What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[w00dy]

1 hour ago, motorpunk said:

What’s the car, Woody? 

 

Rear-engined and turbocharged with a 5-speed dogleg 'box.  Sadly the wheel is just because I needed something smaller and it's one of my favourites.

 

 

[Wack]

3 hours ago, Markeh said:

Kwik Fit in "surprisingly not shit" shocker

Looking for a tyre place to sort my puncture/change the tyre if necessary, happened to see a local Kwik Fit had sod all cars in and looked deserted so chanced my arm.

From pulling onto the forecourt to driving off with a fixed puncture, in 15 minutes. No upsell, no hassle, absolutely cannot fault them.

I struggled like fuck in the heat to swap 4 range rover wheels over  only to find out I'd put the 2 unbalanced ones on the front and there was  a wobble at speed, was in Widnes so called in to MGS Tyres , £5 a corner to balance them , if i'd known that somebody was still working at 1995 prices i wouldn't have struggled

[RoverFolkUs]

[Wack]

This might be the best thing I've ever seen on the Internet 

 

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJWg6Q3o/

 

[richardmorris]

On 9/16/2023 at 1:26 PM, w00dy said:

 

Rear-engined and turbocharged with a 5-speed dogleg 'box.  Sadly the wheel is just because I needed something smaller and it's one of my favourites.

 

 

Bit of an air brake thing going on there certainly.

[richardmorris]

Should anyone be at a loose end, and can get s4c, my first cousin’s daughter is starting for Wrexham against Swansea city tonight in her first semi pro game.

Erin Lovett, short ( typical Lovett ) and blond ( not typical).

[Garythesnail]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

in her first semi pro game

How did she do?

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Garythesnail said:

How did she do?

 Don’t know yet  -I can’t get 4c. But game was 3 all in the end, and she doesn’t seem to have been substituted 

[hairnet]

steve marsh scottish guy on youtube who does lots of train journey stuff the odd plane and road travel

decided to do bucharest to chisinau in moldova on the train

14 hours when the bus takes 7

and the reason why

it stops at the border and they change the bogeys cos the gauge is different

he said the cabin was an experience too although he loved it and was happy cos the wifi was good (even if the carriages were 70s or before )

[Markeh]

Drove up to the land of Volvos and square sausage today. Got another friend in tow who doesn't particularly do long journeys. We stopped at Scotch Corner first then at Gretna Green. Leaving Gretna I'm surprised to see my friend turn left when Google Maps says to turn right.

They had somehow managed to set their maps to Scotch Corner again, and realised when they passed a farm shop 5 miles away from it...

[iainrcz]

Knob's birthday yesterday, mine today. We both got cards from her Nan with a few quid in.

She got 30, I got 40.

Absolute winner.

Apparently she got the cards mixed up 🤣

[High Jetter]

Just seen F11 LET on a butcher's van, made me smile.

[Metal Guru]

49 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Just seen F11 LET on a butcher's van, made me smile.

I saw FILET £50 / kg in a butcher’s shop window. Made me cry!

[DavieW]

Just had a night in the Royal Hotel in Whitby. Nice to not be the oldest couple in the room. The rest of the guests were from Shearings "silver top tour" buses 🤣🤣

[MorrisItalSLX]

One for the Kiwi shitters:

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, DavieW said:

Just had a night in the Royal Hotel in Whitby. Nice to not be the oldest couple in the room. The rest of the guests were from Shearings "silver top tour" buses 🤣🤣

I wouldn't want any older couples in my hotel room!

[Datsuncog]

Sorting out my emails, and although I normally just nuke all the shit in my junk mail folder without even looking at it (you know the sort of thing... free online casino spins, discount dick pills, hot bored housewives in my area and, for some reason, Anglian Windows), today I scrolled down briefly.

Yeah yeah, the usual assorted scams and identically poorly-worded ransom demands claiming I collected all your private data and I RECORDED YOU (through your cam) SATISFYING YOURSELF!  YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! I will release this footage to all your email and social media contacts and your reputation will be RUINED FOREVER!!

Yeah, by all means go ahead and release footage of me scrolling through eBay listings for hopelessly corroded end-of-life cars. It's not like it's a secret to my long-suffering friends, family and colleagues. I'm not going to send you £1400 in BitCoin; hell, I could get that green Senator on Buy It Now for that sort of cash...

[Datsuncog]

But the main reason for the grin was that, amid all the scam competitions, there was a genuine competition win that I nearly deleted - a code for a £50 voucher from Oxford Diecast, in a recent prize draw (which I did enter).

Wasn't 100% sure of the legitimacy at first, but I navigated to their website separately, made a few selections from their catalogue and the code was accepted at the checkout so... guess I'll wait and see what arrives!

[quicksilver]

27 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

But the main reason for the grin was that, amid all the scam competitions, there was a genuine competition win that I nearly deleted - a code for a £50 voucher from Oxford Diecast, in a recent prize draw (which I did enter).

Wasn't 100% sure of the legitimacy at first, but I navigated to their website separately, made a few selections from their catalogue and the code was accepted at the checkout so... guess I'll wait and see what arrives!

I entered that competition too but kept up my streak of never winning anything. Spotted a familiar name among the winners and assumed it must be you so I was a bit surprised you hadn't commented here. New free stuff to show off in the Shite in Miniature thread!

[Datsuncog]

It was just as well I checked - I've the junk folder set to auto-delete spam after 10 days, and the email with the code was less than an hour from being wiped when I opened it!

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

 a code for a £50 voucher from Oxford Diecast, in a recent prize draw 

so youll be putting the metal from them into the yaris??

*hides

[Markeh]

After my recent adventures with Kwik Fit, this morning I amended a 5 star Google review to be a 1 star.

A few hours later, this happened.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

17 minutes ago, Markeh said:

After my recent adventures with Kwik Fit, this morning I amended a 5 star Google review to be a 1 star.

A few hours later, this happened.

Their social media bod needs to being distracted by Instagram/Facebook/Twixter whilst doing the day job. Have they even read your review?!

[DavieW]

8 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I wouldn't want any older couples in my hotel room!

To clarify - I should have said bar. 🍺🍺🤣🤣

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, DavieW said:

To clarify - I should have said bar. 🍺🍺🤣🤣

I know, but if you're gonna line them up....

Glad you had a good time, and felt young(er) again.

[RoverFolkUs]

I read that reply in my physics teacher's voice 😂😂 I can still hear it all these years later 😂

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, DavieW said:

To clarify - I should have said bar. 🍺🍺🤣🤣

I had a similar experience on holiday in Spain about 30 years ago.  Apart from my wife and I, (30ish), there was a younger couple with a baby, but the rest of the “guests” probably averaged over 75. One of them actually died during the fortnight we were there.

[New POD]

On 9/17/2023 at 10:36 PM, Markeh said:

Drove up to the land of Volvos and square sausage today. Got another friend in tow who doesn't particularly do long journeys. We stopped at Scotch Corner first then at Gretna Green. Leaving Gretna I'm surprised to see my friend turn left when Google Maps says to turn right.

They had somehow managed to set their maps to Scotch Corner again, and realised when they passed a farm shop 5 miles away from it...

To fair, if Gretna was typical of Scotland and that's all you'd ever seen, you'd turn right on leaving and give the rest of Scotland a miss. Luckily most of Scotland isn't like Gretna. 

[Timewaster]

Saw a Range Rover with the no. plate JD 15 FUN

 

Might belong to this guy

[EyesWeldedShut]

Perusing FaceBook Marketplace for tat and this appears:

Hmmmm - 'how much for your daughter?' springs to mind