The Happiness Thread

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  1. love to read

    love to read Senior Member

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    Worried about the piglets, though. First they are confronted with a not G-rated sight and then they are now bound to become juvenile delinquents. :superlaugh:
     
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  2. Homer Potvin

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    Where can I get some wild boars to ward off weirdos?
     
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    Javelina delinquents ...?
     
  4. love to read

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    Exactly :superagree:.
     
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    Such a minor thing to be happy about, but it's cool to see Joe under contract and throwing. Pretty sure a million other people have made the sports bra joke so I won't.

     
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  6. Rad Scribbler

    Rad Scribbler Faber est suae quisque fortunae Contributor

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    Steve Rivers post above;

    Cue the Benny Hill theme tune :D
     
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    My sister is here!! We stayed up late last night laughing so hard my throat hurts, and this morning has been just as funny.
     
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53706732

    ""We acknowledge that we did not consider the commonplace use of the term huruhuru as a reference to pubic hair, and that consultation with a Maori representative would have been a better reference than online dictionaries," Mike Patriquin told Canadian network CBC."

    Thank you Hell's Basement brewery for lightening my day with your marketing brilliance
     
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    Back from a weekend trip to Southern Ontario. I managed to put around two thousand kilometers on my bike, the weather was gorgeous, and I got enough schwarma in me to tide me through another month or so of jonesing.
     
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  11. Homer Potvin

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    Worked in a couple of places that served it. Never seemed to take off. Wasn't prepared properly.
     
  12. Iain Aschendale

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    Needs to be sold from a cart is why.
     
  13. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Yeah, some things weren't meant to be reinterpreted.
     
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    Got fed up with my own nonsense and left a note for the copy room guy I've had a crush on for about a year and asked him out. I couldn't do it in person, but drunken toddler steps forward are better than none at all.
     
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    Good luck :cheerleader:
     
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    I filmed this a couple hours ago (from time of posting)



    Throughout my life living in the UK, I've heard my fair share of loud clapping thunderstorms and witnessed some really banging lightning storms. But i have never, ever, witnessed an electrical storm in the UK. Ever. The heat and humidity we've experienced over the last few days culminated in this. It went on like this for nearly 4 hours.
    This was me just pointing my camera at ONE patch of the sky and leaving it there. Imagine that all around me.
    You'll notice it's just a rolling rumble. Even though the strikes are almost above me, they barely made a sound. That alone felt bizarre. But the sheer frequency of it all was eerie. I was half expecting Sauron's eye to appear at any moment and a horde of rampaging orcs to run down the street. That, or Gozer was about to appear with the gatekeeper and the keymaster.

    It was really thrilling!
     
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    Um... a thunderstorm, lightning storm, and electrical storm are the same thing. Static buildup in the clouds equalizes through bolt of electricity either cloud to cloud or cloud to ground causing flashes of visible light (lightning) and shock waves of sound (thunder). If you don't hear the thunder that's because the lightning is farther off than you think it is and that background rumble is the sound of flashes past. Your video is frakkin' beautiful though, I could watch that all night.
     
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    I know it's the same thing scientifically. But what I was (poorly) trying to convey was the fact that I have never had lightning above me (and it was above me, that was literally as close as it looked) and never heard a BANG / BOOM go with it. It was just a rolling rumble. Everytime I've ever seen lightning that close before in the UK it follows the same pattern. You see a flash, you wait and count 1,000... 2,000... and you hear an almighty thunder crack. This was nothing like it. At all. Extremely close Flash flash flash flash.... low rumbles. I even had to turn the volume up on the video just so you can hear it. It was virtually silent as it happened.

    As i said - it was bizarre.
     
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  19. Homer Potvin

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    The tree outside my bedroom window got hit with lightning when I was a kid. It made this Star Trek phaser "zzzzz" sound and then the thunder knocked me out of bed. Think I was maybe 5 or 6... slept in my parents bed for the rest of the week.
     
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    Laying in bed in the the dark with a big smile on my face as the thunder and lightning strikes and rumbles. The rain is lashing it down. My viking ancestry approves, I live for this shit. I haven't had a blink of sleep all night as I've listened to every single one.
     
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    My French linen merchant ancestry doesn't have much to say about it, but I do love a good thunderstorm.
     
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    Its glorious. I've been laying in the dark figuring out how many teslas a single bolt could charge.
     
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    It could probably fry a lot of teslas, yeah.
     
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    Woooo, last night was a blast.

    Totes looking forward to everyones footage and pics.
     
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    Where were you when this was happening? Had exactly the same thing happening in Central Belt Scotland last night. The tremendous flashings woke me up around 2am, and were still going at 4am, when I finally got back to sleep. Where I live we had heavy cloud cover, so it was just illumination, with no forks of lightning visible, etc. But as you say, no sound. We did get one massive roll of thunder near the end of that time period, followed by a brief but tumultuous shower of rain. Nothing like it in my lifetime either, and where I came from we used to get thunderstorms that would make your teeth rattle, and lightning strikes that regularly caught things on fire. But those were really LOUD. This one wasn't. Scary. At first I thought maybe something had gone wrong at the electricity substation near our house.

    Somebody near Falkirk got this photo of the Kelpies, backed by the storm. Pretty good photo, attributed (on the Facebook posting where I found it just now, to someone named Courtney Butler.)
    Screenshot 2020-08-12 at 09.05.36.png
     
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