What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Louise2cv]

Report yourself!

 

Seriously though I have seen a big increase in spam post that say something vague about checking this or that out and then following up with a comment: "oops forgot the link" including an obvs dodgy link and also seen a few people having their account duplicated by a scammer, might have happened to you?

[dollywobbler]

Yup. That can indeed happen. Don't just laugh it off.

 

Anyway, cricket is making me grin. Had a bloody lovely evening driving home with test match special on yesterday (long wave because the XM's aerial is shot. Shipping forecast FTW). Just caught up with today's highlights on Five. Truly excellent stuff. 

 

Also had a lovely time today with old friends, which makes up for having to do writing work at 7pm on Bank Holiday Monday. 

[fred]

Morrison's start knocking their fresh food down at 8.30pm. At 8.35pm unusually swoop in and get a couple of pasties (19p), a pie (19p), some sausage rolls (19p) and a free crusty rolls (5p/4-pk).

 

Living the dream. Fat, but not skint.

Always wondered when bargain time was at morrisons got 2 within a mile or so of me, know what Im doing tomorrow - Fat boy running for da pies!!

[fred]

Watched my elderly cat attempt to catch a fly today, took a running jump off the back of the sofa hit 4 feet in height then it went all wrong, faceplanting into the coffee table, missing said insect by a good country mile.

Got back up, stared at me in a 'You fucking laugh I'll yank your eyes out bastard' and tail up. swanned off into the kitchen, where I imagine he held his face and swore a lot

[Bobthebeard]

Report yourself!

Seriously though I have seen a big increase in spam post that say something vague about checking this or that out and then following up with a comment: "oops forgot the link" including an obvs dodgy link and also seen a few people having their account duplicated by a scammer, might have happened to you?

Possible I suppose, but not sure how I would know.... Only use Facebook for keeping in touch with a couple of old work colleagues so considering shutting down my account. They could always ring/text me of course. As I could them. Old school communication FTW.

[Inspector Morose]

Got a visit from my old pal, the black dog over the past few days. Although it's not a pleasurable experience, things are starting to make me grin again. This makes me grin.

[forddeliveryboy]

R4 LW is ace. Especially when TMS music starts totally unannounced in the middle of Woman's Hour. Even more so if it's right slap in the middle of a really serious bit. The batteries also go for much longer than if on FM.

[MrDuke]

Last week I was offloading an old cooker & printer at the local recycling centre (not a dump, oh no) when the lady behind me shoved a laptop in the skip. I assumed it must have been properly borked, but waited until she turned round and nabbed it anyway. Back in the car, hmm... 17" Toshiba Satellite, oldish spec but still dual-core, no cracks in the screen or keys missing... once home I duly threw £7 at eBay for a charger just in case. I still expected it to be terminally faulty, but figured I could plunder the RAM for my other lappy, and make a few pennies selling the rest for spares.

 

Charger arrived this morning - there is literally nothing whatsoever wrong with it. OK, it's running Vista, but even that's not running as slow as I'd expect it to. How something like this is considered skip-worthy I really cannot fathom. Once I've got it dual-booting into a skinny Linux distro, it'll easily be the fastest thing in the house.

 

Oh, and she was very lucky that it ended up with me rather than someone less scrupulous. Not only did she leave the HDD in place, there were enough documents and scans on there to facilitate a full-on identity theft with no effort at all. Not to mention about eleventy hundred baby & toddler photos. 

[OwdChina]

For the last couple of weeks I think we've had an escaped Mynah bird living in a tree in the back yard. The thing sits there most of the day twittering the most bizarre shit you ever heard.

[Skizzer]

For the last couple of weeks I think we've had an escaped Mynah bird living in a tree in the back yard. The thing sits there most of the day twittering the most bizarre shit you ever heard.

 

You sure it's not just a crow and next door's got Channel 4 on loud?

[scruff]

Been into town for some boring banking stuff this morning; then into work to load the lorry for the morrow - threw some broken pallets in the back for weekend firewood. Next a bomb round the villages flyposting putting up adverts for our local vintage rally; then a run out with the spaniels who got throughly wet and mucky in the streams. All in the good old Landy, I love it!

 

[gm]

Driving around in the mx5 with the roof down today, I stopped to let a mother and daughter cross at a zebra, the young girl looked at me so I smiled and waved - she stuck her tongue out at me ! Her mum wasn't impressed but I laughed

[OwdChina]

You sure it's not just a crow and next door's got Channel 4 on loud?

