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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    rjsterry wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Travelling up the M4 towards the M5 junction and seeing a flotilla of hot air balloons rising up above the crest of the hill.
    Bristol Balloon Fiesta?

    No, that's not for a few weeks yet. I think the area is just popular for ballooning, possibly as it's nice and flat over that part of South Gloucestershire for taking off and landing, and it was a perfect morning.

    It didn't quite match the site of the balloons over the Dordogne from Domme last summer at sunset. I got a photo of that which is now my screensaver.

    2Lau4tn
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Leaving town on a back road I encountered a large lorry waiting for two cyclists at a parked car bottleneck. One was a 30 something and other maybe 10, wearing a Batman helmet. Batman was struggling as it was a significant hill but lorry waited patiently and as they passed driver leaned out of the cab window and yelled 'Come on Batman you can do it' much to the amusement of all around. And with that encouragement Batman did do it.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,602
    Pross wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Travelling up the M4 towards the M5 junction and seeing a flotilla of hot air balloons rising up above the crest of the hill.
    Bristol Balloon Fiesta?

    No, that's not for a few weeks yet. I think the area is just popular for ballooning, possibly as it's nice and flat over that part of South Gloucestershire for taking off and landing, and it was a perfect morning.

    It didn't quite match the site of the balloons over the Dordogne from Domme last summer at sunset. I got a photo of that which is now my screensaver.

    2Lau4tn

    Weirdly, that could almost be South Gloucestershire. I grew up what must have been directly down wind of Ashton Court, so groups of balloons drifting over towards the Cotswold edge were a common site. Every now and then one would get it a bit wrong and land in one of the fields over the back.
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Julia Bradbury presenting " The Goodwood Festival Of Speed " yummy :mrgreen:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    edited July 2018
    The singer at the Breton village we went into this morning. Absolutely terrible voice but couldn’t help smiling as he told us that he just wanted to see us smiling in ze purpool ren and that there was plenty of room at ze ‘otel California. Last time we were there he was giving a rendition of Beds Are Burning - pure genius!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Ignore!
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Pross wrote:
    The singer at the Breton village we went into this morning. Absolutely terrible voice but couldn’t help smiling as he told us that he just wanted to see us smiling in ze purpool ren and that there was plenty of room at ze ‘otel California. Last time we were there he was giving a rendition of Beds Are Burning - pure genius!


    At a hotel in Majorca a truly terrible trio of Spanish sub Bananarama singers singing "I'm your vanus!!"

    I had quite a few of the other guests giving me hard stares for laughing as much as I was.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,488
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    The singer at the Breton village we went into this morning. Absolutely terrible voice but couldn’t help smiling as he told us that he just wanted to see us smiling in ze purpool ren and that there was plenty of room at ze ‘otel California. Last time we were there he was giving a rendition of Beds Are Burning - pure genius!


    At a hotel in Majorca a truly terrible trio of Spanish sub Bananarama singers singing "I'm your vanus!!"

    I had quite a few of the other guests giving me hard stares for laughing as much as I was.
    Ahh, Bananarama - the original girl band, with pop videos ideal for watching with the sound turned off.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • mamil314
    mamil314 Posts: 1,103
    Robert88 wrote:
    Leaving town on a back road I encountered a large lorry waiting for two cyclists at a parked car bottleneck. One was a 30 something and other maybe 10, wearing a Batman helmet. Batman was struggling as it was a significant hill but lorry waited patiently and as they passed driver leaned out of the cab window and yelled 'Come on Batman you can do it' much to the amusement of all around. And with that encouragement Batman did do it.


    This post.
  • thistle_
    thistle_ Posts: 7,218
    People riding along who look shocked to be alive.
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    mamil314 wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    Leaving town on a back road I encountered a large lorry waiting for two cyclists at a parked car bottleneck. One was a 30 something and other maybe 10, wearing a Batman helmet. Batman was struggling as it was a significant hill but lorry waited patiently and as they passed driver leaned out of the cab window and yelled 'Come on Batman you can do it' much to the amusement of all around. And with that encouragement Batman did do it.


    This post.
    + 1

    we are very quick to criticise and rarely praise.

    I was out on my bike a while ago and the van driver coming the other way did everything they could to stop me short of actually running me over, I thought the worst (as you would!). He was, however, stopping me to tell me there was an oil spill round the next corner and that I'd definitely come off the bike if I wasn't really careful.

    People are nicer than we give them credit for on the whole.
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    A groupset all boxed up by it's main components. Something probably seen by a lot of you before but as someone who's always either bought off the peg bikes or had them built up at a shop for collection it has a satisfaction of sorts.
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    mamil314 wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:


    This post.


