The grumpy thread

[254575]

my old man rant is people who unable to do 2 things at once when on the phone.the fact that you have something really urgent to say to them and it is completely relevant to the phone call they are having (colleague on phone to customer at work, telling them they have no idea what they are on about, when you know all about the customer and have the answer to the question they are asking). they will blank you, then moan after you have hung up, for interrupting them while they are on the phone.IT WAS RELEVANT TO PHONE CALL YOU MORON

[mnde]

My rant is a general one, not aimed at any specific occasion. In order of annoyingness:tied 1st: Museums/Zoos/Attractions are great. It's the other people there that spoil it. (e.g. screaming snivelling brats and loud obnoxious chav parents)andMotorways/A roads are great. It's the other people on them that spoil it.(e.g. the weaving w*nker in the Audi this morning, the chap who came to a halt infront of me at the end of the A3 slip road a few days ago because he lacked confidence joining)2nd: Restaurants are GR8, it's the other...... (you get the picture; substitute trains, cinemas)Do I just hate people? Mark.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Edge-of-town cinema complexes. They're a little bit of America, over here.

[Guest]

On that note, I don't like "the general public" and how they are given too much credit nowadays.Take adverts for example, I hate the trend of having seemingly ordinary people on them as if the entire thing is just some fun thrown-together Youtube video rather than the output of a large business. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but one of the worst culprits are Confused.com - bleary "too ugly for TV" people giving dull praise for the product, faux-amateur shaky camerawork, a self-consciously cheap feel. I want to SMASH things when it comes on.Also, remember that Barclays ad with the goon flying down the waterslide (sadly not ending with him being launched out of a hydroelectric dam and being enveloped by the mist below)? There was some very obviously Barclays-produced ad where some fun student sorts set up their own mini-version of that slide and had an Action Man go all the way down it into some newsagents. JUST CUT IT OUT, stop trying to score points with the cool Youtube crowd. Make proper adverts. With unrealistic people, not some fools I could encounter in the queue at Co-op.And whilst I'm at it, the cool Youtube crowd can sod off too - I hate when I open up the site and it comes back with all these featured videos of dreary teenagers being zany, I remember I clicked on one by accident and this geeky little wastrel appeared on my screen and started singing his way through the intro to Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, JUST GO AWAY AND DIE! I only want to go on to look at Hyundai Elantra adverts/old music videos/the intro to Turnabout. If I wanted to see some ugly teenagers with too much time on their hands, I would go to Leeds city centre on a weekend.Much the same on news issues, there's a lot more opinion from "the public" on the news now - I won't rant about this as Charlie Brooker has done it already, but they can cut all that out too. I want to know what an expert thinks about the economy, not some pleb from Barnsley.In summary, I am a horrible person.

[outlaw118]

No Mr H, you're a rational normal human being (as far as I can tell).I agree with all of your rant there, especially the bit about Charlie Brooker - what a chap!Youtube is generally clogged up with twats - no I don't want to see you and your spotty mate playing "Smoke on the Water" on a fucking ukelele.I neither want to see your chavvy big brother doing a donut in Tescos car park in a Vauxhall Corsa. You make me sick. People like you should be fucking rounded up and used for medical experiments. Nasty painful ones.That is all.

[j-j]

39, 59, 109? I'm only 30 so you guys are clearly into shite old motors because you grew up on them? My CX is 3 years older than me!Of course it doesn't matter because soon I'll have my TIME MACHINE working Today's rant:MORON cuts me up from the RH lane of 2 lanes that both turn right. I was in the correct one (left) for turning left further up the road as usual. Bint in shite Rover 600 (actually the later, crapper on that's so boring I don't even know what it's called) cuts me up - no signals, nuttin. Choices: let them crash into me or swerve to miss. I choose the latter and end up colliding with the kerb BAM. Of course she gets a hefty dose of the twin air horns and (you know how you can just sort of 'tell' someone's expression from their rear view mirror?) she looks shook up but essentially unconcerned so she gets a second dose of the trumpets and a pointing finger. These people MUST remember how dumb their actions are. Get home and finally have a look at my front LH wheel (thought I might have a flat ) but it has nothing more than a heavy scuff - no bendage. Also! between that^ and returning home mini cab pulls right out in front of me (and I drive with my fokkin lights on nearly all the time!) - this is literally one minute after the bint above. I felt like I was actually surrounded by special needs drivers. But at least the taxi guy waves as sort of 'sorry' gesture, still....I said this one once before but I still can't get over people with no concept of M-way lane use. I was stuck behind a captain slow (well, I was gaining on them slowly) and could I overtake? no, because of a stoooopid woooman cruising at -just- slightly faster than average speed for ever with no concept of anyone else around whatsoever. Even after I did get out, she remains in the outside lane at the same speed. GrrFinal rant: filling stations only ever have 2 LPG pumps and they're always unreachable when there's (always) a spazz in a Jag taking for ever paying for his 10million liters of petrol - Why can't they put the LPG pier on its own at the side or something?Generally

[VWPowered]

i'm 34 i think a polls in order

[Mr Lobster]

Early '50's! PffftI'm 34 I'll have you know

[j-j]

Maybe there's a 30s/50s split?Anyway: I have counted 4 different twatz texting while driving. One even had kids in the back and a (what looked like) "baby on board" sign.Give me strength.Funny night in Glasgow - Celtic are playing Arsenal tonight AND U2 are playing at Hampden stadium (I can hear it)Thing is, a large amount of Celtic fans are also U2 spazzes too. Celtic FC 'chose' to play tonight -it could have been Thursday.I'm not into footbollox much but even I can see that it was the decision of a mong.PeaceAlso U2 are fuggin shitePeace

[Albert Ross]

I'm 43, "just sittin' on the fence"....................

