Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    orraloon wrote:
    Off to Belgium tomorrow early doors for a grand long weekend. Hire bikes sorted for Friday, sit up n beg types but necessary as all the non-cycling partners are joining in. Easy day of pootling and beer bars beckons.

    Slowly, slowly, catchee... one day it'll be the Muur...
    High on my list of best rides ever would be the time the family Bomp rode out from the campsite at Bruges to Damme to eat out.
    We sat outside enjoying proper good Flemish pub grub (and yes, a beer or two was had) but as we were finishing, a thunderstorm was brewing.
    We rattled back along the canal at an unbelievable lick in the gathering gloom, Mrs Bomp was literally flamme rouge with our only light while I towed the pack along (although the wind did start to get up behind us). Bomp jr & Bompette, aged about 10 and 8 if I remember right, managed to hold very close to 20mph for most of the way back: and the first fat raindrops fell just as we turned into the campsite entrance - five minutes later it was monsoon, and close lightning strikes too.

    Memories.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Being stroked by an ex (female) colleague.
    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.
  • arthur_scrimshaw
    arthur_scrimshaw Posts: 2,596
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Being stroked by an ex (female) colleague.

    So that's a male colleague then?
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Being stroked by an ex (female) colleague.

    So that's a male colleague then?

    That cheered me up.
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    lostboysaint wrote:
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    Nice to see our Gareth sticking it to the scousers.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,348
    'Our Gareth' ?
    Intriguing.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Being stroked by an ex (female) colleague.

    So that's a male colleague then?

    Quite a cunning play on words. MF chuckled at that.
    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: 52,348
    Fishfish.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Pinno wrote:
    Fishfish.

    Is this a Scottish thing or i'm away a marillion miles.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,348
    crumbschief wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Fishfish.

    Is this a Scottish thing or i'm away a marillion miles.

    No need to scroll through loads of pages:

    viewtopic.php?f=40088&t=13040040&start=5920#p20355618
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Plates, today. Utterly, utterly lovely.
    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: 52,348
    Plates?! Nice were they?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Pinno wrote:
    crumbschief wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Fishfish.

    Is this a Scottish thing or i'm away a marillion miles.

    No need to scroll through loads of pages:

    viewtopic.php?f=40088&t=13040040&start=5920#p20355618

    I wonder if he's a Pisces.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Pinno wrote:
    Plates?! Nice were they?


    jaw droppingly good.
    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.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    Pinno wrote:
    'Our Gareth' ?
    Intriguing.
    Some bloke he fancies I suspect.

    Anyway I smiled as I walked into the pub yesterday pushing my sunglasses onto my head then remembered it irritates homophobic old twunts. Or one of them at least.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,348
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    'Our Gareth' ?
    Intriguing.
    Some bloke he fancies I suspect.

    Anyway I smiled as I walked into the pub yesterday pushing my sunglasses onto my head then remembered it irritates homophobic old twunts. Or one of them at least.

    Did you not take the opportunity to say 'Hello darling'?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    'Our Gareth' ?
    Intriguing.
    Some bloke he fancies I suspect.

    Anyway I smiled as I walked into the pub yesterday pushing my sunglasses onto my head then remembered it irritates homophobic old twunts. Or one of them at least.

    Did you not take the opportunity to say 'Hello darling'?
    I doubt FW was there.
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Mustard mit to a snigger here. Mrs BBGeek is a sailor, and has always worn her sunnies on her head when not on the water. Lately she’s needed other glasses for short work, and put them on her head on top of the sunglasses. When she can’t find both ( or either ) is kind of funny. She has been known to sleep in her sunglasses before.
    I think one year they never left her head. Beat that, Froome. :D
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,602
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Mustard mit to a snigger here. Mrs BBGeek is a sailor, and has always worn her sunnies on her head when not on the water. Lately she’s needed other glasses for short work, and put them on her head on top of the sunglasses. When she can’t find both ( or either ) is kind of funny. She has been known to sleep in her sunglasses before.
    I think one year they never left her head. Beat that, Froome. :D

    What on earth is a mustard mit? Actually don't answer that :shock:
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,348
    I must admit...

    [He's trying to be clever]
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,602
    I got that, although assumed it was overactive predictive text. Can't decide whether a mustard mit is something out of the Lakeland catalogue or something available on very niche websites.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,348
    rjsterry wrote:
    I got that, although assumed it was overactive predictive text. Can't decide whether a mustard mit is something out of the Lakeland catalogue or something available on very niche websites.

    That's what years of Belgian beer does to you.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,344
    rjsterry wrote:
    I got that, although assumed it was overactive predictive text. Can't decide whether a mustard mit is something out of the Lakeland catalogue or something available on very niche websites.
    That post. :lol:
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,235
    orraloon wrote:
    nickice wrote:
    It's not that trivial but seeing Tommy Robinson being treated as some kind of free-speech martyr (especially by some American conservative commentators who should know better).
    D'ye reckon if that bellend used his proper name of Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon he'd have more or less support from knuckle-dragging numpties?
    Last Thursday (while en route to a cracking Belgian weekend) spotted a large sign erected by the M40 motorway near Oxford saying 'Pray For Tommy Robinson' and I thought that's nice to be marking the 40+ years anniversary of 2-4-6-8 Motorway.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    heading out into the sticks for work and stumbling into a delicious curry lunch.
    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
    Finally finding some hosing for your motor and being served by someone really nice and cheery.
    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.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    orraloon wrote:
    orraloon wrote:
    nickice wrote:
    It's not that trivial but seeing Tommy Robinson being treated as some kind of free-speech martyr (especially by some American conservative commentators who should know better).
    D'ye reckon if that bellend used his proper name of Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon he'd have more or less support from knuckle-dragging numpties?
    Last Thursday (while en route to a cracking Belgian weekend) spotted a large sign erected by the M40 motorway near Oxford saying 'Pray For Tommy Robinson' and I thought that's nice to be marking the 40+ years anniversary of 2-4-6-8 Motorway.

    Tommy Robinson also released "Glad To Be Gay" on the follow up EP too of course, so he can't be all that right wing.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Tom Robinson wrote:
    Left is right and right is wrong
    You'd better decide which side you're on
    Did Tommy Robinson actually take his name deliberately?
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Anyway, I personally have never wished I had a grey Cortina, or any other colour for that matter
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Finally finding some hosing for your motor and being served by someone really nice and cheery.
    Definitely wasn’t me then.
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