The grumpy thread

[saucedoctor]

Police heli up again, rattling our windows. That'll be due to the Scum of the Earth down the road up to their tricks again, then. This is the time of year when these fuckers demonstrate their loyalty to HM The Queen by throwing bottles at her uniformed services.

 

Wankers.

[Junkman]

Arse. Forgot about that. Mind you, I'll only be there for a week, then hopefully Belgium will be warmer upon my return

 

It'll be pissin rainin in Belgium, as always. Most rained on spot in Yeerup.

[meshking]

Oddly, even I'm getting in on the diet thing. Watched Dr Michael Mosley and his fasting diet thing on the Beeb last night. Eat what you like for five days a week, eat a quarter of your usual intake two days of the week. I had breakfast this morning, and an apple this evening. I am bloody hungry, but apparently getting to this state makes your cells repair themselves or something like that.

 

I do actually need to lose a bit of flab. I find this rather depressing as I've never considered myself a weight watcher. Even Mrs DW is thinking about doing it and her usual approach to the idea of caring about her weight is to throw a fit and spread more butter on her food. Weight loss is an interesting concept when we've never owned scales, but it's more about just trying to feel nicer and hopefully be a bit healthier.

 

I'm looking forward to breakfast tomorrow though!

I did the five two diet last year, it worked well for me. I don't recall what I lost in weight but I found that in lost a few inches from my waist and a lot of my clothes were too small.

 

I also took up running which worked well too, trouble was that you're supposed to reduce your calorie intake to 600 calories on the two days. That was tough to start with! Then I found that the other days where I could eat anything I simply didn't want to. My stomach shrank, so I was not eating a "normal" meal until the Sunday (my fasting days were Tues and weds). I've put some of the weight back on, but my waist is still smaller than before. I can still wear the new jeans I had to buy because the old ones kept falling down, needed a new belt too.

 

I only stopped because it stopped me sleeping, and with three kids under five running riot in the house I need to get sleep!

 

I need to do something now but I'm thinking it should be more of a lifestyle change than a radical diet, which would give me more chance to keep slim.

[burraston2006]

The only changes I've made are cutting out the caffeine- Typhoo caffiene free bags aren't too bad and changing sugar for canderell. I've also started to go swimming three times a week. Not lost any weight but the moobies have firmed up and no longer touch my knees!

[trigger]

I really should diet, I've got a right old tub on me now, my t shirts don't fit me like they used to either and it does pass me off but working shift work and being a lazy bastard who likes his food really doesn't help and I haven't got the will power to diet.

 

I weighted myself yesterday for the first time in 2 years and I've put on nearly a stone, I'm now 15st 1lb. 😢

[Station]

Just go walking everynight for an hour.

[Caffiend]

My former GP was very dismissive of "ladies problems" as a result of which I have a fibroid (affectionately* known as Ripley Junior) the size of a 6 month pregnancy and acute proximal DVT. I'm carrying at least a couple of stone because of these two things, it's depressing

 

Generally, I worry about whether I fit into my clothes (I don't at the moment, should after recovery from hopefully imminent operation) rather than my actual weight.

[The Moog]

Got to a point last year where i needed to do something, so started a couch to 5k run. Admittedly it was in Thailand and i started running on the beach at sunrise

 

From a year ago when 1 minute running killed me, i have now done a sprint triathlon - got a duathlon in two weeks and two more tris over next 3 months.

 

Still a porker so started weight watchers online last week. First week lost 4kg. Pretty easy as you can eat what you want within points, plus get a weekly treat stash of points. It has meant i could have beer during world cup. Also veg is free.

 

Having a goal helps. I know the lighter i am the faster/easier triathlons will be.

 

Plan is Olympic distance next year and potentially half iron man year after. I would also like to complete an ironman once in my life.

 

its a stretch but then doing my first run last year i would have never thought could do a triathlon in under 2 hours.

[chaseracer]

It'll be pissin rainin in Belgium, as always. Most rained on spot in Yeerup.

 

And this from a man who lives within gobbing distance of Manchester...

