Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,324
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWlXEqs_pY
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    Utter nutter. And that's coming from someone who happily did small hills (in comparison). Never got clocked which is a shame although it probably felt faster than it was.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    ^ Died two months ago in an unrelated plane crash in Iceland.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    Sad.
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    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • lesfirth
    lesfirth Posts: 1,382
    Yes. An utter nutter but hats off to the guy. The video certainly made me smile .
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,324
    edited April 2022
    shirley_basso said:

    ^ Died two months ago in an unrelated plane crash in Iceland.

    Oh great.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,324
    I like the way he had an off and got straight back on Yves Lampard style.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    My Draft clean up...
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Nothing at the moment. So much good stuff going on, but I'm... miserable, I think is the right word. :neutral:
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  • Ben6899
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    pinno said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWlXEqs_pY

    This is bonkers though!
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I'm in that loving my week off phase whilst dreading going back to work (have already had a message off the boss about a meeting on Monday). Every time I have a break now I find myself longing for retirement and looking forward less and less to going into work.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Pross said:

    I'm in that loving my week off phase whilst dreading going back to work (have already had a message off the boss about a meeting on Monday). Every time I have a break now I find myself longing for retirement and looking forward less and less to going into work.


    Yeh, I feel that!
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Sort of feel sorry for you, if that's the case.

    Maybe it's something that changes with age.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    shirley_basso said:

    Sort of feel sorry for you, if that's the case.

    Maybe it's something that changes with age.

    40 years + of a working life will do that to you.
    Final year for me, all being well. 🤞🤞🤞
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,368
    This is the right thread for this.

    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,228
    F'ing A. 👍
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,324
    It's a relief given LePen's liking for Putain.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    pinno said:

    It's a relief given LePen's liking for censored .

    Linked to my post above. Should steady the markets, boost pension funds, contribute to early retirement, from a purely personal level. Good news on a worldwide scale.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,368
    Realising that the trumpet I was playing 'Fascinating Rhythm' on today was made just 10 years after the song was written (1924), so it'll be 90 in a couple of years time.



    It was the Ella arrangement we were playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf429d4pzw0


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,324
    >censored< put.ain
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Not trivial but Le Pen is a serial loser.
    _
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    rick_chasey said:

    Not trivial but Le Pen is a serial loser.

    So was Farage. And yet I’d say he’s been one of the most influential UK politicians of the last decade.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,417
    I'm sure the champagne corks will be popping in Brussels as well.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    morstar said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not trivial but Le Pen is a serial loser.

    So was Farage. And yet I’d say he’s been one of the most influential UK politicians of the last decade.
    He won the big one.
    _
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,368
    rick_chasey said:

    morstar said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not trivial but Le Pen is a serial loser.

    So was Farage. And yet I’d say he’s been one of the most influential UK politicians of the last decade.
    He won the big one.
    ...by telling big ones.
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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    rick_chasey said:

    morstar said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not trivial but Le Pen is a serial loser.

    So was Farage. And yet I’d say he’s been one of the most influential UK politicians of the last decade.
    He won the big one.
    But that’s kinda the point while also not being the point.

    He lost lots and lots of times and yet ultimately had a huge influence on UK politics.

    If you actually assess the Brexit mechanism, he wasn’t part of the official campaign.

    And yet for all his failure, he can undoubtedly claim an enormous victory.

    Don’t write le Pen off for another failure until she gives up trying.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Paying 12p to cross a toll bridge today.

    Two guys frantically collecting money in a toll booth with a decent queue of cars from each direction.

    Was glad I had some coins but I have no receipt to claim my charge against expenses.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    https://www.warburtontollbridge.co.uk/history/#:~:text=The current high-level cantilever,Warburton village to the A57.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,556
    Reminds me of a Tom Scott video about a 'ferry' (small boat with a rope) that one could still use to cross a canal for a similarly trivial toll.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    The Bathampton one gets on my nerves especially when people divert due to issues on the A36. You end up with people cutting that way and discovering they need cash that they haven't got combined with one way operation on the bridge itself.

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