The Grumpy Old Men whingeing thread

Surely to offer meat to the needy is the height of good manners. Share and share alike, I say, if you can persuade anyone to agree with you! Fredrik

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Surely to offer meat to the needy is the height of good manners. Share and share alike, I say, if you can persuade anyone to agree with you! Fredrik

Fredrik,

You are, of course, quite correct and I am pleased the forum has taken on a new moral slant of late.

ATB

Erik

GM

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Hi David.
Connections failures?

No, just seemed like grumpies way to do things.

... and people who never check whether fruit is ripe or not before bagging it up and popping it in their trolley.

... and the fact that we now have baskets, normal size trollies and, for goodness sake, "XL" size trollies; which are about the size of a bath tub on wheels.

At least modern trollies are relatively easy to steer. One less thing to grumble about I suppose.

/dl

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Originally posted by David Legge:
... and people who never check whether fruit is ripe or not before bagging it up and popping it in their trolley.

Ok, I was in a major US electrical retailer the other day, and it occurred to me just how much energy is being used to run one of these places daily, just to fuel our desires for entertainment. Everything is switched on, 60-100 TVs, 10s of computers, games consoles etc etc. Enough, surely to power a street full of domestic houses, and this was just one store!

And we're allegedy running out of energy resources.

What price this rampant yearning for more and more toys?

Will we ultimately need to return to a more modest existence in order to protect diminishing resources?

Phil

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Originally posted by David Legge:
At least modern trollies are relatively easy to steer.

Trolley sizes are insignificant compared to the ignorant individuals who use them, totally oblivious to the inconvenience they cause to others by stopping without warning in the centre of an aisle for a chat with Mavis about last night's episode of Eastenders.

But I suppose that this lack of consideration (allied to a total absence of peripheral vision & muscular coordination) is excellent preparation for causing mayhem on the roads on the way home ....

Speaking of roads, how about "lollipop ladies" who contribute to rush hour gridlock by stopping traffic to allow a single child to cross the road, instead of waiting 30 seconds for another half-dozen to arrive & herding them across in a group ?

Or the crazy priority given to slapping fixed penalty notices on vehicles without tickets in Pay & Display carparks, whilst ignoring cars which are causing an obstruction to pedestrians & other motorists by parking on double yellow lines & 2 feet from a road junction so that their owners can nip into the corner shop for a packet of fags & The Sun ?

Oh ... & those "Easy Pour" milk cartons which squirt all over when you tear off the foil seal .... & then dribble onto your trousers when you try to pour the first few millilitres into your mug.

Yep - I've just done it !

I Have size 13 feet and shops that sell 'cool' shoes and trainers offer me a size 10. I ask them for a sharp knife to cut my toes off........then go to Next and squeeze into a pair of size 12's. Vanity over functionality.

Feck



The Diccus

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Originally posted by paul_g:
Oh ... & those "Easy Pour" milk cartons which squirt all over when you tear off the foil seal .... & then dribble onto your trousers when you try to pour the first few millilitres into your mug.

Yep - I've just done it !

Yeah well in Canada that stuff is called HomoMilk* so count your blessings.

*Allegedly short for 'homogenised milk' but I wasn't risking it last time I was in Toronto.

I'd like to whinge about being a grumpy old man.

One minute I was young, vibrant, in love with the world and thinking that it was designed around me, the next I was whingeing on a forum about box junctions and 'Marathon' being called 'Snickers'.

How did that happen?

A grumpy old man.

Not long now and you'll be tucking your vest inside your underpants.

Well it stops your vest from hanging out and looking a mess...........and your jumper!