What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

I got a job.....

 

Yay, well done Edd!

[warren t claim]

Just found a 20 pack of Richmond Menthol in an old jacket. Price marked £3.99. Must be from about 2004!

 

Wish me luck, I'm going in!

[TimothyClaypole]

Decided to make use of it not raining for once to tackle the bit of driveway that used to slope up into my back garden so I can hopefully have a garage at last... someone must have got a discount at the concrete place, serious overkill. 

 

 

Managed to get the trolley jack under it and lifted the whole piece so it's marginally easier to break up.

 

On the plus side I smashed up a toilet and fish tank in the rubble skip at the tip with todays load, smashy smashy. 

 

 

[autofive]

Just found a 20 pack of Richmond Menthol in an old jacket. Price marked £3.99. Must be from about 2004!

 

Wish me luck, I'm going in!

 

I still have 3 lamberts in a box next to my monitor, but i gave up smoking last sep/oct so Im not smoking em.

 

 

anyone taking scottish cash should read this:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-22858068

[dollywobbler]

I was already aware of those machines in the programme but they were very well described and filmed.  I carried out some sensitve restoration, working my way though a chaps collection of mid 19th century French automata a few years ago. Cruder mechanisms than the writer but still very clever.

 

 

One of Harrison's longitude clocks was above the bench when Jonathan Betts from Greenwich was talking about screw making...

 

Yay! It's Seth on t'new forum! Glad you're still with us. I have to say, watching that programme I did immediately think of you and your watchworking. Incredible skills to work on stuff that's so small. Quite delightful to watch those mechanisms.

[trigger]

Good to see you posting on here again Seth.

 

This made me laugh, To be fair the OAP's in scooters are menace around here.

 

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/ipswich_driver_of_mobility_scooter_fails_to_stop_after_cyclist_is_knocked_into_river_1_2233214

 

A cyclist ended up in a river after being knocked off their bike during a collision with a mobility scooter in Ipswich.

Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward following the collision with the bike and red mobility scooter in Ranelagh Road at about 3pm on June 3.

The male cyclist sustained a cut to his back and pain to his torso.

The driver of the scooter, who failed to stop, is described as a woman, aged 70 to 80, with mousey-coloured hair.

Calls should be made to Pc David Wright from Ipswich on 101.

[trigger]

This is Suffolk, we are a little slow with things like 11 digit phone numbers.

[Spiny Norman]

Currently Watchdog on the Beeb has a nice story about expiring Diseasel BMWs...

Apparently OMGTimingchainfail.

[Alfamale]

Just got back from the Renishaw Hall car show where some quality chord was on show. Nothing styfly about it either, Mk4 cortina sat next to Porsches etc...

 

Trousers nearly exploded when i saw the Gorgeous Citroen SM and a stunning Alfa Guilietta. Saw a multi-coloured Austin Princess too which looked well too!

 

(Probably should have took photos...)

[Mr Lobster]

 Saw a multi-coloured Austin Princess too which looked well too!

 

(Probably should have took photos...)

 

That'll be Volksangyl of this parishes Princess. He posted on twitter he was off to that show (I think)

[cobblers]

I've gained the nickname "gypsy boy" at work for sniffing round the scrap corner, but this week I've ended up with a pair of perfectly good optima gel cell batteries (scrapped becuase they would only jump start 6 double deckers before needing charging  ), an LED bus destination board that I've already managed to make show rude words, and 6 feet of brand new pristine 6" thick wall stainless tube, of which I have the same in my ebay watch list for making a backbox out of (and it was looking like costing £60+)

 

When the gaffer is out I'm gonna have another sniff round the pile of batteries cos I've got a feeling a good percentage of them are perfectly fine, and there's a good few dozen to go at.

[michiel]

A response to a 1963 photo I posted on flickr of a similar Opel included this wonderful Olympia, apparently still in use - by a professor in automotive engineering!

 

The professor's ride by mompl, on Flickr

[trigger]

That Opel is amazing!

[Junkman]

That'll polish up quite nicely.

[Shep Shepherd]

Now, that's proper rat look

[Danblez]

Ooops wrong thread I am a spacktard.

[michiel]

Now, that's proper rat look

 

Nun, das ist richtige Ratte Blick...

[vulgalour]

Just got back from the Renishaw Hall car show where some quality chord was on show. Nothing styfly about it either, Mk4 cortina sat next to Porsches etc...

 

Trousers nearly exploded when i saw the Gorgeous Citroen SM and a stunning Alfa Guilietta. Saw a multi-coloured Austin Princess too which looked well too!

 

That was me (the Princess, that is)!  That SM had its bonnet up at one point but for some reason only one of my pictures came out as anything more recognisable than a shakey blur.  I've *just* finished organising all the pics into bite size selections so I'll be posting the best* bits up soon.

[autofive]

scimitar se6 arriving in the next 24 hours

[Cavcraft]

The amount of users on here at any given time seems to have quintupled in record time now, hats off to Dave for the new forum as it seems to be working wonders.

Also, coming home from work I whanged round the lanes as a shortcut to get in front of some mobile penile infection in a new shape Corsa, and very nearly 'did a Lenny*' but righted myself then pulled back onto the main road just ahead of old knob dollop in his Corsa.

 

 

*Crashed a veg oil burning PSA-mobile into the scenery.

[Pillock]

Talked Phones4U into giving me a new phone. Free HTC One, PLUS they paid off my £330 outstanding contract. PLUS they gave me £85. PLUS they took me down to a £26 contract, saving me £5 a month for two years, PLUS they gave me a case. I reckon I won that game.

 

I'll be back in a year to do it all again.

[155V6]

^{Took the MG for a long overdue MOT,I was expecting the usual failure for emissions & suspension parts but it only failed on a loose track control arm & non-working number plate light.Was feeling lazy,so I left it at the garage for them to fix,only cost a tenner on top of the test}  

[trigger]

I found a Honda Civic forum today so I made a post about the new car on there, a short while later I get a PM from a guy after my details for the UK register, I give him my email and mobile number and a few minutes later i get a phone call from him.

 

It seems that he's one of them anorak types that knows everything about the cars and keeps stock of parts for them, he's got the missing headrest and grill badge that I'm buying, and he then tells me that my cars much older than 1976 as it has "vents on the door pillars, round steering column cover with single stalk and the washer bag mounted on the nearside inner wing", all 1973-74 items?.

 

He seems to think that mine was either a showroom display car or a dealer parts car used for spares as spares were hard to come by when they first came out before getting rebuilt again with the new parts and registered at a later date.

 

I'm not sure how true this story is but he seems to think it's the oldest in the country and with the dealer fitted roof it's a pretty special car, annoying that it will be at least 3 weeks before I can collect it.

[michiel]

That is very cool. I love it even more now. You need these pants now:

 

Honda Civic 10 by Michiel V, on Flickr

 

Honda Civic 03 by Michiel V, on Flickr

[skattrd]

That sounds good Trigger, it may be worth trying to find the manufactured date as it may even be tax empt next year ... That is if the bloke knows what he's on about.

[trigger]

Once I collect it I'm going to get the vin plate decoded to find out the date, if it is tax exempt it would be a right result, it would be strange being a tax exempt on a P plate though?!

[RedSparrow]

I like the new range of smileys. I look forward to an opportunity to use this one:

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I hadn't noticed the smilies! Some of these will be very useful:

 

 upset by flying poop

 

  did not enjoy proclaimers concert

 

 John Howard Griffin

 

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

    'MOTHERFUCKERS'

[cort16]

This made me lol a bit http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2013/06/14/25-reasons-why-we-love-scotland/