What made you smile recently?

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LissaC said:
Please tell me you're also singing "Everybody wants to rule the world🎵" now!
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At the end of my first year at Uni I had finished all my exams, as has everyone in my halls of residence and we were waiting for the results before going home for the summer. It was a hot June day, we fired up a bbq, played football, drank beer, laughed, and lazed around on the lawns of the halls enjoying being alive. Music was playing of course, and the one song that stuck was Everybody Wants to Rule the World. To this day when I hear it I am taken back to that wonderful afternoon and the happiness I felt.
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
To this day when I hear it I am taken back
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It’s funny how music can do that. The summer after I graduated high school, Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without A Face” played on a near-continuous loop on the radio, it seemed, and I swear I can still feel the weather and detect what a particular day smelled like whenever I hear that song.
 
TastyReuben said:
It’s funny how music can do that. The summer after I graduated high school, Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without A Face” played on a near-continuous loop on the radio, it seemed, and I swear I can still feel the weather and detect what a particular day smelled like whenever I hear that song.
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I was into punk rock as a teenager and now, thanks to google home and Spotify, I can summon up any song from my past...My partner, who never knew me as a young man, stares at me in horror when she walks into the kitchen and hears me singing/yelling some of those songs while I am having a beer or two cooking our dinner..I just feel my inhibitions melting away..then, I get tired and watch television..:p
 
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Rocklobster said:
I was into punk rock as a teenager and now, thanks to google home and Spotify, I can summon up any song from my past...My partner, who never knew me as a young man, stares at me in horror when she walks into the kitchen and hears me singing/yelling some of those songs while I am having a beer or two cooking our dinner..I just feel my inhibitions melting away..then, I get tired and watch television..:p
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My husband was strictly a classic rock kinda guy when we met. Now he likes Metallica and other heavy metal bands, as well as the Beatles, some classical music, and a bit of everything else (except that neither of us much like country or rap music).
 
That is somewhat accurate..the metric system was introduced in 1970 so many people were already using Imperial..it never became totally accepted and what we have is a combination of the two..interchangeable...what it doesn't list is how we judge distance in the time it takes to drive someplace..Like if you were to ask how far is Toronto from here?"..people would answer "about 4 hours"...
 
And then there is the classic question “do drive to work or take your lunch?”
 
Rocklobster said:
That is somewhat accurate..the metric system was introduced in 1970 so many people were already using Imperial..it never became totally accepted and what we have is a combination of the two..interchangeable...what it doesn't list is how we judge distance in the time it takes to drive someplace..Like if you were to ask how far is Toronto from here?"..people would answer "about 4 hours"...
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Metric was introduced in the US at the same time... and promptly rejected. :laugh:

In the 80s, more and more cars used metric nuts and bolts. My tool cabinet now has to have two complete sets of mechanic's tools.

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