The grumpy thread

[dugong]

Wouldn't have happened in a 2cv. [/fanboy-deux]

Least that's a proper Citroen, unlike my faux-307 and the fan-boy alien blood specials [runs].

[DS20]

Did anyone read Sam Glovers thing in Practical Classics about his P38 Range Rover? I think he took it on, on a "all the rumours can't be true" basis. But if ticked everybox on the P38 melt down index.

I've been tempted by these myself even given everything i've read about them. Not any more!

 

Mine's a (late) classic, not a P38 - I was too scared to buy one of those  To be fair to it, this is the Range Rover's first proper FTP in all the years I've had it, and I think that it's the original starter, which isn't bad going after 20 years and 157,000 miles.  

[purplebargeken]

Fucking hateful Parkinsons and dementia. It has reduced my elderly neighbour and friend to a shell of what he was. He now struggles to speak properly, can't walk without help and, oh fuck it. I'm filling up and am so bloody angry. Sorry for those of a religious disposition but really? Why would shit like this be allowed to happen if there was a so called caring god?. Fuck, fuck, fuck!!!!!

[dugong]

Fucking hateful Parkinsons and dementia. It has reduced my elderly neighbour and friend to a shell of what he was. He now struggles to speak properly, can't walk without help and, oh fuck it. I'm filling up and am so bloody angry. Sorry for those of a religious disposition but really? Why would shit like this be allowed to happen if there was a so called caring god?. Fuck, fuck, fuck!!!!!

Lost one grandparent to dementia and it's related-but-not-quite-the-same-and-definitely-worse handmaiden, Alzheimer's. Used to help at a music workshop for sufferers and it was one of the most heart-rending things I've ever encountered. A lot of folk struggle to remember why they're there, but play them a song from their prime and they can sing it back to you, word for word.

[dollywobbler]

I do a lot of community work with elderly folk. Dementia is properly distressing. Watching the effect dementia has on other people (like spouses, relations, neighbours) is even more so. Is this what we get for our bodies lasting so long these days?

[dugong]

I do a lot of community work with elderly folk. Dementia is properly distressing. Watching the effect dementia has on other people (like spouses, relations, neighbours) is even more so. Is this what we get for our bodies lasting so long these days?

I think Roger Daltrey had the right idea.

[Bren]

My uncle had dementia - he had been a brickie before retiring.

 

Even in his 60's he could still do it and was superb.

 

It reduced him to somebody who kept getting lost and could not recognise his own family.

 

Now my mate's mother has it - she may well need to go into care at some point.

 

I cannot imagine anything worse - for me, I would sooner go out like a light.

 

On top of a stunning female.

[HillmanImp]

I think Roger Daltrey had the right idea.

 

I cannot imagine anything worse - for me, I would sooner go out like a light.

 

On top of a stunning female.

 

That would actually be John Entwistle........

[MrDuke]

It's an evil, evil disease. I really can't even begin to imagine what it's like for people whose partners fall victim to it. I think for me, the (probably brief) moments of lucidity would make it even worse, preventing you from properly saying goodbye to the person they were. I should probably put a clause in my will, asking to be shot as soon as I stop recognising people.

[Albert Ross]

Pick's disease killed my Dad. I saw him on his last Birthday, I drove from Doncaster to near Newmarket, When I got to his place, he was outside, waiting for me. I walked up to him, wanting to give him a big hug, and he asked if I had seen his Son. Apparently I was visiting him that day, and I was late. (I was about an hour early) I took him shopping, parked the car up for the weekend, and took him for an almighty piss-up. I think we had about 9 pints a piece for Lunch. Went to his place for tea, and munched on a massive pile of home cooked chips. Slept the afternoon away, and went for a walk to his allotment. And then to the Pub. For another dozen of Greene Kings finest. I didn't touch the car until VERY late the next day. In the year before he died, I never saw him again. Within 6 months of seeing him, he was moved into a specialist care home. He went from a handsome 6'7" gentleman, to a withered little man with zero memory, no speech ability, or social skills. Within another 3 months he was bed ridden. A week before his Birthday, he died. At his funeral, we had an old friend play Widor's Toccata, and he was taken away in a Princess Hearse. Yup, this was 2005. In the pub afterwards, I was given free beer in his glass. It resides in pride of place in my Pint Glass cupboard. I'll never see him again, but I have great memories of a wonderful man who taught me loads about beer, pork pies, and crap cars.

