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Reasons to be cheerful, part 3.
What have you got to be cheerful about?

Alt. Favourite famous raspberry ripple.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:32, 134 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Alt: Deacon of course.
I am v pleased that Stunned poster is back. This makes me very, very gay indeed.

Other reasons: I've a quality missus, a beautiful and as yet still-pleasant daughter, I've got six months into my money plan without noticing, I'm very good looking and I have lots of excellent records. Plus, last time I checked, I'm not Quinten.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:35, Reply)
Don't offer to give him a game of table tennis for a bit.
He's probably dead good now.

Did he send you a postcard?
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:38, Reply)
'Your serve is excellent but what on earth is that smell?'

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:42, Reply)
But as long as Stunned is back
That's the main thing.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:40, Reply)
Exactly. I only listed the other shit so I don't get nagged at.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:42, Reply)
Are you gonna go round and call for him?
It's the school holidays, so you might be able to stay out until half nine.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:44, Reply)
Nah I'm still in the shit from breaking that window.
Plus I have revision.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:46, Reply)
+ no pocket money

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:48, Reply)
I'll never be able to get the Millennium Falcon now.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:51, Reply)
Get a Saturday job
It'll pay more than that paper round.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:55, Reply)
Bu then I'll miss Swap Shop.
Eff that, niggy.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:56, Reply)
Set the betamax to record it.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:57, Reply)
How long does the money plan last?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:42, Reply)
Just the five years.
*cries*
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:43, Reply)
Still 10% in to it without realising isn't bad.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:44, Reply)
It only occurred to me today.
Was a pleasant realisation, for sure.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:46, Reply)
I'm listening to Will Smith's Freak This.
There is no better music in the world than this song on a summer's day.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:51, Reply)
Oh mate, OH MATE, you know your ex-wife woes, check this out, my cousin is getting devorced, if you think you're fucked, lol, you've barely had a brush of a bum on the tube when the drive puts on the breaks.
He's a financial guy, donno what exactly, but he's self made, done the whole lot on his own, owns a house and a flat worth in excess of £1m, and the company is about £10m of which he owns a 35% share. He has two young boys.

Now, the ex wife, she has
- Banned the kids from playing football, something they love and an activity they do with their dad, because it's too lower-class and football is benief them.
- Smashed up the house countless times, including ruining £100ks worth of antiques (his hobby).
- Had affairs left-right-and-centre.
- Has never lifted a finger to generate a penny since uni.
- Hasn't smacked the kids, but done the whole throw-stuff-at-walls thing infront of them.

She's getting 80% of everything he's got, EVERYTHING, the buisness, the property, the lot. But what's worst. He also has to give her about £3k/month, leaving him with just enough to rent a place and go to work. The fact that he hasn't earn't in the last 9 months hasn't been relivant.

AND she's playing silly buggers with access, making excuses like getting haircuts so he can't pick 'em up and stuff like that.

KALPOWIE, now THAT is a burn.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:06, Reply)
What a cunt.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:23, Reply)
I joked about murder to my Ma', how in 10 years time he'd be a free man, and she forbid me to suggest the idea.
The other idea is that I said he should offer 100% minus £100k or soo, and let him start again.
The final idea is for him to skip country, we've got a lovely little place in cyprus that he can have for free.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:29, Reply)
Evening you gaping dockers.
I'm cheerful because I'm finished work and may well treat myself to a chicken bbq kebab.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:42, Reply)
Hello me old china.
How are ya?
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:43, Reply)
Not too shabby old bean.
Cleared my garage at the weekend and found some psilliness, with your name on. Will gaz the specifics.

How did Iceland go?
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:47, Reply)
Mate it was fantastic.
Couldn't praise it enough. It'd be terrible with kids in tow, though.

