What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[boobydoo]

^^ They don't elaborate much to be honest. To quote the dealer gumpf:

 

"HANDS FREE ACCESS:

Another Mercedes-benz innovation which provides hands-free , contactless operation of the bootlid. The driver simply moves their foot in the vicinity of the rear bumper. MB are the only car maker to offer a system which not only automatically opens the boot, but closes it aswell."

 

It's going to have heated wiper blades aswell. Where will it all end?

[dollywobbler]

It's nice that Mercedes are STILL coming up with convenience features that actually are. Surely anyone who's approached a car with arms full of shopping has wished the boot would somehow magically open? Similarly, when your wiper blades are encased in ice and no longer working, heated ones seem a good idea. Presumably that's quite easy to arrange as the wipers sit below the bonnet lip.

 

Making me grin is 'inheriting' my wife's 9 years of NCD. I'm now the named policyholder for her insurance, which means that once more, I have the 'third party on any vehicle' bit, denied to me by my classic policy. This has been arranged as I'm borrowing a friend's Delica L400 to take some friends out for the day next week. Quite looking forward to seeing how these monster-truck minibuses behave on the road...

[M'coli]

It's nice that Mercedes are STILL coming up with convenience features that actually are. Surely anyone who's approached a car with arms full of shopping has wished they'd just got a fecking trolley instead.

EFA

[dollywobbler]

Our local insists you insert a quid to get a trolley. Makes me determined to cram more stuff in a basket!

 

As for cheap cars not selling (re: that bargainous Polo) I'm slightly concerned that there's not been a sniff of interest in the Pug. It's a good car! Even if I have been whinging about it a fair bit.

[M'coli]

I quite like the quid thing, it encourages people to return their trolley to the little sheds around the carpark rather than abandoning them at their arse.

[Angrydicky]

It doesn't work though. People living around my local Asda push their shopping home in the trolley, then pull out the £1 with pliers or molegrips and leave it sitting outside their house.

 

Only the small trollies have those wheel locking devices that go off if it's taken out of the carpark, the large ones don't.

[cobblers]

If you poke your key down the hole where you'd click the thing into the next trolley, your pound pops out and you can spend it on some tescos own brand vodka or whatever. Don't come running to me if it clicks shut on your car key though

[Pete-M]

New Mercs have some ace features. I quite often drive a new shape S350 which has about £10k worth of toys fitted. The night vision thing is ace fun and the little mouse thing for the computer with the phone keypad inside is cute-tech that actually makes like easier.

 

The top spec satnav in new VAG stuff is great once you discover all it's little secrets.

 

The new BMW satnav system on the other hand, is bloody lethal. The ability to surf the web while driving... Not good!

[retrogeezer]

Talking of shopping trolleys, I saw this today:

 

[wuvvum]

Just got a cheque in the post from HMRC for an income tax rebate. £34.61, w00t! Still, it's paid for a secondhand front strut for tRoD and a steam-powered model boat which I'd just bought on eBay.

[wackywacerwill]

 

WTF

 

I've seen the skip and speedboat at wheels day but never that trolley.

[DSdriver]

[The Moog]

Had my last day school for my MBA. After 5 years I wont need to worry about them clashing. Just have to deliver a 6000 word project in 3 weeks and then a 2500 essay on what makes a good manager and I will pass ....

[TimothyClaypole]

Good manager in the boss above them's eyes = two faced lying bastard.

[eddyramrod]

There y'go Moog, that's saved you hours of typing! Shame it's so true though...

[The Moog]

Cheers chaps. Not only can you spot chod at 100 paces you can finish MBA essays with a sentence. I am not worthy ... nor am I pike..

[DSdriver]

Watching a blue tit picking a fight with our pug 206 which was sitting on the drive minding its own business. The bird was trying to peck the wing mirror off - I have to admire his optimism cos even if he got it off it would never fit through the hole in the nestbox. Sorry no pics because he was around the other side of the car and flew off when I tried to creep out with the camera.

