The grumpy thread

[MrDuke]

Probably a good job electric cars aren't that poplier at the moment, or there'd be a lot of dead shoppers littering the roads.

 

Only the thick ones. Natural selection, innit.

[fred]

Yeah, sore point round here. 15yr old lass that my daughter went to school with met up with her new Facebook boyfriend last week. He was late 20s. And so was his mate, it seems they spent the weekend doing horrible things to her and they found her body in the woods on Tuesday.

 

Grump is that kids don't seem to want to be kids any more. It's all pushing boundaries of what they can do, how long they're allowed out, a thousand mates on Facebook that they have no idea who they are etc. It makes it way too easy for awful shit to happen. I'm pretty sure when I was 15 I was all Hornby and Airfix.

Blame the fecking media/ FB etc.... making kids feel way more adult than they can ever possibly be at such an age - and Pedos just love it - fucktards

[HH-R]

Not so much of a grump, but more of a topic that gives me a knitted brow. There was a good short in Practical Classics about how driving a Citroen Ami has made the writer realise how drivers of new cars appear to buy into the notion that their cars take them from a to b faster than ever before. As a result, the authour feels intimidated. I feel exactly like this on my daily commute in my wee old car, but this also makes me angry, fucking fuming in fact. I end up at work with a big spike in my stress level for that day. Its only a matter of time before I get out of my car on one of these occasions and get myself into a situation that will only end badly for me, whatever the outcome. I need to find a way to manage my anger when some cnut in an Audi is on my arse. I have a sticker which says "YOU GET CLOSE-I GO SLOW" but it only diffiuses things to a point.

 

I usually wish that something would fall off my car, rear wiper or something and smash their car in some way. Never does though.

[Craig the Princess]

I usually wish that something would fall off my car, rear wiper or something and smash their car in some way. Never does though.

 

Our Russet Brown allegro never had a tailgater problem. The slightest touch of the throttle made such a smokescreen you couldn't see anyone behind you.

[andrew e]

Blame the fecking media/ FB etc.... making kids feel way more adult than they can ever possibly be at such an age - and Pedos just love it - fucktards

KIDZ are only as good as the parents monitoring them, regardless things like this don't deserve to happen to 15 year old girls. Luckily my two (14 & 16) have half a brain and parents that are straight with them.

[AlabamaShrimp]

You see you say that but at that age do you really know what your kids are doing?

 

Wife said a police officer she works with told her that his daughter aged 17 said she was going to a friends after work the other day. Just so happens he saw her waiting for a bus followed it and found her standing alone. She says she was waiting for an unknown bloke (friend of a friend) to take her to some party at an unknown house....

 

 

This is a long story cut short but you know what I mean. I know I didn't tell my mum and dad what I was up to at that age and I don't assume it's any different now except that there's more scope for meeting knobheads on the Internet so you hear about it more often on the telly

[robinmasters]

Yeah, sore point round here. 15yr old lass that my daughter went to school with met up with her new Facebook boyfriend last week. He was late 20s. And so was his mate, it seems they spent the weekend doing horrible things to her and they found her body in the woods on Tuesday.

Grump is that kids don't seem to want to be kids any more. It's all pushing boundaries of what they can do, how long they're allowed out, a thousand mates on Facebook that they have no idea who they are etc. It makes it way too easy for awful shit to happen. I'm pretty sure when I was 15 I was all Hornby and Airfix.

When and where exactly did you grow up? Kids have always wanted to be much older than they actually are. Started smoking at 13. Buying booze at 13, and going to pubs at 14. Nightclubs at 15. Drugs/misuse of legal stuff at 13. Obviously I was a boy, but had I been a girl, I'd have been shagging left, right and centre, with adults, if pedoism was as prevalent in women as it seems to be in men.

 

My point is, that the only difference is that in those days the perverts took advantage opportunistically. Nowadays they arrange it in advance. I don't think it happens any more or any less, it's only the logistics that differ.

[warren t claim]

Fucksticks. Overdone it again.

[Bobthebeard]

Ebay grump.. Have only used Ebay twice for selling. Have bought plenty without issue. Always pay immediately the auction ends.

Sold something on Thursday and stated that payment should be via Paypal within 24 hours. Buyer finally makes contact on Saturday saying " Hiya, will pick it up next week and bring cash".

Ok. Will see.

 

Edit.

Non grump as it turns out. Buyer turned up today and paid in full.

😊

[captain_70s]

Listening to some of the weekend staff at work, who are all about 16-18 years old, has made me realise two things:

 

1. What a boring fucker I was during my teenage years. I spent my spare time drawing pictures of Morris Minors and playing video games when everybody else was getting fucked, and fucked.

2. The average 16 year old girl has contained more cock than the main pavilion at the international rooster show.

 

Christ, the things I heard while trying to eat lunch at work. It'd make your eyes water, it put me off my food on occasion. I expected it from the lads, I'm familiar with the concept of wanting to stick your dick in everything when you're a teenager (followed by the rest of your life where you just want to stick your dick in most things), to hear such tales of depravity and filth from the girls was a bit of a shock. I didn't really get out much as a teenager, I didn't go to school between the ages of 7 and 15, had no friends and lived on a smallholding in the middle of nowhere. Thus my ability to do the whole drugs/drink/sex thing didn't really occur until I was old enough that I couldn't really be arsed with it and it all  looked a bit daft, has it's positives and it'd negatives. If I'd have held hands with a girl when I was 16 I'd have most likely passed out from stress, A back seat of the bus handjob would almost certainly have killed me...

 

I'll bet their parents didn't have a fucking clue about 90% of the crap I heard about, the most innocent seeming ones were the worst. It was crazy parties, under age drinking, sleeping with people a decade older than them, laughing at "slags" who'd had their naked selfies leaked by ex-boyfriends, etc. Teenagers are unreasonably self-righteous and so, so, so stupid at the best of times. I certainly was, couldn't be trusted to do ANYTHING even vaguely smart and I thought my parents were the most wrong people in world. Hardly surprising they are willing to meet up with a complete stranger and not think it's a murderer, despite the fact it seems obvious to us.

 

If they knew what adulthood was they wouldn't want to be adults. Kids think being an adult is drinking, fucking, staying out partying and driving cars far too fast. In reality that's being a kid! Being an adult is having a sore back, hangovers that feel like they last years, the responsibility of paying bills, going to bed at 11pm to be up for work, trying to average over 45mpg and praying you don't ever have a daughter... God, I'm only 23.

[Bobthebeard]

"If they knew what adulthood was they wouldn't want to be adults. Kids think being an adult is drinking, fucking, staying out partying and driving cars far too fast. In reality that's being a kid! Being an adult is having a sore back, hangovers that feel like they last years, the responsibility of paying bills, going to bed at 11pm to be up for work, trying to average over 45mpg and praying you don't ever have a daughter"

 

Yup. Being an adult is no fun. Read this and weep kids. Enjoy being young, it gets worse.

[beko1987]

It seems I didnt fix the water ingress issue last year, I realised this as I peeled the frozen rear mat out of the footwell.

 

Fuck you car, I stripped you out last year. I shall fix this by having nothing in the rear footwells and running the crapramaster over the footwells every now and again!

[twosmoke300]

Let's not forget that teenage boys have been known to stretch the truth somewhat about their sexual conquests

[gordonbennet]

Not so much of a grump, but more of a topic that gives me a knitted brow. There was a good short in Practical Classics about how driving a Citroen Ami has made the writer realise how drivers of new cars appear to buy into the notion that their cars take them from a to b faster than ever before. As a result, the authour feels intimidated. I feel exactly like this on my daily commute in my wee old car, but this also makes me angry, fucking fuming in fact. I end up at work with a big spike in my stress level for that day. Its only a matter of time before I get out of my car on one of these occasions and get myself into a situation that will only end badly for me, whatever the outcome. I need to find a way to manage my anger when some cnut in an Audi is on my arse. I have a sticker which says "YOU GET CLOSE-I GO SLOW" but it only diffiuses things to a point.

 

Drive an old battered van or big arsed 4x4 with the spare bolted to the back door.

