What made you smile recently?
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A man phones emergency services saying "Help! I think my friend is dead!"
"OK. Calm down. First check that your friend is dead."
A gun shot is heard.
The man returns to the phone and says "O.K...now what!?"
"OK. Calm down. First check that your friend is dead."
A gun shot is heard.
The man returns to the phone and says "O.K...now what!?"
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What made me smile is composing a post on another forum....on a 'breaking fake news' thread:-
TRUMP WANTS TO MAKE THE PLANET GREAT AGAIN!
He was found last night crying in a corner, weeping about his sudden, swift decline in popularity, muttering something about China taking his crown!
After a brief hospitalised night in a rubber room, in a straight jacket, he emerged humbled - almost unrecognisable and asking if he could sign up to the climate change agreement. His wife patted him on the head and gave him a dummy to pacify him. The world heaved a sigh of relief!
TRUMP WANTS TO MAKE THE PLANET GREAT AGAIN!
He was found last night crying in a corner, weeping about his sudden, swift decline in popularity, muttering something about China taking his crown!
After a brief hospitalised night in a rubber room, in a straight jacket, he emerged humbled - almost unrecognisable and asking if he could sign up to the climate change agreement. His wife patted him on the head and gave him a dummy to pacify him. The world heaved a sigh of relief!
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I asked my grandfather for twenty dollars.
"Twenty dollars?!" he said. "For what?"
"To buy groceries," I told him.
"When I was a boy," my grandfather said, "My mama would give me one dollar, just one dollar, and I'd go to the store and come home with two loaves of bread, two sacks of potatoes, a carton of eggs, three bottles of milk, a can of coffee and a box of tea."
He shrugged and paused.
"Times have changed and ya can't do that now..." he told me, "...too many security cameras."
"Twenty dollars?!" he said. "For what?"
"To buy groceries," I told him.
"When I was a boy," my grandfather said, "My mama would give me one dollar, just one dollar, and I'd go to the store and come home with two loaves of bread, two sacks of potatoes, a carton of eggs, three bottles of milk, a can of coffee and a box of tea."
He shrugged and paused.
"Times have changed and ya can't do that now..." he told me, "...too many security cameras."
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I see that mindfulness has now become mainstream, e.g. incorporated into the NHS!
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/Pages/mindfulness.aspx
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/Pages/mindfulness.aspx
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Kake Lover
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My really ill friend has had a heart transplant and today I watched him get up and walk down to the bathroom. In fact I was more than smiling, I was grinning from ear to ear!
Elawin
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About 5 years ago. My late sister still used hers, and plenty of people still buy them over here.
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My mother has just confirmed that my youngest brother has his first (class honours degree).
He was border line (1st/2:1) just prior to his dissertation and last 2 essays so asked for my help. We shared a similar background though our degree titles are radically different. (I also got a first a very long time ago). I hand wrote then scanned my changes and comments, emailing the revisions back to him so he had to make it his own work and along with his final exam it was enough! .
He's done really well because he quit school at 16 after his gcses when he was offered a job in the pub restaurant kitchens and was trained as a chef. He was head chef there for a while, quite a long while but realised that he couldn't really go anywhere on the ladder without enduring considerable stress and looking unsocial hours so got a place at uni as a mature student and has worked really hard after the initial struggle and shock of studying again! His long hours are now over in the library.
I'm so pleased he trusted me enough to ask for help when he needed it and really pleased for him. He deserves it.
I'm going to have to find an aussie congrats card and get it into the post to him! I need another emicon!
He was border line (1st/2:1) just prior to his dissertation and last 2 essays so asked for my help. We shared a similar background though our degree titles are radically different. (I also got a first a very long time ago). I hand wrote then scanned my changes and comments, emailing the revisions back to him so he had to make it his own work and along with his final exam it was enough! .
He's done really well because he quit school at 16 after his gcses when he was offered a job in the pub restaurant kitchens and was trained as a chef. He was head chef there for a while, quite a long while but realised that he couldn't really go anywhere on the ladder without enduring considerable stress and looking unsocial hours so got a place at uni as a mature student and has worked really hard after the initial struggle and shock of studying again! His long hours are now over in the library.
I'm so pleased he trusted me enough to ask for help when he needed it and really pleased for him. He deserves it.
I'm going to have to find an aussie congrats card and get it into the post to him! I need another emicon!
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