The grumpy thread

[Dick Cheeseburger]

That song makes me piss my sides every time it comes on Spotify, but I can't help but actually like it a bit

Oh yeah, it's hilarious*.

[cobblers]

It's become a parody of itself like glam rock or whatever

[robinmasters]

Its called hospitality. Anybody who comes to my place gets offered a tea or coffee or maybe a beer depending on the time of day. We are British. Its what we do ( or used to do before we became a nation of selfish cunts )

 

Hospitality is for guests. The fact that apparently people aren't prepared to simply turn up, do the job they're being paid to do, then leave, is why I do everything I can to avoid paying anyone else to do anything for me.

 

If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd be doing everything I could to avoid conversation and get out as soon as humanly possible.

[155V6]

Oh yeah, it's hilarious*.

I didn't realise how terrible Radio 1 had become until the new 17 year old lad started at work.It's all either whingy female singers,or some sort of rap as already mentioned.The plinky-plonky "instruments"they use sound like something from a 1980s computer game 

[Guest Hooli]

Bloody photobucket! Half my albums have gone missing on there, good job I keep a local backup too isn't it?

[Captain Furious]

I can only ever get Photobucket to work through the iPhone app, using it through a web browser just makes it freeze and crash and generally give me the fucking rage.

[Guest Hooli]

I've never had an issue with it before.

[EssDeeWon]

Other people's wanky driving again... yesterday was a short hop out in the Rover, firstly a fiesta zetec-s coming from my right is indicating left but fortunately I didn't pull out as said fiesta didn't turn left, he kept going then pulled across the front on me on a yellow box junction, fuckin prat!

 

Then the Range Rover sport that watched me driving towards him then pulls out, I hit the brakes, but said rangy can't proceed because of a car coming the other way so him and I come to a complete stop with him obstructing me and the oncoming car, he decides to drive up and along the pavement then bumps this rangy off the pavement then turns right at the end of the road with no signal, again FRO prat. If he had looked right AND left he would have seen he could not of gone anywhere but instead used the typical 'think no more than 1 second ahead' driving app.

[myglaren]

I can only ever get Photobucket to work through the iPhone app, using it through a web browser just makes it freeze and crash and generally give me the fucking rage.

Apart from it being glacial a couple of weeks ago I haven't found any problems with it.

Generally use Firefox but sometimes Chromium.

 

ETA: just seen that may daughter's address given as burying.taller.series.

She's an embalmer

Edited February 5, 2017 by myglaren

[rainagain]

Glad you're all enjoying the three words. Not being about making money it will probably die a death, shame really as I think it's a clever solution to locating anything on the planet.

[Pillock]

My address was something about vibrating snails.

[Pillock]

I'm also finding it funny to search for places by name as it gives you the nearest match. There's three.blend.mice near Swansea

[Guest Hooli]

The London Transport Museum is 'Mini.belong.insist'

[Lord Sterling]

I'll get this one off my chest, and then go to be nice to Mrs TW.

I had the misfortune to accidentally find Radio 1 on the car stereo earlier, and as the MR2 stereo is pretty much impossible to see/ change stations when driving, I chose to leave it on th station until the end of the track. Now I know that current chart music is gobshite, but I'd not listened to it enough to realise just how twisted the lyrics are. Obviously every other word is removed on the radio edit, but I would imagine when the kids download the tracks to sing along to, it's the full unadulterated version.

This is popular with kids right now:

 

"Bad & Boujee

Migos

 

You know Young Rich Niggas

Yeah, we is not losin'

Try to play your song, it ain't move me (what?)

etc...

 

So there you go. Aspirational? Educational? Or just plain disturbing?

It even makes Queens of the Stone Age seem lullaby-like.

Being a bit of a hip-hop/rap enthusiast from many years, I've found that in the last 15+ years, a lot of hip-hop music has gone from being the underground stuff talking about the real struggles of life, the suffering of racism and the anger at being treated differently etc... to being this absolute embarassing superficially commercialised horseshit crap, with these young "artists" arrogantly spouting a load of jumbled up words that mostly mean nothing adding a bit of arrogant crap about how they are "rich", brainless, violent, wannabe gangsters who have no real feeling and that being rich and superficial is the way to be. Some of the 'kids' who are into this crap take it all on board and actually think they can gain a life of smoking weed rolling about in money for laughs.

 

So yeah, it's shit. It's either Radio 4 for me, BBC Asian network or the radio stays off.

