Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Just found out Jenny Campbell is Greg Davis in drag

    taskmaster_greg_davies_series2.jpg

    ed5.jpg
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Having a random thought generator. Sleeps like a baby.
    Anyone with a baby will know that saying is nonsense. :lol:
    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.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Having a random thought generator. Sleeps like a baby.
    Anyone with a baby will know that saying is nonsense. :lol:

    if anybody says that to me I ask "did you sh1t yourself and wake up screamimg"
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    TDNW dressed as a tennis umpire
    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.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    TDNW dressed as a tennis umpire
    I prefer when she wears the Wimbledon player whites.
    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.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    First day of the rugby season yesterday, one and only number one son made his debut for my old team, playing alongside some guys I played with for ten years or so. He scored two tries in a 33-15 victory and was rightly fined for ‘jug avoidance!’

    Another thing, walking past the changing rooms on my way to the pitch, the smell of Liquid Heat, the very smell of playing rugby, I had a moment when I realised how much I miss playing, the bones and body won’t let me play anymore but, my god!, I miss it!!
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    The handshakes all round from the Indian cricket team for Alistair Cook. Total respect for his achievements in the game. No daft thumb grips or fist bumps. Proper handshakes!
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    A guy we lived with at uni who I've not seen or spoken to in 4 years messaged me out of the blue to come up for the weekend. He will dilute the 4 friends the GF has invited this weekend too. This has cheered me up no end.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    HaydenM wrote:
    A guy we lived with at uni who I've not seen or spoken to in 4 years messaged me out of the blue to come up for the weekend. He will dilute the 4 friends the GF has invited this weekend too. This has cheered me up no end.

    Was his name Victor Frankenstein
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Cowsham wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    A guy we lived with at uni who I've not seen or spoken to in 4 years messaged me out of the blue to come up for the weekend. He will dilute the 4 friends the GF has invited this weekend too. This has cheered me up no end.

    Was his name Victor Frankenstein

    I hope so...
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    It has rained most of the day while I've been stuck in the office but has stopped now I'm about to leave - the sun is even coming out!
    www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Chris Bass wrote:
    It has rained most of the day while I've been stuck in the office but has stopped now I'm about to leave - the sun is even coming out!

    Theres' a place for this sort of post and it's here:
    viewtopic.php?f=30005&t=13095613

    (in case you have amnesia).
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Wife n family are away at boy #1's graduation, leaving me alone till about 2am with just the hifi for company. It doesn’t often get a good workout, tonight it has. Naim, fwiw.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    CiB wrote:
    Wife n family are away at boy #1's graduation, leaving me alone till about 2am with just the hifi for company. It doesn’t often get a good workout, tonight it has. Naim, fwiw.

    I'm tempted to buy the neighbour's house just so I can play at high volumes...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    HaydenM wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    Wife n family are away at boy #1's graduation, leaving me alone till about 2am with just the hifi for company. It doesn’t often get a good workout, tonight it has. Naim, fwiw.

    I'm tempted to buy the neighbour's house just so I can play at high volumes...

    Why not play it loud all the time? That way you might drive the neighbours away.
    It's a sleepy village and it needs livening up.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Pinno wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    Wife n family are away at boy #1's graduation, leaving me alone till about 2am with just the hifi for company. It doesn’t often get a good workout, tonight it has. Naim, fwiw.

    I'm tempted to buy the neighbour's house just so I can play at high volumes...

    Why not play it loud all the time? That way you might drive the neighbours away.
    It's a sleepy village and it needs livening up.

    I live in the village the other side of the motorway now, even sleepier! I want to buy theirs and knock through anyway so this should drive them out
  • big_harv
    big_harv Posts: 512
    Taking about 2 years worth of small change to the Coinstar at the supermarket. Receiving £60 ticket and cashing it in.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    That Google family link app surprisingly REALLY WORKS !
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Rob Brydon.
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Robert88 wrote:
    Rob Brydon.

    Yes!!!!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    HaydenM wrote:
    A guy we lived with at uni who I've not seen or spoken to in 4 years messaged me out of the blue to come up for the weekend. He will dilute the 4 friends the GF has invited this weekend too. This has cheered me up no end.

    But what if he has turned really boring?

    MF stayed one night while passing through with a really good friend from university he hadn’t seen for years and years and years and years and years.

    At university he was really good company: funny, interesting, really good to chat to, very cool. Now: dull as. Incredibly boring. Square as and slightly rotund. Middle age had struck him into being an utter dullard. MF couldn’t wheelspin out of there fast enough.

    The 4 friends may turn out to be the saviours, especially if they are fit and have cracking norks.

