Room 101/'Grumpy Old Men' thread

[Marco]

people who cross the road and stare at you as you approach them

Bahby,

That's your fault for going out in that lemon and cerise tutu and high-heeled shtrappy shandles!

Marco.

[alb]

1. Shell suits.

2. Slobs who walk around public places drinking cans of beer.

3. Groups of people who hold lengthy conversations in the middle of the footpath, or supermarket aisle. Especially those who get shirty when you walk straight through em.

4. Dog shit on pavements.

5. Shopping with women.

6. People who do the "school run" in enormous 4x4s. When a hatchback would do.

7. Loud music in cars that sounds like someone trying to escape from a sealed dustbin.

8. Those who ring up at dinner time, usually from far away places, and start a sales pitch in some barely identifiable language.

9. Self importance.

10. Those whose lives revolve around greed and status.

[aquapiranha]

Bahby,

That's your fault for going out in that lemon and cerise tutu and high-heeled shtrappy shandles!

Marco.

Hehe you have me bang to rights...

I mean the ones who stare at you as they are daring you to run them over...one day, I will.

[DaveK]

6. People who do the "school run" in enormous 4x4s. When walking would do everyone better.

10. Those whose lives revolve around greed and status. You mean capitalists, particularly those whohave a dual role as poiliticians (eg. Blair and Bush) and senior Bankers. !

Cheers,

[Barry]

6. People who do the "school run" in enormous 4x4s. When a hatchback would do.

7. Loud music in cars that sounds like someone trying to escape from a sealed dustbin.

8. Those who ring up at dinner time, usually from far away places, and start a sales pitch in some barely identifiable language.

Yeh, Right on!

[shane]

And another thing....

People who insist on using sexual innuendo at every opportunity. Nudge Nudge Wink Wink know what I mean schmoosie?

Yes I do know what you mean, now f*ck off and irritate somebody else.

[Steve Toy]

1) Chav scroungers.

2) Coke heads

3) Absolutists

4) Reductionist-objectivists

5) Socialists

6) Apologists

7) Bureuacrats

8) Liars

9) Cheats

10) Bullies/megalomaniacs.

[Barry]

Not sure if I ought to post here as I’m becoming too much of a grumpy old man as it is, but Marco you have invited contributions, so here is my list:

1. Most things ‘Made in China’ – usually badly made, unreliable junk.

2. Junk mail.

3. Tele salespeople who phone you as you are about to sit down to eat.

4. ‘Blow ins’ in magazines that fall out on the floor.

5. Publicans who don’t know to use cask jackets and let their ale become too cold.

6. Litter louts who seem to follow the dictum ‘out of sight out of mind’ and are too bloody lazy to keep their crisp packets, takeaway packaging or drink’s cans until they find a litterbin. Instead they either drop the litter when they have finished with it, or stuff it into the bushes or hedge of someone’s garden.

7. Cats who defecate in gardens other than their owners – usually mine. And dog owners who, having gone to the trouble of picking up their dog’s faeces, can’t be bothered to find a ‘dog poop’ bin and so simply drop the bag and its contents on the way side.

8. Lorry drivers who indicate as they pull out to change lane.

9. Drivers who leave moving out of a blocked lane to the last minute.

10. Expanded polystyrene as a packaging material. Will take years to biodegrade and the fragments are difficult to sweep up.

11. People who prefix your number with 141, so you don’t know who called.

12. People who abuse the welfare state and think the world owes them a living.

13. Mealy mouthed apologists for the creeping surveillance state who state: ”If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”.

14. Those who, having realised that we have made a total mess of this planet, think the easiest solution is not to rethink their lifestyle but to go out and colonise the Moon and other planets. Don’t they realise that we don’t own the planet, rather we are supposed to be looking after it for future generations?

15. The EU and the oppressive CE regulations, and for foisting the 16A (!) Euro plug on us.

To provide a counterbalance to some of the dislikes proposed by other members I’ll add:

Royalists
Unquestioning empiricists

And some of my (probably obvious) pet hates

Religious zealots
Apologists for totalitarian regimes

Oh, and finally

Being repeatedly asked to ‘log in’ on AoS during a lengthy session.


Phew – rant over! I think I had better put on some calming music and open a bottle of wine.

Regards

[Beechwoods]

Oh, and finally

Being repeatedly asked to ‘log in’ on AoS during a lengthy session.

Which browser are you using, Barry? Grab yourself the latest version of Mozilla Firefox and see if it cures your issue with involuntary logouts. I recently moved to Firefox and it is streets ahead of all the other browsers I've used, including Apple's own Safari.

[Barry]

Which browser are you using, Barry? Grab yourself the latest version of Mozilla Firefox and see if it cures your issue with involuntary logouts. I recently moved to Firefox and it is streets ahead of all the other browsers I've used, including Apple's own Safari.

At the moment BT Yahoo Broadband. I do have Mozilla Firefox. Should I try typing 'AoS' into the Firefox search engine and then store in 'Favourites'?

Regards