Things that brighten up your day slightly

[untitled_london]

starting a new job, doing well at it; and, getting on with the person i have to sit next to has made the whole "going back to work" thing alot easier.

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spring time, its just ace!

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the pretty little thing that serves the beer next to where i work, has been all smiley at me lately. that was nice. (made me feel all young that did)

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deciding to not give a shit for a while, about anything, that was nice too.

[Gazeuse]

I've just got my electric fan out of the shed and I'm basking in a lovely stream of cool air.

Yipee!!!

[Bogey]

Watching a rabbit frolic and lollop through the vines in a ramshackle but verdant back yard whilst enjoying a cold beer and a good book on the first warm evening in ages.

Today was a good day.

Also: Using words like "lollop" and "ramshackle".

[Gazeuse]

Watching a rabbit frolic and lollop through the vines in a ramshackle but verdant back yard whilst enjoying a cold beer.

Blimey, the rabbits drink round your way do they...Must be right rough!!!

[Bogey]

Alkies, maybe, but literary too, you'll notice.

They think they're all Ernest fucking Hemingway, the flopsy bastards.

[Cerys]

Bogey, I love you.

[Hans Resist]

Someone split the Futurama box sets up on eBay and for £4 I've replaced the series 3.1 disc I lost in a house move. "The Luck Of The Fryish" on DVD again without re-buying the whole box set - I could virtually kiss them.

On a more daily basis, my cat cheers me up every time I get the urge to crush crockery, usually [despite/becasue of] his snooty attitude towards me.

[Sam]

Walking into a room and getting passed a spliff straight away before you've even had a chance to say hi. On a similar note, I second the warm cup of tea when you didn't ask for it too.

Walking back from the Uni Library through the park in the sunshine, feeling good for having done some work, and knowing that when I get home I'll have some lovely dinner and watch Seinfeld.

[Lookalike Mark Chapman]

Desperate Housewives
The TV show, obviously

[Bogey]

Bogey, I love you.

Aww. Now my night is brightened too. Cheers, Kes.

[chav]

When an idiot gets their comeuppance. e.g. there was a becapped goon on the bus, who wanted to get out at the lights, but the driver wouldn't let him, so the anti-social one pressed the emergency button above the door and started to make his exit. But the driver over-rided it with his master button, so just as the doors were opening, they closed again. And Dane got his arm trapped in the door! So all he could do was stand there with his arm hanging out, shouting and cussing until we got to the real stop. Sadly modern buses are too safety-conscious, and the door was lined with rubber, so it didn't break his arm. The only dampener on what was an hilarious incident.

[Cerys]

Bogey, I love you.

Aww. Now my night is brightened too. Cheers, Kes.

Yay!  <flaps wings>

[PeachSmints]

Struggling to reach your favourite magazine from the top shelf at WHSmiths and then having someone nice and tall come help you.

Being the only person in your carriage on the tube for three whole stops. You get the urge to do something mildy crazy (singing Manamana Do'doo d'dodoo, running down the aisle) just because you can.

[Paul Dee]

Struggling to reach your favourite magazine from the top shelf at WHSmiths and then having someone nice and tall come help you.

Um..wouldn't that just be a bit awkward in an "Oh..need help reaching your porno?" kinda way?




Mine is catching an episode of Seinfeld on Paramount I hadn't seen for absolutely ages.

[PeachSmints]

Um..wouldn't that just be a bit awkward in an "Oh..need help reaching your porno?" kinda way?

Arg! No...no cum gargling naked sluts for me, thanks. Honestly, WHSmiths keeps their music mags really high up. Go to Liverpool St. Station if you don't believe me!

[Coughlan]

when you see someone a) catch their Jacket on a door handle b) slip off the curb or c) pretend they didn't want a train they just missed.

[Suttonpubcrawl]

when you see someone a) catch their Jacket on a door handle b) slip off the curb or c) pretend they didn't want a train they just missed.

d) Get happyslapped. It's well funny, innit!