 

[Gerald]

Police heli up again, rattling our windows. That'll be due to the Scum of the Earth down the road up to their tricks again, then. This is the time of year when these fuckers demonstrate their loyalty to HM The Queen by throwing bottles at her uniformed services.

 

I surveyed part of Navan Fort, just outside Armagh about ten years since round this time of year and went out on the piss one night round town - that was an eye opener!

I've never seen so many police in one place and shit mysen when the drums started as I thought first off that they were gun shots...

No violence that we saw but there certainly a 'bit of an atmosphere' in a couple of the pubs we went in when the locals heard our english accents.

 

Wankers.

[Gerald]

Bloody phone.

[Junkman]

And this from a man who lives within gobbing distance of Manchester...

 

 

And used to live within gobbing distance of Liege for a decade.

Besides, it rains less in Manchester, than in Rome - PHAKT.

[Junkman]

Bloody phone.

 

Bloody true.

[cms206]

The raffle find 850's stereo wiring... grrrrrr.

[Pillock]

You should ask for your money back.

[Rocket88]

If you want to shed the pounds, i can strongly recommend dramatic pancreas shut down as a spiffing way to achieve instant weight loss. 1 1/2 stone in 11 days............mind you, the side effects tend to cramp your social life a tad............

[jakebullet]

Went to play spot the steam loco trundling up the mainline game. Tried a new location in a wood, n got nettled / attacked by ants. Said loco didn't turn up due to being broke so all for nothing. Did see the vulcan flying off though, so not a total loss.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I've found in the past a lack of money is an excellent diet. Which will go well for me seeing as I was fired yesterday

[brickwall]

I take it you are glad to be fired from this place?

[DVee8]

If you want to shed the pounds, i can strongly recommend dramatic pancreas shut down as a spiffing way to achieve instant weight loss. 1 1/2 stone in 11 days............mind you, the side effects tend to cramp your social life a tad............

I like the cut of your jib mate.Another quick fix is a burst appendix just over a stone in 2 weeks not recommended for all.

[drum]

After my bout of pancreatitis a couple of years ago, I thought about marketing the IV drip diet only to discover someone else had got there first.

http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2008/09/health-controversy-the-iv-drip-diet.html

[AlabamaShrimp]

I take it you are glad to be fired from this place?

Oh yes! Moneys always nice but so is not being pissed off every day

[chaseracer]

Tried a new location in a wood, n got nettled / attacked by ants...

 

O RLY?

 

You think we're going to believe that 'steam loco' excuse?  This is AS, mate; you are Stan Collymore AICM£5...

 

[ProgRocker]

Why are a high proportion of very modern Audis driven by angry people?

 

Is it something to do with it being a fairly plain looking car and drivers need to do something to make others look? Or is it that 'gaping mouth' chrome grille?

[Bobthebeard]

Why are a high proportion of very modern Audis driven by angry people?

A cocktail of adrenaline, coffee, energy drinks, peer group pressure, imaginary deadlines, massive amount of debt, being a shouty sort of person generally, supports Manchester United, wears long shorts in winter, has a massive trampoline in the tiny rear garden of the neo Georgian detached ( that he cannot really afford ) on a new estate, has two Labradoodles and a tiny fluffy dog, walks about in the drive shouting into mobile phone for half an hour, has young children with trendy names who 'do my head in'....... Etc.

I could go on.... But my ex next door neighbour knows who he is. Angry man in A5.

Lol.

[ProgRocker]

A cocktail of adrenaline, coffee, energy drinks, peer group pressure, imaginary deadlines, massive amount of debt, being a shouty sort of person generally, supports Manchester United, wears long shorts in winter, has a massive trampoline in the tiny rear garden of the neo Georgian detached ( that he cannot really afford ) on a new estate, has two Labradoodles and a tiny fluffy dog, walks about in the drive shouting into mobile phone for half an hour, has young children with trendy names who 'do my head in'....... Etc.

I could go on.... But my ex next door neighbour knows who he is. Angry man in A5.

