Little Things that Bring a Smile to Your Face 5: Rainbow Edition

[vanpeebles]

Did you meet on the set of a horror film?

[Colin]

Aww, Van, your parole hearing wasn’t that bad.

[vanpeebles]

[fishbowlhead]

She’s the make up artist, not the model.

Edit it to add a bit of blatant advertising for the two women on the site.

https://www.heathersnowie.com/

There’s 2? Blimey when did that double?

[randombs]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-45352622

Anti-Trump Balloon people have made a Sadiq Khan balloon.

"If people want to spend their Saturday looking at me in a yellow bikini they're welcome to do so. I don't really think yellow's my colour though."

[Zaki]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-45352622

Anti-Trump Balloon people have made a Sadiq Khan balloon.

"If people want to spend their Saturday looking at me in a yellow bikini they're welcome to do so. I don't really think yellow's my colour though."

I like his response

[Neon Ignition]

Man, he'll be secretly seething at the slight association to Trump this brings to his name

[randombs]

iTunes Match.

After pondering the various monthly subscription services like Spotify, Google Play Music and Apple's own Apple Music, it dawned on me that I don't necessarily need access to an unlimited supply of music. I have around 70GB, a lot of which I haven't even listened to. Ever since I moved from iPod to iPhone I've limited myself to a selection of music that has remained largely unchanged over the years.

So after reading up on the gotchas(of which there are few), I took the plunge subscribed to iTunes Match for the princely sum of 22 Great British pounds per year. I'm experiencing a mixture of nostalgia and discovery.

It matched 5000/8000 songs. Whether the matched versions are better/worse/different remains to be seen, but there are nearly 1000 with bitrates at or under 160kb/s which I can replace with DRM-free* 256kb/s AAC files. Not to mention, the occasional dodgy rips that occasionally skip a beat have been replaced with perfect versions. Also, my playlists are intact so I don't have to go searching for stuff.

It's like my Mac iTunes is in my pocket!

* Apple Music replaces songs with DRM-locked versions that stop working when you cancel your subscription.

[teddymeow]

Got an interview for a job next Wednesday.

[speedlolita]

Suspecting every new member is Shozuki.

[JazzFunk]

That you can still get a Burger King bacon double cheeseburger on the cheap. My Arriva bus tickets have vouchers on the back whereby you can get a BDC and small fries for £1.99. Today I went in, they were swapping the fries over, I got a larger than large portion and they were proper lush.

I remember back in early 1998, BK were doing this offer where you got a BDC for 98p because it had just gone 1998. That's 20yrs ago. Granted, they're a bit smaller these days but they still taste well nice, I know time might have taken slight tolls with the size and the bun is a tad drier than back in the day but to say I can get a BK BDC & fries for £1.99 I find pretty smile-inducing.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Bacon double cheese is my favourite! The onion rings from BK and the hash browns are good too!
If they did em for 98p again I'd buy a disgusting amount!

[speedlolita]

I always always always get a super size XL bacon double cheese meal when I'm at Waterloo. They do other burgers but it's become tradition!

[JazzFunk]

I tend to get the large XL bacon cheeseburger meals as a treat once or twice a month. I only get that burger, too, if I'm getting a meal there, so much food, you're full after the XL and it's always a lovely burger.

But they got some nice-looking new burgers on offer at the mo, that double quarter pounder looks nice...

[Zaki]

Suspecting every new member is Shozuki.

Has every new member been bragging about their Arsenal season tickets and imaginary harem?