it back together! Better still, we didn't murder each other in the process.

 

[wuvvum]

  On 21/10/2022 at 20:05, Wack said:

she's likely to come home with a free fiat 500 attached to the front bumper though 

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Reminds me of this:

 

[mitsisigma01]

  On 23/10/2022 at 22:42, Fumbler said:

Better still, we didn't murder each other in the process.

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I've got a mower that sounds and runs like yours, you're welcome to fix mine whilst testing to see if it was a fluke that you get on with your old man 👍

[New POD]

  On 23/10/2022 at 19:44, Bren said:

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.

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Photos ? 

[anonymous user]

  On 24/10/2022 at 01:36, New POD said:

Photos ? 

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I'm sure you know what a caravan looks like

[iainrcz]

The machine I run at work recently turned in to a raging inferno.

New parts arrived in a wooden frame/cage.

Said cage was tossed in a skip afterwards.

So I now have 2 more bags of firewood.

[808 Estate]

[Remspoor]

  On 24/10/2022 at 01:36, New POD said:

Photos ? 

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Just chilling.

[High Jetter]

  On 24/10/2022 at 16:17, 808 Estate said:

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2nd epistle?