Little Things That Brighten Your Day

[redinblack]

Got the radio on Greatest Hits Radio there is a phone in competition;

 

DJ - "Second question....name as many mythical creatures as you can"

 

Contestant "Ooooh.......we've got Dragons..........we've got Herpes.........oooooh noooo I didnt mean that....."

 

I cant stop laughing.

 

 

 

[Bruce Spanner]

My new year's resolution was to be less reliant on takeaways.

 

Anyhows I've been out of the UK and got back yesterday, so had Monday as the day it'd start so i could gorge this weekend before saying goodbye.

 

I'd chosen specifically this chicken place I love as 'The last meal'

 

A spicy Korean Chicken burger, with loads of hot sauce, three tenders, with even more stupid amounts of hot sauce.

 

I place the order and wait...

 

... 37 minutes go by an an underpaid and underappreciated Ubereats driver thrusts a bag far too big to be my order in to my chest and runs with only the speed that the worst excesses of late stage capitalism compels a man to do.

 

I open the bag, it's fit to burst.

 

It is someone elses order!

 

I contact uber's, now, AI customer interface area to see how this is fixed.

 

'Keep it and here's a full refund for the inconvience'

 

I now have a gargantuan feast, with pretty much the whole menu on my kitchen table and a full refund.

 

Fuck you capitalism, fuck you every other time you Ubereats/Deliveroo fucked up and ruined stuff, fuck you wife who doesn't think I can eat it all, fuck you bowles.

 

I won today, I fucking won!

[sir roger]

In the barbers earlier and the guy before me is finished and goes to pay. 

 

The young lad says        ' £9.50 please '

The guy says                  ' It says £13 on the board '

The young lad says        ' Yes, but its reduced for seniors, Monday to Thursdays '

The guy says                   ' I'm only 52 you cheeky cunt, here's £13 ' and huffs out.

 

Finished me.

[Captain Turdseye]

Ordered a cheap old game for the PS3 I want to play again. Estimated delivery 5th-7th of March.
 

It’s just popped through the letterbox. Gerrin!

[YorkshireRed]

Skirting with the unmentionable but my youngest just came into the room I’m watching it on.

 

Given he’s  a teenager I thought he might be interested in knowing that Ed Sheeran is in attendance at Portman Road.

 

”Guess who’s in the ground?” I said. 
 

After a bit of cat and mouse, I told him.

 

”I know that guy, I think”

 

That he wasn’t sure did make me smile, he knows who the Beatles are, but that wasn’t the main thing. 
 

I had that a few minutes when he came bounding back in to inform me…

“He’s alive”

 

”What are you on about?” said I.

 

”You said he was in the ground, but he’s not dead, he’s alive”

 

He was genuinely outraged that I’d told him some popstar he was vaguely aware of was deceased, and he very much enjoyed telling me that my choice of language had been a disgrace.

 

Made me smile. 

[Captain Willard]

I found a crisp £10 note on my allotment today. Must have been blown there by the wind as nobody around and it was dry despite the rain. Finding money is a great moment in your life. 

[Jose Jones]

Took the dog for a walk this morning, and someone has gone above and beyond in the community dog business.

[VladimirIlyich]

On 20/04/2024 at 14:14, Jose Jones said:

Took the dog for a walk this morning, and someone has gone above and beyond in the community dog business.

Is that Brunswick,Melbourne Area in Oz.Jose?

[Jose Jones]

5 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Is that Brunswick,Melbourne Area in Oz.Jose?

Yes mate.

[Captain Willard]

My teenage daughter secretly knitted me a woolly hat. Took her hours. The best birthday present I have ever received. Made my year. 

 

[Le Duan]

Birdsong. PS do we have any birders on the forum? I’m new to birding and loving it.

[Jairzinho]

26 minutes ago, Le Duan said:

Birdsong. PS do we have any birders on the forum? I’m new to birding and loving it.

 

@Champ

 

Champ and I are part of the official Merlin worshipper group.

[polymerpunkah]

Not exactly a little thing, but didn't know where else to put it, and it definitely brightened my day:

 

 

Passersby resccue a fellow from his burning car in Minnesota a couple of days ago.

 

Men, women, white, black.

 

I particularly love how all but one of them stay right in there when something explodes around the 34 second mark.

[Champ]

44 minutes ago, Le Duan said:

Birdsong. PS do we have any birders on the forum? I’m new to birding and loving it.

There’s even a thread somewhere 

[Champ]

17 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

@Champ

 

Champ and I are part of the official Merlin worshipper group.

We had a walk along the canal near the Olympic Park on Saturday and picked up all kinds of birds including parakeets, chiffchaff, ringed plover and cetti’s warbler 

[VladimirIlyich]

On 22/04/2024 at 11:50, Jose Jones said:

Yes mate.

Looks a really nice area to live. Very Bohemian according to Wikipedia. Always liked those wrought iron designs on lots of buildings that are very typical of Aussie buildings.

[Harry's Lad]

18 hours ago, Le Duan said:

Birdsong. PS do we have any birders on the forum? I’m new to birding and loving it.