Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,326
    orraloon said:

    Watching some Danny MacAskill videos on yowTub, not done that for a while. The Slabs on the Cuillins! Revisit on The Ridge from some years back. 'kin L. 50 degree slopes on bare rock... 's no fur me ken fit ah mean.

    It's an amazing vid.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,326

    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    JimD666 said:

    Getting a £200 "alternative fuel payment" applied to the energy account, even though I'm pretty sure we don't qualify for it according to the rules I've found.

    Just had an Email from Octopus referring to this. The first thing I've heard from them since they chucked the £200 in my account.

    Basically it's nothing to do with the Energy suppliers. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are the ones who have "identified" those eligible for the payment.

    I'm guessing they've used a magic 8 ball on those not connected to the mains gas grid to do the identifying, judging by who has/hasn't received it around my area

    The last bit of the email did make me smile. "We haven’t been informed by BEIS why your account has specifically been selected, so unfortunately we can’t help much on that front."



  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,423
    Meeting another dog owner on the morning walk who told us her dog was a cross between a Shih Tzu and a Poodle.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    The football score as I write.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,370
    Stevo_666 said:

    Meeting another dog owner on the morning walk who told us her dog was a cross between a Shih Tzu and a Poodle.

    A Shih Tzpoo?
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,658
    Seeing an otter swimming around in the sea hunting in the surf. I've only ever seen a glimpse of one in a stream before.
    Had a good sighting of a barn owl too whilst driving back home.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,326
    masjer said:

    Seeing an otter swimming around in the sea hunting in the surf. I've only ever seen a glimpse of one in a stream before.
    Had a good sighting of a barn owl too whilst driving back home.

    ...and why didn't you have your camera with you?

    [tut]
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,658
    pinno said:

    masjer said:

    Seeing an otter swimming around in the sea hunting in the surf. I've only ever seen a glimpse of one in a stream before.
    Had a good sighting of a barn owl too whilst driving back home.

    ...and why didn't you have your camera with you?

    [tut]
    I did have a camera, but when I first saw it, I thought that's a small seal. When I realised it was an otter, it was kind of out of range for a good shot. Not having a long lens with me is my excuse.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,326
    We have Beavers up here.


























    :smile:
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    Photos or it didn't happen.
    Scratch that. 😉
    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.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,370
    And in Devon we have beavers on the Otter.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,423
    https://youtu.be/AvWfbIe4X_4
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,821
    My cousin's husband in Canada writes for a magazine on Canadian history, it used to be called The Beaver. Can't imagine why they changed their name, circulation must have plummeted.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,423
    veronese68 said:

    My cousin's husband in Canada writes for a magazine on Canadian history, it used to be called The Beaver. Can't imagine why they changed their name, circulation must have plummeted.

    We went full Finbarr on a skiing holiday in Canada when we were getting a transfer to the resort and went past this place:
    https://furrycreekgolf.com/
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Went for a run at lunch time that include some interval training. As I was running one of my reps a pheasant came out of the hedge in front of me and instead of crossing to the opposite side got startled by my approach and ran along in front of me like some kind of pacemaker before finally disappearing into the hedge as I completed the rep (and just as I'd caught up with it).
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,326
    Pheasants are plain stupid, hand reared, fat and slow.
    You cannot expect your average city bloke to dress up in Tweed, sip whatever alcohol out of a hip flask and shoot something fast and small. It would be bad for business.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,423
    pinno said:

    Pheasants are plain stupid, hand reared, fat and slow.
    You cannot expect your average city bloke to dress up in Tweed, sip whatever alcohol out of a hip flask and shoot something fast and small. It would be bad for business.

    Could shoots use chavs instead of pheasants? They seem to have the same characteristics and are easier to hit as they're larger.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,326
    Stevo_666 said:

    pinno said:

    Pheasants are plain stupid, hand reared, fat and slow.
    You cannot expect your average city bloke to dress up in Tweed, sip whatever alcohol out of a hip flask and shoot something fast and small. It would be bad for business.

