Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

Pross

Matthewfalle wrote:

watching the surgical team on C5 performing a kidney transplant. utter genius', amazing work.

#inawe

Wonder if the new kidney belonged to my friend who donated one of hers for a total stranger on Monday?

robert88

Rolf F wrote:

How exciting - according to the automated phone message I have just received an HMRC arrest warrant has just been issued in my name. It did invite me to press 1 to talk to my case officer but I think it would be more fun to wait for the HMRC police to bash the door in whilst I scream at them "You'll never take me alive!". I hope I have time for a cup of tea first though.

I don't get that. The first you normally hear about your arrest warrant is at 2 a.m. when they are already in the house to take you away. A cup of tea?? :roll:

Standards are obviously slipping.

Matthewfalle

Pross wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

watching the surgical team on C5 performing a kidney transplant. utter genius', amazing work.

#inawe

Wonder if the new kidney belonged to my friend who donated one of hers for a total stranger on Monday?

it was from the patient's father but bloody big props to your friend - thats an amazing thing to do. buy her some pork scratchings from us here.

rolf_f

Robert88 wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

How exciting - according to the automated phone message I have just received an HMRC arrest warrant has just been issued in my name. It did invite me to press 1 to talk to my case officer but I think it would be more fun to wait for the HMRC police to bash the door in whilst I scream at them "You'll never take me alive!". I hope I have time for a cup of tea first though.

I don't get that. The first you normally hear about your arrest warrant is at 2 a.m. when they are already in the house to take you away. A cup of tea?? :roll:

Standards are obviously slipping.

Well they haven't actually showed up yet which is disappointing; I've had several cups of tea since and I'm getting bored. I may have to leave a note on my door to let them know when I'm in.

Matthewfalle

We reckon they will be a very geeky and badly dreseed version of Hereford's CRW - they will turn up in badly fitting cheap suits, clip boards and red auditing pens at the ready.

i can hear them in Costa discussing it now: "Yeah, I was the second man in. You should have seen him when I said that that he hadn't filled put Section 2 (ii) (a) out correctly and he had signed outside the box on form 3. Yeah. I da man. Now wheres that buffet?"

"Yeh - he didn't know who he was messing with".

veronese68

Matthewfalle wrote:

Pross wrote:

Wonder if the new kidney belonged to my friend who donated one of hers for a total stranger on Monday?

... but bloody big props to your friend - thats an amazing thing to do. buy her some pork scratchings from us here.

Seconded. The fact that there are people like that in the world cheers me up, but should certainly not be considered trivial.

rolf_f

Veronese68 wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

Pross wrote:

Wonder if the new kidney belonged to my friend who donated one of hers for a total stranger on Monday?

... but bloody big props to your friend - thats an amazing thing to do. buy her some pork scratchings from us here.

Seconded. The fact that there are people like that in the world cheers me up, but should certainly not be considered trivial.

Indeed. All the more so when you think about it further. Eg aside from the 3d aspect, I'd always assumed that losing sight in one eye was probably not that debilitating in the long term - but now I think the real fear would be the risk of losing sight in the remaining eye. I'm just not generous enough to hand over my one and only spare of anything. And then you get the honours list rewarding people for giving some money to the Conservative party.

Pross

Veronese68 wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

Pross wrote:

Wonder if the new kidney belonged to my friend who donated one of hers for a total stranger on Monday?

... but bloody big props to your friend - thats an amazing thing to do. buy her some pork scratchings from us here.

Seconded. The fact that there are people like that in the world cheers me up, but should certainly not be considered trivial.

She's the sort of person who would assume anyone would do it. I think originally she got matched up to see if she could help a family member but when she found they weren't a match just went on the list anyway.

I'm like Rolf, I'd be too worried I might need the back up myself. Happy for anything to be taken when I no longer need it though.

ayjaycee

Matthewfalle wrote:

i also like the look on Maybot's face : "what is the new greeting these people are doing? I do not compute!"

Maybot? More like Billy Nomates in that picture.

rjsterry

rjsterry wrote:

Pross wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

This picture. Specifically the Dutch Prime Minister's fist bump.

