Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

Matthewfalle

#puerilebutbrilliant

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cowsham

An advert in the window of a cafe I'm stopped at right now " reliable staff required " wonder what the last employee to leave thinks about that. Makes me think he/she was a lazy Dosser.

joe2008

Road sign: 'Game Birds On Road' made me smile.

rjsterry

It's RAINING!

cowsham

rjsterry wrote:

It's RAINING!

We're fed up with rain here.

rjsterry

Cowsham wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

It's RAINING!

We're fed up with rain here.

It was teasing all the way home. You could see the dark wisps hanging off the clouds in the distance, but just little flurries of big fat droplets, and the smell of hot damp earth. Then just as I got home a proper shower set in for a good half an hour.

Matthewfalle

vicars on bicycles riding through the countryside.

Ben6899

Coopster helping me fill my Gammon bingo card, in the BoJo Burqa thread.

orraloon

That the sparrow which whanged into the window pane did not break its neck. Picked it up, clearly dazed, set it on a wall just in case any of the myriad neighbourhood cats happened by and a few minutes later it flew off, in the other direction this time.

robert88

orraloon wrote:

That the sparrow which whanged into the window pane did not break its neck. Picked it up, clearly dazed, set it on a wall just in case any of the myriad neighbourhood cats happened by and a few minutes later it flew off, in the other direction this time.

If your windows are too clean, bird strike is more likely.

FishFish

orraloon wrote:

That the sparrow which whanged into the window pane did not break its neck. Picked it up, clearly dazed, set it on a wall just in case any of the myriad neighbourhood cats happened by and a few minutes later it flew off, in the other direction this time.

Hope you don't get bird flu.

Pituophis

Robert88 wrote:

orraloon wrote:

That the sparrow which whanged into the window pane did not break its neck. Picked it up, clearly dazed, set it on a wall just in case any of the myriad neighbourhood cats happened by and a few minutes later it flew off, in the other direction this time.

If your windows are too clean, bird strike is more likely.

This post has cheered me up. For this reason alone, I shall continue to never clean my windows.

Pross

Seeing more and more people cramming themselves onto a delayed train when the next train is due in 5 minutes causing it to be unable to leave the station, opting to be patient and wait then being rewarded as you leaving on the less congested train whilst they are still at the platform.

orraloon

Pituophis wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

orraloon wrote:

That the sparrow which whanged into the window pane did not break its neck. Picked it up, clearly dazed, set it on a wall just in case any of the myriad neighbourhood cats happened by and a few minutes later it flew off, in the other direction this time.

If your windows are too clean, bird strike is more likely.

This post has cheered me up. For this reason alone, I shall continue to never clean my windows.

Yebbut. Mrs O is OCC. Obsessive Compulsive Cleaner. I do my best.

Pituophis

orraloon wrote:

Pituophis wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

orraloon wrote:

That the sparrow which whanged into the window pane did not break its neck. Picked it up, clearly dazed, set it on a wall just in case any of the myriad neighbourhood cats happened by and a few minutes later it flew off, in the other direction this time.

If your windows are too clean, bird strike is more likely.

This post has cheered me up. For this reason alone, I shall continue to never clean my windows.

Yebbut. Mrs O is OCC. Obsessive Compulsive Cleaner. I do my best.

Mrs Pituophis is long gone and so is the window cleaner. Together? That would cheer me up too!

dinyull

Seeing kids and dads play football in the street, jumpers for goalposts and all that.

Rare site these days.

orraloon

Going out on ride today with some trepidation - have had a slight chest infection type thingie this week - head out, see how it goes, can always cut it short. Then get the 100k in, no fuss, no bother. Happy days.

webboo

That advert where all the ladies in the trampoline exercise class admit to p*ssing them selves.

cowsham

Webboo wrote:

That advert where all the ladies in the trampoline exercise class admit to p*ssing them selves.

