Room 101/'Grumpy Old Men' thread

[Marco]

Guys,

This was a popular style of thread on other forums where I used to be a member, so we'll see what it's like here...

List your top pet hates - things that really piss you off in life. Don't hold back either - there are no restrictions on this thread other than what's in our ethos and dictated by common sense

So let's hear all your whinges and moans! I'll kick off my 'Top-10' with:

1) Two-faced people: tossers who are all 'nicey nicey' to your face, but who slag you off behind your back.

2) Horrible people with no manners who are completely disrespectful: ignoramuses who don't automatically treat their fellow man with deserved due respect and courtesy.

3) Ditherers of any description: usually the kind who crawl along everywhere at 30 M.P.H, holding folk back (like me) who are in a hurry, those who take forever to move forward at roundabouts, or people who take ages to do things, such as answer emails, return phone calls, or send things as promised.

4) Self-appointed Traffic Police Officers: wankbags who hog the outside lane on motorways and refuse to move over to let you pass, just because they're doing the legal speed limit, or tosspots who block upcoming closed lanes on motorways 100s (or even sometimes 1000s) of yards before the lane is actually closed, holding everyone behind back, just to stop you zooming past the inside or outside queue and pulling in much nearer to where the lane is actually closed (but not right at the last minute) - this really does my tits right in!!!

I've never known such a nation of orderly queue lovers as Brits!

5) Anything to do with political correctness and those who uphold it - get a life, ya softies!

6) Anything whatsoever to do with politics - nothing is more yawn-inducing boring!

7) People who refuse to even try to control their kids in public places, letting them run riot. If you can't be arsed to bring them up properly then don't have any in the first place!!

8) Scroungers and layabouts, particularly those who ponce money off the State when they could quite easily work, and empty-headed morons who have kids just to claim benefit and fund their worthless, layabout lifestyles (and shell-suit wearing).

9) 'Celebrity' lifestyle magazines and anything relating to promoting what such useless airheads get up to in their private lives, and moronic programmes such as Big Brother.

10) Shit food and service in restaurants, and a 'quantity before quality' mentality. The 'ready meal' obsession, and the general lack of food standards here in the UK compared to elsewhere in Europe.

Now let's hear all about what rips your knitting - and don't be shy!

Marco.

[Stratmangler]

I currently have two bees in my bonnet - the one about rudeness being one. Just look at some of the recent posts elsewhere in the forum by and in response to one of our recently joined members. He's just had a go at Stan now

Member is a term that I think applies particularly well in this case !

The other one, Marco (and this is not a personal go at you, but you raised the subject), is people who tear around in cars as though they own the friggin' road, pissing the rest of us off with their ill considered and downright dangerous manouvres.

I am currently on enforced "holiday" due to another driver paying particular attention (NOT !) to other road users in front of him(me).

And I am currently in recuperation following a serious operation as a result. I just hope that my physical repair is such that I do not have to have a follow up operation of potentially greater seriousness than the first.

The psychological, physical & fiscal distress the incident has caused me so far defies description.

The most annoying aspect of the speeding thing is that if you do the maths the time saved on travelling times is very insignificant - you're talking 30 minutes on a journey from Manchester to London (around 210 miles = 3 hours at 70 mph) on a clear run (in itself extremely unlikely) at 70 mph compared to 80mph.

And the number of drivers talking on hand-held mobiles is rediculous - how often do you see them attempting to perform manouvres which require 2 hands on the wheel, but the phone stays clamped to the ear, and the manouvre is poorly and dangerously executed. FFS, you can get a Bluetooth headset for less than £20.00 in Tesco !

I am going to stop there, as my temper is (justifiably) starting to rise.

