The grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

18 minutes ago, Spurious said:

Farmers don't get about half as much praise as they deserve in this country. Watching your livelihood go up in smoke. 

Never hear anything about them on the 10pm news on BBC/ITV etc. 

My aunt is a farmer.  Used to be dairy, now does beef on a much smaller scale.  Having spent a few summers as a teenager on their farm and helping out when they were short-handed, I can attest a bit to how bloody hard it is.  Getting up at 4.30AM to milk the herd of 350 for three hours, then thinking about the prospect of doing that three times every day before you even get into doing the 'other' stuff that needs doing on the farm puts it into a bit of context.  I reckon everybody should do a week of it just for the experience.

And if you take a holiday, you have to pay somebody else to cover you, assuming they know what they're doing.  And weekends don't exist.

It was great being down there as a kid as my cousins and I used to have free reign of hundreds of acres of North Devon with rivers and woodland and the like but doing the actual work?  Sod that.

[sierraman]

It’s amazing they can get anyone to become a farmer, it looks bloody hard work. Its not all leaning on gateposts and ploughman’s lunches in the local hostelry. 

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

It’s amazing they can get anyone to become a farmer, it looks bloody hard work. Its not all leaning on gateposts and ploughman’s lunches in the local hostelry. 

when I was young I used to mess around with a mate whos dad had a pig farm nearby , got to know the workings of that side of farming !!

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

14 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

CDs how decadent, I'm still on cassettes.

Currently playing in the Micra a cassette I recorded via the built in microphone on a cassette recorder in '94 off a VHS video playing thru a shite CRT TV , music videos from a programme called Noisy Mother's, on a TDK cassette that I had lots of from 1987 , a shite quality home made compilation tape that I only got half way through recording the A side of a c90 cassette. What a faff😕

I'm a posh bastard. 10 CD changer and autoreverse cassette with track seek...

But anyway, got some cassettes that I need rid of, yours for postage depending on what ones you'd like.

[sierraman]

8 minutes ago, MikeR said:

when I was young I used to mess around with a mate whos dad had a pig farm nearby , got to know the workings of that side of farming !!

 

My great grandmother bred pigs, I think in those days to do that on the small scale they did you had to have the right attitude and be a bit unsentimental. You’d look at the pig as a cheque perhaps or enough meat to see you through the winter. You wouldn’t be giving it a name, at some point you were going to have to slot one in its head and return your investment. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 hours ago, Spurious said:

Farmers don't get about half as much praise as they deserve in this country.

It's probably the same everywhere. I have long wondered what it would take for farmers to get the respect they deserve. Without them we would all starve to death more people should think this.

[Back_For_More]

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

at some point you were going to have to slot one in its head..... 

You are an old Etonian AICMFP

[mitsisigma01]

4 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

got some cassettes that I need rid of

Best set up a pm or a new thread .... don't want to upset any Karen's with cross-threading 😭😭

[Datsuncog]

22 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

It's probably the same everywhere. I have long wondered what it would take for farmers to get the respect they deserve.

Grow hops?

 

 

[sierraman]

 

[somewhatfoolish]

6 hours ago, sierraman said:

My great grandmother bred pigs, I think in those days to do that on the small scale they did you had to have the right attitude and be a bit unsentimental. You’d look at the pig as a cheque perhaps or enough meat to see you through the winter. You wouldn’t be giving it a name, at some point you were going to have to slot one in its head and return your investment. 

  

On 7/19/2022 at 8:40 AM, MikeR said:

I find having a white car in this weather quite useful , wont have another black car after the one we had in the past was like an oven in the sun ..

Wrap the roof white, bonus points for having a car that's easily spotted in the supermarket car park. One of those nerdy sunshades for the windscreen are a good idea too.

[MikeR]

6 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

  

Wrap the roof white, bonus points for having a car that's easily spotted in the supermarket car park. One of those nerdy sunshades for the windscreen are a good idea too.

the 240 was white , and despite that , it would get lost in a big car park , so it had a long whip aerial on the back and I put  plastic carrot at the top , never lost it again , it could be seen a good distance away , only down side was multi story car parks , it went around the buildings roof space like you were driving a bumper car ...

[andyberg]

Whilst waiting for my train I decided to use the gentleman's facilities at the station. Isn't it amazing how quickly most of us slip back into the old ways?? During covid just about everyone washed their hands after leaving their waste behind, whether water or solid. Now it seems there is no point🤢 aren't we a disgusting species generally.

[cobblers]

18 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Whilst waiting for my train I decided to use the gentleman's facilities at the station. Isn't it amazing how quickly most of us slip back into the old ways?? During covid just about everyone washed their hands after leaving their waste behind, whether water or solid. Now it seems there is no point🤢 aren't we a disgusting species generally.

