What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mr H Sceptre]

I went to see K*nt and the Gang at a boozer in Leicester last night. Great, puerile stuff...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LOm4_JFMc

[Minimad5]

Well done Jon That will show the tw*t !

[fotorabia]

A screenprint I bought off Auction work for $25 last year just sold at a fine art auction for $600 last night..result!Ive got 6 days on Glastonbury hanging out with my old Berlin crew I havent seen for 15 years.And been offered a months free rent food beer in Dublin by an old Berlin mate who went from crustie alkie punk to professor of literature.And generally happy as larry to get the F out of New Zealand until the $10pw storage on Viva No1 exceeds its value and i have to return.And a big thanks to Autoshite for keeping me informed and laughing in my lonely moments here in Desert Island Dickheads!Just two weeks to go..

[Angrydicky]

I went to see K*nt and the Gang at a boozer in Leicester last night. Great, puerile stuff...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LOm4_JFMc

Seen "him" (and his puppet) three times so far, got one of his CD's as well, he lives in Basildon :DGreat man.

[trigger]

I went to the Coventry Transport Museum today, what a fab place to visit!, there is something for everyone to see and It's all free! Sadly i'm now stuck in New Look waiting for the wife to try about 100 different tops on in exchange for letting me go!

[Mr H Sceptre]

I went to the Coventry Transport Museum today, what a fab place to visit!, there is something for everyone to see and It's all free! Sadly i'm now stuck in New Look waiting for the wife to try about 100 different tops on in exchange for letting me go!

There surely is nothing worse than shopping with the other half.

[seth]

Mr_Bo11ox vs shefflee

LOL, what a nosher!

SOrry, I realise its not helping sell your car but he picked the wrong guy....Also Mr Sceptre. Is that Bill Werbeniuk? Even if it isn't I've not had cause to think of him for about 20 years

[Mr H Sceptre]

Also Mr Sceptre. Is that Bill Werbeniuk? Even if it isn't I've not had cause to think of him for about 20 years

Yep, sure is. He's the only famous person I've ever met. He was withdrawing a load of cash from the Victoria Square branch of the Nat West bank in Worksop in the early 80's. He lived in a flat above Cooplands Bakers, for reference. Legend.

[Cavcraft]

Apparantly Beki Bondage/Vice Squad are playing in a local pub on Saturday night. That should be a right old laugh.

[Gompo]

He lived in a flat above Cooplands Bakers, for reference. Legend.

..In Worksop??

[Mr H Sceptre]

 

He lived in a flat above Cooplands Bakers, for reference. Legend.

..In Worksop??

Yep, in Worksop indeedio. I used to live on Carlton Road from 1979 - 1990 & my Dad used to bank at said Nat West, so, in the days prior to cash machines, I'd go to the bank with him in th school holidays.

 

Apparently 'Big Bill' had a flat above Cooplands, mainly for when he was playing at the World Championships at the Crucible in Sheffield, but used to stay there quite a lot of the year. He used to cruise round in a big American Winnibago as well, if my memory serves me right....

[mnde]

I was grinning a lot last night. I found out we have the "Renault TV" channel on Sky+, and caught a magnificent programme about the history of the Renault 5. Chock full of Michel Boue's concept drawings, snippets of old TV adverts for 5s and other models, footage of French Cup races (8s as well as 5s), Jean Ragnotti rallying the Turbo, pictures from the Renault collection in France. Fab.

 

Mark.

[Pete-M]

I've just spent the night learning Czech phrases.. it's been a laugh.

 

Gonna be using them over this weekend, so you can all grin at the fact that the old car interweb is going to be devoid of a certain sarky Scouse Git.

 

(Major W.T.Claim, doesn't count..)

 

I guess it's gonna be universal love for diesels, Vauxhalls, microcars and the Sherpa Coupé until June..

 

P.S. The Liverpool Pageant of Power the other night was rather good.

[Mr Lobster]

I was grinning a lot last night. I found out we have the "Renault TV" channel on Sky+, and caught a magnificent programme about the history of the Renault 5. Chock full of Michel Boue's concept drawings, snippets of old TV adverts for 5s and other models, footage of French Cup races (8s as well as 5s), Jean Ragnotti rallying the Turbo, pictures from the Renault collection in France. Fab.

 

Mark.

I stick this on occasionally and theres sometimes some good stuff on it. Guy from The Apprentice doing some sort of charity rally in an R4 is pretty good. the R5 thing you mention is nice and there some really good old archive films on there too.

[RedSparrow]

This long winded but bloody funny read...

 

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Mike_Golden

The fucking tool with the eBay Para gear. Didn't know you were an ARRSE'r too, Billy.

 

OMGZ!

Love the letter from 'Sir Jackson'!

[Cavcraft]

I went to the Coventry Transport Museum today, what a fab place to visit!, there is something for everyone to see and It's all free! Sadly i'm now stuck in New Look waiting for the wife to try about 100 different tops on in exchange for letting me go!

There surely is nothing worse than shopping with the other half.

Oh there is. It's shopping with the other half and a stroppy teenage daughter.

By the time you've been in the 15th shop for the 11th time you really have lost all will to live.

 

Ash: I'm not a member of that forum, it was posted as a link on another website. Couldn't believe how dense that kid is but bloody entertaining reading all the same!

[Mr H Sceptre]

Oh there is. It's shopping with the other half and a stroppy teenage daughter.

By the time you've been in the 15th shop for the 11th time you really have lost all will to live.

 

I can well believe that Billy!

[retrogeezer]

Out for a drive today and I hear 2 window cleaners shout ' hey, look at that old Escort'...

 

Made me laugh.

[Parky]

Installed BT Broadband to replace shite tesco setup tonight.

 

Its quicker, cheaper, and worked out of the box. I am the king of the web! MWAAAAH HA HA HA HA HA!!

[Cavcraft]

What problems did you have with Tesco please? I'm with them and the sodding internet keeps cutting out at random times.

[Parky]

Cavette, that was the problem I had. Plus when I took it out four years ago the deal was competitive but since then BT, Virgin et al offer much greater speeds for much lower costs. Tesco werent too bothered about me leaving, they basically admitted they couldnt compete and made no attempt to persuade me to stay.

 

It had been very reliable until the last few months, then it was a case of "cant go online, its Saturday afternoon and it wont be working as the network will be clogged"

 

I am wondering if they are bored with the whole broadband thing and want the business to recede so they can shut it down. Certainly no-one is going to buy their 1meg broadband for £17.99 a month when they can get 10 or 50 meg for less from elsewhere.

[Cavcraft]

Thanks Parky. They've been a bit hit/miss with connection sometimes but used to be very good with customer services.

[myglaren]

Installed BT Broadband to replace shite tesco setup tonight.

 

Its quicker, cheaper, and worked out of the box. I am the king of the web! MWAAAAH HA HA HA HA HA!!

I wish you well with it, my BT needed several calls to Sanjeev last week, after a lot of arsing about after it kept disconnecting itself all the time, including bollocksing up the Vision box.Eventually they sent an engineer round at, mostly, their convenience to change the face-plate on my main BT socket, seems ok again now.

Never had a problem with them. The only time I did call the guy was very good indeed and the fault was our internal phone network gone wonky.

 

Only 'problem' I have is the wiring in Washington is now >30 years old and not capable of more than 1Gig* so I can't have BT Vision until they lay new wires (or fibre, please let it be fibre!).

 

*It will struggle up to almost 2 on nights when all the neighbours are sleeping.

[trigger]

I use to be with Tesco dial up many moons ago, moved on to BT wifi home hub these days, in 4 years i've only had to call them once and that was only for some thing silly, i can't fault them personally.

 

My mum went with Talk Talk a month ago and has regreted since after spending over £10 on her mobile ringing them trying to get her phone back online again.

[Parky]

Been lucky with tech lately.

 

1)- Replaced 5 year old Motorola with Blackberry from Virgin

2)- Synchronised all my e-mail addresses to it in about a minute

3)- It also synchronises (mostly) with iTunes so I put in a bigger memory card and hey presto, an iPod!

