Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    edited May 2020
    You Can spot all the fair weather riders when Workshop is the dominant page on the first page of active threads.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Having a (socially distanced) street party and finally meeting some of our neighbours after living here 20 years.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    I casually mentioned on here that my GP still wants me to send a fax for things like renewing prescriptions. As the NHS is a revered institution I am not sure this was entirely taken at face value.

    Imagine how much cheer it gave me to receive a text from the surgery to say they are “proud to announce a new Digital Access Website”
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Listening to The Stranglers 'Go Buddy Go' on 6Music the now, thank you Tom Robinson. Takes me back to those days, sez he giving away his age. Good times. RIP Dave Greenfield.

    Hadn't heard it in ages. i need to resurrect the deck and the vinyls... As if. Spotify innit.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,316
    There was a letter from 'Whitsl'. It has sat for 2 weeks ont he counter. I didn't bother 'cos I knew it was from the Student loans company - Erudio.
    Then I decided today to open it. Fully expecting a statement of accounts as I recently applied for deferment.
    It said that my loan was now cancelled!!!
    It's like double Christmas.

    That's 9 years before expiry. Is this some C19 mitigation policy?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    orraloon said:

    Listening to The Stranglers 'Go Buddy Go' on 6Music the now, thank you Tom Robinson. Takes me back to those days, sez he giving away his age. Good times. RIP Dave Greenfield.

    Hadn't heard it in ages. i need to resurrect the deck and the vinyls... As if. Spotify innit.

    Just heard Little Richard's version of Get Rhythm (Johnny Cash) on 6 Music. Reminds me I have an LP with his version of Rock Island Line on it. Must dig that out.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    pinno said:

    There was a letter from 'Whitsl'. It has sat for 2 weeks ont he counter. I didn't bother 'cos I knew it was from the Student loans company - Erudio.
    Then I decided today to open it. Fully expecting a statement of accounts as I recently applied for deferment.
    It said that my loan was now cancelled!!!
    It's like double Christmas.

    That's 9 years before expiry. Is this some C19 mitigation policy?

    Didn't they say why?


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,316
    No.

    The other thing that cheers me up is Lucy Verasamy's baps.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    pinno said:

    No.

    The other thing that cheers me up is Lucy Verasamy's baps.

    Bacon or sausage? 😉
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    edited May 2020
    Finding this ticket in a photo album.
    Steve Earle and Bob Dylan in a small venue for @ £15.


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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,813
    Nice, small venues are so much better. I think I'd rather see a covers band in a pub than the real thing in a stadium. Mind you just going to a pub would do.
    When I first glanced at the image I thought it was going to be something about a launderette :D
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,914
    Those were the days when concerts cost less than CDs.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    edited May 2020
    TheBigBean said:

    Those were the days when concerts cost less than CDs.

    Don’t know about you but I was only paying @ £10 for a CD then. Expensive though when you think on it as I used to buy 4-6 a week.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,914
    pblakeney said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Those were the days when concerts cost less than CDs.

    Don’t know about you but I was only paying @ £10 for a CD then. Expensive though when you think on it as I used to buy 4-6 a week.
    I remember Brixton Academy being about £12 a ticket whereas a CD was more like £14 and cassette (what's that?)/vinyl was about £7. Not much in it, but these days it seems like the concert is £50 and the CD is £5.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,396
    TheBigBean said:

    pblakeney said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Those were the days when concerts cost less than CDs.

    Don’t know about you but I was only paying @ £10 for a CD then. Expensive though when you think on it as I used to buy 4-6 a week.
    I remember Brixton Academy being about £12 a ticket whereas a CD was more like £14 and cassette (what's that?)/vinyl was about £7. Not much in it, but these days it seems like the concert is £50 and the CD is £5.
    I remember getting into the 100 Club about 3 or 4 years ago for £13.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,345
    TheBigBean said:

    pblakeney said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Those were the days when concerts cost less than CDs.

    Don’t know about you but I was only paying @ £10 for a CD then. Expensive though when you think on it as I used to buy 4-6 a week.
    I remember Brixton Academy being about £12 a ticket whereas a CD was more like £14 and cassette (what's that?)/vinyl was about £7. Not much in it, but these days it seems like the concert is £50 and the CD is £5.

    That'll be the Compact Cassette. I remember when they were going to be the thing that usurped LPs. I even got a case that would take 24 cassettes, and you could get, like 36 hours of music in that, er, rather uncompact box.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    edited May 2020
    The forefront of portable music at the time, the Sony Walkman with 90 minutes of music. (120 if you risked the lower quality cassette). 😉😱🤣
    1988 price - $150.


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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,813
    Mixtapes
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    Minidiscs
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    How good was anti-viral wipe?

    Man I miss the wipe programmes.
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    rick_chasey said:

    How good was anti-viral wipe?

    Man I miss the wipe programmes.

    First time I've watched live TV in well over a year, I didn't want to wait for it on catch up. The description of Hancock was spot on.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,316
    edited May 2020
    Swallows turned up yesterday.
    Just in time for a bit of inclement weather but at least they'll have their some for nest building.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Tiktok is actually hilarious
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    pinno said:

    Swallows turned up yesterday.
    Just in time for a bit of inclement weather but at least they'll have their some for nest building.

    I saw a couple of swifts yesterday when i was fishing, and might also have seen a swallow but wasn't certain on that.

    I have swift nest box up, hoping some come in that.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,549
    The MoS's desperate misuse of the phrase 'up to'.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Military history cheers me up.

    In 45 seconds Alan de Cadanet explains that we were working on Spitfires before Sept 3rd 1939. Louder the better.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOoiEbtf2w
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,316
    Amanda De Cadenet would cheer me up but nit this.
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  • Cargobike
    Cargobike Posts: 748
    Chocolate Hob Nobs.
    No wonder my weight needs to come down!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,316
    Oh those dark chocolate hobnobs are even better.
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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    pinno said:

    Oh those dark chocolate hobnobs are even better.

    Philistine!

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