The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Good point David Station. Cycling is another (pretty much) free hobby that's very enjoyable, even when your daughter has borrowed your ipod and the sodding thing is stuck on a loop of some utterly hateful modern music* and you're too thick to turn it off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swagger Jagger? You'll swagger when I've finished booting you up the flange, Cher fucking Lloyd.

[SambaS]

Got a bit tired of my bike, more so the fact I've cycled the same roads here since I was a young kid. Keep meaning to put it n the Polonez and drive off somewhere different.

 

Oddly I don't mind running, I have a run that is 1.5 miles as per forces guidelines for when I was joining up. But haven't been in a while. most distance I managed was 4.5 miles no stops in 45mins. Will need to start again to counter the restless legs Citalopram always seems to give me. In fact the last time I had restless legs is the night before I did my 4.5 mile run.

 

I love nature, I love going for walks, I like the woods when it's raining.

 

This is my favourite place, Ullswater in the Lakes. I dont get there as often as I should.

 

[SambaS]

Doesn't take much to get away, I took the MG for a proper hoon this day and had to stop when smoke was billowing out of it I feared the worst but it was the brakes. Went for a walk around the reservoir while they cooled down.

 

[SambaS]

huh doesnt work. ignore!

[Lord Sterling]

It does and it looks nice.

 

Back in the day when I was a little happier and didn't have so much on my plate, I used to fill up the Rover 827Si and pop to a nice peaceful market town like Bridgnorth or Ludlow and go for a walk, I used to attend the former more often as it has a great cliff edge walk with lovely views over Low Town. A few years ago when I still had the 827Si, I found a nice place to walk in Ironbridge, lovely walk through the woods with specially made walkways for visitors.

 

The last time I bothered to walk around Birmingham of an evening time was before I started working, when I was hanging around with "mates". I'd love to go for walk regularly but I hate it around here so much and I feel the people around here are much worse than before somehow. I honestly can't be bothered with the hassle.

[Doctormop]

Something I've found myself doing of late to lift my mood is watching tv programmes from my childhood on youtube, hardly ground breaking I know but just remembering a random show from the 80's particularly one that my parents liked and I hated cos it was boring really seems to do me good, I've watched several Hi De Hi's and just started on 'A fine romance' and am seeing them in such a different light than when they were first on, also saves having to watch the drivel that is being made today, give it a try if you don't believe me go onto youtube, search for 'Muppet labs' and if it doesn't make you feel better, nothing will.

[Jon]

 I will be £500 better off each month by moving from where I am but £800 better off compared to where I was looking to be moving. 

 

A few months saving and you and the missus could come over and visit us. I'd even lend you a proper* Visa for your travels! 

[Station]

Samba, you can get parkinson's disease medication that will cure 'restless legs' side effect from your usual medication.

It's called procyclidine:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=procyclidine&oq=procyclodin&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.7304j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

[DeeJay]

Something I've found myself doing of late to lift my mood is watching tv programmes from my childhood on youtube, hardly ground breaking I know but just remembering a random show from the 80's particularly one that my parents liked and I hated cos it was boring really seems to do me good, I've watched several Hi De Hi's and just started on 'A fine romance' and am seeing them in such a different light than when they were first on, also saves having to watch the drivel that is being made today, give it a try if you don't believe me go onto youtube, search for 'Muppet labs' and if it doesn't make you feel better, nothing will.

 

Worzel Gummidge. (Not you Doc)

[Lord Sterling]

Something I've found myself doing of late to lift my mood is watching tv programmes from my childhood on youtube, hardly ground breaking I know but just remembering a random show from the 80's particularly one that my parents liked and I hated cos it was boring really seems to do me good, I've watched several Hi De Hi's and just started on 'A fine romance' and am seeing them in such a different light than when they were first on, also saves having to watch the drivel that is being made today, give it a try if you don't believe me go onto youtube, search for 'Muppet labs' and if it doesn't make you feel better, nothing will.

Same thing has happened with me. A few years back I started watching things like Minder, The Sweeney, The Equalizer, then I moved onto Miami Vice, LA Law and Moonlighting, going through funny comedies such as The Brittas Empire and Keeping up Appearences.

 

Recently I've gone more soppy with more gentle British comedy, things like Lovejoy, Birds of a Feather, The Upper Hand and now very recently As Time Goes By have been on my 'must watch' list. Writing what I wrote a few posts back in response to the MH issues, thinking about my problems and listening to Joe Fagin's version of As Time Goes By does not make for a very uplifting mix.

 

I have most of these on DVD now but recently I've been trying to complete my DVD collection of some of these shows without much success. All because of work and bloody money.

[plasticvandan]

i think this afflicts a lot of shiteists,tv and other things from the past sort of go hand in hand,i went through a period of looking up the old "idents" that used to come on before programmes in the pre itv days,central being my local one,just a good way of time travelling

[SambaS]

I hoped and "ident" was what I was thinking..

 

[rml2345]

TV Ark is brilliant for that sort of thing and is full of other nostalgic bits of telly. Manys an hour I've spent trawling the depths.

Does anyone else like watching old adverts as well?

[Inspector Morose]

www.625.uk.com

[oman5]

I have the old ATV ident as my ringtone...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYPynbQwiko

 

and I also like the Thames tv one for reminding me of childhood. always reminds me of watching "rainbow"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1RsgSBySXk

[mercrocker]

Love all this stuff ^ 

 

I count myself extremely fortunate that I have not come through the past half century with any MH issues (none that bother me anyway) despite all that I have put my soul, heart, mind and bloodstream through....However life does get to me - the world really has become a shittier place, people are shittier and working for a living certainly has.   

