What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest]

Maybe it only does 8 mpg or something!

I bet its worth it though. Aint no-one going to expect it to move like it undoubtedly does.

I know someone with an Amazon in Wales with a full on race spec engine with as near as dammit 230 bhp on a pair of 48 Webers. And it looks like my car. It's a 2 litre bored out to 2.2 litres and given the full on Ellemann Jakobsen treatment.

 

At full chat he gets 4 MPG, and it idles like a machine gun stuck on autofire.

He has fun annoying the local Civic Type Rs with it.

[Guest]

Also, Drawn Together, The Movie : The Movie.

 

Crude satire involving jokes in extremely poor taste against Israel and a corn on the cob rocket powered by liquid shit are right up my street ATM.

[Minimad5]

liquid shit

I know where this is going

[Guest]

liquid shit

I know where this is going

Key line: 'Yeah, I'm gonna escape the fuck out of this shit!'

[Station]

Some things that amused me:

 

[Tayne]

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[garethj]

I'd want uprated suspension and brakes.

 

The police P6s seen in old movies tend to corner on the doorhandles.

 

If you think he's in trouble there, just wait until it stops understeering

[Station]

[pompei]

 

WURZLETASTIC! I challenge anyone not to smile at this! And pretty good guitar solo too!

[trigger]

Brilliant!, They are playing at the Ipswich beer festival later in the year, i will be going!

[Angrydicky]

Wurzels = Legends.

 

I'm happy tonight because I've just been to a classic car meet at a pub near Billericay this evening, there were some great cars there and I had great fun smoking out the occupants of the chavvy "Chelsea tractor" Range Rover that was tailgating me on the way home. I let my A35 idle at the traffic lights then when the lights changed...VROOM! (cue clouds and clouds of blue smoke)

 

They soon backed off

[M'coli]

I had great fun smoking out the occupants of the chavvy "Chelsea tractor" Range Rover that was tailgating me on the way home. I let my A35 idle at the traffic lights then when the lights changed...VROOM! (cue clouds and clouds of blue smoke)

 

They soon backed off

That is sooo much fun! I used to try to get BMW convertibles with the roof down!

[Mr H Sceptre]

Nice one. I occasioanlly try to burn off cars I hate in the Maxi (unsuccessully)

[mouseflakes]

[pompei]

Sadly missed...

 

Did you see the comment below from the person who didn't get it ?

[mouseflakes]

Perhaps they've just never been drunk enough to think an excuse like that is quite plausible?

[Cavcraft]

Mr Bickles news has made me happy. Obv. the car getting nicked and the tyre damage which occurred is a piddler, but the fact the car is now back is ace news I reckon.

[FredTransit]

Mr Bickles news has made me happy. Obv. the car getting nicked and the tyre damage which occurred is a piddler, but the fact the car is now back is ace news I reckon.

I was just about to say the same thing. And it's not often i post on this thread!

[trigger]

Working on "Britain's premier container port" i see many accident's and near misses all the time, Many of them involving the port's own employees.

 

We have lots of car's and vans running around the port to use (All Transit's and Focuses) and even though the speed limit is 20 mph most people just rag these van's into the ground.

 

The company are always moaning about the number of van's we destroy ( I heard each van cost £100k by the time we are finished with it) so today in a new safety campaign the management have parked this mafi with these two vans outside the entrance to our messroom.

 

The Connect was driven into by a very large forklift which lifts 40ft container, Not a light machine as you can guess.

 

And the Transit minibus is the van we use to get to our cranes, It happened one night when i was in, In fact i was supposed to be in it but i took the next van that followed in behind it out instead which was a blessing, The driver forgot to stop at one of the roadways and got side swiped by a 30 ton tug (A tug is like a lorry which moves the boxes to and from cranes around the port).

 

Two lads ended up in hospital, one with broken rips and he was sat behind the driver, who walked out without a mark.

 

 

 

 

The Transit engine has been removed by the workshops as a spare, we now have new shape Transit to distory, My mate has already hit one by trying to reverse out of the car park in 6th gear hitting the post in front.

 

 

[M'coli]

Nasty looking, Trig. Are the tugs the single-cabbed things that the driver's seat spins around in so they can go backwards as fast as forwards? (Seen them at Holyhead).

[trigger]

Nasty looking, Trig. Are the tugs the single-cabbed things that the driver's seat spins around in so they can go backwards as fast as forwards? (Seen them at Holyhead).

Yes though the one that hit that is what i used to drive and the sits don't spin, The one's with the spinning sits are Ro-Ro tugs used for loading Trailers on to a vessel.

 

This is the type that hit it, and yes that me from about 5 years ago.

 

[Cavcraft]

Anyone seen the latest new recruit on here?

[Minimad5]

Anyone seen the latest new recruit on here?

I gather that shall be Mr Penis Enlargement, who lives all the way in Japan.

Apparently an Engineer too

Hope he says hi

[Station]

 

[Guest]

Crikey - after a successful interview, I have been offered an 8-month secondment back in Wakefield doing some (fairly tedious to be fair) database gubbins. Not bad considering I turned up wearing a brown stripey tie and stinking of Brut.

 

Anyway, besides a mild pay increase, it means that I'll be back to being about 15 minutes drive from home to work, so I can go there in all sorts of toss and not worry so much about it breaking down.

 

In addition, the new office is the big place where all the important stuff happens - meaning it is absolutely packed with top-level "professional" birds in low-cut tops. Think I'll tax the Stanza and see if they fancy a bit of car-sharing.

[seth]

Congrats Hirst!

[Pete-M]

Not bad considering I turned up wearing a brown stripey tie and stinking of Brut.

 

Think I'll tax the Stanza and see if they fancy a bit of car-sharing.

Now that, is how to get a job. Well in. Brown suit? Cuban heels?

[Minimad5]

Congrats Hirst!

Can't say more than that

Ooh and tasteful attire, good work.

[chaseracer]

Stanza threads in 70s-tastic shite brown FTW

 

Good news, Hirst.

[ashmicro]

GR16 news, Hirst