1. strangers who smile at me and say "hello", sometimes it's a pick me up on a bad day!
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
2. Cobwebs covered in dew
― hey it's (jel --), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
3. A sunny morning on a day when I don't owe my time to anyone.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
4. Finding money in a jacket I haven't worn for months.
― hey it's (jel --), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
5. The daily paper at my door.
― Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
6. Eating an apple, I always forget how nice they are - which is part of the charm, coz if I ate them all the time I wouldn't like them so much.
― hey it's (jel --), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
7. A stack of clean sheets, towels just waiting to be used for something
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
8. A full pack of cigarettes -- nothing can be too bad if you have enough cigarettes
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
9. Any excuse to use those correction tape rollers.
― franny glass, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
10. kids doing that stompy playtime talk to themselves thing that they do when they think no one is paying attention to them.
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
its like a little glimpse into happy imagination land, plus you know they are plotting something awesome
11. Seeing someone walking a dog, and both person and dog just look like they're having the time of their lives.
― a seminar on ass play for kids or something (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
12. Posting on ILX when I haven't really posted in forever. It's like an old pair of slippers.
― hey it's (jel --), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
13. An adventure to plan
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
14. using my envelope opener. such a clean open every time.
― MAX NOT FOR MOD (Roberto Spiralli), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
15. waking up in the middle of the night and discovering that it's earlier than you thought so you can get more sleep and then remembering that tomorrow is your day off anyway
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
16. dogs being walked past my front porch when i'm sitting outside that stop and come on over to say hello
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
17. When the timer on the stove beeps and the meal that I've spent a great deal of time preparing is finally ready!!!
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
18. using those little blue oil absorbing sheets
― MAX NOT FOR MOD (Roberto Spiralli), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
19. Someone holding the door for someone else. "Right. At least we haven't lost ALL sense of society."
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
20. Putting my watch on for the first time each morning, and feeling the cool metal of the bracelet. Ahhhh.....
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
21. A motherfucking E chord.
22. Getting enough sleep and not waking to an alarm clock!
― Aimless, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
23. Starting a new Moleskine journal
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
24. Having my morning coffee in my stainless steel travel mug at work..I can nurse that thing for 3 hours!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
25. Starting a new bottle of Hendrick's
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
26. Eucalyptus trees after it rains
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
27. Clean sheets on the bed
28. The drive to San Francisco from Sacramento (bc we're always driving there to do something fun)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
29. Airports and flying
30. Truckee
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
31. Warm shower after a long workout
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
32. Seeing distant snow covered mountains on a clear morning while driving to work
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
33. When whatever you are listening to on your iPod syncs up EXACTLY to what is going on around you33a. Walking through a light drizzle on an overcast but bright day listening to Massive Attack's "Teardrop"33b. Walking down the sidewalk seconds before one of the biggest rainstorms you've ever seen and it's impossibly dark and humid and smells like rain and the sky is black and you can see torrential downpours half a mile down the road and you're listening to Spiritualized's "Electric Mainline" and it feels like you're about to walk into something that will change your life
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Rain can be just amazing.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i miss rain tbh
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
34. Seeing cool classic cars driving on the freeway.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Really really old people holding hands
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Hedgehogs
35 old people in love xp!
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
36. Just one wipe
― some o))) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
37. Any type of retriever wagging its tail
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
38. Any three legged dog
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
39. Or three-legged cat
― kate78, Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
40. Dogs trying to bite waves at the beach. UNBELIEEEEVABLE happiness.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
40. When you're in the house and you fart really loud and satisfyingly and it smells awful but you feel a liitle proud
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
41. Bed-hair on men. Adorable.
― franny glass, Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
42 g bale's first touch on the full sprint.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
43. Watching snow fall, especially if it's dark, and especially near a streetlight that makes them all glow like you are flying thru STARZ44. Seeing ducks, squirrels, moorhens, rabbits on the way home45. Being alone in the house and fixing yourself some favourite comfort food that your partner won't eat
― patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
46. Pugs
― Darin, Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
cosign on three-legged dogs. i love all of them, especially my friend's dog Rhonda.
47. Bicycling around to Italo.
48. People asking me for directions as if I am a font of knowledge on such matters.
49. Young pitbulls.
50. http://www.animalsites.net/news/gallery/chow-chow-dog/chow-chow-dog-4.jpg
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I love when ppl ask me for directions and I'm all like "Yeah! You're on X st now, you just hang a left and (etc etc)"
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
51. Taking a spontaneous detour in a less familiar part of town and discovering a nice place to sit and read a book.
― ↱HEAVEN↗ (CONGO, M.D.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
52. not having a migraine.
― that's so percussion (get bent), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
53. autumn
― definatelypoopsmcgee (chrisv2010), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
54. I was sitting on the train (first time in 18 years, car trouble) on Christmas day and there were about 20 people in my compartiment - some couples and mostly single passengers who didn't know each other. Nobody was talking, it was very very quiet apart from the train noise. Suddenly, an old woman behind me started eating an apple. In the course of the next ten minutes, this (very normal apple eating) isolated sound she made somehow turned everyone behind her (me & everyone in front of me) into silently crying our eyes out - belly hurting giggling fools. I don't know who started it, but it spread like wildfire and EVERYONE lost it. After a while, the apple was all gone, everyone turned back into quiet strangers until she got off the train (passed by us all and looked at us, clearly wondering why our eyes were red) - then we all started laughing again.
It was a gloriously absurd and irrationally happy moment. You should have been there, I guess.
