Things that you really love

I would reverse that, although both can be far too sweet for me (depending on the Krispy Kreme).

Krispy Kreme are nice but never quite as nice as I assume they'll be once I bite into them. I like cupcakes, especially the ones mu friend hannah makes which are insanely light and fluffy.

Public speaking! Secretly I love attention.  I have come to terms with this, and that's fine, so long as it doesn't escape too often.  Public speaking allows it to escape in a necessary and appreciated way.

Doesn't hurt at all that I'm actually pretty good at making people laugh in my presentations.  I credit N64 et al. for that!

Woooo! Public speaking  can be splendid fun. I've done it many times although I confess that all of those times were with my fellow pupils making up the majority of the audience so I knew most of them. I imagine it's probably a lot different when you're speaking to people who you don't know at all.
A few years back some people from some sort of initiative came round and give a talk to our year and while I haven't the slightest clue what the guts of their talk was about I recall they got us to play a game where you were shown a picture of a random object displayed on the screen and then you had to talk about it for 2 minutes. It was epic fun, I got to talk about a shovel- explaining in great detail its magical properties was one of the high points of my school career.

Now I'm on this thread I should probably claim to love something, too. So I love tiger babies: https://i.imgur.com/AGMeMYa.gifv

Did you talk about pogo-ing enemies with it?[/inevitable]

at those tigers. In fact, I'd add cute animals in general to that. I know that there's an unwritten "man rule" that you don't squee over cute animals unless you're homosexual. In that case, paint me with a rainbow: this is one of the best things ever.

Shigeru Miyamoto.

Seriously, how can anyone see this video and not find themselves grinning watching it? The man is just so charismatic.

Agreed, but - he did what with Bowser?

JayMoyles wrote:

Shigeru Miyamoto.

Seriously, how can anyone see this video and not find themselves grinning watching it? The man is just so charismatic.

I have a framed picture of him on my wall

My mind has just conjured images I'm never going to be able to scrub out!

Balladeer wrote:

Agreed, but - he did what with Bowser?

Nothing. Bowser is a tortoise so Shigsy probably just laid an egg and then bowser dowsed it in sticky koopa juice to fertilise it. Then out hatched lil' bowser Jr.

Science, super simple stuff.

NintenDUCK wrote:

so Shigsy probably just laid an egg

MY MIND!  This is making me see things I never wanted to see!  

Nobody is forcing you to picture it, but if it makes more sense perhaps try imagining him wearing a chicken suit as he does it.

JayMoyles wrote:

Shigeru Miyamoto.

Seriously, how can anyone see this video and not find themselves grinning watching it? The man is just so charismatic.

If the Nintendo directs are to continue then surely it has to be him hosting them.

The feeling of a lingering winter breeze through the hair after not having a cut for two months. It's so refreshing.

Triumph through adversity at work. Or, at least, not being defeated through adversity at work.

No more detail.

Glad to hear you're triumphant, sorry to hear about the adversity.
Digression alert: I almost typed "sorry to hear about diversity" then, channeling my inner Daily Mail.

As for something I love: getting up well in the morning. I'm not normally a morning person, dragging myself out of bed after an hour of really not wanting to. Every now and then, like this morning at 5, I just hear my alarm and hop out of bed ready to go.

I know that feel. Most mornings are always so difficult and reluctant, but just very occasionally I'll bolt up at 7 and feel like I gained an entire day.

But yeah, it happens like 4 times a year

The comforting warmth of towels when they just come out of the tumble dryer. I just have to bury my face in them every time, bliss.

Mmm, that's a good'n. I likely warm paper from a printer, as well.

You;re an HR violation waiting to happen, Summerhayes... "OK, who keeps sending blank documents through to the laser printer?"


I thought I'd finished my cup of tea. I hadn't! There was still more tea! Hooray!

So loathe am I to look in my mug and see there's no tea left, I went through a phase of making myself two cups. My friend Roma saw this, and supplied me with a massive Sports Direct mug, so I no longer have that issue.

My biggest tea mug is this Wall-E one. It holds a boat load of tea but the fact that it's not round does make it hard to drink from. Solution? Drink from a corner.

That's passed the "mug" region of the scale and is basically a keg.

If we lived in a truly meritocratic society, pasta + tomatoes + contents of the dried herbs drawer would either be more complicated to make, or be less tasty to eat. Hooray for unfairness... er.