What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Angrydicky]

If you hate chavs this is very amusing, although at the same time it's depressing reading the comments as lots of Americans seem to think that's what all British people are like. The guy following the chav around is shooting round after round to give away his position, which is why he is so angry. Once the kid gets killed the other guy blows himself up with C4 so he can respawn next to him and continue winding him up. Warning, language is definitely NSFW.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msvZb3NspNc

[phil_lihp]

Youtube comments in general make me despair for the future of humanity.  Fortunately it's a very vocal minority.  He said hopefully.

 

I was astonished to find out that you could still buy a Bristol 603, first built in 1976, in 2009!  Very thinly disguised with a 1990s makeover and named the Blenheim 4 but still very obviously a 70s design inside and out.  Probably the reason they no longer make cars, perhaps they were hoping it would attain the same sort of following as the Morgan 4+2, seeing as that also presumably had to go through a period where it was just out of date and uncompetitive before it developed into something more unusual.  I remember seeing pictures of the 'new' Blenheim 2 in about 1993 and thinking it looked rather quirky and out of date back then, still wanted one though.

[Wilko220]

I think I've finally sold the LDV (on eBay).

 

For the duration of the listing I received loads of stupid questions and loads of stupid offers. Needless to say, none of the bids were from any of the people who I had wasted lots of my time responding to with answers.

[beko1987]

Sat here on £15/hour overtime waiting for developers to slowly fix stuff!

 

Just had some Pizza that I didnt pay for too, and the internets superfast now there's only 5 of us in the building!

[Ghosty]

Gone on Street View to my aunt's old flat, and her Ford Fiesta has been replaced with a skip

[jakebullet]

Woo! Anti static shite strip on a modern. Disabled bay of course.

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Youtube comments in general make me despair for the future of humanity.  Fortunately it's a very vocal minority.  He said hopefully.

 

No, they're great! Have a game of Guess What The Video Was From The Comment

 

"you expect me to believe that you saw maggots coming out of your friend's dad's brains? What, were you in the autopsy theater?"

"My friend's uncle was the doctor who did the autopsy. So, yes. I was there."

 

 

PHILIPS AIR FRYER BEST STEAK IN 10 minutes

 

[Pillock]

Disregarding the maggot comments for just a second, I can't tell if that video is a fantastic parody or just the product of someone who isn't in control of all of their brain any more. It's bizarre.

[TimothyClaypole]

This made me lol, rofl and finally weep tears of joy:

 

 

I put this on the wall at work today while testing a projector, looks better when it's 10 foot across. 

 

There was a productivity drop for 3 minutes....

[DVee8]

Listening to the radio on the way home last night.

Colin Baker once DR WHO has put his W reg180k SAAB cabby on sale on twitter for offers he has said that it is not bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. 

[Hertz]

[purplebargeken]

Just listened to 'Wiil You' by Hazel  O'Connor. Still sends shivers down my spine even after all these years. Wow. 

[dollywobbler]

On Saturday, I will be driving to a wedding. In a rear-engined Skoda. With another rear-engined Skoda (belonging to Minolman of this parish). Following a brand new Skoda Superb. I deem this most grin-worthy. I also congratulate my friends on their excellent choice of wedding wheels. And on getting married. Really hope the weather improves...

[fordperv]

looking through old memory cards on my rainy day off work, at pictures of my dog that id forgot id taken and being filled full of happy memories 

[Spiny Norman]

Surprisingly, in all the years I've been driving and all the cars I've owned, I've never owned an estate car until a couple of weeks ago when I bought my old Volvo 240.
Co-incidentally, I can't remember ever having the need to shift a new washing machine, cooker and an armchair within the space of a week.
Karma works in mysterious ways.

[twosmoke300]

On Saturday, I will be driving to a wedding. In a rear-engined Skoda. With another rear-engined Skoda (belonging to Minolman of this parish). Following a brand new Skoda Superb. I deem this most grin-worthy. I also congratulate my friends on their excellent choice of wedding wheels. And on getting married. Really hope the weather improves...

