What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[mattblack]

[brammy777]

Trapsed around a small local area today, briefly, and stumbled upon a laid up Chevette, and unbelievably, an X reg Simca 1100. Both impossible to photo, but I may investigate futher....

[Cavcraft]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Samsu ... 4aac84e8ea

 

...'you'd not catch me on a Playstation, they're for puffs...'

[meggersdog]

Walking the dog whilst eating free cherries.

One of the footpaths on the edge of the village where I walk the dog has two cherry trees with ripe cherries on them.The low branches have already been picked clean so this 45 year old bloke scrambled up a tree like a 15 year old just to nab some free cherries.Filled my pockets,climbed down and carried on walking the dog.

 

Also day two as an ex smoker has almost ended.

[Pillock]

My neighbours cherry tree overhangs my garden and it's got tonnes on. I'm right in thinking if I stick to what's directly above my garden, it's fine to pick them right?

If not - too late, I'll be needing a stomach pump if they want them back. OM NYOM NYOM.

[shite_meister]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Samsung-Sumsang-HD-Digital-TV-42inch-/320721971434?pt=UK_AudioTVElectronics_Video_Televisions&hash=item4aac84e8ea

 

...'you'd not catch me on a Playstation, they're for puffs...'

 

Very good.

 

The little hair-scratches are from where I dropped the TV down the side of my ex-wife's new MG.

It is being clumsy like this why my wife left me... Everytime I look at the TV it reminds me of her. I need it gone.

[scaryoldcortina]

The guy over the road (who is a bit of a knobhead) parked his brand new 11 plate Audi A8 outside my house last night, I noticed while walking round it that it only has tax to the end of august. It can't have been registered earlier than March 1st, so that means the fuggin cheapskate bought 6 months tax for his £60,000 car.

[dollywobbler]

The guy over the road (who is a bit of a knobhead) parked his brand new 11 plate Audi A8 outside my house last night, I noticed while walking round it that it only has tax to the end of august. It can't have been registered earlier than March 1st, so that means the fuggin cheapskate bought 6 months tax for his £60,000 car.

 

Surely more likely that the dealership kindly included road tax in the sale price, then acted all tightwad and only got six months. Was probably running on fumes when he collected it as well.

[Cavcraft]

I'm on a roll of sorts here. Jag MOT expires next month so thought I'd put it in to see what happens. Result? First time pass with a few of minor advisories

[catsinthewelder]

Excellent news, I love it when that happens

[dollywobbler]

I'm on a roll of sorts here. Jag MOT expires next month so thought I'd put it in to see what happens. Result? First time pass with a few of minor advisories

 

Nice one! You've got me quite interested in one of these as a long-distance cruiser. Probably a bad idea given my hatred of modern electronics...

[Cavcraft]

Hey if you want one of these fine carriages in your life I'm just a pm away

 

If it helps clinch the sale I cleaned the seats up a bit just now and have adjusted the clock to tell the right time.

[cort16]

have adjusted the clock to tell the right time.

 

That's a deal clincher right there

[Cavcraft]

2) I removed Radio 1 from the stereo memory.

[warren t claim]

Just read this on an HGV forum.

 

"Our firm do some jobs moving transformers etc out of substations with Central Networks. One place they arrived at had a smoke-blackened human outline (like in a cartoon) against the wall................ CN's guys said they've seen them before

 

Reckon they just scrape up the dead gyppo onto the back of the tranny pick up and scarper :P"

 

I can't believe that people are stupid enough to try and steal copper from a live substation.

[trigger]

We had one get killed last year up the road here, He broke into the substation with his mates to nick the copper and went up in smoke...

 

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/subst ... y_1_459762

[M'coli]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14028319

No-one ever mentions just how far 132,000 volts can travel through the air!

[Station]

I occasionally see local chavs cycling gleefully along on their mountain bike (made up of numerous stolen parts) with a roll of copper something or other under their arms.

Breaking into an electrical substation is a cheaper method than going to Dignatus I suppose.

[maxpower]

quite apt as a "goodbye tune" to these substation crooks

 

[cort16]

I sold my old welder on ebay without pain or hassle. It sold on Wednesday and they picked it up on Thursday getting the humungos thing out my lockup.

I got a years or so's service out of it then sold it for double what I paid for it. Result.

[M'coli]

quite apt as a "goodbye tune" to these substation crooks

 

Danger: this link features a tuneless Scottish harpie from the 60s. Please be aware that fist/screen interface may occur.

[Cavcraft]

http://www.swapz.co.uk/swapz/1950746/pu51bed/

[tonedepear]

http://www.swapz.co.uk/swapz/1950746/pu51bed/

[Station]

[trigger]

Off on holiday for a week to the Yorkshire Dales tomorrow which I'm quite looking forwards too, We are going with the in-laws who are going to drive up in their Peugeot 307 Estate, I quite fancied driving myself but it seems a bit pointless taking two cars up there and it will save me money on diesel.

[ashmicro]

I'm off to Donegall next week. Peace and quiet, and good Guinness.

 

We had a couple of guys break into a Portakabin at my power station. They didn't get any cable, but they did nick some laptops. Unbeknownst to them, they were ones I had left out to dump, as they weren't worth fixing. The two scrotes got a shoeing in Larne, as they has sold one of the knackered laptops to a local hard case, who wasn't amused that he'd paid £100 for a laptop that wouldn't even power on. The copper who phoned up to tell us was laughing his head off!

[Timewaster]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14028319

No-one ever mentions just how far 132,000 volts can travel through the air!

 

1.4 meters if my memory serves.

(I work on substation maintanance and you wouldn't believe how many substations get robbed!)

[TimothyClaypole]

Went to work on my day off and ended up serving customers, but on the plus side the reason I went there in the first place was to buy a couple of sale

items, ended up making two trips in my Astra to cart stuff away.

 

*Runs to Ebay to get listing*.

[M'coli]

Off on holiday for a week to the Yorkshire Dales tomorrow which I'm quite looking forwards too, We are going with the in-laws who are going to drive up in their Peugeot 307 Estate, I quite fancied driving myself but it seems a bit pointless taking two cars up there and it will save me money on diesel.

Whereabouts in the Dales are you going?

[trigger]

We are going to the Hoseasons site at Arncliffe in Skipton, It seems to have good reviews.