What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Alan_Green]

He's actually Jack Torrance from The Shining:

[vulgalour]

Why is his forehead so big?  Where did his chin go?  What's wrong with his teeth?  What... is that his real voice?

 

These are all things I wonder when I see/hear Quimbly Windows.

[320touring]

Why is his forehead so big? Where did his chin go? What's wrong with his teeth? What... is that his real voice?

 

These are all things I wonder when I see/hear Quimbly Windows.

Its a fivehead.

 

Similar to (but not as good as the sixhead i sport)

[fordperv]

I popped out earlier as mrs fordperv wanted to get some flowers and compost to fill the hanging baskets, i pulled onto the carpark and we were transported to circa 2000 max power, i had a chuckle, i would love to say it'll be nice when it's finished but I'm not a liar

 

[dave21478]

I did a four hour drive in the Freelander, half of which was towing a couple of tons and it performed faultlessly. I have been worried about it the last few weeks, it just didnt feel right in a non-definable way. I know Solihull products come with a sense of impending doom as standard, but this was worse than normal. Seems fine though.

[loserone]

Last day at work for a doomed company today.  Took the pretzel in for another oil change at my trusted garage since I'll be working in Newcastle not Stockton from Monday, and was offered a 1.8 Rover 75 as I was leaving.  Didn't ask about mileage, but it looked like a comfortable place to be for £400 with 12 months test and a two year old cambelt.

 

PM me if you want more details; it's probably only 5 minutes from Vulgalour's haunts.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I popped out earlier as mrs fordperv wanted to get some flowers and compost to fill the hanging baskets, i pulled onto the carpark and we were transported to circa 2000 max power, i had a chuckle, i would love to say it'll be nice when it's finished but I'm not a liar

 

Thats fantastic! what a lot of effort to make it look as ridiculous as possible. Not so much a fanny magnet as `bits of plastic shite magnet`

 

Having said that, it would be interesting to see this in a museam in 40 years time along with boy racered cars from different eras

[Pillock]

I saw the eclipse. I didn't have proper glasses, but I was working and we had a massive box full of passive 3DTV glasses (just like you get in the cinema) so I put a couple of pairs on, and could look straight at it. Not blind, which is nice. It did look very funky.

[Mr Lobster]

I went outside at the relevant time to view the eclipse as well. Despite all the warnings I didn't pre-prepare a special viewing box or buy expensive glasses so I just looked at it briefly. Didn't get bad eye aids or anything so thats good. 

 

It was ok, can't say it was the highlight of my day or anything though.

[steve_earwig]

Don't worry, there'll be a full eclipse in 2090, I can hardly wait!

[fordperv]

Thats fantastic! what a lot of effort to make it look as ridiculous as possible. Not so much a fanny magnet as `bits of plastic shite magnet`

 

Having said that, it would be interesting to see this in a museam in 40 years time along with boy racered cars from different eras

Well we were talking about this, styles do the full circle and come back or people take styling cues from the past so I wonder if in 10 years time people will be doing this or something similar again, just look tsw venoms are now cool

[cros]

Quite a nice day even though we only got half a sun at first. I went to my local scrapyard vehicle recyclers, excellent for a day out.  Note S type on top of XJS in the Jaguar department. I don't tend to look to the right.

 

 

 I purchased an engine of the diesel persuasion which they kindly helped me to stuff in the back of my hatchback. I spotted two Morris Minor engines and a 300 tdi  already taken out, so I bought all three for collection next week when I'm not in so much trouble for all the shit I keep bringing home.

 

The afternoon was spent unloading the engine and setting it up in the laboratory for a test run- it was an unknown quantity having been a coal lorry that had been disused for as long as people have been not buying coal. Turbo had  got rain in it and timing pulleys rusty which was a bit worrying, but it fired up on the intravenous ribena drip and after a few seconds running in deference to the lack of cooling was declared to be thoroughly tested and ready for a transplant. Looking at the last pic (taken within seconds of first start) am impressed at the lack of smoke- seen much worse coming out of a new Vectra

[Louise2cv]

everyone is welcome to their opinions but you just took one line out of what I said.

 

From your logic though I can assume you are horrible. My ex next door neighbour was a horrible bitch, a woman who I worked with was a nasty mouth breather to name just two i have encountered. So can I now assume all women are horrible from these experiences??

 

Not trying to be funny with you or pick a fight but..... ah well........its too sunny out and I can`t be arsed.........

[cobblers]

The afternoon was spent unloading the engine

What's it out of? it looks nice.

[Louise2cv]

(Pressed reply before quoting oops!)

 

Well that isn't the same unless those are the only women you have ever met, or all the women you have met are nasty horrible bitches.

 

Like I said the only travellers I have had experience of, have left crap all over the road, demonstrating a disregard and disrespect that I don't like.

 

If/when I do encounter a nice one then I would have to rethink my views because then it would be comparible to your argument.

 

ETA: BTW I would be pleased to have my mind changed, its just so far I have never failed to be disappointed. Perhaps I should allow my judgement to be coloured by secondhand recounts of good experiences but I am afraid trying to say that they left rubbish because other people weren't accepting of their presence just didn't wash with me.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

Is there anything Quentin Wilson won't lend his name and face to?

[fred]

To be fair only experience Ive had with travellers was a couple of years ago, parked up on kids football pitch, within 24 hours all the man hole covers had disappeared, within 400 yards of locale. two shops were robbed,mass brawl in the local pub,  and yes two weeks later kids football pitch resembled a fecking huge dumping ground of shite. They moved a mile up the road and oddly enough similar shite occurred there

[fred]

Every time I see Quentin Wilson - this springs to mind

 

[Cavcraft]

The travellers who 'kindly' took over a car park, and their mates who moved onto an industrial estate, didn't do anything to help their stereotype. Being chased by a vicious small dog and having stones (and swear words) thrown at me by kids because I had the cheek to ride down the public road past their camp/s was a pleasure, just as what appeared to be 13/14 year old kids (girls and boys) driving Transit vans and brand new cars must have been lovely for them. 

The people who made a raft out of old wood, paddled it across the canal and then stole a load of diesel which they'd pumped into drums were obviously not from the same camp. No way. It was just coincidence.

[catsinthewelder]

There's a reason that the Ludlow pikeys are well behaved and tidy,  half of Sandpits estate is related to them.  I'm not sure why this town is 'home' to so many but I'm not complaining.

 

It's also why the catholic church here is as big as the C of E one.

[purplebargeken]

On the way home today, spied a mint, and I mean MINT..... metallic grey G reg Volvo 1.7GLE driven by a bloke maybe in his late 20's/early 30's. 

 

Not a giffer in sight! Excellent car.

[cros]

 

Is there anything Quentin Wilson won't lend his name and face to?

He endorses bottles of wonderstuff that you tip in a knacked engine to mend it. I must be the twat bothering with rebores and oversize pistons when that's all you need. Wait a minute, I have a full bladder, let's give it a go.

[dave21478]

[daily mail]

 

I used to work a job that involved dealing with travellers. I never, ever, ever once had a single good encounter with them. At best they would attempt to rip me off, and often I would be insulted and spat at, at worst I had the shit kicked out of me and my company van full of tools stolen. (Which the police did nothing about except give us an incident reference number for the insurance claim.)

 

In one case travellers arrived at a newly-built semi permanent site, built for them at great expense by the local authority. It was like a holiday campsite with washrooms, toilet block, common room, laundry room etc. They left two weeks later, having completely stripped every single thing of value out of the place, down to the plumbing and wiring. They had smashed up the brand new toilet block, instead deciding to shit on the floor of the common rooms.

 

There was outcry from the public. A traveller spokesperson suggested it was a one-off problem by a few bad apples.

The facility was rebuilt at further expense and within a month had been stripped out again and burnt to the ground.

 

 

A couple of miles away from my house there is a house under construction. Progress was slow on the house since it was a retired old boy doing the work himself. Travellers moved into the land next to it for a few days and when they left the house had been completely trashed. They had even stolen the tiles off the roof.

 

 

If every pikey died in a fire tomorrow, the world would not be a worse place.

 

[daily mail]

[fordperv]

I have encountered one good traveller and he lives in a lovely bungalow up the road from me, he runs a recovery business and sells cars, he's an honest lad who works hard, the rest I've encountered have been scummy bastards, i remember years ago when a group of travellers took camp on my work carpark, security didn't know what to do as he politely informed them that they couldn't be there so could they please leave, he got told to do one, so I asked people in work to park their cars in the next carpark and parked 2 of our vans on the only entrance/exit, before the end of shift one of them came politely asking if we would move the vans so they could leave, even though they were there for half a day the bloody mess they left was awful.

[purplebargeken]

Doing a little bit of work on Ben's VW Go! this morning, approached by a middle aged lady with a fecking huge Rottweiler. Fear? Me? Nah, not at all. One look at the dog with his (intact) tail wagging had me fawning over him like a daft sod. He was lovely and as soft as a brush. Beautiful dog. 

[fordperv]

Every large "scary" dog i have met has been exactly the same soft as a bloody brush

[Alan_Green]

One for the Scotch.  Pharmacy in Tottenham:

http://www.dobberpharmacy.co.uk/ 

[nigel bickle]

It's the little dogs that bite. Big dogs have nothing to prove.

 

Bigger the hound, softer the muppet!

[beko1987]

Put 3 fence panels up with a mate, tidied and improved the back gate and shed, then did a tip run.

 

 

Been a nice manly day

[fordperv]

The neighbours young grand son kicked his football and it came over our fence, i was under my mk1 sierra and I heard a little voice through the hedge at the side of my drive "excuse me please, i kicked my ball too hard and it's come over your side, can I have it back please" i popped it around and the little fella "thankyou very much" really made me smile that some kids are being bought up correctly and know good manners