Little things that make you smile - the anti-peeve thread.

[Firewind]

Re: Little things that make you smile - the anti-peeve thread.

Spotted this while stuck in the middle of a TV Tropes tabsplosion:

Real Life - Television Tropes & Idioms

Close to the edge of London, there's a certain roundabout with a series of large shops surrounding it. At some point in the past, one of the shops put up a fairly innocuous advertisement that happened to feature an attractive girl without an overabundance of clothing. The sign was removed about a month later after traffic incidents on that roundabout increased by about 75%.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Little things that make you smile - the anti-peeve thread.

Saw this on notalwaysright.com ...

Okay, this may have also made me cry.

Pregnant With Potential
Grocery Store | Sarasota, FL, USA |
(I’m stocking shelves. A customer has been browsing the same aisle for quite some time. She is visibly pregnant, and looks as though she has been crying. She’s flipping through an envelope full of coupons and scrutinizing items before putting them back on the shelf. Another customer comes down the aisle and seems to pay her close attention for a moment. The second customer leaves the aisle but then comes back a few minutes later and hesitantly walks up to the pregnant customer.)

Nice Customer: “Excuse me. I may be way out of line, and please feel free to tell me to mind my own business if I am, but… are you afraid you’re going to have trouble paying for your groceries?”

Pregnant Customer: “Actually, yes I am. How did you know?”

Nice Customer: “A few years ago, I had a really difficult pregnancy. I was too sick to work and lost my job. It was a real struggle to make ends meet. I used to spend hours at the grocery store with every coupon I could find trying to save every penny I could. Looking at you was like looking in the mirror. Listen, I just went and checked out, and I came in a little under my weekly grocery budget. I know it’s not much, but I’d really like to give this to you.”

(She hands the pregnant woman a $20 bill. The woman promptly bursts into tears.)

Pregnant Customer: “You have no idea how much this means to me. My husband just left me for another woman. I have no idea how I’m going to support myself and my kid. My mother and brother died this year, and I have no one to lean on.”

Nice Customer: “After the hard times I went through, things got a lot better for me. It may sound like a cliché, but I believe you’ll get through this and be stronger than ever. Just hang in there, okay?”

Pregnant Customer: “Do you think maybe I could give you a hug?”

Nice Customer: “Of course.”

(The two women embrace for a long time. When they pull apart, they both wipe away tears. They don’t see, but so do I.)

Just ... the feels man.

[cidbahamut]

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I kind of want to see this movie.

[Firewind]

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It's Spring! I can finally sit outdoors with my laptop again during lunch breaks and after work!

[DakAttack]

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Just ... the feels man.

Imgur makes me smile, but not the shit they say whenever they have a cry or the way they try to make a pun of everything.

[Feba]

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Got an acceptance letter, ten days early.

National university woot woot

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I think the cat is on to something.

[Firewind]

Re: Little things that make you smile - the anti-peeve thread.

To be fair the same would probably apply to the US invading the UK:

[Aksannyi]

Re: Little things that make you smile - the anti-peeve thread.

I got bored and started browsing the pet peeve in RL thread from the beginning and I came across this series of posts from 2010:

Let's compare notes.

Gonna compare anything else while you're at it?

Yea, you want the pictures?

And before I even scrolled down to see my reply, I muttered "Fuck yeah" to myself ...

Three posts down:

Fuck yeah.

Good to see I haven't changed that much in 3 years.

[Firewind]

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BBC News - Star Wars: Episode VII to be filmed in UK

I'm guessing they did this so they didn't have to fly in a load of British people to play the bad guys. That or every planet in the new movies are going to always be rainy .

Joking aside it's pretty nice to see another vote of confidence for the UK film industry. Sure they did it for tax reasons but eh, tax competition is a good thing because and at the end of the day, encouraging more movies to be made here gives people jobs.

Now to see how to apply to be an extra or something.

[Feba]

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Now to see how to apply to be an extra or something.

Given the choice to be forgotten by history, or be forever remembered as one of the contributors to Star Wars VII?

I think the choice here is obvious.

[Yygdrasil]

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It makes me smile that it has been a full month without so much as a peep out of Melody.

[Aksannyi]

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He's been counting.

Because this is the first time I've had any contact from my children on this particular day of importance:

hello mom happy day of the mothers

Arrived in my Facebook inbox about an hour ago.


Tears happened.

[Mezlo]

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It makes me smile that it has been a full month without so much as a peep out of Melody.

/sends out the Melody signal

[Firewind]

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What if we say her name three times into a mirror? Does she appear and begin to troll Yyg? If so someone bring in a mirror and let's do this!