― StanM, Monday, 27 December 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ I love this.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 27 December 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Something similar happened to me on a suburban train years ago. This older gentleman was fast asleep. But as the train sped up he would bow his head down almost to his knees, and then his head would slowly come back up as the train slowed down. It was like watching one of those drinking birds you put on a glass of water.
Two stops in and everyone in the whole carriage was watching, and we tried so hard not to laugh out loud. Everyone was red-faced with tears pouring down as we all stifled our laughter.
When he finally got off at his station the carriage was FULL of belly laughs. It was awesome.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 27 December 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
But that apple story is even better because it's so random. Laughter amongst strangers is the best.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
10. kids doing that stompy playtime talk to themselves thing that they do when they think no one is paying attention to them.― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:29 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:29 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark
see also toddlers in snowpants, wiping out, a tense pause, and then just totally losing their shit w/laughter
― kanellos (gbx), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha awww
― ENBB, Monday, 27 December 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
- garden centre
― complimentary browse of the Daily Mail (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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Peppermint bark!
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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― complimentary browse of the Daily Mail (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
White chocolate with candy cane pieces mixed in, chocolate on the bottom usually. AMAZING
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/peppermint-bark/
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
My bff/housemate singing xmas carols, Bing Crosby-style. Esp when it isnt xmas, but he just bloody well feels like crooning "Jingle Bells" while doing the dishes, dammit.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh shit I put this in the wrong thread. I HATE garden centres.
― complimentary browse of the Daily Mail (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 09:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i thought that was enthusiasm out of character.
― estela, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 09:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I like garden centres! All those plants and decorative doodads for the garden.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, I have to contribute to the anger thread.
― complimentary browse of the Daily Mail (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link
-smell of tea
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
First couple of brushes with a new toothbrush.
― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link
oh on a similar note, new pair of socks...feels so right.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:44 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
animals on trains are also guarantee for endless lolz and aws, an old man man with a dog, both licking/kissing each other. (seriously)or a girl with a little kitten in a cage, very early morning, kitten going 'meow meow' very softly (and a little scared) and the entire silent train wagon goin' AWWWW.
― Ludo, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
a few weeks ago, i was driving home from work and my car died in the middle of a three-way intersection. i didn't really know what to do. within a couple of minutes, a random guy stopped and offered to give me a jump. when that didn't work, he pulled his car around behind mine also used it to push me through the intersection to the side of the road. overall he spent about 10 minutes of his day helping a stranger in need. then a friend (who posts on ilx) drove out to where i was and let me sit in his heated car (it was very cold out) while waiting for the tow truck, then gave me a ride home. just two things that made a shitty situation a little less shitty.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
boss wanted to change my schedule for next quarter. i try to be flexible but they've been changing my schedule every 10 weeks and i didn't really want to adopt the new schedule, so I was kind of passive-aggressive about it and blamed my other job, saying they didn't like me changing my schedule with them, but ultimately i left it open and said I would think about it. today my boss said that due to other issues, they now want me to keep my current schedule. so i got what i wanted without having to look like i'm "not a team player."
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
my daughter smiling and laughing all the time now, happy babies are a+++
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
boss for my newer job giving me a totally positive review, even though i feel like i slack off a lot and am still figuring lots of things out
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
going to parties and knowing lots of people there and feeling like i've now lived in chicago long enough to have a social circle or even multiple interlocking social circles
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
long enough to have a social circle or even multiple interlocking social circles
If we're discussing innocuous things that I wish were a reality for me in LA, and would therefore make me insanely happy, this would be one of them. Getting there, but damn if work don't get in the way.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it took a long time. but i've been here seven years now.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm moving to the 4th floor instead of the top in a little under a month. thank God.
― emma goldbond (San Te), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
a rare instance where I get to post in both innocuous threads simultaneously.
went to the mall (which I usually hate) to pick up a few rap albums with my gambling winnings, and stopped for lunch. ran into a friend of mine who I haven't seen in a while, who stopped me and we had a nice quick 5 min chat.
her sunny demeanor and the friendly conversation was a big lift for me and put me in a good mood.
― r0b /via/ orl (San Te), Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The tick-tick of a nicely working derailleur when you're freewheeling along.
― Ron Rom (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 4 March 2011 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Sun is shining, nearly a weekend, and I was just briefly delighted by the sound of a (male, not particularly camp) coworker tittering like a naughty little schoolgirl.
(trying to make the most of being irrationally happy as my most irrationally-angry-making coworker has just got back from lunch, bah)
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 4 March 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
- hearing YMO (Technopolis iirc) in tacky chain sushi bar
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 7 March 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I love when ppl ask me for directions and I'm all like "Yeah! You're on X st now, you just hang a left and (etc etc)"― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:01 (5 months ago) Bookmark
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:01 (5 months ago) Bookmark
came here to post about this!
― jed_, Friday, 11 March 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
55. manic phase
― rockapads, Friday, 11 March 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
56. making a St Patrick's Day playlist, Mr Veg and began dicussing the finer points over dinner. Mr Veg adamant that I should include Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me. Me going WTF? then reminding me that they recorded it while they were holed up in Dublin, Rick lost his arm etc etc...and then I lol'd and lol'd and lol'd
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
57. Youtube videos of babies laughing uncontrollably at dogs doing dog things.58. Hockey hugs after a goal. And the handshake-line after a playoff series is won.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 18 March 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
59. on the way home y/day, a boy of about 7 or 8 sat on a riverbank, staring contemplatively at a pair of swans right in front of him, staring peacefully back at him
(this would not be so <3 if I were not so distrustful of both children and swans)
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 18 March 2011 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
60. My dentist is like a dude straight out of Mayberry, sweet and lovely and quaint, the whole office feels like a delightful time machine. Today, greatest thing ever. As I'm having work done, my Mayberry-esque dentist begins describing a scene from Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke to his wonderfully square assistant. I had tears rolling out of my eyes as he describes in great detail the scene where the stoned motorcycle cop pulls the van over after it has caught on fire, his assistant looking on wide-eyed and not laughing really at all. It was all so surreal and hilarious and I have NO idea how my dentist even got onto the subject of weed or where Cheech and Chong fit in.
But it was great and made me happy despite being trapped in a dentist chair
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
61. Weaving through stopped bumper-to-bumper traffic on my bike62. Secret passages and underground tunnels
― jj n° fad (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 May 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
non-rejected jbr screennames that probably should have been rejected but the urge to torture with puns is too great
― michael nyman the composer guy (man) (dude) (get bent), Thursday, 5 May 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
My friend's very exuberant and ruffly dress today.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 5 May 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
Buying a food and its expiration date is your birthday.
― crabbbittts (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 May 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
but that's sad :(
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
"Happy birthday!! YOUR FOOD IS DEAD NOW >: [ "
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's just that I'm vain enough to appreciate any reminder that I was born, even in the form of a memento mori (for the food).
― crabbbittts (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
"when does this cream expire – June 12? – how delightful, I am alive."
― crabbbittts (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh my god, that is p beautiful actually.
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
It's a totally little kiddish feeling. "My borthday is Important."
― crabbbittts (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
Noisy little bastard shouting the name of every car that passes the bus while his brother climbs on the seat next to me. All while the mum is browsing Facebook on her phone, completely ignoring their behaviour. Still half an hour of this to go before i can get off.
― not_goodwin, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
I get the birthday expriation date thing too. Also seeing a car commercial and the disclaimer says PRICES GOOD UNTIL [YOUR BIRTHDAY]!
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I think not_goodwin is in the wrong thread.
For real, right now the crushing synth in Zombi's "Surface To Air" is making me irrationally happy.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 May 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
oops. :-/
― not_goodwin, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
67 (I think) -- being done with the @!(#*&$I()^& weed-eating/edging. I hate doing it, but I love looking out and being able to say "yeah that looks a lot better."
― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
new clothes.
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Depositing a check via ATM
― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
68. Old men wearing incongruous clothes. Like the old Chinese dude I saw the other day, wearing a sun hat and an awesome Morissey jacket.
69. Dogs that jump up and lick your face with affection no matter the time of day or how often you see them.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
There is a young woman who works as an aide at one of the schools where I drive kids. She's somewhat pretty, but not a knockout by any stretch, and I have not had any lascivious thoughts about her. But she has a grade-A good-person's face and somehow just looking at her makes me feel happier about the world.
Which is to say, people whose innate goodness radiates from them make me happy.
― Aimless, Monday, 9 May 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
otm
there's a tube driver in london who speaks with a really heavy caribbean accent, who says at every stop: "the next stop is....please take all your belongings with you and wherever you go, whatever you do, whoever you see, whatever the weather, have a NICE day!"
at every stop that exact same mantra! i turn off my ipod whenever he's driving just to listen to him.
― LocalGarda, Monday, 9 May 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
he should get an award
― LocalGarda, Monday, 9 May 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
tell me which line please
― conrad, Monday, 9 May 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
love those people
there's a lovely bagger at my supermarket, shy young girl and she always gives a big beaming smile & is so genuine & sweet, I just love her to death, she makes my day
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 9 May 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
ron4n, that guy sounds awesome. there used to be a bus driver in San Francisco like that, but he retired :(
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
I have sort of made it my life goal to be this person in everything I do p much
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
that is a great story, ronan.
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure where to put this. Geir just said this in another thread:
They are, I would think, rare indeed.
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 19 May 2011 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
Avenues. Love 'em. There's the one I cycle down through Hyde Park on the way to work, iridescent leaves lit by the morning sun, and a lime one through the grounds of Chiswick House, shady and cool and very green.
Oh, and while we're at it, and similarly, sunken lanes.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Trolling this thread for ideas right now, iirc, could use some irrationally happy time today.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
go rub your wifes stomach jon
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
(lol at this out of context)
Definitely part of the plan, but have to wait until way later tonight.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
hey have you done the whole headphones on the stomach thing? that was my favorite part of my wifes pregnancy.
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
played beach boys to him all the time.
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Also squeezing a good pimple makes me happy. This has nothing to do with pregnant wives
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, yes we have. We received those "Belly Buds" as a gift and we have a six-song playlist that gets played quite often. There is a Beach Boys song on there!
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Pet Sounds, man. The whole thing. Do it! :)
Actually I was going to say ILXORs having babbys, like Mordy's little Dalia, and jjjusten getting married and ppl doing v cool things make me happy...and jon anticipating a babby even though I know he has the weight of the world atm <3 <3
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
I played my kid pet sounds, smile and simon and garfunkel. recently he told me fleet foxes are his favorite.
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
simon & garfunkel was my favorite as a kid
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Getting a really good set of letters in Scrabble, and having two spots available to play the bingo so you know you can't be blocked.
― WmC, Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
scrabble makes me irrationally angry.
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
ooh, we have a thread for that too
― WmC, Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
groups of people of different nationalities where none of them from the country they are in.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 20 May 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ac-M0_bqRHU/TBTf7dKfjDI/AAAAAAAAA6E/8qW_ndTVKMU/s1600/World+Cup+US+UK+flag+fans.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
:D
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 20 May 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Ahm, no you're right PP - I didn't think that one through. I was more on a international bonding, with an aura of shared enjoyment at culture they find themselves in, the IH stemming from the general aura of eagerness to find out about each other, all of which seems embodied in those groups. But now I realise there is a dark side.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 20 May 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
a international bonding, mind.
sunny complaining about innocuous shit makes me irrationally happy
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
there was just a sudden, very brief downpour as the sun was going down.
