What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[myglaren]

My daughter and I were fitting some plastic boards into the rear of her company XC90 last weekend, needed to slide coffins in for transportation, and corpses from hospitals and other funeral directors.

In the process she discovered a third row of seats that nobody knew were there.

[myglaren]

The Dutton amphibian.  Only seen one, I think it was a Dutton.  Cruising around Whitby harbour.  My dad, worked at the shipyard there, was having to do something with it and was quite impressed.

Would have been early sixties.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, myglaren said:

My daughter and I were fitting some plastic boards into the rear of her company XC90 last weekend, needed to slide coffins in for transportation, and corpses from hospitals and other funeral directors.

In the process she discovered a third row of seats that nobody knew were there.

Your story is better than mine, mine is "looking at pictures of my own car online" yours is "outfitting a corpsemobile"

[cort1977]

58 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

I went to Mull last month and saw this parked outside the Western Isles Hotel in Tobermoray.

That's the one! Excellent.

I saw it near Carlisle so he had a way to go.

[reb]

It is 2010 again, apparently. 

[MikeR]

At a triffid shop up north ...

[egg]

accidental Brent-ism's

[angle]

Based on my previous Laguna experience I am pretty confident in saying:

'your sunroof drains are blocked m8'

[reb]

9 hours ago, reb said:

Checking out the auction listing of the v70 last year

But what's this...

Rear facing child seats!! Bonus!

Utterly useless as a childless bloke in his 20s, but when I was small dad had a Renault Savannah estate with third row seats and I used to love sitting in them for some reason. 

Once I've taken the wheels out of the boot I'll unfold the seats and see if my lanky arse will fit in them.

Sure enough, there they are!

Do I fit in them?

Not in the slightest.

[iainrcz]

Just sat down and ate lunch.

Very fancy.

[Snake Charmer]

Bank of England drops the base rate 0.25% just as we get the mortgage down to £760. 🤣

[horriblemercedes]

Bought car late on Monday afternoon and did online keeper change. V5 arrived in the post this morning (Thursday). 

 

Fair play to the DVLA, that's good service 

[reb]

3 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Bought car late on Monday afternoon and did online keeper change. V5 arrived in the post this morning (Thursday). 

 

Fair play to the DVLA, that's good service 

I did one on Tuesday afternoon, so simple arithmetic says mine should arrive tomorrow!

[richardmorris]

[reb]

It is my v70s 26th birthday today, how exciting! I should have got it a card. Instead I have interrogated the manual pouch to try and figure out the original dealer. Seems to have been Evans Halshaw, then sold by Fords of Winsford for £10k in 2001 to a lady called Allison, who's address I now have because somehow the warranty slip is still with the car 8 keepers later.

[Rightnider]

On 31/07/2024 at 19:19, egg said:

 

accidental Brent-ism's

 

That’s absurdly similar!

[hairnet]

Lol at the nutters at gate 49

Final call for belfast please go to gate 150

Lmao

My flight has been arriving somwhwere between 49 and 56 so should be reet

[hairnet]

Lol at the nutters at gate 49

Final call for belfast please go to gate 150

Lmao

My flight has been arriving somwhwere between 49 and 56 so should be reet

[gm]

a Citroen Mehari ! 

 

[IronStar]

2 minutes ago, gm said:

a Citroen Mehari ! 

 

3/3 cars in that photo have somehow managed to park outside white lines. Amazing! 😄

[reb]

14 hours ago, reb said:

I did one on Tuesday afternoon, so simple arithmetic says mine should arrive tomorrow!

Sure enough, here it is!

It even has the right reg on it!

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, IronStar said:

3/3 cars in that photo have somehow managed to park outside white lines. Amazing! 😄

French rules of the road. White lines are only a suggestion.

[Remspoor]

17 hours ago, richardmorris said:

You are brave posting something in Dutch here. Not many of us have an understanding of it. More do of French naturally. As they say Boeuf a la mode

[reb]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

You are brave posting something in Dutch here. Not many of us have an understanding of it. More do of French naturally. As they say Boeuf a la mode

Dutch is just english with more vowels though

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, reb said:

Dutch is just english with more vowels though

I think the cartoon was understandable in any language.

[hairnet]

Think its a bit warm

Stuff seen today

2x c15 with the windows 

Many 206 battered to fuck 

And i think @wuvvum was here as i saw a renault 6!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also peugeot 301

Thanks to @Jerzy Woking col - nice to see you again

I keep thinking its saturday but wondered why the traffic was fucked past murcia 

Its friday

Crazy squiggly road tomorrow 

[myglaren]

I have two Quora pages open, one in English and the other in Swedish.  Also have DeepL (translator) active on the laptop, in the background, pops up an icon whenever there is text or I am typing and offers to translate.

I don't know if DeepL is responsible but this has never happened previously.

I was reading through the English pages and suddenly saw briefly Swedish text displayed that changed to English, then recognised the next answer as one that I had read in Swedish this morning, suddenly change to English.  All the subsequent ones had Swedish authors but changed to English.

Most odd.

[hairnet]

Not done ,that in an awful long time

 

Muoy bien etc

 

Will be walking back to parador in the dark and probably not.in a straight line lol

[hairnet]

Oh no 

You gave me what??

[155V6]

This should really be a grin,but it's more of a surprise.

I took my SLK in for an MOT this morning,I'd done no preparation & wasn't expecting it to pass.I was almost hoping it didn't,as the roof has stopped working,& there's a strange noise coming from the top of the engine.

I'd seen a possible replacement on Gumtree,& was going to message the seller when I got home

However,it only went & passed,with a couple of advisories for headlight lenses & a corroded exhaust. 

I guess I'll be keeping it then 🤨