The grumpy thread

[Markeh]

Pretty sure the only two posts I put on social media during my last holiday were to acknowledge the shiteness of the hire car and to point out I was okay after being twatted by a jetski.

[omegod]

13 hours ago, Pieman said:

  I thought the point of a holiday was to fuck the rest of the world off for a week or two and relax and enjoy yourself?

Me and the wife are on our last day of a week in the Canaries, fuck all has gone on social media and we've barely spoken to anyone whilst here, I don't do holiday friends as you risk having Roger and Pauline from Wakefield stalking you for the entire time 😄

 

[wuvvum]

On 9/18/2022 at 10:34 PM, cobblers said:

TLDR: Queens dead, sorry if you're upset but objectively she did absolutely sod all to help or even interest 99% of the people in the country so people are all going to have different reactions to it than you have

Appreciate you have a chip on your shoulder about the royals chief but I think your figures are a bit out there, given that more than half of the planet tuned in to watch the funeral.

[cobblers]

2 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Appreciate you have a chip on your shoulder about the royals chief but I think your figures are a bit out there, given that more than half of the planet tuned in to watch the funeral.

To be fair I am one of these "not a big fan of em but they pay for themselves with tourism" lot, and honestly it's not the royals themselves I have much of a problem with.

I'm just totally flabbergasted that in 2022, as a supposedly democratic, developed nation we reacted to the totally unsurprising death of a 96 year old woman that none of us had ever met in the way that we did. My issue is with the media (and to an extent the public) rather than with the royals themselves. They're just bags of blood and guts, the same as me or you and they deserve no more or less respect than any of us.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I didn't mind the Queen but I've taken to describing it as 'National Mourning for an Organised Crime Boss'.  Because that's how they became Royalty in the first place...

[wuvvum]

9 minutes ago, cobblers said:

I'm just totally flabbergasted that in 2022, as a supposedly democratic, developed nation we reacted to the totally unsurprising death of a 96 year old woman that none of us had ever met in the way that we did. My issue is with the media (and to an extent the public) rather than with the royals themselves. They're just bags of blood and guts, the same as me or you and they deserve no more or less respect than any of us.

It has been a tad over the top in my view as well.  The thought of queueing for 24 hours to spend a few seconds filing past a coffin is beyond me.  She obviously meant a lot to a large proportion of the population though, and if it makes them happy to show their respects in whatever way then who are we to argue.

As for the media, they are damned if they do and damned if they don't really.  If they'd reduced their coverage there would have been an outcry from the hardcore royalists, of which there are still a great many.

[mitsisigma01]

As much as it is good that they gave her a good send off but to change programming on obscure tv channels when all the big channels are covering it does seem a bit much .

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[meggersdog]

Had a car in this morning and the owner says there is a noise at the back and he has been told it's just the brake backing plate rubbing. Get the car on the ramp and the flexi hose is leaking on the side the noise is coming from. Jack the car up and sure enough there is a noise from the backing plate. Had a new set of pads fitted six weeks ago due to a similar noise so when they phoned to say the noise is back less than a week later that is what the garage told them. The garage had the car for two whole days just to fit some brake pads. It took me less than two minutes to find the old worn out brake pad wedged between the disc and backing plate that they hadn't noticed.

One of my regulars came in this afternoon and I told him. He is a workshop manager and said the problem is when you bollock staff they don't turn up for work the next day. Happened to him today, bollocked a member of staff on Saturday and he didn't turn up for work today.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

It has been a tad over the top in my view as well.  The thought of queueing for 24 hours to spend a few seconds filing past a coffin is beyond me.  She obviously meant a lot to a large proportion of the population though, and if it makes them happy to show their respects in whatever way then who are we to argue.

As for the media, they are damned if they do and damned if they don't really.  If they'd reduced their coverage there would have been an outcry from the hardcore royalists, of which there are still a great many.

250 000 people passed the coffin. That’s about 0.3% of the population.

[fairkens]

4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Appreciate you have a chip on your shoulder about the royals chief but I think your figures are a bit out there, given that more than half of the planet tuned in to watch the funeral.

There is no way that statistic is accurate. Half the world was asleep at any one time (and not just those watching on telly) A chunk of the rest would have been at work/other monday obligations. It wasn't a holiday anywhere else.

Global viewing figures nearer 500 mil max imo

[Spurious]

Before I went on holidays, I had a brainwave to secure the Audi. Locked it up on the driveway, stoplock on and I removed the distributor rotor arm. 

Except when I went to start it today, I've completely forgotten where I've put the rotor arm. 

I swear I must be near getting Alzheimer's. Bollocks.

[wuvvum]

32 minutes ago, fairkens said:

There is no way that statistic is accurate. Half the world was asleep at any one time (and not just those watching on telly) A chunk of the rest would have been at work/other monday obligations. It wasn't a holiday anywhere else.

Global viewing figures nearer 500 mil max imo

Where are you getting the 500M figure from?  2.5 billion people apparently watched Diana's funeral live, and that was before live streaming on the internet was a thing.  Plus there are more people now than 25 years ago and the Queen was more significant than Diana.  The 4 billion estimate doesn't seem unrealistic to me.

[fairkens]

'Apparently' being the operative word

Half of the world's population lives in Asia, China, India, Phillipines, Thailand etc. If any more than 10% of them tuned in for old Queenie's send off it would be astonishing. Why would they givvatug?

