What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

I don't care what you think of me, but I've just caught up with the Strictly Come Dancing Grand Final and I'm grinning like a loon. It was absolutely brilliant. I do hope it's Brucie's last though. He's simply shit.

 

Had a really nice Christmas with family and my wife is great - being one who hates the commercialisation of Christmas. No last-minute pressie shopping for me! That's not the only reason she's the woman for me...

 

Drove to Devon and back in the ever-capable BX and encountered absolutely zero traffic. Return journey was today with OMG RAYNE KAOS forecast. Didn't even rain once before we got to within an hour of home (which we just consider normal here in Wales).

 

Slightly miffed not to be included in that motoring writers collage, especially as the chap who wrote it bought my Saab 9000. Not bothered enough to stop me grinning like a loon though. Happy times.

[cort16]

I was at my Dad's for Christmas and he out trump'd my tales of rusty BL cars by telling me when he was young he spent 2 years of his life down a pit welding up hundreds of rusty Triumph Heralds that failed their mot's on rusted out crossmembers. He did so many of them he managed to half the time it took to do the job so became the goto guy in the borders for welding them up. He was welding heralds 7 days a week! Needless to say he didn't pass on any of his skills to me.

[Station]

http://huff.to/Ur6giC

 

Unfortunately he seems to revel in being and being called a c*nt. The Americans don't seem to know he was an even bigger and dangerous c*nt before he went over there to do whatever he did.

[ProgRocker]

ashmicro's signature video-thingy makes me grin. Is that Kim Kardashian? (I'm not up of Zelebrities - don't even know who won X Factor).

[vulgalour]

Got to drive the Princess today. Okay, it was only off and on the drive so that the Polo could go in the garage out of the rain so that I can get him ready for collection in the next few days. Even though there's a thin layer of garage dust on the Princess, and one of the wipers seems to have gone hard while the car has been in storage, and the interior is damp again from lack of use, it put a smile on my face to be back in the velourious driving seat. Getting into the car everything felt right and as it should be and even though I've not had chance to even look at the Princess for a while she still started on the first attempt without fuss or drama, just like always.

 

It's moments like this that remind me I did right keeping hold of the Princess and that it's the right car for me. Roll on some dry weather and some money so I can set to on the repairs properly and get her back on the road.

[autofive]

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[Wilko220]

Daily Telegraph reader letter of the year

 

[pompei]

^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^

 

That is fucking brilliant! Telegraph and not Viz?

[Wilko220]

I believe it's genuine Telegraph (although I did see it on the internet rather than in the paper so can't be 100% sure!)

[pompei]

That Chunky Mark fellow is a bit cross, isn't he?

[M'coli]

Ashmicro's current signature pic:

Now I know where the idea for the double-engine-speed balancer shaft came from!

 

Edited to correct poor grammar.

[Caffiend]

^ As a woman, can I just say "ow" (oh, and she is SO gonna regret that by the time she's 35)

 

Today, my brand shiny new Henry is making me grin*. It's the first vac cleaner I've ever had that I only have to plug in twice, once for upstairs, once for downstairs. It also picks stuff up off the carpet.

 

*I totally need to get a life.

[Cavcraft]

Matalan carpark: Some cock wangler in a Peugeot 3-0-something parks right next to me, opens his door (twice) on my car (as I'm sat in it) then walked off looking smug. Good for you Mr 2009 Car, I hope you liked the way I did the same but with far more force when you went into the shop.

[Lord Sterling]

Matalan carpark: Some cock wangler in a Peugeot 3-0-something parks right next to me, opens his door (twice) on my car (as I'm sat in it) then walked off looking smug. Good for you Mr 2009 Car, I hope you liked the way I did the same but with far more force when you went into the shop.

 

This happend to me in a carpark in Digbeth recently. Fella parked next to me was walking behind me with his girlfriend back toward the car, I unlock my car and he opens his door as I open mine (our drivers sides on are the same side as I'm back up and his car parked facing in) but he lets me open my door and get in (and I think he mumbled an apology or something) as he opens his door, it makes contact, twice with my car. The contact was only very light and it only touched the plastic bumper strip along my door, but thats not the point, just be careful and warey of people/objects around, why are people so stupid to realise this?