V good news re t'other. Especially with Ozric Tentacles touring next month.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:48, Reply)
On my way home to get some sleep. This makes me cheerful as I got very little sleep last night as my daughter is teething.
Also my new car arrives tomorrow.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:43, Reply)
A good nights sleep is fantastic.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:07, Reply)
i have a cup of tea
and don't have to use danger-wallpaper-steamer any more
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 17:55, Reply)
Have you addressed the plate
Situation today, or are you still living on the edge?
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:08, Reply)
living on the edge
I bought food today but no plate. Just have to hope I don't suddenly have a visit from a hot guy asking for food
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:29, Reply)
You could eat
Your Pot Noodles straight from the pot and give the bloke the plate.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:33, Reply)
i don't eat pot noodles
only super noodles, I'd have to eat them from the pan
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:36, Reply)
Super Noodles
Won't give you super powers.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:01, Reply)
had excellent feedback from my interview today
hopefully I should have an informal offer of a paid msc sometime later this week. I'm also just about to go for pizza and wine go covent garden, which is good because I haven't eaten all day.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:42, Reply)
Wait, hold on, are you moving to london?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:48, Reply)
No Gonz
I will just be studying there one day a week.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:51, Reply)
Sweet ! That's deffo a win for the big L, or at least, 1/7th of one.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:56, Reply)
Delighted it went well.
More importantly, what pizza are you going to order?
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:57, Reply)
a big one
preferably with at least two types each of meat and cheese.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:02, Reply)
You've earnt it!
Have some dough balls as well.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:04, Reply)
I do the best thing with dough balls in the world ever, the bake-at-home ones.
I get some butter, some "very lazy" roasted garlic* + juices and some crunchy sea salt, and I mash it up.

I'm telling you man, relationships are over-rated when it means you have to share these.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:07, Reply)
I'll be grateful for the sit down as much as anything
stupid interview shoes.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:08, Reply)
I hope you found someone to keep you company.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:13, Reply)
Oh man, I gotta go and downloading Kinky Boots, it's one of my favorite films, I forgot all about it 'till now.
"Burgondy.....=/.... burgondy...=/....please god, don't tell me that I've inspired something that is birgondy. Red.... Reeed..... RED. RED !. Charly boy, rule one, RED. It's the colour of sex. Burgondy is the colour of hot waterbottles. RED is the colour of sex, and fear, and danger, and signs that say do. not. enter. All my favorite things in life are red....." .... but they're comfy.... " Comfy? SEX SHOULDN'T BE COMFY ! You know what you were used to making around here charlie boy, but now you're making sex. Two and a half feet of irrisitable tubular SEX. I mean look at the heal ! I mean, for god's sake.".... but it won't break, that's what you wanted .... " Not if it means having to go around looking like a bloody ukrainian pessant, no.".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJNHr8QQVJQ&feature=fvst
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:23, Reply)
Ooh, congrats!

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:20, Reply)
I'm in my livingroom eating fish'n'chips in my pants.
Life does _not_ get better than this. I have HP Guinness Sauce and Stokes Ketchup too.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:47, Reply)
What fish did you go for?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:58, Reply)
I got a new thing I do, instead of getting a cod or haddock (I don't really care, as long as I don't have to wait, if I do, then it's cod in motza meal), for £6.50
I get 4 Coujons that are about 1/3 of the size of a piece of cod, and only 70p each.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:08, Reply)
Have you run out of plates too?
Pants don't seem very hygienic.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:24, Reply)
Fuck ruinin' a pair of pants as a plate when it comes in perfectly good paper.
These fish'n'chips are shit though, they're pale and anemic and I'm always disapointed when I go to the chippy 'cus I know how great it can be, that I can do so much better myself, but the whole point is I CBA to cook.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:35, Reply)
My Director 'trusts my judgement'
And I am still ridiculously good looking.

