Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    'Tab' in Geordie land is just a cigarette.

    http://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/c.php?g=130223&p=850959
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,344
    Pinno wrote:
    'Tab' in Geordie land is just a cigarette.

    http://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/c.php?g=130223&p=850959
    Tab = Tabacco.
    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.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Watching Trapdoor curled up on the couch with bambino and The Hound.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Who is Trapdoor and why would you let them snuggle up with your family? :shock:
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,600
    bompington wrote:
    Who is Trapdoor and why would you let them snuggle up with your family? :shock:
    80s children's stop motion animation series following a group of monsters living in a castle with a trapdoor.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    rjsterry wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    Who is Trapdoor and why would you let them snuggle up with your family? :shock:
    80s children's stop motion animation series following a group of monsters living in a castle with a trapdoor.

    oh globbits :)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    awavey wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    Who is Trapdoor and why would you let them snuggle up with your family? :shock:
    80s children's stop motion animation series following a group of monsters living in a castle with a trapdoor.

    oh globbits :)

    I had to look that up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSB-aVcq7AA
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Twyman's Law

    Any piece of data or evidence that looks interesting or unusual is probably wrong!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    rjsterry wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    Who is Trapdoor and why would you let them snuggle up with your family? :shock:
    80s children's stop motion animation series following a group of monsters living in a castle with a trapdoor.

    Nearly - Trapdoor is local bloke who makes people go missing when the govt needs them to and has a huge arsenal under his house accessed solely by a trapdoor.

    Therefore the nomenclature "Trapdoor"
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Nah - just joshing: Tom is the bloke who does that. Really nice guy, makes a mean curry. Lives two doors down and married Kerry-Anne from Alabama.

    You are correct re Trapdoor. May introduce bambino to Fraggle Rock. He was addicted to Thundercats for a while so have to play this 80s retro fest carefully.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    rjsterry wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    Who is Trapdoor and why would you let them snuggle up with your family? :shock:
    80s children's stop motion animation series following a group of monsters living in a castle with a trapdoor.

    Nearly - Trapdoor is local bloke who makes people go missing when the govt needs them to and has a huge arsenal under his house accessed solely by a trapdoor.

    Therefore the nickname "Trapdoor"

    FTFY
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Cowsham wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    Who is Trapdoor and why would you let them snuggle up with your family? :shock:
    80s children's stop motion animation series following a group of monsters living in a castle with a trapdoor.

    Nearly - Trapdoor is local bloke who makes people go missing when the govt needs them to and has a huge arsenal under his house accessed solely by a trapdoor.

    Therefore the nickname "Trapdoor"

    FTFY

    Mate

    You go around "FTFY"ing much more and he'll fix you, if you know what I mean .............
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    ...have to play this 80s retro fest carefully.
    You'll have to find a copy of 'Stig of the dump'.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Lucy Worsley
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Lucy Worsley

    In what way?
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Cowsham wrote:
    Lucy Worsley

    In what way?

    every way.

    funny.
    kooky
    intelligent.
    self deprecating
    polite
    attractive
    just seems really nice
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Twyman's Law

    Any piece of data or evidence that looks interesting or unusual is probably wrong!

    There also should be a law that any fact that you thought inviolate which is shown to be wrong on QI is actually true and it's just QI making stuff up again.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Riding my bike
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Cowsham wrote:
    Lucy Worsley

    In what way?

    every way.

    funny.
    kooky
    intelligent.
    self deprecating
    polite
    attractive
    just seems really nice

    Each to their own I say. Julia Bradury cheers me up but not for the same reasons -- she's probably a right b1tch in real life.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    This:
    ...found that regular cycling cut the risk of death from all causes by more than 40%
    So that means 40% of us will live forever.
    Came from this article. I know that's not what it means, but it does make me laugh.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    People looking at me all weird because I’m wearing a suit when no one else is.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    why does that make you happy? i can see many failings in that logic without trying.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    I like wearing a suit and when can wearing a three piece tweed suit look wrong.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    Webboo wrote:
    I like wearing a suit and when can wearing a three piece tweed suit look wrong.
    When scuba diving?
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Amerigo Vespucci's birthday
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Yesterday evening's personal best escape from Gatwick; 30 mins from touchdown to leaving the long stay car park, a completely unhindered drive round the M25 / Dartford crossing, and arriving home to be welcomed by the sound of the sheep across the road still bleating.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Webboo wrote:
    I like wearing a suit and when can wearing a three piece tweed suit look wrong.

    all the time. it is ridiculous attire unless you look after an estate in Victorian times.

    i suspect that you are a hipster. do you have a beard?

    a hipster (beard, stupid hair, 3 piece tweed suit) was on my train yesterday. his doris, dressed in jeans, trainers and a coat looked embarrassed to be with him.

    bizarrely he wasn't cool and looked like every other hipster I passed in the street.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Webboo wrote:
    I like wearing a suit and when can wearing a three piece tweed suit look wrong.
    When scuba diving?


    when working on an oil rig.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Veronese68 wrote:
    This:
    ...found that regular cycling cut the risk of death from all causes by more than 40%
    So that means 40% of us will live forever.
    Came from this article. I know that's not what it means, but it does make me laugh.

    But increases your chance of being hit by a bus by 60%