What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Marshall]

No probs dude, I trust you were wafted home in trouble-free stylee?

Abso-bloody-lutely thanks chief. Remarkably quiet and smooth on a run, though I think the front pipe is blowing slightly now. That's not a complaint I hasten to add, it's probably because it's not been used much recently and I did eighty miles virtually non-stop.

Bit of elbow grease has seen it shining again now by the way Kes and got a couple of the minor scratches out...

 

Sunroof open, Radio 2 on, sun shining, clear roads=happy days

That looks really nice. I would like a burgundy metallic GLE with tan leather. My Dads mate had one back in the day.

[brammy777]

That Volvo looks fantastic, theres something about the saloons which makes them just so right looking. Good purchase!

Also, Lancia Prisma?!? Thats super rare.

[autofive]

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

 

Scimitar over 40 years of frightening small children

[meggersdog]

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

 

Scimitar over 40 years of frightening small children

 

That brings back memories although we only ever had manuals so "driving" my dad's car always got uncomfortable when he changed gear

[Mr Lobster]

Hurrah! We're not doomed I tell ye...

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8339647.stm

[Cavcraft]

Strangely helping my youngest doing her weekly paper round has me grin.

There's an absolutely mint Renner 19 in some fella's garage, a horrible (but strangely attractive) sort of orangey/red colour and it looks like the full mingebag spec too.

He seems to do that 'pensioner' thing in taking 827,219 goes at burning the clutch out putting it back into his garage and he covers it with a blanket.

[Lukas]

The lyrics of this song make me smile from the first time i heart it in the radio:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-9LoSqQ ... re=related

 

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[dollywobbler]

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

 

Scimitar over 40 years of frightening small children

 

That brings back memories although we only ever had manuals so "driving" my dad's car always got uncomfortable when he changed gear

Aye. I spent plenty of time 'driving' a family friend's Mk2 Cavalier around campsites. Still recall the first time I was allowed to use the footbrake. You don't have to push it that hard then... (ouch!)

[michiel]

[Milford Cubicle]

[pogweasel]

Michiel, that is very clevah!

[michiel]

Yep! I can't believe how many of those LOL-sites there are, most are shite but some are pretty good, like senorgif & historic lols:

 

http://senorgif.com/

 

http://historiclols.cheezburger.com/

[Lankytim]

I have a job interview in a couple of weeks at a local electronics firm. Apparently they have something called a "career ladder" whatever that is. Wish me luck.

 

C U L8R LORRIES.

[pogweasel]

"career ladder"

Career ladders can fuck off.

 

"If you chose to do X degree 15 years ago we could offer you an extra £5000 right now regardless, even if you are a demotivated, underconfident snivelling fucktard who knows nothing about the job"

 

Twats.

 

Oh and thx for advertising that job on "The Ladders" job site, which is a pay-per-view type affair for £50k-plus jobs, then disclosing at interview that you're not even offering two thirds of that.

 

Mega twats.

[Cavcraft]

I thought career ladders were like that of the good old Work Experience Schemes of the early eighties?

Basically they imply there 'might' be a better job for you if you work 387 hours a week and only get paid for 36.2, keep your nose clean and don't stab someone with a pencil.

 

Then in two years of having done all this and driven yourself almost completely over the edge, the great promotion is advertised.

 

And... the job is given to the drink machine cleaning company operative's daughter because her cat was once owned by the boss's mother-in-law and she plays golf and has massive tits.

[Pete-M]

I decided many, many years ago that any job application which states "Apply with CV" and doesn't have a phone number to call wasn't worth applying for.

 

I also refuse to work for any company which has either a "HR department" or anyone with a HR type title within 200 miles of me.

 

HR departments are staffed by imbeciles, so what chance have they got of knowing how other staff should behave?

[Lankytim]

Fingers crossed this job may be different. Its a small family firm and the wifes parents are good friends of one of the directors. Infact the wife and brother in law are godparents to the directors son and the father in law and I often go hillwalking with said director. Apparently hes keen to take me on as he thinks ill fit in well and theres vacancies throughout the company. Id prefer to end up in sales but will probably start in the warehouse, if I get the job that is!

 

A few years back the wife and I were babysitting the directors son. My old K reg granada scorpio (with bent MOT) caught fire on the drive thanks to a waterlogged fusebox. If that wasnt bad enough after id "fixed" the problem he had to push start the granada so the wife and I could drive home. Just as the engine caught he fell flat on his face in a puddle! He didnt see the funny side- at all... hopefully hes forgotten about that little incident.

