Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 399133 times)

Vince · « **Reply #1875 on:** 26 June, 2015, 10:01:07 pm »

Good news: Just made 36 chocolate crispy cakes and a tray of flapjack

Bad news: Its not for me, but to be sold at the school fête tomorrow.

PaulF · « **Reply #1876 on:** 30 June, 2015, 06:26:20 pm »

Good News: despite the delays I managed to get a fast train home.

Bad News: in their infinite wisdom Network Fail put it on a track behind the slow train

Basil · « **Reply #1877 on:** 30 June, 2015, 08:05:11 pm »

BN. We're not going to Germany.
GN. We've just discovered that neither of us wanted to.
BN. I bought the ferry tickets.
GN. I really wasn't looking forward to the drive.
BN. I bought £xc euros.
GN. Relax and a bit of hill riding in Llandysul

Bledlow · « **Reply #1878 on:** 01 July, 2015, 03:19:45 pm »

Quote from: PaulF on 30 June, 2015, 06:26:20 pm

Good News: despite the delays I managed to get a fast train home.

Bad News: in their infinite wisdom Network Fail put it on a track behind the slow train

Been there!

Also, a train that wasn't due to stop between Basingstoke & Reading, but inexplicably sat around waiting for the local stopper to fill up & pull out, then crawled along behind it, waiting outside Bramley, Mortimer, & Reading West stations.

I only got on it because it was due to go first. Otherwise, I'd have got the stopper & got off at Reading West.

Ham · « **Reply #1879 on:** 06 July, 2015, 11:27:36 am »

BN: driving on my way back from Hampton Court around the M25 an Irish artic pulled out as I was overtaking using the signal-go approach

GN: managed to avoid a coming together by application of the brakes, nothing immediately on my rear

MGN: The glaze and consequent squeek building up on my pads as a result of a normal gentle driving technique appears to have gone

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #1880 on:** 17 July, 2015, 06:37:34 pm »

GN: It's a three-day weekend - yay for local bank holidays!

BN: The weather. Heavy rain and 40mph winds, again?

bumper · « **Reply #1881 on:** 19 July, 2015, 02:38:11 pm »

Good: I've seen my face for the first time in over 12 months

Bad: I've shaved off my beard. I don't know who's staring back at me in the mirror

I've just thrown my razor away. Now it's gone, I know I want it back. Work, friends and family can fuck right off, it's already growing back!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1882 on:** 20 July, 2015, 03:59:30 pm »

GN: My nephew has returned the panniers and bar bag I leant him to go on holiday with his dad.

BN: He's keeping the bike he picked up at the same time.

GN: That saves me trying to sell it at, inevitably, a price higher than anyone is willing to pay but less than it's worth to my memories, and as we've had two bikes off them (actually, as I'm writing I remember a third!), it seems a fair deal!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1883 on:** 23 July, 2015, 12:49:54 pm »

BN: left the car unlocked last night. MP3 player*, headphones, 12v adaptor and 2 x USB leads missing this morning
GN: Wallet full of credit cards, bunch of keys, stack of CDs and driving licence all present and correct.

* Let's hope they like listening to For Whom The Bell Tolls, as produced by Her Majesty's BBC.

Ruthie · « **Reply #1884 on:** 25 July, 2015, 09:34:04 am »

GN: Looks like they've completely renovated the Lord Stones Country Park at the top of Carlton Bank, with shiny new camping facilities.

BN: £17 per night?! I think not $:-\$

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1885 on:** 25 July, 2015, 03:55:21 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 July, 2015, 12:49:54 pm

BN: left the car unlocked last night. MP3 player*, headphones, 12v adaptor and 2 x USB leads missing this morning
GN: Wallet full of credit cards, bunch of keys, stack of CDs and driving licence all present and correct.

* Let's hope they like listening to For Whom The Bell Tolls, as produced by Her Majesty's BBC.

Late realisation of BN:

They took my camera. Arse.

mcshroom · « **Reply #1886 on:** 25 July, 2015, 09:36:54 pm »

BN: I accidentally left my door unlocked when I went out to buy train tickets this morning

BN: Someone noticed and opened it

GN: It was the Postman not a thief

GN: He used it to deliver a parcel which otherwise I would have had to get from the sorting office on Monday

hellymedic · « **Reply #1887 on:** 25 July, 2015, 11:38:38 pm »

BN: I overestimated partner's Websaver Account interest by a factor of 5.
GN: There is not much useful difference between 10p an 2p.
BN: Thant's no money anyway...

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1888 on:** 27 July, 2015, 06:27:23 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 25 July, 2015, 03:55:21 pm

Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 July, 2015, 12:49:54 pm
BN: left the car unlocked last night. MP3 player*, headphones, 12v adaptor and 2 x USB leads missing this morning
GN: Wallet full of credit cards, bunch of keys, stack of CDs and driving licence all present and correct.

* Let's hope they like listening to For Whom The Bell Tolls, as produced by Her Majesty's BBC.

Late realisation of BN:

They took my camera. Arse.

GN: I spotted it online, told my local rozzers, who told the Met, who have recovered it.

hellymedic · « **Reply #1889 on:** 27 July, 2015, 06:41:19 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 27 July, 2015, 06:27:23 pm

Quote from: Tim Hall on 25 July, 2015, 03:55:21 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 July, 2015, 12:49:54 pm
BN: left the car unlocked last night. MP3 player*, headphones, 12v adaptor and 2 x USB leads missing this morning
GN: Wallet full of credit cards, bunch of keys, stack of CDs and driving licence all present and correct.

* Let's hope they like listening to For Whom The Bell Tolls, as produced by Her Majesty's BBC.

Late realisation of BN:

They took my camera. Arse.
GN: I spotted it online, told my local rozzers, who told the Met, who have recovered it.

Well done that man!

Hope you get it back soonish. Old boy next door had to wait until after Court case to get his stolen property back.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #1890 on:** 28 July, 2015, 11:09:10 pm »

GN: I got this far without carrying a coffin.
BN: I got to carry a coffin today.
GN: To be one of six in a crowd that size is an honour.

andrewc · « **Reply #1891 on:** 08 August, 2015, 12:59:50 pm »

GN: it is a beautiful, sunny day.
MGN: I seem to have emerged from the despondency, sloth & funk of the last 6 weeks & can Do Things!

BN: The Things are starting with 6 weeks outstanding housework.
MBN: The flat next door is being renovated, lots of noisy power tools , I've had to turn the music up!

clarion · « **Reply #1892 on:** 08 August, 2015, 01:12:37 pm »

for escaping the Slough of Despond.

mcshroom · « **Reply #1893 on:** 12 August, 2015, 05:48:41 pm »

GN: My next door neighbour has got rid of his noisy Ford Mustang
BN: He's replaced it with a noisier Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am

Ruthie · « **Reply #1894 on:** 12 August, 2015, 09:34:15 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 12 August, 2015, 05:48:41 pm

GN: My next door neighbour has got rid of his noisy Ford Mustang
BN: He's replaced it with a noisier Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am

*snort*

Kim · « **Reply #1895 on:** 12 August, 2015, 09:37:42 pm »

Does it have the wooshy red lights at the front of the bonnet and a stuntman crouched in the rear footwell to do the steering?

mcshroom · « **Reply #1896 on:** 12 August, 2015, 10:06:41 pm »

Afraid not. Just a red car with a nose sticking up out of the bonnet, and a loud engine.

Clare · « **Reply #1897 on:** 13 August, 2015, 09:52:15 am »

GN: We're not in Clearing.

BN: Doesn't stop the phone bloody ringing off the hook.

Clare · « **Reply #1898 on:** 13 August, 2015, 10:06:00 am »

Aaaaand we're back in.

Clare · « **Reply #1899 on:** 13 August, 2015, 10:33:59 am »

Out...