Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

veronese68

Heated windscreen when it's frosty, although it didn't cheer me up enough to compensate for having to drive around the Kingston one way system.

crispybug2

seanoconn wrote:

KingstonGraham wrote:

Spotify's algorithm for "discover weekly".

This week it thinks I'll be interested in listening to "I could be so good for you" by Dennis Waterman and " Wired for Sound" by Cliff Richard.

The robots will not be taking over any time soon.

My sister's ex boyfriend's dad wrote 'Wired for Sound" 8)

Alan Tarney??

Went to a couple of bass guitar workshops with him, a very very good bassist......learnt a lot from him!!

seanoconn

crispybug2 wrote:

seanoconn wrote:

KingstonGraham wrote:

Spotify's algorithm for "discover weekly".

This week it thinks I'll be interested in listening to "I could be so good for you" by Dennis Waterman and " Wired for Sound" by Cliff Richard.

The robots will not be taking over any time soon.

My sister's ex boyfriend's dad wrote 'Wired for Sound" 8)

Alan Tarney??

Went to a couple of bass guitar workshops with him, a very very good bassist......learnt a lot from him!!

Yep that's the one.

Matthewfalle

KingstonGraham wrote:

Spotify's algorithm for "discover weekly".

This week it thinks I'll be interested in listening to "I could be so good for you" by Dennis Waterman and " Wired for Sound" by Cliff Richard.

The robots will not be taking over any time soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRR-x9JZ_Oo

Is what Richard thinks he looks like when going to Tesco on a Saturday morning.

Matthewfalle

Veronese68 wrote:

Sugababes version of You Look Good on the Dancefloor is genuinely really good. Can’t believe I’m saying that.

Poor man's L7. Proper mental chicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKLETNBTGx8&app=desktop

pinno

Matthewfalle wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Sugababes version of You Look Good on the Dancefloor is genuinely really good. Can’t believe I’m saying that.

Poor man's L7. Proper mental chicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKLETNBTGx8&app=desktop

Even more mental chicks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-bKFo30o2o

pblakeney

Matthewfalle wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Sugababes version of You Look Good on the Dancefloor is genuinely really good. Can’t believe I’m saying that.

Poor man's L7. Proper mental chicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKLETNBTGx8&app=desktop

Disappointed. I assumed it would be this one. Especially from 3:18 on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GypkmEUhHvQ

ballysmate

Pinno wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Sugababes version of You Look Good on the Dancefloor is genuinely really good. Can’t believe I’m saying that.

Poor man's L7. Proper mental chicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKLETNBTGx8&app=desktop

Even more mental chicks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-bKFo30o2o

Chicks? No doubt you are confusing this with the chickens in the garden thread.

Calling the female of our species 'chicks' , especially the young, hot ones, will get you labelled as misogynist and some w@nker will be along to start a hashtag thingymebob.

On reflection, I would put hashtag thingymebobs into the things that annoy thread.

mr_goo

In Southampton today and just seen a transporter lorry leave the docks stacked with Nissan CashCows. Everyone of them had the alarms blaring out and hazard lights flashing. Very amusing.

mrfpb

Feeling cold, tired and out of energy, with my legs and lungs screaming at me near the end of today's ride, I looked down (Froome style) just at the right moment to see the "elevation gain" change from 999 to 1,000m.

bompington

mrfpb wrote:

Feeling cold, tired and out of energy, with my legs and lungs screaming at me near the end of today's ride, I looked down (Froome style) just at the right moment to see the "elevation gain" change from 999 to 1,000m.

Yep, winter commuting can get like that.

mrfpb

bompington wrote:

mrfpb wrote:

Feeling cold, tired and out of energy, with my legs and lungs screaming at me near the end of today's ride, I looked down (Froome style) just at the right moment to see the "elevation gain" change from 999 to 1,000m.

Yep, winter commuting can get like that.

It wasn't a commute. I was riding for "fun"

bompington

mrfpb wrote:

bompington wrote:

mrfpb wrote:

Feeling cold, tired and out of energy, with my legs and lungs screaming at me near the end of today's ride, I looked down (Froome style) just at the right moment to see the "elevation gain" change from 999 to 1,000m.

Yep, winter commuting can get like that.

It wasn't a commute. I was riding for "fun"

This might help

bompington

The sight of the supermoon setting over snow-covered mountains on the way to work this morning.