This reminds me of an incident when I was a mature student in a college which I perpetually am by the nature of the ever changing technology I work with. But this day me and two work mates were walking out of a classroom 3 abreast down the corridor.

The chap in the middle ( Melvin ) started a narration while looking down at the floor about the electronics we were studying which ended in a question addressed to us. Meanwhile the other chap ( Chris ) and I had noticed the torso of a girl through the window of gym at the end of the corridor skipping in side profile to us while Melvin talked. Chris and I glanced at each other and smiled.

Then as we turned the corner Chris just turned to Melvin and said " Melvin, your going to have to say that all again"

rolf_f

orraloon wrote:

Pituophis wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

orraloon wrote:

That the sparrow which whanged into the window pane did not break its neck. Picked it up, clearly dazed, set it on a wall just in case any of the myriad neighbourhood cats happened by and a few minutes later it flew off, in the other direction this time.

If your windows are too clean, bird strike is more likely.

This post has cheered me up. For this reason alone, I shall continue to never clean my windows.

Yebbut. Mrs O is OCC. Obsessive Compulsive Cleaner. I do my best.

Move into a house with real leaded windows; that will fix her. Each casement/toplight pair adds up to about 70 panes of glass. I reckon that means I have about 1330 panes of glass x 2 for each side = 2660 windows to clean. I haven't cleaned them in 15 years. After a fairly short while they don't get much worse!

FishFish

Not living in the same house for 15 years cheers me up.

lostboysaint

I spent the afternoon teaching 11-16 year olds how to skateboard, in a park that I helped to get redeveloped* and - despite only being able to do two afternoons (of 9) on the scheme that the local authority put on for these kids - getting voted the top activity.

*11-16 year olds are amazing when they're properly motivated. Two years ago there was a ramshackle unskateable metal park with used needles and drinks cans everywhere. Now there's an immaculate concrete park that's properly looked after and the kids helped generate the petition showing the interest in it, design it, raise funds for it and now take care of it. All I did was point them in the right direction. I don't know why I'm surprised, I coached youth football for years and had to explain to parents how different their children were when they were properly engaged with something.

veronese68

Very nice Lostboy.

rolf_f

FishFish wrote:

Not living in the same house for 15 years cheers me up.

I feel for you; it must be expensive and tedious doing all that moving stuff. I bought one house and it was the one I wanted in the area I wanted and it still is. Not moving house cheers me up.

dinyull

Realising what the MF's mean when they say "Listen to Smithy".

Took me a while, but...

lostboysaint

Dinyull wrote:

Realising what the MF's mean when they say "Listen to Smithy".

Took me a while, but...

cowsham

lostboysaint wrote:

I spent the afternoon teaching 11-16 year olds how to skateboard, in a park that I helped to get redeveloped* and - despite only being able to do two afternoons (of 9) on the scheme that the local authority put on for these kids - getting voted the top activity.

*11-16 year olds are amazing when they're properly motivated. Two years ago there was a ramshackle unskateable metal park with used needles and drinks cans everywhere. Now there's an immaculate concrete park that's properly looked after and the kids helped generate the petition showing the interest in it, design it, raise funds for it and now take care of it. All I did was point them in the right direction. I don't know why I'm surprised, I coached youth football for years and had to explain to parents how different their children were when they were properly engaged with something.

Nothing more fulfilling than giving your time to help others.

FishFish

Class structure. Vide the Working Class. They don't do any work and they don't have any class. FACT!

FishFish

Rolf F wrote:

FishFish wrote:

Not living in the same house for 15 years cheers me up.

I feel for you; it must be expensive and tedious doing all that moving stuff. I bought one house and it was the one I wanted in the area I wanted and it still is. Not moving house cheers me up.

Thanks but I was only kidding!

rjsterry

FishFish wrote:

Class structure. Vide the Working Class. They don't do any work and they don't have any class. FACT!

But without them, against whom would you define yourself? You can't be middle class if you're not in the middle.