Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    rick_chasey said:

    Pross said:

    Getting people on the train to move their bag of the seat so I can sit down. The more they look like they are trying to stop someone sitting next to them the more it cheers me up.

    Conversely, if you want the pair to yourself, stroking the seat and winking does the trick.
    Risky though. 🤣
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I'm hoping winking wasn't a typo!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    tailwindhome said:

    Sound up

    Note. The audio is a live call to a phone-in show, the animation and some sound effects were added later to turn it into a TV short

    It is a 'listen to the end'

    That is crazy! Why didn't he just pick the catatonic hen up and put it outside?
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,425
    Pross said:

    I'm hoping winking wasn't a typo!

    :D
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,425
    Tomorrow's mini budget is likely to cheer me up.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,375
    Arriving for my after-work swim at school, and finding the pool not overly crowded...


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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Stevo_666 said:

    Tomorrow's mini budget is likely to cheer me up.

    Lol this aged well
    _
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,375
    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Tomorrow's mini budget is likely to cheer me up.

    Lol this aged well

    I think Stevo's cheerful.
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Tomorrow's mini budget is likely to cheer me up.

    Lol this aged well
    Are you kidding? It's ticked the two main boxes of less tax for Stevo and winding up the lefties.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,375
    edited September 2022
    pangolin said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Tomorrow's mini budget is likely to cheer me up.

    Lol this aged well
    Are you kidding? It's ticked the two main boxes of less tax for Stevo and winding up the lefties.

    There aren't any other metrics to consider, are there? 🤔
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,425
    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Tomorrow's mini budget is likely to cheer me up.

    Lol this aged well
    It has indeed :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,425
    edited September 2022
    pangolin said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Tomorrow's mini budget is likely to cheer me up.

    Lol this aged well
    Are you kidding? It's ticked the two main boxes of less tax for Stevo and winding up the lefties.
    Two important points, but not the only ones.

    Although it's definitely done both :smiley: All we need now is to get onto the bonfire of the EU regs...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    BBC Red Button has Baseball on - Yankees & Red Soxx - it is really rather good.

    Perfect background noise for Saturday afternoon chores/jobs interspersed with some action...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,230
    Just watched the ISS tracking over. Dark skies 👍 It'll be back over (shorter 3 mins transit) at 9.54pm. Paging manc33...
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,375
    Tried out the Merlin app this morning for the first time, and it picked up the calls of a wren and a robin.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    briantrumpet said:

    pangolin said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Tomorrow's mini budget is likely to cheer me up.

    Lol this aged well
    Are you kidding? It's ticked the two main boxes of less tax for Stevo and winding up the lefties.

    There aren't any other metrics to consider, are there? 🤔
    Surely there is only one metric - whether it makes him better off.

    I doubt anybody in the UK has been left better off so I would see this as putting a brave face on it
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    "Please write a review". Annoys the brown stuff out of me but on this occasion and knowing the supplier well, I decided to write the review (on a car part, ffs).

    "I didn't know where I was going until I bought this part and it changed my life... blah... blah..."

    ...and then I was asked to follow up the review with a photo. So I did:


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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    Getting a confirmation email for my discount of the Energy Bill Support Scheme and seeing my new monthly direct debit.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,375
    pblakeney said:

    Getting a confirmation email for my discount of the Energy Bill Support Scheme and seeing my new monthly direct debit.


    My 'cheering-upness' is tempered by the fact that the bail-out is both helping to sink the UK's finances and adding to the energy companies profits at our expense.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    briantrumpet said:

    pblakeney said:

    Getting a confirmation email for my discount of the Energy Bill Support Scheme and seeing my new monthly direct debit.


    My 'cheering-upness' is tempered by the fact that the bail-out is both helping to sink the UK's finances and adding to the energy companies profits at our expense.
    Stop trying to spoil one of the very few rays of light I have right now. It's like I'm happy with my gold investments, but that's like finding a tenner when you've lost a ton.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,375
    pblakeney said:

    briantrumpet said:

    pblakeney said:

    Getting a confirmation email for my discount of the Energy Bill Support Scheme and seeing my new monthly direct debit.


    My 'cheering-upness' is tempered by the fact that the bail-out is both helping to sink the UK's finances and adding to the energy companies profits at our expense.
    Stop trying to spoil one of the very few rays of light I have right now. It's like I'm happy with my gold investments, but that's like finding a tenner when you've lost a ton.

    Oops, sorry PB.

    Yours,

    Eeyore
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,375
    Anyway, @pblakeney you can cheer yourself up again that you haven't got a mortgage to pay. Neither have I, but make sure you don't tell Rick.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    briantrumpet said:

    Anyway, @pblakeney you can cheer yourself up again that you haven't got a mortgage to pay. Neither have I, but make sure you don't tell Rick.

    Don't worry, I won't mention it to Rick that I haven't had a mortgage for 18 years now.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    pblakeney said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Anyway, @pblakeney you can cheer yourself up again that you haven't got a mortgage to pay. Neither have I, but make sure you don't tell Rick.

    Don't worry, I won't mention it to Rick that I haven't had a mortgage for 18 years now.
    I won't mention that you haven't had a mortgage to Rick either. Your secret is safe with me.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,375
    pblakeney said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Anyway, @pblakeney you can cheer yourself up again that you haven't got a mortgage to pay. Neither have I, but make sure you don't tell Rick.

    Don't worry, I won't mention it to Rick that I haven't had a mortgage for 18 years now.
    Maybe I'm not quite so cheerful now, as I think I've only been mortgage-free for about fourteen years.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,919
    It's good that people can be happy about being much older.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    edited September 2022
    TheBigBean said:

    It's good that people can be happy about being much older.

    I paid off my mortgage at 41 if that helps. 😉
    But keep it quiet. Shhhh.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,230
    pblakeney said:

    TheBigBean said:

    It's good that people can be happy about being much older.

    I paid off my mortgage at 41 if that helps. 😉
    But keep it quiet. Shhhh.
    Nice. I did so at 43. But kidz these days eh? Avocado lattes or whatevs.
    Oh, yeah shoosh.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,375
    TheBigBean said:

    It's good that people can be happy about being much older.


    Given that the alternative to getting older isn't a great option, one might as well cheer oneself up with the little wins that come along the way.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    briantrumpet said:

    pblakeney said:

    Getting a confirmation email for my discount of the Energy Bill Support Scheme and seeing my new monthly direct debit.


    My 'cheering-upness' is tempered by the fact that the bail-out is both helping to sink the UK's finances and adding to the energy companies profits at our expense.
    In better news, spot prices of gas are down a lot from what they were. A lot. So it may not end up that expensive - especially if winter is quite warm.
    _

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