 

You won't be able to see the twat in the Aldi wedged up your arse, and you'll care less what he does either.

 

Trust me it works, you really won't give a fuck what they do any more.

[dollywobbler]

When and where exactly did you grow up? Kids have always wanted to be much older than they actually are. Started smoking at 13. Buying booze at 13, and going to pubs at 14. Nightclubs at 15. Drugs/misuse of legal stuff at 13. Obviously I was a boy, but had I been a girl, I'd have been shagging left, right and centre, with adults, if pedoism was as prevalent in women as it seems to be in men.

 

My point is, that the only difference is that in those days the perverts took advantage opportunistically. Nowadays they arrange it in advance. I don't think it happens any more or any less, it's only the logistics that differ.

 

Indeed. I remember being an enthusiastic 17-year old and I pulled this gorgeous blonde 18-year old in a pub one night. Turns out she was a 14-year old redhead! I blame poor lighting and I'm glad I did nowt illegal, but now I have a niece, I'm terrified to think what teenage girls were doing when I was a lad. The girls always seemed to be a few years younger than the blokes generally. Terrifying. But yes, pushing boundaries is not a new thing at all, though that awful story about the murdered girl certainly does remind you that there are some nasty bastards about. Just horrible.

[Richard]

Nasty bastards murdering teenage girls are nothing new either unfortunately.

[Alan_Green]

Indeed. I remember being an enthusiastic 17-year old and I pulled this gorgeous blonde 18-year old in a pub one night. Turns out she was a 14-year old redhead! I blame poor lighting and I'm glad I did nowt illegal, but now I have a niece, I'm terrified to think what teenage girls were doing when I was a lad. The girls always seemed to be a few years younger than the blokes generally. Terrifying. But yes, pushing boundaries is not a new thing at all, though that awful story about the murdered girl certainly does remind you that there are some nasty bastards about. Just horrible.

Young man's defence.  S.6 Sexual Offences Act 1956: 

A man is not guilty of an offence under this section because he has unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of sixteen, if he is under the age of twenty-four and has not previously been charged with a like offence, and he believes her to be of the age of sixteen or over and has reasonable cause for the belief. 

 

Erm. But I'm not encoraging it, obv.

[dollywobbler]

I'm not going back in my time machine nonetheless. 

[Craig the Princess]

Wasn't like that in my day (for me). My teenage years were much more like this

 

If only I could just get one of them to do it with me. I mean anybody. Just to do it with me. Just once. Just to find out what it's like. I mean look, look all around you. It's Friday night, and everywhere you look there's buildings full of people doing it. They're all doing it and doing it, and then stopping and having a fag and then doing it a bit more. There's not a single one of them saying "Hang on a minute. This really isn't fair. I mean, here's us doing it and doing it and doing it and there's poor old Richie and he hasn't done it. Ever. He hasn't got anyone to do it to. I'll tell you what, I'll pop down and do it to him for a bit, and then pop back up, would that be alright?" I mean it wouldn't hurt, would it? It'd be charitable. I mean, just think of all those acres and acres of ladies, all lying there saying "Go on darling, let's do it." And the blokes saying "Nah, I don't feel like doing it, the snooker's on." Well I could be filling in for him! Providing a service. I could even charge! Might make a bit of money

[Slappy]

A lot of what kids spout is absolute bollocks, they all just want to be popular, so I wouldn't be surprised if most of what was said didn't actually happen, or was an extension of the truth.

 

My sister went to an all-girls selected grammar school, and even if you think that they were meant to be in the top 25% brightest students, there would still be many tales of underage shenanigans. Seems like most of them were up to whatever when they were about 14. That being said, 1 of them did need to go get the morning after pill 1 time, and another there was a group of them in an abandoned school where I popped over to get something off of one of them to find 5 girls and about 10 boys running around wearing not very much.

 

In an unrelated story, I'm glad someone's brought up that 1956 act because I was in a well known nightclub chain one time (aged 22-23) at an Annie Mac gig and pulled someone who it turns out was 16! and quite obviously shouldn't have been there Whoops! My then housemate still rips me for that.