[ashmicro]

20 years ago today I passed my driving test, in this:

 

 

 

[Cheggers]

Woohoo...I HAZ NEW JOB

 

Lots of travel, so lots of pics of shite from far flung corners of Europe & the Middle East.

 

No more schlapping into central London every day, new office 10 minutes from home

 

I feel a lunchtime pint or two coming on!!

[Minimad5]

Well Done Cheggers

 

Edit :

 

FINALLY !!! V5 form for the Rebel has arrived

 

Doesn't say "historic vehicle" , maybe no free road tax

[ashmicro]

MUSICAL SHITE!!!

 

I have recently recommissioned these to a working state after years of non use (Strat needs paint, mind):

 

 

And having just bought one of these:

 

 

Imagine my delight at finding this among my old stuff*:

 

 

It's the "guitar tablature" book for The Number of the Beast

 

 

The pencil writing is my own 16 year old hand. Chuffed to fuck!!

 

I'm grinning like an even bigger idiot than usual. As a consequence, Mrs Ash thinks I have finally flipped. Little does she know I have found my signed copy of "Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers" EP by a very young Motorhead, which is reputed to be worth a bag of sand. So she'll get a nice pressie when I sell it to compensate for her future loss of hearing.

[Marshall]

MUSICAL SHITE!!!

 

I have recently recommissioned these to a working state after years of non use (Strat needs paint, mind):

 

 

Whats that Les Paul type jobbie Ash? Looks interesting!

[ashmicro]

It is actually a Gibson, apparently only produced for one year (1977). I'll post a better pic of the effcts switches in a mo, but I half-broke the ON switch during a particularly energetic performance of "Seek and Destroy". It still works, but you have to be careful moving it. I am currently pursuing a new switch, but so far they appear to be made of pur gold unobtanium as it's a Di Marzio "3 and a half contact" switch

[ashmicro]

Here's a closeup

 

 

 

If everything is turned on and the WHIRLWIND is at 2/3, even using a bass or clear amp gives the same sound effect as Led Zeppelin's "Rock n Roll" How Autoshite is that?!?!

 

Fuzzbox FTW!

[Marshall]

That looks ace. I have never seen one before. WANT

[ChinaTom]

That LP looks fun, and the headstock on the Strat is a bit odd. Forget the paint man - road-worn is the look right now!

 

These made me grin when I finally got them back from whoever I'd lent them to:

 

GR8 for lower back problems.

I love that bloody thing

 

I'd love to hear what that LP sounds like with its switches and knobs - any chance of a Youtube demo?

[ashmicro]

OOOFFFF! Outdone I am!

 

The headstock on the Strat is the way it was bought for my 16th birthday, back in 1989. To be honest, I fucked about with it in my youth and probably didn't give it the rrrrrespect it deserves.

 

As far as a demo of the LP goes, I'll have to (a) wait for the valvestate to arrive, and more importantly ( get some practice in.

 

Love your pics.

[ashmicro]

I'd give my right bollock for cases like that. I can just imagine those in a mark 1, gold Ford Transit V6 with Judas Priest

[ChinaTom]

I would seriously hold onto that LP, it WILL become valuable. I remember lusting after one when I was younger. It is a Japanese made Kay, and these are developing quite a following now as many of today's (and indeed yesterday's) famous/popular/always on tele and in magazines guitarists started out playing Kay guitars. Keep it in good nick, (the wiring diagrams are available on-line with fixes for noise/buzz) and although it will never be silly money, I guarantee it'll be worth much much more than you paid for it.

 

My Twin-neck is not a Gibson either - it is a CSL, a Tokai copy exclusively imported to Charles Summerfield Ltd in Newcastle. Described as a "plank" by the chap that recently recommissioned it, it doesn't feel quite as good as a Gibson!

 

Somewhere I have the first leccy guitar I ever had - a Satellite. 3/4 scale. Pure Guitar-shite in the best possible way - the guitar equivalent of the Yugo Sana.

[ashmicro]

KAY - by George he's got it! Thank you Tom!! I will now have to have a lie down as I remember all the stuff from the early 90s. Fatha Ash (he of the S type R) was sure the Gibby was the fucked black one, and not the goldtop.

 

Tom=legend, many thanks. I forget most of that stuff

 

Yugo Sana FTMFW.