Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • surfercyclist
    surfercyclist Posts: 894
    Pinno wrote:
    I get bats flying around the front lights of a summer evening. They're good company.

    We have a colony of bats in one of the dormer windows on the house. They access in/out under a fascia board. Anyway, nice to see them flying around at dusk. Last year one of our cats though got on window ledge and killed about 6 of them which didn't please me at all. We're now very careful to ensure windows shut in the evening so they can't get out. They do though sit inside window watching patiently....
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Being in a terribly low mood and all of a sudden the fug lifting and a bit of positivity washing over.

    For the annoy thread: not being able to put my finger on what helped to lift the fug. I suppose if I knew that, then this post wouldn't need to exist!
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    PBlakeney wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    orraloon wrote:
    Getting close passed...

    ...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.
    Had that happen once with a pheasant.
    Not so pleasant. :wink:

    The pheasant did well to get up that high.
    It managed to maintain an elevation of 5 feet (or whatever my head height is on a bike) until it had the sense to go to the verge. As an addition, Seeing a peacock fly surprised me, but that was more a controlled slow fall.

    Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    Cowsham wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    orraloon wrote:
    Getting close passed...

    ...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.
    Had that happen once with a pheasant.
    Not so pleasant. :wink:

    The pheasant did well to get up that high.
    It managed to maintain an elevation of 5 feet (or whatever my head height is on a bike) until it had the sense to go to the verge. As an addition, Seeing a peacock fly surprised me, but that was more a controlled slow fall.

    Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.

    Brake/wheel failure apparently.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    The sun finally coming out just before all my family and in-laws come over for a bit of a party meaning we can get out in the garden.
  • Bucksspeedyboy
    Bucksspeedyboy Posts: 59
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    I get bats flying around the front lights of a summer evening. They're good company.

    We have a colony of bats in one of the dormer windows on the house. They access in/out under a fascia board. Anyway, nice to see them flying around at dusk. Last year one of our cats though got on window ledge and killed about 6 of them which didn't please me at all. We're now very careful to ensure windows shut in the evening so they can't get out. They do though sit inside window watching patiently....

    Reminds me of when I was a teenager many years ago I was cycling at dusk up a lane in our village. The lane had high hedges either side and a bat was flying about in front of me, presumably its inbuilt radar was picking up on the hedges. Suddenly it flew back at me and collided with my face. Luckily neither of us was any the worse for the encounter, unless it was a vampire bat and I’d had a lucky escape :D
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Pinno wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    orraloon wrote:
    Getting close passed...

    ...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.
    Had that happen once with a pheasant.
    Not so pleasant. :wink:

    The pheasant did well to get up that high.
    It managed to maintain an elevation of 5 feet (or whatever my head height is on a bike) until it had the sense to go to the verge. As an addition, Seeing a peacock fly surprised me, but that was more a controlled slow fall.

    Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.

    Brake/wheel failure apparently.

    Nope
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Cowsham wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    orraloon wrote:
    Getting close passed...

    ...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.
    Had that happen once with a pheasant.
    Not so pleasant. :wink:

    The pheasant did well to get up that high.
    It managed to maintain an elevation of 5 feet (or whatever my head height is on a bike) until it had the sense to go to the verge. As an addition, Seeing a peacock fly surprised me, but that was more a controlled slow fall.

    Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.
    Sad. But don't get the connection.
    Nothing mentioned in any Google reports.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    WVN passing me on a blind corner at the exact moment I went over a stone.
    Stone dings bodywork. Definitely trivial, definitely cheered me up. #instantkarma
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    Cowsham wrote:
    Nope

    Well come on then, you obviously have some information.

    Why 'poor'? That TT has taken 147 lives. A competitor does it knowing that it is very dangerous.
    255 deaths if you count all other competitions on the TT course.
    255 deaths in just over 100 editions.
    It's crazy given the amount of street furniture and lack of any run off.

    Fair play and hats off to anyone who does it but we can hardly label them as 'poor'.
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    orraloon wrote:
    Getting close passed...

    ...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.
    Had that happen once with a pheasant.
    Not so pleasant. :wink:

    The pheasant did well to get up that high.
    It managed to maintain an elevation of 5 feet (or whatever my head height is on a bike) until it had the sense to go to the verge. As an addition, Seeing a peacock fly surprised me, but that was more a controlled slow fall.

    Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.
    Sad. But don't get the connection.
    Nothing mentioned in any Google reports.

    You won't, it's not the official answer.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    It’s the only answers that I have and since you’re not sharing, the only thing to go on so that will suffice.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    PBlakeney wrote:
    It’s the only answers that I have and since you’re not sharing, the only thing to go on so that will suffice.

    Fair enough.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-48663289

    "Accidentally" ;-)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    Chris Bass thinks that RJSterry and I have a brand of humour that's morally wrong.

    :D
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Pinno wrote:
    Chris Bass thinks that RJSterry and I have a brand of humour that's morally wrong.

    :D

    Did you miss my Jo brand pun??
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    Chris Bass wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Chris Bass thinks that RJSterry and I have a brand of humour that's morally wrong.

    :D

    Did you miss my Jo brand pun??
    Totally.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    Getting to watch Metallica with my daughter last night, 31 years since I first / last saw them. They've grown a bit in that time from performing at Newport Centre in front of 2,000 people but the audience had changed too from mainly spotty teens and twenty somethings with long, greasy hair to a mixed crowd with lots of middle aged men with not much or no hair!
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Pross wrote:
    Getting to watch Metallica with my daughter last night, 31 years since I first / last saw them. They've grown a bit in that time from performing at Newport Centre in front of 2,000 people but the audience had changed too from mainly spotty teens and twenty somethings with long, greasy hair to a mixed crowd with lots of middle aged men with not much or no hair!

    They look like the doctor has just told them it's time they had their prostates checked again.

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    Cowsham wrote:
    They look like the doctor has just tried the defibrillator on them and failed.

    FTFY

    Not a fan of death death, kill 'em all, death death, whiplash, death death... f*cking shyte really.

    Not as bad as this lot I suppose. They are the living dead:

    5cc9629b03b9e1.69628205-e1556705851467-578x372.jpg
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Pinno wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    They look like the doctor has just tried the defibrillator on them and failed.

    FTFY

    Not a fan of death death, kill 'em all, death death, whiplash, death death... f*cking shyte really.

    Not as bad as this lot I suppose. They are the living dead:

    5cc9629b03b9e1.69628205-e1556705851467-578x372.jpg

    Couldn't have put it more eloquently myself.
  • surfercyclist
    surfercyclist Posts: 894
    The Stones may be old - we're all getting there if we're lucky - but they sure have made some fantastic records in their time.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    The Stones may be old - we're all getting there if we're lucky - but they sure have made some fantastic records in their time.

    I wasn't criticising the Stones' music, it was Metallica I was having a pop at.
    The Stones have spanned how many decades!?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    2.5 hours playing non-stop and a 38 year career so far. Knock it if you want but they've probably achieved more than you have.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    Pross wrote:
    2.5 hours playing non-stop and a 38 year career so far. Knock it if you want but they've probably achieved more than you have.

    ...and the Spice Girls have 'achieved' more than I have and Aqua and Jade Goody achieved much more fame and Boris Johnson might be PM and Donald Trump is in the Whitehouse.
    I suppose a 38 year career sure beats Polpot's measly 4 years in power.

    Erase Metallica
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  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Oh Margarita was the biz.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,609
    Pinno wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    They look like the doctor has just tried the defibrillator on them and failed.

    FTFY

    Not a fan of death death, kill 'em all, death death, whiplash, death death... f*cking shyte really.

    I think you're confusing them with Slayer.
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    crumbschief wrote:
    Oh Margarita was the biz.

    Margarita Pracatan -- let's rock !
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Pinno wrote:
    The Stones have spanned how many decades!?

    IMHO about two too many (maybe even three!).
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    rjsterry wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    They look like the doctor has just tried the defibrillator on them and failed.

    FTFY

    Not a fan of death death, kill 'em all, death death, whiplash, death death... f*cking shyte really.

    I think you're confusing them with Slayer.

    I'm pretty sure he's never listened to more than a few seconds of Metallica but just likes to rip into things that others have said they enjoy. Metallica's music is a bit thrashy but plenty of melodic guitar work to balance it and vocally Hetfield is probably the best in the genre, very clear. Just listen to Nothing Else Matters to see he and the band are capable of so much more than Pinno's description.

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