Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Pinno wrote:

    More soul than a 1000 Metallica tunes, not guitar based but who cares?

    Each to their own though.

    That is Sh1te Pinno -- think I'd rather have the geriatric metalica.


    No Pinno -- here is the the antidote to death death, kill 'em all, death death, whiplash, death death... f*cking shyte

    https://youtu.be/Pq98n2j75XA

    Love peace joy

    Nb listen to Eric and Matt --- that's horns
  • david7m
    david7m Posts: 636
    Purple Rain.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    david7m wrote:
    Purple Rain.

    Best version of that is Cory Henry not Prince.

    https://youtu.be/I8j7XJxew7s

    That boy can play.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    Cowsham wrote:
    Pinno wrote:

    More soul than a 1000 Metallica tunes, not guitar based but who cares?

    Each to their own though.

    That is Sh1te Pinno -- think I'd rather have the geriatric metalica.

    No Pinno -- here is the the antidote to death death, kill 'em all, death death, whiplash, death death... f*cking shyte

    https://youtu.be/Pq98n2j75XA

    I had high hopes for you Cowsham :roll:

    ...and that itboffin bloke but never mind.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • david7m
    david7m Posts: 636
    Cowsham wrote:
    david7m wrote:
    Purple Rain.

    Best version of that is Cory Henry not Prince.

    https://youtu.be/I8j7XJxew7s

    That boy can play.

    Nice!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    Sparrows. They are a benign bunch. They don't sing but I looked them up because 2 pairs are nesting in the box section of my garage roof and i'm revamping it so I wanted to know when they nest until, so as not to disturb them.
    In the research, pronounced research, not ree search (that's for the other thread), I read that the collective term for Sparrows is 'colony'. I also suppose that this is not coincidence, there's some design in that.
    Back to the plot.
    Apart from collectively chirping loudly and repetitively when the cat is around (often just rolling in the dust or lying in some shade), there is a regular cacophony in the hedge and it gets louder and louder and then suddenly it stops. There's always this racket at twilight but during the summer, they do this throughout the day.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,609
    So I said to Thelma, I said, "That's no place to peck for grubs", I said. And d'you know what she said? She said.CAT!!... ...Anyway as I was saying...
    Is what I imagine sparrows are chattering about.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    Pinno wrote:
    Sparrows. They are a benign bunch. .

    The one that spent 4 or 5 days attacking his own reflection in my windows a few weeks ago wasn't benign. We ended up having to keep the curtains closed for a few days until he forgot about the threat.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    edited July 2019
    Pross wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Sparrows. They are a benign bunch. .

    The one that spent 4 or 5 days attacking his own reflection in my windows a few weeks ago wasn't benign. We ended up having to keep the curtains closed for a few days until he forgot about the threat.

    :D
    Maybe he was thinking that the big ugly brute he could see had eyes for his Thelma.

    I never said that they were clever. They make a hell of a racket over the cat when the cat is visibly resting/sleeping.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    rjsterry wrote:
    So I said to Thelma, I said, "That's no place to peck for grubs", I said. And d'you know what she said? She said.CAT!!... ...Anyway as I was saying...
    Is what I imagine sparrows are chattering about.

    #RJST/Desmond Morris?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    Avoided the urge to have a lie in and joined some friends for a run up Fan y Big in the Beacons. Perfect weather - blue skies but not too warm and a gentle breeze, stunning views and colour contrasts due to the light and very quiet compared to its neighboring peak of Pen y Fan that was thick with people who had 'climbed' it from Storey Arms. Too top it all a lovely long and not overly technical downhill run to finish and 10 good miles of training in the legs.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    Seeing Piers Morgan's cricket "All Stars" (Chris Gayle, Michael Vaughan & Kevin Pietersen) beaten by our village XI yesterday whilst driking several pints of local brew.
    I recon it'll be a little quieter this evening when my 12 year old plays his match on the same square :)
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Pross wrote:
    Avoided the urge to have a lie in and joined some friends for a run up Fan y Big in the Beacons. Perfect weather - blue skies but not too warm and a gentle breeze, stunning views and colour contrasts due to the light and very quiet compared to its neighboring peak of Pen y Fan that was thick with people who had 'climbed' it from Storey Arms. Too top it all a lovely long and not overly technical downhill run to finish and 10 good miles of training in the legs.

