The Grumpy Old Git thread.

[LadyArowana]

OMG guys!!! I think we all need a group hug.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Hugs everyone xxxxxxxxxxxxx

This is such a boy thing, girls don't get upset by stuff like this. What bothers us is a) boys not loving us enough b) boys loving others c) boys not listening to us talk for at least 5 hours a day

 

[Feltwell]

Girls, please...

The pleasure is in being Grumpy. (The other 6 dwarves don't appeal as much).

Although if a hug is on offer, I wouldn't say No. :wink:

:roll:

 

[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?

only if you have a good old grump about it.

I have, for the last 7 months, while the people who are supposed to be dealing with it show absolutely no sense of urgency, and I run out of money and slowly go mad :evil:.

 

[JohnB]

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

They annoy me too. I do it in the last minute :evil:

 

[LadyArowana]

Hugs everyone xxxxxxxxxxxxx

This is such a boy thing, girls don't get upset by stuff like this.

ROFL and can you imagine if men had to have babies? and all the other associated girl stuff?

 

[LadyArowana]

Girls, please...

The pleasure is in being Grumpy. (The other 6 dwarves don't appeal as much).

Although if a hug is on offer, I wouldn't say No. :wink:

:roll:

Feltwell

 

[Feltwell]

Aaah, bless!!!


:wink:

 

[robgil]

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

They annoy me too. I do it in the last minute :evil:

i normally wait until 30 seconds , no later just in case i get a slow patch on my connection , that really peeshes me off. your just about to bid and your connection freezes or computer crashes. oooh!
it doesn't really matter though , no doubt 3 bidders will all have a little private bidding war within the last three seconds.

another thing that really roasts my beetroot is e bays hidden bidders identity policy , its like they want you to bid on your own auctions. damn you e bay! you used to be such a good little bargain basement with fun and excitement!! now you are nothing more than a cheap twisted little two bit auction site with your nasty little hidden bidders identity policy and your perverted little private auctions that no one can see bidders names in , damn you!!!!

 

[robgil]

aww bless.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

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

They annoy me too. I do it in the last minute :evil:

People who bid too early on eBay items and drive the price up unnecessarily (and unsually then disappear when the price goes above their pre-determined limit).

Why can't they wait for the final few seconds like normal people? :wink:

Americans*.

And Socialists.

Especially socialists :wink:

There is a great group on Another Site dedicated to revoking the Declaration of Independence because our colonial cousins are making such a poor job of governing themselves. It's a hoot. Americans (and I can say this because I am, I'm afraid to say, 1/4 American WW2 GI ) take everything far too seriously (except of course the proper rules of grammar, spelling, punctuation and syntax of English).

 

[philpjuk100]

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

They annoy me too. I do it in the last minute :evil:

i normally wait until 30 seconds , no later just in case i get a slow patch on my connection , that really peeshes me off. your just about to bid and your connection freezes or computer crashes. oooh!
it doesn't really matter though , no doubt 3 bidders will all have a little private bidding war within the last three seconds.

another thing that really roasts my beetroot is e bays hidden bidders identity policy , its like they want you to bid on your own auctions. damn you e bay! you used to be such a good little bargain basement with fun and excitement!! now you are nothing more than a cheap twisted little two bit auction site with your nasty little hidden bidders identity policy and your perverted little private auctions that no one can see bidders names in , damn you!!!!

You can use one of the free "snipers" to put the bid on in the last ten secs, that pi**ses other bidders off and you can pretend you are not "cheating"

 

[Merlin]

People who fill up in the Petrol Station - go and pay and then come back to their car and get in and then do any or all of the following before moving forwards so I can get to the pump to fill up:

1) Check their make up in the mirror
2) Check their hair in the mirror
3) Get back out of the car to check they have shut the petrol flap
4) Start filing their receipts in their purse - see previous grump by Penners!
5) Start handing out sweeties to their kids
6) Start handing out drinks to their kids
7) Start telling off their kids
8 ) Decide to change the CD in the CD player
9) Decide to change all the CDs in the CD Autochanger
10) Start a conversation on their mobile
11) Adjust their seat
12) Adjust their mirrors (having moved it after doing 1) or 2))
13) Start Programming the Sat Nav
14) Fail to be able to engage first gear and find reverse
15) Wait at the pump because they want to check their tyres and there is someone else parked by the air line
16) Scan the newspaper they have just bought
17) Eat
18) Drink
19) Decide they need the loo and head back in to the shop
20) Decide they have forgotten to buy something and head back in to the shop
21) Kiss their partner and say "hello" (you have only been to pay for your fuel - wait until you get home for your hanky panky!)
22) Start coochie cooing the baby

I think that covers the main points.....

