The Sunshine, Daisies, and Lollipops Happy Stuff Thread

[San Lumen]

what's stopping you?

I am a nobody, so nobody would care.

No one is a nobody. Your opinion matters. Tell your local and state officials how you feel.

[Rosmana]

I am a nobody, so nobody would care.

No one is a nobody. Your opinion matters. Tell your local and state officials how you feel.

Eh, Iam Dutch, we do not have local and state officials, and my PP has voted to outlaw it.

I just mean I wish I was a religious official.

Anyhow, back on topic:

I am happy I get to work on my book today.

[San Lumen]

No one is a nobody. Your opinion matters. Tell your local and state officials how you feel.

Eh, Iam Dutch, we do not have local and state officials, and my PP has voted to outlaw it.

I just mean I wish I was a religious official.

Anyhow, back on topic:

I am happy I get to work on my book today.

What's the genre? Im currently working on a Percy Jackson fanfic.

[Rosmana]

Eh, Iam Dutch, we do not have local and state officials, and my PP has voted to outlaw it.

I just mean I wish I was a religious official.

Anyhow, back on topic:

I am happy I get to work on my book today.

What's the genre? Im currently working on a Percy Jackson fanfic.

A novel, I would say realistic fiction.

It a lot of fun to write. (PM me for details)

[Valentine Z]

https://i.imgur.com/bKq42H0.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/cpST1ey.jpg

Not exactly sunshine, but since everyone / most thought I was a girl, I thought I would do a little something on what I could look like. :3

I do have a degree of happiness with the results. ^^

[San Lumen]

What's the genre? Im currently working on a Percy Jackson fanfic.

A novel, I would say realistic fiction.

It a lot of fun to write. (PM me for details)

i returned to fan fiction after a several year hiatus. You can find my stories on Fanfiction.net

[Ethel mermania]

Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson airplane fame will be putting on a free online concert at 8:00 pm. EDT.

You tube,

[Ifreann]

Not surprised. If they can make a candle that smells like Gwyneth Paltrow's ... uhm ... anyway, yeah, they can make one that smells like Guinness.

I'm confused as to why anyone would buy it though, because it seems like it costs about ten times the equivalent volume of actual Guinness that you could just take a whiff of.

You can't buy Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina by the pint.


To my knowledge.

[Ethel mermania]

I'm confused as to why anyone would buy it though, because it seems like it costs about ten times the equivalent volume of actual Guinness that you could just take a whiff of.

You can't buy Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina by the pint.


To my knowledge.

You mean that's not why it's called Goop?

[Ifreann]

You can't buy Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina by the pint.


To my knowledge.

You mean that's not why it's called Goop?

Damn, maybe it is.

[South Ccanda]

The issue I wrote has been accepted as an official NS issue! I've worked so hard on it since the beginning of last year.

[Farnhamia]

The issue I wrote has been accepted as an official NS issue! I've worked so hard on it since the beginning of last year.

Congratulations!

I know some elephants who are going, "Since the beginning of last year? Pfffft!"

[Tiltjuice]

Watching South African YouTuber Cobus Potgieter do his drum covers. That grin while he's waving the sticks though. Probably the best nonviolent form of stress relief evar.

[South Ccanda]

The issue I wrote has been accepted as an official NS issue! I've worked so hard on it since the beginning of last year.

Congratulations!

I know some elephants who are going, "Since the beginning of last year? Pfffft!"

I may or may not, for a time, have quit Nation-states while I was so close to a finished issue lol. But its all good, I came back!

[San Lumen]

I just rediscovered a show from childhood on YouTube called The Big Comfy Couch. It’s just as entertaining now as it was back then. Goes to show you they don’t make television like they used to.

I think I’m going to watch an episode a day.

[USS Monitor]

The issue I wrote has been accepted as an official NS issue! I've worked so hard on it since the beginning of last year.

It's a solid issue. Enjoy the badge.

[San Lumen]

https://apple.news/AK28kFWPhTCqHabOQ6dodsA

In other news Doubletree Hotels has revealed their once top secret chocolate chip cookie recipe

Here is the recipe for anyone who wants it: https://newsroom.hilton.com/doubletree/ ... kie-recipe

[Cisairse]

Dropped a cinnamon stick in some cheap (shitty) wine. The result is half-decent wine. I am happy.

[Albrenia]

The issue I wrote has been accepted as an official NS issue! I've worked so hard on it since the beginning of last year.

Congrats and thanks for adding a dash more fun to the game side!

[Diahon]

Dr. Jones, you are complicit in the mess. Why didnt you inform the proper authorities that there were experimental nazi warplanes in the canal zone. I am sure General Weir would have been interested in what you saw. So why didnt you tell him??.

Ah, well, I have an answer for this now.

Watching the documentary again, they keep describing the site as 'Tanis' and in 'the desert outside Cairo'; and clearly the site that the Nazis are excavating is primarily from the peak of the New Kingdom. In real life, Tanis is in the lush Nile Delta, not too far (as you point out) from the modern Canal, and primarily dates from the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period.

