Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Stout cycling brogues? Well done, sir.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Stout cycling brogues? Well done, sir.
    KLM lost my suitcase when flying to Toulouse. My cycling shoes were in the case. Lesson learned. Marmot loaned me some flat pedals and I did the first two days in the Pyrenees in my brogues. Including one very wet day. :shock:
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Pinno wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    I passed last years total annual mileage this last week, with two months still to go :) I know no-one cares but me, but it made me happy

    Seen as there is still 2 months to go, do you:
    a) Go for a big total and then find that target is impossible to reach next year or
    b) Take it easy so as not to set a big target but then loose all that condition?

    Ill want to push myself to go further, but I dont want to make myself miserable trying to do it, its still about enjoying the riding ultimately and where it takes me, not just drilling out the miles.

    and my ass is alot more cheery now, even if it took me nearly 3 years to realise the saddle on my commuter bike was ridiculously too narrow for it
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Gullible gang convinced to return to rob Belgian store and be arrested


    Didier called the police, who didn’t believe the robbers would be so stupid as to return.

    But they did - twice.

    The group came back to the shop at 5.30pm, an hour before the shop’s closing time.

    As the police were not around, Didier convinced the men to return yet again after close of business.

    On their third arrival, the police promptly arrested the gullible gang, consisting of four men and one minor.

    Hercule Poirot? Who needs ya, baby?
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    The advert for Voxi featuring a load of 'thumbs' bobbing about in a field.

    I say thumbs, but the very first ones you see look like penises, and after that the eye gets tricked into seeing them all the same. I wonder who signed that one off, makes me chuckle.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Pinno wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    I passed last years total annual mileage this last week, with two months still to go :) I know no-one cares but me, but it made me happy

    I've not exceeded last years total and I think my bum is indifferent to the matter.

    That's cos your over the hill mate.

    This might be so but one has a dashing new outfit:

    tweed+cyclist.jpg

    Yes very fetching you old Hipster -- looks well with your bus pass sticking out of the top pocket.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Pinno wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    I passed last years total annual mileage this last week, with two months still to go :) I know no-one cares but me, but it made me happy

    Seen as there is still 2 months to go, do you:
    a) Go for a big total and then find that target is impossible to reach next year or
    b) Take it easy so as not to set a big target but then loose all that condition?

    I've not exceeded last years total and I think my bum is indifferent to the matter.
    I would say to awavey go out and enjoy the bicycling, have some occasional stops for fortifying ale and pie and break in the saddle for more adventures when one is ready. Bonne chance, you!
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Cowsham wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    I passed last years total annual mileage this last week, with two months still to go :) I know no-one cares but me, but it made me happy

    I've not exceeded last years total and I think my bum is indifferent to the matter.

    That's cos your over the hill mate.

    This might be so but one has a dashing new outfit:

    tweed+cyclist.jpg

    Yes very fetching you old Hipster -- looks well with your bus pass sticking out of the top pocket.

    what hipster would have socks and gears on their bike?

    I suspect you have never paid £14 for crushed avocado on toast
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    I passed last years total annual mileage this last week, with two months still to go :) I know no-one cares but me, but it made me happy

    I've not exceeded last years total and I think my bum is indifferent to the matter.

    That's cos your over the hill mate.

    This might be so but one has a dashing new outfit:

    tweed+cyclist.jpg

    Yes very fetching you old Hipster -- looks well with your bus pass sticking out of the top pocket.

    what hipster would have socks and gears on their bike?

    I suspect you have never paid £14 for crushed avocado on toast


    £14 ! Cheapskate
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Months and months of chasing has finally gotten the paperwork through for our freehold purchase.

    We only began the process at the beginning of December.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    That nice crispy sunny Sunday morning ride I'm just back from just in time for dinner.
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Noticing a puncture as I'm walking past the bike at work.

    Yes, still have to replace/ repair, but much better catching it at lunchtime then at 5 past 5 wanting to get home.
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    Cowsham wrote:
    That nice crispy sunny Sunday morning ride I'm just back from just in time for dinner.


    ...it is called 'lunch'.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    FishFish wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    That nice crispy sunny Sunday morning ride I'm just back from just in time for dinner.


    ...it is called 'lunch'.

    Wrong thread and it is not trivial
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    FishFish wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    That nice crispy sunny Sunday morning ride I'm just back from just in time for dinner.


    ...it is called 'lunch'.

    No it definitely is not called lunch.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Oh yes it is. Hence 'lunchboxes'. Short for 'luncheon'.

    Mind you, technically you could have dinner for lunch and then you'd only want supper for your dinner. Not sure what you'd get for tea mind.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,494
    Well this is definitely trivial...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Apart from very unhealthy (and probably indigestible) what's it called when the aforementioned dinner includes Pork Luncheon Meat?
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Apart from very unhealthy (and probably indigestible) what's it called when the aforementioned dinner includes Pork Luncheon Meat?

    you are in a 1950s reality show
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Robert88 wrote:
    Oh yes it is. Hence 'lunchboxes'. Short for 'luncheon'.

    Mind you, technically you could have dinner for lunch and then you'd only want supper for your dinner. Not sure what you'd get for tea mind.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Why did we have dinner ladies at school then ? -- - ney - nin ney - nin ney - nay ( in little girl singing voice )
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Apart from very unhealthy (and probably indigestible) what's it called when the aforementioned dinner includes Pork Luncheon Meat?

    ?

    You mean that it's for human consumption? I thought it was for putting on hooks to catch barbel. :lol:


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    We're not talking about spam here are we?
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  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Pinno wrote:
    We're not talking about spam here are we?
    I didn’t know the answer so googled it - consensus is that they are the same! That said, I’ve never actually eaten it but did have a narrow escape once in Hawaii where it was quite popular when I visited in the 1980s. Don’t know whether it still is.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
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  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    The CBS article where us government officials are reported as saying Americans are better off than the socialist Danes. Laughter is good therapy even if the idea that Americans might believe it or the officials thought they could get away with that report depresses me.

    Given the choice of America or Denmark system and country to live in I'm young with Denmark every time. Even if that makes me poorer than Americans.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    My brother in law is Danish and moans constantly about the extortionate cost of living.
    All imported cars (and that's 99% of them) are subject to extra tax so even a basic FraudGMNissoyotaclonewagon is silly money. Second hand one's are subject to the same tax.
    There's also a lot of rules in Denmark. For example, they cannot live in their summer house. Unless it was their only home, unless they pay extra for the privilege.
    That's why he's reluctant to leave Kenya and return to Denmark.
    Income tax is 55% and upwards.
    A very high standard of living but a very high cost of living.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,494
    Pinno wrote:
    All imported cars (and that's 99% of them) are subject to extra tax so even a basic FraudGMNissoyotaclonewagon is silly money. Second hand one's are subject to the same tax.
    Cheers me up that I'm not Danish then.
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  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    Cowsham wrote:
    Why did we have dinner ladies at school then ? -- - ney - nin ney - nin ney - nay ( in little girl singing voice )


    Not all of us went to state schools.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Is it actually possible for you to be cheered up FF?!

    This trivial thing cheered me up:
    FishFish wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Keeping this thread on a serious track and away from annoying frivolity; some decent post Brexit advice for you Fishbot:

    https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soc ... 1029178799

    Well at least you could try and elevate the discussion. Are you an old age pensioner by any chance?
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