Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    People using random word generators to create posts. :lol:
    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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  • langtounboy
    langtounboy Posts: 55
    came into work not realising I'd left my lunch behind :roll:
    Only to discover that there was a charity cake sale happening outside the office :D
    two coffees and a very large slab of carrot cake & I'm now a very happy chap.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    PBlakeney wrote:
    People using random word generators to create posts. :lol:

    :D

    It's quite clever when you think about it.
    All it requires is that Fishbot gets plugged into the mains instead of a transformer accidentally.

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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    FishFish wrote:
    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.

    You probably had afternoon tea for one served by Giles the Butler sent in by mummy.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Pinno wrote:
    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.

    So basically otherwise Kenya and Denmark are very similar? (I have never been to Denmark so I don't know).
    Here at long last one was in a position not to give a damn for all conventions, here was a new kind of freedom which until then one had only found in dreams!
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Pinno wrote:
    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.

    A good thing surely - and common place. If you can live permanently in your summer house then it means that nobody can afford a summer house. In Norway loads of people have their own ski lodges. They are cheap. But they can't live in them all year round. If they could, they'd cost as much as normal houses because that's what they'd be.

    Try getting approval to live in your Southwold Beach hut in the UK!

    Besides, there's a lot of rules pretty much everywhere.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Rolf F wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    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.

    A good thing surely - and common place. If you can live permanently in your summer house then it means that nobody can afford a summer house. In Norway loads of people have their own ski lodges. They are cheap. But they can't live in them all year round. If they could, they'd cost as much as normal houses because that's what they'd be.

    Try getting approval to live in your Southwold Beach hut in the UK!

    Besides, there's a lot of rules pretty much everywhere.
    Scope for a nomadic existence.
    Summer in the summer house, winter in the ski lodge and have no "permanent" residence.
    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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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    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.

    A good thing surely - and common place. If you can live permanently in your summer house then it means that nobody can afford a summer house. In Norway loads of people have their own ski lodges. They are cheap. But they can't live in them all year round. If they could, they'd cost as much as normal houses because that's what they'd be.

    Try getting approval to live in your Southwold Beach hut in the UK!

    Besides, there's a lot of rules pretty much everywhere.
    Scope for a nomadic existence.
    Summer in the summer house, winter in the ski lodge and have no "permanent" residence.

    You'd still end up causing the summer houses to get priced out of reach then. It only works as a system because you have to have a "normal" house.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    Pinno wrote:
    A very high standard of living but a very high cost of living.
    Has he ever worked out that the two may be connected?
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Rolf F wrote:
    You'd still end up causing the summer houses to get priced out of reach then. It only works as a system because you have to have a "normal" house.
    An ideal life won't come cheaply.
    "Normal" house?
    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.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    A very high standard of living but a very high cost of living.
    Has he ever worked out that the two may be connected?

    I'm sure he has. But there is surely, a happier medium?

    Back OT:

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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    You'd still end up causing the summer houses to get priced out of reach then. It only works as a system because you have to have a "normal" house.
    An ideal life won't come cheaply.
    "Normal" house?

    House you can live in all year round. Holiday homes (mostly winter oriented) are a big thing in Norway. I think you can easily get them for well under £100k for not a particularly small one (not sure what the average house price in Norway is but I suspect a lot more than that). The whole principle is that you can relatively easily (ie on an average income) own a holiday home because most of the cost is the building itself. As soon as you can use (one or more of) them to live in all year round then effectively they'll cost the same as normal houses (ie permanent places of residence) - and that means that they will no longer be affordable and a nice way of life is lost to most for no obvious benefit.
    Summer houses or ski lodges do need rules or they are just houses.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,494
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    A very high standard of living but a very high cost of living.
    Has he ever worked out that the two may be connected?

    I'm sure he has. But there is surely, a happier medium?
    Work harder, earn more and improve your standard of living while your cost of living stays the same (usually works unless you're married).
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,605
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    A very high standard of living but a very high cost of living.
    Has he ever worked out that the two may be connected?

    I'm sure he has. But there is surely, a happier medium?
    Work harder, earn more and improve your standard of living while your cost of living stays the same (usually works unless you're married).

    If you are spending this extra money on stuff, rather than squirrelling it away and living like a monk, then surely your personal cost of living is going up anyway
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    Spend it on Mess O' Schit Panzerwagons, is what the Taxman does.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,494
    rjsterry wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    A very high standard of living but a very high cost of living.
    Has he ever worked out that the two may be connected?

    I'm sure he has. But there is surely, a happier medium?
    Work harder, earn more and improve your standard of living while your cost of living stays the same (usually works unless you're married).

    If you are spending this extra money on stuff, rather than squirrelling it away and living like a monk, then surely your personal cost of living is going up anyway
    Whoops, missed the smiley :wink:
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,494
    orraloon wrote:
    Spend it on Mess O' Schit Panzerwagons, is what the Taxman does.
    Call me L'Oreal - because I'm worth it :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Got out on a rare bike ride this morning. Just a very gentle spin in perfect weather and had one section of road that has been recently resurfaced, is as close to flat as you get and with a tailwind. For 5 minutes it was cycling heaven.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Pross wrote:
    Got out on a rare bike ride this morning. Just a very gentle spin in perfect weather and had one section of road that has been recently resurfaced, is as close to flat as you get and with a tailwind. For 5 minutes it was cycling heaven.

    Ha! I went on a pedal yesterday in the stick sticks - back of beyond. On a road I often take and it gets more like Roubaix every year what with agricultural vehicles getting bigger and a distinct shortfall in council budget.
    [Wind the clock back to 1987 and Britain, with a few other European countries conducted the (at the time), biggest peace time military operation in this area*. The place was swarming with military vehicles and the long and short of it was that the roads were so badly damaged, the MOD resurfaced 80% of the roads around here. They were impeccable.
    Since then, of the back roads, none of the have been properly planed and resurfaced bar the odd, badly done surface dressing.]

    *Exercise 'Purple warrior' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Purple_Warrior

    Back to the plot: I arrived upon a 'Road closed' sign and have never bothered to alter course locally. In fact, at one time, I had access to 12 miles of empty road whilst they repaired that section after installing a wind farm. It was sublime and being polite to the boys from the back stuff has never got me into bother and I have ever been pulled up for going down a closed road by them.
    So here's me encountering the road workers and blow me down with a feather but this back of beyond tractor/range rover run is actually being properly resurfaced.
    I rode on it but it was soft because it was till very hot and had obviously only had a single run of the roller.
    So I ended up walking the whole section on the side of the road and in the process, clogged up the cleats with bitumen covered debris :roll:
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Getting into work in one piece this morning after running the 15 mile gauntlet of freezing temperatures, 28mm slick tyres on sheet ice in pitch dark country roads and saving it once. Hope the ride home is worth it.
  • cld531c
    cld531c Posts: 517
    Learning today that you can store staples under the base of your stapler.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    cld531c wrote:
    Learning today that you can store staples under the base of your stapler.

    Don't forget or they will be there till the end of time or your stapler whichever is soonest.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Yesterday was my father in law’s funeral, and it was a lovely tribute to a very fine man
    And it cheered me up no end to have the old joke “what’s the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake?........one less drunk!” properly and gloriously confirmed.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    The smell of real leather when I open the door of my aircooled vw.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    Getting free fireworks displays on 2 consecutive evenings - last night over at pals, big organised display at golf club about 500m away, full view, then tonight village bonfire and display which we can see through a convenient gap in the trees. Free. Mmmm, nice.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    orraloon wrote:
    Getting free fireworks displays on 2 consecutive evenings - last night over at pals, big organised display at golf club about 500m away, full view, then tonight village bonfire and display which we can see through a convenient gap in the trees. Free. Mmmm, nice.

    Excellent work you must have saved several pounds.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    orraloon wrote:
    Getting free fireworks displays on 2 consecutive evenings - last night over at pals, big organised display at golf club about 500m away, full view, then tonight village bonfire and display which we can see through a convenient gap in the trees. Free. Mmmm, nice.

    Excellent work you must have saved several pounds.

    Maintaining the cultural stereotype.
    (Well done that man)
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    Aye, mony a mickle maks a muckle, ken.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,494
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    orraloon wrote:
    Getting free fireworks displays on 2 consecutive evenings - last night over at pals, big organised display at golf club about 500m away, full view, then tonight village bonfire and display which we can see through a convenient gap in the trees. Free. Mmmm, nice.

    Excellent work you must have saved several pounds.
    Well it is trivial.

    And it cheers me up knowing that he's as tight as a gnat's chuff :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    I'm probably the only one on here who has FA interest in firework displays. That's not to say that I don't understand why kids find them wondrous. But adults? :?

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