What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[retrogeezer]

oh yeh, B&M's and Home Bargains gave me a big grin when we moved to the North West....9 bog rolls that are better than Andrex's finest for £2. Pataks curry sauces are always 70p a jar. Fully synthetic oil for a £10 for 4 (or 5) litres. Brilliant!

 

And Crewe is getting a poundland by xmas.

[sporty-shite]

B&M's is one of those scary places whrre you can end up buying loads of stuff you didn't really want, just because it's cheap.

 

Even Westhoughton (home of Coleman Milne Coachbuilders and Sporty_Shite) now has a B&M. It's always busy, which probably says more about Westhoughton than it does about B&M Bargains.

[TimothyClaypole]

There's one next door at work.

 

They leave the stock, food and drink included, outside for 12/13 hours a day.

 

They might cover it with tarps if it's raining and beat the odd rat away from it if they can spare the time from trampolining on the matresses.

 

I bought a saw there the other week for cutting plinths and pelmets down for customers too posh to stick them out of the car window, £2.99 worth of China's best, cuts a lovely curve no matter how you use it.

[Cavcraft]

oh yeh, B&M's and Home Bargains gave me a big grin when we moved to the North West....9 bog rolls that are better than Andrex's finest for £2. Pataks curry sauces are always 70p a jar. Fully synthetic oil for a £10 for 4 (or 5) litres. Brilliant!

 

And Crewe is getting a poundland by xmas.

 

Poundland rocks. Car mat sets, some (brilliant) alloy wheel cleaner and various other bits and bobs are all in store.

[scaryoldcortina]

We have a poundland, a poundworld and a poundstretchers. And a Catalogue clearance, a clearance bargains and an Ugo (which was nettos until recently). Kwik-Save went bust though. Oh, and an Asda and a Tesco, but no-one shops there

 

This photo popped up on retro-rides, Conor looked and said "Oh, you went to a car meet, why didn't you take me?"

 

It was August 2007. I'm still wearing the same T-shirt

[autofive]

We have a poundland, a poundworld and a poundstretchers. And a Catalogue clearance, a clearance bargains and an Ugo (which was nettos until recently). Kwik-Save went bust though. Oh, and an Asda and a Tesco, but no-one shops there

 

This photo popped up on retro-rides, Conor looked and said "Oh, you went to a car meet, why didn't you take me?"

 

It was August 2007. I'm still wearing the same T-shirt

 

 

 

oooh i saw that pic earlier, but didnt realise im in the pic

 

my favourite pic shows a freecycle micra we picked up on the way

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Poundland rocks. Car mat sets, some (brilliant) alloy wheel cleaner and various other bits and bobs are all in store.

Can't fault Poundland, some of the stuff in there is amazing quality. They usually have Swarfega too. The only bad thing I've bought there was a pack of sandpaper which should have been described as 'sand and paper'.

 

It was August 2007. I'm still wearing the same T-shirt

I hate shopping for clothes, so when I find something good I tend to buy several. It also means people think I'm wearing some sort of uniform, or that I never wash my clothes.

[eddyramrod]

Norm: B&M translates to Dollar General. Hours of harmless family fun!

[ashmicro]

We recently got a home bargains here, and it's shit. It seems to have pencils, batteries and shampoo, and not a lot else. Lidl's is pretty good though - they were selling welding gear a while back.

[tonedepear]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0162zbx/Holy_Flying_Circus/

[autofive]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0162zbx/Holy_Flying_Circus/

 

 

i watched this 'tother night - very very funny

[tonedepear]

And as a lovely accompaniment:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016bgt2/Friday_Night_Saturday_Morning/

[myglaren]

We recently got a home bargains here, and it's shit. It seems to have pencils, batteries and shampoo, and not a lot else. Lidl's is pretty good though - they were selling welding gear a while back.

 

The one here is pretty good.

I recently bought a 50' curly garden hose with all the fitments including a multi spray gun, 7 quid.

[autofive]

making me grin today:

 

bits of the V6 cortina selling like hot cakes

 

 

now i can afford to keep the 2.8 and type9 to stick in the zephyr

[Pete-M]

[myglaren]

Had an HP printer sitting on a shelf for a couple of years.

Plugged it into the (Ubuntu) computer, went to the printers folder to install it and it was already there waiting to print a test page - twenty seconds and no intervention from me.

Printer has never been used previously.

[Pete-M]

What part of the sub-Saharan are the Ubuntus from?

 

Belgium.

[myglaren]

[Lord Sterling]

 

Finally got my car into the garage I am going to rent from an acquaintance. After getting his car out of the garage I was happy for him to leave me to sort out the garage which had more of his stuff in it, I cleared out the garage, got the White Sterling started and backed into its nice new covered home, then set about putting the boxes of acquaintances stuff back which he said he'd sort out next week, I dont mind, as long as my car is locked away under cover he can keep his stuff in there.

 

I also set about changing the scutlle panel and adding a few bits of trim my daily Sterling needed.

[RoadworkUK]

some good news at last

 

Glad to see it tucked up somewhere safe and sound.

[Lord Sterling]

Cheers Chris, I'm happy its under storage, the White Sterling had spent a fair few years outside including the last few weeks outside this garage waiting for the other fella to clear out.

 

Better still this garage is right next to where my mk2 Sterling is stored. One day I'll have to pull the other cars and do a photoshoot of all 3 of them.

[Lord Sterling]

Thanks Team Blitz!

[andrew e]

As of last Thursday 20/10/11

 

http://www.motability.co.uk/main.cfm?ty ... ectid=2778

 

A streamlined selection of cars available, up to a maximum Advance Payment of £2,000 (this limit does not apply to Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles)

Nominated drivers under 21 will only be permitted where they live with the disabled customer

All nominated drivers need to live within five miles of the customer’s home

The changes are designed to ensure that Motability provides clear policies, focused on the needs of the vast majority of customers. They will also help avoid misuse and misrepresentation of the Scheme.

 

The sooner the mouth breathers get shafted, to stop those who genuinely need mobility, the better.

[warren t claim]

As of last Thursday 20/10/11

 

http://www.motability.co.uk/main.cfm?ty ... ectid=2778

 

A streamlined selection of cars available, up to a maximum Advance Payment of £2,000 (this limit does not apply to Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles)

Nominated drivers under 21 will only be permitted where they live with the disabled customer

All nominated drivers need to live within five miles of the customer’s home

The changes are designed to ensure that Motability provides clear policies, focused on the needs of the vast majority of customers. They will also help avoid misuse and misrepresentation of the Scheme.

 

The sooner the mouth breathers get shafted, to stop those who genuinely need mobility, the better.

 

About time too. Didn't some prominent Belfast councillor use his mobility car as a minicab?

[retrogeezer]

All nominated drivers need to live within five miles of the customer’s home

 

 

hmmm, my parents live 180 miles away but they add me as a driver when they come to stay. My mum has driven for 3 hours or more to get here and will drive the same back home. She doesn't know the roads here and it is easier for her if I drive, I guess that I will no longer be able too then?? So those genuine cases lose out yet again because of low life piss takers.

 

Not only that but if we holiday together I drive their car, she is 70 FFS! And what about the times like when we were there in the summer, they were going on a cruise so we drove them to Southampton to get on the ship. Who the hell else is going to do it?

[warren t claim]

Can you drive it on your own insurance?

[retrogeezer]

Can you drive it on your own insurance?

 

yeh, 3rd party only!

[Lord Sterling]

As of last Thursday 20/10/11

 

http://www.motability.co.uk/main.cfm?ty ... ectid=2778:

 

Statement by Lord Sterling, Chairman of Motability...............

 

I wasnt aware of this

[morris_ital_lover]

Just got an Airfix Marina for considerably less than the going rate

 

What else might you have been up to unknowningly then Lord S?

 

m0rris

[warren t claim]

" The average car on the Scheme has a Recommended Retail Price of £19,500"