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Whats making you happy right now

#18951 User is offline   HoosierDaddy 

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Posted 08 May 2023 - 01:47 PM

View PostSlow Ben, on 06 May 2023 - 11:04 PM, said:

Hell yeah HD.

That's badass man.


Thanks!
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#18952 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 08 May 2023 - 06:13 PM

View PostHoosierDaddy, on 06 May 2023 - 03:08 PM, said:

Finished the Indy Mini Marathon (the greatest spectacle in running lol) in 1 hour 53 minutes. Average mile time of 8:40.

I'm sore lol.

That's immense congrats!
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#18953 User is offline   Abyss 

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Posted 12 May 2023 - 01:23 PM

The entire Bigolas Dickolas - Time War - Simon&Schuster - Trigun - Dark Horse thing... i stumbled on it early by way of a mutual twitter follow and watched as it evolved and have been more or less laughing about this for 48hours straight.
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#18954 User is offline   amphibian 

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Posted 12 May 2023 - 06:32 PM

I have my renewed passport in hand after a rush appointment, which means I can go to Australia and Tasmania on Sunday.

Super happy.
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Posted 12 May 2023 - 10:03 PM

View Postamphibian, on 12 May 2023 - 06:32 PM, said:

I have my renewed passport in hand after a rush appointment, which means I can go to Australia and Tasmania on Sunday.

Super happy.


Enjoy. Remember to stay a healthy distance away from the Tassie Devils. ;)
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#18956 User is offline   Lady Bliss 

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Posted 12 May 2023 - 11:39 PM

Also watch out for drop bears.
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#18957 User is offline   amphibian 

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Posted 13 May 2023 - 01:19 AM

I have an Aussie cattle dog. The first night I had him, he did the famous scream chirp bark at 1:30 AM. I am 90-95% deaf. It woke me up from a sound sleep.

I yelled at him to not do that, he seemed to take the message and has done it maybe 2x more during play sessions outside with another dog in the 3 years I've had him. Most of the time, he's utterly silent or does some grunts and regular barks when trying to alert on someone outside the house.

Aussie critters have messed up vocals I suppose.

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#18958 User is offline   Lady Bliss 

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Posted 14 May 2023 - 05:06 PM

Still in the hospital but hopefully getting out this afternoon. Right now though, I’m enjoying a fairly decent steak dinner! My hospital rocks!
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Posted 15 May 2023 - 12:34 AM

Drop Bears. Is that a Gibson deep cut?
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Posted 16 May 2023 - 06:45 AM

Wife is working solidly the next two weeks - today and Friday as a GCSE exam invigilator and then Wednesday Thursday as a teaching assistant, then as a TA next week.

She also interviewed for a company yesterday and subject to a clean DBS check she has a conditional employment offer for a WFH customer service job. Which is mega because if our income goes even up to £2.5k a month globally, it opens our finances up MASSIVELY. Especially given we've learned how to live on basically dick all.

The challenge now is that because I am primarily WFH (when she starts working full time I'll have to go into Wakey on Tuesdays) we need to convert somewhere in the house to an office space for her - and it's likely to have to be the corner of the main bedroom. And we'll have to work with our respective office doors shut, which sort of sucks, but hey, EMPLOYMENT!!!!
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#18961 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 16 May 2023 - 07:28 AM

The bad thing about that Maark is someone having to go into Wakefield :( but good news otherwise!
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#18962 User is offline   Azath Vitr (D'ivers 

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Posted 16 May 2023 - 01:21 PM

Putin fired six more of his 'unstoppable' hypersonic missiles at Kyiv... and the PATRIOT system stopped them all.

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Ukraine said it shot down 18 Russian missiles targeting Kyiv [...] including six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. [...] missile attack was "exceptional in its density."

Ukraine Says It Shot Down 6 Hypersonic Missiles in Attack on Kyiv (businessinsider.com)


It's stopped seven out of seven now.

Putin's ability to blackmail other countries with the threat of hypersonic missiles may have just diminished considerably.

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#18963 User is offline   Maark Abbott 

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Posted 17 May 2023 - 06:15 AM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 16 May 2023 - 07:28 AM, said:

The bad thing about that Maark is someone having to go into Wakefield :( but good news otherwise!


I mean it could be worse, I live in Barno. All we have here is post-industrial decline and sadness.

That said, Wakefield city centre was amazingly depressing. Like a really shit Scunthorpe but with no seaside.
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#18964 User is online   TheRetiredBridgeburner 

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Posted 17 May 2023 - 08:09 AM

View PostMaark Abbott, on 17 May 2023 - 06:15 AM, said:

View PostTiste Simeon, on 16 May 2023 - 07:28 AM, said:

The bad thing about that Maark is someone having to go into Wakefield :( but good news otherwise!


I mean it could be worse, I live in Barno. All we have here is post-industrial decline and sadness.

That said, Wakefield city centre was amazingly depressing. Like a really shit Scunthorpe but with no seaside.


Agreed. And like so many other northern industrial towns, it could be improved if it had money spent on it.

Having said that, I lived on the outskirts of Wakefield before moving in with Mr Not a Blacksmith and enjoyed my time there, and the house we're buying is in a village between Wakefield and Rothwell. The reality is though we'll use Leeds when we need a city centre - which whilst annoyingly busy, is much nicer.
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#18965 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 17 May 2023 - 08:12 AM

I get it, I lived in Oldham for a number of years. Most of the money went to Manchester, though the teams did help with things and they had started to make things a bit better in the centre at least when I left.

I worked in Blackburn which was worse.
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#18966 User is offline   worry 

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Posted 17 May 2023 - 09:25 AM

Yah, me nan lives in Ol' Billywickham and eats her chips with "soot and vinegar", she says. "Leastways it means some folks are still a-workin." Well that's nan for ya. Big hearted.
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Posted 17 May 2023 - 01:42 PM

I forget, which of these places did Charlie Stross wipe out with an army of Necro-Elves?
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Posted 17 May 2023 - 01:58 PM

View Postworry, on 17 May 2023 - 09:25 AM, said:

Yah, me nan lives in Ol' Billywickham and eats her chips with "soot and vinegar", she says. "Leastways it means some folks are still a-workin." Well that's nan for ya. Big hearted.


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Posted 19 May 2023 - 06:57 AM

Band is doing a mini tour in November with Ephemera - Rotherham, Shipley and Halifax, and then I think we have a headline gig the week afterward. Should be good!
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#18970 User is offline   worry 

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Posted 19 May 2023 - 08:53 AM

View PostQuickTidal, on 17 May 2023 - 01:58 PM, said:

View Postworry, on 17 May 2023 - 09:25 AM, said:

Yah, me nan lives in Ol' Billywickham and eats her chips with "soot and vinegar", she says. "Leastways it means some folks are still a-workin." Well that's nan for ya. Big hearted.


Every now and again Worry NAILS the execution on a joke. This was NOTE perfect and I LOLed at work and people looked at me strangely.


Lol Tiste sent me a voice recording of his impression of this. If only y'all could hear it.
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