Alt- Monty
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 18:58, Reply)
You never mention your height.
I'll bet you're a right short arse.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:00, Reply)
I am 5 foot 8 and a half.
Average height.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:01, Reply)
isn't the average male height in the uk 5' 11?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:03, Reply)
No.
5 foot 9 apparently. Which makes me about a centimetre shorter than the average.

Hardly Battered, am I?
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:05, Reply)
I genuinely believe it is, you know
I'll have to check that when I get home. I know for sure it's 5' 3 for women.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:07, Reply)
So there's an 8 inch difference between men and women?
That seems a lot.

One source says that as of 2008, 5 foot 9.

wiki.answers.com/Q/Average_height_for_a_man_in_the_UK
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:08, Reply)
Oh well, i've been wrong before
could've sworn it was taller than that, though.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:10, Reply)
Unless there's been a drastic increase over the last three years or so, no.
5 foot 9.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:11, Reply)
it also
says that average height for a man in 1800 was 2ft
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:25, Reply)
It's quite clear that most men in the current time are noticeably less than 6 foot tall.
I am average height.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:30, Reply)
I am 5'9"

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:21, Reply)
*points and laughs*
Battered.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:06, Reply)
Battered is Zammo, I am Adam Levine.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:07, Reply)
you're an inch and a half below average height is what you are mate.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:09, Reply)
Nope.
The NHS state 5 foot 9 for men.

Mean height of 175.3 cm.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:09, Reply)
178.2
www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/09/28102003/79

ANd if your source is correct, I'm even taller than I thought.

Edit: Ahh, I see yours is an average including people who are still growing, assuming you as between 25 and 34 Mine is more accurate.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:12, Reply)
175.
Unless I am reading it wrong.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:16, Reply)
Only if you take the average, including people still growing and old gimmers who's shrunk.
You're short for your age, at the very least, unless you are 55 or over
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:18, Reply)
175 is the mean for men.
and 'mean' is how most people define 'average'.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:28, Reply)
And how tall is an average man your age Doze?
You know, one not waiting for that last growth spurt and who was born since the end of rationing?

Ahh fuck it, you are either deluding your self or arguing for the sake of it. I shall not get drawn (further) in.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:36, Reply)
I was born in 1872.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:38, Reply)
If this is true, then you are indeed quite tall for your age.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:40, Reply)
You; thin ice.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:23, Reply)
Or what?
What are you seriously going to do?

Type at me?

Wait, sorry Battered, I thought was aimed at me. I realise it was at CQ.

I retract that.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:28, Reply)
And I will insist on a beer from CQ for his remark the next time i see him.
And you are shorter than me ha ha ha
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:31, Reply)
You are 5 foot 10?
EDIT:

I just saw your 5 foot 9 admission.

I actually don't know if I'm 5 foot 9 or less, I haven't had my heaight measured in years.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:37, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1577623
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:11, Reply)
That's an estimate.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:12, Reply)
which keeps rising as people mock your stature.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:25, Reply)
Ha!

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:27, Reply)
To be fair
you only appear really short in the company of Monty, Stunned and myself.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:37, Reply)
^^^ this ^^^

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:40, Reply)
True, I don't remember you being particularly short.
True I can remember what the top of you head looks like, which is not true of Monty, but I am genuinely shocked that Dozer is a hobbit.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:42, Reply)
A very good looking hobbit.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:45, Reply)
You are Elijah Wood AICMFP

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:47, Reply)

good looking old
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:48, Reply)
*Monty, Stunned and me

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:41, Reply)
I donno whats wrong with being short.
I love it when my head is at boob-height of average women. It gets shit after that until you reach the height of her head being at around your weist height.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:45, Reply)
Aparently an average woman is 5'3"
well, 5'4"-5" actually but either way you're still not short enough for boob height.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:54, Reply)
I can be if I bend my knees just right.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:02, Reply)
A resourceful man.
How tall are you Gonz? my memory says about 5'7"
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:06, Reply)
Yup, pretty much spot on.
Maybe 5'8" if I got the right clothes on or I've let my hair grow a bit.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:26, Reply)
Same height as Dozer then.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:47, Reply)
OH LOL

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:51, Reply)
He is?
Fuck me, man's a midget.