Lol.

 

Oh dear Bob - a bit too close for comfort eh? Your description pretty much sums up my preconceptions of them.

 

Got tailgated by an A5 2 door because I wouldn't overtake the cyclist on a bend. I did so safely after a few seconds and then he followed suit (leaving a fag paper's width betweem him and the cyclist) and then tailgated me again. He got the middle finger and he backed off a bit. Obviously a very frustrated middle aged man whose premium badge car with a 2.7 TD engine and personalised numberplate doesn't give him a contented life.

[Lankytim]

The local kids are pissing me right off. 

 

Some may remember the Romanian family who live a few doors down, they have three young boys living there, The eldest who is about 10 is great but the younger pair who are around 6 and 7 are right horrors. If I'm doing ANY kind of work on the driveway, garage or in the garden they turn up and generally make a nuisance of themselves. Picking up tools and walking off with them, climbing on cars, throwing stuff about and basically making me stop work every 2 minutes to tell them to behave/shut up/go away e.t.c.

 

I lent them my daughters football the other day, in the hope they would piss off and play elsewhere. They booted it against the neighbours car a few times and kicked it into the road, where it presumably was run over or something.

 

My neighbour is on the verge of killing them both with his bare hands in cold blood, what they are doing is basically typical of young boys of that age but it's getting to the point where it's beyond a joke. I mowed the lawn the other day and ran over and destroyed the Allegro's ashtray which one of them had removed and thrown into the garden.

 

No adults in their household speak English, the eldest son speaks pretty good English but the annoying younger boys either speak very poor English or pretend they don't understand when I tell them off. I really need to speak to a grown up in their house to tell them to fuck off and leave me alone when I'm working.

 

The whole situation is MEGA ANNOYING.

[Bobthebeard]

The car park outside Marks and Spencers/Costa/Vets in St Annes.

If you ever feel the desire to be made really angry check it out!

The dimwittery of the thing is on an almost industrial scale...

[sporty-shite]

The car park outside Marks and Spencers/Costa/Vets in St Annes.

If you ever feel the desire to be made really angry check it out!

The dimwittery of the thing is on an almost industrial scale...

I might have caused anger on there a while ago by eating fiah and chips whilst sitting in a recovery truck loaded with a crusty Porsche and parked across a couple of spaces. I'm sure someone in a Q7 tried to give me a dirty look!

[Bobthebeard]

The local kids are pissing me right off. 

 

Some may remember the Romanian family who live a few doors down, they have three young boys living there, The eldest who is about 10 is great but the younger pair who are around 6 and 7 are right horrors. If I'm doing ANY kind of work on the driveway, garage or in the garden they turn up and generally make a nuisance of themselves. Picking up tools and walking off with them, climbing on cars, throwing stuff about and basically making me stop work every 2 minutes to tell them to behave/shut up/go away e.t.c.

 

I lent them my daughters football the other day, in the hope they would piss off and play elsewhere. They booted it against the neighbours car a few times and kicked it into the road, where it presumably was run over or something.

 

My neighbour is on the verge of killing them both with his bare hands in cold blood, what they are doing is basically typical of young boys of that age but it's getting to the point where it's beyond a joke. I mowed the lawn the other day and ran over and destroyed the Allegro's ashtray which one of them had removed and thrown into the garden.

 

No adults in their household speak English, the eldest son speaks pretty good English but the annoying younger boys either speak very poor English or pretend they don't understand when I tell them off. I really need to speak to a grown up in their house to tell them to fuck off and leave me alone when I'm working.

 

The whole situation is MEGA ANNOYING.

Hmmmmm.

Yes. Your annoyance is totally understandable! A 'problem' that many of us face. Complicated beyond belief!

Our next door neighbour is a Polish lady who has lived in the house for 20 odd years. Speaks perfect English etc. Lovely lady. House and garden kept immaculately. She is often pestered by the local English kids who chuck stuff into her garden and generally try to amuse themselves because she is different. The kids never bother us at all.

People only need the slightest excuse to be horrible.