[RedSparrow]

I am 26...

[j-j]

I am 26...

yay that's me bailed out! thanks. Was beginning to feel like I'd stepped into the golf club for a bit there.

[VWPowered]

Anyway: I have counted 4 different twatz texting while driving. One even had kids in the back and a (what looked like) "baby on board" sign

that annoys me the french are bad for talking on mobile or being pissed..i dont drink nor own a mobile

[mnde]

I'm 31!Mark.

[FredTransit]

Anyway: I have counted 4 different twatz texting while driving. One even had kids in the back and a (what looked like) "baby on board" sign

that annoys me the french are bad for talking on mobile or being pissed..i dont drink nor own a mobile

Seems like a national passtine in France, was hit by a drunk driver on the A1 who took out the side of his car on the back of the van! The police just couldn't care less, got on their laptop and handed me his address, like I was going to go round and thump him to make it right......

[brammy777]

ebay is being a right annoyance atm, it wont let me revise my items for sale, it just tells me to login, and wont accept the details.But it lets me buy things still, it just wont let me revise my items.Really annoying!

[STUNO]

I am 26...

YAY Im he same age as Red Sparrow .... just a different arrangement of the numerals.

[Mr Lobster]

Why has my employer suddenly (overnight) decided that I cannot access RR at work. What am I supposed to do now? If they block access to this site then I really will have a problem. I'll have to do some work *shudder*

[RedSparrow]

Why has my employer suddenly (overnight) decided that I cannot access RR at work. What am I supposed to do now? If they block access to this site then I really will have a problem. I'll have to do some work *shudder*

I worry about this site being blocked by the IT crowd here. I have had it on in the backgroud constantly lately. Only a matter of time 'til they notice I recon....

[Pillock]

AlsoWhats this with teenage chav mums shoving the pushchair out into traffic/onto the crossing, I mean little Brittney/Chardonnay/Paris is the reason they got their Flat/benefits/bi weekly lambrini/Maccy D's tokens, you whould think they would take better care of them!!

Because they'd get eleventy squillion pounds compensation if you flattened Chardonnay and her pushchair by being unable to stop from 27mph to 0mph in twelve millimeters. It's almost a game to them, they try to time arriving at a crossing with you just starting to drive over it.Sticking with crossings: my rant. Roadhumps in built-up areas that are designed to be the same height as the pavement, but HAVE NO ZEBRA CROSSING ON THEM. Yes, I will run over your toes if you walk out in front of me, even if you are making eye contact in some sort of slo-mo chicken game. No, it won't be my fault - my driving instructor even taught me to assert right of way over them. And I really don't care if you're in a mobility scooter, go and use the zebra crossing fifteen metres away like you're meant to, or (and this is a crazy thought) wait till there's no traffic before crossing! Because let's face it, you're only in a mobility scooter as you're too fat to walk, like 50% of the scooter riders around here.

[254575]

I am 26...

26 here too.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Why has my employer suddenly (overnight) decided that I cannot access RR at work. What am I supposed to do now? If they block access to this site then I really will have a problem. I'll have to do some work *shudder*

Time to look for a new job with more 'enlightened' employers

[254575]

Why has my employer suddenly (overnight) decided that I cannot access RR at work. What am I supposed to do now? If they block access to this site then I really will have a problem. I'll have to do some work *shudder*

Time to look for a new job with more 'enlightened' employers

or use a proxy?

[FredTransit]

Yep, proxy is a good idea, do a search for 'online proxy'.

[Mr Lobster]

/\ Just did. Then got screen full of warning about Proxy avoidance when I clicked them Ho hum, it's not for (too much) longer hopefully anyway. Self employment is becoming more likely...

[Mr H Sceptre]

/\ Just did. Then got screen full of warning about Proxy avoidance when I clicked them Ho hum, it's not for (too much) longer hopefully anyway. Self employment is becoming more likely...

Self-employment in what line of work?

[Guest]

The dole.

[Mr Lobster]

Self-employment in what line of work?

Mrs L currently runs our business full time - selling model cars and such like - there is enough business / income / potential to expand for us to both do it full time. I'm currently doing a full time job and then working with her most nights and weekends and it's getting a bit silly.After 18 years working in car rental I'm utterly fed up of it so this is something that whilst its going to be hard work and a bit of a risk should be rewarding on a work / life balance basis. I hope.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Self-employment in what line of work?

Mrs L currently runs our business full time - selling model cars and such like - there is enough business / income / potential to expand for us to both do it full time. I'm currently doing a full time job and then working with her most nights and weekends and it's getting a bit silly.After 18 years working in car rental I'm utterly fed up of it so this is something that whilst its going to be hard work and a bit of a risk should be rewarding on a work / life balance basis. I hope.

Go for it! If its doing well at the moment (in a recession) & its obv something you're interested in then I reckon if you do it you'll never look back.What car rental company do you work for? I briefly worked for Europcar/National in their head office in Leicester recently (until made redundant - last in first out). I managed a team of booking call takers. Although they were a nice bunch, I thought the company was very backwards thinking & essentially thought the place was a bag of bollox. Plus I'm crap at managing people - too soft & disorganised.

[Mr Lobster]

You have PM... Don't really want to advertise to my employer that I hate them and want to leave Not just yet anyway....