In the business center where my workshop is there's a conference room, and they were holding an "accountants convention". I was in the loo having a slash while someone was passing a series of very vocal solids in one of the stalls. 

As I was drying my hands, the bloke walks straight out of the stall, out of the loo and I followed him into reception where he immediately shook the hands of about half a dozen fellow accountants.

I bit my tongue, but in hindsight I wish I hadn't 

[Lacquer Peel]

21 hours ago, sierraman said:

It’s amazing they can get anyone to become a farmer, it looks bloody hard work. Its not all leaning on gateposts and ploughman’s lunches in the local hostelry. 

There are farmers then people who own farms who call themselves farmers and make other people work for them. 

[twosmoke300]

I would imagine those have still done their share of graft when younger . 

[wuvvum]

34 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

I would imagine those have still done their share of graft when younger . 

Oh, definitely*.

[Spurious]

8 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Oh, definitely*.

He's done a lot more to raise the profile of farmers than years of countryfile has ever done. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Since we have been into farming here, I will share this below. This is some of what is happening in the western world now and is unsure whether to laugh or get angry at how stupid politicians are. Politicians and the green movement could possibly end up starving us all to death. And this is just some of everything that is going on.

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

12 minutes ago, Spurious said:

He's done a lot more to raise the profile of farmers than years of countryfile has ever done. 

Agreed. I went right off him after the whole #smacktheproducerinthechopsbecauseimanarroganttwat thing. However, Clarkson's farm is extremely watchable and Clarkson doesn't come across as such a bell end for a change. It's definitely an eye-opener. 

[Datsuncog]

It's funny, there's a few TV personalities who come across as abject wangdoodles while on air, but are apparently quite pleasant people in real life (according to a friend who spent quite a few years working in TV in That London).

The reverse is also sadly true, I'm told - cuddly avuncular on-air personas, but shrieking foulmouthed divas once the cameras stop rolling.

[Dan29]

 

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

cuddly avuncular on-air personas, but shrieking foulmouthed divas once the cameras stop rolling.

Yup. I found it was safest to assume they were all divas, and then be pleasantly surprised when the odd one turned out not to be 😉

17 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Wrap the roof white, bonus points for having a car that's easily spotted in the supermarket car park. One of those nerdy sunshades for the windscreen are a good idea too.

Or wrap the bonnet white and travel to Cardiff to operate as a taxi.

[paulplom]

6 hours ago, andyberg said:

Whilst waiting for my train I decided to use the gentleman's facilities at the station. Isn't it amazing how quickly most of us slip back into the old ways?? During covid just about everyone washed their hands after leaving their waste behind, whether water or solid. Now it seems there is no point🤢 aren't we a disgusting species generally.

I was in cost co a year or two back drying my hands in the bog when a member of staff flushed in a cubicle and walked straight out. Dirty bastard I thought and followed him where he turned right into the kitchen area and started serving pizza.

I told my partner who went ape shit and called for the manager. I felt a bit guilty as he'd know it was me that grassed him.

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

I was in cost co a year or two back drying my hands in the bog when a member of staff flushed in a cubicle and walked straight out. Dirty bastard I thought and followed him where he turned right into the kitchen area and started serving pizza.

I told my partner who went ape shit and called for the manager. I felt a bit guilty as he'd know it was me that grassed him.

Given faecal coliform is a leading source of food poisoning you shouldn't feel remotely guilty, people die from it and scutters not washing their hands is one source.

[hairnet]

found out classics on the common in harpenden is on this week

due to medical (bastard) and the trains (cnuts) i cant ride the bike

no wai id car it down - never get parked anywhere near it

'sake

 

[Remspoor]

Aeroplanes.......... Holy smoke.

Noticed the fire some fire hours ago and it was burning before we noticed it. Still have planes and helicopters buzzing around. Thankfully the wind is not coming this way and there is still around 2 km distance.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Most younger people today are not interested in history and want to erase it, I have heard this before. And that may be true. This happened in Norway now a transport company scrapped its first truck and brags about it on Facebook. If I have to guess, their grandfather bought this new in the 60s, if it couldn't be saved, then it could just be put on display and show respect to him?

[High Jetter]

1 minute ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The younger people today are not interested in history and want to erase it

All of them? I thought you were, well U30 at the most.

[Dyslexic Viking]

5 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

All of them? I thought you were, well U30 at the most.

These were not quite the right words. Have changed it to most of the young. I hate words, And I'm older than 30 if thats what you saying?

[High Jetter]

Yes, I thought you were younger.

How can you hate words - "words are all we have..." Etc etc