What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[NorfolkNWeigh]

http://vauxpedianet.uk2sitebuilder.com

 

This site has made me grin today, it's like Xhams....I mean AROnline for Corsaviour.

I'm amazed I've never seen it before, I know all Vauxhalls are shit and everything but the amount of information could make even me want a 101 Victor or Mk1 Cavalier.

[fordperv]

i have just saved £20 on one of mrs fp's christmas presents with a 10% ebay code. i feel like a winner

[privatewire]

Christmas? Dont tell me that's coming up again...

[Cheggers]

Christmas? Dont tell me that's coming up again...

Christmas isn't* coming up again

[Sloth in a bowl]

please piss off the person who said this by taking a golly into work

 

 

 

Sad fact:

My brother in law was the owner of the worlds biggest golly memorabilia collection for a while.

His somewhat nuts Uncle collected everything that Robinsons produced with Golliwogs on them for decades including posters, badges, umbrellas down to last pack of golly branded marmalade off the production line.

When he died then my brother in law was the trustee of the estate and had to sell all this stuff to pay the debtors of his uncle's estate.

My sister was very glad that she got her garage and attic back when it was all over, though I suspect that not everything has yet gone (selling Golliwog tat not being an easy task).

I have however seen more golly memorabilia in purpose built display cases than is good for the sane mind.

[inconsistant]

The Detectororists.

 

Started watching it because a couple of you said it was good and you were spot on. Mrs and I have thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

Also Toast of London.

[Richard]

I'm looking forward to watching Toast on catch up. Matt Berry is a bit of a one trick pony but I like his one trick.

[philibusmo]

Today I handed in my letter of notice at work. My last day will be on December 18th, giving me just under a month to get my shit together before I head off to Australia. I cannot wait.

 

Work has got slowly more shit over the past 3 months and is pretty much unbearable right now for various reasons, but having an exit date to work towards feels like a big weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Now to just make the best of a bad lot for the next month and two weeks.

[RoadworkUK]

[Negative Creep]

Finally moved into my own place. No more sharing with druggies and thieves, now I'm renting a 1 bed house on the other side of Plymouth and massively relived about it. Downside is finances will be mega tight so no wasting it on cars any more

[Craig the Princess]

http://vauxpedianet.uk2sitebuilder.com

 

This site has made me grin today, it's like Xhams....I mean AROnline for Corsaviour.

I'm amazed I've never seen it before, I know all Vauxhalls are shit and everything but the amount of information could make even me want a 101 Victor or Mk1 Cavalier.

 

First page I looked at (on the Vauxhall Chevette) - http://vauxpedianet.uk2sitebuilder.com/vauxhall-t-car---chevette-launch-articles

 

:-D

[TimothyClaypole]

Emailed an Italian company about spares for a saw and they replied the next day, in Italian but no matter.

 

See how I get on.

 

The current version is £1300 mine was £40. 

[vulgalour]

Yesterday was my birthday, no presents, no cash, no cards.  I'm okay with that.  A few meaningful well-wishes and a 'phone call from my gran made me feel all warm and fuzzy.  I've also finally netted enough cash over the last two days from actual work I've actually done to clear some debt from the house move and the surrounding mess.

 

It feels like things are improving but I don't have the looming sense of impending doom that I've experienced over the past few years.  My mental and physical health are better and more stable than they've been in a very, very long time.  Oop Norf is treating me well and apparently suits me.

 

Most importantly though, the dog has finally stopped producing literally eye watering farts.

[KruJoe]

Phil, you don't by any chance have a lengthy stop-over in SE-Asia (KUL / SIN / BKK) on your way to Oz do you?

I'll be somewhere in Thailand then, I'd love to "show you the ropes" in The Land of Smiles, if you fancy dropping in.

[KruJoe]

Happy belated etc, Angyl, sounds like my sort of birthday.

I have also designed a lifestyle whereby I can completely opt out of that bloody xmas too. It's grand, I tell thee.

 

Oh, and this soon-to-be-veg-friendly baby Puglet has been won this evening (for a lodger at Chez_KJ as his first car). Yay, another excuse for more shite up here!

 

 

£275, tested 'til September next year, what's not to like?

[vulgalour]

Those wheel trims, that's what.  They spoil an otherwise perfectly sunny looking little trooper.  I have some better ones if you want them for the price of postage.

[fordperv]

Happy birthday for yesterday angyl

[KruJoe]

That's very kind Angyl... do you have a picture I can show our man Mike? It's his car, his call.

[daveb47]

An Australian man has been charged by police after parking a plane outside a pub while he went inside for a beer.
The 37-year-old had just bought the wingless Beechcraft two-seater and was on his way home when he decided to stop for a drink.
He taxied the light aircraft down the main street in Newman, Western Australia, and then parked it outside the Newman Hotel, leaving the engine running.
Police said he passed a breathalyser test, but was charged with endangering the life, health and safety of residents because the propeller was still spinning.

