Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

pinno

PVA.

Matthewfalle

Andy9964 wrote:

Inflation obliterating 18% pay rise . (Technically it's an increase in shift allowance for doing a 4 on, 4 off 12 hour shift rotation, but meh!!!)

18% pay rise? Bugger me.

crispybug2

crispybug2 wrote:

Out for a ride this morning and decided to add an extra 2km to the route through a industrial estate.

Set up a Strava section for this loop and it's a great feeling to discover that no one else has used this loop and I've got the KOM all to myself

Checked the section this evening and now there are over 40 riders have used it and I'm down to 7th place in the KOM over a minute behind the leader!

I guess it takes a few days for Strava to catch up

pinno

crispybug2 wrote:

crispybug2 wrote:

Out for a ride this morning and decided to add an extra 2km to the route through a industrial estate.

Set up a Strava section for this loop and it's a great feeling to discover that no one else has used this loop and I've got the KOM all to myself

Checked the section this evening and now there are over 40 riders have used it and I'm down to 7th place in the KOM over a minute behind the leader!

I guess it takes a few days for Strava to catch up

Well you did dangle it out there like a carrot.

Matthewfalle

Pinno wrote:

crispybug2 wrote:

crispybug2 wrote:

Out for a ride this morning and decided to add an extra 2km to the route through a industrial estate.

Set up a Strava section for this loop and it's a great feeling to discover that no one else has used this loop and I've got the KOM all to myself

Checked the section this evening and now there are over 40 riders have used it and I'm down to 7th place in the KOM over a minute behind the leader!

I guess it takes a few days for Strava to catch up

Well you did dangle it out there like a carrot.

Who's carrot is this dangler?

team47b

Pinno wrote:

PVA.

And white Portland

bompington

Kids in my (computing) classroom at lunchtime yesterday (privilege for seniors)
2 lads playing online chess
Suddenly one exclaims:
"Hey! You killed my horse!"

verylonglegs

TMS and the opening day of a test series at Lords in July.

dav1d1

verylonglegs wrote:

TMS and the opening day of a test series at Lords in July.

This!

thestrand

verylonglegs wrote:

TMS and the opening day of a test series at Lords in July.

I'll be sad to see Blowers go though. The beauty of TMS is that everyone brings something slightly different to the mic, and I think he'll leave a large void - there's nobody left that is eccentric enough to fill it.

Pross

Running as a pacer at Parkrun and finishing 1 second under your target time without any finish straight speeding up or slowing down.

crispybug2

All Blacks fans and journalists complaining loudly about refereeing decisions going against them.............they clearly don't do irony!!!

Pross

crispybug2 wrote:

All Blacks fans and journalists complaining loudly about refereeing decisions going against them.............they clearly don't do irony!!!

Especially any complaints about a captain influencing the referee, that was McCaw's speciality.

crispybug2

Pross wrote:

crispybug2 wrote:

All Blacks fans and journalists complaining loudly about refereeing decisions going against them.............they clearly don't do irony!!!

Especially any complaints about a captain influencing the referee, that was McCaw's speciality.

Text message from my brother fresh from watching the third test at Eden Park

"There is no taste sweeter than the bitter tears of an All Black fan, especially as it was a nailed on penalty to them at the end!"

team47b

The fact that the English don't have a word for schadenfreude

doomanic

After a (very) reluctant return to mountain biking a couple of weeks ago, my son has tonight asked if we are going again this weekend. This pleases me.

Anonymous

Seeing someone failing to be able to pay contactless with a smartwatch.

Priceless :twisted:

bbrap

Carbonator wrote:

Seeing someone failing to be able to pay contactless with a smartwatch.

Priceless :twisted:

On a similar vein. Someone too mean to buy 2 plastic bags at the checkout when the shopping clearly will not fit in one. When the overloaded bag crashes to the floor as the handles give way (even better when they have a jar of pickled beetroot in the bottom) :evil:

BelgianBeerGeek

Went to do the shopping this morning and college is out because on my return my teenage neighbour is practising his guitar. Coming along, he is, too. Listened to him over lunch and commented to Mrs BBGeek that I was disappointed there was no "Smoke on the Water". Answer: "he started with that, just after you left"
Some things never change...

crispybug2

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Went to do the shopping this morning and college is out because on my return my teenage neighbour is practising his guitar. Coming along, he is, too. Listened to him over lunch and commented to Mrs BBGeek that I was disappointed there was no "Smoke on the Water". Answer: "he started with that, just after you left"
Some things never change...

Smoke On The Water was the second tune that I learnt on guitar, after House Of The Rising Sun naturally, you can barely walk past any guitar shop without hearing it....... Having said that, the reason it's so omnipresent is that it is still a f**king fantastic riff!!

mrfpb

crispybug2 wrote:

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Went to do the shopping this morning and college is out because on my return my teenage neighbour is practising his guitar. Coming along, he is, too. Listened to him over lunch and commented to Mrs BBGeek that I was disappointed there was no "Smoke on the Water". Answer: "he started with that, just after you left"
Some things never change...

Smoke On The Water was the second tune that I learnt on guitar, after House Of The Rising Sun naturally, you can barely walk past any guitar shop without hearing it....... Having said that, the reason it's so omnipresent is that it is still a f**king fantastic riff!!

About 6 months ago my 10 yr old daughter started banging out the riff on the piano. She has no idea where she heard it, though. It seems to have gone into the human genome somehow.

mr_goo

This not really on topic, but my daughter recently told me that one of her fellow students at university had the surname Scaramanga. He was the the grandson of the Scaramanga that Ian Fleming named the Bond villain after. That's pretty cool ain't it?

haydenm

crispybug2 wrote:

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Went to do the shopping this morning and college is out because on my return my teenage neighbour is practising his guitar. Coming along, he is, too. Listened to him over lunch and commented to Mrs BBGeek that I was disappointed there was no "Smoke on the Water". Answer: "he started with that, just after you left"
Some things never change...

Smoke On The Water was the second tune that I learnt on guitar, after House Of The Rising Sun naturally, you can barely walk past any guitar shop without hearing it....... Having said that, the reason it's so omnipresent is that it is still a f**king fantastic riff!!

'Sunshine of your love' was my first riff, I never found Smoke on the Water that much fun to play for some reason

ballysmate

Were you budding guitarists playing it properly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWl0YJN5Xf4

seanoconn

Ordered 2 items of clothes, a pea coat and a blazer and they've just delivered 3! Got an extra blazer. None of them fit particularly well but still, a freebie's a freebie

ballysmate

Learning what a pea coat is. :oops:

veronese68

Surely if the peas were left in their pods they wouldn't need coats.

joncomelately

It gets chilly out there tho. Can't have a frozen pea.

crumbschief

seanoconn wrote:

Ordered 2 items of clothes, a pea coat and a blazer and they've just delivered 3! Got an extra blazer. None of them fit particularly well but still, a freebie's a freebie

I bet you look dashing in that pea coat Seano,and sure to catch the birds eye.

joncomelately

seanoconn wrote:

...a freebie's a freebie

Not always...