Room 101/'Grumpy Old Men' thread

[Beechwoods]

I'm surprised about that, Barry. Do you get an error message before you're logged out? Having AOS as a Favourite won't affect the logging out issue. Does it happen when you're writing a very lengthy post? PM me if you want to talk it through further!

[Mike]

In no particular order...

* Bitterness

* Laziness

* Pomposity

* Smugness

* Management Speak - Those pompous smug fuckers that repeatedly use phrases like 'Taking a helicopter view', 'Blues sky thinking' and 'Delivering the synergies' etc etc - Arseholes!

* Dumb shites who drive a car through one of our mux cabinets and cause 40 grands worth of damage meaning I have to stay up all night fixing it in the bouncing rain. Again!

*Dick heads - This is a vast topic beyond the scope of this little rant.

* Fast food joints that show a picture of some huge sumptuous looking offering but actually serve up a tiny flaccid piece of crap that you wouldn't feed to your dog. Pretty much most of them!

Oh sod it, I'm going to stop before I 'go off on one'! <wanders away growling>

[Spectral Morn]

CAPITAL GAIN TAX .....thieving, lying murdering government.


Regards D S D L

[DaveK]

CAPITAL GAIN TAX .....thieving, lying murdering government.


Regards D S D L

Hi Neil,
You're amonst friends here - why are you so reluctant to let us know how you really feel? - don't hold back, tell us what you really think !!
Cheers,

[Spectral Morn]

Hi Neil,
You're amonst friends here - why are you so reluctant to let us know how you really feel? - don't hold back, tell us what you really think !!
Cheers,

Hi Dave, thats the heavily edited/self moderated version .....I am sure splendid rendition still happens, I wouldn't want to just vanish.....


Regards D S D L

[Puffin]

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

You can sense them in the inside lane. You are in the middle lane doing about 80 and it is a game of just keeping ahead of them enough to close them down as they hurtle towards the slower moving car. Twats.

[DSJR]

I'm now old enough and know myself well enough (I think), that I don't have any right to complain about my fellow man's shortcomings on the road, in government or otherwise, as I've committed many of these errors in the past. I truly cringe when I look back and some of the wrongs can never be put right....... Don't feel angry at fellow human beings, they more often than not don't know and you might find that just one or two are aware of the ways they've pee'd off another and will endeavour not to do so in future

Marco, I used to have to experience a truly agressive driver on my 20 mile trip to work in the eighties. He drove a Seat Ibiza "Brio" (whatever that version was) and he caned it mercilessly, cutting other drivers up in a hugely dangerous manner. It seemed he lived on adrenalin and needed the thrill and "rush." by this time, I was a member of the IAM and tried to keep a distance between myself and everyone else, a situation he took advantage of regularly

If I have a current gripe, it's with Microsoft and the bloatware that is Windows!!!! I've just been given a write-off mid-noughties laptop which came with all the discs. the trouble is, the XP disc was version 1 (pre SP2) and it's taken a week to properly download all 200 or so updates and service packs, as sometimes one lot went in too soon and wouldn't load. Doing a "System Restore" means starting over etc etc...... I think we're finally stable and instead of the constant distraction of getting this one right, I can now finish off my college essay on the other PC I use....

[Joe]

Can I just add:

People who bang on at length in an internet forum about something that pisses them off (immigrants stealing all our jobs, speed cameras being a sign of creeping Nazism or somesuch) , then ends with 'of course, you can't say that any more'.

Yes you can; in fact you just did, mate!

[Beechwoods]

Bus drivers who wait at every stop because they're 'early'

[Marco]

Buses... What are those? I haven't been on public transport of any description in about 10 years!

I hate the inconvenience and like to be in control of where and exactly when I travel, so it's in the car for me, full-stop. I know what you mean, though

From my vague memories of using buses, I would add ones that go from A to B via Z... I.E, all round the houses, turning a journey that would take 10 minutes in the car into half and hour or more, just to pick up some shell-suited chavs in God-awful, miles from anywhere, housing estates!

Marco.