What have you realised today?
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carguy45 said:
Second Best said:
I had a few hours to kill this evening and I ended up watching WWE wrestling as it was on TV.
I watched a few Youtube videos recently of the Ultimate Warrior in WWF days, particularly one of his bouts with Hulk Hogan at an old Wrestlemania. The crowd was insane, nearly brought the place down when they faced off. Don't see that level of excitement these days in WWEI had a quick chat with someone at work who still follows wrestling and he was cock-a-hoop about Edge returning at the most recent special event. I'm not sure it's clever marketing, more "s
t we need more people to buy stuff" by getting retired wrestlers back to do a few matches. It seems a bit catch-22 - need more money so hire in the names that'll get the casual crowd involved again, but pay through the nose for their contract so you need more money anyway.Maybe I'm just oversimplifying things.
Also realised today, in the spirit of PH, having being ferried around in a new base-spec Merc C-class I found it amazing how obvious unselected options are now simply not hidden from view. Normally if you didn't select parking sensors or vanity lights or a rear ashtray, the car would come with a bumper without sensor mouldings, a roof lining without a vanity light slot, and the rear ashtray would have a blank or a cupholder or something else.
The Merc's bumper has blanks where the sensors should be, which looks stupid, a roof lining with vanity light plastic covers over the bare metal frame behind, and the rear ashtray is just a hole in the back of the centre console. Added to the milk bottle tops that Merc class as wheels, I also can't work out why the hell the boot is one-touch opening, but doesn't close again on the key. I accidentally bumped the key in my pocket while getting my wallet out paying for fuel earlier, and the boot popped open. Some paperwork in the back got ruined and I had to reprint it - no big deal but very frustrating. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to have a button on a remote key fob to open part of the car, with no way to close it again?
That being said, a friend of mine is flying out on Friday. He's parked his car very close to the runway (we work in aerospace), and having flown out of there a few times I know he'll be able to see his car as the plane's accelerating down the runway.
Unbeknownst to him I have procured the spare key for his car. I'll be hiding somewhere nearby when his flight takes off, and as soon as I see his plane on the runway I'll remotely open his boot for him. Of course, he'll see his boot open and start flapping as he can't do anything, and of course once the car's out of eyeshot and I've stopped laughing, I'll close it up for him.
I think it's true when people say that men never grow up. Will report my findings on that childish thread.
/rant
coldel said:
I do left sock then right, then left shoe then right - always. If I have socks that has the logo on the outside on both socks and find I picked up one which has a logo on the inside as I go to put it on my left foot, I have to change the sock over rather than just put it on my right foot 
Thanks for validating I'm not alone in this! I will feel slightly less odd tomorrow 
I write right handed but:
1) Always put left leg into trousers first
2) Always left sock on first
3) Always put left shoe on first
4) Use a spoon and fork with my left hand
5) Use left hand to pick-up drinks
6) Always get on the bicycle from the left side
7) Sleep on the right side of the bed
Wife and son consider me to be "strange".
1) Always put left leg into trousers first
2) Always left sock on first
3) Always put left shoe on first
4) Use a spoon and fork with my left hand
5) Use left hand to pick-up drinks
6) Always get on the bicycle from the left side
7) Sleep on the right side of the bed
Wife and son consider me to be "strange".
after a bath/shower, I always dry my right foot first
possible probable parrot needed but, isn't it "...more stupid..." rather than "...stupider..."?
Second Best said:
That being said, a friend of mine is flying out on Friday. He's parked his car very close to the runway (we work in aerospace), and having flown out of there a few times I know he'll be able to see his car as the plane's accelerating down the runway.
Unbeknownst to him I have procured the spare key for his car. I'll be hiding somewhere nearby when his flight takes off, and as soon as I see his plane on the runway I'll remotely open his boot for him. Of course, he'll see his boot open and start flapping as he can't do anything, and of course once the car's out of eyeshot and I've stopped laughing, I'll close it up for him.
I think it's true when people say that men never grow up. Will report my findings on that childish thread.
/rant
I doff my cap sir - this is genius!Unbeknownst to him I have procured the spare key for his car. I'll be hiding somewhere nearby when his flight takes off, and as soon as I see his plane on the runway I'll remotely open his boot for him. Of course, he'll see his boot open and start flapping as he can't do anything, and of course once the car's out of eyeshot and I've stopped laughing, I'll close it up for him.
I think it's true when people say that men never grow up. Will report my findings on that childish thread.
/rant
GT03ROB said:
1) No matter how stupid I think I am, there's a fair few out there who are stupider....in some cases much stupider,
yellowjack said:
Today I realised that I spend far too much time posting on daft internet forums, and not enough time doing stuff that is actually useful...
realised this a LONG time ago LordHaveMurci said:
Today I have realised that varifocals really will take some getting used to.
No driving in them quite yet!
I'll be looking forward to this in the next few weeks (should have had them a couple of years ago but chickened ou, have to bite the bullet now)No driving in them quite yet!
irocfan said:
GT03ROB said:
1) No matter how stupid I think I am, there's a fair few out there who are stupider....in some cases much stupider,
FoxtrotOscar1 said:
I realised yesterday that despite being in my thirties ive never realised junkies are called so because they are "on the junk"
I didn’t know that.I realised that “going postal” (getting really angry and going nuts) comes from a spate of post office mass shootings by unhappy postal workers in the USA in the early 90s.
Plus “hangover” likely comes from people feeling rough after watching a public hanging which became a big piss up with stands set up for viewers and loads of drinking.
And “one for the road” (is also likely) having a last drink when you made your way from Newgate prison to the hanging venue at the ‘tyburn tree’ (bottom of edgeware road)
https://lookup.london/tyburn-tree-hidden-history-m...
I don't like pissing into a urinal. More specifically when there's other people in the bathroom.
I used to get called gay for working with horses yet those same guys are happy to whip their cock out next to a man they've never meet (like that makes a difference?) in a room full of other blokes pretending to wash their hands.
I used to get called gay for working with horses yet those same guys are happy to whip their cock out next to a man they've never meet (like that makes a difference?) in a room full of other blokes pretending to wash their hands.
Gromm said:
pigeyman said:
I don't like pissing into a urinal. More specifically when there's other people in the bathroom.
I used to get called gay for working with horses yet those same guys are happy to whip their cock out next to a man they've never meet (like that makes a difference?) in a room full of other blokes pretending to wash their hands.
So when did you realise that you're not like the other men? I used to get called gay for working with horses yet those same guys are happy to whip their cock out next to a man they've never meet (like that makes a difference?) in a room full of other blokes pretending to wash their hands.
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