 

Oh, sorry, wrong thread.....

[dollywobbler]

^ As a woman, can I just say "ow" (oh, and she is SO gonna regret that by the time she's 35)

 

Today, my brand shiny new Henry is making me grin*. It's the first vac cleaner I've ever had that I only have to plug in twice, once for upstairs, once for downstairs. It also picks stuff up off the carpet.

 

*I totally need to get a life.

 

Hey, don't worry. We're in the Henry Fan Club too. Ours even saved my wife from serious injury when the ladder she was using to access the loft collapsed (Henry kindly jammed his hose under the ladder to cushion the fall). A Dyson would never have done that.

[M'coli]

IIRC Henrys are British made by a British company too.

[ashmicro]

Henry vacuum cleaners are for winners. We have one, and every time I used it at our old house it put a tidal wave in the carpet as you went along.

[TimothyClaypole]

I don't unplug mine as I have one upstairs and another downstairs.

 

 

(not that I'm posh or anything).

[Lord Sterling]

I'd love one these Henry hoover things, I've used them in various places of and so on but never had one of my own. Most of them are in the high double figures or low triple figures.

 

When I learn not to be such a tight git with my money I shall consider purchasing one.

[trigger]

We had a Henry for years and it was excellent but now I have a Miele Premium 5000 Cat & Dog and it pisses all over the Henry with it's built in spinning brush head thingy.

[Mr Lobster]

Vaccumshite - 'Your hoovering is our concern'

[ashmicro]

I have a Miele Premium 5000 Cat & Dog and it pisses.

 

Damn clever these Germans. They call it the Cat & Dog, and they made it piss, just like the real thing.

 

Good tip, Trig, I shall investigate further. Mutha-Ash is fed up hoovering up dog hairs and not catching them all, perhaps this is the answer.

[trigger]

Vaccumshite - 'Your hoovering is our concern'

 

[willswitchengage]

This is the patent for a "dog vacuum cleaner" registered in the 70s... fail

 

[vulgalour]

iPlayer is a place of hit and miss telly. Flubber was a waste of time, I can see why I avoided seeing it first time around. Flight of the Navigator is still awesome, I'm glad I enjoyed it just as much as a grown up as I did as a kid.

[Mr Lobster]

I friggin love iPlayer. I probably watch more tv on iplayer than on the actual telly.

[Cavcraft]

IIRC Henrys are British made by a British company too.

 

Sadly not, the twat that owns the company shifted (vacuum) production to Malaysia and shedded 800 jobs in the process. It's ok though because he said 'If it goes ahead this will be a blow to all those who have put in so much effort.'

So much effort in fact he just fucked them off

[cort16]

I recently got a dyson. There's no shitting way I'd spend 300 notes on a vacuum cleaner but there's a guy in Kilmarnock does refurbed ones with new motors and brushes and a 3 month warranty for £75. It looks very 2nd hand but it's mega at hoovering stuff up plus the nozzle bit comes out the body like a proton pack.

[vulgalour]

I still have my special edition DC01 Antarctica Solo Dyson vacuum which has got to be getting on a bit now. Really, it's amazing what people throw away because this thing was bought brand new for £15 from the local tip when my parents needed a handle for their then new DC01 (standard yellow and grey jobby). It needed the brand new carpet fluff cleaning out of it, a new belt and a vending machine coin removing from the pipe for it to work. It took all of half an hour to fix.

 

Since then, it's had maybe four belts, lost one wheel arch, had the front bumper repaired with gaffer tape, a replacement base plate when the original wore out from use, a replacement standard yellow/grey handle (about a fiver) when the original was snapped by someone being clumsy and wheels from a dead DC04 that cost me nothing when the original hubs broke on mine. It's still in regular use and it still works just as well as it did the day I bought it.

[Wilko220]

Never mind your newfangled Dysons, this is the Wilko hoover.

Introducing the Hitachi (Morris) 1100...

 

 

It's old.