Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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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.
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.
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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.0
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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.
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.
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.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Julia Bradbury presenting " The Goodwood Festival Of Speed " yummy0
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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!0
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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.0 -
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."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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.
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People riding along who look shocked to be alive.0
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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.
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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.www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes0 -
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.0
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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.0
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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!0 -
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.0
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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.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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.0 -
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.
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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.0 -
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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)0
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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)
Prost!Ecrasez l’infame0 -
The sound of combine harvesters working long into the night when I go to bedWilier Izoard XP0
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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 it0
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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
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.0 -
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
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.
Oh, and it is set in the 1960s, but no one smokes.Ecrasez l’infame0 -
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=IHwOndZw7Ak0 -
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.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
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".Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS0