What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Richard]

When I was heading down the A90 today I saw a nice 70s Manta sitting above the cab of a transporter that was otherwise filled with amorphous modern blobs.

[willswitchengage]

[meggersdog]

My one thousandth post and it's in the reasons to be cheerful thread.yay.

GSF came up trumps on the correct balljoint for my Doblo.Now MOT'd and ready for sale.

[autofive]

read this on the daily record website tother day;

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/crime ... ur-1716726

 

and that was funny, but today

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scott ... er-1723545

 

and then i looked at his website

 

http://ourladyandsaviour.org.uk/

 

[Timewaster]

Have any of you ever watched the ITV quiz show The Chase?

 

Last night, my local had one of the chasers in to do a celebrity quiz night.

 

No wonder they call Mark Labbett "The Beast"

 

I'm 5'10" by the way. I never thought of myself as a short arse before!

[Albert Ross]

I bet nobody DARED spill his pint!

[vulgalour]

Probably makes a pint glass look dainty, just weld a handle onto a keg and have done with it for him.

[cobblers]

Some lad who must live nearby has recently got a mk2 fiesta, he's only a youngun. It's only a 1.1 but the sound of it is unmistakeable, plus he must have just discovered the ignition flick backfire trick, bless him!

I can hardly be annoyed, I was doing exactly the same when I was 17 ten years ago, but my mk2 fiesta was a 1.4s. I remember revving the balls off it and making it backfire when in the que to get out of college and ended up embedding the exhaust baffles in my mates front bumper, and made the revcounter stick at 7000rpm from that day on.

[eddyramrod]

Speaking of mk2 Fiestas... I've seen two of them on successive days (yesterday and today); one in maroon, the other navy blue. Both look like pretty tidy shells, and both claim to be 1.1.

 

It's coming to something when a mk2 Fiesta rates a comment in this thread! I feel old now!

[M'coli]

  cobblers said:

Some lad who must live nearby has recently got a mk2 fiesta, he's only a youngun. It's only a 1.1 but the sound of it is unmistakeable, plus he must have just discovered the ignition flick backfire trick, bless him!

I can hardly be annoyed, I was doing exactly the same when I was 17 ten years ago, but my mk2 fiesta was a 1.4s. I remember revving the balls off it and making it backfire when in the que to get out of college and ended up embedding the exhaust baffles in my mates front bumper, and made the revcounter stick at 7000rpm from that day on.

Love it! Still do the backfire trick in the Cavalier, especially on arseholes who deserve to shit themselves!

[vulgalour]

Car goes up! Car goes down! Car goes up! Car goes down!

 

The novelty still hasn't worn off.

[Negative Creep]

Place bets on how long it lasts before the angle grinder and matt black paint comes out?

[STUNO]

  volksangyl said:

Car goes up! Car goes down! Car goes up! Car goes down!

 

The novelty still hasn't worn off.

 

 

Volksangyl saves fuel by driving up and down instead of round and round

Loving the thread !!

[Spiny Norman]

Spent half an hour on the phone to BT this evening and just about HALVED my phone & broadband bills.

 

Always worth phoning these buggers up every year or so to make sure you're on the best deals. I got sick of seeing adverts on telly for broadband at nearly twice what I was paying every month so I phoned them up and threatened to go with Sky instead. Result being they've put me on a better deal than they give new punters, plus letting me keep a couple of features I was going to ditch to save a few quid for free.

 

Happy days.

[cobblers]

[Cavcraft]

Not big, clever or grown up but I've just smoked a 3.0 S Type Jag off at the lights. He wasn't expecting it I'd imagine so I handed him his arse in a plate in some style. By the time he'd twigged, nailed his car and tried to get past I reached my turn off and was laughing my bollocks off!

[Station]

In what car?

[Cavcraft]

306 diesel!

[vulgalour]

  cobblers said:

amusing picture

 

Should've gone to Spec...oh.

[dollywobbler]

  volksangyl said:

Car goes up! Car goes down! Car goes up! Car goes down!

 

The novelty still hasn't worn off.

 

I bought my first BX in 1998. The novelty never seems to wear off. A good 'test' of the system is to have the engine running, then open the tailgate and sit on the ledge. The car should then self-level.

[Guest]

  dollywobbler said:

  volksangyl said:

Car goes up! Car goes down! Car goes up! Car goes down!

 

The novelty still hasn't worn off.

 

I bought my first BX in 1998. The novelty never seems to wear off. A good 'test' of the system is to have the engine running, then open the tailgate and sit on the ledge. The car should then self-level.

 

My GS does that. Then the bootlid smacks you on the head. Dead tailgate ram.

 

I miss seeing that thing, I need to get my storage sorted.

[retrogeezer]

LOL...

[Guest]

Gyl -

 

WATANABE COLLECTION SERVICE is glad your car is functioning.

 

WATANABE COLLECTION SERVICE suggests binning off the Savas at the first opportunity [and setting them alight] then getting some Michelin Pilots on the cheap from Costco. WATANABE COLLECTION SERVICE has student discount which is useful because their prices are going up soon. WATANABE COLLECTION SERVICE remembers ploughing on verily during the one and only occasion the car achieved 60 mph. French car, Michelins.

 

WATANABE COLLECTION SERVICE also recommends new glow plugs. Yours are frigged.

 

WATANABE COLLECTION SERVICE can also confirm your car has neither a manual or automatic choke. It is a diesel.

[vulgalour]

I'm amazed that after using WATANABE COLLECTION SERVICE nobody died, not even a little bit.

[Guest]

  volksangyl said:

I'm amazed that after using WATANABE COLLECTION SERVICE nobody died, not even a little bit.

 

WATANABE COLLECTION SERVICE is no longer an eBay trading partner.

[dollywobbler]

I've upgraded my BlackBerry which cost zero pounds and it's hugely better. No longer is browsing the net like using teletext. So nice to peruse Autoshite on my phone at last.I know I should have a Nokia 3210 really but meh.

[Lacquer Peel]

Have they sorted Blackberries out yet? The ones I've used have been incredibly clunky.

[dollywobbler]

  Lacquer Peel said:

Have they sorted Blackberries out yet? The ones I've used have been incredibly clunky.

 

They're still a bit clunky, but I can live with that. It gives it a bit of character. I hate all-touch phones. I like a proper keyboard. One phonecall to Orange and I had a new phone and double my minutes and download limits. For no cost. I think I may have been paying too much for my contract! That said, I've used up two thirds of my monthly minutes in the past three days. Those extra minutes will come in handy. As Bob Hoskins said, "it's good to talk."

[eddyramrod]

There was a car following me on the way to work this morning. I suspected it might be workmate Rob, in his Mitsubishi (non-)Carisma 1.6. The other week he was behind me and complained when we got to work that I was driving like a grandad (which I am!). So this morning we came to the roundabout that precedes a nice sweeping open stretch, and as usual I trickled round it in third... and read his number plate in my mirror. It's Rob. Nothing else on the road (6am). So down another cog, boot into carpet, and I showed him what you get for your 2.0 16valves. I actually had to slow down to let him catch up.

 

54 in a few weeks. Nah, I'm still only 17 in my head!

[Negative Creep]

Less a grin, more of a WTF. For some reason, this appeared in my suggested items from ebay

 

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MR-BEAN-AND-P ... RTM1066542