The grumpy thread

[Rusty Pelican]

It's because they all think 'use by' dates are the be all and end all of food products. They forget that it's not that long ago it was unusual to have a fridge or freezer! Stuff seemed to last longer even though preservatives weren't used so much.

Yep , much confusion between , use by , best before and display untill , read the bloody packet

[FredTransit]

Or, if it looks OK, smells OK, tastes OK, it IS OK. I never take any notice of sell by dates, or any of the other dates. Not dead yet!

[Rusty Pelican]

Or, if it looks OK, smells OK, tastes OK, it IS OK. I never take any notice of sell by dates, or any of the other dates. Not dead yet!

Nor do I unless its Pork based , had food poisoning from some dodgy bacon once , tasted ok though , probably coz i tend to bury it in brown sauce

[CIH]

tip: when sweetcorn kept in the fridge goes slimey bin the little yellow grenades.

[FredTransit]

EEEEW! As above, slimy sweetcorn does not look good...

[Mash]

Cables.Cables are the work of Satan. I have just gotten really pissed off with the millions of them around the back of my PC and had a right good sort out. I need a beer now to calm myself down!

[dollywobbler]

Sorry, yet more idiot drivers. Conditions were far from ideal, but I was able to make good pace in the 2CV on the way home. Grip was there as long as you didn't do something stupid, like give it POWAAARGH or slam the anchors on in a panic. So why did I encounter TWO 4x4s crawling along at a walking pace?! Do you think they'd earlier come unstuck because they were suffering from '4x4 invicibility misguidance?'Can't wait for this snow to go so people start driving rather more predictably again. (and it might go quickly as it's raining now - though this could just freeze and make things truly nightmarish for the drive to Devon tomorrow...)

[Milford Cubicle]

I was driving behind a Freelander which almost spun into oncoming traffic earlier after nudging a front tyre into the small snow bank at the side of the road at circa 60MPH. I'm sure he'd have been toast if he was driving a 2WD car, as it was fishtailing all over.On the way back from the west coast at the weekend, I was caught in a long queue of traffic behind a Toyota RAV4 doing less than 10MPH. The conditions were pretty bad, but not that bad.I think anyone buying a 4WD vehicle for anything other than going off road should have their license removed from them.

[CIH]

EEEEW! As above, slimy sweetcorn does not look good...

Especially when you spoon them into a stirfry without checking them first...

[Richard]

I don't know if it's the cars or the drivers to blame but Freelanders are ALWAYS in the fugging way.

[FredTransit]

EEEEW! As above, slimy sweetcorn does not look good...

Especially when you spoon them into a stirfry without checking them first...

There's a lot to be said about picking at the ingredients as you cook.....

[Cavcraft]

I don't know if it's the cars or the drivers to blame but Freelanders are ALWAYS in the fugging way.

Probably crawling to the hard shoulder or the nearest K-seal supplier.Tonight's rant:Some kids outside earlier, about 12 years old, and they threw a couple of snowballs at some man mountain of a fella who looked like your typical Mitsubishi Extreme Crazy Animal driver and he threatened to call the law.

[AlsoMike]

I think I've already posted this, but what is it with people who don't see when the traffic lights turn green? Why else are you sat in front of them if it isn't to move on when they change?!? Why the funk does it then take an eternity for them to set off so that you are stuck at a red light again? Arse! oh, and people that can't drive in the snow/ice/slush, stay at home!

[retrogeezer]

it's the people that leave a huge gap after the lights have gone green that piss me off. I'm 4 cars back, 2nd car in queue leaves a 3 car gap and I get stuck coz the lights go red again...tossers.

[Father Ted]

I thought I had man flu, turns out its food poisoning. Right before xmas. Currently sh1tt1ng for England, Scotland, Norn Iron, (but not Wales yet.)

[Cavcraft]

People who insist on telling you at every opportunity that they hate Christmas.It's almost like you're not allowed to enjoy because some miserable twonk gripes about it.Soz and all that but I don't care if it's the 27th anniversary of your cat being run over by a bin wagon, I bloody love Christmas so sod off and be miserable somewhere else.Kthanxbai.

[M'coli]

People who insist on telling you at every opportunity that they hate Christmas.It's almost like you're not allowed to enjoy because some miserable twonk gripes about it.Soz and all that but I don't care if it's the 27th anniversary of your cat being run over by a bin wagon, I bloody love Christmas so sod off and be miserable somewhere else.Kthanxbai.

