Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Ballysmate wrote:
    mrfpb wrote:
    Russell Brands biscuit showstopper.

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... e-original

    The only time I could possibly envisage a sentence with the words Brand and Russell in it cheering me up would be if it also contained the words accident and fatal.
    The bloke is as funny as piles and just as annoying.

    this exactly.

    it would have been brilliant if Pru would have have stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck whilst whispering in his ear that he was an unfunny annoying phuktard.
    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.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    mrfpb wrote:
    Russell Brands biscuit showstopper.

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... e-original

    The only time I could possibly envisage a sentence with the words Brand and Russell in it cheering me up would be if it also contained the words accident and fatal.
    The bloke is as funny as piles and just as annoying.

    this exactly.

    it would have been brilliant if Pru would have have stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck whilst whispering in his ear that he was an unfunny annoying phuktard.

    I lump him in with Piers Morgan -- all should be banished to fkwit TV
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    SDSD. 《sigh》
    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.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    News that Bompetta is going to a friend's after school, and it's early finish day, so I've got basically all afternoon to get home...
    ... just need to plot a route where it's not snowing :shock:
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Not feeling the need to affirm my status through the continual wearing of Apple Bluetooth ear buds...
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  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Not feeling the need to affirm my status through the continual wearing of Apple Bluetooth ear buds...
    I often read things that I don't understand here on BR (mostly a lot of the entrenched views from all sides of the Brexit or 'Wife of Isis' [mass] debates) but I'll add this one to the list. I wouldn't use those Apple bluetooth things as I suspect that they are like all the other Apple ear phones that I have tried in giving give out a p1ss poor sound but what I don't understand is why on earth you would think of them as a status symbol.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,354
    bompington wrote:
    News that Bompetta is going to a friend's after school, and it's early finish day, so I've got basically all afternoon to get home...
    ... just need to plot a route where it's not snowing :shock:

    Woosh - over the heads of these Southern Softies. Not even an acknowledgement of the task ahead.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
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    ayjaycee wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Not feeling the need to affirm my status through the continual wearing of Apple Bluetooth ear buds...
    I often read things that I don't understand here on BR (mostly a lot of the entrenched views from all sides of the Brexit or 'Wife of Isis' [mass] debates) but I'll add this one to the list. I wouldn't use those Apple bluetooth things as I suspect that they are like all the other Apple ear phones that I have tried in giving give out a p1ss poor sound but what I don't understand is why on earth you would think of them as a status symbol.

    I don't think of them as a status symbol (I think the whole concept of the status symbol is lamentably ironic), but some people clearly do. Clearly.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,605
    Pinno wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    News that Bompetta is going to a friend's after school, and it's early finish day, so I've got basically all afternoon to get home...
    ... just need to plot a route where it's not snowing :shock:

    Woosh - over the heads of these Southern Softies. Not even an acknowledgement of the task ahead.
    Sorry, didn't realise Bompington was fishing for compliments.

    <ahem> Gosh! How brave!?
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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Ballysmate wrote:
    mrfpb wrote:
    Russell Brands biscuit showstopper.

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... e-original

    The only time I could possibly envisage a sentence with the words Brand and Russell in it cheering me up would be if it also contained the words accident and fatal.
    The bloke is as funny as piles and just as annoying.

    This. Anything Brand related should appear in the Trivial Things That Annoy Me thread (apart from his obituary). If anyone deserves the title of the arsehole's arsehole it's him
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,354
    Shortfall wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    mrfpb wrote:
    Russell Brands biscuit showstopper.

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... e-original

    The only time I could possibly envisage a sentence with the words Brand and Russell in it cheering me up would be if it also contained the words accident and fatal.
    The bloke is as funny as piles and just as annoying.

    This. Anything Brand related should appear in the Trivial Things That Annoy Me thread (apart from his obituary). If anyone deserves the title of the arsehole's arsehole it's him

    Oh bollox, I had better send your birthday present back:

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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,605
    Turns out bored MPs play stupid games to pass the time.

    https://www.ft.com/content/a46f0932-3f9 ... ab61506f44

    The Prime Minister's PPS bet another MP tea at the Ritz that she could get her boss to say "Simples", meerkat-style, during PMQ. And won.

    Explains a lot.

    Very serious paper, the FT. :)
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    rjsterry wrote:
    Turns out bored MPs play stupid games to pass the time.

    https://www.ft.com/content/a46f0932-3f9 ... ab61506f44

    The Prime Minister's PPS bet another MP tea at the Ritz that she could get her boss to say "Simples", meerkat-style, during PMQ. And won.

