The grumpy thread

[iainrcz]

My nan ended up like that. Her last night me and my dad sat in her hospital room talking all night, holding her hand. I was there from before 7pm to well gone 8am.

 

The world is full of disgraceful, subhuman filth and my nan had to go through that.

 

Every time I remember that night I can feel this wave of anger welling up.

 

I'm not a violent person but that following morning I could have quite gladly knocked the teeth out of the first person to piss me off.

 

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[artdjones]

From experience,I can sympathize.I'm afraid,also from experience that if he can't/won't drink or swallow it will be a lot quicker than 3 weeks.

[Cheggers]

  On 16/03/2018 at 23:18, artdjones said:

From experience,I can sympathize.I'm afraid,also from experience that if he can't/won't drink or swallow it will be a lot quicker than 3 weeks.

Agreed, my Dad went the same way a few years back only in his case it was MND.

 

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[cort16]

Cortina MOT'd and insured. I just need to tax it all I need to do now is find the log book.

Now where did I put it 3 years ago??

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Just to lighten the mood - IT'S SNOWING, AGAIN!! 

 

Fucking brilliant.

 

I wish winter would just piss off now. It's past the fucking joke.

[dozeydustman]

St Patrick's Day. If I was Irish, I'd celebrate it. I'm not. I have no intention of drinking Guinness and wearing a silly green hat. 

 

In England, none of the other Saints' days are pushed & promoted, so why is St Patrick's day so bloody special? (I'm not sure how well promoted St David's & St Andrew's days are in Wales & Scotland)

[Soap Distant]

WAH WAH WAH WAH! Somebody else apart from me and my gang are having fun.

STOP IT. STOP IT STOP IT. If I can't have fun, nobody else is allowed to have any. Evah.

 

Jeez, I wish some people would just grow up a bit. So what if someone else is having a piss up in honour of some mythical character? If you don't want to, don't join in. Go and sit in the corner and nurse your orange juice until it's all over. There you go. Wasn't too bad now was it?

 

Luckily for the rest of us, we sort of know it's just the irish's excuse of having a good old fashioned piss up - you know, a bit of a blow out. You'll see lots of rosy faced, totally inebriated folks talking shite and then on Sunday they'll toddle off to church to repent on their sins. Apart from the few idiots who take it all a bit too seriously, there'll be little in the way of serious trouble. Having been in the centre of one of the larger the celebrations in the country for a good number of years, I talk from experience.

 

The same goes for any other mythical character people wish to celebrate too. Let them. Make some new friends and join in and you'll find that they're in it to have a bit of a laugh too. Sitting in the corner, not involving yourself and then moaning about those all around who have the temerity to have a smile on their faces seems like we are taking ourselves a bit too seriously.

 

Celebrate st Georges day? Why not? Well that poor bugger seems to have been press ganged into the unsavoury world of Britain first and all the hatred that follows around them like a bad smell. Shame really. I wouldn't mind another excuse for letting my thinning hair down.

 

So in conclusion, get out of the house, enjoy the craic and if you don't like Guinness, drink whiskey.

[fordperv]

  On 16/03/2018 at 23:02, AlabamaShrimp said:

So go on then I'll bring it down a peg of seven from all all these dogs.

 

My mum rang earlier about my dad in hospital. He's got pneumonia. They can fix that but the doctor says if he goes back to the care home he'll probably get it again because he now won't eat or drink.

 

They've tried him drinking and he just won't swallow. He's awake and can sort of talk but they say it's related to the dementia.

 

I can't get the full story as to why (not only is my mum upset but she's thick and doesn't understand) but they are giving him 3 weeks. They won't put a feeding tube in and I'm sure he'd pull one out even if it was straight into his stomach.

 

Pretty sad really as if it were an animal with these kind of problems you'd have it out down.

 

It's a twat of a thing but it'll be for the best in the end. He sort of died long ago and even though it's horrible it's going to be over for both of them.

 

Tbh I didn't post this for sympathy (I'm shit at that) just a 'get it off my chest' type thing. I can't really speak with my mates about it as I have 10 years on them both and they're parents aren't anywhere near as old so they just don't get it.

