Re: Good news thread

by embee Fri 04 Jul 2014, 08:09

The Ashes 2015 travel brochure has been delivered to me ...

by Big Dog Fri 04 Jul 2014, 08:43

I managed to bullshit my way through my annual PDA today. Its getting harder though, with all the dickhead demands they make on staff these days to justify our existance.

by skully Fri 04 Jul 2014, 08:46

I'm at the top of my pay grade (not good news for me) so my annual performance assessment is a chore to avoid yawning my way through, what with me not giving a flying what my boss says or demands. Cool

Anywho, I'm with Dan, tis the weekend. Huzzah!!! cheers

by Brass Monkey Fri 04 Jul 2014, 08:58

Dello wrote:I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel the other day.

It was super.

Good news for me.

That is good news for you - you hate everything

by LeFromage Fri 04 Jul 2014, 09:28

Brass Monkey wrote:
Dello wrote:I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel the other day.

It was super.

Good news for me.

That is good news for you - you hate everything

Now I think about it, I didn't like it at all.

by lardbucket Fri 04 Jul 2014, 09:35

tricycle wrote:Not really new, but my dad was cured of stage 1 cancer earlier this year. Was lucky to get an early sign

wonderful news

by LeFromage Fri 04 Jul 2014, 09:43

lardbucket wrote:
tricycle wrote:Not really new, but my dad was cured of stage 1 cancer earlier this year. Was lucky to get an early sign

wonderful news

Wrong thread. This is merely the good news thread.

by Growler Fri 04 Jul 2014, 10:13

What a nice surprise to come back and see so many replies, with good things happening to others - happy birthday/congratulations, I'm pleased for you or thank you as appropriate to all responders.

by PeterCS Fri 04 Jul 2014, 10:14

And now Dellboy will don the Comedy Scrooge hat ... Wink

Great news, Trike!

by PeterCS Fri 04 Jul 2014, 10:18

Similarly (I hadn't realised at first this was not a threassurected Sunshine and Lollipops thread from yonks since), it is heartening to hear the good news of a number of forummers!

THE LOLLIPOPS ARE ON DELLO, AND FROMAGE IS HOLDING THE SOLAR PANELS ALOFT TO HEAT THE ESTABLISHMENT!

by lardbucket Fri 04 Jul 2014, 10:21

If so Fromage may soon become Fondue.

by Merlin Fri 04 Jul 2014, 10:31

Growler wrote:My son is 23 today, and he has just graduated with first class honours in electronic engineering. He's got about a month off before embarking on his PhD ...... looks like he may become a real boffin ..

tricycle wrote:
Not really new, but my dad was cured of stage 1 cancer earlier this year. Was lucky to get an early sign

Can associate myself with both these triumphs - great news.

And another day dawns bright . . . wonderful to witness after the scare last year!
All good news.

by Growler Fri 04 Jul 2014, 10:38

Bradman wrote:
Growler wrote:My son is 23 today, and he has just graduated with first class honours in electronic engineering. He's got about a month off before embarking on his PhD ...... looks like he may become a real boffin .

Since he's the first in my immediate family to even attend university, let alone graduate - I can't express just how proud I am as a parent.

Congrats but wouldn't he get more money quicker in the private sector or is boffinhood a decent earner nowadays?

Bradders, he's being sponsored by the company he was with on work experience. They did offer him a job, which he did consider for a while, but he does like academia & research. The clincher for him was getting the first rather than a 2:1 degree. He will be closely involved with them, and of course they will benefit from his research. It's in the field of nanotechnology, so it's "cutting edge" stuff with microchips and such like.

by tricycle Sat 05 Jul 2014, 03:25

Dello wrote:
lardbucket wrote:
tricycle wrote:Not really new, but my dad was cured of stage 1 cancer earlier this year. Was lucky to get an early sign

wonderful news

Wrong thread. This is merely the good news thread.

Cocked up again! This forumming lark is too complicated for me.

Cheers all...

by LeFromage Sat 05 Jul 2014, 08:06

It is most certainly good news, I concede.

by lardbucket Sat 05 Jul 2014, 08:08

by lardbucket Sat 05 Jul 2014, 09:54

by WideWally Sat 05 Jul 2014, 10:14

lardbucket wrote:

Sam Cooke didn't have a lot of good news in 1964.

by horace Mon 07 Jul 2014, 02:24

Had an ace day (meaning I survived) with my mum in Queenscliffe (was Victoria's getaway in the 19th C for richies)

my mum has been going to this joint for 80+ years...as a little kid she would go down on a paddlewheel steamer from melb to Q...then in her early 20s she went there for d weekends with my dad...miraculously we survived the day!