Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind

[Stevo 666]

Yes, you and your friends Norman and Derek can go to the pub to enthuse about warm beer you can discuss how great Linux is, how it's amazing no-one knows, because it doesn't get hacked or viruses (because no one of note has anything worth hacking on a Linux system).

Are you saying it's a bit of a geek thing?

 

[First Aspect]

Are you saying it's a bit of a geek thing?

It is a niche for idealistic geeks with no appreciation of the overwhealming commercial need to seemlessly confirm to what all customers and competitors are using in the real world. Mostly these geeks reside in the university sector.

 

[briantrumpet]

Joshing with the lady in the Post Office about returning two (crap) laptops to Amazon in as many weeks cheered me up.

Unlike the weather. Can I return that to Amazon too?

 

[BoldonLad]

Yes, you and your friends Norman and Derek can go to the pub to enthuse about warm beer you can discuss how great Linux is, how it's amazing no-one knows, because it doesn't get hacked or viruses (because no one of note has anything worth hacking on a Linux system).

My friends are not called Norman and Derek, I will have you know 😂

 

[briantrumpet]

It does actually cheer me up when I get a sensible parking place near my house (and not where it's likely to be washed by a high tide), and I can disconnect the battery because the next time I'm likely to be going to have to move the car is a couple of months away – at the moment, the next time will be for its MOT in April.

 

[briantrumpet]

Being prompted into a 'deep clean' of my bean-to-cup Magnifica S machine, because it refused to work, with various warning lights illuminated, and having removed and washed all the bits I could (including the infuser) and cleaned out the chute from the grinder with the thing I use to clean the valves on my trumpets, all is good again. Man 1, machine 0.

 

[briantrumpet]

With the help of a friend, I seem to have re-emerged on FB, so I can see what the French female fans have been saying while I've been away (for over three months).

No idea quite what buttons the friend ended up pressing (maybe reporting my account had been hacked, but we tried a few different combinations before the bingo moment), but all of a sudden, I got notifications on the FB app that I needed to verify my identity, and as I'd taken the precaution of taking my passport to dinner, along with the Crozes Hermitage (2018) that had been lurking in the cupboard, my account was unlocked in a few minutes.

Still no idea what it was all about, but glad I didn't give up. OTOH, I didn't particularly miss all the crap on FB. OTOOH, FB crap is but a fraction of Instagram crap, so I'll be glad to leave that behind (mostly). That said, it did allow me to keep my French FB Page going, even if I had no idea what anyone there was saying, other than « Sacré bleu, monsieur !! » I assume.

Anyway, guess I owe him another of these bottles from my secret cupboard now.

 

[Pblakeney]

Today's emotional response is bemusement. Just back from 6 days in Northumberland and my wife noticed something early on so we kept count. It wasn't hard. In our visit to 7 towns we saw a grand total of 4 people obviously not obviously of Anglo/Saxon/Nordic descent, and 3 of them were together outside a Premier Lodge.

 

[secretsqirrel]

Today's emotional response is bemusement. Just back from 6 days in Northumberland and my wife noticed something early on so we kept count. It wasn't hard. In our visit to 7 towns we saw a grand total of 4 people obviously not obviously of Anglo/Saxon/Nordic descent, and 3 of them were together outside a Premier Lodge.

Bloody celts

 

[briantrumpet]

Bloody celts

And Vikings. Sectarianism at its worst, if you ask me.

 

[briantrumpet]

A sigh of relief at replacing the SPD cleats on my Shimano shoes, which have plenty of life left in them... it was touch and go whether the bolts were completely seized, but all four creaked their way out with a fair degree of force (not surprising as the plates inside the shoes looked like the steel of the SS Great Britain when it arrived back in Bristol from the Falklands). It now means I won't have the challenge of working out just how I'm going to unclip every time, as it had become a rather random process, with me wondering how I was going to fall if I failed.

 

[briantrumpet]

Please fucking stop with the memes of Paddington Bear walking away holding the next dead person's hand. Especially when it's a murderous Ayatollah.

 

[Ian H]

Please fucking stop with the memes of Paddington Bear walking away holding the next dead person's hand. Especially when it's a murderous Ayatollah.

But remember that his predecessor was welcomed into Iran after the murderous Shah was deposed.

 

[briantrumpet]

But remember that his predecessor was welcomed into Iran after the murderous Shah was deposed.

Look, Paddington Bear denies any responsibility in that event, OK?

 

[C R]

But remember that his predecessor was welcomed into Iran after the murderous Shah was deposed.

The murderous king's son, who hasn't lived in Iran since he was 17, is now being groomed by the usual suspects as the bringer of democracy.