    #caution
    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.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    A snippet of conversation I earwigged whilst walking past the Church's homeless drop in centre in Southampton yesterday. Two homeless guys sat outside the church in the sunshine supping on tea and puffing on roll ups and chewin' the fat. One said to the other "He can't be a real beggar if he catches the bus. I can't afford to catch a bus".
    Just reminded me of the kind of sketches the Two Ronnies used to do when the tramps were contemplating life.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    Cowsham wrote:
    That Google family link app surprisingly REALLY WORKS !
    Looked at that but the phone we gave my son to use is on an old version of Android and therefore not compatible. May re-try in Novemnber when I'm due an upgrade
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    The statistic that in breaking the Marathon world record last weekend Eluid Kipchoge ran a hundred metres in 17.2 seconds....421 times in succession

    No matter how hard you kid yourself, you are simply not in the same category as a world class athlete!!

    As a statistic that one is truly mind blowing.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    crispybug2 wrote:
    The statistic that in breaking the Marathon world record last weekend Eluid Kipchoge ran a hundred metres in 17.2 seconds....421 times in succession

    No matter how hard you kid yourself, you are simply not in the same category as a world class athlete!!

    As a statistic that one is truly mind blowing.
    Staggering indeed.
    However, to me there are serious PED warning buzzers going off: not so much Kipchoge himself but Kenya as a whole - it's known to be a serious problem, and on top of that the amount of corruption and covering up that goes on right through the country is horrendous. I say this as someone who likes Kenya and Kenyans.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    crispybug2 wrote:
    The statistic that in breaking the Marathon world record last weekend Eluid Kipchoge ran a hundred metres in 17.2 seconds....421 times in succession

    No matter how hard you kid yourself, you are simply not in the same category as a world class athlete!!

    As a statistic that one is truly mind blowing.

    He has an average speed of 13MPH for 2 hours solid ! That's superhuman

    I struggle to do an average speed of 13MPG on my flat bar bike for an hour -- on my way back home from work although it's mostly uphill with a heavy climb at the end and always into wind. Still -- puts it into respective for me.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Tashman wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    That Google family link app surprisingly REALLY WORKS !
    Looked at that but the phone we gave my son to use is on an old version of Android and therefore not compatible. May re-try in Novemnber when I'm due an upgrade

    Buy a 2017 J3 Samsung from O2 pay as you go -- £109 +£10 top up -- use the O2 top up before going back to your usual sim if you wish -- but set the family link up on the sim you intend to use --

    I thought the J3 wouldn't be a good enough phone after trying an acetal pixie 4 with him over the summer as he was going to big school in September. The pixie4 was truly junk and a total waste of money ( basically it simply doesn't work or takes ages to process any job).
    I was apprehensive about another cheap phone but things have moved on and so has the J3 -- good camera good processor and plenty of memory ( 16gb internal and expandable to 128 gb I think.) It's much higher spec than my old A5 which was the next tier up from the J's a few years back.

    I can lock or unlock his phone from mine - setup unlocked times -- I get a notification each time he wants to download a new game/app and can approve it remotely from the family link on my app. I can remotely see his search history and control the content. £119 well spent -- this time.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    Cowsham wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    That Google family link app surprisingly REALLY WORKS !
    Looked at that but the phone we gave my son to use is on an old version of Android and therefore not compatible. May re-try in Novemnber when I'm due an upgrade

    Buy a 2017 J3 Samsung from O2 pay as you go -- £109 +£10 top up -- use the O2 top up before going back to your usual sim if you wish -- but set the family link up on the sim you intend to use --

    I thought the J3 wouldn't be a good enough phone after trying an acetal pixie 4 with him over the summer as he was going to big school in September. The pixie4 was truly junk and a total waste of money ( basically it simply doesn't work or takes ages to process any job).
    I was apprehensive about another cheap phone but things have moved on and so has the J3 -- good camera good processor and plenty of memory ( 16gb internal and expandable to 128 gb I think.) It's much higher spec than my old A5 which was the next tier up from the J's a few years back.

    I can lock or unlock his phone from mine - setup unlocked times -- I get a notification each time he wants to download a new game/app and can approve it remotely from the family link on my app. I can remotely see his search history and control the content. £119 well spent -- this time.

    We've downloaded an alternative app - MMGuardian Parent App which does the same. My free trial has just expired and I'm looking at paying for the year ($35) although as I said was looking to give him my Sony Xperia in Nov when I upgrade and will then be able to enable the family link properly.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    crispybug2 wrote:
    n

    No matter how hard you kid yourself, you are simply not in the same category as a world class athlete!!

    .

    please don't lower the rest of us to your standards.
    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.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Foreign food.
    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.

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