    Good stuff! i grew up very close to there (Llangynidr) and my parents still live there, i try and go back whenever i can.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    Tashman wrote:
    Seeing Piers Morgan's cricket "All Stars" (Chris Gayle, Michael Vaughan & Kevin Pietersen) beaten by our village XI yesterday whilst driking several pints of local brew.
    I recon it'll be a little quieter this evening when my 12 year old plays his match on the same square :)

    Seeing Morgan taking a full toss in the face or the plumbs from the fastest fast bowler would cheer me up.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    Chris Bass wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Avoided the urge to have a lie in and joined some friends for a run up Fan y Big in the Beacons. Perfect weather - blue skies but not too warm and a gentle breeze, stunning views and colour contrasts due to the light and very quiet compared to its neighboring peak of Pen y Fan that was thick with people who had 'climbed' it from Storey Arms. Too top it all a lovely long and not overly technical downhill run to finish and 10 good miles of training in the legs.

    Good stuff! i grew up very close to there (Llangynidr) and my parents still live there, i try and go back whenever i can.

    I grew up near Llangynidr and my only ever multi-day stage race (Junior Tour of Wales) finished at the top of Llangynidr Mountain - I won the Lanterne Rouge!

    Nelson's bike shop / frame builder was a regular haunt and one of my clubmates and his dad who also raced with us lived out there too.
  • Wayne Plunger
    Wayne Plunger Posts: 444
    Pross wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    Seeing Piers Morgan's cricket "All Stars" (Chris Gayle, Michael Vaughan & Kevin Pietersen) beaten by our village XI yesterday whilst driking several pints of local brew.
    I recon it'll be a little quieter this evening when my 12 year old plays his match on the same square :)

    Seeing Morgan taking a full toss in the face or the plumbs from the fastest fast bowler would cheer me up.

    Not seeing Piers Morgan at all would be more satisfactory!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,825
    Pinno wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    So I said to Thelma, I said, "That's no place to peck for grubs", I said. And d'you know what she said? She said.CAT!!... ...Anyway as I was saying...
    Is what I imagine sparrows are chattering about.
    #RJST/Desmond Morris?
    More of a Johnny Morris perhaps.
    Kinesis Pro6
    Marin Nail Trail
    Cotic Solaris
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,609
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    So I said to Thelma, I said, "That's no place to peck for grubs", I said. And d'you know what she said? She said.CAT!!... ...Anyway as I was saying...
    Is what I imagine sparrows are chattering about.
    #RJST/Desmond Morris?
    More of a Johnny Morris perhaps.
    I wonder how many on here know who that is.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,825
    rjsterry wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    So I said to Thelma, I said, "That's no place to peck for grubs", I said. And d'you know what she said? She said.CAT!!... ...Anyway as I was saying...
    Is what I imagine sparrows are chattering about.
    #RJST/Desmond Morris?
    More of a Johnny Morris perhaps.
    I wonder how many on here know who that is.
    At least two I'm hoping.
    Kinesis Pro6
    Marin Nail Trail
    Cotic Solaris
  • arthur_scrimshaw
    arthur_scrimshaw Posts: 2,596
    Pross wrote:
    Avoided the urge to have a lie in and joined some friends for a run up Fan y Big in the Beacons. Perfect weather - blue skies but not too warm and a gentle breeze, stunning views and colour contrasts due to the light and very quiet compared to its neighboring peak of Pen y Fan that was thick with people who had 'climbed' it from Storey Arms. Too top it all a lovely long and not overly technical downhill run to finish and 10 good miles of training in the legs.

    As per the title, transposing Fan Y Big

    Titter
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Avoided the urge to have a lie in and joined some friends for a run up Fan y Big in the Beacons. Perfect weather - blue skies but not too warm and a gentle breeze, stunning views and colour contrasts due to the light and very quiet compared to its neighboring peak of Pen y Fan that was thick with people who had 'climbed' it from Storey Arms. Too top it all a lovely long and not overly technical downhill run to finish and 10 good miles of training in the legs.

    As per the title, transposing Fan Y Big

    Titter

    Yep, always makes me chuckle
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    Veronese68 wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    So I said to Thelma, I said, "That's no place to peck for grubs", I said. And d'you know what she said? She said.CAT!!... ...Anyway as I was saying...
    Is what I imagine sparrows are chattering about.
    #RJST/Desmond Morris?
    More of a Johnny Morris perhaps.
    I wonder how many on here know who that is.
    At least two I'm hoping.

    I remember him too
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    Wayne Plunger wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    Seeing Piers Morgan's cricket "All Stars" (Chris Gayle, Michael Vaughan & Kevin Pietersen) beaten by our village XI yesterday whilst driking several pints of local brew.
    I recon it'll be a little quieter this evening when my 12 year old plays his match on the same square :)

    Seeing Morgan taking a full toss in the face or the plumbs from the fastest fast bowler would cheer me up.

    Not seeing Piers Morgan at all would be more satisfactory!
    Fair enough, but locally here he does a lot to help raise funds for charities and the cricket club. Not many places get to see or play against high profile sports start every year.
    It possibly helps that he grew up here so his old friends knew him as a kid and subsequently don't stand for his "character" he plays in public
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Pross wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    Seeing Piers Morgan's cricket "All Stars" (Chris Gayle, Michael Vaughan & Kevin Pietersen) beaten by our village XI yesterday whilst driking several pints of local brew.
    I recon it'll be a little quieter this evening when my 12 year old plays his match on the same square :)

    Seeing Morgan taking a full toss in the face or the plumbs from the fastest fast bowler would cheer me up.
    When words have different connotations in different areas. :lol:
    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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  • Wayne Plunger
    Wayne Plunger Posts: 444
    Pross wrote:
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Avoided the urge to have a lie in and joined some friends for a run up Fan y Big in the Beacons. Perfect weather - blue skies but not too warm and a gentle breeze, stunning views and colour contrasts due to the light and very quiet compared to its neighboring peak of Pen y Fan that was thick with people who had 'climbed' it from Storey Arms. Too top it all a lovely long and not overly technical downhill run to finish and 10 good miles of training in the legs.

    As per the title, transposing Fan Y Big

    Titter

    Yep, always makes me chuckle

    Yes but in Welsh a single F is pronounced as a V and a single Y is pronounced hard not soft like an English Y. Consequently it sounds nothing like the word you are eluding to.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,609
    Pross wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    So I said to Thelma, I said, "That's no place to peck for grubs", I said. And d'you know what she said? She said.CAT!!... ...Anyway as I was saying...
    Is what I imagine sparrows are chattering about.
    #RJST/Desmond Morris?
    More of a Johnny Morris perhaps.
    I wonder how many on here know who that is.
    At least two I'm hoping.

    I remember him too

    And Terry Nutkins.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,464
    Wayne Plunger wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Avoided the urge to have a lie in and joined some friends for a run up Fan y Big in the Beacons. Perfect weather - blue skies but not too warm and a gentle breeze, stunning views and colour contrasts due to the light and very quiet compared to its neighboring peak of Pen y Fan that was thick with people who had 'climbed' it from Storey Arms. Too top it all a lovely long and not overly technical downhill run to finish and 10 good miles of training in the legs.

    As per the title, transposing Fan Y Big

    Titter

    Yep, always makes me chuckle

    Yes but in Welsh a single F is pronounced as a V and a single Y is pronounced hard not soft like an English Y. Consequently it sounds nothing like the word you are eluding to.

    Yep, but it still looks funny in a puerile way.
  • Wayne Plunger
    Wayne Plunger Posts: 444
    Pross wrote:
    Wayne Plunger wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Avoided the urge to have a lie in and joined some friends for a run up Fan y Big in the Beacons. Perfect weather - blue skies but not too warm and a gentle breeze, stunning views and colour contrasts due to the light and very quiet compared to its neighboring peak of Pen y Fan that was thick with people who had 'climbed' it from Storey Arms. Too top it all a lovely long and not overly technical downhill run to finish and 10 good miles of training in the legs.

    As per the title, transposing Fan Y Big

    Titter

    Yep, always makes me chuckle

    Yes but in Welsh a single F is pronounced as a V and a single Y is pronounced hard not soft like an English Y. Consequently it sounds nothing like the word you are eluding to.

    Yep, but it still looks funny in a puerile way.

    Yes must I admit the first time I passed a tyre shop in France I had to look twice!
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    My wife and middle daughter enthusiastically watching the Tour de France highlights programme on ITV 4, not because of a newly discovered love of cycling but because of the handsomeness of Pete Kennaugh (their words!)
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    crispybug2 wrote:
    My wife and middle daughter enthusiastically watching the Tour de France highlights programme on ITV 4, not because of a newly discovered love of cycling but because of the handsomeness of Pete Kennaugh (their words!)
    Cheers you up as it gives you a free pass for the ladies?
    #equality
    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.

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