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To be positive for a bit. What are the small things that make your life better. I'll start:
Monster Munch (roast Beef obviously).
Cheese on toast with Worcester sauce.
Drinking cold beer in the sunshine.
The Belmont Descent when its dry and dusty.
Rudie Bumps with the missus in the morning.
opening a fresh delivery from CRC.
Playing Primal Scream - Xterminator at life-threatening volume when I'm in on my own.
Abusing Hora (preferably with sticks)
your nominations please.......
pork pie
my kids
my new grandaughter
29rs
IPA
rude stuff with the mrs, if no pork pie is on the go.......... 😯
Being in the woods, on me bike.
CAKE
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LOVE 8)
(From people, cake and sex hormones/money/cycling/serotonin.)
Adds: Women!
This little fella never fails to make me smile!
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My Son, Closely followed by my wife of course.
Sitting on a beach in the dark listening to the sea.
Mile upon mile of Singletrack
2/3 foot clean waves with a gentle off-shore breeze
A couple of pints after a hard day
Rudie bumps at any time of the day with Mrs J
sunset trails
monster munch (the new big bags and pickled onion, clearly)
sex on a beach (not the cocktail)
mountains
Sausages.
Family and the unlooked for and generous support that is evident in the cancer thread above.
I'd like to take a moment here to claim a certain amount of responsibility for the new old size monster munch which my 18 month email campaign apparently had a lot to do with...
Victory over corn snack oppression!
A great big plate of chips.
In the words of the song:
Beer
Sex
Chips+Gravy
Most have already been mentioned, but one obvious one...
New bikes 🙂
With Jimster shoulder high glassy perfection at dawn. Better than anything I have ever experienced.
one_happy_hippy - I salute you sir!! My life is officially better than it was due to your efforts
Sliced bread
Best thing:
That thing the girl I'm seeing does in bed!
Worst thing:
That other thing the girl I'm seeing does in bed!
hang on, this is important.
Monster munch are now back to their original size?
i need to get myself to a newsagents, and quickly...
ahwiles - they do absolutely mahoosive bags of them too
Villa party in Bali in 2002, sitting around a pool, watching the sun come up after a huge and messy night with great mates and sexy girls. My pal Dan the DJ brought his decks, that party went on for 2 days and was
the best thing in the world.....ever.
Having a really satisfying poo whilst on company time...
jelly babies,my friends,people on singletrack,guitars,bikes,experimental jazz,kittens!!! 🙂
It's hard to match PP's CAKE answer. Why cake is even better than Sky+, and that's saying something! Ooh what about Jeff Stelling 3pm every Saturday on SkySportsNews...?
"Having a really satisfying poo whilst on company time... "
And completing the crossword at the same time.
Sascha Grey
Hash browns
Detroit techno
German beer
Single malt whisky
Going as fast as I possibly can on a bike
This little fella never fails to make me smile!
My old fella never fails to make me smile 😉
-long days out on the bike
-comfort food (yorkshire puds, filled with sausage, mash and gravy for me)
-a good real ale
-friends
-impromptu naughty 'school nights' in the pub.
-that weird coincidence of thinking of a tune and the radio station playing it.
-bedroom naughtiness (sadly lacking at the moment :cry:)
sex
biking
post ride cake
booze
In that order, tho I'm fairly certain that list will be changing soon
The Missus and kids
Cheeky Beers
A REALLY good curry
Bikes
Getting out in the middle of nowhere and just listening to the silence!
one_happy_hippy - You forgot to ask them to bring back Tomato Sauce flavour Monster Munch while you were on!! Best Tommy sauce flavour snack ever!
DONK List in October
Sleep
family
friends
mountainbiking
if you can combine all 3 you've got it sorted 🙂
(I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it)
dusty loam
snow falling
3ft and offshore
my wife
my dog
cold beer
fresh cake
cups of tea
sunset/sunrise
Aside from all the obvious above, there is one I'd like to put forward that I can't believe no one has mentioned yet...
