What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

Somewhat to my surprise, the Maxus has just gone straight through the MOT.

[horriblemercedes]

Email from Shell. I've won £100 of fuel

[Supernaut]

1 hour ago, horriblemercedes said:

Email from Shell. I've won £100 of fuel

How much is that these days?

Enough for a round trip to the nearest petrol station if you're careful?

[Tenmil Socket]

2 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Email from Shell. I've won £100 of fuel

Just been to Shell and spotted this promotion. I will start using the app! 

[horriblemercedes]

4 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Just been to Shell and spotted this promotion. I will start using the app! 

It's pretty good. You get random other things too. I think every ten visits you get a discount.

And sometimes it just pops up a notification that I can go to any Shell for a free chocolate bar or packet of crisps. And now obviously this £100 to spend on fuel.

 

It has been issued to the app in the form of four vouchers of £25 and they expire at the end of February

 

[richardmorris]

[RoverFolkUs]

This comment left on a AR Online article made me chuckle: 

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Have you been effected by the MG Rover collapse? You could be entitled to compensation 

Call Getoverit Solicitors to start your claim now

 

[62 Austin]

On 26/10/2023 at 12:30, auntiemaryscanary said:

Wife reading the news - "That Rishi Sunak is going on about the A1!"

Me: "You mean that big road we are going home on tomorrow?"

"No!"

"Oh, AI - that computer intelligence thing..."

'Round here, AI refers to a different way to propagate cattle.

Glad your PM is on the up and up about animal husbandry!

[Rustybullethole]

A simple man with simple pleasures. Up early. Helped by neighbours getting raided. Thanks for that and thanks to the tidy pc for moving the bully van out the way so i could hook up the trailer.

Bacon sandwich 🥪 

A tyre that goes round all the way round when air added

First at the gate for materials 

Nice cuppa

Bricklaying today. I like bricklaying. Have laid two before i left the flat.

[myglaren]

4 hours ago, 62 Austin said:

'Round here, AI refers to a different way to propagate cattle.

Glad your PM is on the up and up about animal husbandry!

Cliff Richard knows a bit about that 

[vulgalour]

18 hours ago, richardmorris said:

This is part of a series done by photographer Freddy Fabris, you can find more on their site here: https://www.fabrisphoto.com/SERIES/Renaissance/1/thumbs-caption  Best of all, their site has far better resolution images than a jpg shared on Facebook a million times with no artist credit.

[Rust Collector]

On 30/10/2023 at 21:00, Coprolalia said:

I need to get a picture of the old tin can sat underneath the boot/ back axle, acting as a catch can for... Fuel?

The fuel tank on these is basically a glorified jerry can precariously perched in the side of the boot. The boot floor also seems to rot out directly beneath it. My money is on 'catch can for petrol'!

[Wilko220]

No idea what this is but Facebook’s algorithm obviously knows I like C15s…

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/10090588174348994?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V

[Low Horatio gearbox]

On holiday in Cornwall with the chiddlers, gf and her dad. We pass an RN base with a SeaKing guate guard.

GFs dad casually while driving (who volunteered with the local mountian rescue) :  last time I was in one of those it was over your hometown... sideways... with the door open

[maxxo]

Went to look at a car last night, something extremely special to me

it was a thousand times better than expected

deposit is put on said car, should be bringing it home around the 3rd December 

super excited!

[DavieW]

This afternoon, just north of the Queensferry Crossing there's a Transit sitting on the hard shoulder, hazards on. Planet Rock is playing Foo Fighters "Rescued" with the line "I'm just waiting to be rescued" just as I pass said van. 😄

[hairnet]

And so it begins

[Conan]

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[hairnet]

Are we nearly there yet 

[hairnet]

It's been a long 36 hours

But grin cos.im here

BFO immigration q.tho lol

Need water now

@Conan *waves

[hairnet]

Squiggly ftw

[Aston Martin]

Ordered a pizza from the usual could be Uzbekistan, could be Iranian pizza shoppe.

I used justeat and ordered a Diet Coke.

 

They delivered this Turkiye coke.

 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Aston Martin said:

Ordered a pizza from the usual could be Uzbekistan, could be Iranian pizza shoppe.

I used justeat and ordered a Diet Coke.

 

They delivered this Turkiye coke.

 

Living the high life!🤣

[Rust Collector]

Yesterday was my son’s first birthday, we went to Hastings Aquarium

He had a a great time and so did we, even if the land rover did die again.

[Rustybullethole]

4 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

Yesterday was my son’s first birthday, we went to Hastings Aquarium

He had a a great time and so did we, even if the land rover did die again.

Lovely. Cant beat an aquarium and i seem to recall Hastings is the best value short of dumping the push chair by the tanks at pets at home (or the zoo as we used to call it when they were little). Maybe he'll grow up like my mate George who's saving for a series landrover largely inspired by his mum and dads one's and the trials and tribulations. Memories are worth more than gold. 
 

In other news my selfish happiness today stems from this.

Spanners in a row! Alright so many are missing though they'll turn up in time. Been having a sort out in the new lock up, this for the last 30 years of my life is the stuff of dreams. Much work needed still though space to swing a kitten achieved.

 

[Wack]

I think I'm going to be uncontrollably grinning for a week , ordered a tanqueray G&T €5.50  in Spain 

This is how much he poured in the glass 

 

[MikeR]

our dog has just had one hell of a night , bonfire party and fireworks , his tail has never stopped wagging ....

he has not been fazed or even broke step  by some of the earth movers going off !!

ok some dogs are more fragile but he is on another level .. he even had a hot dog !!

[HillmanImp]

I rarely click on these sort of 'headlines' but I had to open this one as I absolutely knew what it was going to say. 

Hmmm. I wonder what it can be? What have I been doing wrong all these years?  

Fuxake. 😂

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Aurora Borealis over the UK tonight.  Might still be about if you're lucky.  If you stick your phone on a three second exposure (or more) and point North, you may get something.  I'm near Dover with fairly poor seeing, so if you're up much further North and it's clear, you may have got a full, spectacular visual display.

[High Jetter]

9 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

Yesterday was my son’s first birthday, we went to Hastings Aquarium

He had a a great time and so did we, even if the land rover did die again.

That's a big 1yo! (I guess it's his older sister?)