[Misc] Cheery Stories- 2025 Edition

[Is it PotG?]

 

[bhafc99]

I think us Brits are good at it too. Take the simplistic nature of some of the place names in Australia. My favourite is 'Lake Disappointment' One can only imagine that after a two or three days hike, and bereft of water, the explorer was rather miffed to find the place had ran dry.

Just be grateful you weren’t there when he discovered Cape Horn.

 

[Eeyore]

Today's cheery news. Well done those surgeons

'One-of-a-kind' girl born with heart outside chest has pioneering surgery

Vanellope, now seven, undergoes more surgery to reconstruct a "cage" around her heart, using her ribs.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[pearl]

The Germans do like a literal translation. I am sure Bat is Fledermaus, which is flying mouse.

The French word for Paperclip is Trombone ..
What a cool language

 

[Weststander]

This guy from Sussex, Marcos Jarvis, beat terminal stage 4 liver cancer. Doctors had said that he had just months to live, there was no cure. I only found this story this week when he was interviewed on R5 from 1:25:20.

5 Live Drive - 21/04/2025 - BBC Sounds

A round-up of the day's top news and sport with Chris Warburton and Eleanor Oldroyd.

www.bbc.co.uk

https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/sussex-man-defies-the-odds-to-beat-cancer-and-take-on-epic-african-run-for-charity-3664365

 

[Eeyore]

Storks migrate back to conservation project at Knepp estate

At least six birds born in West Sussex in 2024 are back in the county after migrating to Morocco.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Skuller]

The Germans do like a literal translation. I am sure Bat is Fledermaus, which is flying mouse.

And a “glove” is “Handschuh” (hand shoe).

 

[Bodian]

And a “glove” is “Handschuh” (hand shoe).

Speedlimit is "Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" Which translates literally into something like 'how quickly you can go within the performance area boundary'

 

[Anger]

Speedlimit is "Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" Which translates literally into something like 'how quickly you can go within the performance area boundary'

What is Fixed Penalty?
(for exceeding the speed limit)