[jonny69]

Not so much of a grump, but more of a topic that gives me a knitted brow. There was a good short in Practical Classics about how driving a Citroen Ami has made the writer realise how drivers of new cars appear to buy into the notion that their cars take them from a to b faster than ever before. As a result, the authour feels intimidated. I feel exactly like this on my daily commute in my wee old car, but this also makes me angry, fucking fuming in fact. I end up at work with a big spike in my stress level for that day. Its only a matter of time before I get out of my car on one of these occasions and get myself into a situation that will only end badly for me, whatever the outcome. I need to find a way to manage my anger when some cnut in an Audi is on my arse. I have a sticker which says "YOU GET CLOSE-I GO SLOW" but it only diffiuses things to a point.

 

I've noticed the attitude towards old cars has changed a bit for the worse over the last year. Here in Surrey people seem to act like a cunt at any possible opportunity, but on the roads there is definitely an increasing tendency to try and do something something to put the shits up anyone in an old car. It's like they absolutely have to do it to make themselves feel better. The number of ridiculous overtakings is definitely on the up, even when I'm already breaking the speed limit. I've taken to forcing people who are hustling me to go past, then I become the hustler and they become the hustled. They soon get the message.

[Jazoli]

I think it's just people in general, I've done 30-40k a year for the last 20 years and it has got really bad over the last 5, I got to the point where I was going to end up killing someone in a huge accident because I'd had enough of cocks trying to push their way in or just pulling out on me and I was quite prepared to crash into them just to 'teach them a lesson'

 

I changed jobs and now drive a 20 mile round trip down a country lane with hardly any traffic and I'm much more relaxed and happier as a result.

[Pillock]

I'm trying to work from home.

 

Why is it so pissing hard to work from home?

[J-Rod]

On the same note, depending on my mood I either go via Birmingham or M4 when driving from Letchworth to Swansea (and vice versa). While you will always get the tools who drive at 90+ on any road, I've noticed that when going the M50/M5/M42/M40 route, they don't turn up in any great number until you're heading South on the M40. The last time I did that journey it was like someone had flicked a switch and the next thing I knew I was being passed by an S-Line everything, complete with His n' Hers mountain bikes on top. Same seems to go for the A1 when you get to around about St Neots... 

 

Someone said to me recently that a speeding ticket is like a middle-class ASBO ("Mate, how many points have you got on YOUR license?").  

[chaseracer]

I'm trying to work from home.

 

Why is it so pissing hard to work from home?

 

Me too.  Not happening.

[Inspector Morose]

Needs more breakfast.

 

Working from home. Different problem, no work!

[dugong]

I've noticed the attitude towards old cars has changed a bit for the worse over the last year. Here in Surrey people seem to act like a cunt at any possible opportunity, but on the roads there is definitely an increasing tendency to try and do something something to put the shits up anyone in an old car. It's like they absolutely have to do it to make themselves feel better. The number of ridiculous overtakings is definitely on the up, even when I'm already breaking the speed limit. I've taken to forcing people who are hustling me to go past, then I become the hustler and they become the hustled. They soon get the message.

 

In Manchester there was a spate of 'let's see how well old the shit old Volvo can stop' type shenanigans for about a month, for reasons I know not. 

 

There was also the cast-iron donkey in his Wilmslow middle-mangement Jaguar XF who sat in the inside line of the A555, matched my speed (up to 100 mph) and refused to let me overtake (or pull in behind).  

This was a 50+ year old bloke with an XF on a private plate. Why? What is point? 

 

Is an Amazon slower than an XF, chinny reckon?

[dollywobbler]

I did some work, then played with the Nippa's steering wheel. Then went for a drive in the Nippa. Then bought some shoes. 

 

Productivity levels are low, but I'm still getting there. To be honest though, there's not been much let up lately. I could do with a rest. 

[chaseracer]

^ Aye.  I'm not feeling too guilty...

[dollywobbler]

The best thing about working from home is not being confined to set hours. I might watch a Roadkill now, but I may well be working this evening if the mood takes me.