What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[barmatt]

after the deal for the reliant went pete tong the other week making me a right grumpy bar steward, it looks like I may have sold 2 motors today and made a few quid profit giving me a reasonable amount of dosh for the next chod.

 

best start shopping

[hairnet]

just watching the start of speed with guy martin

 

what did le grice use to help him do 100mph on a bicycle

 

a bastos sd1 #eddyyafecker

 

ps anyone know where i can buy a 1:43 patrick snijers e30 bastos livery please

 

google snijers isle of man

[Station]

Good to see it back in action. Did you eventually sell the other Astra? I seem to remember it something like a V6 engine in it or something?

 

Yes, I sold that about three years ago to a young lad who promptly stoved it into the back of a bus the next day.

[Cavcraft]

The fact that Hairnet hasn't realised he's related to Toosavvy.

[hairnet]

arse

[phil_lihp]

Our dog has just 'done a Fenton' on me. Let him off the lead, he gave me a backwards glance then pegged it big time. The two families out walking seemed to find some fat middle aged bloke wheezing away in full pursuit quite amusing. I caught the little blighter after a couple of hundred yards as he'd stopped to smell something.

 

This is why when I walk dogs for the Trust I won't let them off the lead even when I want to, as they're often a bit wound up anyway and are an unknown quantity you just can't be sure they'll come back!  When on the beach with a particularly excitable mongrel who desperately wanted to go in the sea I had a couple of women come up to me to 'meet' the dog and suggest I let him off as he was so keen to go in.  Realised it probably looked like I was being a bit mean unless you knew why!

 

I'm wondering what would happen if hairnet, TooSavvy and af1 collaborated on a post.  

[Spiny Norman]

I'm wondering what would happen if hairnet, TooSavvy and af1 collaborated on a post.  

 

 

[dugong]

THE AGE OF AQUARIUS.

 

Channeled through an Ariston. In 4,096 colours. The hostages have been freed but the birds now sing backwards.

[PhilA]

Gave the daily a bit of a spin today out to town. It's been used to bimble to and from work, and as it never really gets to properly warm up on the journey, it gets driven gently, doesn't usually make it much over 1500 RPM.

 

Got onto an open stretch of back road and planted the pedal into the carpet.

 

5.3 litres of V8 opening up to 6000 RPM, leaving a fairly dense cloud of Italian tune-up behind, singing away up to 85 mph.

 

Continued to plod along at 55 thereafter, running merrily on 4* with that "feels like a Corsair" vibe.

 

Best thing yet, by the middle of January it'll be paid off

 

--Phil

 

 

* it's actually meant to

[jmsguzzi]

I'm wondering what would happen if hairnet, TooSavvy and af1 collaborated on a post.  

Something like this?

[Cavcraft]

I've just been offered a Rover 45 as a leveller for a very expensive road bike I have.

 

USP?

 

'This is my dads acr and last year he sprnt £800 getting the head gasket done which was the lotus gasket so it should never go again'

[Pillock]

Tell him you'll swap for a 1988 Raleigh Marauder with a bent wheel and no brakes.

[Cavcraft]

With an Eddie Merckx head (stock) gasket. 

[Station]

Cavette, whenever you walk your dog, keep treats in your pocket and give him/her one every 40 yards or so. It'll be a pain in the arse as the thing will constantly be looking up at your hand, but after a few walks the dog won't leave your side. If the dog gets away, when you get it back, give it something to eat, and they will never run away. Unless there's sheep or another dog, in which case it'll just run round and round in circles until it runs out of energy.

[eddyramrod]

I might try that with Memphis!

[spike60]

Cavette, whenever you walk your dog, keep treats in your pocket and give him/her one every 40 yards or so. It'll be a pain in the arse as the thing will constantly be looking up at your hand, but after a few walks the dog won't leave your side. If the dog gets away, when you get it back, give it something to eat, and they will never run away. Unless there's sheep or another dog, in which case it'll just run round and round in circles until it runs out of energy.

And if it doesn't work the dog'll be fat enough so you can catch him anyway?

[cms206]

"We've no Sprinters left, you'll need to take the Popemobile this afternoon. That OK?"

"Of course me horse!"


42k miles, four speed manual 'box, no power steering AND late registration madness all rolled into one!