 

I swim through life in a bubble - cocooned by places like here, stuff that I surround myself with from the middle of the last century, beer, proper rock and roll and old telly. 

 

The rest of what I see and put up with can all fuck off basically.    I would like to extend a metaphorical hand to all of you who suffer (largely in silence) and to all of you here who make this corner of the universe (and in a small way the rest of the world) a better place.

[Station]

Modern TV is really matching the standards of what radio one and MTV dictate. Comedy is basically radio one presenters swearing and being offensive and drama is Doctor Who.

[Junkman]

The 1980s were the last decade when a decent living was possible.

Coincidentally, with the advent of the mobile phones, the world turned into the shitpile it is today.

 

Also, do not watch the telly. Don't just avoid it, boycott it. In fact, get rid of all TV sets you have in the house.

 

Also, toss your mobile phones. Nobody, repeat: nobody at all, is so important, that he must be reachable at all times, nobody is calling you anyway and nobody wants to be called by you on his mobile.

[overrun]

and above all, KEEP YOUR SLEEVES ROLLED DOWN.

 

Potholes have pissed me off. I am now the happy* owner of a square wheel.

[cort16]

Junkman how many TV's have you smashed when a man with bare arms speaking on a mobile phone comes on screen?

[garbaldy]

Haha my boss calls my mobile all the time and I only answer it to him between 8.30am and 12pm then 1pm to 4.30pm

He used to try and get me over the weekend and would ask me why I didn't answer I told him that I stuff it in the glovebox when out and about. He now just thinks I'm excentric hhaha

[mercedade]

I (and I suspect at least one other person on here has) spent the last 5 years working for an NHS mental health trust. It was an eye-opening, liberating and deeply humbling experience.

Up until this point, I had very little experience of MH - a grandfather with depression and one friend who sadly committed suicide, but nothing beyond that. MH was definitely in the category of 'something other people have to worry about' and 'something that happens to a different kind of person'.

5 years on, I want to kick the younger me so hard! Because the biggest and most illuminating lesson of my last 5 years is that the vast majority of people who were experiencing serious and debilitating MH conditions were overwhelmingly, frighteningly normal.

It's a cliche - but only because it's true - it doesn't happen to some kind of 'other'. It happens to us and I can only commend and support every single person who has been so frank and open on this board as testament to that.

Also, based on the evidence here, we might need to consider the effect that BL leather has had on the mental health of the nation.

[scruff]

Been into Derby cattle market this morning to pick a Punto up from Motorpoint's auction compound. Our travelling friends have moved in their with their 40ft gin palaces, Transits and RR Sports and the Motorpoint security bloke is crapping it so it took twice as long as usual as all the gates were shut and I had to load up being watched all the time by feckin pikey kids who kept throwing tennis balls for their dogs under all the trucks dropping off/loading up. 

[overrun]

Charged twice for Evo Stik in B&Q.

 

My good mood when seeing it was the same price as on ebay, soon disappeared.

[dugong]

Getting shouted at by the pointless neighbours about parking AGAIN. Sorry, you're blocking the road to tell me I'm blocking the road? What?

Getting self tapper in front O\S tyre and having to pay £15. 

Not being able to find V5, insurance or MOT documents for car. Finding documents after 45 minutes palarver. 

[Junkman]

Junkman how many TV's have you smashed when a man with bare arms speaking on a mobile phone comes on screen?

Exactly zero.

 

1. I don't watch TV.

2. Why should I lose control over something as dismal and underwhelming as TV?

[Negative Creep]

I'm pretty sure the world was still a horrible place before John Logie Baird

[hairnet]

the last few posts

 

fuck them from here and set up a new thread

 

watching them and old chod programmes is a makes you grin thing innit

[sporty-shite]

I (and I suspect at least one other person on here has) spent the last 5 years working for an NHS mental health trust. It was an eye-opening, liberating and deeply humbling experience.

Up until this point, I had very little experience of MH - a grandfather with depression and one friend who sadly committed suicide, but nothing beyond that. MH was definitely in the category of 'something other people have to worry about' and 'something that happens to a different kind of person'.

5 years on, I want to kick the younger me so hard! Because the biggest and most illuminating lesson of my last 5 years is that the vast majority of people who were experiencing serious and debilitating MH conditions were overwhelmingly, frighteningly normal.

It's a cliche - but only because it's true - it doesn't happen to some kind of 'other'. It happens to us and I can only commend and support every single person who has been so frank and open on this board as testament to that.

Also, based on the evidence here, we might need to consider the effect that BL leather has had on the mental health of the nation.

 

I'm one of them. Work on an acute ward, and have worked on PICU and adolescent unit. I still go into work and think "there but for the grace of God go I" and I really believe I always will. The profile of the patients we have proves that anyone from any background can become unwell. 

 

Coincidentally, moving to this job also gave me a "stop trying to achieve what people think you should" moment. I'd spent my working life chasing money, nice car, status and all that shit. A chance conversation with a friend saw me apply to central nursing bank, and get on as a nursing assistant. I did odd shifts until I was laid off for a week, when I did a few more night shifts on busier wards. As soon as I went back to my job, I handed in my notice and worked on the bank on various MH wards. The money is DIRE, especially considering what we see, and the responsibilty we have. That's proper responsibility, for people's wellbeing, not for a shitty bit of power. Still, I love my job now, so much so, that I'm currently taking an access to HE course so that I can to be a mental health nurse. 

[Wilko220]

I have the old ATV ident as my ringtone...

 

and I also like the Thames tv one for reminding me of childhood. always reminds me of watching "rainbow"

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohE2e7le-Y