Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,271
    But the 'adults' have to take them :roll:
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,972
    Being able to predict that when I heard about the Spice Girls reunion, Victoria Beckham would not be taking part.

    It wasn't a difficult prediction I agree, she did little other than take 20% of the earnings originally.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,282
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Being able to predict that when I heard about the Spice Girls reunion, Victoria Beckham would not be taking part.

    It wasn't a difficult prediction I agree, she did little other than take 20% of the earnings originally.
    Also, the fact that the others obviously need their bank balances topped up.
    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.
  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    Drivers that signal their intent to cut you up by switching their indicators from right to left as they get alongside you. It gave me notice so I could react and keep safe.

    I didn't know if this was a case of annoy or cheer. I chose this thread because in some way that ignorant, middle aged, male driver of a rather nice white audi A5 with personalised number plate was being very proper with the use of his indicators. If he was similarly proper with his understanding and obeyance of the highway code and good driving practices it would be better. But I'm in a positive mood so what little he did cheered me up and offered hope in humanity.
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Fark me. Do Audi's come with indicators nowadays?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,282
    He clearly ticked the box in the optional extras list.
    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.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Dinyull wrote:
    Fark me. Do Audi's come with indicators nowadays?
    Well, of course, they have these silly ones where the light travels in the direction they're indicating. Their annoyingness explains why Audi drivers, being thoughtful and public-spirited souls, like to use them as little as they can manage.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,972
    Finding recently that one of my music heroes, who looked like this when I was a teenager...

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    Now looks like this...

    shill.jpg

    and is still playing


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Finding recently that one of my music heroes, who looked like this when I was a teenager...

    774.jpg


    There's a bit of a Marty Feldman look about him

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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Ian Anderson

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  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Finding recently that one of my music heroes, who looked like this when I was a teenager...

    774.jpg


    Now looks like this...

    shill.jpg

    and is still playing


    Actually don’t know who that is, but it’s unusual for someone to still be playing a Steinberger!!!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,271
    Bompington hasn't sent me any hate mail yet.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Pinno wrote:
    Bompington hasn't sent me any hate mail yet.
    Only 'cos I was asleep ;-)
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,282
    Watching a driver apparently getting upset by WVM having the temerity to overtake him a decide to “punish” WVM by accelerating to tailgate him.
    1. WVM won’t really give a flying....
    2. Driving so close behind a van with blanked out rear windows that the driver won’t see you in his side mirrors is pointless and futile. It is also dangerous but that aspect would annoy me.
    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
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Watching a driver apparently getting upset by WVM having the temerity to overtake him a decide to “punish” WVM by accelerating to tailgate him.
    1. WVM won’t really give a flying....
    2. Driving so close behind a van with blanked out rear windows that the driver won’t see you in his side mirrors is pointless and futile. It is also dangerous but that aspect would annoy me.


    Speaking as a WVM (although my van is actually red....but that’s just splitting hairs!) the thing I’ve found recently is that I’m getting dangerously tailgated, particularly by lorries, on roads with average speed cameras which I presume is because councils are switching them off to save money and people are aware of this. Now as you mentioned earlier cars tailgating me I don’t give a flying f*ck about but being tailgated by a lorry is, frankly, terrifying!!
  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    Once had a mate who slipstreamed such a van on his mtb. Woke up in hospital minus a working bike, bruised face and even more bruised ego. Not to be advised.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,972
    crispybug2 wrote:

    Actually don’t know who that is, but it’s unusual for someone to still be playing a Steinberger!!

    He was a bit of an acquired taste, I must admit, but he was around quite a lot in the background.

    Such as here, playing with Mike Oldfield...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zsTsabkC_w
    (along with a young Karl Jenkins BTW)

    and his version of "It's all too much" is worth a lookup.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • big_harv
    big_harv Posts: 512
    Green is a great album if a little "hippie-ish". Produced by Floyd's Nick Mason as I recall. Now he's some techno dance dude.

    End of pop trivia. :wink:
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,967
    bompington wrote:
    Dinyull wrote:
    Fark me. Do Audi's come with indicators nowadays?
    Well, of course, they have these silly ones where the light travels in the direction they're indicating. Their annoyingness explains why Audi drivers, being thoughtful and public-spirited souls, like to use them as little as they can manage.