― dell (del), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
that is a really good one. this only half-qualifies, but last night i was interacting with these young-ish guys from manchester, and they just seemed so happy to be hanging out and traveling around america, and they were super-friendly in a way that so many tourists from europe seem to be. it was just nice; like they didn't have an agenda or whatever, they just seemed really happy to be here.
― dell (del), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
A picture of my brother holding a tamed fox in Mexico.
― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Sunday, 5 June 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
He says the fox licked him & it had "the softest little tongue."<3!!
― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Sunday, 5 June 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
1st night in my own bed after a weekend camping, who knew clean sheets were so amazing.
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 5 June 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Part of my job today involved sourcing images for a resource for sex workers. this means I have been given permission to spend several hours looking at stock images of naked women.
― I knew that the Russian people mercilessly ograblyali ograblyay (James Morrison), Monday, 6 June 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
I have recently discovered that I love love love being able to navigate my way through unfamiliar bits of London on my bike.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
Going to cafe for full English breakfast in the afternoon.
― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's awesome. Good man.
― Kim, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
Yes! I love English breakfast.
― Bus to Yoker (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
I just found out I can buy BBQ pork by the pound at my local cheap-&-greasy Chinese takeaway - was p obvious but I was always too scared to ask the grumpy serving lady. Made singapore noodles last night and considering how often I crave char siu I will be making all things BBQ porky over the next months!
― kinder, Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
When newspapers/magazines have stories about animal pals - like this story I saw in the fortean times about cat and owl buddies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqmba7npY8g
― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Friday, 24 June 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
Got the perfect balance of sweet and creaminess with a little vanilla extract in my morning coffee today, and I am seriously enjoying this. Yay.
― Kim, Friday, 24 June 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
Big clouds coming in from the west. The sky the same weird blue of the Seattle Seahawks uniforms. The sun only coming in from unpatched holes.
For June 24 in the mid-south, I'll take it.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 24 June 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
Trains. I'm on an Amtrak train and it is making me irrationally happy to look out the window and watch the landscape go by.
Also trestle bridges!!!! :D
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
OH oh I like train travel!
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
I've never ridden anything bigger than commuter rail. I'd probably lose it and start singing "City of New Orleans" every ten minutes.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 24 June 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
Laurel, me, too. My enthusiasm on this trip is slightly hampered by the fact that track work requires us to take a bus partway, but I'm digging the train in the meantime and it definitely beats the hell out of driving.
PP, the conductor leads everybody in a verse when s/he comes through to take tickets.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
If I had more time, I'd take a train again from here to home as long as I could reasonably expect it to keep to schedule. The only time I did that trip, we were massively delayed and missed our assigned track er crossings/sharings with the freight schedule and had to wait on sidings for HOURS to get back into traffic.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
(Likewise, I can't help but humming "Coming Into Los Angeles" when landing at LAX. Arlo wrote some good travelin' tunes.)
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 24 June 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
I took a train from Colorado to Delaware in my more robust youth - in coach! It was epic and awesome and exhausting and I'm pretty sure I could not do that again.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Watching WWE videos on youtube.
― jel --, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
The second, not the first, shave from a razor cartridge. It's always the smoothest and closest.
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
store yoru razons in mineral oil they say - and smooth shaving all the day
― Goth Cruise to Lynch Land (Latham Green), Friday, 19 August 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Getting people who are personal heroes popping up in my FB people-you-may-know, even if I am too chicken to friend them.
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Friday, 16 September 2011 10:48 (twelve years ago) link
People who say "Thank you driver" when they get off the bus.
― jel --, Friday, 16 September 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
everyone does that, though, right?
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
hell naw
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 16 September 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
The right to withhold thanking a driver due to arseholeness makes me irrationally happy. It annoys me* in London that so few buses have single-door entry/exit, so 99% of the time I'll thank the driver on the W5 or whatever, but not thanking is just normal London behaviour anyway, so it's not like he'd know he wasn't being thanked on purpose.
*It's outweighed by the speediness of 2-door simultaneous entry and exit.
― Skrillex Ferguson (useless chamber), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
I don't say "Thank you driver" any more than I'd say "Thank you butcher" were I to pick up some sausages. Who says "Thank you driver"?
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
i say that too. well, just 'thanks.'
― remy bean, Friday, 16 September 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
i deliver hm a hand printed card that says 'very notably discharged'
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
i always say thanks or thank you. the "driver" bit is unnecessary.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:41 (twelve years ago) link
most ppl in glasgow say 'thanks driver' ime
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 16 September 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
the 'driver' part hardly the core of the issue tbf
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
Because he's not just a driver. Then again, reading his namebadge and saying "Thank you Clive" would be wrong.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 September 2011 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
* Being cold.
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Friday, 16 September 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
I like putting the new water container on top of the cooler in the office and watching the bubbles go from the nozzle to the top of the bottle. AND THEN, I press down on the valve to fill my 32 oz cup and THE BUBBLES KEEP GOING. WHAT'S THE WATER COOLER THINKING, "WILL I BUBBLE FOREVER?"
