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

Wayne Jarvis · 29-12-2020 7:59pm

Good friends (including my amazing and amazingly funny best friend I met on Boards) helping to make the isolation that comes along with restrictions/bans on household visits bearable and even enjoyable.

I'm blessed with them.

branie2 · 30-12-2020 4:03pm

Looking forward to ringing in the new year tomorrow with a takeaway at home.

thomil · 30-12-2020 7:02pm

Just got off the phone with my 90+ year old great aunt after a good 30 minutes. She's the last living relative I have any contact with and she's still doing great, despite the lockdown back in Germany

Surreptitious · 31-12-2020 10:50pm

I'm getting drunken messages already and I'm completely sober. Funny really.

madmaggie · 01-01-2021 12:59am

I'm getting texts not meant for me. Some of them are hilarious.

New Home · 01-01-2021 1:47am

Please share.

Purple Mountain · 01-01-2021 1:53am

New Home wrote: »

Please share.

And play along

gormdubhgorm · 01-01-2021 3:01am

thomil wrote: »

Just got off the phone with my 90+ year old great aunt after a good 30 minutes. She's the last living relative I have any contact with and she's still doing great, despite the lockdown back in Germany

You could get a yacht like this fella who went from an island off Portugal to Argentina in a 85 days. Visiting his 90 year old father in time for fathers day.

https://people.com/human-interest/man-sails-across-atlantic-alone-see-dad-coronavirus-shuts-down-flights/

01-01-2021 10:20pm

My new discovery of baileys and brandy

Surreptitious · 01-01-2021 10:36pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My new discovery of baileys and brandy

What did I tells ya!

Prominent_Dawg · 01-01-2021 11:24pm

Our postman is so thoughtful, if he ever arrives early in the morning he just leaves any packages at the door instead of ringing the bell, just makes me so happy

Alf Veedersane · 01-01-2021 11:43pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My new discovery of baileys and brandy

Thoughts and prayers in advance.

NewbridgeIR · 02-01-2021 12:00am

Unfinished business has now finally been completed.

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02-01-2021 12:06am

@ Surrep I'm so glad I took your advice! Its glorious

@ Alf I am blind to your warning

Surreptitious · 02-01-2021 12:08am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

@ Surrep I'm so glad I took your advice! Its glorious
@ Alf I am blind to your warning

I might join you virtually. I still have some left. It is heaven in a glass.

Antares35 · 02-01-2021 1:27am

I've decided to get a Chinese takeaway tomorrow. I'm already happy even though it's tomorrow. Sort of like a pre emptive trivial happiness.

Surreptitious · 02-01-2021 1:33am

Antares35 wrote: »

I've decided to get a Chinese takeaway tomorrow. I'm already happy even though it's tomorrow. Sort of like a pre emptive trivial happiness.

What will you get? I know I always ask people this but I like knowing people's tastes. Singapore Chow Mien from my local is the job.

Antares35 · 02-01-2021 1:41am

Surreptitious wrote: »

What will you get? I know I always ask people this but I like knowing people's tastes. Singapore Chow Mien from my local is the job.

Satay chicken starter and main will be chicken fillet with black bean and green pepper sauce and fluffy egg fried rice

Edit sorry as in chicken with green peppers, in a black bean sauce! Otherwise it'd be gross

02-01-2021 1:46am

alrigh'.

like a bit of monkey news and tha'.

watch it on youtube. makes me 'appy.

turns out, youtubes manager ... little monkey fella.

Graces7 · 02-01-2021 7:09am

Big furry cat tucked in behind my knees abed. He thinks I am keeping HIM warm so we are both very very happy.. IT IS BITTERLY COLD! ALl that cold ocean around me.

NewbridgeIR · 02-01-2021 11:51am

Antares35 wrote: »

I've decided to get a Chinese takeaway tomorrow. I'm already happy even though it's tomorrow. Sort of like a pre emptive trivial happiness.

The old reliable takeway I presume

Antares35 · 02-01-2021 12:21pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The old reliable takeway I presume

Yes

Alf Veedersane · 02-01-2021 12:51pm

The little fella having a blinder of a sleep when I was on duty last night. Was drained yesterday so needed the sleep I got to have.

Second TH....the mrdbrent Instagram account.

NewbridgeIR · 02-01-2021 2:02pm

McCartney III sales figures in US for the first week
LP - 32,000
Cassette - 1,000
CD - 53,000
Digital - 18,000

The so-called "dead" format sells more than the other three combined.

the purple tin · 02-01-2021 2:05pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

McCartney III sales figures in US for the first week
LP - 32,000
Cassette - 1,000
CD - 53,000
Digital - 18,000

The so-called "dead" format sells more than the other three combined.

I can't believe they are still making albums on cassette!
It must make financial sense pr they wouldn't be doing it.
Are they still sold here in Ireland?

NewbridgeIR · 02-01-2021 2:07pm

the purple tin wrote: »

I can't believe they are still making albums on cassette!
It must make financial sense pr they wouldn't be doing it.
Are they still sold here in Ireland?

Cassettes have gone through a very small revival. Yes, can be bought here. I only ever bought a handful in my time - seriously inferior format compared to vinyl and CD.

In the alternative sphere, there's quite a few limited cassette-only releases in small print runs. The guys running those labels tend to have beards.

the purple tin · 02-01-2021 2:15pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Cassettes have gone through a very small revival. Yes, can be bought here. I only ever bought a handful in my time - seriously inferior format compared to vinyl and CD.

In the alternative sphere, there's quite a few limited cassette-only releases in small print runs. The guys running those labels tend to have beards.