It's not Christmas that we hate, it's the build-up that starts in November, the commercialisation, the morons who say "cheer up, it's Christmas" on the 3rd of December, the TV programs that seem to think that nothing else happens in the rest of December. It's more about the fatigue of the extended merriment in the lead-up, and all the while the message of Christmas is seemingly forgotten inamongst the rush to fleece the punters of as much as possible.I'm an athsiest, by the way, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow!

[myglaren]

Peolpe who insist on going present / food shopping right at the last moment meaning that the shops are packed to the rafters with people buying enough food to feed a small Peoples Republic State.WHY??? You have 364 days to shop - why try and cram it all in on the 24th? Personally I do the bulk of my gift shopping in the January sales.

I'm off to do ALL my Christmas shopping in an hour or so *and I have a snazzy new wireless keybroad with a reluctant space bar so the above was alloneword :(Even worse, just bumped into my newly-cleaned desk and flooded the whole thing with steaming hot tea :(

[garethj]

the TV programs that seem to think that nothing else happens in the rest of December.

Christmas TV does seem fairly dire, this year more than most.TV shows about other TV shows FFS???

[Justin Case]

I love Christmas too, from the Carol Service at the church to the giving and getting presents, the break from work, even seeing the family.It's just I hate pubs, and everyone seems to think that Christmas isn't Christmas without spending a substantial amount of time being ripped off by greedy breweries with their over-priced rubbishy food and drink, served in an environment which would have even the mildest commuter rioting if it was on a train.I'm also intrigued as to why Noddy Holder's parents gave him the middle name F*cking

[Guest]

I'm not big on Christmas, but I don't mind it as long as it isn't thrust upon me and I can just get on with my life with as little disruption as possible. I can accept a few places being shut for a bit and if people are out there enjoying Christmas and not getting in my way, I've no cause to stop them. It's when some ridiculous knock-on effect causes me some hassle that it bothers me.

 

Good example, I went to the supermarket yesterday and there was no semi-skimmed milk thanks to Christmas "panic buyers". The supermarket is shut for two days, how much sodding milk are you going to have? I guess I forgot how much of an important part of Christmas it is - when you start adding it up, the average family gets through a lot at that time of year.

 

Average Family Milk Consumption - Christmas Day

7am: Get up early to open presents - have a pint of milk for breakfast

10am: Watch Christmas Vacation and enjoy a badly thought out milk-themed drinking game

Noon: Christmas dinner - start off with a prawn cocktail (in milk), then a main course with mashed potatoes made out of 90% milk, finish off with milk pudding (with extra milk) and accompany the whole thing with several large wine glasses of milk

3pm: Open a can of milk and start watching Christmas TV

7pm: Run out of cans of milk and start on some different types of milk which ideally shouldn't be mixed with what you've had earlier

9pm: Start losing your patience and hit the milk in a big way

11pm: Go absolutely mental and have blazing row, kick the Christmas tree over, scream at the kids, chuck a highball glass of milk against the wall

1am: Fall asleep in a now-empty house in front of Carry On Camping, clutching a spilled glass of milk

3am: Wake up and start drinking milk straight from the bottle whilst leaving a rambling phone call on the answerphone, vow to permanently give up milk

 

In the end I had to get some Frijj milkshake instead.

[dollywobbler]

It's not Christmas that we hate, it's the build-up that starts in November, the commercialisation, the morons who say "cheer up, it's Christmas" on the 3rd of December, the TV programs that seem to think that nothing else happens in the rest of December. It's more about the fatigue of the extended merriment in the lead-up, and all the while the message of Christmas is seemingly forgotten inamongst the rush to fleece the punters of as much as possible.I'm an athsiest, by the way, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow!

Here here! Pretty much word for word. Don't believe in god, do believe in meeting up with family and friends and having a nice time. Do hate Christmas stuff in November and do hate every single Christmas song ever written. Well, ok, perhaps Fairytale of New York is ok but even that's played to death.Anyway, merry festiveness shite lovers!