    Explains a lot.

    Very serious paper, the FT. :)

    I'd prefer the Dorchester.
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    rjsterry wrote:
    Turns out bored MPs play stupid games to pass the time.

    https://www.ft.com/content/a46f0932-3f9 ... ab61506f44

    The Prime Minister's PPS bet another MP tea at the Ritz that she could get her boss to say "Simples", meerkat-style, during PMQ. And won.

    Explains a lot.

    Very serious paper, the FT. :)

    I think Teresa's been at the countdown app again.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    rjsterry wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    News that Bompetta is going to a friend's after school, and it's early finish day, so I've got basically all afternoon to get home...
    ... just need to plot a route where it's not snowing :shock:

    Woosh - over the heads of these Southern Softies. Not even an acknowledgement of the task ahead.
    Sorry, didn't realise Bompington was fishing for compliments.

    <ahem> Gosh! How brave!?
    Meh, there was just a bit of sleet and a force 6 headwind, chickenfeed
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Pinno wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    News that Bompetta is going to a friend's after school, and it's early finish day, so I've got basically all afternoon to get home...
    ... just need to plot a route where it's not snowing :shock:

    Woosh - over the heads of these Southern Softies. Not even an acknowledgement of the task ahead.
    Hate to tell you, P, but you count as a southern softy from here ;-)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,354
    bompington wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    News that Bompetta is going to a friend's after school, and it's early finish day, so I've got basically all afternoon to get home...
    ... just need to plot a route where it's not snowing :shock:

    Woosh - over the heads of these Southern Softies. Not even an acknowledgement of the task ahead.
    Hate to tell you, P, but you count as a southern softy from here ;-)

    Ha ha - i'm from the South... of the equator.

    You are right though. There was this Ugandan who visited Britain (BBC Radio 4) as a tourist. He hired a car and went travelling. On the North Circular, he noticed the sign 'North M25'. Then he got to Watford, again a sign that said 'North' and then Birmingham and then Manchester... and so it went on.
    So he sat down and looked at a map of the UK and measured it to find exactly where this 'North' started.
    He discovered that the mid point was Cairnryan (7 miles North of where I am now).
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Finding out one of my sons likes Etta James when I thought he was an irredeemable thrash metal ( complete with those fkin daft growling kunts ) tone deaf mumpty
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    The thought that, despite not really being interested in money, I am actually a greater financial success than the president of the United States of America! I never thought that that would happen :D
    Faster than a tent.......
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    When the station cat, normally aloof and doing its own thing, decides to come and make friends.

    This is an unmanned village station, the cat has adopted the role of stationmaster.
  • navrig2
    navrig2 Posts: 1,851
    Marmite and butter on toast. The goto, post beer/wine, pick me up.
  • andy9964
    andy9964 Posts: 930
    Maybe not so trivial, but...
    Nissan (I work in the casting plant at the Sunderland site) announced yesterday, that they want to cut 250 jobs, because the Infiniti production is moving to somewhere else
    Negotiations are in place for a leaving package for those who want to leave, this will be offered plant wide so the Infiniti workers can be redistributed elsewhere in the plant. They're hoping to do this through "natural wastage"

    So, what cheered me up....... I can take my pension in September and hopefully this deal as well. Last years deal was a £30k tax free lump, and several colleagues did just that.

    Expect a post in "What Annoyed Me" if I don't get accepted :lol:
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    Provoking an overreaction from RC OTP. :D
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Fair. Reached my quota of idiotic comments early today so am in aggressively take no sh!t mode for the rest of the day.
    _
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,605
    orraloon wrote:
    Provoking an overreaction from RC OTP. :D

    Lucky you posted over here. You'd have barely escaped with your life over on Pro Race :).
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,354
    rjsterry wrote:
    orraloon wrote:
    Provoking an overreaction from RC OTP. :D

    Lucky you posted over here. You'd have barely escaped with your life over on Pro Race :).

    I am still alive, despite one or two bloomers.
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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    TV programs like most haunted or my house is haunted.
    Although I’m a total wimp whe it comes to watching horror movies and the like and if I was in some old house at night with creaky noises I would probably fill my pants.
    It’s the way they say this is “ really dangerous “
    I may have missed something but I can’t recall when the last time someone was killed by a ghost. :twisted:
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Pretty rare for ghosts to appear to more than one person, nevermind anywhere where their presence can be verified.
    And why do ghosts appear fully clothed? Are they modest? Quite happy to appear with no head it seems but not with no pants.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Granny and her soup in the advert. She can nip round to mine anytime I’m under the weather with a bowl or two.

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