OK, 2 pints.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:37, Reply)
When are we meeting up so you can buy me these? Be good to catch up.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:41, Reply)
I'm in london and free for the forseeable (with the exception of most of the easter weeekend)
Don't think I will make Jeffstock though.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:44, Reply)
Will gaz you.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:45, Reply)
I hope you've got a good excuse.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:46, Reply)
My son.
They come back from Florida the weekend before, so I expect to have him on Jeffstock weekend. Sorry dude.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:49, Reply)
QC said you can have two pints
But in half pint measures.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:45, Reply)
Yet again... L T fucking I.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:46, Reply)
Sorry mate. I'll get you a drink when I see you
*Orders a couple of shorts*
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:49, Reply)
Can we stop picking on Battered now that Dozer is officially the shortest man on B3ta?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:50, Reply)
Surely Gonz is shorter?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:51, Reply)
Gonz is exempt. He make up for it in personality
He's genuinely not someone I think of a short
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:52, Reply)
My height is the reason I had to do catalogue rather than catwalk.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:53, Reply)
actuall lols.
Did they make all the furniture and scenery smaller?
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:55, Reply)
Of course not.
They just made all the other models a lot younger.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:56, Reply)
You modelled kids clothes?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:57, Reply)
TTJ

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:58, Reply)

modelled wear
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:59, Reply)
You must be loving this.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:00, Reply)
DAMN RIGHT

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:03, Reply)

clothes
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:00, Reply)
Exacto !
Height doesn't have much to do with stacture.

To be honest, I can't see how someone can get grumpy or insulted, even at jest, by their height. It just doesn't seem like something thats worth bothering about, its not like you can change it, and its not like anyone seriously cares.

Even if I was an actual dwarf, and especially after watching Game Of Thones, then I really wouldn't care.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:06, Reply)
pretty much all life is good.
I can't actually thing of any thing to complain about right now.

Evenin' all

Alt: Christopher Reeve ne Walken
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:04, Reply)
I am cheerful about my NEW FUCKING JOB
and enjoying a teensy bit of schadenfreude over idiot co-worker's realisation that she's going to have to step up.

Also a bit stressed about how while zoopla and rightmove are full of rental properties, when you contact the agents they've all gone except the really expensive ones or ones "only twenty minutes walk from [useless station]".
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:23, Reply)
If you rent somewhere in Enfield Chase, you can get a place in a guarden and we can timeshare a dog !

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:24, Reply)
I don't want a garden though
too much effort.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:02, Reply)
Nah' man, if you rent it, then the landlord has to sort it, and you get to plant a few edible delights and have BBQs.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:08, Reply)
Plus you can do something like this.... *finds photo of Ma's garden*.... hold on.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:08, Reply)

www.flickr.com/photos/mr90nz0/3789376798/in/photostream
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:10, Reply)
v nice
EEEEEFFFFFFOOOOOOORRRRRRRTTTTTT
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:12, Reply)
Nah' man, you're missing a trick here.
The point is, Ma' loves her gardening, so she has beds around the side, but get rid of them and you've got a well nice bit of outdoors without any work.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:25, Reply)
Have a look at private rentals via Craigslist

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 19:24, Reply)
Battered knows all about trawling Craigslist using 'rent' as a search term.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:03, Reply)
Not since i got married.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:04, Reply)

not ever
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:06, Reply)
Hold up a minute, can you get totty on Craig's List?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:27, Reply)
What key words do I search for to find women who would hire their vaginas out to me without a deposit of some kind?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:38, Reply)
Surely the deposit is the hole point?

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:58, Reply)
or you can use a swipe card in the back

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:59, Reply)
All full of Olympic £100/night shit

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 20:11, Reply)

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