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 16 September 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
butterflies from meeting someone new
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Friday, 16 September 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
pissing into a bottle on a plane
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't there a convention of 'drive'/'driver' address amongst people who have regular contact with professional drivers tho? Delivery vans and stuff. London buses I hold my hand up in a wave as I depart the bus occasionally, two-fingered salute if they've missed the stop or made old people fall over by starting suddenly sort of thing xpost.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 16 September 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
1. A few days ago, I borrowed a coworkers umbrella to run an errand only to find that it was a clear bubble umbrella and it made walking through the rain so much more fun.
2. A coworker at my other job just emailed me to tell me she bought me a pumpkin pie from a delicious local bakery and put it in the staff fridge for me to pick up after class tomorrow. <3<3<3
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, 30 September 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to my old tapes on an old portable cassette player at my dad's...Impact is Imminent by Exodus sounds great!
― jel --, Sunday, 9 October 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
50% off organic strawberries...and eating some for breakfast. Sooo ripe and lovely.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
to balance out my post on the other thread:
having a completely random amount of change in my pocket and finding it exactly totals the same amount as a purchase. i figure this to be the consumerist equivalent of a solar eclipse.
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 28 October 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
Bacon.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 28 October 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
my new lady
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Friday, 28 October 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
Missing the bus by about a block this morning, but having a friend drive by mere minutes later and giving me a ride to the train station!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 28 October 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
dressing up as a zombie for work
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
pics or it didn't happen, etc
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Makeup is kinda mild atm...fake blood to be added later
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/20e71cfe.jpg
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Oh that's GOOD!
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Nice!
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Products that far outlast any reasonable expectation of durability. I love my 20-year-old umbrella.
― D. Boon Pickens (WmC), Saturday, 29 October 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
When handwritten ampersands come off.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
How much everyone else hates the cold. :D
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Ha! The cold itself makes me irrationally happy.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
Yes! me too! i walked 2 miles to school in –14C weather, and I was all invigorated and joyful when I arrived to see the hunkered-down masses bitchin' about a 30 second walk from the car to the faculty lounge.
― gnome rocognise gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
"invigorated and joyful" <--- that is exactly it.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Before I lived in DC I was really looking forward to a properly freezing winter, and experiencing the - indeed - invigoratingly joyful bite of cold air on my face. And then it turned out to be one of those really mild winters and only snowed a bit.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
The type of salt packets with two tubes of salt in, as opposed to one. These are the best!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Salt-packet.jpg
― beachville, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
Putting on clean socks in the evening and getting in a comfy chair. Bliss.
― *tera, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
The check engine light in the car disappearing as mysteriously as it appeared.
― quincie, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
glass block windows
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
The first sip of coffee, every morning, just barely cool enough not to burn myself.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Coming into work in the morning and finding that the day before I got a head start on some work that needs to completed that day. Especially nice on a Monday morning, e.g., today when I had to look up a bunch of cases and remembered I had stayed late on Friday to prepare a list of the ones I needed.
Tomorrow I will find a bunch of crap done so I can just proof it, add a thing or two and send it out the door. Hooray for head-starting me!
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 27 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
Another litter of PUPPIES!
― on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
desk fan I love you <3
― put a fillyjonk on it (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
standing up on the pedals of your pike while its moving is soooo underrated
― hector_doepos, Thursday, 28 June 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
dogs in cars
ehh dogs in general, really
― windjammer voyage (blank), Thursday, 28 June 2012 05:32 (eleven years ago) link
yeah
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 June 2012 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
yes!
I actually still do the same thing I did as a kid, which is that when I get near to my house I start pedalling really fast and then stop pedalling and try to time the whole thing so that I come to a complete stop right in front of my house.
― silverfish, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
I feel irrationally tickled reading and using archaic and overly serious language in legal documents. For example:
NOW COMES the Petitioner, Je55e, and states....
Know all persons by these presents that on this 28th day of June, 2012, Je55e posted on ILX. ("Know all men" still gets used a lot)
and my favorite is on subpoenas it says YOU ARE COMMANDED [to appear, to produce, etc].
― Je55e, Thursday, 28 June 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
getting home from work on a really hot day and taking my pants off
― aspiring barkitect (silverfish), Friday, 29 June 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
co-sign
there are days when this feels like the best thing ever
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 June 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
Brand new athletic socks.
Brand new underwear.
Both at the same time = day-long sense of great wellbeing.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
At lunchtime a car with a rooftop bikerack passed me on the freeway. It had 3 bikes ontop, and there was one bike that was broken down to just the wheel, placed in the center of the rack, slightly lower than the other upside down bikes.
The oncoming wind made that one wheel spin and it kinda looked like the spinning wheel was powering the car.
It made me giggle for a good 10 minutes.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 August 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
having recently been on a camping trip, I'd like to add:
playing with fire
― aspiring barkitect (silverfish), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
cup of decent coffeepiece of homemade chocolate cake
goddamn my tastebuds are happy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
The little flower/star shaped device on fire sprinkler heads.
― stURGEON & musKEY (how's life), Friday, 21 September 2012 09:12 (eleven years ago) link
having recently been on a camping trip, I'd like to add:playing with fire
! I thought I was on the Irrationally Angry thread and I was like WTF, playing with fire is great, and even if somebody didn't like it, getting IA at others doing it would be pretty touchy.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Friday, 21 September 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
- the smell of weed coming from at least one car at an intersection in my neighborhood
- golden fall sunsets
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
The feeling of being freshly showered. Especially in the evening.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 29 October 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
elderly gentlemen shopping at the salvation army thrift store, whistling along to "like a virgin" or "i melt with you" or whatever bouncy pop thing is playing on the store pa system.
― slugbuggy, Monday, 31 December 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
people who confuse "roadie" with "groupie".
― how's life, Sunday, 3 March 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if you meant to post that in the angry thread.
