The grumpy thread

[Noel Tidybeard]

my gran has demention as my grandad calls it thankfully there is no violent behavior

whilst chatting with one of the Docs i work with he called it "pleasantly confused" which seems a splendid description

she still has her dry sense of humor which is a laugh

[M'coli]

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 like young women in jodhpurs.

EFA!

[dollywobbler]

The only time we've felt the anti-English vibes here in mid-Wales was when chatting to a lady from a choir in North Wales.

[Cavcraft]

You should have just asked that dickhead what language he'd just addressed you in, then told him to piss off.

[Jim Bell]

Illness.

 

With the sweating, shivering and coughing.

 

I never knew there was a pipe that connected my lungs to my colon, until I started coughing up cup fulls of human shit in the middle of the night. In the dark. In a panic.

 

Cold/chest infection 1 - 0 Humans.

 

You win.

[dave21478]

Dementia can FRO.

My mother went down with Lewy body dementia a few years back - A fun* combo of alzheimers and parkinsons type symptoms with added hallucinations and paranoid delusions. She went from being a bit depressed to a secure mental ward to dribbling on herself in a care home to a wooden box in less than three years.

 

My grandfather went out with dementia a couple of years ago too, however he got the much "better" deal of being happily oblivious to his mental state while remaining very physically capable. One of his sons moved into his house to look after him and it was a regular thing for gramps to go off walking the dog and get lost, yet something about his demeanour always brought out the best in people and he was regularly walked home by strangers. It wasnt unusual for a Kevin-spec Corsa with full Barry accessories to pull into the drive and a bunch of scroats would help him out and see him on his way with a cheery wave.

[xtriple]

I've met loads of disabled people since I became one and, as in all walks of life, you get all sorts. Some really are grumpy miserable twats that want the world to revolve around them and think able bodied people should help them/get the fuck out of their way at every opportunity. Arseholes are everywhere! In a way, I can understand having the odd bad day as living with problems can be very wearing, but there's no excuse for just being a twat day in day out.

 

Had a mate (older fella, in his seventies now) who was always well into his cars/fishing/family. General all round decent bloke. He got vascular dementia and the change in him was astonishing/frightening and he started attacking people, mainly his wife and he got carted off. I've lost touch now but I can't imagine he's still going. He seemed to go from a decent guy to a shambolic, aggressive wreck in the space of months. I really felt for him, but mostly for his family as they were destraught.

 

I do have days where I want the world to fuck off and die 'cos stuff hurts so much, but I tend to lock the door and stay inside as I know I'm grumpy and miserable/feeling sorry for myself and don't want to inflict myself on the rest of the world.

 

But, you get some people who see a disabled person and try it on - they get all aggressive and try to push you around because they feel secure that you won't/can't fight back. I'm not an aggressive bloke by nature so tend to shrug it off (worry about it later!) but I do bite sometimes - I have to remind myself that it will be ME that gets hurt and to back the fuck off. I can sort of understand some disabled though getting tired of this treatment who then get their retaliation in first! It's not right, but it is human nature.

[DavidB]

Got in the car today with a 'bag for life' (no, not the missus). 

It hooked around the rear view mirror, and as I sat down, it ripped it off the screen.

I feel like I'm now in The Sweeney.

[maxpower]

Illness.

 

With the sweating, shivering and coughing.

 

I never knew there was a pipe that connected my lungs to my colon, until I started coughing up cup fulls of human shit in the middle of the night. In the dark. In a panic.

 

Cold/chest infection 1 - 0 Humans.

 

You win.

I feel your pain...i just got same symptoms last night.... feels like someone has kicked the crap outta me while i slept

[jakebullet]

I'm shivering in my sleeping bag on the sofa. Ma's wearing 2 coats and proclaims she's not cold, therefore heating = off. We should have a wood burning stove installed by now, but bastards have put us off till new year. Take your deposit, make promises you've no intentions of keeping. If we had the stove I'd be warm, as Ma can't exactly turn it off once it's on fire.

 

Going to go to the garage. It's an asbestos shit shack, but at least it's got a propane heater.

[Timewaster]

Depends what you burn in the stove. Crap Wood - old pallets and stuff and you will be adding wood every 20 minutes

[Bren]

Mother in law fell and fractured shoulder blade.

 

Wife was with her in A&E until 3.15 am surrounded by the usual mouthbreathers that have been pasted on a night out.

 

Her arm is in a sling - it could be worse. She could be hanging off a building with an itchy arse.

[Albert Ross]

I'd have let the cunt's tyres down.

[Rocket88]

OK......................came back home yesterday after a couple of weeks away..................ex is in the process of moving the last of her stuff out. Unfathomably, in two weeks the central heating and Sky tv seem to have "broken".............I suspect foul play.............

[Cavcraft]

I'd have let the cunt's tyres down.

 

 

That's a bit harsh, she only fell on her shoulder.

[Albert Ross]

Obviously (to me) in reference to the Giffer on his scooter.... I don't care if nobody else understands me. Gibber gibber gibber.

[Pillock]

YES DEAR. IT'S TIME FOR YOUR TABLETS. NO, YOU'VE HAD BREAKFAST. IT'S TABLET TIME.

[sporty-shite]

YES DEAR. IT'S TIME FOR YOUR TABLETS. NO, YOU'VE HAD BREAKFAST. IT'S TABLET TIME.

 

I know I'm going to get a placement on a dementia ward in the next three years, and I'm absolutely dreading it. It's a horrible disease, and unfortunately, there's no recovery.

 

I just hope I get a good one, so that scenarios like that^ aren't my enduring memory.

[purplebargeken]

When I first qualified I worked on an admission ward for older people. I met some wonderful folk. There was a chap there who was in the Marines and had been something in the Bank of England. Another chap had been an illustrator for newspapers and so on. One lady had been a lady in waiting for a minor royal. So sad to see how it affects people. I could only do a few months on the ward as it upset me so much. We get a lot of referral for memory issues and some of the GP's are so up themselves when you call them up to suggest that Mr. Such and Such shouldn't really be driving anymore. Yes, your patient may well be a very intelligent man but he is putting teabags in the kettle and leaving notes for the people coming into his house and stealing his wine. Oh, and he is driving without MOT, tax or insurance. The GP shut up then. 

[HillmanImp]

I know I'm going to get a placement on a dementia ward in the next three years, and I'm absolutely dreading it. It's a horrible disease, and unfortunately, there's no recovery.

 

I just hope I get a good one, so that scenarios like that^ aren't my enduring memory.

 

You mean with work? I was just checking your previous posts as thought something terrible had happened......

[Fat_Pirate]

I've got quite a hankering for a Mercedes SL, the 90ish-onwards R129 model.  There are loads for sale, but I've yet to find one that hasn't been run on a shoestring by some socially anxious pillock.  Private number plate yet ditchfinder tyres?  Check.  Clearly defective roll-bar (it's half-raised in most of the photos)? Check.  Non-OEM headlamps, grille, and a clearly-wrong steering wheel from a Merc 190?  That's deffo not been crashed.  Rattle-canned alloys?  Asking £5K for a car with scuffed bumpers?  I could go on, but you get the idea.  You'll read less bullshit in the Daily Mail than you will in these ads.

 

I give up, I'll just get a C15 van.

[vulgalour]

Still totally randomly getting numbness in my hands.  Result of the GP tests was that I'm in rude health physically, which is at least nice to know.  But I would like to be able to rely on my hands knowing what they're doing, it's surprisingly difficult to make a cup of tea when your hand can't figure out if a teaspoon is teaspoon, a basketball or an eel because there's no signals to give you the relevant info.  I can't even figure out a trigger for it, the numbness comes on entirely randomly it seems and some days isn't an issue at all.  I'm to go back in the new year if it hasn't gone away of its own accord.

[beko1987]

Think the zx needs a service, its getting quite grumpy at starting when cold, the oil does look like treacle...

[320touring]

Some twat must have fixed a polo somewhere yesterday..

 

Mine was no for starting this morn!

 

Battery out for an overnight charge methinks

[fairkens]

vulgalour - have they checked out your cubital nerve? I have issues with that makes the "offside" of my hands completely numb, weirdly from the midway point in my middle finger across.

 

you don't realise how much you use your ring/little finger until you can't feel it anymore!

[xtriple]

Any trouble with your neck? Nerves up there can and do affect your hands. Random dead hand is a right pain.

[hairnet]

Hull docks

 

Getting on boat Saturday 0.02 secs and access easy

 

Gettoff this morning announcement at 6 landed at 7 didnt clear to a63 till 8.30 ffs

[xtriple]

Just taken the dogs out and met up with a mate on his way to work. Told me he's just had his bike (Suzuki DR-Z 400) knicked from work. He was doing a charity stint for them and they left the school gates open and lads just walked in and wheeled it away.

 

CCTV and witnesses. The police have given him a crime reference number and.... that's it!

[sporty-shite]

You mean with work? I was just checking your previous posts as thought something terrible had happened......

From Uni. I'm a student mental health nurse.

[vulgalour]

@fairkens & xtriple: nearside for me, if it were offside it'd be easier to deal with but getting number index and middle finger makes almost everything impossible when it strikes.  No issues with back or neck for quite some time.  Seems to be okay today, but yesterday was a bit of a nightmare.