What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mr Lobster]

^ Watched Top Gear Africa challenge thing over the last two Sundays and despite the fact its very staged I still enjoyed it.

[eddyramrod]

That carpet place isn't Winder's, is it? If so, I have a story about that...

 

Nah, its Hemmingwayson Otley road. Its pretty epic.

 

Whats the story about Winders? Are they to be avoided?

 

Oh not at all, as far as I know! No, what it is... some members may know I'm refitting my kitchen with one I bought on the 'bay. From John Winder, founder of Winder's. It's a lovely kitchen, I reckon their room is at least twice the size of mine, plus they have a utility. So obviously I have excess units now! I've already sold some on FB and will be breaking down at least one of the others to provide parts I want for the new layout. We've been without cooking facilities for a week until tonight, as the microwave died hours after I took out the old kitchen! Which, incidentally, I also sold on FB. Anyone want an electric cooker?

[SambaS]

[Spiny Norman]

Wales have just won the Rugby Six Nations championship, doing it in style by thumping England 30-3.

[Richard]

This screenshot from The Shining.

 

[trigger]

^ Ha ha!

 

Just saw some new Sainsburys advert with David Beckman with what looked like a green Chrysler Sunbeam, I wonder if it's this one that was also in the New Tricks TV show?.

 

1979 Chrysler Sunbeam 1600 GLS by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Richard]

There was a different horse/train picture in A Clockwork Orange too. http://www.idyllopuspress.com/meanwhile ... of-trains/

[Mr_Bo11ox]

This screenshot from The Shining.

 

NO WAI!!!!! Brilliant spot!

[Rod/b]

I'm at a gig in a church and the bar only serves water or wine.

 

I'd be hoping the wine runs out to see if big J can repeat his previous party trick.

[autofive]

I'm at a gig in a church and the bar only serves water or wine.

 

I'd be hoping the wine runs out to see if big J can repeat his previous party trick.

 

sod the booze, just get me a big J to smoke

[ruffgeezer]

Spotted this on ebay local shite search, and it made me grin:

 

3 WOODEN CATS VERY LGE / LGE / AND MEDIUM GREAT FOR A FIRE PLACE...

 

Unfortunately we've only an electric fire or I'd have taken great pleasure in introducing them to it!

[vulgalour]

Locally, there's a Citroen that looks much like this one, only slightly tattier and daily-driver-y.

 

He drove past me as I was waiting to come out of a junction and gave me a great big grin, presumably on seeing the superb* condition of my showroom-fresh* BX estate. I felt so guilty I gave the car a wash today because it was nearly the same colour as his van after the run to Brooklands and back. Then the cat got accidentally shut in the car when I went in for a cuppa, but she didn't seem to care and was happy enough to curl up on the back seat. This post inspired by Bob Ross and his happy little trees because lately, I need to have some happy little trees type influence in my life.

[Ben_L]

I was in Ipswich once where one of those tin vans broke down in front of me, blocking the road... The woman driving it was appreciative of the push but said "It's a bit heavy"... I'd have hated to see what she'd have been like pushing a double buggy or something, as I've never pushed anything so light in my life!

 

Incidentally, when I got her out of the way to the side of the road, she asked me where the hazard warning switch was... I had absolutely no idea and couldn't see it anywhere so donated my Pound Shop warning triangle and went on my way!!!!!

[dollywobbler]

A 2CV that early wouldn't have hazard warning lights I don't think. Later ones had a completely unobvious twisty knob with an arrow on it. WOT R ERGUNOMICKS?

 

My grin comes from the train ride yesterday. Passing through Stockport, I glanced at an utterly dreary housing estate and spotted a semi-detached house with a Rover P6 graveyard in the front garden! Sadly no pictures as my camera was in my bag.

[ShiteRider]

My grin comes from leaving work at around dinner time and driving past Ewood park (Burnley-Blackburn game today)and having dozens of football fans going "wahay!" as the old cortina burbled past.

I got the feeling it was meant positively, and has cheered me no end.

[RedSparrow]

 

http://imgur.com/a/7shrP

[trigger]

Sold the Golf already to a guy who owns a Pug 305 Estate, Mk3 Cortina, a few Jags, a Moskvich 427 estate and a Bedford CA van! What a winner!

[skattrd]

[eddyramrod]

Well done Trig!

 

In other news... http://www.cumbriaclassiccoaches.co.uk/ecvg.shtm This looks very interesting!

[Spiny Norman]

 

I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but the start of the F1 season has chuffed me greatly, especially since vodka bar resident, serial shagger and general bon viveur Kimi Raikkonen scored a victory ahead of the other two that the TV had been bigging up....

[Cavcraft]

Sad really, but went to the council tip first thing this morning after dropping the bread knife off at work. The bloke at the tip is a right miserable twat, one of those that rips open bin bags and makes you remove that plastic pen to put in the recycling skip, or whatever.

Anyhow I got there dead early, and when he opened up he went into his cabin for a brew so I lobbed every single thing I had (wood, metal, bike tyres, hoovers, the works) into one skip and just as I had chucked the last thing in he came over. He started shouting about something so I just revved the knackers out of my car and left him a cloud of spent veg oil.

I'll go back in my other car next time and try and catch him out again.

[Albert Ross]

Ooooh, you rebel!

[michiel]

Finding old Isuzus in the wild makes me grin. Shame these were taken in 1966...

 

 

[cobblers]

Our local tip is the same, race as fast as you can to sling all the bags in "household waste" before the bloke starts picking through the fuckers. It helps if you have a mate to distract them asking dumbarse questions.

[cort16]

I went to out local tip yesteday and someone had flung a bed, 2 chairs and 2 mattresses into the rubbish bailer thing then sodded off before the guy at the tip saw. Them. The mattresses where bigger than the bailer. I bet that was going to cause much cheer when the tip guy spotted it.

[TimothyClaypole]

 

 

Guess they take notice eventually when you call them a bunch of lying crooks.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I don't mind the dump police too much. We need to recycle as much as possible, even if it is an inconvenience.

[dollywobbler]

I don't mind the dump police too much. We need to recycle as much as possible, even if it is an inconvenience.

 

Indeed. The workers are no doubt encouraged to stop folk just chucking everything into landfill. Which seems fair enough to me. The throwaway society does make me cringe.

 

I like our local tip. Raided the wood stash a while back. Completely filled the Maverick and the chap said "if you're taking that much, you'll have to pay." Ok, how much is this going to cost I thought. "£2!"

[Lord Sterling]

New job isn't as bad as I thought it was. Its a warehouse job but with lots of office-based auditing, we are currently sorting through old Hospital type files.

 

The place is clean, our team is small and we get 3 breaks, a lot less heavy lifting and pay is slightly better. I really hope I can get taken on. If not, I can at least add this to my CV as I've not done any official auditing.

[autofive]

 

I find this strangely funny