    Could shoots use chavs instead of pheasants? They seem to have the same characteristics and are easier to hit as they're larger.
    I'm trying to find that Monty Python sketch of the businessmen wielding shotguns and attempting to jump over a row of match boxes.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    pinno said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    pinno said:

    Pheasants are plain stupid, hand reared, fat and slow.
    You cannot expect your average city bloke to dress up in Tweed, sip whatever alcohol out of a hip flask and shoot something fast and small. It would be bad for business.

    Could shoots use chavs instead of pheasants? They seem to have the same characteristics and are easier to hit as they're larger.
    I'm trying to find that Monty Python sketch of the businessmen wielding shotguns and attempting to jump over a row of match boxes.
    wasn't that "upper class twit of the year"
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    A clear night and a full Moon.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    pinno said:

    Pheasants are plain stupid, hand reared, fat and slow.
    You cannot expect your average city bloke to dress up in Tweed, sip whatever alcohol out of a hip flask and shoot something fast and small. It would be bad for business.

    Pheasants are for peasant’s. They save the harder to shoot ones for the pissed folk with the money.
    Saves money on the harder shoot/ more expensive to rear.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Stevo_666 said:

    pinno said:

    Pheasants are plain stupid, hand reared, fat and slow.
    You cannot expect your average city bloke to dress up in Tweed, sip whatever alcohol out of a hip flask and shoot something fast and small. It would be bad for business.

    Could shoots use chavs instead of pheasants? They seem to have the same characteristics and are easier to hit as they're larger.
    Tell me can you find a house in Redcar that sells for 400 grand.
    Chav done well.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,229
    As a wee aside, as a kid (10-11yo) in Morayshire with a dad as the local polis sergeant, often involved in shootin' fishin' (no huntin' in those parts). I remember one incident where I plus faither plus many others were advancing in the beaters line driving the birdies towards the entitleds sitting on their arrises no doubt swigging away. There were a couple of shooters in the line mayhap to take out a smart birdie who took off the 'wrong' way. One of them fired across the line, just above the heads of the beaters. I remember the strange whoosh sound. Faither went apopletic, quite rightly, though don't recall if the waynekerr got arrested for it.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,326
    webboo said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    pinno said:

    Pheasants are plain stupid, hand reared, fat and slow.
    You cannot expect your average city bloke to dress up in Tweed, sip whatever alcohol out of a hip flask and shoot something fast and small. It would be bad for business.

    Could shoots use chavs instead of pheasants? They seem to have the same characteristics and are easier to hit as they're larger.
    Tell me can you find a house in Redcar that sells for 400 grand.
    Chav done well.
    What yer sayin' like?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Dad makes a fortune selling whippets and flats caps, pays son through accountant’s training.
    Move South create new image, even start supporting crap South London football team to foster new image.
    It’s a Catherine Cookson novel for the 21st century.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,423
    webboo said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    pinno said:

    Pheasants are plain stupid, hand reared, fat and slow.
    You cannot expect your average city bloke to dress up in Tweed, sip whatever alcohol out of a hip flask and shoot something fast and small. It would be bad for business.

    Could shoots use chavs instead of pheasants? They seem to have the same characteristics and are easier to hit as they're larger.
    Tell me can you find a house in Redcar that sells for 400 grand.
    Chav done well.
    And the rest...
    https://rightmove.co.uk/properties/131036489#/?channel=RES_BUY

    Not sure what you're trying to say, mind.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,326
    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    pinno said:

    Pheasants are plain stupid, hand reared, fat and slow.
    You cannot expect your average city bloke to dress up in Tweed, sip whatever alcohol out of a hip flask and shoot something fast and small. It would be bad for business.

    Could shoots use chavs instead of pheasants? They seem to have the same characteristics and are easier to hit as they're larger.
    I'm trying to find that Monty Python sketch of the businessmen wielding shotguns and attempting to jump over a row of match boxes.
    wasn't that "upper class twit of the year"
    Yes of course:

    2 mins 30 in.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdFnfcxhNnA
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,928
    Snowy (for surrey) walk to the station, nice crunch underfoot but not enough to affect the trains
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited March 2023
    Outside of the Welwyn garden city station is a pretty rough looking gym which always has some macho banner advert outside.

    Today’s reads as follows:

    Elite Gym

    No Mercy

    All beginners welcome
    _

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