Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Kendrick - oof - smashing it
    _
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    edited June 2022
    Nah, he slaughtered his biggest hit, Swimming Pools.

    Also, do you really need to say b***h every other word. I think I'd rather listen to the women with the scissors.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    That the US has already adopted camping as a code for womens health to communicate freely without being obviously filterable by bots from genuine camping content.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,374
    Getting going-out-of-date food and making a massive dish for under £5 that'll last me for best part of a week.

    It's been one of the positives of lockdown - I think I've only had one ready meal since March 2020, and I regretted that one, it was so disgusting. I'm quite happy eating the same dish several days in a row, if it's tasty. (It's what I call the Richard Feynman Pudding Principle: if you really like a certain food, why waste lots of time thinking about what to buy/cook next. I can clutter my little head with all sorts of other rubbish instead.)
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    I've been batch cooking & freezing along with adapting left overs into new meals since things were tight in the early 90s. Needs must and lessons learned. Tasty to boot. 😎
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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,658
    Approximately 10 million tonnes of food goes to waste in the UK every year.
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,816
    briantrumpet said:

    Getting going-out-of-date food and making a massive dish for under £5 that'll last me for best part of a week.

    It's been one of the positives of lockdown - I think I've only had one ready meal since March 2020, and I regretted that one, it was so disgusting. I'm quite happy eating the same dish several days in a row, if it's tasty. (It's what I call the Richard Feynman Pudding Principle: if you really like a certain food, why waste lots of time thinking about what to buy/cook next. I can clutter my little head with all sorts of other rubbish instead.)

    What are you making?
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,919
    This is the point of restaurants. You let people who are more skilled feed you.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    edited June 2022
    TheBigBean said:

    This is the point of restaurants. You let people who are more skilled feed you.

    Meh. I've been in establishments where this was clearly not the case.
    Any place not worthy of a rosette and it's a toss up.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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    Veronese68 wrote:
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,374
    mrb123 said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Getting going-out-of-date food and making a massive dish for under £5 that'll last me for best part of a week.

    It's been one of the positives of lockdown - I think I've only had one ready meal since March 2020, and I regretted that one, it was so disgusting. I'm quite happy eating the same dish several days in a row, if it's tasty. (It's what I call the Richard Feynman Pudding Principle: if you really like a certain food, why waste lots of time thinking about what to buy/cook next. I can clutter my little head with all sorts of other rubbish instead.)

    What are you making?

    Sausages in a bacon & onion sauce, cooked to the point where the sauce goes a bit sticky and the onions caramelised. Sausages were £1.60, bacon £2.75, onions 60p.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,374
    TheBigBean said:

    This is the point of restaurants. You let people who are more skilled feed you.


    And charge you appropriately. Hardly the recipe for daily dining, or saving up the pennies to buy bikes & houses.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    masjer said:

    Approximately 10 million tonnes of food goes to waste in the UK every year.

    ...and this cheers you up?!
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,919
    briantrumpet said:

    TheBigBean said:

    This is the point of restaurants. You let people who are more skilled feed you.


    And charge you appropriately. Hardly the recipe for daily dining, or saving up the pennies to buy bikes & houses.
    Different things trivially cheer up different people. I don't need any more bikes or houses.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    A quite right on aussie office manager interrupts my conversation by the coffee machine.


    "Err, what are women being blamed for now?" *glares*

    "carrying the gene for male pattern baldness"


    "...oh..."
    _
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    My childish sense of humour is enjoying a tennis match between Peniston and Johnson. Sound like a right pair of d1cks
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    When observing certain bigger birds, i've often thought they sometimes fly for fun.
    I once watched a crow fly upside down momentarily.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,658
    Jackdaws seem to enjoy a windy day and `surf` the wind.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    pinno said:

    When observing certain bigger birds, i've often thought they sometimes fly for fun.
    I once watched a crow fly upside down momentarily.

