What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

harris testing cullinan pos and he stops and pulls out a brompton

'id rather this'

yeah but you were talking about too much and ££££ and hateful

but the bicycle is the same

[Markeh]

On 22/04/2025 at 11:29, Markeh said:

I have a pact with a former colleague of mine, we play Popmaster every day and we agreed that if we ever scored 39, we'd email in. I assumed it would never happen.

Managed it on round 2 today. Pleased but now that means I've got to do it!

I've just had a phone call. Tomorrow's reserve or definitely Wednesday.

[hairnet]

8 minutes ago, Markeh said:

I've just had a phone call. Tomorrow's reserve or definitely Wednesday.

i got 33 today 

 

[High Jetter]

Bought a car last Thursday, seller did the transfer stuff online. Today, Monday, the V5 fell on my door mat.

[paulplom]

Caravanning pikey style. Fb memory from eight years ago. That was the best van I've ever had. 125k and zero trouble. I only got rid because it started to look rusty. In hindsight I should've just got it painted. The kiltox van is slowly catching up though.  82k and counting.

[hairnet]

35k of vw bus and apart from mentioning backpackers - who wouldnt go anywhere near it

they keep mentioning the bush/outback

also its not a camper so theyre putting in a kitchen

what very important thing do you think (so far) theyve forgotten

in a million years would not go out there in one of those

who is it

wheeler dealers

[Aston Martin]

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122237487716240993&set=a.122158681916240993
 

 

 

[DavieW]

Saw this sticker on a car at a show over the weekend. Made me smile. 

 

[richardmorris]

 

[Markeh]

On 30/06/2025 at 17:14, Markeh said:

I've just had a phone call. Tomorrow's reserve or definitely Wednesday.

Despite Ken's train issues yesterday I've just had the call and I am definitely on today!

[Markeh]

Well it's the T-shirt for me but I'm happy enough to have got around my average score live on air. And against a 33 which I would've only got 21 at. Still, that's one off the bucket list!

[DSdriver]

Bank of England requesting the publics ideas on themes for new bank notes, should we all vote for UK built shite of post war years?

Type of car to match the value of the note e.g Reliant 3 wheeler on a fiver up to Plah on a fifty. 😀

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, Markeh said:

Well it's the T-shirt for me but I'm happy enough to have got around my average score live on air. And against a 33 which I would've only got 21 at. Still, that's one off the bucket list!

ROFL

not done bad

got 21 on his 27 on yours 

his questions were difficult

[Markeh]

2 minutes ago, hairnet said:

ROFL

not done bad

got 21 on his 27 on yours 

his questions were difficult

I am kicking myself over the Dead or Alive one but short of maybe I might have recognised Dionne Warwick's voice a bit better on the radio as opposed to down the phone line, I wouldn't have had a clue on any of the others I got wrong.

[hairnet]

38 minutes ago, Markeh said:

I am kicking myself over the Dead or Alive one but short of maybe I might have recognised Dionne Warwick's voice a bit better on the radio as opposed to down the phone line, I wouldn't have had a clue on any of the others I got wrong.

i thought it was denice williams

 

[eddyramrod]

Neighbour had to go to a funeral today, so we've been looking after her dog.

This is Lenny.  He's a lovely little fella.  We went to the park where we stopped for lunch.  He was delighted.

[EyesWeldedShut]

FFS - whatever next. Not sure whether to laugh, or cry.
My granny always lectured us about not drinking anything that lived in a bottle under the kitchen sink ......

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/bleach-cure-covid-autism-bleacher-movement-3zdjt2bkt

 

[comfortablynumb]

It will cure COVID.

It'll also cure that awkward state called ' being alive'

Darwin award candidate 

[myglaren]

 

[myglaren]

 

[Yoss]

I've got a new Roco tram for my railway. It's in a strange unbranded colour but it is the updated version with a flywheel attached to the motor. This means I can swap the body from one of my earlier, but more visually pleasing ones as these newer ones do run so much better. 

But that's not the grin. When I opened it I found the sender had wrapped it up in several pages of Motor Sport magazine from June 1982. So I have spent most of the morning sifting through these rather than do anything useful. 

[ProgRocker]

1 hour ago, Yoss said:

But that's not the grin. When I opened it I found the sender had wrapped it up in several pages of Motor Sport magazine from June 1982. So I have spent most of the morning sifting through these rather than do anything useful. 

Not too far away from me. It was still Norfolk Motor Company in the late 1990s but by then it went downmarket and was a Kia dealership selling Prides, Mentors and Shuma IIs. I had the horn for the Shuma II at the time.  Today it is "Roys Motor Company" selling pricey secondhand Toyotas. https://www.roysmotorcompany.co.uk/ They have been trying to sell a Celica convertible for a long time.

 

[comfortablynumb]

Have you rung to see if they've still got the Healey 3000 @Yoss? 😁

[Yoss]

32 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Have you rung to see if they've still got the Healey 3000 @Yoss? 😁

The more I look the more I find, but I think I've settled on this. 

Beige over brown with beige interior. £14k was probably a lot of money in 1982 but it still seems good value. 

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, Yoss said:

 

 

 

bet @Six-cylinder was there

[Yoss]

43 minutes ago, hairnet said:

bet @Six-cylinder was there

Exactly what I thought. Banbury's not that far is it. 

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

bet @Six-cylinder was there

 

1 hour ago, Yoss said:

Exactly what I thought. Banbury's not that far is it. 

I had just sold most of my cars as I had bought my first house in May 1982.

My daily was a 1978 (T) Ford Granada 2.3GL manual.

In May 1982 I bought the project Jaguar E-type and then did not have enough money to buy furniture!

I did not own my first Citroen, a 1976 GS 1220 Pallas until April 1984. My dad had a Citroen GS when I came to driving age so drove them a fair amount.

I don't remember a Citroen Cloverleaf, to me Cloverleaf is an Alfa Romeo trim!

[hairnet]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_Type_C_5HP

@HMC or @barrett then

i wondered that too

[Dyslexic Viking]

6 hours ago, Yoss said:

 

 

£1250 for that 1957 Austin J breadvan seems like a lot of money for an outdated 20+ year old van. And not far off the Stag in price either.

I really wonder why that Austin was worth that much.

[Yoss]

4 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

£1250 for that 1957 Austin J breadvan seems like a lot of money for an outdated 20+ year old van. And not far off the Stag in price either.

I really wonder why that Austin was worth that much.

Perhaps as it was already considered a classic vehicle whilst the Stag was just a 9 year old used car. Going through more of the pages there are quite a few Stags and most are more than that one, £5k seeming to be a more normal price, so perhaps it is a particularly ropey example. 

I found a nice GT6 for £1850 which seemed very good value compared to today.