 

I used to have an 87 130 skoda and would love another but I think I have missed the boat to find a cheap one .

Down in Cornwall loads were used as trials cars when beetles went up in price.

[dollywobbler]

I bought a 105Lux for £150 in 1998. With tax and test. The starter ring gear was worn, so it frequently needed bump starting. I hadn't got a clue what I was doing then though, so unable to pull the engine out to repair it, I ended up scrapping it (Copes of Earlswood) a few months later for £30. As you say, prices are a bit higher these days! I'm also worried that I've missed the boat. That said, I do know of another 105 for sale at the moment for £800 - or even less without some unsightly alloys.

[TimothyClaypole]

The weather is shit but as a plus it's bringing off some more of the old render on the house that I couldn't reach with my little ladders in the "summer".

 

Much easier to sweep it up and shovel it into a rubble sack than hack it off the wall. 

[andy18s]

Surprisingly, in all the years I've been driving and all the cars I've owned, I've never owned an estate car until a couple of weeks ago when I bought my old Volvo 240.

Co-incidentally, I can't remember ever having the need to shift a new washing machine, cooker and an armchair within the space of a week.

Karma works in mysterious ways.

 

Tell me about it!

Within a week of buying my Iveco Daily,the number of "family" who suddenly needed a sofa/fridge/freezer picked up or moved was unreal!

[Ratdat]

I bought some Tomica LV models through eBay from a seller in Japan this morning. Within 25 minutes of ordering he had emailed me thanking me for my purchase and giving me details of the shipping times, with tracking info AND even sent me some pictures of how they were packed and pictures of the box and all the shipping labels and paperwork! Now THAT'S service! It's feels like I have slipped into some kind of parallel universe where eBay actually works how it should and isn't populated by mongs.

 

The second good thing today is that within the next couple of hours Pony pickup No.2 will be arriving at Ratdat acres. 

[Junkman]

Please reveal the seller ID.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Bought a Haynes manual for the Rover, this note was inside:

 

 

"I can't turn the map light off in my Rolls Royce" is a hell of a first world problem. 

[Junkman]

Have one of your servants adjust the mirrors, while you wait in the club until he is done, too.

[castros_bro]

Ye gods conspired,   Unions wanted us on a 2 hour strike, email from Oz offering a free van in Reading where it's stood for 2 year, ZX diesel donated its goood charged battery. Hacksawed the ludicrously stupidly corroded Renault battery connectors off, crowbarred the duff battery from its corroded clamp, cleaned all the connections then bodged on new battery clamps with long bolts, tied the ZX batt in with rope, checked engine treacle and rad piss. Foot down and turned key, 2 seconds then fog generation clattery racket T900 lives again. And back to work wetter and dirtier and happier. Result.

 

 

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Have one of your servants adjust the mirrors, while you wait in the club until he is done, too.

 

I wonder if you couldn't adjust your mirrors in less time that it takes to type the words "mirrors - adjust". I shall try it out if I have any spare mirrors among my souvenirs. 

[MrDuke]

Removing and cleaning the Renault 6's expansion bottle, and discovering that it's actually so attractive that it wouldn't look out of place on the kitchen dresser, filled with pot-pourri or multi-coloured pasta. And to think, it spends its life under a bonnet getting coated with oil and grease outside, and rust stains inside.

 

 

EDIT: I may actually replace it with a plastic tank, and remount it elsewhere in the engine bay, full of multi-coloured pasta. It just seems 'right' somehow, almost like a happy compromise between form and function.

[Ratdat]

Please reveal the seller ID.

 

It was patocar-com.

[MrDuke]

Deleted Tinker Tailor scene, from 1:10: "Who is that old f**ker?"

[Station]

Just listened to 'Wiil You' by Hazel  O'Connor. Still sends shivers down my spine even after all these years. Wow. 

 

[retrogeezer]