[Cavcraft]

My parents have it (dementia, that is) and it's not pleasant. One thing I will say though is that there are a lot worse things out there, not limited to terminal illnesses etc.

I hate seeing them as they are, my dad is far worse than my mum, but at least he's quite happy in his own little world, even if he is mostly oblivious to his family and general surroundings. I think I'd rather be like that that have some other things, I have to say.

[The Moog]

It's the same as going up and offering to walk the dogs and getting told no thanks, a local one did this to me and the mrs.

I worked at a horse sanctuary last year because local doggie places didn't need me. Really enjoyed it and even did it on Christmas day.

 

Dont even particularly like horses but learnt lots, was really hard work and had a laugh. Ask around there are always places that need help.

[gm]

I slipped on the ice this morning and landed heavily on my arse - I don't think my neighbour was too impressed when I shouted "FUCKING BOLLOCKS" in front of her two year old !

 

I made up for it later by helping to clear the ice off her drive - OMGICEKAOS

[Pillock]

Yeah, there was no reason to shout that!

 

It was your FUCKING ARSE that you hurt, that kid's going to learn the wrong words for things if you're not careful.

[gm]

'Tis true, me pods were fine

[fordperv]

I do a lot of community work with elderly folk. Dementia is properly distressing. Watching the effect dementia has on other people (like spouses, relations, neighbours) is even more so. Is this what we get for our bodies lasting so long these days?

Dementia is a sad thing, i worked for 5 1/2 years in an emi care home, it's enough to make the toughest person get a lump in their throat, I'll always remember this one chap whose passion before becoming ill was working on and restoring cars in his spare time he had photo albums full of cars he had, I spent many an hour talking to him about them.

[cms206]

WOMAN_CMS is a special needs nurse working in an advanced dementia unit in a carehome... dunno how she does it.

[cms206]

While I remember, have any of the English annexes of the SVM been fixing their bricks of late? My 940 has decided that it likes the lambda light to be on all the time and it reckons that a reasonable warm idle speed is 1450rpm with a hint of misfire. I obviously think opposite but can't be arsed to starting shouting at it, so I'm sitting watching shit on YouTube and shouting at the Haynes manual instead.

[phil_lihp]

New tyres. Sorry.

[DS20]

I replaced the filthy air filter on the Lolvo, but I don't think it was me, honest, 'coz the Range Rover's starter motor went just afterwards.

[AlabamaShrimp]

My dad has something like dementia. Being a traditionalist Irish man he decided to drink very heavily (well more then normal) after a small break down when he was 70. This did something to him that made him forget everything. It got better when he stopped driving but no one knows what's actually happened.

 

It does saddened me that his life of fixing cars (mainly bodywork) has all but slipped away. From being some one that has been a painter for the rolls Royce and Mercedes, plus two of his own garages, he now couldn't even tape up a window. He can't even pass on what he knows as things just seems to be melting together

[bub2006]

