What made you smile recently (2026)?

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Bloke gets a knock on the door. It's a Jehovah Witness.
"Come on in! " he says."Take a seat and I'll get you a cup of coffee"
He comes back with the coffee, gives it to the Jehovah Witness and says:
"Right. What would you like to talk about?"
The Jehovah Witness replies:
" I don't know. I've never got this far before".

When we lived in the south of England, we actually had 2 Jehovah's Witnesses find our house. They started by saying that we lived a long way outside of the village... we did end up inviting them in for a drink and rest before they made their way back to the village where their vehicle was.

Oddly enough, in the 12 years we lived there, it was their one and only visit!

 

[Wombat457]

We get inandated with bible bashers around here who use their kids to get people to talk to them ...

 

[badjak]

So last night 2 hippo's were fighting just in front of my house.
Very very noisy.
They got the whole river, but no, they gotta be straigh next to my solar water pump. And they knocked it over.
Tested today and it all still works.
Big smile from me

 

[Barriehie]

We get inandated with bible bashers around here who use their kids to get people to talk to them ...

Used to rent in a trailer park, all fenced in, and peeps would let their dogs out. No biting or anything like that but lots of barking...

 

[Barriehie]

 

[karadekoolaid]

So last night 2 hippo's were fighting just in front of my house.
Very very noisy.

Don't think that's a contest I'd want to witness! 5 or 6 tons of pure muscle with a bad temper

 

[badjak]

Don't think that's a contest I'd want to witness! 5 or 6 tons of pure muscle with a bad temper

Safe distance....
I was not going to interfere

 

[ZCook]

So last night 2 hippo's were fighting just in front of my house.
Very very noisy.
They got the whole river, but no, they gotta be straigh next to my solar water pump. And they knocked it over.
Tested today and it all still works.
Big smile from me

Phew smiley

 

[Barriehie]

So last night 2 hippo's were fighting just in front of my house.
Very very noisy.
They got the whole river, but no, they gotta be straigh next to my solar water pump. And they knocked it over.
Tested today and it all still works.
Big smile from me

I didn't know but their horns are made of ivory!

 

[badjak]

I didn't know but their horns are made of ivory!

It's their front teeth that are ivory and I wouldn't want to be on thee receiving end of those
15 Hippopotamus Facts - Fact Animal
There are just a couple of things in that article I don't fully agree with.
They do kill people, but there are also many more hippo's than lions. And a lot of those kills are by people being at fault.
Apparently they are a threatened species, but you wouldn't say so if you were here. There are tens of thousands in this area (Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana)