Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • Cargobike
    Cargobike Posts: 748
    The young woman from 3 doors down with the most amazing "come to bed" eyes!!

    How have I never noticed her before?
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Spent many wild, fun, disorderly nights here.

    Have a piece of the floor they sold off last year that my daughter got me and the mrs last Christmas.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54706444
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    morstar said:

    Spent many wild, fun, disorderly nights here.

    Have a piece of the floor they sold off last year that my daughter got me and the mrs last Christmas.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54706444

    Always wanted to go in the late 80s when all the bands I listened to seemed to play there but never got to go. I then did a distance learning course from NTU about 15 years ago and it was there taunting me everytime I went up for tutorials.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Pross said:

    morstar said:

    Spent many wild, fun, disorderly nights here.

    Have a piece of the floor they sold off last year that my daughter got me and the mrs last Christmas.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54706444

    Always wanted to go in the late 80s when all the bands I listened to seemed to play there but never got to go. I then did a distance learning course from NTU about 15 years ago and it was there taunting me everytime I went up for tutorials.
    It was always a decent venue but it has gained more and more cult status as the years have gone by.
    Not been in in a while as we don’t live there anymore but have been by a couple of times. It looks even uglier from the outside than it used as the entire building has been painted a dirty black.

    The fact it is wider than deep and lots of split levels don’t always make sight lines the best but you’re always close to a low stage and the whole place bounces.

    Must go back when all this Covid nonsense is over.
  • Cargobike
    Cargobike Posts: 748
    Ah, Rock City, the place I learnt the art of not sleeping much, then working your bo**ocks off the next day, before going out and partying all over again the following night :lol:

    Back in the late 90's I had my very first cycle courier business in Nottingham. Our offices were directly opposite Rock City, tucked away in an alleyway at the back of the Labour Party offices that fronted Talbot Street and Rock City itself.

    My regular routine would be work until 8pm, then pop into the Royal Hotel where the worlds smallest health club was situated, but at least they had showers, then after a sauna and throwing a few weights around I'd spend far, far too many nights in Rock City getting woozy on drink and high on nubile women. Dance, sing, get uproaringly drunk was par for the course, then tootle back across to the office with whichever victim had taken my eye for the night, sh*g them across my business partners desk, 'cos he was a w*nker, before sending them on their way so I could kip for a few hours before doing it all over again the next day.

    Being a connoiseur of punk and rock I saw some of my all time heroes play all but a few feet away from me on that stage RATM, Killing Joke, Iron Maiden, The Smiths, Oasis, Husker Du, OFF! to name but a few.

    What an incredible place.

    I can't wait to get back there again when C-19 is finally under control.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    That the evenings start getting lighter from today.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    briantrumpet said:

    That the evenings start getting lighter from today.

    Not the 21st?!

    Good god, has the planet changed it's tilt? No one told me.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Dusk time starts to get later. Overall length of daylight still reduces until the 21st.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    I fixed a dripping gutter.

    And fvck the cvnt of a gutter cleaner who caused it and declined my offer to return and rectify it.
  • Cargobike
    Cargobike Posts: 748
    surrey_commuter said:

    I fixed a dripping gutter.

    And fvck the cvnt of a gutter cleaner who caused it and declined my offer to return and rectify it.

    Pfft....
    He'd have been buried under the patio if he'd pulled that stunt at my gaff.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    pinno said:

    briantrumpet said:

    That the evenings start getting lighter from today.

    Not the 21st?!

    Good god, has the planet changed it's tilt? No one told me.
    As Orraloon says, the total daylight hours keep reducing but that's due to it getting lighter later in the morning so don't panic!
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    pinno said:

    briantrumpet said:

    That the evenings start getting lighter from today.

    Not the 21st?!

    Good god, has the planet changed it's tilt? No one told me.
    This is a game I play with Facebook friends every year. And every year someone takes the bait. Sorry, Pinno ;)

    https://explainingscience.org/2017/12/14/the-darker-mornings/
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    morstar said:

    Spent many wild, fun, disorderly nights here.

    Have a piece of the floor they sold off last year that my daughter got me and the mrs last Christmas.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54706444

    What a venue! - Absolutely one of my favourites - if I'd known they were selling off the floor I'd have had a chunk.
    Wilier Izoard XP
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    edited December 2020
    This will be a La Niña year. I won't spoil the end but look up the last strong one and what happened weather-wise that year.

    *Edited.
    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.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    And yet this was one of the hottest years on record.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    edited December 2020
    pinno said:

    And yet this was one of the hottest years on record.

    Yet to affect us. Patience.
    (Probably should have said 2021. Meant the coming year. Oops!)
    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.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Well bollox to La Niña, Had the wettest ride this year.
    It didn't rain, it was the floods that I had to cross.

    #squeakybb/chain
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Charlie_Croker
    Charlie_Croker Posts: 1,727
    pinno said:

    Well bollox to La Niña, Had the wettest ride this year.
    It didn't rain, it was the floods that I had to cross.

    #squeakybb/chain

    Strange the things that folk think are trivial and cheer you up

  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Charlie_Croker said:

    pinno said:

    Well bollox to La Niña, Had the wettest ride this year.
    It didn't rain, it was the floods that I had to cross.

    #squeakybb/chain

    Strange the things that folk think are trivial and cheer you up

    Don't get all pedantic Mr Croker, I was chatting with PB.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    pinno said:

    Well bollox to La Niña, Had the wettest ride this year.
    It didn't rain, it was the floods that I had to cross.

    #squeakybb/chain

    Not too far off the mark then...

    “In late autumn and early winter it historically promotes high pressure in the mid-Atlantic, which stops Atlantic weather systems from delivering mild air to the UK, and therefore can allow cold conditions to intensify. However, in late winter La Niña can drive a shift of the jet stream towards the Poles increasing storminess and heavy rainfall, while bringing milder conditions”.
    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.
  • Charlie_Croker
    Charlie_Croker Posts: 1,727
    pinno said:

    Charlie_Croker said:

    pinno said:

    Well bollox to La Niña, Had the wettest ride this year.
    It didn't rain, it was the floods that I had to cross.

    #squeakybb/chain

    Strange the things that folk think are trivial and cheer you up

    Don't get all pedantic Mr Croker, I was chatting with PB.

    Snigger, snigger :D
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    It being warm enough in December that I can turn off the house heating overnight as well as during the day.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    briantrumpet said:

    It being warm enough in December that I can turn off the house heating overnight as well as during the day.

    I've never had heating on overnight, it leaves my head feeling bunged up in the morning. We quite often have the bedroom window open over night as well. I hate an overly warm house.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    Pross said:

    briantrumpet said:

    It being warm enough in December that I can turn off the house heating overnight as well as during the day.

    I've never had heating on overnight, it leaves my head feeling bunged up in the morning. We quite often have the bedroom window open over night as well. I hate an overly warm house.

    Me too.

    The advice to keep places ventilated to prevent virus spread tends to show which school colleagues have their houses unnaturally warm: heating on, windows and doors closed, and in shirt sleeves. I prefer being able to breathe.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    It really is warm out there today, I just went for a run (shorts and short sleeved t shirt) and was really sweating.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Yep, quite mild here too:
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    edited December 2020
    Mr. Markle going from British prince to Californian podcaster.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55327171

    Edit - I think this means that we have reached peak podcast.
    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.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    What goes through my mind every time a headline mentions something like "Top Trump official" or "Top Trump supporter":


  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    When the wokey dokeys get skewered by their own policy and then they complain about it :smiley:

    Paris mayor mocks 'absurd' fine for hiring too many women

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55330297
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    On the other hand:

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