Not even half of Brits watched it and it was in our timezone and we had a day off for it

One for the More or Less boffins

[artdjones]

It doesn't mean they watched the whole thing right through. It went on most of the day, didn't it. I wouldn't be surprised if that many tuned in for an hour.

[HillmanImp]

50 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Where are you getting the 500M figure from?  2.5 billion people apparently watched Diana's funeral live, and that was before live streaming on the internet was a thing.  Plus there are more people now than 25 years ago and the Queen was more significant than Diana.  The 4 billion estimate doesn't seem unrealistic to me.

There were only 1.47b households with televisions back in 2010, probably significantly less whenever Diana died, I know there might be more than 1 person watching the telly but 2.5b seems like bollocks surely? 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268695/number-of-tv-households-worldwide/#:~:text=Data on the global television,surpass 1.8 billion by 2026.

I've just googled this and it's what came up, I'm not standing by it if anyone has better info. 

[cort1977]

How are those TV viewing figures arrived at?  Look up how they are calculated in UK and you will see it's essentially a tiny survey that's extrapolated to be applicable to the whole country.  So hardly rigorous.  Now think about how that data would be collected in Afghanistan or Zambia.

So any figures like this should be taken with an entire mine's worth of salt.

Also, for the people who believe 'royals bring in tourists', check out the most visited country in the world.  Turns out it's France, and we all know what happened to their royal family... 

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, cort1977 said:

Also, for the people who believe 'royals bring in tourists', check out the most visited country in the world.  Turns out it's France, and we all know what happened to their royal family... 

Although the most visited tourist attraction in France is the (former) royal palace of Versailles, so it's still sort of true. 

[Supernaut]

2 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Although the most visited tourist attraction in France is the (former) royal palace of Versailles, so it's still sort of true. 

In the same way that art is more popular after the artist is dead, royal palaces are more popular after the royal family is dead?

[Chas4545]

In the "does anyone really care" department, the Louvre is the most visited french attraction, by some margin, mostly dead peoples work.

The best thing to visit imho is Puy de foue. By live people. Utter madness.

[barefoot]

50 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Although the most visited tourist attraction in France is the (former) royal palace of Versailles, so it's still sort of true. 

I visited the royal palace of Versailles by accident. I was tying to get off the ring road & head south but there I was, in my camper amongst the bin lorries at dawn.

[Timewaster]

On 20/09/2022 at 13:06, mitsisigma01 said:

As much as it is good that they gave her a good send off but to change programming on obscure tv channels when all the big channels are covering it does seem a bit much .

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It was great watching stuff like Yesterday and the like with no adverts.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Timewaster said:

It was great watching stuff like Yesterday and the like with no adverts.

The blank 3 minutes instead of ads was much worse. Mind you given 50% of ads seem to be for funeral plans these days, it would have been a bit tasteless , although SunLife could have changed their ad to “ A magnificent funeral, but you won’t be so lucky having the state pay for yours…….”

[sheffcortinacentre]

The royals bring in the tourism , if your in the principality of London.

Everytime Sheffield council has another scheme to waste money/bring chaos to the city they role out the "it,ll bring in tourism/ benefit the residents line.

Witness student games,supertram,Euro cup,etc,etc.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

The royals bring in the tourism , if your in the principality of London.

Everytime Sheffield council has another scheme to waste money/bring chaos to the city they role out the "it,ll bring in tourism/ benefit the residents line.

Witness student games,supertram,Euro cup,etc,etc.

Every other night on Border TV  there’s a new scheme announced to “attract more tourists” to the Lake District. FFS the place is over crowded as it is. The other favourite topic is proposed schemes to restrict holiday lets there!?

[High Jetter]

34 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Every other night on Border TV  there’s a new scheme announced to “attract more tourists” to the Lake District. FFS the place is over crowded as it is. The other favourite topic is proposed schemes to restrict holiday lets there!?

'Bordering' on insanity!

[sierraman]

13 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

The royals bring in the tourism , if your in the principality of London.

Everytime Sheffield council has another scheme to waste money/bring chaos to the city they role out the "it,ll bring in tourism/ benefit the residents line.

Witness student games,supertram,Euro cup,etc,etc.

I guess the folks in Hyde Park flats benefitted after the student games, they were reclad for the event I think. Sheffield City Council are nuts with money anyway, round us they’ve replaced the rooftops on all their houses, there wasn’t anything wrong with them they just had some money spare, instead of using it wisely they reroofed the cities housing stock...

[Bren]

The BMW has developed a squeaky aux belt.

New one duly purchased. Sadly somebody has been there before me - they have broken part of the tensioner off where you locate your star bit.

[Wack]

You put your phone number on a car ad and all you get is arseholes 

Just had a call 

Hello I'm calling about your life insurance and a possible shortfall 

OK which life insurance policy , which company 

We work with various companies 

OK but which company am I with 

I don't have that information 

No you wouldn't because you're a thieving scamming cunt now fuck off 

I wonder if they record calls for training purposes, I'll be on the really pissed off don't call again list 

 

[High Jetter]

Laughter for the last bit, not the obnoxious spam attempt.

[warch]

21 minutes ago, Wack said:

You put your phone number on a car ad and all you get is arseholes 

Just had a call 

Hello I'm calling about your life insurance and a possible shortfall 

OK which life insurance policy , which company 

We work with various companies 

OK but which company am I with 

I don't have that information 

No you wouldn't because you're a thieving scamming cunt now fuck off 

I wonder if they record calls for training purposes, I'll be on the really pissed off don't call again list 

 

The trick is to string them along and start wasting their time.