What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

was idly browsing on amazon (have a voucher to spend)

have harris' autobiog hardback but cannot find it

saw a thing 'audible now available as free trial'

currently drinking tea and listening to him waxing lyrical about toy cars and club biscuits

finding other authors id never thought to look for audiobooks is interesting (shh lol)

star trek on in a bit (harris talking about rac rally now)

[myglaren]

 

[Floatylight]

Nothing says Council Flat more than a blinged up Focus ST, A Range Rover on it's arse and the stench of weed.

[grizz]

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

was idly browsing on amazon (have a voucher to spend)

have harris' autobiog hardback but cannot find it

saw a thing 'audible now available as free trial'

currently drinking tea and listening to him waxing lyrical about toy cars and club biscuits

finding other authors id never thought to look for audiobooks is interesting (shh lol)

star trek on in a bit (harris talking about rac rally now)

Have you bought all of @motorpunk ‘s back catalogue?

[hairnet]

55 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Nothing says Council Flat more than a blinded up Focus ST, A Range Rover on it's arse and the stench of weed.

steve youve changed (innit)

[richardmorris]

58 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Nothing says Council Flat more than a blinded up Focus ST, A Range Rover on it's arse and the stench of weed.

Plus the stupid gel type numberplate.

[hairnet]

17 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Have you bought all of @motorpunk ‘s back catalogue?

dont need sleep yet (joke punk)

[Markeh]

It is good to know there is still good in the world after a rather inebriated Markeh left his phone in an Uber and has managed to get it back within about 10 minutes!

[grizz]

PT Cruiser 

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1C6zhTDPm1/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[myglaren]

 

[myglaren]

 

[DavieW]

Working through a charity quiz  last night. All the answers are towns.  One of the clues was "human being's piece of land"  

I worked backwards from "piece of land" and thought "garden". My first thought for the "human being" part was "lady" then realised my mistake 😂😂

For anyone who can't be bothered to work it out, the answer is "Mansfield"

[High Jetter]

Human being -> mankind -> man's field -> Mansfield. Sounds like a great quiz idea.

[Wibble]

My Niece’s Panda needed a passenger airbag switch, which Fiat wanted over £100 for. Her Dad did a part number search to see if any other manufacturer used the same switch and found it was also used by Ferrari! Price from them? £16.99! She was chuffed to bits with her switch arriving in Ferrari packaging🤣

 

[MikeR]

Polish meal tonight , very nice ..

The Google translation app got well tested and was very good at speech to text in it's conversation mode .

[grizz]

[Volksy]

Looking to hire a couple of vehicles over the next couple of months for a trip here and one over in the states.

Obviously every advert on sites I'm browsing is now showing me car rental stuff..

 

Spot the odd one out, and where can I hire one!?!

 

 

EDIT:

Apparently Yerevan Airport in Armenia!

[paulplom]

Got these from a skip this morning where we're doing the plumbing in a kitchen. Eldest daughter has expressed interest but told me where to go when I asked for £500. She'll be getting them for nowt no doubt.

[Tenmil Socket]

19 hours ago, MikeR said:

Polish meal tonight , very nice ..

The Google translation app got well tested and was very good at speech to text in it's conversation mode .

Did you manage to polish it all off?

I’ll get me coat… 

[Dyslexic Viking]

3 hours ago, Volksy said:

Apparently Yerevan Airport in Armenia!

You need a holiday to Armenia.

[cort1977]

49 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Got these from a skip this morning where we're doing the plumbing in a kitchen. Eldest daughter has expressed interest but told me where to go when I asked for £500. She'll be getting them for nowt no doubt.

 

That's incredible that someone would put those in a skip. Always worth having a look.

[jim89]

[myglaren]

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Umbilical yoke?

[hairnet]

all the stuff mostly knocking about is either mid 00s chevy or japanese

he got a taxi to the virgin mary as it was muchos steep but hed been outta breath even on the flat 

took 45 mins and it was less than 2 miles and at the top he said 45 mins back in the taxi or 27 mins to the bottom of the hill

he walked and at one point he asked a local something and they suggested a taxi

wasnt that rough (hed walked thru a rough bit earlier)

[MikeR]

On 28/01/2026 at 12:21, MikeR said:

That's Linux Mint installed on the desktop pc instead of win10 , it now kicks arse and even runs Canva without braking a sweat instead of dying .

Printers work , scanner works , access the network ok and sees the nas .

Just user training to do ..... 

The wife has not noticed , just presses the icons for web or mail ..... 

A Win so far 

[Remspoor]

Code red weather warning in The north of the Netherlands- Never complain it is cold!

https://nos.nl/l/2600897

 

[scaryoldcortina]

This was going to be a grump but now it's funny...

 

Week or so ago in Tesco, on the valentines tat display, I saw matt black mugs with the legend "You'll do" on them. Mentioned to the wife how horrid that is, I'd be appalled and it's a pretty rubbish joke too.

Yesterday they'd sold out (I thought... don't remember the shop being sideways either) so I was even more appalled that it had been wildly popular!

except no, not sold out recalled because there's a hidden risk of accidental maiming too - may shatter if used with boiling water.

 

[DavieW]

At a clients premises this morning and their office cat decided it liked my laptop. Wonder if it was looking for a mouse? 😂😂