What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Rhythm Thief]

God I hate bugs. Literally everything about them is shit and not in a good way.

 

I'm glad it's not just me that thinks this. The fuel tank's under the bonnet, the engine's in the boot, we can put the luggage in the ... er ... crap. Horrible things, I can't think of anything I wouldn't rather drive.

[Cavcraft]

Did anyone see that madman on 'Homes From Hell' who bought the house in Cyprus. Get a f**king life mate

 

What an arsehole. I think he was trying to play some kind of moral crusader but just managed to look like a complete bellend instead. Give him five years tops and he'll have died from a heart attack.

[Station]

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=techni&action=display&thread=108354

 

More LOLZ advice thread on RR

 

I had to use a hammer to free my rear drums, but the Astra's do have a little hole to adjust the cog - although this didn't help as they were seized on. I did the other side by taking the whole hub off. Horrible job!

I do hate the 'warnings' that people give - warping a solid piece of metal fer Christ's sake!

[M'coli]

Thomas Voekler's performance in this year's Tour de France. It's great! To make this a liitle clearer to those who perhaps don't understand (and to paraphrase from Clive James' description of the Renault F1 team winning the French GP in 1982 with added plagarism from Nigel Roebuck's description of how a previously uncompetative Gordini won a French race in front of a Ferrari in the 1950s):

Do you think that the Tour de France French race commisionaires are going to look too closely at how a Frenchman in a French team on a wildcard entry into the French Tour de France is maintaining his lead on the French race in front of the French public, who haven't had a French winner since 1985? Do you really think in this David and Goliath struggle that the French are really going to care about the size of the sling that Davide is using?

 

I really do hope that he's doing this on merit, and that he's not suffering any kidney pain whatsoever .

[messerschmitt owner]

4 merlins at 400ft over Gloucester this afternoon when collecting the motorhome from its Mot at staverton - what a heavenly sound

[shite_meister]

4 merlins at 400ft over Gloucester this afternoon when collecting the motorhome from its Mot at staverton - what a heavenly sound

 

66 years ago no Messerscmitt owner would have admitted that

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've just got the tax disc and reg confirmation for my Argenta through. ATV 73Y is born!! Just sent off for some pressed ally plates off eBay, with a bit of luck i'll be driving it this weekend!

[Alexg]

Bollox, that sounds like the best thing ever! A weekend to look forward to

[tonedepear]

I've just got the tax disc and reg confirmation for my Argenta through. ATV 73Y is born!! Just sent off for some pressed ally plates off eBay, with a bit of luck i'll be driving it this weekend!

 

YAY!

[Guest]

ATV 73Y is born!!

Excellent, be sure to drive it up pyramids like on ATV Simulator.

[RoadworkUK]

...with a bit of luck i'll be driving it this weekend!

 

Just be sure to have that Voxson tuned into something appropriate. Is Atlantic 252 still transmitting?

[M'coli]

RTé 1 is on LW252 these days - soo much better for world news at the moment than the fone hacking stuff on the UK radio. It also allows for a certain amount of "from the outside, looking in", which is always worthy from a "To see ourselves as others see us" point of view.

[TimothyClaypole]

Internet went off last night.

 

Back on today and Gadzooks Dobbin, I can now watch/listen to things on YouTube without experiencing something like a slideshow, so this is what the internet is supposed to be like.

 

BT emailed the other day saying they were messing with something to speed things up a bit so looks like it's done it's job. Was running like dial up the past couple of years as we are just at the limit

of the exchange or some bobbins.

[The Moog]

Spent the last two days working at my mums house. Being a pensioner and widow loads of jobs pile up. Brothers and sister are useless and just leech money from her. So spent 2 days emptying her sheds and redoing her bathroom. Got to go round tomorrow morning and take loads of stuff up the tip but she has got some lovely tidy shed now and is a happy mummy.