― Je55e, Monday, 4 March 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
Ibuprofen. Sometimes you have an inflammation that is actually self-perpetuating, and the ibuprofen basically reduced the tightness/inflammation so that the problem can heal more easily. I had this back pain from a minor injury, and the advil didn't just temporarily relieve it but actually helped it get better.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
jury duty today, about to run out of the house, check the website, my # ain't needed, i'm going back to bed!
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
when you have that tiny little, thin piece of food stuck in your teeth, and you spend like ten minutes trying to get it out with your tongue, and then it finally comes loose and you are actually able to salvage it, and it's like "Bring the rogue before me!" and you can just stare it down before you sentence it to die.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Drumline practice at the middle school half a block away.
― schlock corridor (WilliamC), Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
when you pay for something with credit card at the grocery store and you have to sign the electronic credit card pad and it says SIGNATURE APPROVED like it ran a detailed handwriting analysis to make sure it's your credit card
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
makes me feel like i'm in mission: impossible
On a hot day, walking into a store or other public building where the A/C feels like
http://www.festivusfilmfestival.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/jack-nicholson-frozen.jpg
― potatoes-in-law (Je55e), Thursday, 18 July 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
3-way text between new boss, co-worker, and me: "[Co-worker], please make sure all know [ilx user get bent] is in charge. I will reinforce." AW YEAH.
― hannah arendt you glad you didn't say banana (get bent), Friday, 26 July 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
any kind of card approval makes me IH (irrationally happy). even if i know i have money in my account, i still sweat a little when i'm waiting for the process to finish.
― hannah arendt you glad you didn't say banana (get bent), Friday, 26 July 2013 02:32 (ten years ago) link
This evening I was listening to WKCR and they were playing outtakes of John Coltrane playing Like Sonny, and on a couple of them he actually fucked up the melody, bad, like came in in the wrong key, and somehow this made me ecstatically happy.
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
Like "holy shit, John Coltrane actually fucked up sometimes"
that was why all the practice
― j., Friday, 26 July 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
The high-pitched little squeaks and whistles that come from my sinuses after a big wet sneeze.
― how's life, Friday, 26 July 2013 10:35 (ten years ago) link
This has been going on for like a week. Pure joy.
― how's life, Monday, 29 July 2013 13:37 (ten years ago) link
Agreed.
― potatoes-in-law (Je55e), Monday, 29 July 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Came here to post this
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― Tamar Bibimbraxton (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 2 August 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
Thunderstorms first thing in the morning!
― potatoes-in-law (Je55e), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
joyful dancing to pop music
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 August 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
joyful dancing, joyful music in general
salad spinners.
in particular plying this one to the tune of yoo doo right.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 15 September 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
The generic international chain hotel I'm staying in is decorated almost entirely with stills from films made by the golden generation of graduates from the Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa im. Leona Schillera (Wajda, Munk, etc). There's a poster for Camera Buff in my room.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Thursday, 26 September 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
listening to people reading a braille test at work yesterday was v. placid and quietly happy
― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 September 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
So I've been struggling and feeling like I'm drowning all week at work because I've been having to deal with all this complex financial analysis at a very high rate of speed and I barely understand any of it (I'm working with more senior people who have a better grasp of it), and just been feeling pretty overwhelmed and bummed out, like I'm just not cut out for my job. And all these e-mails are going around and I can barely keep up with what's going on.
So tonight an e-mail from my co-worker went out that basically said "I'm looking at page x of document y, and it looks like the banker used the wrong values for the low end of the range" etc. So I open up the document and suddenly I see it -- my co-worker is misreading the chart, because the low end of the range should be the value with the highest discount rate and the lowest multiple instead of the lowest discount rate and the lowest multiple. So I called him up and let him know, and he sent out an e-mail crediting me with catching his mistake.
I didn't want to pwn the guy or anything, I just felt fantastic that I actually managed to understand and contribute something and even see something he missed - he's an intimidatingly intelligent guy.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Sunday, 6 October 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
On our new toilet, the seat cover is light and attaches tightly to the seat, so I can give it a little push and it lowers gently into place instead of slamming down.
― WilliamC, Saturday, 23 November 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
Open parking spot right in front of supermarket
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 November 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
New pen!
― quincie, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
stuff made out of crocheted granny squares
― *tera, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
space heater
― the haxan 5 (get bent), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
anticipating seeing one of my favorite childhood friends for the first time in 10 yrs
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
When a subway line goes above ground
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Saturday, 15 February 2014 04:40 (ten years ago) link
cupcakes with filling inside
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 February 2014 04:59 (ten years ago) link
really good grits
― WilliamC, Saturday, 15 February 2014 05:02 (ten years ago) link
Transferring stuff out of a crappy old wallet into better, tighter a new one.
Organizing my toolbox.
― Je55e, Saturday, 15 February 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
When my colleague from the Netherlands says "slice and dice" in the broadest Dutch accent imaginable.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Friday, 28 March 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
the Dutch for "snow" makes me happy, as 1. it is spelt "sneeuw", which is pleasing; 2. it sounds like saying "snow" while holding an Elvis lip-curl
walking past Argos/Toys R Us today I heard a child calling his mother a "silly-billy bum-bum", which made me irrationally happy for a moment
(and then almost nauseously anxious for a few seconds of "what if that is actually the child expressing the full force of hatred with the only words he knows, what do you do if you are a parent and you know that" and then "why do I care when I will never be a parent, even if I want to be" and then I managed to steer myself back to irrational happiness)
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 28 March 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
chili cheese fritos
― j., Friday, 28 March 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Small bodies of running water outdoors - creeks, ditches. Even rain and melted snow running down the driveway to the gutters vaguely satisfies.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
I always enjoyed how a former colleague who is Dutch pronounced equipment: "ee-KIP-ment"
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
Finding a coin on the ground. It makes me feel like the universe is tipping me the wink.
