Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    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!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,340
    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 :wink:
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    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 :wink:

    I'll flip burgers and drive a cab before I'd go back where I am!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,599
    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 coalition
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,340
    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 :wink:

    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!
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    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!
    But your trimmer's farked :wink:
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,599
    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!
    But your trimmer's farked :wink:
    Not any more! \o/ (slightly shorter) cable re-attached.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    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 :wink:

    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.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    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=5776.0
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,340
    Who are you - 'Melanie' ?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    The smell of Tarmac!
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    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.

  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    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... ;)
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    The way my dog combines getting off the sofa with stretching his back legs
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    Walking the "wrong" way around IKEA :)
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    Today's Google doodle.
    Kinesis Pro6
    Marin Nail Trail
    Cotic Solaris
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,340
    Oh yeah:

    100th-anniversary-of-giro-ditalia-6325612032557056.3-law.gif
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Discovering that the "please don't use an ad blocker" messages on a lot of websites can be blocked by my ad blocker.
  • Sciencemike
    Sciencemike Posts: 28
    Spending Sunday afternoon watching teenagers complete the Ten Tors expedition on Dartmoor http://www.tentors.org.uk/challenge/about
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,340
    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!
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Yeah, great to see the garden kick off with plants and wildlife.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    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 teenager
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Being in possession of a pie.

    Preferably hot, shortcrust and filled with steak and ale.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,340
    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!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    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. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    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!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,340
    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!
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Polish cherry flavoured jaffa cakes.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,233
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Polish cherry flavoured jaffa cakes.
    Won't be having those round these parts post Brexit eh?
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    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. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.

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