4)- Unlimited internet access and gazillions of free texts

5)- Once the parental control was switched off, I could place bets on horses from the comfort of my desk.

 

Yes, music and betting, what technology is all about in my book. Just wish I hadnt bough the sodding "free" netbook at Christmas as the blackberry can basically do all the stuff I want. Oh and since upgrading the broadband, I can now watch iPlayer without it rebuffering every 30 seconds......

[Mr H Sceptre]

Currently lying in the garden listening to test Match Special in the sun.

 

I love summer, me.

 

[barrett]

Last week someone on here compiled a list of their top ten favourite songs, I've always been to scared to do this, but it got me thinking and I reckon i've nailed it. Subject to change, of course, but here it is..... I've even compiled and sequenced them into a little compilation tape for you lot, which you can download from here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/392540195/top_of_my_plops.rar.html

 

Brian Eno - The Big Ship (1974)

Alphataurus - La Mente Vola (1973)

Dilute - Apple (2001)

At the Drive-in - Heliotrope (1998)

Donald Byrd - The Loud Minority (1968)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Moody Liz (1968)

BlackBlack - Honey in Your Ears (2006)

The Fall - Totally Wired (1980)

The Modern Lovers - Hospital (1974-6)

Jonathan Fire*Eater - Inpatient Talent Show (1997)

 

I limited myself to one song per artist, otherwise it would all be Dilute/Beefheart based.... I reckon it's a pretty wide-ranging mix though. Please download it and let me know what you think guys & gals! (it's in .rar formant so you'll have to unzip it to play the songs - all mp3s so of varying quality/ volumes, sorry)

[Mr H Sceptre]

Last week someone on here compiled a list of their top ten favourite songs, I've always been to scared to do this, but it got me thinking and I reckon i've nailed it. Subject to change, of course, but here it is..... I've even compiled and sequenced them into a little compilation tape for you lot, which you can download from here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/392540195/top_of_my_plops.rar.html

 

Brian Eno - The Big Ship (1974)

Alphataurus - La Mente Vola (1973)

Dilute - Apple (2001)

At the Drive-in - Heliotrope (1998)

Donald Byrd - The Loud Minority (1968)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Moody Liz (1968)

BlackBlack - Honey in Your Ears (2006)

The Fall - Totally Wired (1980)

The Modern Lovers - Hospital (1974-6)

Jonathan Fire*Eater - Inpatient Talent Show (1997)

 

I limited myself to one song per artist, otherwise it would all be Dilute/Beefheart based.... I reckon it's a pretty wide-ranging mix though. Please download it and let me know what you think guys & gals! (it's in .rar formant so you'll have to unzip it to play the songs - all mp3s so of varying quality/ volumes, sorry)

My Top Ten, very much off the top of my head though:

 

The Byrds - Chestnut Mare

Flying Burrito Brothers - Tried So Hard

The Faces - Stay With Me

Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice

Captain Beefhart & His Magic Band - Sure Nuff & Yes I Do

The Fall - Bury Parts 1 & 3

Edwin Starr - Funky Music Sho' Nuff Turns Me On

Easton Clark - Bike No License

James Brown - Funky President

Kenny - I Could Be So Good For You (Minder theme tune)

 

This choice is liable to change at any given moment.

[Minimad5]

"I'm Totally Wired"

I can't stop laughing when i hear them lyrics

[boobydoo]

 

Brian Eno - The Big Ship (1974)

Alphataurus - La Mente Vola (1973)

Dilute - Apple (2001)

At the Drive-in - Heliotrope (1998)

Donald Byrd - The Loud Minority (1968)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Moody Liz (1968)

BlackBlack - Honey in Your Ears (2006)

The Fall - Totally Wired (1980)

The Modern Lovers - Hospital (1974-6)

Jonathan Fire*Eater - Inpatient Talent Show (1997)

 

 

OH DEAR, NOT ONLY DO I NOT KNOW THE SONGS, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF ANY OF THE ARTISTS EITHER.....

 

OR DID THE MODERN LOVERS DO SOMETHING WITH JONATHAN RICHMAN AT ONE STAGE...?