29. Airports and flying
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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
27. Clean sheets on the bed
― 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
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