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Trivial things that make you happy - Part 3 - The Happyning

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    blade1 wrote: »
    Haven't got that far yet :D

    Un homme mexicain mange une pizza :pac:

    I'm a bit limited with what I can talk about at the moment :pac:

    Does that mean a Mexican man ate pizza?? Bahaha learning the important stuff first! :D

    I can also say 'tu es tres beau' because of one particular liaison* with a hot french man. (*See what I did there)

    Edit: what I said is I'm 14 years old. Because I was 14 when I learned a little french. I don't know how to say my age now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,479 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Does that mean a Mexican man ate pizza?? Bahaha learning the important stuff first! :D

    I can also say 'tu es tres beau' because of one particular liaison* with a hot french man. (*See what I did there)

    Edit: what I said is I'm 14 years old. Because I was 14 when I learned a little french. I don't know how to say my age now.

    Eating I think.
    Well we can have a French, Spanish, English, American or a Mexican man for now. :pac:

    Ah 14, I see.
    I'll get there.
    I'm surprised with what I know already.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    blade1 wrote: »
    Eating I think.
    Well we can have a French, Spanish, English, American or a Mexican man for now. :pac:

    Ah 14, I see.
    I'll get there.
    I'm surprised with what I know already.

    Good luck with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,479 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Good luck with it.

    Merci beaucoup! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,954 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    A gorgeous scented candle , Suede and Mahogany .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭sporina


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    A gorgeous scented candle , Suede and Mahogany .

    wow how unusual - never heard of that combo.. what brand is that?

    I get my candles from The Bearded Candle Makers.. there divine.. my fav is The Mourne Mountain Heather.. I adore it.. takes me right back to the hills.. was great when covid prevented me from hiking.. I usually burn it for about 3-4.. but the aroma remains in the room for the whole week afterwards.. hmm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,954 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    sporina wrote: »
    wow how unusual - never heard of that combo.. what brand is that?

    I get my candles from The Bearded Candle Makers.. there divine.. my fav is The Mourne Mountain Heather.. I adore it.. takes me right back to the hills.. was great when covid prevented me from hiking.. I usually burn it for about 3-4.. but the aroma remains in the room for the whole week afterwards.. hmm

    Carlingford Candles Sporina.
    One of the small shops here sells them , in a variety of scents . Three wick candle .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭sporina


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    Carlingford Candles Sporina.
    One of the small shops here sells them , in a variety of scents . Three wick candle .

    sounds fab - must look em up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Strumms wrote: »
    Found out this morning that I’m booked for the vaccine on Wednesday...

    And received another call today to tell me I’m booked in at a different center.. The Mater on Friday too....

    Vaccines are like Dublin bus, nothing for six months then two come along... two days from each other....mad.

    Just glad to be jabbed tomorrow.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    The elderly uncle gets me to look up rip.ie every day. When there are no new notices he kind of disappointed. "Jayziz, is there no one dying at all"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Eating a takeaway from Supermacs a few minutes ago


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭sporina


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The elderly uncle gets me to look up rip.ie every day. When there are no new notices he kind of disappointed. "Jayziz, is there no one dying at all"

    i'd love to know more about this - is he in earnest or just using a turn of phrase?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,442 ✭✭✭davetherave


    Kind of sad that it is a novelty but really good customer service from a mega corporation.

    The auld lad uses an electric razor and he was on to me saying it had started making a loud grinding noise when it was turned on and would I look at a new one for him. I'm thinking to myself I only got you that one less than 18 months ago. On to the Philips website, opened up a chat session, gave him the details, went through the script of take off this piece and turn it on, is there any visible damage on this piece or that piece and so on.

    He had me take a photo of the serial number, and screenshot of the receipt and upload it and said a new head unit will be with me in 1-3 working days, apologising for any inconvenience.


    Less than three minutes on a chat session with someone who, I don't want to say is just doing his job that seems kind of demeaning, but yeah, does his job well and solved a problem for the customer. :) Can be a rarity in customer service sometimes when you often get a runaround.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    sporina wrote: »
    i'd love to know more about this - is he in earnest or just using a turn of phrase?

    He's of the age that sees a funeral as s day out! That might seem weird, especially in these times, but in rural Ireland it be a big deal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Getting my hair and beard trimmed in the hairdressers today


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭sporina


    madmaggie wrote: »
    He's of the age that sees a funeral as s day out! That might seem weird, especially in these times, but in rural Ireland it be a big deal.

    jaysus.. :eek: my folks are obsessed with listening to the deaths.. if I arrived into the the kitchen while they wer on having not been home for months and months (which is the case atm actually), i'd be told to shussshh.. lol.. but its not cos they want a day out.. they are afraid of their lives that they will miss out on knowing that someone they know had died.. and miss the funeral etc..

    I keep telling them they'll hear their own name being read out sometime lol :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Going into a library !!
    And even better is getting a James Lee Burke book, I love his writing !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The elderly uncle gets me to look up rip.ie every day. When there are no new notices he kind of disappointed. "Jayziz, is there no one dying at all"

    I don’t look that up unless I need to find info about somebody I know died... I’d be scared to be looking and see my own name, as almost came to pass in ‘16.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    sporina wrote: »
    jaysus.. :eek: my folks are obsessed with listening to the deaths.. if I arrived into the the kitchen while they wer on having not been home for months and months (which is the case atm actually), i'd be told to shussshh.. lol.. but its not cos they want a day out.. they are afraid of their lives that they will miss out on knowing that someone they know had died.. and miss the funeral etc..