[Cavcraft]

Cavette, whenever you walk your dog, keep treats in your pocket and give him/her one every 40 yards or so. It'll be a pain in the arse as the thing will constantly be looking up at your hand, but after a few walks the dog won't leave your side. If the dog gets away, when you get it back, give it something to eat, and they will never run away. Unless there's sheep or another dog, in which case it'll just run round and round in circles until it runs out of energy.

 

 

Oh aye, we tried that. He sort of half-arsedly went along with it, then got bored and spotted a couple of other dogs and ran off a bit more. I think he must have that night club mentality where you're throwing a bird some killer lines and doing ok, then you spot someone even fitter on the dance floor and just do one to them instead.

[Spiny Norman]

That bus-let thing is just pure win. It was windy up here today too, how did it do?

[cms206]

That bus-let thing is just pure win. It was windy up here today too, how did it do?

Errr... into the wind glacially, in crosswinds mostly sideways, and away from the wind I ran out of hearing at about 55mph. Nice and warm though despite that massive sliding cab door.

[brickwall]

Gave the daily a bit of a spin today out to town. It's been used to bimble to and from work, and as it never really gets to properly warm up on the journey, it gets driven gently, doesn't usually make it much over 1500 RPM.

 

Got onto an open stretch of back road and planted the pedal into the carpet.

 

5.3 litres of V8 opening up to 6000 RPM, leaving a fairly dense cloud of Italian tune-up behind, singing away up to 85 mph.

 

Continued to plod along at 55 thereafter, running merrily on 4* with that "feels like a Corsair" vibe.

 

Best thing yet, by the middle of January it'll be paid off

 

--Phil

 

 

* it's actually meant to

 

 

That made me feel good just reading it. Thanks

[Richard]

I scored a boxed and complete Tom Tom One for £5.99 in a charity shop today. It's one of the old chunky ones, like this one but with an even chunkier mount, but it seems to work just fine.

 

[DSdriver]

The woollarding thread has just entertained me enormously. If Mr Bo11 had a go would it be a bollard?

[brickwall]

I scored a broken NAvman on ebay for £6 including postage a while back. The guy said it only works plugged in.

So...purchased new battery and bingo.

[purplebargeken]

1/2 a whiskey tumbler of Baileys, some fishfingers and a couple of Co-Codamol certainly make for a warrrmmmmm fuzzzy feelinggggg. Yeah!!!!!!

 

It's really been a shit day.

[quicksilver]

"We've no Sprinters left, you'll need to take the Popemobile this afternoon. That OK?"

 

"Of course me horse!"

 

 

42k miles, four speed manual 'box, no power steering AND late registration madness all rolled into one!

 

What a strange beast - Busview gives no operator before 2004 so where on earth did it spend its early life and how old is it? Bodywork is by Chassis Developments apparently but it doesn't look like any of their other Transit bodies I've seen.

[cms206]

What a strange beast - Busview gives no operator before 2004 so where on earth did it spend its early life and how old is it? Bodywork is by Chassis Developments apparently but it doesn't look like any of their other Transit bodies I've seen.

 

It carries a Chassis Developments bodyplate dated September '89 but I suspect the chassis is older still - it's the only 4spd Mk3 I've encountered; it was registered and supplied new by Blythswood Motors in Glasgow where I used to work and the lassies in the office remembered it sitting in the showroom in the early '90s. I'll check the V5 but IIRC we're only the third registered keeper. I do know the 42k miles are genuine though so it's never been hard worked.

[hairnet]

 

phil_lihp, on 29 Dec 2013 - 11:41 PM, said:

I'm wondering what would happen if hairnet, TooSavvy and af1 collaborated on a post.

 

less entertainment futhermucker

 

 

[Lord Sterling]

hairnet, TooSavvy and af1 need their own thread. We need something entertaining, see if we can work out what is being said. Sort it out lads.

[quicksilver]

It carries a Chassis Developments bodyplate dated September '89 but I suspect the chassis is older still - it's the only 4spd Mk3 I've encountered; it was registered and supplied new by Blythswood Motors in Glasgow where I used to work and the lassies in the office remembered it sitting in the showroom in the early '90s. I'll check the V5 but IIRC we're only the third registered keeper. I do know the 42k miles are genuine though so it's never been hard worked.

Just remembered I have a document explaining Ford VINs (sad I know) and this one was apparently built in April 1987 so it's a pretty early Mk3 and sat around unbodied for over 2 years. The first known operator was way down in Cornwall which is odd for a Scottish registered bus now back in Scotland so the mystery deepens. Would be very interesting to see what's on the V5.