(It was a commute and I was riding for fun)

rjsterry

bompington wrote:

The sight of the supermoon setting over snow-covered mountains on the way to work this morning.

(It was a commute and I was riding for fun)

I was just peering out of the window, in suburban south London, but it was still beautiful.

Matthewfalle

TDL from BP.

Infectiously fun and lovely. So diddy you could keep her in a box and whenever you felt down get her out to cheer you up with her brilliant ridiculousness.

mrfpb

Matthewfalle wrote:

TDL from BP.

Infectiously fun and lovely. So diddy you could keep her in a box and whenever you felt down get her out to cheer you up with her brilliant ridiculousness.

Yeah. But when I try to do that for real the whole world seems to go "armed response unit" and "hostage negotiator" on me.

Matthewfalle

mrfpb wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

TDL from BP.

Infectiously fun and lovely. So diddy you could keep her in a box and whenever you felt down get her out to cheer you up with her brilliant ridiculousness.

Yeah. But when I try to do that for real the whole world seems to go "armed response unit" and "hostage negotiator" on me.

They are just overreacting. Explain the score, hardcore, see, and they’ll understand.

They’re probably just jealous tbh.

chris_bass

Not sure that it is that trivial but wasn't sure where else to post it...

After months of some pretty serious health issues, both physical and mental, I rode my bike outdoors for the first time since mid September yesterday and everything (healthwise) was fine, and i loved every minute of it, yeah it was cold and windier than i'd have liked but being outdoors and on my bike was a complete joy. So much so i cycled to work today for the first time in a very long time.

Sometimes "normal" or "trivial" things are still beyond me but to be able to do something as simple as riding my bike genuinely brought a tear to my eye yesterday! Make the most of the little things is my advice!

veronese68

Hey CB, really sorry to hear about your woes, but glad to hear you got out and hopefully on the mend. All the best.

ballysmate

^^^What VN said. Best wishes.

chris_bass

Thanks

Things are really looking up after a very long time of gradual decline including a very long time on a waiting list but the treatment i needed started before xmas and seems to be helping so far! so it's all good, just need spring to kick in and then i'll be able to get out on the bike even more!

pinno

Now get your aris back into BB, we'll cheer you up.

cowsham

Chris Bass wrote:

Thanks

Things are really looking up after a very long time of gradual decline including a very long time on a waiting list but the treatment i needed started before xmas and seems to be helping so far! so it's all good, just need spring to kick in and then i'll be able to get out on the bike even more!

I know that feeling --- welcome back to life and living.

orraloon

Best wishes Chris Bass.

To the cheer up. Watching the Spacex live webcast tonight of the test flight of Falcon Heavy, putting a Tesla convertible payload into a Mars solar orbit. First, supercool, inc the Bowie Starman music, 2nd takes me back to childhood days and the Apollo Saturn5 launches.

cowsham

orraloon wrote:

Best wishes Chris Bass.

To the cheer up. Watching the Spacex live webcast tonight of the test flight of Falcon Heavy, putting a Tesla convertible payload into a Mars solar orbit. First, supercool, inc the Bowie Starman music, 2nd takes me back to childhood days and the Apollo Saturn5 launches.

It was the two booster rockets landing back on earth motor down that I found incredible -- so much so at first I thought it was a hoax. Like bloody Thunderbirds !

https://youtu.be/joeivte8MYM

cowsham

To contrast this -- my daft son asked if getting static shocks was contagious -- I said " VERY "

pinno

Cowsham wrote:

orraloon wrote:

Best wishes Chris Bass.

To the cheer up. Watching the Spacex live webcast tonight of the test flight of Falcon Heavy, putting a Tesla convertible payload into a Mars solar orbit. First, supercool, inc the Bowie Starman music, 2nd takes me back to childhood days and the Apollo Saturn5 launches.

It was the two booster rockets landing back on earth motor down that I found incredible -- so much so at first I thought it was a hoax. Like bloody Thunderbirds !

https://youtu.be/joeivte8MYM

Unfortunate;y, the 3rd rocket didn't land on Donny and took old Arnold's allotment shed clean out.

Matthewfalle

currently being in barcelona and therefore nowhere near england.

pinno

Matthewfalle wrote:

currently being in barcelona and therefore nowhere near england.

It can get chilly this time of year.