When the dish soap makes bubbles in the air. Magical every time. I am over half a century in years and that is still unfailingly delightful.
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Absolutely. I've tried to figure out how to force it to happen, but it's never the same. It's an organic whimsical moment of tiny little bubbles and it always makes me feel like a little kid for just a moment
Unpolished and sincere obscure YouTube vids. The kind where someone is clearly passionate but is doing it solo and in one take, warts and all.
100% agree.
And insanely underrated passion channels with excellent quality stuff (looking at you, Down from the Attic!)
Seeing a random cat outside.
I have four cats. I see a cat roughly once a minute, because there is always a cat.
But seeing a random other cat brightens my day.
Obscure keyboard shortcuts.
This is the one. My favorite was the alt-ctl-arrow to flip the monitor direction
We did this so many times in elementary School on school computers. Teachers has no clue on how to fix it ๐ . Great times
Windows Shift S
You'd like Linux, GNOME has some great obscure compose key shortcuts and Vim would keep you entertained for years.
Vim is sorcery: you choose mystic incantations from your eldritch knowledge on the fly and suddenly your text is doing exactly what you want.
Vim user chiming in. I love it
I've used, administered and coded on Linux for a very long time. So yup
I used to have vim-mappings for opening a browser with RickRoll triggered by a typo I used to make a lot. Fun times.
If you are on windows, try Ctrl+Windows+Shift+Alt+L ๐ You won't regret it (spoiler: you will)
That is the most ridiculous and random "shortcut" ever. I love it.
It's actually an office key + L, but the office key is only on a few keyboards and they mapped it to ctrl+alt+shift+win, so it works even without it. here is a hilarious discussion about implementing it in KDE Plasma on Linux.
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My turn signal once was in sync with a car opposite of me.
I have tried for almost 30 years of driving, no luck
Little kids concentrating, like 2-3yo. When they are just about to "get" something, and they know it.
It is really cool to see.
Small wordplay and rhymes that come to mind from time to time
Stepping on single fallen leaves on the sidewalk. I'm also more disappointed than I should be when they are not crunchy.
That smell you get after a summer rain in the forest. Everything just seems to be so alive.
I was out for a walk the other day, and fuck me if the leaves weren't beautiful. Near sunset, moody dark clouds letting through some low light reflecting off green, yellow and red. View to the water. I tend not to notice that sort of thing too much, but it was so nice I started going "hey, is there something in this water?" and regretting not bringing the camera.
Towel warmer
Unfathomably silly
The smell of a new book.
oh man. there's my drug from back in the day.
Or old books! I just love the smell of books in general.
Seeing a rainbow in the sky. I know it's just sunlight refracting through the water droplets but it is so gorgeous. I still get like the dude from the double rainbow video years ago because I still feel that way.
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When trees look like things. There's one near me that looks like a camel... or a cow, depending on how you look at it. There's also one that looks like an AT-AT that got it's legs tied up, and is falling face-forward
I myself don't consider it silly, but non-hug hugs (what you see here might come to mind). I even wrote a mini-essay on them because I could, which itself is imbued with the same idea.
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Hotel mini soap bars
Farting. I enjoy a long fart, at the end of it I feel so relieved and sometimes dizzy. It's silly (atleast to my gf)..
As a card-carrying member of the IBS community, I see you.
My dog manically rubbing his face all over the carpet as soon as he gets in the house or is let out of his crate. It's so silly and I love it!
My dog pooping towards the end of our walk
Or just before you leave, even better.
My girlfriend
Tiny squishy Gudetama toys. I have one on my desk.
You know the sound that wobbly sheet metal and other wobbly materials make?
Yeah. That. I saw a video of it on Instagram and it gave me a huge arse smile.
When someone says "thanks"
Brushing and flossing my teeth.
Four stroke exhaust fumes combined with the smell of freshly cut grass.
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