[zozman]

I did feel quite guilty, but I saw someone fall off their bike the other day and that cheered me up.

[Cliche Guevara]

A guy running across the street as fast as possible the other day in torrential rain in order to keep as dry as possible made me laugh. Somehow, he managed to trip himself up and fall in a huge puddle.  

I'm sure a misfortune of mine the other day also cheered some bus-travellers up. I was walking down the aisle when my trousers caught in the arm-rest of the front seat. So there I was struggling to free myself with someone waiting behind me and a packed bus in front. When I did eventually get free I sat down in the nearest free seat as quickly as possible.

[Lady Beaner]

I am sure we had a thread once about laughing at the misfortune of others.  But, it makes me laugh too!  The first time I ever took my sister on a tube train, we were going back to my place late on a Friday night.  Cue lots of pissheads staggering about the platform.  My sister and I get on a train, and just when the alarm sounded for the doors shutting, some drunken loon launched himself onto the train.... the doors shut on his head.

His body outside the train, and his head poking inside the carriage, him pissing himself laughing as his mates kicked him up the arse repeatedly from the platform.

I thought it was hilarious.  My sister was mortified.

[amp]

I'm sure a misfortune of mine the other day also cheered some bus-travellers up.

Yeah, I cracked my head on the wing mirror getting on a bus the other day!

To rub salt in, it took about a minute to reposition it so the driver could see with it again. One minute, but one very long, drawn-out minute.

I'll drink to that, comrade.

:blush:

[SetToStun]

Getting a totally daft birthday present from a friend. They could easily choose something Arsenal-related, they know what type of music and films I like, but they go to all the effort of searching out something quirky, just to make me smile.

[Jemble Fred]

Getting a totally daft birthday present from a friend. They could easily choose something Arsenal-related, they know what type of music and films I like, but they go to all the effort of searching out something quirky, just to make me smile.

I bet you have a lot of old Look-In annuals.

[SetToStun]

Getting a totally daft birthday present from a friend. They could easily choose something Arsenal-related, they know what type of music and films I like, but they go to all the effort of searching out something quirky, just to make me smile.

I bet you have a lot of old Look-In annuals.

I'm not sure quite how to take that...

[Jemble Fred]

It's the kind of thing I used to give my brothers to be daft. That, and I once stole a book called 'Looking After Your Goat' for a friend. I was a wacky child.

[Cliche Guevara]

It's the kind of thing I used to give my brothers to be daft. That, and I one stole a book called 'Looking After Your Goat' for a friend. I was a wacky child.

Clearly, you must have smoked the riff-raff from quite a young age.

[Jemble Fred]

Clearly, you must have smoked the riff-raff from quite a young age.

Oh Christ no, I was far odder when I was a child, even before the drinking started.

In the spirit of the thread, and in contrast to my post from yesterday...

• Having a full baggie of smoking material in your bag, plus the Comic Strip boxset on review discs, plus Private Eye, plus an application for a great job finished and ready to post, and then having all your bosses go away from the rest of the week, leaving a bloke in charge whose first reaction is to say 'Fuck this, go home everyone'!

...Priceless. A good evening to you all.

[no_offenc]

I would say that sunshine brightens up my day somewhat significantly.

In both the literal sense and the "wow it's so pretty" sense.  I am in love with the world.  Just not the fucking morons that tend to inhabit it.  More the pity, it'd probably help me get a girlfriend if I wasn't so fucking maudlin and misanthropic all the time.

[slim]

• Having a full baggie of smoking material in your bag, plus the Comic Strip boxset on review discs, plus Private Eye, plus an application for a great job finished and ready to post, and then having all your bosses go away from the rest of the week, leaving a bloke in charge whose first reaction is to say 'Fuck this, go home everyone'!

Sharing that was not a very nice thing to do, you rotter.

[Tina]

today i overheard two neighbours talking outside, and i found out the neighbour upstairs is finally getting a kidney transplant today, after having waited for one for years.
it made me smile, even if i dont really know the poor old guy that well.