    I keep telling them they'll hear their own name being read out sometime lol :D

    Ha same with my folks. They haven't been to a funeral since before Covid-19. Again they are not the sort who go for the tea and sandwiches afterwards, more a chance to catch up with old friends and neighbours.
    Hate the things myself and only go if it's someone I genuinely cared about (or their family.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭sporina


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Ha same with my folks. They haven't been to a funeral since before Covid-19. Again they are not the sort who go for the tea and sandwiches afterwards, more a chance to catch up with old friends and neighbours.
    Hate the things myself and only go if it's someone I genuinely cared about (or their family.)

    oh but its not cos they like funerals... they would just hate if they didn't get to pay their respects.. (worried people would think they didn't care etc)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Golden Discs reopening on Monday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭This is it


    Watching Back to the Future with the little fella for the first time \:)/


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    I saw a sign at a building site. SLOW MEN AT WORK.
    Well at least they are open about it. Tee hee!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,782 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    This picture

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTglNWk3HsOtA_lvV1gLaQi2JFYnJOOilaReg&usqp=CAU

    Also two of my favorite little people are coming to visit in a bit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,292 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    I went to our local supermarket earlier. Outside were 2 of my aunts from separate houses having a chat at the door. I haven't seen them properly in a long time only chance meetings like that. We stopped for a chat. Next thing, my cousin from another house pops up with his child, again who I haven't seen in ages.
    What are the chances of it? Four different households. Albeit it was brief, but it was lovely.

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I spoke with my Dad who was telling me he received another phone call from the CEO of the religious charity he’s involved in on their board.

    They’d been conducting meetings via zoom, but some of the older lot while enabled to log on have been pushing for in person meetings over the last while...

    There is a sneaky meeting scheduled at the house of the CEO, about 12-14 people... my dad fair play to him told them to stick it... he’s been doing a humongous amount of great work with and for them over 20 years but their conduct during this whole pandemic has been shameful... quite prepared to fûck the health and wellbeing of their members and volunteers under the bus to try and retain the optics of ... “ ohhhh look at us, even in times of great challenge we are still working away...”....Yep, and at what price ?

    Proud that he’s stuck up for himself, his family and told them where to fućking stick it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,910 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The elderly uncle gets me to look up rip.ie every day. When there are no new notices he kind of disappointed. "Jayziz, is there no one dying at all"

    This is brillant sounds like my auld fella.

    Looks up rip.ie and says -

    'Lets see if anyone we know has died'.

    Has clicked on it that often is one of his most viewed sites. :D

    Then if he does not get a 'result' - says 'Nope'. And says he will check again tomorrow....!

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    I brought the uncle to visit his 90 year old pal. They haven't seen each other since last year. We're both vaccinated, as is everyone in the other man's house. They had some craic, there was whiskey involved!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Watching Only Fools And Horses on UK Gold and see that it’s being broadcast in the correct aspect ratio of 4:3.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Back at Mass this morning after a few months


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Listening to the sound of falling rain


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Autosport wrote: »
    Listening to the sound of falling rain

    Nice day where I am


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    I saw the little ducklings from a while back all grown up with their Ma.
    There was 11 at the start, now there is 9 which is good going really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Takeaway pizza and chips for dinner. It was delicious


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Being able to run with no pain !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,490 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Seeing a Goldfinch on my walk this morning. They are one of my, if not my favourite birds but unfortunately I don't tend to see many around anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Seeing a Goldfinch on my walk this morning. They are one of my, if not my favourite birds but unfortunately I don't tend to see many around anymore.

    Put out some njer seeds. They can't resist them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭sporina


    much and all as I like eating picnic style with mates in the great outdoors, its weather dependant etc,.. but yesterday a mate and I at last enjoy tea and chats in the comfort of her conservatory woo hoo.. felt soo nice - civil and comfy - and normal.. hmm..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,832 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I brought the car for the NCT and my mother came.
    An old ladies car was done and she got into it and she was ages in it without taking off.
    My mother says to me what’s taking the old one so long to get to take off and maybe she’s after dying.
    I just couldn’t stop laughing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Buying a book today in a bookshop


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,707 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    There's some lovely heavy rain'n'hailstones'n'thunder'n'lightning out there at the moment. And I'm especially happy because I can watch it inside at home, 40 minutes after cycling home from work. :cool: There are kids in other houses gawking out their windows at it. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,334 ✭✭✭Archeron


    There's some lovely heavy rain'n'hailstones'n'thunder'n'lightning out there at the moment. And I'm especially happy because I can watch it inside at home, 40 minutes after cycling home from work. :cool: There are kids in other houses gawking out their windows at it. :D

    I saw three lightning forks on the way home, I was like an excited kid. I never see fork lightning :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Shepherd's pie for dinner later


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    After being tormented by gout for the past month, today is my first relatively painfree day in a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭sporina


    got my hair cut n styled today - woo hoo - feel half a kg lighter lol... hmm no more plaits woo hoo


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I was in Limerick city today; I bought 5 Blu-rays and three books. It felt great to be there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,654 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Browsing a real life bricks and mortar bookshop again. I told the staff it was great to be back, they said it was great to see people back. It was an all round wholesome experience.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,954 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    My little cactus plants flowering. Every year I forget that they do so it's always a lovely surprise to see the beautiful colours :)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Watching the Father Ted Eurovision episode. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭4Ad


    My Dad is 83 today, never thought he'd even see 75, in great form.


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