[autofive]

Spent the last two days working at my mums house. Being a pensioner and widow loads of jobs pile up. Brothers and sister are useless and just leech money from her. So spent 2 days emptying her sheds and redoing her bathroom. Got to go round tomorrow morning and take loads of stuff up the tip but she has got some lovely tidy shed now and is a happy mummy.

 

i have to do this sort of thing too. my mother (and until 5 years ago my grandmother) always have a list of jobs that need doing when i visit. somtimes just silly things, re-attach a curtain rail, or hang a picture. but, after a dozen of these jobs i get a cup of tea, and then its all been worth it. my grandmother used to think i was some kind of one-man-development team though, and travel 40 miles to trim the hedge or lay three paving stones while my lazyarse brothers (one of whom lived just 7 miles away) would never visit unless its a birthday/xmas 'collection' visit.

[trigger]

I've just got the tax disc and reg confirmation for my Argenta through

 

Now THIS is grin worthly! You must be as chuffed as a 15 year old boy who found his dad's porn stash, I can't wait to see the updated photos!

[cort16]

I've just signed up for a trade motor insurance policy. Expect much tat buying in the coming months.

[mattblack]

Someone at work said today "you can't miss XXXX's car, it's a white Sierra Cosworth..."

 

Said car is actually a tatty 'P' plate Mondeo with halfrauds alloys on the back, steels on the front, laxarse rear lights and a big bore tailpipe... He did get the colour right though.

[trigger]

 

I want a Armstrong Siddeley

[messerschmitt owner]

Ooh once bought a Whitley six light - always liked the 40s and 50s Armstrong siddeleys.

[brammy777]

Just found a Tagora on streetview, fairly local too!

Going there tomorrow, there appears to be a lot of stuff nearby too, lets hope this pays off...

[dollywobbler]

Can't decide whether that's a Sapphire or Star Sapphire. Someone's inconveniently put some pretty girls in the way of the front door handles. Nice frocks. There aren't enough nice frocks nowadays...

[trigger]

I agree, you can't beat a pretty frock, Maybe Brammy could talk some of those college girls into wearing some pretty frocks and then make them pose with this Tagora he's found?, Now that would make a GREAT photo!

[barrett]

I know loads of birds like that and they are all idiots.... If I ever meet a girl who dresses in '50s outfits who isn't a total FUD I'll be mega surprised.

 

Tagoras, on the other hand, are sexy and intelligent and always welcome on my monitor

[Negative Creep]

I've just signed up for a trade motor insurance policy. Expect much tat buying in the coming months.

 

So how does that work anyway? Someone I know is looking into it and has said for £500 he's covered on anything up to 30 grand for anything, including social and personal use. Surely there must be a catch?

[The Moog]

I phoned a couple of places and they wouldn't touch me at all with traders policy. I was honest and said that I changed cars fairly regularly and bought and sold them.

[Station]

Last one I applied for was £1,500 (2 NCB, 0 points) - the same one my mate got (less NCB, 6 points, exactly same area), he got quoted £1,000. I think most of them just pick these very round numbers out of the air.

I just said I was selling cars from a lockup, they asked no questions, it's easy to get.

 

It still beats the joke of personal insurance though.

[shite_meister]

Bloody hell Trigger! I'm liking wimminz in frocks (even better out of them though)

 

 

What made me laugh yesterday was a transvestite coming into work asking for some wheel bearings for an old Transit, suffice to say we had to order them for the old tranny

[Angrydicky]

Just found a Tagora on streetview, fairly local too!

Going there tomorrow, there appears to be a lot of stuff nearby too, lets hope this pays off...

 

Excellent, can't wait!

[ProgRocker]

Someone at work said today "you can't miss XXXX's car, it's a white Sierra Cosworth..."

 

Said car is actually a tatty 'P' plate Mondeo with halfrauds alloys on the back, steels on the front, laxarse rear lights and a big bore tailpipe... He did get the colour right though.

 

 

It's like when I always unthinkingly kept calling the mark 1 Vectra a 'Cavalier' for quite some time.