[scaryoldcortina]

Bluetits are great. There are some that live in an old petrol tank in my yard. I'd guess it wasn't so much interested in the mirror as the huge spider that lives behind it

[DSdriver]

I did wonder about that but he was also having a go at the side windows. Maybe he doesn't like his own reflection.

It was wonderful to watch the youngsters taking their first flight out of the nestbox a while back. They all took turns to flutter down on to the bonnet of the car and then, because they could not get any grip, they slid down the bonnet and off the front of the car.

[STUNO]

Bluetits HAHA...we can do better than that.

These ones are a bit more lethal and very cheeky ! Watch this to the end

[michiel]

Playing two gigs in 10 days with two different bands made me

 

Here's a 30 second song:

 

Warning: grown men in skirts. Glad I'm behind the drumkit in my tight plastic pants...

[Volksy]

This blog Is making me lol at work today, Having lived the live as a ski seasonaire it rings very true.

[messerschmitt owner]

just squandered the last of this month's pay in the Halfords sale

 

bought a set of x-beam ratchet spanners for a fiver

 

a SIP airmate TN2.0/50 compressor for £150

 

and a SIP weldmate T90P gas mig welder for £100

 

Speaking to the lady at the counter, she bought a £10 arc welder last week.

 

So, this is a head's up - go have a look at their clearance stuff.

 

Am £255 lighter but the compressor on its own (and I was buying one soon anyway) is £230 or more plus delivery.

[cobblers]

I miss working at 'frauds, I used to get the MEGABARGAINS before they went on the shelf. Old stock used to just gradually get reduced in price, but most of the time it was only displayed on the shelves around January (rest of the time it would be boxed up in the back - times have changed a bit now though). When the clearance "lists" came through, I'd spend my lunch hour buying all the good stuff. That reminds me actually, I paid £1 for a gunsons gas analyzer thing, then forgot to dig it out of the clearance boxes in the dusty end of the warehouse and take it home. It's probably still there, five years on.

 

My best score was finding £175 rrp focal 6x9 speakers for £15 (I wasn't cheeky enough to ask staff discount on them!). Bought every pair I could get my hands on from all the stores between Hull and Sheffield (my uni commute), stuck em on ebay at £100 a pair and made a month's wage

[messerschmitt owner]

am going to wander into the Stroud one tomorrow - I reckoned I could sell both mig and compressor for more than I've just paid for them - would see about £50 profit on each if I wanted to get rid.

[eddyramrod]

Not so much grin as giggle... Our house in Barrow is number 8. Number 12 is currently For Sale, so I've been using the listing's link to Google Street View to check out the area, see if it's more or less as I remember from the last time we were round there, 3 years ago or so. Number 8 still has the old windows and front door, both of which we had replaced, so it's obviously not a recent view... Then I realised, there's a date at the bottom of the pic. March 2009. That's roughly when we were there last! No wonder it all looks so familiar.

On the plus side, I've found not one, but three chipshops within easy walking distance! That's something we really really miss... Also found all the big supermarkets and taken a virtual tour of the town centre (Mrs R is looking forward to going now). Also within reach is a little Post Office (if it's still there...), two garages and a range of small neighbourhood shops. And it's flat enough for cycling. So, leaving the sunlit (storm-lashed) shores of Cyprus isn't all bad.

[Cavcraft]

[small things amuse small minds]

 

Just came back from work and ROLLED WITH MY HOOD OFF SAFETY. Never had a convertible before and it was quite a good laugh, not least CLOCKING ALL THE FLANGE. Which in this case turned out to be some bemused old biddy in a Micra.

[OwdChina]

Ohhh Yeeesssss

Arrived today.

Cheers Cav.

[Cavcraft]

Excelsior! Your cheque arrived the other day by the way, many thanks.

[oman5]

Driving my artic through newport, someone in an old Galaxy at great pains to screw past me at about 50 in a 30 limit..only for me to catch up with him at the next roundabout where his engine had expired half way across.