What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[trigger]

Hey Trig, do you know what happened to that guy who was interested in the Ambo in the scrapyard near me?.

 

I know he said he went to look at it but I haven't a clue what happened, I'm pretty sure he didn't buy it though or I'd had seen something about it on facebook, you could try sending him a message asking? http://www.facebook.com/colin.coleman.182

 

Was it 'Southern Softies'? Any good? Not seen it yet. I enjoyed his other 'rockumentaries'.

 

Yep, that's the one, It was a bit odd really, must be northern humour or something as it was funny for just being every strange! On the plus side there a fair bit of Ambassador action and he sings Austin Ambassador Y reg to a disinterested crowd of elderly people.

[autofive]

are there decent screeners of the bond movie already?

 

there was a couple of different links last night - but just checked and they are now offline

 

i ll PM you if i find another shortly

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I can't believe this open discussion of piracy. Illegal downloading is killing home taping. So do the right thing. Tape an appalling pan & scan version off ITV onto a tired Scotch VHS.

 

Special bonus features: Three minutes of News at Ten

[dollywobbler]

VIDEO PIRACY FUNDS BANGER RACERS AND KITTEN MURDERERS!

 

Always amuses me that these OMG UR SO IN TRUBBLE warnings are always on the legitimate copies.

[cobblers]

Thanks to modern technology it is possible to download a film in less time than it takes to watch the unskippable warnings about piracy.

A lot of the time if I fancy watching a film I already have on DVD, I'll download it anyway because it saves getting up and digging the DVD out of the cupboard.

[vulgalour]

I have my Princess home. I am a happy, happy chappy.

[Craig the Princess]

Just been reading through the 2013 calendar thread, there are some awesome pictures in there.

[michiel]

 

These signs made me grin on holiday, not just because of the incomprehensible Welsh. May contain traces of Health & Safety nonsense/truth: at most castles you can actually climb the towers up to great heights without substantial barriers holding you back... 25 metres high and just a few stones that come up to your knees. And then you go to the toilets and trip over all the 'slippery floor' signs and break your neck.

[skattrd]

I'm an IT contractor and have just had my current contract extended until next June ... I'm happy.

[Junkman]

My BX just sailed through the MOT without advisories. If I died now, it'd take the mortician two hours to get the grin off my face.

[Danblez]

Contact information for the website our golf spamming friend is sending us to.

 

Needles, roger

21336 SW Augusta St

Aloha, Or 97006

Un

Telephone: +1.7165575000

Email: [email protected]

[autofive]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RANGE-ROVER-P ... 43b504d93e

 

muppet tries to sell a used gasket for more than a new one

[fotorabia]

Working on site for the Melbourne Cup..which makes Royal Ascot look like a donkey ride..and getting to drive this around..admittedly languidly delivering tables n chairs..whilst my supervisors hammer it...

[cobblers]

There's a half page advert in my local rag to inform people that if they have been shitting blood for three weeks that they should see a doctor

[DSdriver]

On a country walk we passed a house up a track where this was outside the garage:

IMG_4718 by DSdriver, on Flickr

Nice old beamer, where's the rear reg plate gone and what's that on the panel?

closer by DSdriver, on Flickr

[TimothyClaypole]

Pistonheads style logo so the cars probably being ruined to use as a "track slag" or some "Ring" car, surprised there's no Ring logo sticker.

[Guest]

Just won a working Rolleicord for £28.

[Pillock]

I'd imagine track or drift use, given the towing hook is also painted red to stick out.

There were some E36s drifting at Santa Pod last weekend, most of them sounded very poorly and looked to have been pulled out the scrappy (or headed there soon after the event). Mush amusement was had when someone in a Suzuki Cappuchino did way better than any of them, skill over power and slack-jawedness.

[vulgalour]

I now have a Ledbury Maestro on the drive and it's frikkin awesome.

[ashmicro]

I now have a Ledbury Maestro on the drive and it's frikkin awesome.

 

Ha! You got it! Excellent.

[vulgalour]

I've got proof and everything.

 

Was an excellent day of shite. Dad took the lead in his Bradford Taxi. We helped a chap with a new-ish Landrover that decided to eat a belt with its fan as it came into the service station by providing a torch, because we didn't have anything else of use to get him on his way. It was hilarious for some reason... I don't have a picture of that, so here's a picture of the mini shitefest at a service station somewhere.

[Station]

Is that a scrapyard special wing mirror? Is there any way to remove that yellow paint/tippex without destroying what's beneath?

[Lord Sterling]

R490RVJ seems rather familiar. Great pics by the way.

[cobblers]

Just after I passed my test in 2003 I spent like 3 weeks wages on a massive big amp for by mk2 fiesta. It packed up after not very long so I sent it back, they fixed it and it lasted about 2 weeks before packing up again. being about halfway into A level electronics I decided I'd try and fix it myself but obviously I didn't really know what I was doing and gave up on it soon after taking it apart. I assumed I'd thrown it out but I found it in the bottom of a box of stuff today and decided to have a go at it. It's absolutely flipping huge - about 70cm wide. Strangely for a 17 year old, I'd even put all the screws in a little bag and taped it to the PCB so all the parts are still there and everything.

 

 

Reflowed a few dry solder joints and it seems like it's fixed - I might change a couple of the MOSFETS on channels 5 and 6 because they look like they've been already changed once and not in matching pairs but I'm over the moon

 

I know most of you lot on here aren't into car audio, and I've not got a lot of use for it - I've got 4 or 5 better amps stacked in the garage that I'm not using and aren't worth selling, but it brings back happy memories of driving my 1.4S all over the place most nights for no reason other than I was 17 and things were a lot better back then in general.

[fotorabia]

Just won a working Rolleicord for £28.

 

jammy bastard

[vulgalour]

Is that a scrapyard special wing mirror? Is there any way to remove that yellow paint/tippex without destroying what's beneath?

White spirits, apparently. Steve marks a lot of his stuff like that so he knows what it's for. I kinda like it, I'm tempted to leave it there.

 

R490RVJ seems rather familiar. Great pics by the way.

Similar reg to one that appeared on the tellybox.

[eddyramrod]

I'm back! At least I think I am, but see my next posting in the Grumpy thread (nothing changes eh?). We are in Barrow, in our house, container has arrived with my two cars in and I'm using them, and I've even got a job! Nice to be able to come in with something positive after all this time.

[Albert Ross]

Good stuff.

[Lord Sterling]

Brilliant! Welcome back Eddy!

[sporty-shite]

Top news, Eddy. Good to have you back.