The Grumpy Old Git thread.

[robgil]

people who refer to their or someone elses home/house as a 'property' , ooooooh , and especially if they go all posh when they say 'property' and pronounce it 'poperty' or even worse 'pwoperty' , boils my urine , it really does.
nyaaaaa!

 

[robgil]

oh and before i forget , those £$^&*%$£ £$%"£$%^& who leave carpark dents in the side of my car , oooooh! words could not completely describe the intensity of the boiling of my urine that these £$%^%$ inflict on me. the side of my saab is pitted and dented so badly , ooooh , i think , oooooh aaaaargh oooooh i am going to oooooh , arrrrgh!!!!!!! :twisted:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

People who think having their holiday extended by a volcano followed by a coach trip to a ferry port is a "complete nightmare".

No it's not - a "complete nightmare" is when your whole family is gunned down in front of you by a drug-crazed psychopath. Having a few unexpected extra days in the sun is a pleasant departure from the norm.

Similarly, living next door to someone who has an untidy garden is not a "complete nightmare", nor is getting the wrong coffee in Sh1tbucks. Or the fact that you can't buy decent fresh pasta on a Sunday on North London.

Personally I find people people who overestimate the trials and tribulations of their mundane and pitiless existences, a complete nightmare.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

People who say viva voce when I think they mean sotto voce. :wink:

Alternatively, people who correct me for incorrectly pointing out their viva voce mistake! :wink: :wink:

 

[robgil]

people who flick their fag ends out the window of their cars , oooooh!
do they not have an ash tray in their car? can they not use it? what do they do at home? do they flick their fags out their living room window?
do they not realise that cars run on petrol , a very very highly flammable liquid? oh , but so long as they dont have to empty an ash tray once a week then its ok.
ooooooh!

also , people with little or no taste , or just pure bad taste. i know its not their fault but it does bother me , it really does.

 

[Feltwell]

James Blunt.

 

[robgil]

did he sing that 'i float like a gammon oooooh' ?

 

[Feltwell]

people who flick their fag ends out the window of their cars , oooooh!

Try riding a motorbike - these inconsiderate, litter-lout cretins are throwing small lighted missiles at you. I had a fag end get trapped in the cuff of my glove once.

 

[robgil]

did he sing that 'i float like a gammon oooooh' ?

sorry , i beg your pardon , that was Damien Rice.



Gammons dont float Damien , they dont float! And stones cannot teach you anything Damien , anything!

 

[Feltwell]

Cars with lots of fluffy toys on the parcel shelf.

Give them a wide berth. Fluffy toys = Fluffy mind.

Being Grumpy is such fun. It's so much fun, it's difficult to get grumpy about it.

 

[robgil]

people who flick their fag ends out the window of their cars , oooooh!

Try riding a motorbike - these inconsiderate, litter-lout cretins are throwing small lighted missiles at you. I had a fag end get trapped in the cuff of my glove once.

ive often wanted to pick it up , follow them to the next set of lights then flick it into their car saying 'look , you dropped something' ,
we dont have any lights out here though, and they would probably be much bigger than me anyway.

 

[JohnB]

people who flick their fag ends out the window of their cars , oooooh!
do they not have an ash tray in their car? can they not use it? what do they do at home? do they flick their fags out their living room window?
do they not realise that cars run on petrol , a very very highly flammable liquid?

Someone once broke down outside my parents house. I was out there helping, when someone drove up, got out and came over to ask for directions, with a fag hanging out of his mouth. I've never seen anyone move so fast when we told him the petrol tank had a leak :lol: :lol: :lol:.

 

[Feltwell]

Color - no, it's "colour".

Gray - no, it's "grey".

And if you like cars.....

Tire - in the automotive sense it is in fact "tyre".

Trunk - that's what an elephant has. Your car has a boot.

Fender - you're not learning are you? That's a brand of guitar or something to stop you damaging your boat. Your car has a bumper.

Hood - now that's something that Little Red Riding Hood wore. Your car has a bonnet.

Americans :roll: They really can ruin a perfectly good language :wink:

 

[JohnB]

Does being lied to by the previous owner of your house, and his solicitor not sending you an important document (probably by mistake) related to that lie, and you wouldn't have bought the house if you'd known about it, qualify you to become a GOG?

 

[Horace]

Intolerance.

Autem vos absolvo.

(as Penners would say).

 

[Flyfisher]

I was going to say Castrol GTX, but somehow Castrol R suits the "Old Git" theme better

Ahh, the smell of methanol and Castrol R in a racing two-stroke . . . 'greener' than GTX as well, being based on castor oil.

 

[Flyfisher]

Americans :roll: They really can ruin a perfectly good language :wink:

Their geography is not much better either: http://www.theonion.com/video/nation-of-andorra-not-in-africa-shocked-us-state-d,14211/

And what about "world series" baseball?

 

[Feltwell]

Use of Latin phrases, when English will do perfectly well.

(Only coz I went to a skummy skool that dont do posh stuff like Latin, init).

 

[robgil]

Does being lied to by the previous owner of your house, and his solicitor not sending you an important document (probably by mistake) related to that lie, and you wouldn't have bought the house if you'd known about it, qualify you to become a GOG?

only if you have a good old grump about it.

 

[robgil]

last 3 seconds bid in an e bay auction e bay bidders , they really do hack me off. :evil: