What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

Well done LS, on all counts! Hopefully Lady S will be over a bit quicker now. Fingers crossed for you Mo. 

[fordperv]

Today I was headed to pick up some inner and outer archs that mrs fp bought from ebay up from the parcel force depot and on the A50 I saw a Citroën visa that I spotted a bit back pulling up when I left the barbers and I spoke to the driver for a bit but I didn't have my phone on me to take a picture, on the a50 we gave each other the thumbs up and a beep, mrs fp took a picture while I was driving

 

 

 

I drove the long way to the depot and pulled onto the carpark, guess what was parked there, yep the visa,

 

had a little chat to the driver again, he was picking up the foam he ordered to make cushions for his sherpa camper, what a winner he did say he's been meaning to sign up so fingers crossed

[jakebullet]

Got 2 quality M18 taps & dies for £2 each at the model engineering show today. Er rather sad that this is likely to be the highlight of the weekend.

[320touring]

This...

 

Hardly a winning team:)

[vulgalour]

Sorted out the paint thickness issue with the paint I got for the Renault.  Next to find out if I can still get flat paint with a brush because the roller isn't giving a satisfactory finish at all.  I have WAY too much green paint.

[trigger]

That Visa is proper nice!

[richardmorris]

  On 09/05/2015 at 14:41, Louise2cv said:

I think Plaid is probably hindered by the language thing. Possibly puts a lot of non-welsh speaking residents in Wales off. It shouldn't, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Leanne Wood learned Welsh, I think. Unfortunately a lot of Welsh language activists/campaigns are very negative and I think it gets lumped in with Plaid.

Teachers often switched to Welsh to talk to each other thinking that the children wouldn't understand. Also happens in shops- you walk in hearing English and the two people in the shop instantly switch to Welsh. Well a bore dar makes them shut up entirely. Presumably talking about their recent dogging experiences.

 

Early on in his career as a teacher ( during teacher training in bangor in 1961) my dad was told that he stood no chance of good prospects in Wales unless he spoke Welsh and joined the masons. He started training in Liverpool ( a35 in the Mersey tunnel broke down more than once) and spent the next 40 years teaching in the same school in Chester.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

  On 09/05/2015 at 14:41, Louise2cv said:

I think Plaid is probably hindered by the language thing. Possibly puts a lot of non-welsh speaking residents in Wales off. It shouldn't, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Leanne Wood learned Welsh, I think. Unfortunately a lot of Welsh language activists/campaigns are very negative and I think it gets lumped in with Plaid.

Although I haven't lived in Wales for 35 years I still think of Plaid as rabid psycho racists, probably from an evil teacher I had when I was 10, who would scream at me in Welsh how much he hated me as I was the only non Welsh speaker in the school.

I remember finding it hilarious when he got locked up for trying to blow up the TV transmitter in Aberystwyth, his name was Llewelyn,sadistic little troll's probably something in The Welsh Assembly now.

Because of him ,even when I could speak Welsh I pretended I couldn't all the way through school and have always thought of Plaid as a sort of Welsh BNP!

[jakebullet]

Woot, I has mostly finished welding up the bulkhead on the 88" landy. New door pillars, footwells done. Only remaining question is do I take the dash top out to find the top is rotten as hell above the flaps, or stick with ignorance is bliss?

[fred]

  On 09/05/2015 at 16:24, jakebullet said:

Got 2 quality M18 taps & dies for £2 each at the model engineering show today. Er rather sad that this is likely to be the highlight of the weekend.

Have to have a look in my old works tool box. not opened it since I was made redundo, chucked loads of taps drills, combi drills in there when I heard we were being fucked off. Will post up what Ive found when I find the key to the fecking thing

[Asimo]

My ex has just been ranting at me about cars. Seems she learned something from me!

 

A serial Golf buyer ('nearly news", every 5 years or so) she has furiously refused to buy another one because of electric handbrake / stop-start nonsense / unneccessary gimicks / too big / bad visibility etc. Says she is just going to have to keep her present one going as long as she wants to drive. 

[vulgalour]

We have screaming children both sides of our house, often loud enough to drown even quite loud music or video.  After a rotten night's sleep again the first really loud scream they started making this morning was interrupted by a louder scream from me.  Not only was this remarkably therapeutic, it was also met with complete and utter silence.

 

S'funny, sometimes you reach a point where you retaliate without even expecting yourself to do it and the results are not too horrible.

[MrDuke]

Remember to continue screaming throughout the evening, to make sure they fully understand.

[EssDeeWon]

Popped into the local Savers for some bits and bobs today and found a dusty boxed bottle of HAI KARATE for £2.49 !! So obviously I bought it.

 

I haven't seen this stuff since about 1989.

[Ghosty]

Last week I posted a photo of an 02 plate Discovery with collapsed (air?) suspension in the one picture thread.

The other day I saw it having FTP'd and blocking a junction half a mile from where I posted the photo...