    This post
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Takeaway curry delivered last night. I'd ordered a Ceylon. On the top of the carton was written 'Colon'.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Takeaway curry delivered last night. I'd ordered a Ceylon. On the top of the carton was written 'Colon'.

    If you’d ordered a donor kebab then this probably would be a statement of fact!
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Just found out that photobucket has restored all the links for it's photo hosting service and reduced it's pricing to £20 a year down from £400 when it disconnected it's hosting links --- I'll still use lensdump though -- I'm not so easily lured back once you've broken trust.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Takeaway curry delivered last night. I'd ordered a Ceylon. On the top of the carton was written 'Colon'.

    If you’d ordered a donor kebab then this probably would be a statement of fact!

    Sauce unknown.






    I'll get my coat.
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Pinno wrote:
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Takeaway curry delivered last night. I'd ordered a Ceylon. On the top of the carton was written 'Colon'.

    If you’d ordered a donor kebab then this probably would be a statement of fact!

    Sauce unknown.






    I'll get my coat.

    As it turned out the curry was very nice. Ironically this morning my colon is suffering.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Takeaway curry delivered last night. I'd ordered a Ceylon. On the top of the carton was written 'Colon'.

    If you’d ordered a donor kebab then this probably would be a statement of fact!

    Sauce unknown.






    I'll get my coat.

    As it turned out the curry was very nice. Ironically this morning my colon is suffering.

    :lol:
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    The singer at the Breton village we went into this morning. Absolutely terrible voice but couldn’t help smiling as he told us that he just wanted to see us smiling in ze purpool ren and that there was plenty of room at ze ‘otel California. Last time we were there he was giving a rendition of Beds Are Burning - pure genius!


    At a hotel in Majorca a truly terrible trio of Spanish sub Bananarama singers singing "I'm your vanus!!"

    I had quite a few of the other guests giving me hard stares for laughing as much as I was.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkLMLmoWG-o


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twVwNOp_sCw
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    When the temperature finally drops below 30, you sit in gentler sun and you pour a near enough ice cold hefe weissbeer... that first sip... 8)
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    orraloon wrote:
    When the temperature finally drops below 30, you sit in gentler sun and you pour a near enough ice cold hefe weissbeer... that first sip... 8)
    +1 to that orraloon. The best quencher on the planet. One of the best weisses I have ever slurped was in Berchtesgaden after a long hike. Heaven. And Schneider weisse in Munich. Loving my Belgian witbeers but not the same.
    Prost!
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  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    The sound of combine harvesters working long into the night when I go to bed
    Wilier Izoard XP
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Watching TV programmes which are meant to be set in a certain time period and loudly commenting on the presence of tree species which wouldn't have been imported yet. I do it just to wind the GF up but it's well worth it
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    HaydenM wrote:
    Watching TV programmes which are meant to be set in a certain time period and loudly commenting on the presence of tree species which wouldn't have been imported yet. I do it just to wind the GF up but it's well worth it
    I hate to inform you of this, but I suspect you're as much of a knob as I am. :lol:
    Couldn't do that on tree species but that is definitely the kind of thing I do. The other one that I picked up from my old man is that when the wife is watching a particularly emotional bit on telly I remind her that they're only pretending.
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Veronese68 wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    Watching TV programmes which are meant to be set in a certain time period and loudly commenting on the presence of tree species which wouldn't have been imported yet. I do it just to wind the GF up but it's well worth it
    I hate to inform you of this, but I suspect you're as much of a knob as I am. :lol:
    Couldn't do that on tree species but that is definitely the kind of thing I do. The other one that I picked up from my old man is that when the wife is watching a particularly emotional bit on telly I remind her that they're only pretending.
    I used to enjoy Heartbeat for this. Set in 1965. All the cars were from that age. Exactly. So no one in North Yorkshire ever had an old car. Or one with mud on it. Or with dents. Or litter in the footwell.
    Oh, and it is set in the 1960s, but no one smokes.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    This "blood moon" (shite term) being obscured by cloud so that easily excited nerds and squares can't see it and wish they could. Brilliant.

    ...a quick reminder of this classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHwOndZw7Ak :)
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Stage 1. Catching up to a tractor doing 25mph and sit there as if I'm in the peloton. Lovely.
    Stage 2. Being waved through and making it stick while the cars that were behind me still hadn't caught up 2 miles later. :P 8)
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,699
    Every week lately I've been staying in a different apartment block/hotel. Called up the list of wi-fi networks to connect and rather than the usual V65THELS397-5G or some such, one was named "Y'ALL NEEEED JESUS".
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