    Wondered where you were going with that. 😉
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,230
    I think, I'm not 100% sure, I saw my first ever Osprey today. Certainly a big raptor, and there is a nesting site not far away. It def wasn't a buzzard or a kite.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    orraloon said:

    I think, I'm not 100% sure, I saw my first ever Osprey today. Certainly a big raptor, and there is a nesting site not far away. It def wasn't a buzzard or a kite.

    Well sir, it may be:

    https://community.rspb.org.uk/placestovisit/lochgartenospreys/f/loch-garten-ospreys/279542/dyfi-osprey-project-live-stream-2022/1382646

    ...and I know of nesting sites in Galloway forest park.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,919
    From someone in the pub from somewhere on the internet.

    "My guide how to make a small fortune with crypto coins. Step one, start with a large fortune..."

  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    My 12 year old's response to any potty mouthery - "Language Timothy"

    She has no idea of the existence of Sorry! but the phrase has obviously become engrained through all of us oldies around her
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,230
    pinno said:

    orraloon said:

    I think, I'm not 100% sure, I saw my first ever Osprey today. Certainly a big raptor, and there is a nesting site not far away. It def wasn't a buzzard or a kite.

    Well sir, it may be:

    https://community.rspb.org.uk/placestovisit/lochgartenospreys/f/loch-garten-ospreys/279542/dyfi-osprey-project-live-stream-2022/1382646

    ...and I know of nesting sites in Galloway forest park.
    And there's an active nesting site at Threave Castle. It was an osprey, did some browsing to get video clips etc. 😊
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Tashman said:

    My 12 year old's response to any potty mouthery - "Language Timothy"

    She has no idea of the existence of Sorry! but the phrase has obviously become engrained through all of us oldies around her

    I find stuff like this quite amusing.
    My daughter used the Jaws music the other day for something or other and has never see the film/s.
    I like that the Cuprinol strapline is still synonymous with doing what is expected years after the campaign. Must be close to 20 years ago I’d guess.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    morstar said:

    Tashman said:

    My 12 year old's response to any potty mouthery - "Language Timothy"

    She has no idea of the existence of Sorry! but the phrase has obviously become engrained through all of us oldies around her

    I find stuff like this quite amusing.
    My daughter used the Jaws music the other day for something or other and has never see the film/s.
    I like that the Cuprinol strapline is still synonymous with doing what is expected years after the campaign. Must be close to 20 years ago I’d guess.
    Ronseal?
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    orraloon said:

    I think, I'm not 100% sure, I saw my first ever Osprey today. Certainly a big raptor, and there is a nesting site not far away. It def wasn't a buzzard or a kite.

    Depending on where the sun is coming from, its not always easy to see the colour of a bird against the sky. Osprey is predominantly white underneath with darker head and wings. It was once pointed out to me that a way of telling the difference between an Osprey and a Buzzard in flight if the colours aren't apparent is to look for "elbows" in the wings of the Osprey - they are very similar sized/shaped birds.

    At the right times of year, it is possible to see Ospreys pretty much anywhere. They migrate to UK in late March/early April and back to Africa in September.

    I saw one from my back garden in Northamptonshire in March and they are seen on and around the resrevoirs around here daily throughout the breeding season.
    Wilier Izoard XP
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    pblakeney said:

    morstar said:

    Tashman said:

    My 12 year old's response to any potty mouthery - "Language Timothy"

    She has no idea of the existence of Sorry! but the phrase has obviously become engrained through all of us oldies around her

    I find stuff like this quite amusing.
    My daughter used the Jaws music the other day for something or other and has never see the film/s.
    I like that the Cuprinol strapline is still synonymous with doing what is expected years after the campaign. Must be close to 20 years ago I’d guess.
    Ronseal?
    Well I never. Proves the point I guess that the slogan has ingrained itself to the point where the origins are lost.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_the_tin
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    Worked on me though. 😉
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    Finally, some honesty.


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