Local residents were amused to see the sight of a plane parked outside the well-known local hostelrie.
"On the way back through town... here's a plane parked outside the Purple Pub," Beau Woolcock told ABC radio.
"Even more special was seeing one of the local coppers poking his head in the door of the plane looking like he was asking for a licence."
A bar tender at the Newman Hotel said the man was a "local character" who entertained pub patrons by "playing dumb" when questioned by police.
But Newman police sergeant Mark McKenzie said: "Kids were coming home from school. It could have been very ugly.
"People think it was a bit of a laugh but it was very dangerous and we're not very happy with it."

[vulgalour]

Krujoe:  these are the jobbies, as seen on the ex-chompy Saxo.

 

 

 

no scuffs, no marks, apart from not being in a box any more they're practically brand new.  They're obviously not as good as original Pug trims, but they're better than the ones the turquoise Pug is currently sporting and I have no use for them now I shan't be inheriting a 106.

 

[Stanky]

 

Is that a Framley Examiner advert? The website and books are absolute genius IMHO

[dollywobbler]

I know that I should feel sorry for the poor folk in India who probably earn 2p a day from doing the hideous job of cold calling, but f*ck it. They've interrupted my afternoon, so I almost feel duty bound to argue with them. Actually, all I want is answers to questions like "why won't you take my number off your list?" and "who are you conducting this so-called survey for?" but it really does seem to nark them. If they're then going to get all ranty at me as if I'm the one wasting THEIR time, then I'm sorry, but I'm taking the cordless handset to the toilet with me. Oh, he's hung up.

 

This one was desperately trying to get me to hang up by being incredibly rude. I presume they're only allowed a certain amount of hangups per day. I really would like to meet the person who considers this acceptable employment and smack them in the face.

[Bobthebeard]

I know that I should feel sorry for the poor folk in India who probably earn 2p a day from doing the hideous job of cold calling, but f*ck it. They've interrupted my afternoon, so I almost feel duty bound to argue with them. Actually, all I want is answers to questions like "why won't you take my number off your list?" and "who are you conducting this so-called survey for?" but it really does seem to nark them. If they're then going to get all ranty at me as if I'm the one wasting THEIR time, then I'm sorry, but I'm taking the cordless handset to the toilet with me. Oh, he's hung up.

 

This one was desperately trying to get me to hang up by being incredibly rude. I presume they're only allowed a certain amount of hangups per day. I really would like to meet the person who considers this acceptable employment and smack them in the face.

I get between one and seven calls per day from an international number..... Whenever I answer it (rarely) they hang up on me! WTF is that all about? Annoying.

[dollywobbler]

Apparently, that's systems trying to work out the best time of day to call you - ie when does the phone get answered. The majority of our calls come through before 6pm for instance. 

[dave21478]

I get between one and seven calls per day from an international number..... Whenever I answer it (rarely) they hang up on me! WTF is that all about? Annoying.

 

Thats often an automated dialler that just mass dials numbers from their list. Those that pick up get connected to an available human, and if nobody is available in the call centre the call gets dumped.

[forddeliveryboy]

I've always found Indians great on the phone, if in India. They're helpful and direct -  there may be the odd exception but I haven't found them yet - and will usually talk about the weather there and what's going on in everyday life. Way better educated than any English person in a call-centre. Being rude to them just entrenches the view elsewhere in the world that England has become an unpleasant, short-tempered and ignorant nation since the loss of its Empire, whether that's the case or not.

 

Call centres elsewhere in the world I've found to be diabolical, worst I think was somewhere in the Philipinnes.

[Bobthebeard]

I joined the TPS service a few years ago, which stopped 90% of the marketing calls for a while, but now they are ramping up again. Seems that the callers have found a way round it.

[Noel Tidybeard]

i always liked the foreign accent when you rang orange and got thru to Peterlee

wye-eye man

[dollywobbler]

I've always found Indians great on the phone, if in India. They're helpful and direct -  there may be the odd exception but I haven't found them yet - and will usually talk about the weather there and what's going on in everyday life. Way better educated than any English person in a call-centre. Being rude to them just entrenches the view elsewhere in the world that England has become an unpleasant, short-tempered and ignorant nation since the loss of its Empire.

 

Call centres elsewhere in the world I've found to be diabolical, worst I think was somewhere in the Philipinnes.

 

You've had very different experiences to me then! I've had many arguments with Indian call centre workers, both when they harass me, and when I've needed to phone them (tech support). 

[Bobthebeard]

May be childish, but recent events made me laugh. Mrs B and I were staying at the Washington Holiday Inn near Newcastle. Some sort of event was on for hearing tests. Whilst we were stood waiting to check out, a bloke asked us if we were 'here for the hearing tests'. Mrs B said "sorry, what did you say?"

She genuinely didn't hear what he said, but was as mad as fook when I almost collapsed with the giggles.