Wow. I don't see the appeal either. Worse sound, can't skip to a certain song, repeat or program tunes, possibility of the tape getting chewed up.
But each to their own I suppose.

NewbridgeIR · 02-01-2021 2:32pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Wow. I don't see the appeal either. Worse sound, can't skip to a certain song, repeat or program tunes, possibility of the tape getting chewed up.
But each to their own I suppose.

In my opinion, cassette fetishism is seriously misguided and is often an anti-CD gesture.

Many people pushing this ridiculous fad seem to have forgotten that cassettes did serious damage to vinyl sales from 1983 onwards. In 1988, four out of every six albums sold were on cassette.
CDs did not become the dominant format until 1992 by which time sales of new LPs had dropped like a stone and remained very low for the rest of the decade. I know because I was one of the few people still buying new albums on vinyl then.

Tauriel · 02-01-2021 5:26pm

Antares35 wrote: »

main will be chicken fillet with black bean and green pepper sauce and fluffy egg fried rice

Edit sorry as in chicken with green peppers, in a black bean sauce! Otherwise it'd be gross

Excellent choice, I love that myself or else chicken Thai style (which I will be having tonight)

PsychoPete · 02-01-2021 6:25pm

mustang shelly wrote: »

Excellent choice, I love that myself or else chicken Thai style (which I will be having tonight)

Damn ye for putting the idea of Chinese in my head now

Surreptitious · 02-01-2021 7:11pm

Tauriel · 02-01-2021 7:37pm

PsychoPete wrote: »

Damn ye for putting the idea of Chinese in my head now

My job here is done :cool:

02-01-2021 9:16pm

Surreptitious get in here this instant!! :pac:

I have become a worshipper at the alter of baileys and brandy. I had no idea it would wield such power over me. It's also inhibiting my decision to make healthy food choices because himself is gone to the chipper for me.

What have I become!!!!!!!!!!!!

In saying all that though it's making me fierce happy.

Surreptitious · 02-01-2021 9:49pm

I don't know whether to say sorry or I'm happy. Glad you enjoy it and there's nothing wrong with some chipper food now and again.

ohnonotgmail · 02-01-2021 10:00pm

Listening to Aretha Franklin singing gospel music on BBC4. you would nearly feel like getting religion.

cj maxx · 02-01-2021 10:25pm

This is very trivial, and yet 10 minutes later I'm still in howls of laughter. Watching the start of cast away, the bit with the plane crash , my soon to be ex wife is educating our 9yo . This is a true story . No I says , I don't think it is. It is !!!
Goes to the search button.
" there ,! Based on the true story of Robinson Crusoe!!!!

While I burst out laughing she rereads the blurb, walks off in a fit with a big red angry face. It was fooking glorious. It might seem I'm picking on her , but for what that 'creature' has put us through it was glorious to see

cj maxx · 02-01-2021 10:30pm

I might even take our sons hamster out of his cage and replace him with a coconut called Wilson.

New Home · 02-01-2021 10:37pm

Leave the poor hamster alone, CJ, he's an innocent bystander.

cj maxx · 02-01-2021 11:11pm

New Home wrote: »

Leave the poor hamster alone, CJ, he's an innocent bystander.

He was got in 2018 with a 2 year life expectancy. He's on borrowed time already

New Home · 02-01-2021 11:17pm

And you're planning to steal whatever time he's left to replace him with something with an even shorter (shelf)life expectancy and with, let's face it, the personality of a coconut?!? For shame.

Surreptitious · 02-01-2021 11:30pm

Got stuff for my tongue. Hope it helps.

Mam of 4 · 02-01-2021 11:52pm

Surreptitious wrote: »

Got stuff for my tongue. Hope it helps.

Glad you got sorted and hope it helps .
I'm glitched out of the eating thread so couldn't reply to you , sorry !

Surreptitious · 03-01-2021 12:01am

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Glad you got sorted and hope it helps .
I'm glitched out of the eating thread so couldn't reply to you , sorry !

It's ok mam

I have some drops I have to take. I just hope they work as it is really sensitive. Southdoc is up the walls, and then the increase in cases.

cj maxx · 03-01-2021 12:12am

It's making me happy because I've only just got the point of the film 'cast away'
I think it being on tonight could be classed as serendipity.

Purple Mountain · 03-01-2021 12:20am

cj maxx wrote: »

It's making me happy because I've only just got the point of the film 'cast away'
I think it being on tonight could be classed as serendipity.

You're evil

cj maxx · 03-01-2021 12:41am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

You're evil

Nah PM.
What I got was
life doesn't always go the way we thought it would. For whatever reason. Maybe completely out of our control but if you survive the bad times you'll find yourself at a crossroads. Choose your direction. The choice is yours.
The past is in the past and from here on YOU choose.
I swear . Serendipity:)

cj maxx · 03-01-2021 12:33pm

The wee lad when we're playing star wars with light sabers stops and goes , Daddy those storm troopers are really really bad shots !
It's so true.

gormdubhgorm · 03-01-2021 5:13pm

cj maxx wrote: »

It's making me happy because I've only just got the point of the film 'cast away'
I think it being on tonight could be classed as serendipity.

And I thought it was about how a volleyball can make a wonderful companion, when you are stranded on a desert island

Autosport · 03-01-2021 7:29pm

Refilled the bird feeders and the amount of birds flying in and out of it was like an airport in summer

Ok l’m completely lost about the meaning of Castaway :eek:

Purple Mountain · 03-01-2021 8:07pm

The new Ireland's Fittest Family.

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

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