Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rjsterry said:

    That Mike Graham clip doing the rounds.


    I like the way the interviewee doesn't try to rebut the suggestion that you can "grow concrete", and just lets the silence do the work.
    He then went on Jeremy Kyle to dig the hole deeper.
    Link?
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    pangolin said:

    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rjsterry said:

    That Mike Graham clip doing the rounds.


    I like the way the interviewee doesn't try to rebut the suggestion that you can "grow concrete", and just lets the silence do the work.
    He then went on Jeremy Kyle to dig the hole deeper.
    Link?



    And here's the original exchange

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    pangolin said:

    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rjsterry said:

    That Mike Graham clip doing the rounds.


    I like the way the interviewee doesn't try to rebut the suggestion that you can "grow concrete", and just lets the silence do the work.
    He then went on Jeremy Kyle to dig the hole deeper.
    Link?


  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    kingstongraham said:

    pangolin said:

    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rjsterry said:

    That Mike Graham clip doing the rounds.


    I like the way the interviewee doesn't try to rebut the suggestion that you can "grow concrete", and just lets the silence do the work.
    He then went on Jeremy Kyle to dig the hole deeper.
    Link?



    It's worth watching twice.

    There is some splendid trolling on the original clip on Talk Radio's Twitter feed. I don't think he's terribly bright. But I guess it's all 'traffic'.
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    Cheers. Very strange.

    I did find it weird how they posted it as some sort of win.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    There is a third where he decides he was right all along:



    I only previously knew him as the guy who tried to eat a tablespoon of cinnamon.

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    edited October 2021
    kingstongraham said:



    I only previously knew him as the guy who tried to eat a tablespoon of cinnamon.

    Wasn't that Mike Parry?
    Another self proclaimed genius.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    pblakeney said:

    kingstongraham said:



    I only previously knew him as the guy who tried to eat a tablespoon of cinnamon.

    Wasn't that Mike Parry?
    Another self proclaimed genius.
    You're right, that's a different Mike. They all look the same to me.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I'd never heard of him but that is comedy genius. I'm assuming he's done Edinburgh and probably been a guest stand up at the Palladium?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    Home internet appears to be down for some unknown reason.
    Automatically piggy backed onto a neighbour's. Don't you love people with poor security?
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    pblakeney said:

    Home internet appears to be down for some unknown reason.
    Automatically piggy backed onto a neighbour's. Don't you love people with poor security?


    Must admit I did that once when my neighbour had their router in their front window (which is right on the street) with the password on the back of the router (complete with password) facing the window.

    I tried to guess my French neighbour's, with no success, and when they later gave it to me, I wasn't surprised I hadn't guessed the 24-character random chain.
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  • Charlie_Croker
    Charlie_Croker Posts: 1,727
    pblakeney said:

    Home internet appears to be down for some unknown reason.
    Automatically piggy backed onto a neighbour's. Don't you love people with poor security?

    Tis wot neighbour's are for :D isn't it
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    Charlie_Croker said:

    pblakeney said:

    Home internet appears to be down for some unknown reason.
    Automatically piggy backed onto a neighbour's. Don't you love people with poor security?

    Tis wot neighbour's are for :D isn't it
    Back on our own now.
    It was nice for browsing but I would have felt guilty about streaming large data.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    Doing a bit of a bodge this morning with some masticky stuff where my bit of flat lead roof meets the top of the Velux window, and it not leaking this afternoon despite persistent heavy rain. It's never been right, thanks to insufficient fall on the lead for water to clear away from the top bit of the window before it runs back under the lead, when it rains really heavily. In retrospect, I should have just had a non-Velux roof-light there, then there wouldn't have been the Velux mechanism in the way.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,555
    Good grief! Mike Graham now appears to be working through each and every mocking tweet and replying with a variant of, "No, you're stupid."

    The poor man has lost his mind.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    From a pathetic story doing the rounds on social...

    "Jade reported how he has been “driving non-stop every day” which has caused “blisters" on his hands and feet.

    “I’ve driven 1,000 miles in a week,” Jud said."

    I'm calling bull... 🤣
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    Making it to November without any heating in the mud hut house...

    I suspect if I looked back in this thread 12 months, I'd find I did a similar post, but then it was a long, cold winter. That didn't cheer me up.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    Each time I'm asked to send a scan of my driving licence (still paper), reminding myself that I'm apparently competent to drive a 7.5t lorry. I'm not sure that it cheers me up that I passed my test over 40 years ago.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    briantrumpet said:

    Each time I'm asked to send a scan of my driving licence (still paper), reminding myself that I'm apparently competent to drive a 7.5t lorry. I'm not sure that it cheers me up that I passed my test over 40 years ago.

    And yet some drivers will insist that cyclists pass a road test. 😉
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    Making 3L of soup from half a £1 post-Halloween pumpkin. Delish too.


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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,816

    News of the little girl being found in Australia. Almost brought a tear to my eye. Not often those stories have a happy ending. Hope the last 18 days haven't been too horrendous for her.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,413
    Getting WiFi up and running after new house after 6 days surviving on data. Openreach were actually rather good and got one of those 'cherry pickers' out within half an hour to get the fibre optic cable attached to the port on the telegraph pole in the close.
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  • womack
    womack Posts: 566
    edited November 2021
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    Love is.........
    When it is cold but your wife won't put the heating on as you'll be going on the trainer soon. I did reciprocate telling her to put it on anyway but she refused...
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Mortgage approved, 50bps lower than previously quoted, after a minor wobble that it wasn't going to get through.

    Not really trivial as I'm being evicted from my current accomodation, but still cheery.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    pblakeney said:

    Love is.........
    When it is cold but your wife won't put the heating on as you'll be going on the trainer soon. I did reciprocate telling her to put it on anyway but she refused...


    Maybe she's worked out how much the next heating bill will be...
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    briantrumpet said:

    pblakeney said:

    Love is.........
    When it is cold but your wife won't put the heating on as you'll be going on the trainer soon. I did reciprocate telling her to put it on anyway but she refused...


    Maybe she's worked out how much the next heating bill will be...
    Nothing to do with money, just thoughtfulness.
    Oh, and I pay the utility bills. 😉
    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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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    pblakeney said:

    briantrumpet said:

    pblakeney said:

    Love is.........
    When it is cold but your wife won't put the heating on as you'll be going on the trainer soon. I did reciprocate telling her to put it on anyway but she refused...


    Maybe she's worked out how much the next heating bill will be...
    Nothing to do with money, just thoughtfulness.
    Oh, and I pay the utility bills. 😉

    Exactly - how will you be able to afford the daily bunch of roses you give her if you've spent it all the the 'lectric?
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    briantrumpet said:

    pblakeney said:

    briantrumpet said:

    pblakeney said:

    Love is.........
    When it is cold but your wife won't put the heating on as you'll be going on the trainer soon. I did reciprocate telling her to put it on anyway but she refused...


    Maybe she's worked out how much the next heating bill will be...
    Nothing to do with money, just thoughtfulness.
    Oh, and I pay the utility bills. 😉

    Exactly - how will you be able to afford the daily bunch of roses you give her if you've spent it all the the 'lectric?
    Cleverer than that. She has figured out that if I don't spend entire mornings out on the bike we can do things together. Surprised I got away with it for so long. 😉
    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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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,413
    Speaking of which, we just took delivery of 760 litres of kerosene today which will hopefully see us through Christmas on the heating front. We did ask if we could get hooked up to the gas supply but apparently it will cost 35 grand...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]

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