 

I also spotted an H-reg 3 door Disco Tdi today, graphics and all!

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 10/05/2015 at 13:44, vulgalour said:

We have screaming children both sides of our house, often loud enough to drown even quite loud music or video.  After a rotten night's sleep again the first really loud scream they started making this morning was interrupted by a louder scream from me.  Not only was this remarkably therapeutic, it was also met with complete and utter silence.

 

S'funny, sometimes you reach a point where you retaliate without even expecting yourself to do it and the results are not too horrible.

i was waiting for the reference to finding a spider!

[vulgalour]

There are no animals that illicit screams of surprise from me, not even spiders.

[HillmanImp]

Think I have finished welding up the GT6. Couple more minor things to mend and I will book it in for an MOT and see how it gets on. 

[quicksilver]

  On 09/05/2015 at 19:29, richardmorris said:

Teachers often switched to Welsh to talk to each other thinking that the children wouldn't understand. Also happens in shops- you walk in hearing English and the two people in the shop instantly switch to Welsh. Well a bore dar makes them shut up entirely. Presumably talking about their recent dogging experiences.

 

Early on in his career as a teacher ( during teacher training in bangor in 1961) my dad was told that he stood no chance of good prospects in Wales unless he spoke Welsh and joined the masons. He started training in Liverpool ( a35 in the Mersey tunnel broke down more than once) and spent the next 40 years teaching in the same school in Chester.

Reminds me of a story my dad told of visiting a Welsh pub with a group of friends. The regulars were chatting away in English until my dad's group arrived, then switched into Welsh on realising they weren't natives. Unfortunately for them, they didn't know one of the group was a Welshman so he understood all the negative things they were saying about the English and proceeded to give them a bollocking in fluent Welsh about how English tourists benefited the area and their attitude was all wrong. They went very quiet after that.

[RobT]

Got a compliment at the pez station this afternoon. An old giffer at the pump in front pointed at the 75 and gave a thumbs up. He wandered over and said 'lovely car you have there young man'. Cheered me up that did. Gives me a warm feeling to think there's still some Rover lickers left out there amongst the general public.

[Inspector Morose]

 

[jakebullet]

I keep having some woman come back and buy more dice valve caps every month. She's just spent £96.19, so either there's one hell of a theft problem, or she's selling them on for vast profits.

[KruJoe]

Some of the bolts in my "bolts and bits" baking trays look like some of those, but I'm not sure they were designed that way.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

However hard Aldi drivers try, they've got a long way to go to wrest the mantle of The Ultimate Bellend's Machine from BMW.

http://www.carscoops.com/2015/04/crazy-road-rage-incident-in-london.html

 

Sorry don't know how to link video,you'll have to go through the site.

[Jon]

  On 09/05/2015 at 15:35, MarvinsMom said:

got the questionnaire from the emigration group in this mornings post for us to possibly emigrating to New Zealand. they seem to think we would have a reasonably good chance of getting work permits with my experience and education etc. plus the other half is really up for us going. there isn't much to hold us here (my folks, my house, some old cars and a cat) and we think this place is pretty much finished. 

 

dunno about the £95 quid that they want for going through with and processing our application, but there is no way we'd be able to do it ourselves.

 

they have a points system, but i would need to have a deffo job offer before we could go. 

 

but the thought of been able to go that has put a big ol' smile on both of our faces.

 

 

Do it! Feel free to send me a PM - I've lived in NZ since late 2010 (we arrived as permanent residents), so am eligible for citizenship at the end of the year, which I'm looking forward to. Really can't see why I'd move away from from here but perhaps that's because I live outside of Auckland - though I do have to work there, unfortunately! 

 

They even have the odd Austin Metro out here too.....

[The Moog]

After getting ridiculous quote from Kwikfit for brakes on civic (£250+) I picked up new pads and discs from local motor factors for £34.

 

Told missus moog who is now happy and can see the point of me playing cars. I shouldnt have too many arguments in future about fixing them* 

 

*optimism mode on 

[cms206]

Out at one of the coach dealers after eight failed attempts to source a door catch. Parts man has told me repeatedly that they have supplied the right part, and has now produced the parts book to show me that what he's ordered for us is entirely not the right part at all.

[purplebargeken]

Spent a couple of hours fettling the Amazon and tidying up the wiring in the engine bay. Productive!

[nacho man]

Seen this today.

 

Got some nice scrappy pen writing on the windscreen "flat battery"

 

 

Scrap it

[NorfolkNWeigh]

After changing the rear pads on my 530 I was pissed off to find there was still a message on the screen even after buying a new sensor.

Just discovered how to clear and reset all service messages just using the odo reset button. Result everything now looks like it's been done at a BMW dealer, I'll bullshit any prospective buyer that " There's no service book these days it's all online- look at the screen!"

Just need to find which button wipes 100,000 miles off.