Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Responding to colleagues' emails in the way you've always felt you wanted to as you no longer give a s**t and don't have to take crap from them any more.
I've had a few responses along the lines of 'well that response was unexpected' when replying to unreasonable demands in the last few weeks!0 -
Pross wrote:Responding to colleagues' emails in the way you've always felt you wanted to as you no longer give a s**t and don't have to take crap from them any more.
I've had a few responses along the lines of 'well that response was unexpected' when replying to unreasonable demands in the last few weeks!
Let's just hope that the company you're going to doesn't suddenly go bustseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Pinno wrote:Pross wrote:Responding to colleagues' emails in the way you've always felt you wanted to as you no longer give a s**t and don't have to take crap from them any more.
I've had a few responses along the lines of 'well that response was unexpected' when replying to unreasonable demands in the last few weeks!
Let's just hope that the company you're going to doesn't suddenly go bust
I'll flip burgers and drive a cab before I'd go back where I am!0 -
Made a half decent job of trimming the hedge so the front of the house now looks vaguely presentable. Also the RCD on my extension lead works!1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Pross wrote:Pinno wrote:Pross wrote:Responding to colleagues' emails in the way you've always felt you wanted to as you no longer give a s**t and don't have to take crap from them any more.
I've had a few responses along the lines of 'well that response was unexpected' when replying to unreasonable demands in the last few weeks!
Let's just hope that the company you're going to doesn't suddenly go bust
I'll flip burgers and drive a cab before I'd go back where I am!
...and the 64 million dollar question is:
Does that mean that soon you will be less grumpy?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Garry H wrote:rjsterry wrote:Made a half decent job of trimming the hedge so the front of the house now looks vaguely presentable. Also the RCD on my extension lead works!1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Pinno wrote:Pross wrote:Pinno wrote:Pross wrote:Responding to colleagues' emails in the way you've always felt you wanted to as you no longer give a s**t and don't have to take crap from them any more.
I've had a few responses along the lines of 'well that response was unexpected' when replying to unreasonable demands in the last few weeks!
Let's just hope that the company you're going to doesn't suddenly go bust
I'll flip burgers and drive a cab before I'd go back where I am!
...and the 64 million dollar question is:
Does that mean that soon you will be less grumpy?
Doubt it, one of my only skills is in finding something to be grumpy about in any situation. It cheers me up to do so.0 -
Pinno wrote:I have given up on that jazz. Used to clean chains with petrol. Then I was convinced to 'modernise' so I bought a chain cleaner and Muc-off. Then after a couple of seasons using Muc-off and the chain cleaner, I thought f(ck it, i'm going back to petrol. Then I saw this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x8JTUa_hZU
Which then lead on to this:
Ultrasonic, brush wheel chain cleaner and... yes, you guessed it - petrol: (Never mind the speculative watts bollox)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0eOxbnzDQA#
...and now, i'm going to try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D12BFIXZCes
Speaking of cleaning and solvents, I came across this.
May be of interest to those of you who wield a brush. (Post at bottom of page)
http://www.intelligentanswers.co.uk/ind ... pic=5776.00 -
Who are you - 'Melanie' ?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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The smell of Tarmac!0
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The way my shadow zooms away in front of me as I pass under a street light.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
Winning at fuel light roulette. Trip to the other office beckoned today, 225 miles away; fuel thing showed rem fuel = 224 miles at the start. Rolled into a garage 2 miles from my destination having done ~30 miles with the light on and 15 miles still left, which had been a consistently reducing mile for mile over the last 70. It passes the time...0
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The way my dog combines getting off the sofa with stretching his back legs0
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Walking the "wrong" way around IKEA0
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Oh yeah:
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Discovering that the "please don't use an ad blocker" messages on a lot of websites can be blocked by my ad blocker.0
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Spending Sunday afternoon watching teenagers complete the Ten Tors expedition on Dartmoor http://www.tentors.org.uk/challenge/about0
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Swallows arrived today. What a hell of a racket as they were near the nesting site. I wonder what that was all about.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Yeah, great to see the garden kick off with plants and wildlife.0
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Sciencemike wrote:Spending Sunday afternoon watching teenagers complete the Ten Tors expedition on Dartmoor http://www.tentors.org.uk/challenge/about
90% pain, 10% appreciation for sweets. Really sets you up for life!
In all seriousness, it was one of the best things I ever did as a teenager0 -
Being in possession of a pie.
Preferably hot, shortcrust and filled with steak and ale.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
The dawn chorus at 4am this morning.
Yesterday, out in the sticks pedalling, I thought I smelt a bit fragrant and thought I had accidentally used my OH's deodorant. It wasn't, it was the smell of the Gorse in full flower.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
CiB wrote:Winning at fuel light roulette. Trip to the other office beckoned today, 225 miles away; fuel thing showed rem fuel = 224 miles at the start. Rolled into a garage 2 miles from my destination having done ~30 miles with the light on and 15 miles still left, which had been a consistently reducing mile for mile over the last 70. It passes the time...
Hacking along motorway on way to the airport the other day having driven non stop for 7 hours, airport 13 miles away. Looked at service station, two increments left on fuel gauge - stuff that I said to myself, I'll sort this out later.
500 yards later, both increments go - boom. Now on fumes. Next turn off comes up, bomb down into a small village, bump into yummy mummy who directs me to sole petrol station 150 yards away. Yorkie, can of pop, full tank of fuel.
Vroooooooom vroooooooom.
As opposed to a while ago when two of use were heading away, both in a hire car each. Both needed fuel about 2 miles from the drop off place. Both driving petrol cars, both of us filled up diesel. Cars handed over and off we went. We win, they lose.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Just watched a small play called 'Ventoux' about the 2000 race up said mountain between Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani.
Not bad at all, but afterwards the natural blonde was far more interested in cycling/ Tour de France and asked more questions about it than she has in the seventeen years we've been together!0 -
crispybug2 wrote:Just watched a small play called 'Ventoux' about the 2000 race up said mountain between Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani.
Not bad at all, but afterwards the natural blonde was far more interested in cycling/ Tour de France and asked more questions about it than she has in the seventeen years we've been together!
Then 'A Sunday in Hell' is the next logical step.
I had a mate who regularly frequented 6 day events without his OH. Then she was persuaded to go to one. She was reluctant but took some girly friends with her to make it a good week. In the end, they loved it so much and went without him of he had other work commitments.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Polish cherry flavoured jaffa cakes.Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.0
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Watching the Dureells curled up on the sofa with TDV and the cubs of the caliphate with Das Hound snoozing at my feet.
Aaahhhh - lovely innit....
As an aside, they are all now beating 7 bells out of each other upstairs instead of cleaning their teeth ready for bed, so normal service resumed.....Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0