Hugs - Merlin

 

[philpjuk100]

Folks,who when the get to the till and have had everything "bleeped" and bagged look suprised when the have to pay for it! rummaging through bags and pockets for cards or cash.(Why does everything have to bleep?)

 

[philpjuk100]

There is a great group on Another Site dedicated to revoking the Declaration of Independence because our colonial cousins are making such a poor job of governing themselves. It's a hoot. Americans (and I can say this because I am, I'm afraid to say, 1/4 American WW2 GI ) take everything far too seriously (except of course the proper rules of grammar, spelling, punctuation and syntax of English).

Went to a show in a pub in manchester in the 60s compared by Bernard Manning,He asked if there were any of our "american cousins"from burtonwood(USAF base)present,when this was confirmed he said"there is a jap on the front row maybe you could ask him about pearl harbour!"

 

[Feltwell]

There is a great group on Another Site dedicated to revoking the Declaration of Independence because our colonial cousins are making such a poor job of governing themselves. It's a hoot. Americans (and I can say this because I am, I'm afraid to say, 1/4 American WW2 GI ) take everything far too seriously (except of course the proper rules of grammar, spelling, punctuation and syntax of English).

Years ago at University, before email and the Internet, I used something called JANET - the Joint Academic Network. The techies on here may laugh at this but it seems to me with hindsight that it was sort of a forerunner of the Internet as we know it today - you could send messages over it and there were forums, mostly academic in nature but some were interest-related and one was for the motorbike I had at the time.

JANET was populated largely by Americans - and one day someone posted that some shifty looking "black dude" (their words, not mine) was standing next to their bike - not actually doing anything - so the poster went outside and threatened him with his gun, at which point the man concerned walked away. Lots of Americans - and bearing in mind this is an academic forum so they are presumably intelligent, well-educated Americans - promptly reply to voice their approval for this, until innocent 19 year-old me replies to say "Isn't it rather over-the-top to point a gun at someone for just standing there?".

Hence I found out the meaning of "flamed" as used in forums. The Yanks were very, very upset that anyone even dared to very gently ask if pointing a gun at someone for "looking a bit shifty" is a proportionate response. I have to agree with FW, they do take everything far too seriously.

 

[wobs]

Checkout operators in W H Smith who offer me special deals on enormous bars of chocolate, when I'm buying a newspaper.

CO: "Would you be interested in our special offer on Cadbury's Dairy Milk?"

Me: (mentally) "yes of COURSE I'm interested. It's chocolate isn't it? But do I LOOK like the sort of person who has room in his waistband for yet another bar of chocolate?"

Me: (viva voce, coy smile, teeth-marks in tongue) "Oh, no, thank you - I mustn't must I?"

Quite agree.

Although mentally, I'm thinking something rather more colourful in language.

Internet connection at home. People may moan in the sticks, but at least they generally have a choice. We citizens of the KC dictatorship (otherwise known as Hull) must use their over priced service or be damned.

Shop assistants who try to put single items in a plastic bag, even when I have stated I don't want one. This in a shop that is about 20 yards from my house, and so visit frequently, so you'd think they'd at least twig that no, his hands are working fine. However, the look on their faces when they tried to claim they were free, and I pointed out that there is no such thing as a free plastic bag in a shop, was a picture to behold.

 

[Schoolmarm]

I can't remember any of the things that make me cross.


Don't put emoticons anyone.

 

[AMc]

People who get aggressive and impatient when I've finished filling up and I'm waiting for my partner to come back from the shop having paid - despite this being quicker than filling up and going in afterwards - they get their knickers in a twist that the engine isn't running for a Le Mans style start as soon as the handle hits the pump

Having worked a forecourt I know it's a pain if people start moving off the pumps without paying as you generally can't authorise the pump again until you have cleared their payment and you often have to start grabbing their plate in case they're "doing a drive off". I suspect that the car being a supercharged MINI convertible is part of the problem with the lack of patience.

In my (cough) professional experience people on forecourts behave like idiots - my favourite drove in saw the filler was on the wrong side so drove around the end of the pumps and came back the other way - same problem. Got in AGAIN and went round once more. Having again failed to grasp that the filler would still be on the outside the driver shook their fist AT ME and drove off, clearly we'd equipped the station with pumps that only worked on one side. Even back in the 1990's pump hoses were long enough to reach across almost any car - the person was driving an original mini :roll: :lol:

 

[another_richard]

Relating to property;

Vista, Realise

Buy to Let Landlords particularly the Social Housing lot who do not vet their tenents = skum and should be put to the sword

Shareholder parasites

Maggie T (not for the 222s)