Name banal things you do that give you great pleasure

speaktofrank

Funny I just posted and I can hear a big thunderstorm on the way outside, (live in France) the rain won't be long now....Night Night!

Blush_01

I love washing up. There's something soothing about it.

Chewing toffees until my temples hurt.

Curling up under the duvet on a sunday morning with a great book.

Getting the last bubbly bits of orange juice from the carton.

Peeling carrots with a peeler. There's something so satisfying about the swooshing sound it makes.

The feeling of fresh sheets and clean pjs after a lovely hot shower and a fluffy blowdry. Yum-yum!

Counting steps on the way to work.

Loads of stuff.

JangoFett

The company of a happy dog, whoever said that I am SO there

Or even when a dog/puppy doesn't like you at first and earning their trust, I love that

Morning farts, lying in bed on my own and letting those big loud morning farts rip, I was laughing so hard one morning my housemate came in laughing saying he does the same thing

Camping in the mountains with no phone or mp3 players or anything. Making your own fire and filling your day with discovering the mountain on foot

Nerin

JangoFett wrote: »

Camping in the mountains with no phone or mp3 players or anything. Making your own fire and filling your day with discovering the mountain on foot

i fully agree, +1 for nature

Steve_o

Melting Candle wax.... which leads onto, making candles, using the remains of old candles!! satisfying!

Aurora Borealis

Bursting bubble wrap.

sham08

Finally finding something decent to scratch your back with

LouOB

full tank of petrol in car
full fridge of loverly food
full battery bar on mobile
all ironing done and clothes put away

love seeing when Simon Cowel is wrong - it gives me pleasure to see downfall of the 'know-it-alls'

KnifeWRENCH

Aurora Borealis wrote: »

Bursting bubble wrap.

Yep, love that too! Once livened up a dull chemistry lecture
I also love crushing breakfast cereals into fine powder before eating them. Works best with Coco Pops and Ricicles.

Duggy747

Popping a pimple, no matter how big or small. Just find it strangely satisfying.

When it's cold, windy and raining out while I'm locked up in my lovely warm house only to realise I'm outta fags and need to get to the shop before it closes

That first shìt in the morning, ahhh refreshing!

Waking up thinking you're late for work but then realising it's a Saturday.

Pealing all the labels off a glass bottle of Heinekin. Makes me look like I'm drinking something I found in my shed.

useful_contacts

sham08 wrote: »

Finally finding something decent to scratch your back with

hell yea;)

useful_contacts

The 1st scissor cut into a fresh piece of construction paper:D:D:D:D

milod

1. Piercing the foil on a brand new jar of instant coffee (I don't drink the stuff, but I always check a jar when I find one...)

2. Watching people try to get off the wrong side of the Luas at Busaras

StonedParadoX

elviscostello wrote: »

They are a decent lighter alright. Maybe it's just me, but I always thought they were kind of like the Skoda of the lighter world back in the day. Skoda was a good car, but cheap as chips. Similar to the homestead lighter. Still have one, and still going like a trooper. Can you still buy them?

yeah i bought one there recently
i know theres a pub in bray u can buy them
but there hard lighters to get

thusspakeblixa

milod wrote: »

1. Piercing the foil on a brand new jar of instant coffee

Similarly, I love tearing the tinfoil on a KitKat by ripping the bit of foil between the two fingers with my fingernail.
hell yeah

Evenescent

Brushing my teeth the morning after a heavy night on the beer....... Be gone Carpet Fuzziness........

thusspakeblixa

Oh and opening a bottle and letting the cap *ping* on to the floor :pac:

sham08

Jigsaw wrote: »

The way your balls feel after having a shower with Original Source Minty Shower gel.

Ok went out and bought some of this stuff, was using it having a shower, wasn't really having any effect so I horsed the stuff on, put it this way it started working and working and working, I can still feel it and its 12 hours later Maybe I won't be so heavy handed next time

simonw

The general good feeling after alot of exercise like an energetic 5-a-side match... satisfying.

JangoFett

Opening bottle of beer with anything other than a bottle opener

Surface edges, forks, lighters, mobile phones and my best one...an a4 sheet of paper!! YEAH!!

Shuffling a new deck of cards...oh yeah!

sham08

JangoFett wrote: »

and my best one...an a4 sheet of paper!! YEAH!

Em how??

Carroller16

milod wrote: »

2. Watching people try to get off the wrong side of the Luas at Busaras

Brilliant love it too

JangoFett

sham08 wrote: »

Em how??

I'm glad you asked...

Take a sheet of a4 paper and just keep folding it until it can't be folded anymore, and it will be really hard and then you open the bottle like you would with a lighter!

watna

How good you feel after doing a hangover poo.

Getting in to bed when you've changed the sheets and duvet cover.

Being really cold and getting in to bed with a really warm electric blanket that's been on for a while.

Going in to your user CP and seeing loads of threads you've suscribed to with new responses.

Waking up after a night and cautiously lifting your head up and finding out you don't have a hangover.

I sat in a harbour today and I could see two really big starfish on a rock touching each other with their arm things. It made me strangely happy to watch!

JangoFett

here in Perth sometimes I get the train to frmantle and it passes over where the river mouth meets the sea and almost every time I see Dolphins, I'm disappointed when I don't see them

Lirange

Bending spoons in ice cream that's too hard. Because I'm impatient to wait and let it sit.

And I like to bend spoons and bend them back.

Dashticle

JangoFett wrote: »

Opening bottle of beer with anything other than a bottle opener

Seeing people's faces when I open em with my teeth :cool:

Smell of firelighters

Lying down in a clean bed

Riddle101

I'd say listening to music, it's my passion and my pride and without it, 50% of my day is ruined

PeadarofAodh

Finding the perfect song to listen to while cycling

Cycling through streets late at night when they're completely dead, no wind, no rain, and singing along to whatever I'm listening to.

Visiting the family home and teaching the dog new, useless tricks

Blisterman

A good old fashioned stretch, when you've been sitting in one place for a long time.

Daftendirekt

Finishing a book.

Ripping open that Amazon packaging.

Finally managing to open that annoying plastic that CD cases come wrapped in.

Making friends with a dog or cat you've never met before.

Wandering around forests.

echter

closing the window on a bus, and wrapping your ticket around itself then unwrap it, it goes all curly - then try and straighten it.

trying to walk across gravel without making a sound,

before we got rid of the Hi-Fi - putting potpourri on the turntable and watching it go round and round and round and round,

writing my name with fairy liquid

Riddle101

Daftendirekt wrote: »

Finishing a book.

Ripping open that Amazon packaging.

Finally managing to open that annoying plastic that CD cases come wrapped in.

Making friends with a dog or cat you've never met before.

Wandering around forests.

Are you talking about the plastic with the little label in the middle that looks like it's made from some sort of steel cause i hate that plastic too

davyjose

el_weirdo wrote: »

So I have to give each banal thing that gives me pleasure a name?

Making tea- Trevor
Taking a dump- Malcolm
Lighting a fag- Simon
Going to bed- Oliver

Brilliant

davyjose

Smelling a recently extinguished match.
The first strum of my guitar when I haven't played it in a while.
That feeling you get when you swallow cold water on an empty stomach.
Drinking A successful hair of the dog.
And my favourite..... making my friends laugh

Carroller16

I actually cannot believe this thread didn't take off... i thought it was hilarious

meditraitor

The first cup of tea on a saturday morning

ven0m

the first poop of the day

JangoFett wrote: »

Organising my things....that might be more obsessive compulsive than banal...

Like, organising my comic books, making sure they're all in bags and boards, in the right order, and making sure I have the different titles in the right order i.e: Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps in the same section, all the 5 and 6 part stories in the same section etc

Then arranging my books on a book shelf so they look asthetically pleasing to me, Big books on the left, small ones in the middle and big ones on the right

Dude, I thought I was the only other person along with Kevin Smith who did this ....... I stand corrected ....

Tigger

Terry

rainbow kirby

ven0m wrote: »

the first poop of the day

+1

Also
- finding the perfect pair of jeans when shopping
- getting a random Wikipedia link which connects on to something really interesting
- Opening an ice-cold can of Coke
- Getting a run of my favourite songs when I've got iTunes on shuffle
- Randomly finding money in my room

Turd Ferguson

I got way too excited when I mis-read this thread as "Anal things you do that give you great pleasure"


I guess some of the banal things would be:

-Giving people the AIDS
-Killing small animals
-Ice Cream
-Tying children to fences
-Elbows
-Watching Bill Cosby (die)
-Eating Worthers Original with some old guys

Cookie_Monster

Being in charge of fire

When camping being able to throw your empty cans into said fire and forgetting about then.

Being in Powerscourt, nicest most relaxing place ever.

Seeing people fall over

finishing work at exactly 5.30 and not a second later

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Making cappucinos, I have to conceal how much I enjoy it and just do my happucino dance in my head incase people think I'm weird

ven0m

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Being in charge of fire

Dude, giiieeefff Fire!!!!!!!

+1,000,000

Cookie_Monster

naughty words...

Bum, Poo

hahahaha:D:D

Turd Ferguson

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

naughty words...

Bum, Poo

hahahaha:D:D

Fanny?

ven0m

calling my other half 'poopsie', 'poo-poo face', 'poo-poo head' or 'poo-head', or simply just 'poo' ..... it still amuses me & her :-)

Cookie_Monster

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Fanny?

Munter

Cookie_Monster

Throwing mallets at trees

We even made a game of it, it's called "The Mallet Game"

dr.bollocko

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Throwing mallets at trees

We even made a game of it, it's called "The Mallet Game"

You didnt invent that.
Monkeys did.
And it was called the feces game