...a really good fart! Can't be beaten sometimes for providing both mirth and satisfaction.
Probably not a good one for combining with some of the other suggestions, unless that's "your thing".
to love and be loved - unconditionally.
what SST said.
but if we're talking material things...
bikes.
erdinger alkoholfrei weissbier.
schneider weisse alkoholfrei.
home grown fruit and veg.
home made bread, freshly baked.
the tone you get from a gibson SG standard straight into a 70s marshall 50w JMP valve amp (pref the mkII with master volume).
fentimans ginger beer.
Proper homemade flapjacks (slightly sticky & chewy)
Fresh beer at the right temp
Fresh tracks on new powder snow
Coffee & pastries in the AM
Pies/sausages/pasties
My G/f's smile
BBQs on the beach, watching the sun go down.
Just off to have one now 😀
waking up the morning after the night before without a hangover.
the smell of freshly cut weed.
The best thing ever..............The Wheel...............the bloke who thougt of that deserves pat on the back.
A bright clear sunny day in the middle of winter when you are out on your bike and realise that it was worth being born for this one day, when the only time that exists is now.
Anyone mention, 'loose slippers, tight fanny, and a warm place to sh1t' ?
waithing the sun come up this morning as we had a breather in the kayak surrounded by little blue penguins and a couple of rogue dolphins who kept bumping us to play....the best thing..ever
Seeing a dog riding in a car, with its head stuck out of an open window.
when my GF smiles
my kids enjoying stuff
cheeky rides whilst on company time (WFH)
riding without a time-check
weeks/weekends away with the lads just riding.
a really good pizza (home made or from local italian guy)
XC races in the spring through bluebells in the woods
Paying my mortgage off and retiring the next day would be the best thing in the world for me.
Currently tho'
My Granddaughter,, absolute love of my life..
Lazy days with Mrs
Wife, Daughter and family
Bikes and fettling
Rock music
Cheesy mash & pigs in blankets
Smell of the countryside in summer
psa test = .02 ( two years cancer free this week )
I come from a poor background so the best things in the world are:
Corn Beef ash
Lemon Curd
Evaporated Milk
Ambrosia Creamed rice
Homemade Goosberry pie
Borscht Soup
Pickled Herrings/Rollmops
However the best is schnitzel with sauerkraut.
Or olives stuffed with garlic and anchovy.
Apart from my one true love- Bikes,
Pillow talk,
Lone,
Kisses
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otto cycle,
modern communication tools,
google,
pie,
ale,
the feeling of your legs the day after a mega ride
My daughter when she is not stropping
Cake
Chips
The smell of a pine forest mmmmmmmm...
Finding and riding a new trail
Ale
Boobs
Sleep especially the one you get after a proper day in the saddle
Early morning rides
Tinternet
Beer
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and none of that cold fizzy stuff please
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9 day fortnights!!
so, none of you have had great sex then?
my musical sex pie lady bike. of course.
Roasting sausages on a stick over an open fire in the Canadian Rockies.
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family, beer and post ride chillouts in the sun.
make no excuses for the lawn, its at the batch and we don't get down often enough to keeep it manicured like a pornstars situpon.
German lager
English Beer
Lazy mornings in bed with the papers
That "click" moment when learning a new skill
grynch, we make one of those glad they can bring good news.
iDave I'm not admitting to that. My GF would become suspicious.
Best thing tonight- surviving alot of water thrown on a dry sauna on full heat. The feeling when you brave it out and the steam eventually dies down.
I can;t believe you are feeding a small child Speights FFS
Theres plenty of PROPER beer here you know 😀
d4 - Member
grynch, we make one of those glad they can bring good news.
d4.. the basterd brought bad news first.. but at least they brought it early and doc got his robot to have a go at by bits. And of course better to find out early that to.......... well..........