Trivial things that please you beyond all expectations

[Milzy]

I got a message from group admin earlier trying to teach me how to read maps backwards🤔
It was spam!!🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[Accy cyclist]

This is the first Christmas I can remember where I haven't heard any Pogues, Slade, Shakin' Stevens, Wham, Paul McCartney, Wizzard, Cliff Richard etc etc tunes.

 

[classic33]

This is the first Christmas I can remember where I haven't heard any Pogues, Slade, Shakin' Stevens, Wham, Paul McCartney, Wizzard, Cliff Richard etc etc tunes.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rZCEBibnRM8

 

[Accy cyclist]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rZCEBibnRM8

That link will definitely remain unopened!

 

[Chromatic]

This is the first Christmas I can remember where I haven't heard any Pogues, Slade, Shakin' Stevens, Wham, Paul McCartney, Wizzard, Cliff Richard etc etc tunes.

Now you come to mention neither have I heard the usual Christmas suspects you listed.

 

[mistyoptic]

Not listening to the same radio programmes as me then

 

[Gunk]

After watching the wonderful “Elvis: That's the Way It Is” on sky Arts last night, much to the teenagers disgust, we have Elvis Greatest hits streaming all the way through the house this morning.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Now you come to mention neither have I heard the usual Christmas suspects you listed.

Sadly, I turned my radio on yesterday and heard that 'Shakin' Stevens' one! I turned it off asap, but the barstools got me, albeit for only a few seconds!

 

[Accy cyclist]

There was I a moment ago listening to, but not watching tv on my laptop when they introduced an actual rocket scientist. Straight away I imagined her to be wearing an old woolly crew neck jumper. When I looked I saw her wearing...yes, an old woolly crew neck jumper!

 

[Andy in Germany]

There was I a moment ago listening to, but not watching tv on my laptop when they introduced an actual rocket scientist. Straight away I imagined her to be wearing an old woolly crew neck jumper. When I looked I saw her wearing...yes, an old woolly crew neck jumper!

In my Geography 'A' Level it was a running joke that all (male) earthquake experts interviewed on documentaries had beards; every time they introduced one, lo and behold he was at least sporting a Van Dyke, right through to full on Gimli level beard.

We reasoned it was because by definition they're expecting tremors at any moment, so they don't want blades near their face.

 

[Oldhippy]

Beards make men look distinguished. That's my excuse and has nothing to to do with the fact I just can't be arsed to shave. It is kept immaculately though!

 

[Poacher]

While Mrs Poacher was choosing a very sensible and grown up jacket in the estimable Dove Cottage charity shop (a renowned cyclists' stop off), I could hardly contain my juvenile, nay infantile delight at finding a pair of light up chopsticks for the princely sum of £1.
(Took me ages to figure out how to fit the batteries).





How was I to know they were collector's items and shouldn't be unwrapped?

 

[Mike_P]

At some point nearly everything becomes a collectors item.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I managed to inflate to 34 psi my car tyres this evening. Nothing unusual to some, but I struggle seeing the gauge on the machine, or hearing the bell sound that tells you when there's enough air in, making it difficult to inflate all 4 tyres in the 5 minutes it gives you. Anyway, I achieved the task (and in the dark too, which makes it even harder) and now my car tyres have the correct pressure in them!

 

[Andy in Germany]

I just checked the 'scrap' frame I had rescued from the field at the back of the shop and it looks like it will work as a basis for a 26" wheeled tourer...