What makes you happy today?

[gorgik9]

The worst of Storm Ciara is over here in UK! also I haven't suffered any damage to house; garden; or fences.

I'm so happy for you Jimmy!!! :big hug:

I'm pretty sure you had much worse than myself in Karlstad - we had real shit weather all afternoon and late into the evening. But it was just shit lousy, no real danger. It was much worse on the Swedish west coast and in the southern provinces. It's still pretty windy, but hey - the sun has mostly been shining all day long today!

 

[Shelter]

Hi Slimjim - the same here! The night until this early morning was horrible. I hate so much this howling sound of the storm. We have some fir trees in our garden and they have been really abused by the storm. Some limbs of the trees are broken and are laying around. But the rooftop of the house is safe and sound.

Today the storm is not gone but it is not so cruel like yesterday. I've heard in West-Germany there should be 3 or four people killed by broken trees. And here in the City some scaffolds broke down. And the whole night we've heard the sirens of the fire brigade! They have had a very hard night! All our thanks to these men!

 

[slimjim]

Yes the wind strengths have fallen ….. but we now have a yellow warning for snow for the next 2 daysX_X

 

[gorgik9]

Tonight, Saturday 8 February 2020, young Swedish-American pool-vaulter Armand Duplantis made a new world record indoors in Torun, Poland: 6 meters 17 centimeters!!! 617 centimeters!!!

He's just 20 years old & impossibly cute, on top of being a superb athlete & one of the greatest pool-vaulters of all times!!! :thumbs up::thumbs up::thumbs up:

Armand "Mondo" Duplantis made a new world record this afternoon; new record: 6:18. 6 meters 18 centimeters. He's fuckin' incredible!!!

 

[bobby15]

3 day weekend!

 

[trencherman]

Relieved more than happy. The spring cleaning I did last week must have been the last straw for my hip which I have been putting under some stress over the last few years sitting down too much in front of the computer and assuming bad posture playing the guitar. Could not sit or stand up without a sharp nerve pain running from my left hip down my leg ending on my ankle. Dr. Google’s diagnosis is sciatica and prognosis does not bode well. I hobbled to an empty gym early this morning and was surprised I could still exercise, 15 mins on the stationary bike, a few mins on the rowing machine, massaged my sore middle teeter-totting on the exercise cylinder as the fulcrum.

 

[haiducii]

It’s beautiful to see the world ming together

 

[slimjim]

Pointless pastimes hit by Covid 19

So it has been announced that "driving round and round very fast in very expensive cars" has been postponed.... so has the "hitting a small ball into a hole with a flag in in".... also affected is "22 people running around like an overpaid prima-donna and kicking a ball" so has "30 people running around carrying a ball" and it appears that running a very long way either very fast or doing it slower whilst wearing a silly costume has been cancelled too.....

 

[dargelos]

From my own selfish point of view I'd be happy to see those commercial 'sports' events stay permanently postponed. But I worry about the straight men. Seriously, with no football they have nothing to talk to each other about. Imagine how scary that must be when your friends are forced to start to talk about something interesting and worthwhile instead.

 

[trencherman]

Yes, something truly worthy of concern, imagine them talking about antiques!

 

[tommeczek]

today i saw pictures from yesterday's 'light show' in Jerusalem and it made me very happy (in many cities across Israel was possible to see similar images)

 

[larryisreal]

today i saw pictures from yesterday's 'light show' in Jerusalem and it made me very happy (in many cities across Israel was possible to see similar images)

And who stood with China?

 

[haiducii]

And who stood with China?

sLOVEnia for example...

 

[tommeczek]

Israeli goverment sent airplanes for almost 800 Israelis in Peru and sent 20 tonnes of supplies to Palestinian Authority.

Tel Aviv City Hall, yesterday's evening.

 

[tommeczek]

1. no new cases in China
2. no deaths in Israel (almost 680 cases!) and Czechia (650 cases)

yesterday's evening National Stadium, Warsaw, Poland

 

[slimjim]

One of the shops in town had the full delivery they were expecting (so many over the last 2 weeks have failed) and so I got lucky this morning and no longer need to play " Hunt the Hand-Gel"

 

[haiducii]

One of the shops in town had the full delivery they were expecting (so many over the last 2 weeks have failed) and so I got lucky this morning and no longer need to play " Hunt the Hand-Gel"

No such luck...all retailers here are unable to make deliveries for 10 days.

It seems that online grocery shopping has accelerated in an unprecedented way.

 

[slimjim]

It seems that online grocery shopping has accelerated in an unprecedented way.

Same here - apparently most supermarkets are fully booked for delivery slots for the next 4 weeks!

Most have adopted sensible measures in-store, rationing customers to a max. of 4 of any item and some have dedicated the first hour of opening to elderly and vulnerable customers only.

 

[gorgik9]

@ slimjim & haiducii

I just don't get what Hand-Gel does for you that couldn't be done with ordinary soap and warm water? Washing my hands real carefully with soap and hot water several times a day, that's my method.

Since both of you are really smart guys, I guess there's something I'm missing...

 

[gorgik9]

And I managed to buy a couple of packages of toilet paper today - it makes me shit happy!!! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha...