The news is all doom filled, so what’s something that’s made you happy recently?

Mine is finding Lemmy and all you lovely people (obviously). Also I had a workman round and he was a bloody lovely man.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    9 hours ago

    It was my birthday a week ago and I got a dozen friends out for a meal, which is nice as we don’t see enough of a couple of them and I’d saved the fact that a friend from London would be there, which was a nice surprise for everyone. Which would be enough to count as something that made me happy.

    Then on the Sunday I went to my brother’s for tea and mentioned this as we were eating. When my niece heard that there were two women there (which I felt was a disappointingly low number) she declared that I was “ris”. As an old geezer, I couldn’t possibly use “ris” outside of quotes but this has given me the opportunity to bring it up a few times and it still amuses me.

    So two things that made me happy.

    Oh, then my birthday gift to myself was a Boba Fett helmet and blaster - it is going to take a long time for that novelty to wear off.

    So yeah, good week. Pity I have had the lurgy over the weekend but being “ris” has carried me through.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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        59 minutes ago

        Thank you.

        I was aware of from articles about words the young folk use that old duffers (past 25) can’t possibly throw into conversation without some serious context. Now I have the context. I will use this power wisely. And to baffle old folks with it.