Knowing that Raiders is in fact a documentary helps us identify that 'Tanis' in the film is not supposed to be the actual Tanis, but was rather chosen to obscure the site of ancient Heliopolis, a major centre of worship of the sun god (hence the Greek name) Atum/Ra that was occupied through most of Ancient Egyptian history, and is today located in the outer eastern Cairo suburb of Ain Shams - which is Arabic for 'Eye of the Sun'. The connection between the Greek and modern Arabic names of the city and one of the key points of the documentary involving my manipulation of sun's rays hardly needs to be explained further.

It was courteous of Spielberg, Lucas, and Kasden to change the name of Heliopolis to 'Tanis' in order to obscure the actual site, and avoid the type of looting that I'm sure we would all condemn. And knowing that they've transposed the name of Tanis to the actual site of Heliopolis helps to explain away that gnawing great big plot hole of what an experimental Nazi airplane is doing so close to the British-controlled Suez Canal in 1936. It's actually much closer to Cairo, where British security no doubt welcomed the opportunity to spy on and study the latest Nazi technology.

So all sorted, then.

... should i watch raiders or not? that is the question
i mean if you guys actually have the ark, well

[Southern-Aves]

Ah, well, I have an answer for this now.

Watching the documentary again, they keep describing the site as 'Tanis' and in 'the desert outside Cairo'; and clearly the site that the Nazis are excavating is primarily from the peak of the New Kingdom. In real life, Tanis is in the lush Nile Delta, not too far (as you point out) from the modern Canal, and primarily dates from the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period.

Knowing that Raiders is in fact a documentary helps us identify that 'Tanis' in the film is not supposed to be the actual Tanis, but was rather chosen to obscure the site of ancient Heliopolis, a major centre of worship of the sun god (hence the Greek name) Atum/Ra that was occupied through most of Ancient Egyptian history, and is today located in the outer eastern Cairo suburb of Ain Shams - which is Arabic for 'Eye of the Sun'. The connection between the Greek and modern Arabic names of the city and one of the key points of the documentary involving my manipulation of sun's rays hardly needs to be explained further.

It was courteous of Spielberg, Lucas, and Kasden to change the name of Heliopolis to 'Tanis' in order to obscure the actual site, and avoid the type of looting that I'm sure we would all condemn. And knowing that they've transposed the name of Tanis to the actual site of Heliopolis helps to explain away that gnawing great big plot hole of what an experimental Nazi airplane is doing so close to the British-controlled Suez Canal in 1936. It's actually much closer to Cairo, where British security no doubt welcomed the opportunity to spy on and study the latest Nazi technology.

So all sorted, then.

... should i watch raiders or not? that is the question
i mean if you guys actually have the ark, well

It's on Netflix, if that helps. I haven't seen it either.

[Behaved]

I'm sensing a lot of coronavirus anxiety in NSG - so here's an attempt at an antidote.

This is a thread for posting and discussing nothing but good news, or something that's cheered you up recently. It doesn't need to be national or international news of any particular significance; it can just be something that makes you happy. It doesn't even have to be sunshine, daisies, or lollipops. Come to think of it, in the wrong hands lollipops could be creepy.

Discussion of coronavirus or any topic relating to COVID-19 is specifically banned in this thread (though we'll usually let pass things like 'while I was in quarantine, this really made me smile'; we're happy that something made you smile while you were quarantined). You will also do your best to stay positive and supportive about things that cheer other people up.

(Yes, yes.... I know there's no thread ownership in NSG, but assume that I'm openly abusing my moderator powers in order to help cheer you up; you will be happy whether you like it or not, dammit; if it doesn't work, I'll just lock the thread).

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The Easter Bunny comes hopping by, if you believe in that stuff. I mean, it's Easter and I did Easter eggs.
So, to get us started.....

Last night I watched the film Mindhorn, about a washed-up actor who once played an Isle of Man-based detective with a truth-detecting bionic eye in a terrible 1980s television programme, and has to recreate his most famous role in order to help solve a murder.

It's passingly amusing, but I did really like setting the start of the climactic chase sequence at a deliberately crap island parade; I laughed. It was a rare film of its type where the end of the film was likely better than the opening (though there were good early cameos from Kenneth Branagh and Simon Callow). So for 80 minutes this cheered me up tremendously.

What's cheered you up lately?

[Luminesa]

https://apple.news/AK28kFWPhTCqHabOQ6dodsA

In other news Doubletree Hotels has revealed their once top secret chocolate chip cookie recipe

Here is the recipe for anyone who wants it: https://newsroom.hilton.com/doubletree/ ... kie-recipe

COOKIES!!!

I told y’all I’m gonna be fat when this is over.

[Ethel mermania]

... should i watch raiders or not? that is the question
i mean if you guys actually have the ark, well

It's on Netflix, if that helps. I haven't seen it either.

Well both of you should watch it, it's the story of how mr. And mrs. Arch had met. A true love story, with a little history thrown in.

[Yohannes]

Well both of you should watch it, it's the story of how mr. And mrs. Arch had met. A true love story, with a little history thrown in.

Popcorn time?