Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Watching a video of Father Christmas arriving at my grandsons school in a helicopter.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,374
    Finding the nice photo of my late mum taken when she was chatting to the now-late Johnny Johnson four years ago at an event in the local church hall. Apparently he was still a charmer at 96.
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  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,928
    The packet with the fella doing the shot putt in a kilt used to be spelled Porage
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    monkimark said:

    The packet with the fella doing the shot putt in a kilt used to be spelled Porage

    Still is.


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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,374
    pblakeney said:


    monkimark said:

    The packet with the fella doing the shot putt in a kilt used to be spelled Porage

    Still is.


    If you're wondering about the company's unique spelling of porridge, then that's a marketing trick: to distinguish themselves from their rivals, they combined the spellings of “porridge” and “potage” – a French word for a thick soup – and ran with it from 1914 onwards.



    The last citation in the OED for 'porage' is from 1551. It's been 'porridge' since the beginning of the 17th century.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    edited December 2022
    pangolin said:


    ****THREAD CROSSOVER ALERT****

    Porage This is a word made up by A & R Scott in Glasgow when they launched Scott's Porage Oats in 1914, and combined the old Scots word poray with the French word potage.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,374
    edited December 2022
    My flights to and from France for Christmas/New Year avoiding both ends of the Border Force strike (as things stand). Phew, not least as I won't have to follow the advice of Suella Braverman. Looks like there will be plenty of snow to look at on them thar hills. Here are the local ones today...



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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    pinno said:

    pangolin said:


    ****THREAD CROSSOVER ALERT****

    Porage This is a word made up by A & R Scott in Glasgow when they launched Scott's Porage Oats in 1914, and combined the old Scots word poray with the French word potage.
    Wrong bloody thread too! That's annoying (and trivial).
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    edited December 2022
    pinno said:

    Touch screens.

    This ^ too. Wrong bloody thread again.

    Damn this Trumpet fuelled compartmentalisation.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,374
    pinno said:

    pinno said:

    Touch screens.

    This ^ too. Wrong bloody thread again.

    Damn this Trumpet fuelled compartmentalisation.

    You could start a Great Big Messy Anything Goes Thread... 😜
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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,658
    Harry and Meghan (Netflix doc) has got a 3.0/10 rating on IMDB. Apart from the £88 million payday, maybe things aren't going as planned.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    Not sure schadenfreude is really in the spirit of the thread...
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    briantrumpet said:

    pinno said:

    pinno said:

    Touch screens.

    This ^ too. Wrong bloody thread again.

    Damn this Trumpet fuelled compartmentalisation.

    You could start a Great Big Messy Anything Goes Thread... 😜
    What a good idea.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    ddraver said:

    Not sure schadenfreude is really in the spirit of the thread...

    Too right it is, it’s probably the most cheery thing there is especially when it is a comeuppance.
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,658
    ddraver said:

    Not sure schadenfreude is really in the spirit of the thread...

    I did think about posting it in the TV Series reviews, but having not watched it, I couldn’t have possibly commented on whether 3.0/10 is a fair score or it’s just plain overrated.

    Perhaps the *all new* Great Big Messy Anything Goes thread might accept this controversial material.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,374
    pinno said:

    briantrumpet said:

    pinno said:

    pinno said:

    Touch screens.

    This ^ too. Wrong bloody thread again.

    Damn this Trumpet fuelled compartmentalisation.

    You could start a Great Big Messy Anything Goes Thread... 😜
    What a good idea.

    I'll split the profits 50/50 with you.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,424
    ddraver said:

    Not sure schadenfreude is really in the spirit of the thread...

    Not even when Germany get dumped out of the World Cup in the Group stages? :)
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    briantrumpet said:

    pinno said:

    briantrumpet said:

    pinno said:

    pinno said:

    Touch screens.

    This ^ too. Wrong bloody thread again.

    Damn this Trumpet fuelled compartmentalisation.

    You could start a Great Big Messy Anything Goes Thread... 😜
    What a good idea.

    I'll split the profits 50/50 with you.
    Deal. Extra commission if it supersedes the Brexit and leaving the Tory party threads.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    masjer said:

    ddraver said:

    Not sure schadenfreude is really in the spirit of the thread...

    I did think about posting it in the TV Series reviews, but having not watched it, I couldn’t have possibly commented on whether 3.0/10 is a fair score or it’s just plain overrated.

    Perhaps the *all new* Great Big Messy Anything Goes thread might accept this controversial material.
    Absolutely.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    edited December 2022
    webboo said:

    Watching a video of Father Christmas arriving at my grandsons school in a helicopter.

    In Brunei by any chance?
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    shirley_basso said:

    webboo said:

    Watching a video of Father Christmas arriving at my grandsons school in a helicopter.

    In Brunei by any chance?
    Hornbill school.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    My mate was the pilot
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Must be a great job at times when you get to do stuff like that, the kids looked well chuffed.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,230
    Had Rudolph and the team joined the wave of strikes then?
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    It would appear so and the RAF are filling in.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    orraloon said:

    Had Rudolph and the team joined the wave of strikes then?

    I thought Rudolph got taken out by Coronavirus (or was it a Volvo?), the Elves were kidnapped by the Norwegian branch of ISIS and Santa is striking over pay and conditions*.

    *He suffers vertigo and with the International date line taken into consideration, he's on a Zero contract for other 363 days a year.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Listening to the cricket when there’s snow on the ground outside. It feels very comforting for some reason.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    My daughter is working playing Anna at a Frozen themed kid’s Christmas ball. We had a dusting of snow at our house that hadn’t been forecast and when we got to the nearby hotel where they are doing the ball we were greeted with this. Couldn’t have planned it better!


  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    Dangerously close to Schadenfreude I guess but watching the dog find out in real time the limits of 4-paw drive today was quite fun. Stopping distance of a labradog is surprisingly far...
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  • ddraver
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    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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