Shit mate that is terrible, dementia is an absolute bastard of a thing, the worst thing is seeing someone you care for deteriorate in front of your eyes an empty shell of what they were as a person, its not as uncommon as you think for dementia to stop the signal for chewing and swallowing and people become malnourished and dehydrated, its just over a year since my dad passed away and i am glad i was there to see him off, reflecting what iainrcz said the anger is horrible i dealt with it by staying away from the world and blocking everything out, that way i couldnt hurt anyone, the best i can say is enjoy the happy memories you have with him.

 

Remember mr shrimp we are all mates here and no one would think your posting for sympathy so anything fire away at us

[Des]

  On 17/03/2018 at 08:37, dozeydustman said:

St Patrick's Day. If I was Irish, I'd celebrate it. I'm not. I have no intention of drinking Guinness and wearing a silly green hat. 

 

In England, none of the other Saints' days are pushed & promoted, so why is St Patrick's day so bloody special? (I'm not sure how well promoted St David's & St Andrew's days are in Wales & Scotland)

 

I'm sure you'll be made welcome in NI for the marching season.

[dozeydustman]

  On 17/03/2018 at 09:25, Soap Distant said:

WAH WAH WAH WAH! Somebody else apart from me and my gang are having fun.

STOP IT. STOP IT STOP IT. If I can't have fun, nobody else is allowed to have any. Evah.

 

Jeez, I wish some people would just grow up a bit. So what if someone else is having a piss up in honour of some mythical character? If you don't want to, don't join in. Go and sit in the corner and nurse your orange juice until it's all over. There you go. Wasn't too bad now was it?

 

It's not about stopping people having fun, it's the way it's become overhyped and a mass marketed PR vehicle being force-fed to us. Why are the other patron saints' days [largely] ignored? It's the same for other celebrations throughout the year, Christmas, Easter and Hallowe'en are again just massive PR exercises, some kids don't even know what these celebrations originally represented.

 

 

  On 17/03/2018 at 09:25, Soap Distant said:

So in conclusion, get out of the house, enjoy the craic and if you don't like Guinness, drink whiskey.

 

 

I've got Scottish in my bloodlines, so despite being born and bred in England I don't consider myself wholly English. I also have German ancestry. I'm a Heinz 57. I celebrate Burns night and have a wee dram or six on St Andrew's (I don't celebrate hogmanay as it reminds me of a very painful time in my past). I go to Oktoberfest parties and seeing Mrs D in a dirndl is wonderful. You might see the odd advert for haggis in January but I've never seen an advert for a Bratwurst & Pilsner in the tenth month though.

 

These are plenty good excuses for a knees-up.

 

And I drink whisky, not whiskey.

[dozeydustman]

  On 17/03/2018 at 10:18, Des said:

I'm sure you'll be made welcome in NI for the marching season.

 

I'm not interested in an orange hat either, thank you.

[Soap Distant]

  On 17/03/2018 at 10:19, dozeydustman said:

It's not about stopping people having fun, it's the way it's become overhyped and a mass marketed PR vehicle being force-fed to us. Why are the other patron saints' days [largely] ignored? It's the same for other celebrations throughout the year, Christmas, Easter and Hallowe'en are again just massive PR exercises, some kids don't even know what these celebrations originally represented.

And I drink whisky, not whiskey.

And you celebrate Christmas, yes? You may not agree with the commercialism of it all but you still relent and join in in the yearly festival of overindulgence? Oktoberfest isn't commercial to the hilt?

 

So - why single out the Irish?

 

Look, I agree with you in that most anniversaries in the world has just become one giant money making ruse but all these corporations can't stop you from enjoying the party on your terms, can it? You have two options (well, gazillions actually but we live in a black and white world and more than two scares people sometimes) you either sit in the corner all grumpy and never experiencing things that (horrors of horrors) you might enjoy OR just try it, on your terms naturally, and you could meet new friends, gain new contacts or even have a pint of Guinness bought for you (don't worry, just pass it onto someone else who'll drink it, there'll be plenty of folk there who will).

[Cavcraft]

I love dogs, too. If I had a penny for everyone we've taken in, I'd have a pound.

[BavarianRetro]

Very good.

[Royale80]

I know it's the grumpy thread-but talking about German Shepherds-here's mine - Monty from nearly  8 years ago-he was 12 died 6 months later along with Chester the Golden retriever-who's still here and my wife-who's still here.

 

 

Steve

[dozeydustman]

  On 17/03/2018 at 11:10, Soap Distant said:

So - why single out the Irish?

 

I'm not singling out the Irish, the Irish and Northern Irish folk I know are some of the friendliest and most hospitable people in my circle of friends. They have no objections if I don't want to celebrate St Patrick's day. Some of them don't like the way it's been blown out of proportion either.

 

I'm trying to understand why St Patrick's day is singled out to be the world's greatest party and alcoholathon while the other British saints' days are largely left out in the doldrums.

 

 

  On 17/03/2018 at 11:10, Soap Distant said:

And you celebrate Christmas, yes?

 

 

No, I celebrate Yule, Samhain, Beltane, the solstices etc. Monday is Ostara. I'll be having a beer or two then.

[Des]

Non turf botherers celebrating St Paddys is cultural appropriation, racist innit.

[AlabamaShrimp]

It all makes a change from the rest of the year when they call us potato eating thieving pikey scum that love tarmacing old ladies drives while ripping them off or the good old one of 'you're not going to bomb us are you?'

 

 

 

(again for the stupid this is sarcasm)

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

My missis family is all the Irish, they all have to wear something green. Tonight I have stew for dinner that is currently being boiled to within an inch of its life. Yay*.

It was either that or boiled ham... I've got boiled ham tomorrow. (But I'm gonna cook it     ) but, by fuck am I getting pissed tonight and then the obligatory pissed phone call to 'er old man who will be on his back in a pub somewhere in London. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

When there's a diaspora as widespread as the Irish, sure St. Pat's is going to get overdone.

 

I'm still having a drink, but.

[mk2_craig]

I've wasted the day, mainly as a result of drinking too much last night. Haven't felt like eating owt or going anywhere and actually hit the sack again for a few hours due to rough head. Plus I spent a lot more than I wanted. Why do we do it to ourselves?

[Cheggers]

  On 17/03/2018 at 20:27, mk2_craig said:

I've wasted the day, mainly as a result of drinking too much last night. Haven't felt like eating owt or going anywhere and actually hit the sack again for a few hours due to rough head. Plus I spent a lot more than I wanted. Why do we do it to ourselves?

Because fun

 

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[M'coli]

Because it seems like a good idea at the time?

[mk2_craig]

I suppose what I spent on alcohol yesterday has been offset a little by what I haven't spent on food today.

[Cavcraft]

It's always a good idea, especially at weekends.

[Captain Furious]

I was concerned I wouldn’t get my usual Friday night drinks in due to needing to be at work at 8 this morning. Turns out just go to the pub early doors, have the usual quota and get an early night, brand new in the morning.

 

(In actual fact, I didn’t get there for 8, I woke up at 6:30 to the alarm and negotiated with myself that I’d get there at 9 instead)

[bramz7]

Having a nice time in Lille, but something quite frustrating happened earlier this evening:

 

The local urchin children have discovered that if they distract tourists they can cancel their Metro ticket transaction on the self service machines, which as it transpires causes the unfortunately simple machines to swallow the money said tourist has inserted. Bit shit if you've put in a €10 note instead of a single coin.

 

The other half was quite upset about it but I've explained we now know not to bother at night, and that losing €10 to a machine is better than one of the kids stealing our phone or worse. I also explained that teaching them a lesson would probably have got us into deeper issues...

 

Otherwise a nice enough city.

[Saabnut]

Sat in a field gateway in the middle of nowhere awaiting the participants of a road rally. This is the second and last time control I am doing. There is a full blown blizzard and we are running 20 minutes late as the opening car blew its turbo because Audi. This means 20 minutes less drinking time at the pub at the end, but I cannot drink anyway as I still have a 10 mile drive home in the snow. Bah!

[MarvinsMom]

winter can just fuck...... right ....... off!

 

had wind, lots of wind, rain, sleet, snow and more bloody wind today.

 

and its been cold, so very, very cold.

 

so no playing with the mini this weekend cos its just so bloody cold.

 

at least we've got the new boiler in and working at home.... and just in time!

[captain_70s]

I have to work, on a Sunday. Outside looks like this:

 

 

I cannot be aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarsed.