Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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The renaming of the Overground lines seems to be annoying all the right people 😁
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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They are also weird names.
Struggling to really care but they seem designed to annoy rather than just be useful names.
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I don't understand why they don't try to get them sponsored instead.
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Bought my 90 y/o vision and hearing impaired Mother some whizzo wireless headphones the other day. She's been a bit "Meh" about them, till today I FINALLY got her to understand the concept of "Hey Siri..."
She correctly asked the iPad to play one of her old favourite songs that even the local radio stations don't have in their catalogue any more, and in 2 seconds it was streaming in lossless audio noise-cancelled high definition as she walked around the house singing along loudly, oblivious.
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I think they're trying to please the right on crowd right on and any annoyance is incidental.
Mind you, that sort of thing has been going on for decades if you look at some of the street names in Labour controlled London boroughs.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Wheres a portmanteau of a street name and a Belgian battlefield is completely normal.
Absolutely hilarious that these idiots think the Suffragettes are woke. I mean some of them were card carrying fascists.
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I'm not that bothered really, it was just an observation that its been common practice. Although putting the original Eurostar terminal at Waterloo was a good way to wind up the French 😊
No idea what your suffragette point is about though.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I love the way you automatically assumed it was a reply to you despite Rick being quoted 😂
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It's been going on for centuries to name streets after toffs and rich merchants though.
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And? I'll reply if I want 🙂
You assumed wrong btw 😉
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
True, and it seems to annoy the right on crowd so fair play.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The Suffragettes were famously pretty right wing. One of them stood as a Conservative MP and three joined the British Union of Fascists and others were fervent eugenicists. Describing them as pleasing the right on crowd is pretty funny.
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Looks like Sadiq ballsed up then - have a word with him. As mentioned, I'm not really bothered.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I mean, the historian in me is rather annoyed the Suffragettes get all the praise, but I guess it's a window into the collective memory.
I think there was a proposal a while ago to name the lines and the names were related to where in London they went which makes mildly more sense. The stammerer in me isn't a big fan of "lionesses" as it's a nightmare but I don't think we should pander to the speech impaired when it comes to naming stuff.
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Why a balls up? Khan didn't choose the names and the Suffragettes are clearly historically important and worth commemorating. Just not by any stretch left wing or right on.
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What happened to the Onedin Line? Or The Thin Blue Line?
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Coke to Canary Wharf would have been apt.
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FFS, unremittingly grey today. 0/10 for the Met Orifice. At least I had a work meeting and a farm cooked breakfast, if not the sun on the knees.
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To quote Baz Luhrmann -Everybody’s Free (Sunscreen)
“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99
Wear sunscreen
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it
A long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists”
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Getting the Met Office to correct a tweet that originally said "We would usually expect to of seen around 55%".
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My daughter is doing a charity walk of over 20 miles around the Abergavenny 3 Peaks in a few weeks but has never climbed a mountain (at 20 years old which is incredible considering where we live). I took her out for a training walk today, a 6.5 mile loop that went up the Blorenge (the hill / mountain the Tumble climb goes up). She left me for dead on the initial slopes which are pretty steep (it gets steeper in the second half with a few sections needing some support from your hands where she found grip a challenge).
We were in the cloud for a lot of the walk and it poured down for the second half but she loved it and is looking forward to getting out much more when she’s home.
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Put up some new guttering for my mum. Managed to not mess it up either and the rain is giving it a good test.
Also was dragged along to the village quiz and we won!
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Returning from holiday to hear foreign language ads on podcasts that I've downloaded whilst I've been away.
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That Spotify provides lyrics to Orbital - Satan 😆
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For a change the forecast said it'd be overcast all day, but it turned out quite nice (with some hazy sun) for a (friend's) belated birthday lunch and a ride there and back. All very cheering up. Nice lunch too, of faggots n mash followed by warm Bakewell tart and custard.
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Maybe that's why Brian isn't married 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]2 -
It's a good 'un (a clever bit of writing, keeping the punchline till right at the end), though you'll probably not be surprised it's been drawn to my attention on a number of occasions.
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"...you put in compressed air and divorce comes out...". Brilliant.
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Had an aluminium seatpost in a steel frame which seemed pretty well seized up. Over the last couple of weeks I've been applying WD40 penetrating oil to the collar and then into the seat tube through a bottle cage bolt hole with the bike upside down.
After today's application I gave the saddle a bang and joy of joys, the post moved. 30 seconds later it was out.
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