[Rusty Pelican]

It's not Christmas that we hate, it's the build-up that starts in November, the commercialisation, the morons who say "cheer up, it's Christmas" on the 3rd of December, the TV programs that seem to think that nothing else happens in the rest of December. It's more about the fatigue of the extended merriment in the lead-up, and all the while the message of Christmas is seemingly forgotten inamongst the rush to fleece the punters of as much as possible.I'm an athsiest, by the way, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow!

Here here! Pretty much word for word. Don't believe in god, do believe in meeting up with family and friends and having a nice time. Do hate Christmas stuff in November and do hate every single Christmas song ever written. Well, ok, perhaps Fairytale of New York is ok but even that's played to death.Anyway, merry festiveness shite lovers!

Ditto except I quite like the new Bob Dillon christmas song , for some reason its very jolly and chears me up , A first for a christmas song for me

[whitevanman]

I'm firmly in the Hate xmas side...as I am no christian, however each to there own........but as others have said do we REALLY need to have it rammed down our throughts for 2 months? can't even buy a pint of milk without being wished a merry xmas......news just in...............I dont care if you want to enjoy it or not....please just leave me out of it, I only wanted to do my shoppingTHANK YOU

[whitevanman]

ok first of todays rants...... drivers that cant drive...............just F**K OFF back home and stay out of my way then........So they want to make the test harder to pass.............err how about those that have past and cant drive?? test them agin first, then we may have a better enviroment for learners to learn in....PS ...so we had 2" of snow today !! wow!! does that really require you to drive at 10mph on a clear road???

[Mr Lobster]

I thought I had man flu, turns out its food poisoning. Right before xmas. Currently sh1tt1ng for England, Scotland, Norn Iron, (but not Wales yet.)

I feel your pain. Tuesday (and half of Wednesday) was exactly the same for me. Apparently theres a virus about thats doing it. Its not very fucking nice though. Still not 100% better now.

[Calum_B]

I'm in good health, but I'm rather pissed off with this shitty Cav parked outside my house for the last week or so! It belongs to someone who lives somewhere completely different in the village, but has just been dumped outside my window because of the wintery weather. Cheers for that, I wasn't going to park MY car outside MY house or anything...Twunts.At least it's a white Envoy model with crusty door bottoms. Nice!

[myglaren]

Christmas shopping all done, shops all relatively quiet, they are far busier on any weekday afternoon. No real shortages of anything although Asda had no sprouts.I learned this trick a few years ago.Had done the shopping in my local Asda, trolley piled up as high as it would go, left it for a minute to grab some sausage rolls and when I got back to the end of the aisle the trolley was gone.Couldn't spot anyone with it but bumped into a neighbour on a queue of around forty people waiting to pay. He said it was taking around half an hour to get to the checkout and the shop was closing in twenty minutes.No chance of doing it all again. Abandoned that, went to Sainsburys (two minute walk) bought what I needed for the day and left.Went to Newcastle on Christmas Eve, parked in Asda Gosforth, got the Metro into town, which was practically deserted. Had all the presents bought in less than an hour. In Bainbridges there were five people in the toy department, me and four staff :)Back to Gosforth, did the bulk of the food shopping then went to a different Asda in Longbenton (where I was working at the time) and finished it off.Whole thing took under four hours, door to door, no hassle whatsoever.Much like today, only went in four shops, including Asda and Sainsburys.Commiserations to those of you who are unwell, hope it clears up quickly and you enjoy what is left of the holiday.Happy Christmas and Bah! Humbug! to the rest of you.

[j-j]

I thought I had man flu, turns out its food poisoning. Right before xmas. Currently sh1tt1ng for England, Scotland, Norn Iron, (but not Wales yet.)

I feel your pain (well not YOUR'S personally!) but I also haz a 'tummy bug' and feel like Ill Bill Also I've just witnessed the Xmas food shopping coming in all booz and chompy nosh and I just wanna bolkIt's the SECOND TIME I've had the trots just in time for Zmas

[gearoil]

Dear Sir or Madam,If you really have to make a purchase with a credit card, can you go and make arrangements to have your own and not somehow aquire the details of mine... I have a mobile phone, one for work too, and do not need another from O2.I don't really have the urge to go on an 'adventure holiday'. Or the time.Also, I wonder what Amazon will recommend me to read or watch based on your selections, maybe I can figure out from your taste who you are... and if you're unlucky - find you.However, I am happy with my lot at the moment and will not allow this utter arseache to deviate from this.