Chris

[DaveK]

Hi Marco, Not quite on thread but ......
1) aren't your points 7) and 8) mutually explanatory, certainly 8) answers your closing question in 7).
2) I don't know where I got the idea from , but do you spend a lot of time driving around the country? I used to until abut 5 years ago and I used to hold similar opinions - seems things haven't got any better.
With my tongue ever so slightly in my cheek, could I suggest adding to the list people who ask for comments but get tetchy when they aren't all complimentary? (Ouch!!). But it's perhaps a good job that we are not all alike because, if I were running this forum a certain lingling 'ding-a-ling' wouldn't get to post !
Just trying to be constructive, honest - I fully accept your (Admin/Owners) right to run the forum as you see fit - he who pays the piper.........etc.
Fitting that I should end the post on a Scottish note (piper) eh?
Cheers,

[Stratmangler]

Fitting that I should end the post on a Scottish note (piper) eh?
Cheers,

Don't you mean torturer ?

(Hobbles away laughing to himself..........)

Chris

[Marco]

Hi Dave,

2) I don't know where I got the idea from, but do you spend a lot of time driving around the country?

I used to do that, in the days when I had to 'work hard' to earn a living - now I just 'work smart'

And those types of w*nkers would always get in my way when I used to have about 20-30 customer appointments a day all over Scotland, and my time was limited.

It was always rush, rush, rush, zooming everywhere at 100 miles per hour. I used to work 15-hour days, six, sometimes seven days a week, building up my business.

These days it's very different, as I'm in chill mode now

TBH, I'm semi-retired, having 'made my mark', so to speak, in business before I was 40 (now 43). I'm mortgage free and have no debts whatsoever. Now it's just a case of cherry-picking my clients and taking work on when I feel like it

But I had to work bloody hard to get where I am now!!

Marco.

[John]

Here are a few of mine
People who are rude
People who cannot be bothered to use a zebra crossing if 100m away and those do that with Kids
Mobile phones used as means to listen to music The music is usually pretty bad and sounds shit
Drama kings/queens come on get a life!!!!
Celebrity culture Sorry I refuse to see celebrities as role models
Politics/Spin
People that back stab
People who can only see the worst in everything Come on get a life yes it may be hard but live it
The popular press ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Extreme thinking
Gang culture

[Beechwoods]

Here's my starter for ten

1. Drivers who don't stop at pedestrian crossings, even when they're right outside the Park gates. I'm tempted to walk out anyway and teach the bastards a lesson, but that really would be 'cutting off my nose...'

2. People in front of you who suddenly stop walking to talk to their mate and leave you stumbling over their thoughtless asses.

3. Pulling matches out of the box only to find that the first 3 you try have already been used before and put back in there for safekeeping. Same goes for the 'wrong' knives and forks in the drawer.

4. Slow service at 'fast' food establishments.

5. Surly shop staff.

6. The Daily Mail. I used to read it for a laugh (to see how the 'other side' saw the world) but I found it's overwhelmingly negative world outlook started to infect my brain like a virus! No wonder so many people out there look so grumpy!

7. Politicians in suits.

8. Politicians in suits blaming the system for their fraudulent activities and thieving from the tax-payer.

9. Tan shoes.

10. Warm beer.

[shane]

People who don't take time to stop, look, listen and think.

People who won't spare the time to appreciate the extraordinary beauty of the world that surrounds them.

People who think that business matters more than people, and that their business is more important than anyone else's.

Television programs that spend the first five minutes telling you what they're going to do, three minutes doing it, five minutes telling you what they're going to do in the second half, five minutes of adverts, five minutes telling you what they did in the first half and what they're going to do in the second half, two minutes doing it and five minutes telling you what they did. And they want to give half the license fee to commercial TV to make programmes that are so crap that no advertiser would spend good money being associated with them.

Banks.

George Bush. (Gone but not forgotten).

UKIP.

The Daily Mail.

[aquapiranha]

Wasps

Fair weather freinds

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

TV

Shit music (ie. anything I deem shit..)

Most politicians

Ironing

Animal cruelty

[Joe]

'Reality' TV

People who bang on about 'PC gone mad'

The Daily Mail

Small motorbikes with unfeasibly loud engines.

'Hello' magazine

Cyclists who think traffic lights don't apply to them and that they have the right to ride on the pavement as the mood takes them.

That's about it really. I'm much more tolerant than I used to be!