I'm pretty sure it's not a crow. Does it's best to imitate the other bird songs' then just starts making lots of weird noises and then about 30 mins ago it got all exited and started bawling "SHUT UP....SHUT UP" at the top of it's lungs........................ Next doors think they know who it belongs to.

[dome]

It's not often something on the internet surprises me but these two videos did when I first saw them. Second one is better and has some bonus chod but the first sets the scene. Aparently a feature film is being made along these lines.

 

 

 

Nor safe for work due to sweariness. And a spot of violence...

[MarvinsMom]

I'm pretty sure it's not a crow. Does it's best to imitate the other bird songs' then just starts making lots of weird noises and then about 30 mins ago it got all exited and started bawling "SHUT UP....SHUT UP" at the top of it's lungs........................ Next doors think they know who it belongs to.

 

,my parents best friends mother had one, when Whinn when to Australia it came and stopped with them and we as kids thought it was hilarious especially when it started swearing. been told to piss off by a bird as 12 years old was, and still would be hilariously funny.

 

the only way to shut it up was to put a towel over its cage!

 

on another point, been watching dr who repeats on telly earlier and it was shitest wet dream Austin 3 Litre, mark 1 Austin Maxi, Jaguar S-type... lovely.

 

it was "the terror of the Autons", not as scary as i remember, but i was only a nipper when i read the book.....

[MrDuke]

Apparently a feature film is being made along these lines.

 

The 'preview' of Hardcore is seriously impressive for a (presumably) amateur production. It's only near the end that it dawned on me that it was one continuous take.

[dave21478]

The Autoshite Espionage Department is making me grin today.

 

My sister is over for a visit and was telling me about "some guy" she knows who apparently knows all about me...cars owned, chod fixed, moans and grins etc.

 

Turns out a couple of the guys she works with are regular Shiters! - Small world!

 

You know who you are, guys!

[Ghosty]

It's not often something on the internet surprises me but these two videos did when I first saw them. Second one is better and has some bonus chod but the first sets the scene. Aparently a feature film is being made along these lines.

 

 

 

 

 

Nor safe for work due to sweariness. And a spot of violence...

 

In a similar vein...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Y1MalRrDc

[Jim Bergerac]

I was in Birmingham over the weekend and had to book a cab to get into the city centre. A P-Reg Carina E in that varicose veins color turned up! Then later on I spotted a N-Reg one in red also plated for hire. Guess they are less strict on licensing rules than other cities are.

[Stroller133]

The days when 95% of work emails were jokes, pictures, and prank calls....

I worked in an office about 12 years ago and remember a bloke called Dave. I honestly don't know what his real job was, but in my mind he must of been employed to distribute the joke e-mails.

[phil_lihp]

There's a small lane off a main road in town which leads to a couple of houses, one side of it has always had a sort of neglected flowerbed thing going on but I remember back when I was a kid that driving past this lane, one of the house owners was keeping a very tatty and rather dead-looking yellow Austin Metro in among the weeds.  It was joined later on by a red one and both of them sat decaying for a long time and eventually disappeared from sight.  The lane's recently been resurfaced and the plants have been chopped back.  A filthy old tarpaulin's been disturbed and I was amazed to see that the red Metro is only still there!  Mind you, doesn't look like there's much left of it.  I noticed the other day that there's another grimy tarp behind it hiding something and I bet the yellow one's mortal remains still lurk there.  They must have been there 20+ years now.  Probably a little bit beyond help by now.

[bub2006]

Currently the highest bidder on a car on ebay. Still unsure if it could be a grump though as well.

[andy18s]

Half 8,sun is out and time to dig out the toys.......

[Cavcraft]

Nearly home from an enjoyable bike ride, when I saw some old bat with two dogs (both off the lad) on a path near me. I was going very slowly anyhow, so rang the bell. 

She then decided to to stop right in the middle of the path with her hand in the air,and a very 'angry Daily Mail' reader look on her face. I pulled my earphones out and got a 'did you know cycles aren't allowed up here, there are signs at the end to tell you, blah blah, blah.' 

I didn't bother to apologise, I just said I hadn't seen the signs and rode off while she was still going on one and left her to her moaning.

Quarter of a mile on, there's the end of the path and there's a 'no cycling' sign. Fair enough, my fault. But underneath was it another sign: No dogs.

I waited for her to reach the end of the path and thanked her for letting me know about the sign and that she was right about the cycling, but also dogs weren't allowed. She went off on one big time, so I remarked on her double standards and wished her a nice walk. I couldn't hear properly, but I swear she told me to piss off!

[philibusmo]

I thought I had owned 14 cars in the past 5 years since I passed my driving test at the age of 17 and 11 months. It turns out, now that I have made a list, that I have actually owned 17 cars in that time, average engine size 2144CC and an average production date of 1990, two years before I was born.

 

1) 83 Ford Fiesta 1.1 Finesse

2) 81 Austin Maxi 1.75 2 HL

3) 92 Ford Sierra 2.0 DOHC GLX

4) 78 Toyota Cressida 2.0 Deluxe Auto

5) 89 Lancia Y10 1.3 GTIe

6) 90 Hyundai Pony Excel 1.3 Sonnet Tropicana

7) 98 Alfa Romeo 156 2.0 Twinspark

77 Rover 3500 SD1

9) 90 Ford Orion 1.4 GL

10) 97 Peugeot 106 1.5D Look2

11) 95 Vauxhall Frontera Sport 2.0

12) 96 Citroen XM 2.1TD Exclusive Auto

13) 89 BMW E30 325i 3 Door Auto

14) 89 Toyota Supra 3.0

15) 02 Renault Avantime 3.0 V6 Privilege

16) 81 Leyland Princess 2.0 HLS

17) 03 Ford Fairlane 4.0 Ghia

[Cavcraft]

I reckon if we all pooled together what we had owned between us over the years, Wuvvum would trump us from the last couple of months.

[EssDeeWon]

I thought I had owned 14 cars in the past 5 years since I passed my driving test at the age of 17 and 11 months. It turns out, now that I have made a list, that I have actually owned 17 cars in that time, average engine size 2144CC and an average production date of 1990, two years before I was born.

 

1) 83 Ford Fiesta 1.1 Finesse

2) 81 Austin Maxi 1.75 2 HL

3) 92 Ford Sierra 2.0 DOHC GLX

4) 78 Toyota Cressida 2.0 Deluxe Auto

5) 89 Lancia Y10 1.3 GTIe

6) 90 Hyundai Pony Excel 1.3 Sonnet Tropicana

7) 98 Alfa Romeo 156 2.0 Twinspark

77 Rover 3500 SD1

9) 90 Ford Orion 1.4 GL

10) 97 Peugeot 106 1.5D Look2

11) 95 Vauxhall Frontera Sport 2.0

12) 96 Citroen XM 2.1TD Exclusive Auto

13) 89 BMW E30 325i 3 Door Auto

14) 89 Toyota Supra 3.0

15) 02 Renault Avantime 3.0 V6 Privilege

16) 81 Leyland Princess 2.0 HLS

17) 03 Ford Fairlane 4.0 Ghia

 

Wasn't the SD1 a 1978 T reg? You need to recalculate m8

[EssDeeWon]

So so pleased these FIFA bribes are now officially highlighted and being given the attention it should of had for years now.

 

That Qatar world cup bid was so bent it made Alan Carr look straight!

[philibusmo]

Wasn't the SD1 a 1978 T reg? You need to recalculate m8

Shit you're right it was the SD1 that was a 78 and the Cressida was a 77. Whoops, still keeps the average the same though.

[plasticvandan]

Ill see if i can beat you.Cars owned since 2007 since passing my test aged 18

 

1957 Reliant Regal mk3

1974 Reliant Robin

1985 Reliant Rialto

1987 Citroen 2CV Bamboo

1972 Reliant Regal

1976 Reliant Kitten

1989 Reliant Robin

1968 Morris Minor

1985 Reliant Fox

1974 Reliant Robin van

1982 Austin Allegro

1959 Reliant Regal mk4 van

1966 Reliant Regal Supervan

1996 Mini Sprite

1977 Reliant Robin Jubilee

1978 Reliant Kitten DL

1984 Reliant Rialto Van

1988 Reliant Scimitar SS1

1973 Reliant Regal Supervan

1992 Mini Studio 2

1976 Reliant Kitten

1979 Reliant Robin

1994 Reliant Robin SLX

1984 Reliant Fox

1992 Reliant Robin LX

1998 Reliant Robin SLX

1984 Reliant Fox

1971 Reliant Regal

1967 Morris Minor

1978 Austin Allegro Estate

1987 Fiat 126

1986 Fiat Panda

1975 Reliant Kitten Estate

1988 VW Polo

1968 Bond 875

1970 Morris Minor

1980 Mini City

1982 Austin Metro VDP

1988 Reliant Rialto

1986 Reliant Rialto 2

1973 Reliant Rebel van

think thats it but i might remember more!