    Thought I was the only one that hated those offensive ridiculous moronic indicators :twisted:
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Dinyull wrote:
    Fark me. Do Audi's come with indicators nowadays?

    Mate's Audi has automatic main beam. Perhaps Audi drivers think they have automatic indicators as well.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,271
    Dinyull wrote:
    Fark me. Do Audi's come with indicators nowadays?

    :lol:

    Some tw@t in a jag pulled out on me on Old Bath Road, Cheltenham and then (the usual) immediately turned left and into the pub car park (Wheatsheaf).
    The window was open. I pulled along side and said "That's a nice car, what did you pay for it?"
    "Far more than you could afford" he replied. I said "You paid far too much for it". He says "Oh really?!", I said "Yep, next time, get a car that has working indicators".
    I pedalled away to a cacophony of expletives. Even the passenger was having a pop. I mean, wtf has it got to do with him?
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Mrs BBGeek's Audi has indicators. I know because I accidentally operated them once while adjusting the cruise control.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,271
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Mrs BBGeek's Audi has indicators. I know because I accidentally operated them once while adjusting the cruise control.

    It must be an old model.
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Mrs BBGeek's Audi has indicators. I know because I accidentally operated them once while adjusting the cruise control.

    It must be an old model.
    "Classic" or "vintage" please. If I tell her it's an old model she might insist on a new one :lol:
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,461
    crispybug2 wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Watching a driver apparently getting upset by WVM having the temerity to overtake him a decide to “punish” WVM by accelerating to tailgate him.
    1. WVM won’t really give a flying....
    2. Driving so close behind a van with blanked out rear windows that the driver won’t see you in his side mirrors is pointless and futile. It is also dangerous but that aspect would annoy me.


    Speaking as a WVM (although my van is actually red....but that’s just splitting hairs!) the thing I’ve found recently is that I’m getting dangerously tailgated, particularly by lorries, on roads with average speed cameras which I presume is because councils are switching them off to save money and people are aware of this. Now as you mentioned earlier cars tailgating me I don’t give a flying f*ck about but being tailgated by a lorry is, frankly, terrifying!!

    I avoid driving in the middle lane on sections of roadworks with average speed cameras because of the lorries tailgating. On those ridiculously long sections of roadworks on the M6 recently I saw numerous lorries sitting less than a car length behind a car in the middle lane with everyone driving at 50mph. Where are they going to go if the car has to brake suddenly as 40t of truck isn't going to stop as quickly as a car and there is nowhere either side for them to swerve. I genuinely think it's a matter of time before there is a serious collision in those circumstances. What benefit are they gaining by driving so closely?
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Finding we have a choice of Johnsons. One who brushes his hair and one who is a dick.
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Robert88 wrote:
    Finding we have a choice of Johnsons. One who brushes his hair and one who is a dick.

    Would that be Jo Johnson who said this?

    “David Cameron has committed that he will only lead a government that offers an in-out referendum. We will hold that in-out referendum before the end of 2017 and respect the outcome.

    “We will honour the result of the referendum, whatever the outcome.”
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    to carry on the motoring theme, the MFs have recently been cutting around in one of those massive 8 wheeled army truck things.

    why do people in normal cars think it is a good idea to try and cut them up? surely they must realise that some 8 times bigger and heavier than them isn't going to even notice them as it drives over them?
    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.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Shortfall wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    Finding we have a choice of Johnsons. One who brushes his hair and one who is a dick.

    Would that be Jo Johnson who said this?

    “David Cameron has committed that he will only lead a government that offers an in-out referendum. We will hold that in-out referendum before the end of 2017 and respect the outcome.

    “We will honour the result of the referendum, whatever the outcome.”

    I'm only cheerful because he can use a hairbrush. It's a start, isn't it? My expectations are still slightly lower than the Marianna trench which is where his brother would not seem out of place.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    to carry on the motoring theme, the MFs have recently been cutting around in one of those massive 8 wheeled army truck things.

    why do people in normal cars think it is a good idea to try and cut them up? surely they must realise that some 8 times bigger and heavier than them isn't going to even notice them as it drives over them?


    I thought all you MF's had retired ? That didn't come out the way I meant it to.

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