[Smile] What's something small that really makes you smile?

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#2650756 10-Feb-2021 08:59

Tinkerisk:

Influencer - especially those wasting time by 'lifestreams' with no real message behind.

Probably belongs in the other (things that annoy) thread, but people who you know attempting to become "influencers" including doing things like wasting time with livestreams etc, then asking for your "honest" opinion and advice. Leaves you torn with "manners" and/or fear of losing a friendship preventing you from telling the brutal truth - that they need to find a real job or a better use of their time. OTOH that assumes I'd be correct. The feeling of deep repulsion I get when seeing some of the most "successful" influencers - with millions of followers of their plastic injected botoxed photoshopped cool but vacuous selves clearly isn't shared by all. I know nothing, ignore what I say, I haven't got a clue any more, just a deep suspicion we're living in an idiocracy.

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#2650767 10-Feb-2021 09:20

Seeing the Geekiest of the geeks - the grim overlord, the one and only, saying this:

freitasm:

But let's not get into the geeky stuff.

Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

*Gladly accepting donations...

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#2650837 10-Feb-2021 10:05

My 31 year old BMW passing another 6 month WOF with no notes.

Still pulls like a train and goes around corners like it's on rails. Just had some rust taken care of, the roof painted and a couple of small dents removed. It will look a million dollars again once the paint cures and I can take care of the holograms and swirls they left in it :(

They really don't make them like they used to.

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#2650850 10-Feb-2021 10:23

martyyn:
They really don't make them like they used to.

Nope. Just look at my dad's 1998 BMW, which got its own special section in the Dog and Lemon Guide. That thing had its own lever arch file of repairs and patches, it was worth more as spare parts for other malfunctioning cars of that line than as a whole car.

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#2650889 10-Feb-2021 10:48

neb:
martyyn:
They really don't make them like they used to.

Nope. Just look at my dad's 1998 BMW, which got its own special section in the Dog and Lemon Guide. That thing had its own lever arch file of repairs and patches, it was worth more as spare parts for other malfunctioning cars of that line than as a whole car.

A world of difference between an 1990 E34 and 1998 whatever.

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#2650916 10-Feb-2021 11:19

Popping into a cafe in a tiny village and befriending the 'shop cat'.

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#2650962 10-Feb-2021 12:31

Lawyer uses and can't turn off cat filter in zoom hearing with judge:

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#2654736 11-Feb-2021 15:56

-That the joined CyberForce teams get more and more successful.

- NET: FTTH, OPNsense, 10G backbone, GWN APs, ipPBX
- SRV: 12 RU HA server cluster, 0.1 PB storage on premise
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#2654789 11-Feb-2021 16:58

Behodar:
Popping into a cafe in a tiny village and befriending the 'shop cat'.

It's great when places provide a courtesy cat for customers. A few years ago I stayed at a B&B in the US which had one for guests, she came and slept at the end of the bed with you. The owner was somewhat apologetic until I said not only was I quite happy with that, I'd make sure to leave the door open so she could get in.

For dog lovers, they also had a courtesy dog, you had to give him a tummy rub on your way in.

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#2654816 11-Feb-2021 18:13

neb:
Behodar:

Popping into a cafe in a tiny village and befriending the 'shop cat'.

It's great when places provide a courtesy cat for customers.

There's an exception to every rule.

Long time ago in a cheap roadside restaurant in Thailand, the "courtesy cat" jumped onto our table whilst we were eating pad thai. It had about 250mm of live wriggling tapeworm dangling from its rear end. Apologies for posting this unforgettable memory around dinnertime.

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#2654819 11-Feb-2021 18:17

A certain MP issuing a press release about dropping standards. His press release had grammatical errors.

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#2654833 11-Feb-2021 19:21

Handle9: A certain MP issuing a press release about dropping standards. His press release had grammatical errors.

What is remarkable about that? Every single written document produced in New Zealand has grammatical errors.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#2654834 11-Feb-2021 19:23

Fred99:

There's an exception to every rule.

Long time ago in a cheap roadside restaurant in Thailand, the "courtesy cat" jumped onto our table whilst we were eating pad thai. It had about 250mm of live wriggling tapeworm dangling from its rear end. Apologies for posting this unforgettable memory around dinnertime.

I'll bet parties go silent when you enter the room.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#2654841 11-Feb-2021 19:42

Rikkitic:

Fred99:

There's an exception to every rule.

Long time ago in a cheap roadside restaurant in Thailand, the "courtesy cat" jumped onto our table whilst we were eating pad thai. It had about 250mm of live wriggling tapeworm dangling from its rear end. Apologies for posting this unforgettable memory around dinnertime.

I'll bet parties go silent when you enter the room.

That could be in overwhelming awe - or in absolute horror I suppose. I'm probably the death's-head hawkmoth when amongst fluttering social butterflies, but in the right company...

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#2655039 12-Feb-2021 09:58

Selected lyrics from one of the great songs of our time (well, early 80s anyway) -

Take your baby by the hand
And make her do a high hand stand
And take your baby by the heel
And do the next thing that you feel

Take your baby by the hair
And pull her close and there, there, there
And take your baby by the ears
And play upon her darkest fears

Take your baby by the wrist
And in her mouth, an amethyst...

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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