What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[trigger]

I LOVE HIM.

 

[Pillock]

My Amiga had a 260MB drive and I wondered how I'd ever, ever fill it. In fact I didn't, for years.

My laptop has just pinged up a warning about low disk space on my 500GB drive.....! I'm on a 30Mb broadband connection and think nothing of downloading a couple of GB worth of films.

[Negative Creep]

Cash Generator is mildly better than Cash Converters, but the pricing is generally all over the joint and there's some stuff which is unlikely to ever shift - I found some Philips CD-i games there the other week.

 

 

If they are the Mario or Zelda games, buy them and make a very healthy profit

[Vin]

Just watched the 2 penultimate episodes of series 3 of 'SPIRAL' on BBC4. FUGGIN BRILLIANT!!!. Bring on the finale next week...

 

@ Cash Converters - My best purchase from this establishment was a nearly new Escort Cosworth Scalextric set for 45 quid in about 1995 Still have it.

[Barrett.in.the.USA]

Just watched the 2 penultimate episodes of series 3 of 'SPIRAL' on BBC4. FUGGIN BRILLIANT!!!. Bring on the finale next week...

 

Fuggin' typical. I've been waiting for ages for them to show season 3 and they stick it on the moment I leave the country....

 

I hope the ginger lawyer bitch still has a big role, I would very much like to bang out the easy one over her when I get back

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Well she's all over the story so you can bang away when you've got the DVD off amazon or whatever. Spiral is class in a glass alright, but after 'The Killing' all TV seems a little bit more redundant.

[Barrett.in.the.USA]

Well she's all over the story so you can bang away when you've got the DVD off amazon or whatever. Spiral is class in a glass alright, but after 'The Killing' all TV seems a little bit more redundant.

 

AAARGH The last two episodes of The Killing were on the day after I left so I have no idea how it ends. Had a load of trouble finding anywhere to download it too, may have to write that one off.

[George-Roper]

 

Jeremy Clarkson Obituary

[Pillock]

Jeremy Clarkson vs Cassetteboy

 

[trigger]

I went to the bestest car run I've ever been on today, 600 cars, vans, Motorbikes and buses descended on Christchurch park here in Ipswich then done a very long, slow convoy to Felixstowe seafront through the towns.

 

All the roads on the way were full of people waving and cheering us, lots of horns beeping and generally a brilliant atmosphere, It really was the best thing I've ever done in a car, I couldn't stop grinning!.

 

Felixstowe seafront was top to tail in old cars, about 3 miles of it!, I was parked in front of a 1972 Vauxhall Viva HC which was nice as well.

 

I've now currently uploading about 250 photos to my flickr, I'll do a thead once I've finished.

 

1972 Opel Kadett B and 1972 Vauxhall Viva HC by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[autofive]

 

this one is hilarious

[Richard]

It's interesting to see the GM cousins together, I wonder how they compare.

[trigger]

I was pleasantly pleased to see it, It was also a L plate so was exactly the same age as mine, I guess when they was new the Viva HC would have been the more logical choice as it was a fresh new model where as my Kadett had been out since 1966 so it was starting to show it's age hence why there was so few Kadetts sold in the UK.

 

The Viva looked more plasticy inside and more safety conscious, though it did have the fab strip speedo.

[Cavcraft]

Can't wait for the HC pictures, looks lush.

[revolting peasant]

[trigger]

Can't wait for the HC pictures, looks lush.

 

Especially for you, For years and years i used to see a blue Viva HC parked in this garage window in Colchester (Maldon Road Garage for those who know the area), One day it disappeared, Oh about 7 years ago now, I got chatting to the lady who was driving this, she told me it was her dads, It belonged to a old lady for years before he bought it and left it in his garage window... Yes it's the same car i used to see all those years ago!.

 

I was well chuffed to see it still about, they said they never use it though and it still sits at the back of this old garage, It's totally unrestored, I'm a bit pee'd off with myself now for not asking if i could take an interior photo, She would have let me.

 

1972 Vauxhall Viva HC by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1972 Vauxhall Viva HC by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Guest]

OY VIVA! Bed - NOW!

[Mr Lobster]

a old lady ... if i could take an interior photo, She would have let me.

 

'scuse me love, mind if I get a few internal shots. Yeh thats right, bend over a bit, yeh, bit more.

 

 

Oh..... you meant the car didn't you.

 

Looks incredibly tidy though, Grandad Lobsta_ had an orange one or around the same vintage some thirty something years ago. The only thing I recall of it other than the colour though is the womble fur seat covers he fitted which were fairly unpleasant on a warm day.

[seth]

It's totally unrestored,

 

Wow!

[eddyramrod]

My mum had a Viva from 84-86 (which I drove often) that looked exactly like a run-down scabby version of that one. Lovely to see the same thing looking sweet!

 

Meanwhile, Granada's been Autotesting!

Screaming round the car park, torturing my pretty whitewalls, and didn't even place... not like last year in the Capri when I scored 3rd and a trophy. Never mind, it was a fun day...

[warren t claim]

Please tell me you beat the Silver Shadow!

[eddyramrod]

I'd love to, but I didn't see the individual scores. Last year the red Zephyr was one place ahead of me, this year we had a class for non-classics which he won with his Pajero (yes, he went round in both... flash sod ). The Glof was second in that. No idea where the RR finished, or even where I did, but several of us tried really hard, and we did have such a laugh. Overall winner (yet again) was the beige series 1 Landie.

[warren t claim]

Due to me having to pick up CLAIM_Jr at 10am tomorrow I'm spending the night at the CLAIM family estate tonight. An hour ago the burglar alarm decided to fry itself filling the estate with its 200db siren. I shut the power off at the RCD and miraculously the noise disappeared. Using a technical process known as trial and error I isolated which circuit it was wired into by flicking the trip switches giving me enough light to unscrew the alarm fascia and pull out a fuse conveniently labelled "POWER" . Silence now reigns supreme. Why do people spend thousands on an alarm system that can be bypassed by someone in less than 5 mins with only an O Level in physics?

[Cavcraft]

Cheers Trigster, Viva is fantastic.

[Alexg]

My mates Facebook status made me loz

 

Bin Laden you had it coming you prick.

[trigger]

Photos of a Milf who really likes her Mini http://www.flickr.com/photos/r_o_s_a_l_i_n_d/

[cobblers]

Photos of a Milf who really likes her Mini http://www.flickr.com/photos/r_o_s_a_l_i_n_d/

[Negative Creep]

My mates Facebook status made me loz

 

Bin Laden you had it coming you prick.

 

 

I never knew Pakistan takes out the Bins on a bank holiday

 

 

 

thankyouvermuch

[Timewaster]

For all the grumpy old men who still believe in spelling and grammar:

 

http://www.someecards.com/2011/04/06/the-best-obnoxious-responses-to-misspellings-on-facebook

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Photos of a Milf who really likes her Mini http://www.flickr.com/photos/r_o_s_a_l_i_n_d/

 

I like her centre console.