Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

diplodicus

orraloon wrote:

Go Bokke! #ABE

Never really understood the ABE thing, or are you being flippant?

orraloon

diplodicus wrote:

orraloon wrote:

Go Bokke! #ABE

Never really understood the ABE thing, or are you being flippant?

Nah pal, 's genetic. Innit.

diplodicus

You're South African?

orraloon

I'm thinking you must be Inglish.

diplodicus

English certainly.
Inglish, not so sure?

Stevo_666

diplodicus wrote:

You're South African?

He's from a place North of England where some blokes wear skirts and/or chips on their shoulders. When it comes to rugby, that's pretty understandable. Which kinda cheers me up

diplodicus

Gotcha

I was obviously being a bit slow :oops:

surfercyclist

Scottish?

Oh dear, they've been back home for weeks.

He's best having a dinner of cold haggis, tatties and sour grapes. Maybe listen to an album of bagpipes greatest hits. It's got one very short track on it, best listened to with volume at zero.

haydenm

All the Scots I know up here who actually watched it have been very good about it, so has the violently Welsh supporting Englishman in the office this morning.

elbowloh

KingstonGraham wrote:

keef66 wrote:

elbowloh wrote:

I had my stag do in Hamburg a few years back. A mate of mine had to change plans and come along on a later flight than originally planned. We were having some drinks when the text arrived "just arrived in Munich, where shall i meet you".

Err, in Hamburg?

That is funny. Couldn't have been much further away without being in a different country

That's brilliant - did he eventually make it?

Yes, he managed to get on a flight within a couple of hours and was out with us within about 4 hours!

rjsterry

Ann Widdecombe claiming that when she was in parliament, MPs didn't lie.

orraloon

Watching Stereophonics live, on the BBC red button though. Good band. Takes me back to happier times.

orraloon

Finding Manc33 still at it. The gift that never stops... Below example extract posted 29 Sep 19 on cyclinguk forum.

[quote="Manc33"]Things have come a long way since this thread started but not for heliocentrism, that continues to be riddled with contradictions.

Around the start of this thread I said "It seems then to be some sort of enclosed system" and yes, we have gas pressure on the Earth and the 2nd law of thermodynamics tells us you cannot have gas pressure without a container - that is, the gas pressure would equilibrate and press off into the vacuum of space if we had such a vacuum next to the atmosphere.

People have been asking about this for a few years now at least and, since any answer would need to break the 2nd law of thermodynamics, it remains unanswered.

Most of the time, argumentative clever clogs say "Gravity keeps the air on the Earth" but gravity is only said to act on mass, not on gas pressure, so that answer doesn't work. When told this answer doesn't work, the aforementioned clever clogs simply repeat it, not knowing what else to do. The gravity card may be pulled for other things and work to fob people off but not on this occasion. The gas pressure still has to keep pressing and the gases should be seeping off into space with eventually, no atmosphere left on the Earth. This is of course not the reality we live in where we enjoy breathing air every day. So, because we do live in an environment with gas pressure we can figure out from this that we cannot be living next to a vacuum as claimed, there's some sort of barrier or ceiling to it.[/quote]

slowbike

hah ... love it - Gravity only acts on mass ....

here you go ... quote from the inter web. ...

Hydrogen is the chemical element with the symbol H and atomic number 1. With a standard atomic weight of 1.008, hydrogen is the lightest element in the periodic table

what .... the lightest element in the periodic table still has an atomic weight? That's not mass is it ..?! wow - never knew that .... DuH!

haydenm

That doesn't cheer me up. That makes me very sad. Most people who are too stupid to understand either don't bother thinking about it that much, or don't dare mention that they thing the Earth has a ceiling for fear of being ridiculed

orraloon

I reckon you missed peak Manc33 on this forum; I reckon he was on a massive wind up programme, but he did engender some quite humorous exchanges. Until he got hit with the ban stick. Then he continued on the cyclinguk forum with the same stuff. (Though majority of his posts there are tech related)

rjsterry

haydenm said:

That doesn't cheer me up. That makes me very sad. Most people who are too stupid to understand either don't bother thinking about it that much, or don't dare mention that they thing the Earth has a ceiling for fear of being ridiculed

This.

haydenm

The main thing that cheers me up at the moment is that I've banished the dreadfully uncomfortable sofa bed from the livingroom to do the new flooring. Now the flooring is done I just have the one sofa and with the new-found space the stereo is set up against the back wall. Sounds great.

haydenm

That and I was working from home for a few hours this afternoon so I took the opportunity to try and calibrate/diagnose the espresso machine by making many espresso. I feel great at the moment. Really great. Great great great.

TheBigBean

Something that has been secretly cheering me up.

Some of the new tricks on this forum. Yes, yes, it could have been done better etc. etc., but things like the quoting are now really good

rjsterry

TheBlueBean said:

Something that has been secretly cheering me up.

Some of the new tricks on this forum. Yes, yes, it could have been done better etc. etc., but things like the quoting are now really good

And posting images is much easier.

TheBigBean

I'm not sure the badges cheer me up though.

kingstonian

Someone making me a cup of tea is oh so simple, but of so great. Life's simple pleasures.

rjsterry

TheBlueBean said:

I'm not sure the badges cheer me up though.

Not sure whether to be proud or ashamed. Just passed my 10th BR anniversary.

pinno

rjsterry said:

TheBlueBean said:

I'm not sure the badges cheer me up though.

Not sure whether to be proud or ashamed. Just passed my 10th BR anniversary.

6 months behind me

Ooh, just discovered a new feature:

Type in a space then " : ". Go on.

Wheelspinner

rjsterry said:

TheBlueBean said:

Something that has been secretly cheering me up.

Some of the new tricks on this forum. Yes, yes, it could have been done better etc. etc., but things like the quoting are now really good

And posting images is much easier.

How is quoting now actually better / different than before? Sure, you can set a number of levels to roll up in your profile, but I find it sooooooooooo annoying now that if you click “quote” on something back up the page, it does NOT auto-scroll down to the text reply box.

Images is definitely better.

Wheelspinner

pinno said:

rjsterry said:

TheBlueBean said:

I'm not sure the badges cheer me up though.

Not sure whether to be proud or ashamed. Just passed my 10th BR anniversary.

6 months behind me

Ooh, just discovered a new feature:

Type in a space then " : ". Go on.

Yeah but... lost a few of the emojis in the migration. No 🙄 in the selection list for example.

pinno

Wheelspinner said:

No 🙄 in the selection list for example.

You managed it in BB. what's the trick?

pinno

Rees Moggs is a cunt, pass it on.

Wheelspinner

pinno said:

Wheelspinner said:

No 🙄 in the selection list for example.

You managed it in BB. what's the trick?

Depends on your device, but on iPad if I type “rolling eyes” I get the option to replace the text with the emoji. Bit like 🎂 or 🤦‍♂️. Before, this site would not permit any of those special characters to be published, but now the formatting does. They’ve just not included them in the selection list.