Little things that irrationally please you

Timcito

Just to even things up!

• I was watching the film version of Downton Abbey last night. I love the way Michelle Dockery says 'Granny'!
• The sound my wife makes when she giggles
• Strangers who smile at me if we meet eyes

LionAquaLooper

Ranting about things that irritate me

Brio

Timcito said:

Just to even things up!

• I was watching the film version of Downton Abbey last night. I love the way Michelle Dockery says 'Granny'!
• The sound my wife makes when she giggles
• Strangers who smile at me if we meet eyes

Dissqualified. Nothing there is irrational. Keep enjoying life.

Timcito

Brio said:

Timcito said:

Just to even things up!

• I was watching the film version of Downton Abbey last night. I love the way Michelle Dockery says 'Granny'!
• The sound my wife makes when she giggles
• Strangers who smile at me if we meet eyes

Dissqualified. Nothing there is irrational. Keep enjoying life.

Well, they're little things that might be considered inconsequential, at least. Hardly 'When I wipe the floor with an opponent at tennis!' or 'When I nail a song perfectly on the guitar'!   

S56035

Farts.  Like a huge amount.  Especially quiet ones that stink. 

Timcito

Okay, now we're cooking with gas!

VimFuego

the screams of the far away people as they attempt to dodge the bullets. Silly little people, none can dodge me!!!

Haych

The sound and feel of a straight six under "enthusiastic" driving conditions.

Kalimna

The sound a wood plane makes when fettled to take a thin shaving of maple.

The smell of baking bread.

Cracking open a bottle of home brew cider and hearing the 'tshhhhh' of escaping gas.

We have an item of equipment at work (it looks like a robotic arm) to hold limbs in position for certain orthopaedic ops. It is multi-jointed and mechanical, with a trigger release. Pull the trigger and the various joints are released, allowing you to position it with ease. Relax the trigger and it locks in place absolutely. Beautiful engineering.

I have a few Famag lip'n'spur drill bits that cut beautifully.

When i make coffee for my morning commute and the strength is *just* right.

These are a few of my favourite things.

the_jaffa

When I spot patterns, words or palindromes in numbers. Like on the odometer in the car. 

 

Philly_Q

Timcito said:

• Strangers who smile at me if we meet eyes

Yeah, that's nice.  It doesn't happen very often in London.

(Edit:  If that sounds sarcastic, it wasn't meant to.  It genuinely is nice.)

Dominic

old fashioned olfactory things that take me back to childhood;
The smell of a ball of Tarred String
A newly Creosoted Fence 
The smell of Candy Floss being spun
The smell of Meat on a Barbeque 
The smell of Lavendar and Rosemary
The smell of a Xmas tree 
The smell of wet dogs 
The smell of a Stable 
The smell of Cows 

Rob1742

S56035 said:

Farts.  Like a huge amount.  Especially quiet ones that stink. 

Farts are hugely underrated. I can’t imagine life without farts, they are so important to me.

My friend has never heard his wife fart, ever. I find this very sad as I think they are missing out so much.

My favourite fart is when my missus does one in the bath and I can hear it downstairs as it echoes through the floorboards. 

jackio

Summer sunsets
The moon. The mother-fuckin moon, up there, in the sky, like wow
Cutting the lawn with my new lawnmower...chuckle and smiles as I go
My daughter doing anything at all

Petepassion

The one wipe poo

Tannin

This thread.

I was lying awake last night (just for a few minutes before I rolled over and went back to sleep) thinking about the other thread and how I should start one for the opposite. (I.e., this thread.) 

Got up this morning and here it is! 

PS: I had three or four good little examples for it in mind. Now I can't remember any of them.

Timcito

Kalimna said:

The smell of baking bread.

When i make coffee for my morning commute and the strength is *just* right.

Yes!

Timcito

Philly_Q said:

Timcito said:

• Strangers who smile at me if we meet eyes

Yeah, that's nice.  It doesn't happen very often in London.

(Edit:  If that sounds sarcastic, it wasn't meant to.  It genuinely is nice.)

It really is, and it's something that struck me about Miami when I first moved here. Those times when I (sort of) accidentally met eyes with people in the supermarket or other places, I noticed people often smiling at me, and I really liked it. I wasn't used to it from other places I'd lived.

Timcito

Dominic said: 

The smell of Lavendar and Rosemary

Jasmine does it for me!

blobb

The opening mechanisms of shampoo bottles, specifically the ones with flip top lids. A disposable item, but has to work 100% of it's life with repeated cyclic fatigue applied but also cheap and simple to manufacture. An elegant solution to an engineering problem that pleases me when I see it. Coke cans have a similar effect.

I don't get out much.

fastonebaz

Silence.   I love it when there is a moment of absolute hush in the world.