Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Matthewfalle 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.

    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

    A good warning. He was the same as ever really (unsurprising as he has done literally nothing since we graduated), weirdly though the GF's friends were great fun too. Very surprised.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    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.

    On a related but less impressive note, a friend of mine ran the same Berlin Marathon in 2:27:27. Less impressive than Kipchoge but still an absolutely ludicrous marathon time for a guy with a day job
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    The word “flick-ing” upsetting the swear filter.
    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:
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Getting to see and touch the F10s that Froome and Thomas rode for the wins at Giro and TdF.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Big Harv wrote:
    Taking about 2 years worth of small change to the Coinstar at the supermarket. Receiving £60 ticket and cashing it in.

    Jeez, you're easily cheered up. Putting 66 quid in and get 60 back would not put much of a smile on my face.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Surely you're not paying to use these things? Many free ones around.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Surely you're not paying to use these things? Many free ones around.


    Metro Bank are good for this
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Only one bank in our area did that. They closed the branch.
    Option of paying money for fuel + time wasted, or accept the loss.
    #futureofbanking
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    Veronese68 wrote:
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Pay for shit with cash?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Pay for shoot with cash?
    Does anyone actually carry coppers in their pockets?
    #timetogo
    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.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Pay for shoot with cash?
    Does anyone actually carry coppers in their pockets?
    #timetogo

    No but you can get it ready for that special trip to the petrol station and put half a tank in.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    This Amazon review for a Brooks flyer saddle I'm thinking of buying

    I was going to buy a B17 like I have on my road bike but took a chance and bought this for my cyclocross. Christ on a bike it's comfy! Brooks have employed elven craftsmen who weave magical powers on unicorn hide and create saddles of mystical comfort. Straight out of the box I did 30 miles off-road and my nad-sack felt like it had massaged by a hareem of vestal virgins. It has doubled the weight of my bike but who cares, if my plums are happy, I'm happy!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,604
    Cowsham wrote:
    if my plums are happy, I'm happy!
    Now there's a slogan t-shirt :)
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Pay for shoot with cash?
    Does anyone actually carry coppers in their pockets?
    #timetogo

    No but you can get it ready for that special trip to the petrol station and put half a tank in.
    They must love you as you hand over £30 in 1p & 2p coins. I did it once for a £1 toll road. They held me up until they slowly counted it. I didn’t do it again.
    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.
  • joe2008
    joe2008 Posts: 1,531
    PBlakeney wrote:
    I did it once for a £1 toll road. They held me up until they slowly counted it. I didn’t do it again.

    Porlock?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    joe2008 wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    I did it once for a £1 toll road. They held me up until they slowly counted it. I didn’t do it again.

    Porlock?
    That’s what I thought. :lol:
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Going on a non cycling holiday and being the skinny bloke in town instead of the fat bloke off the back. :wink:
    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.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Going on a non cycling holiday and being the skinny bloke in town instead of the fat bloke off the back. :wink:

    But you'll come back the fat bloke.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Cowsham wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Going on a non cycling holiday and being the skinny bloke in town instead of the fat bloke off the back. :wink:

    But you'll come back the fat bloke.
    I’m enjoying the moment regardless.
    Cheers me up.
    #relativity
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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    Veronese68 wrote:
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Finding a fiver folded over tucked in between one of the paddle things and the drum while fixing our tumble dryer

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Cowsham wrote:
    Finding a fiver folded over tucked in between one of the paddle things and the drum while fixing our tumble dryer

    I think it's a ploy by your other half.
    It's probably been there for 6 months.
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  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    Cowsham wrote:
    Finding a fiver folded over tucked in between one of the paddle things and the drum while fixing our tumble dryer

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    Not sure that the authorities see money laundering as trivial.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Pay for shoot with cash?
    Does anyone actually carry coppers in their pockets?
    #timetogo

    I just spend the coppers as I receive them. I've you sometimes give the right change you use your coppers up and generate less of them in the first place. I've never accumulated them.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Cornerblock wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Finding a fiver folded over tucked in between one of the paddle things and the drum while fixing our tumble dryer

    AI8hlA.md.jpg

    Not sure that the authorities see money laundering as trivial.

    I'm glad someone made that joke :lol:
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Rolf F wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Pay for shoot with cash?
    Does anyone actually carry coppers in their pockets?
    #timetogo

    I just spend the coppers as I receive them. I've you sometimes give the right change you use your coppers up and generate less of them in the first place. I've never accumulated them.

    My missus works a few hours in a convenience store. Kids come in after school to buy sweets etc. Some kids just chuck their change on the floor.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Rolf F wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Pay for shoot with cash?
    Does anyone actually carry coppers in their pockets?
    #timetogo

    I just spend the coppers as I receive them. I've you sometimes give the right change you use your coppers up and generate less of them in the first place. I've never accumulated them.
    Okay. What cheers me up is a shop charging £1 instead of 99p.
    I don’t miss the 1p, and don’t have to carry. 99p.
    I do use charity boxes though so there is that.
    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.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Cold and crisp. Quality weather. Nothing better than taking the hound for a walk before work when it's like this
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    I chuck my coppers in the girls' piggy bank.

    My god, this is fascinating stuff.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Cornerblock wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Finding a fiver folded over tucked in between one of the paddle things and the drum while fixing our tumble dryer

    AI8hlA.md.jpg

    Not sure that the authorities see money laundering as trivial.

    I have it in my genes

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