Regards dementia,it can be destroying. I am a care worker in a residential nursing home. A lot of residents have dementia ranging from more common Alzheimer to lewy body,vascular and korsikoff syndrome. As it is quite local to me and have a friend who lives 2 minutes away from there I know two people in there. One chap has korsikoff through drink. He was a strapping man in his younger days. Hired muscle so to speak and bare knuckle boxing. His family dont bother with him now and he can not stand up and can only eat soft foods. If he doesn't like you though you know about it and best not get too close as he can still throw a mean punch. The other chap lived on my mates street and he used to spend many a Sunday polishing his rover 45. He worked at rolls Royce as some sort of office bigwig. Spends a lot of time clearing the noticeboard of all paperwork meant for staff training,course and information and sorting it into rime and date order and filing it away. Most of the folk think they are back at work so do what they did. A lady there was a nurse,makes for interesting times if someone else falls. She will try and provide first aid if staff aren't on scene. The hone used to be a hospital then an isolation ward and finally before it was a nursing home it used to be a mental hospital. Some residents still believe it is either a mental hospital or isolation ward so cant really tell them the name of the home as it could cause upset.

[mat_the_cat]

Today we went to a Christmas market in our local town. It started off quite well, we got talking to the guy who had put in a silly offer for the market hall to stop it being demolished, and now is part way through restoring it. He'd told all the stallholders that there was no fee for setting up, just a donation if they sold well, and as a consequence there were loads of stalls and a generally good atmosphere.

 

They when we were buying something from one of the stalls, this oldish guy on a (large) mobility scooter tries to turn the corner that we are standing at. I hear him say "Excuse me", so I step out of the way. Next, he starts beeping a tiny horn but Lana is engrossed in paying the stallholder so didn't notice. I tap her on the shoulder and  suggest she moves out of the way, which she does.

 

So he turns the corner but cuts it and catches the edge of the stall on the inside but continues, seemingly oblivious. Lana tells him that he's snagged, only for him to snap back "Well, if you'd moved out of the way sooner I wouldn't have hit it!" He then goes past us, turns round and starts coming back so she says to him "That's not very nice, having a go at someone just because they are in your way" to which he responds "No it's not, but it's not very nice being unable to walk, look at you, you can move about".

 

He then asks us if we are local, to which we say yes, then asks us if we speak Welsh (in Welsh). She replied "That shouldn't matter" to which he shook his head and kept repeating "It does matter". It's the first bit of anti-English feeling we've come across here, and spoilt the day quite a bit. Plus, I can't help thinking that he was being a bit arrogant to start with - I think the polite thing to have done would have been to wait until we'd finished paying, and then come past us.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Being disabled doesn't preclude someone from being a gobshite bigot. Bet you wish you could have done a quick 'Ginger & Fred' tap dance routine for him to 'cheer him up at christmas'

[AlabamaShrimp]

Old and disabled* are almost always bastards and expect everything to revolve around them. As Mr bollox says you should have done a dance and been proper sarcastic. I've found in the past it normally shuts them up

[jakebullet]

Drop a fiver on the floor and you'll see how quickly mr. can't walk suddenly finds he can.

[dugong]

Urgh, what an ugly scene. No need for that whatsoever. Attitudes like that run villages and small towns into the ground, in England, Wales, Scotland - wherever you happen to be.

 

Reminds me of the time the landlord in a pub in North Wales told me I couldn't park my car in his [empty] car park because it had an English registration on it. Apparently 'folk from Manchester cause trouble'. Nice sweeping statement.

 

Never mind, I wasn't heading up a group of 20 cars full of people 5 miles back down the road, and it wasn't as if they all needed feeding, or anything. We went further up the road and stuck the equivalent of £800 in a rival pub's till instead.

 

Still, it got rid of the filthy Manc in front of him and he got to play the big man for 30 seconds, so I'm sure it was worth it.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I remember some story about grim-faced wheelchair-using F1 team supremo Frank Williams summoning some hapless engineer from the team to his country manor and telling him he was fired with immediate effect and to leave the premises immediately for some reason or other. I remember daydreaming about being that guy in that situation and asking if he would like me to walk to the bus station, or run or skip or moonwalk or bodypop as all options were available?

[maxpower]

I would have put a door wedge infront of his wheels and said "make me leave"

[Noel Tidybeard]

WOMAN_CMS is a special needs nurse working in an advanced dementia unit in a carehome... dunno how she does it.

maybe she gets good practice at home...lol