You're just showing off that you recognise the Dutch PM.

May looks like me at any networking event I ever go to!

I'm annoyed that I didn't recognise the bald guy with the beard . Networking: ugh! <shudder>

It's the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel. I feel better now.

Stevo_666

rjsterry wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Pross wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

This picture. Specifically the Dutch Prime Minister's fist bump.

You're just showing off that you recognise the Dutch PM.

May looks like me at any networking event I ever go to!

I'm annoyed that I didn't recognise the bald guy with the beard . Networking: ugh! <shudder>

It's the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel. I feel better now.

That well known politician.

rjsterry

Stevo 666 wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Pross wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

This picture. Specifically the Dutch Prime Minister's fist bump.

You're just showing off that you recognise the Dutch PM.

May looks like me at any networking event I ever go to!

I'm annoyed that I didn't recognise the bald guy with the beard . Networking: ugh! <shudder>

It's the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel. I feel better now.

That well known politician.

Just need to find a Euro politics pub quiz.

rjsterry

Number two in the series. Perhaps this should be in the caption thread.

crumbschief

Haha look at us in our very own blue movie.

rjsterry

crumbschief wrote:

Haha look at us in our very own blue movie.

Apparently the joke was just that they had both been taking questions in their own parliaments wearing the same colour...

crumbschief

rjsterry wrote:

crumbschief wrote:

Haha look at us in our very own blue movie.

Apparently the joke was just that they had both been taking questions in their own parliaments wearing the same colour...

Makes sense as they are canny pair,but i do prefer fresh,i think this pic should be put in the eating out thread i mean who wouldn't want a go at these two.

An all you can eat bluffet

kingstongraham

One month to the start of the Giro.

Ben6899

rjsterry wrote:

Number two in the series. Perhaps this should be in the caption thread.

"Look what Coopster wrote!"

Ben6899

New bike day tomorrow.

kingstongraham

Ben6899 wrote:

New bike day tomorrow.

This thread is for trivial things only.

Ben6899

In the grand scheme of things...

rjsterry

Nicely Farage denigrating "career politicians" in his R4 interview this morning.

Wayne Plunger

The role of John Bachus in Inspected Gently.

"You were after a bit of how's your father"

crispybug2

I realise that I’m really late to the party on this but I’ve just watched the first four episodes of Fleabag, bloody hell that’s so f*cking funny!

crispybug2

The one legged guy who took part on Ninja Warrior this evening, fantastic viewing!

shortfall

Bulleit bourbon. Got it for 20 quid on offer and it's rather nice. Certainly a cut above the other bourbons I've tried up to press. Cheers.

cowsham

crispybug2 wrote:

The one legged guy who took part on Ninja Warrior this evening, fantastic viewing!

That's nothing there's a little guy at work who's belly sits out front further than he is tall -- when you see him from the side when he's standing he defies the Laws of moments ( When an object is balanced (in equilibrium) the sum of the clockwise moments is equal to the sum of the anticlockwise moments.) When he walks it's as challenging as tight rope walking across Niagara falls.

Lagrange

The Daily Mail. Improves my mind and gives breathtakingly unbiased commentary which makes the world a better place. The health section is like being at medical school. It is the most important newspaper on earth.

morstar

https://www.spacex.com/webcast

I think the maths and science involved in landing 3 tall narrow tubes upright from falling to earth at very high velocity is simply staggering.

However, given that the footage from the drone ship is lost at the critical moment, the third landing does seem rather like a bad magicians act. Doubtless, the conspiracy theorists will love that.

Amazing stuff.

Stevo_666

morstar wrote:

https://www.spacex.com/webcast

I think the maths and science involved in landing 3 tall narrow tubes upright from falling to earth at very high velocity is simply staggering.

However, given that the footage from the drone ship is lost at the critical moment, the third landing does seem rather like a bad magicians act. Doubtless, the conspiracy theorists will love that.

Amazing stuff.

I always thought that getting them up in a straight-ish line without crashing or veering off randomly was enough of a feat, never mind landing them again.