Innocuous things that make you irrationally happy (a list thread)

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.

^^^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.

Free tupperware with every takeout soup order.

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.

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

haha

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.

18 oz of organic raspberries (fresh, not frozen) for $3.61
I feel I could make it rain raspberries and still have some leftover to eat

when i provide detailed easy-to-follow instructions and someone actually follows them

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 (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?

then take it to the IA thread, megan complainor

haha whoops

read the "endearing" part out of the quote and thought I was in the other thread for a second

surgical adblocking

haha yes

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

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

minor social successes
it's like they buoy my spirits just enough to make me want to try to make them happen more often (inertia, etc)

I love old couples holding hands. This week I saw one couple walking with their arms around each other.

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.

Facebook ads where the comment thread is all people taking the piss out of the product

When kittens get crazy eyes and run diagonally.

Walking across a parking lot at sunset and having a 30-foot-long shadow.

On Facebook, seeing my first-grade teacher wishing my kindergarten teacher a happy birthday today.

The morning of a summer day.

half of a leftover birthday cake in my fridge atm

happy birthday!

lol i should clarify, half of *mr veg's* bday cake

that he's kindly sharing with me
so vicariously my birthday

thanks! :D

When ILX maintenance or repairs cause a server restart, because that means Blog View will work for a week or two.

Seeing green shoots from flower bulbs emerge in late January.

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!

p rational

phones are like wallets these days

Unzipping a zip file, releasing the folder within, then dragging the zip file into the released folder before dropping everything into the garbage can.

Squirrels. Definitely pests, never tire of watching them, wish they knew how much we loved them so they would stop being so squirrelly.

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

Playing "heads will roll" and my 13 yo goes:"oh i know this!"

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.

32. Seeing distant snow covered mountains on a clear morning while driving to work

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, September 30, 2010

When a line of distant cumulus clouds hug the horizon and look like impossibly tall snow covered mountains.

^ similarly, seeing a cute dog being walked on morning/evening commute.

Haha I have introduced dog spotting at work. Hey look at that cute dog! Oh wow. Lol. What breed is that?

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.

The burial made me unhappy I mean. Goes w/o saying. Made me unhappy and exceptionally angry. Fuck drunk drivers. Really.

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.

Not hitting a red light for TWO WHOLE MILES

there should be awards for that
best feeling ever

Dee for real. I was so angry. Still am.

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.

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.

The second through, say, the 8th or 9th shaves with a new razor cartridge.

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.

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.