Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Cat 'n' coyote. Who would've thought they'd be playmates?
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Brilliant ^^.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Ha - booked the car in for its MOT, and when the garage reminded me what the mileage was last year, I've realised I've driven it under 1000 miles in twelve months.0
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That John Cleese and Michael Palin are enormously more famous that Malcolm Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark, and that the Life of Brian is still known by schoolchildren (probably more than the bible)... children still know "Always Look on The Bright Side of Life, and are aghast that the film was so controversial at the time.
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T'was always so...briantrumpet said:That John Cleese and Michael Palin are enormously more famous that Malcolm Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark, and that the Life of Brian is still known by schoolchildren (probably more than the bible)... children still know "Always Look on The Bright Side of Life, and are aghast that the film was so controversial at the time.
https://youtu.be/asUyK6JWt9U "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Going into B&M, if anyone is suffering body image issues that’s the place to go. I came out feeling like one of the slimmest, fittest people on the family. Trying to get passed the fatties waddling along whilst I was carrying a 20kg bag of cobbles in each hand wasn’t fun though.0
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Helpful road maintenance guys. End of ride just outside town, come off this narrow lane onto the main road into town, Road Closed... Been regular flooding off the fields there, guys taking out à trench across road to install new drains. Ah bugrit, do I need put in another 10km loop. No, kudos to them, stopped their machines and let me carry the bike across. Ta. 👍0
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Yeah I get that all the time. I know the local lads who do the roads and I always get a 'Hello, how you doing [insert my name]?'orraloon said:Helpful road maintenance guys. End of ride just outside town, come off this narrow lane onto the main road into town, Road Closed... Been regular flooding off the fields there, guys taking out à trench across road to install new drains. Ah bugrit, do I need put in another 10km loop. No, kudos to them, stopped their machines and let me carry the bike across. Ta. 👍
When they were building a local wind farm, they shut the roads off frequently for a good 12 mile stretch (apart for access for local residents and farmers).
I went through all the time. Best of it was is that they resurfaced all of it due to the heavy machinery wrecking it and it was/is smooth as silk.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Pop Master being back, just need to get used to it not having the right theme tune.0
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YouTube videos that reveal how best to do. Wasted about 1.5h this morning following printed and supplied instructions, just not coming together. Video found. Ah, so do that, then that, then that... tick, job done.0
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It's not Fiji, but the view from my 'other' Velux window does cheer me up.
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Sequacity.
Handy for the Brexit or Trump threads0 -
Organisations deleting tweets that they hope no-one has noticed.
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Being proven right about these “30 under 30” type pieces.
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ddraver said:
I know it is derided and laughed at by musos but, today of all days, when I indulge my musical and christian upbringing somewhat, I still think the Crucifixion by Mr J. Stainer is a pretty nice bit of music...
I'm happy to join in the derision and laughing. I played it once, with the grandson (I think) of the composer playing the organ, and I'll be quite happy if I never play it again. But then I'm not really into over-worthy Victorian religious music, including Mendelssohn's more famous stuff. Give me Bach any day.
Happy that it has at least one fan though!
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First ride in ages. Disastrously out of shape but still a glorious pootle out to Chipstead and Farthing Down. First two butterflies of 2023, too - a pair of Brimstones.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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If I chase it with the Jesus Christ Superstar Documentary is that better or worse?briantrumpet said:ddraver said:I know it is derided and laughed at by musos but, today of all days, when I indulge my musical and christian upbringing somewhat, I still think the Crucifixion by Mr J. Stainer is a pretty nice bit of music...
I'm happy to join in the derision and laughing. I played it once, with the grandson (I think) of the composer playing the organ, and I'll be quite happy if I never play it again. But then I'm not really into over-worthy Victorian religious music, including Mendelssohn's more famous stuff. Give me Bach any day.
Happy that it has at least one fan though!We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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ddraver said:
If I chase it with the Jesus Christ Superstar Documentary is that better or worse?briantrumpet said:ddraver said:I know it is derided and laughed at by musos but, today of all days, when I indulge my musical and christian upbringing somewhat, I still think the Crucifixion by Mr J. Stainer is a pretty nice bit of music...
I'm happy to join in the derision and laughing. I played it once, with the grandson (I think) of the composer playing the organ, and I'll be quite happy if I never play it again. But then I'm not really into over-worthy Victorian religious music, including Mendelssohn's more famous stuff. Give me Bach any day.
Happy that it has at least one fan though!
Actually JCS has a splendidly fun trumpet part, so go chasing with my blessing!0 -
My Easter Sunday walk at 1100m, with not a single soul in sight.
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More things French... finding out exactly where the new mobile mast in the village will go, and it'll be on a little hill about 200m from my house, meaning I should be able to not only do online lessons from here via my mobile signal (at 15€ a month for 150Gb), but I should be able to cook chickens by putting them out on the balcony.
Actually, probably not trivial, as that might make semi-retirement and swanning about where and when I please more feasible. Gotta make the most of each 5% of the end of my life now.0 -
Not sure if this cheers me up but….efficiency.
Guy standing next to me swigging a beer. While stood at the urinal.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.0 -
Beer is only rented. Maybe his was a short term rental.pinno said:
Perhaps the vital organs no longer function and it's straight through.pblakeney said:Not sure if this cheers me up but….efficiency.
Guy standing next to me swigging a beer. While stood at the urinal."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Yes, man is a filtration system for turning beer back into water.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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A neighbour giving me some bits of a dead tree they'd cut down: after paying about 50p an hour for the 'lectric in Devon, even if this wood isn't going to go very far (it's softwood), it's not costing me a centime to be properly toasty warm this evening.0
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Was going to post that he was a highly efficient piss water filter and alcohol extractor earlier. 😂pinno said:Yes, man is a filtration system for turning beer back into water.
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.0