― I wear the fucking pin, don't I? (Aimless), Friday, 28 March 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
Supermarket french bread. Soft & fluffy & omg I could eat a whole loaf. It's like a bread cloud.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 March 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
my french co-worker used to say "I tink it very in-TEHR-es-ting"
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Saturday, 29 March 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link
My Dutch co-worker frequently referred to the "in-sink-er-ator" which made me lol every time.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 29 March 2014 04:12 (ten years ago) link
http://www.wastedisposers.com/images/products/images/Insinkerator_65.jpg?
― kinder, Saturday, 29 March 2014 11:07 (ten years ago) link
We call it a "garbage disposal" in the U.S.! I have never heard the term insinkerator until Dutch post-doc! Who, btw, fixed my garbage disposal/insinkerator. And also collected newts.
Dutch post-docs: full of lols
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 30 March 2014 02:18 (ten years ago) link
Wait a minute, I think my home kitchen had an insinkerator, and all this time I thought it was an In-Sink Erator, and I was wondering what an "erator" is, i.e. did not get the pun at all.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Sunday, 30 March 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
quincie i thought you were saying dutch post-doc said 'incinerator' funny, i actually looked for my own joek insinkerator gif but couldn't find a good one like kinder's. anyway we had an insinkerator in my u.s. home too. but no one called it that except as a joke because ha ha insinkerator. i am 90% convinced that that is the only kind of garbage disposal anyone has.
― j., Sunday, 30 March 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
we have an insinkerator.
― the pursuit of ha'pennies (get bent), Sunday, 30 March 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
yeah we had an insinkerator in the US! I was quite scared the first time I accidentally switched it on.
― kinder, Sunday, 30 March 2014 11:11 (ten years ago) link
Two mid-thirties business dudes striking up a conversation on the corner about one of the dude's vintage 1987 Caballero skateboard. Could've been annoying I guess but they both seemed genuinely excited.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
After grocery shopping, getting the groceries into the truck and August in her car seat. I remember the first shopping trip we did together and ever since, just love that part. Plus grocery shopping is done.
― *tera, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
one of my students just started graduate school! my class was her first college class <3
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
!!!!! Yay teachers and yay next generation!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
Mrs. Meyer's Honeysuckle Dish Soap
― Jennifer 8. ( (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 11 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
My defrosted freezer
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 12:23 (nine years ago) link
turquoise, pink and red colors used in any handmade item, felt especially
― *tera, Thursday, 22 January 2015 01:54 (nine years ago) link
I'm listening to Men at Work: Cargo. Right now for the first time in years. It was the first record I ever owned. I played it all the time when I was 4-5 years old. Enjoying the shit out of it.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 22 January 2015 03:47 (nine years ago) link
I decided recently to become more handy by force of will -- will just try things I don't know how to do, look them up on the internet, and not give up when I face setbacks. Today I removed an old shower door from our tile shower stall, and the hardware was really old and rusty and there were a few stripped screws, and I wrestled mightily with them, and I got the motherfuckers out.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 02:47 (nine years ago) link
When you say hi to a dog you don't know, and it starts wagging its tail so hard you think it might tip over.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Saturday, 21 February 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link
^^^that's a good one! Also: street cats, whom you expect to be pretty shy, who actually bound over to you purring when you bend down to call them.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 21 February 2015 07:29 (nine years ago) link
Free tupperware with every takeout soup order.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 7 May 2015 00:46 (eight years ago) link
People who go into Starbucks or Costa and say, in all seriousness, "i'd like a coffee please". Must be infuriating for the baristas but i find it oddly endearing, like they've just stepped out of 1954.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Thursday, 7 May 2015 11:31 (eight years ago) link
apologies i shd have promoted it more here but i only just discovered i still had a password :D
― mark s, Monday, May 18, 2015 8:47 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
haha
― time trafel 2015 💨 2012 (wins), Monday, 18 May 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
I've got a new purse (wallet) and it's a big MUM PURSE. I'm sitting watching TV and transferring everything carefully from my old purse to the new one.
― kinder, Friday, 17 July 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
18 oz of organic raspberries (fresh, not frozen) for $3.61I feel I could make it rain raspberries and still have some leftover to eat
― La Lechera, Friday, 17 July 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
when i provide detailed easy-to-follow instructions and someone actually follows them
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Thursday, 7 May 2015 11:31 (3 months ago) Permalink
I similarly feel IA at people who in 2015 are still harping on "OMFG I DON'T UNDERSTAND STARBUCKS ORDERS WHAT'S A GRANDE I JUST SAY LARGE" -- at this point you either know how it works and are being pretend simple or you just never set foot in Starbucks which is completely fine but then why are you commenting on your inability to understand their ordering system?
― five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
then take it to the IA thread, megan complainor
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
haha whoops
― five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
read the "endearing" part out of the quote and thought I was in the other thread for a second
surgical adblocking
― koogs, Thursday, 10 September 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
haha yes
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 September 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
yes! i am a latecomer to adblock and it is amazing. Before my browser would crash or slow down to a crawl anytime I went to an ad-heavy, flash-ridden site
― marcos, Friday, 11 September 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
Case in point was the two elements the Washington post adds to obscure its pages when you're using an adblocker. 8)
From there I went on to remove all the comments, the side bar, the social media div, the 'popular articles' div... Element hiding helper ftw
― koogs, Friday, 11 September 2015 04:59 (eight years ago) link
minor social successesit's like they buoy my spirits just enough to make me want to try to make them happen more often (inertia, etc)
― La Lechera, Friday, 25 September 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
I love old couples holding hands. This week I saw one couple walking with their arms around each other.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 25 September 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Slowly coming to realize that Amory's current mayor is actually a cool guy and not discernably conservative. He doesn't mind when I address him as Illustrious Potentate, he's younger than me, and he's a Ween fan.
― defibrillate after opening (WilliamC), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
Facebook ads where the comment thread is all people taking the piss out of the product
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 9 June 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
When kittens get crazy eyes and run diagonally.
Walking across a parking lot at sunset and having a 30-foot-long shadow.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 10 June 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
On Facebook, seeing my first-grade teacher wishing my kindergarten teacher a happy birthday today.
― pplains, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
The morning of a summer day.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
half of a leftover birthday cake in my fridge atm
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
happy birthday!
― oh, amazonaws (wins), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
lol i should clarify, half of *mr veg's* bday cake
that he's kindly sharing with meso vicariously my birthday
thanks! :D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
When ILX maintenance or repairs cause a server restart, because that means Blog View will work for a week or two.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Sunday, 29 January 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Seeing green shoots from flower bulbs emerge in late January.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 29 January 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Lost my phone on the metro this morning. A couple of hours later call my own phone, somebody answers, we set up a meeting point and I get my phone back.
People, they're the best!
― silverfish, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link
p rational
phones are like wallets these days
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
Unzipping a zip file, releasing the folder within, then dragging the zip file into the released folder before dropping everything into the garbage can.
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
Squirrels. Definitely pests, never tire of watching them, wish they knew how much we loved them so they would stop being so squirrelly.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 September 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
Took my car to the garage because something was faulty in my reversing light. Bear in mind every time I took my car to my old garage it ended up costing £££.Got the bill at the end - £2.12
― kinder, Sunday, 3 March 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
Playing "heads will roll" and my 13 yo goes:"oh i know this!"
― nathom, Sunday, 3 March 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
A handful of things that make me happy:
1. A good cup of English-style tea (PG Tips and Yorkshire Tea especially).2. Good music that reaches my soul and heals me from within.3. My friends.4. When I'm on my medication and I'm thinking clearly and neurotypically.5. Doggo/pupper posts on the interwebs.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 23 March 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, September 30, 2010
When a line of distant cumulus clouds hug the horizon and look like impossibly tall snow covered mountains.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 24 March 2019 07:12 (five years ago) link
^ similarly, seeing a cute dog being walked on morning/evening commute.
― D. Joe, Sunday, 24 March 2019 07:28 (five years ago) link
Haha I have introduced dog spotting at work. Hey look at that cute dog! Oh wow. Lol. What breed is that?
― nathom, Sunday, 24 March 2019 08:56 (five years ago) link
Living in my town: you discover everyone knows everyone. At a funeral yesterday seeing it again: hey they're friends of my dad and now I'm here saying goodbye to the daughter. That made me unhappy (duh) but you feel a closeness.
― nathom, Sunday, 24 March 2019 08:59 (five years ago) link
The burial made me unhappy I mean. Goes w/o saying. Made me unhappy and exceptionally angry. Fuck drunk drivers. Really.
― nathom, Sunday, 24 March 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
All doggos are good girls and boys. Their existence is one of the genuinely good things about this world. Drunk drivers are one of the many terrible things. I'm terribly sorry for your/your family friends' loss, Naths.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Not hitting a red light for TWO WHOLE MILES
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
there should be awards for thatbest feeling ever
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
Dee for real. I was so angry. Still am.
― nathom, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
It makes me happy that Thad Cochran died Thursday and didn't merit a mention on the obituary thread. Fuck that guy. Always smiling, always genteel, always a reliable party line vote for shitty policies.
― The Bite Game with Jim Lamprey (WmC), Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
yeah I think sometimes reveling in the indifference towards some low level diabolical politician cunt dying can be more satisfying than one of the big dogs eating it, there is something quite cheap and performative at times about pissing on a big dog's grave.
― calzino, Sunday, 2 June 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
The second through, say, the 8th or 9th shaves with a new razor cartridge.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
When there's a small bit of a song that you can't identify that periodically reappears in your head for years and then suddenly you hear the song.
In my case it was a bit from "Die Wölfe Kommen Zurück" by Coil, a track I probably hadn't listened to in almost 15-20 years.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Not innocuous. Nocuous, in fact!
But I was driving down the road and someone flicked their cigarette butt out the window and it exploded in a shower of sparks on the asphalt. I hate smoking, and I really hate littering, but it was pretty in the twilight! You never see that anymore and it brought back old memories.
― peace, man, Thursday, 10 February 2022 01:04 (two years ago) link
I’m definitely glad people smoke so much less these days, and that I quit myself, but god damn if some of the little rituals and aesthetic hallmarks of the Smoking Section Years don’t hit me hard
― nicole, Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:49 (two years ago) link
last week i ordered online gifts from different sellers, for two family members in diff parts of Australia, *hoping* they’d arrive early march but unsure due to covidity & postal service etc both orders arrived today! ..and one of them never even gave me a shipping notification! i was messaging them yesterday asking to confirm they even ~got~ my order lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 04:26 (two years ago) link
it just made me stupidly happy to have stuff show up super early for a nicc change
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 04:27 (two years ago) link
Dude upstairs and a buddy are playing keyboard and guitar and it's so soothing and I'm not feeling well and it's cheering me up immensely
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 January 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link