Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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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....0 -
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!Ben
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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.
Not so pleasant.
The pheasant did well to get up that high.
Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.0 -
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.
Not so pleasant.
The pheasant did well to get up that high.
Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.
Brake/wheel failure apparently.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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.0
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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 escape0 -
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.
Not so pleasant.
The pheasant did well to get up that high.
Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.
Brake/wheel failure apparently.
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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.
Not so pleasant.
The pheasant did well to get up that high.
Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.
Nothing mentioned in any Google reports.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.0 -
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. #instantkarmaThe 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.0 -
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'.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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.
Not so pleasant.
The pheasant did well to get up that high.
Pity that wasn't the case for poor Dan Kneen last year.
Nothing mentioned in any Google reports.
You won't, it's not the official answer.0 -
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.0 -
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Chris Bass thinks that RJSterry and I have a brand of humour that's morally wrong.
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Pinno wrote:Chris Bass thinks that RJSterry and I have a brand of humour that's morally wrong.
Did you miss my Jo brand pun??www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes0 -
Chris Bass wrote:Pinno wrote:Chris Bass thinks that RJSterry and I have a brand of humour that's morally wrong.
Did you miss my Jo brand pun??seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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!0
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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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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:
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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:
Couldn't have put it more eloquently myself.0 -
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.0
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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!?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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.0
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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 Metallicaseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Oh Margarita was the biz.0
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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.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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crumbschief wrote:Oh Margarita was the biz.
Margarita Pracatan -- let's rock !0 -
rjsterry wrote:
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.0