[Negative Creep]

Being a bit of a hip-hop/rap enthusiast from many years, I've found that in the last 15+ years, a lot of hip-hop music has gone from being the underground stuff talking about the real struggles of life, the suffering of racism and the anger at being treated differently etc... to being this absolute embarassing superficially commercialised horseshit crap, with these young "artists" arrogantly spouting a load of jumbled up words that mostly mean nothing adding a bit of arrogant crap about how they are "rich", brainless, violent, wannabe gangsters who have no real feeling and that being rich and superficial is the way to be. Some of the 'kids' who are into this crap take it all on board and actually think they can gain a life of smoking weed rolling about in money for laughs.

 

So yeah, it's shit. It's either Radio 4 for me, BBC Asian network or the radio stays off.

 

 

I'm not suggesting it's the sole reason, but generations growing up listening to music that glamorises the gangster lifestyle and the massive levels of crime and murder in American inner cities can't be a coincidence

[beko1987]

I should have written constructive things on the Internet, or done some tidying tonight

 

Instead I've eaten alot of Biscuits, drunk alot of tea and watched videos on 1980s keyboards that I don't really have an interest in...

[Tamworthbay]

I'm not suggesting it's the sole reason, but generations growing up listening to music that glamorises the gangster lifestyle and the massive levels of crime and murder in American inner cities can't be a coincidence

Except the years of massive levels of violence and murder started BEFORE rap was even conceived, what did come before it though was decades of racism and horrendous social deprivation and exploitation for those communities. Can that be a coincidence? I am no fan of Gangsta rap in any way and I don't think it helps the situation now but to suggest it is the cause is to ignore a couple of hundred years of appalling history.

[Lacquer Peel]

The US is one of the most aggressive and hostile nations on the earth, but I like the Daily Mail mindset that gangsta rap lyrics cause violence, I'd blame video games too.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

(edit:^^^ I once got in trouble in diversity* training for asking why we can't treat everyone equally)

 

It's the blatant ignoring of facts so that everything is nicey nicey and then not having any balls to speak to me but to run to the head.

 

She's the kind of wet bastard that get offended* at everything and anything making sure everyone on social* media (hate that term) knows it but she wouldn't be able to actually say it to have the people or things that have offended her*

 

Anyway rant over, she can such my balls if she thinks I'm changing how i treat them. The kids aren't stupid and don't need talking down to.

Are you that Milo Yianniopoulos or whatever his name is? You seem to spout a comparable level of needlessly aggressive, self-pitying shite. If you ultimately end up staying away from the workings of your kids school I suspect it will be a happy ending for all concerned.

[Negative Creep]

Except the years of massive levels of violence and murder started BEFORE rap was even conceived, what did come before it though was decades of racism and horrendous social deprivation and exploitation for those communities. Can that be a coincidence? I am no fan of Gangsta rap in any way and I don't think it helps the situation now but to suggest it is the cause is to ignore a couple of hundred years of appalling history.

 

 

Hence why I don't think it's the sole reason, but a reflection of a mindset. If you have generations of boys growing up being told that money is everything, violence is glamorous and women are disposable with no one to provide a counter then it's not going to contribute to a healthy society. No sane person would ever deny a terrible injustice was committed against the black community in America, or that racism no longer exists, but you can't just keep using the past as a reason for your current circumstances.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Are you that Milo Yianniopoulos or whatever his name is? You seem to spout a comparable level of needlessly aggressive, self-pitying shite. If you ultimately end up staying away from the workings of your kids school I suspect it will be a happy ending for all concerned.

Haha your a funny guy, think you're confusing incomprehension on my part for aggression or something. But thanks for comparing me to some kind of far right person, I don't see the link myself but may I suggest you put me on block then you don't have to suffer any longer

[Mr_Bo11ox]

You go into a school and upset a TA by telling the kids that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. Then come on here to moan that she's a poncy snowflake, culture of offence, PC gone mad and all that nonsense. If that isn't Yianniopoulos-ery I don't know what is!

[DodgeRover]

But the reason Nelson Mandela was in prison was his refusal to condem violence by his side as a means of achieving change. Yes we can all see why he would do that and his reasoning but what other description would you give the reason for his incarceration? It's a bit like the difference between insurgents and freedom fighters.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Right, so tell that to the kids at AS's school then. It's a far better answer to their question than just 'terrorism'.

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^^it's semantics again. To conceal the facts or ignore them condemns us to make the same mistakes.

 

Right or wrong, good or bad both sides of a story have to be understood and analysed with an objective view point. With understanding come progress and hopefully unity.

 

This means putting aside your personal view and having an open discussion without recriminations. If this cannot happen then do not complain and become disgruntled.

 

Again if you feel anything I have posted has effected you in anyway, as this is only the Internet, please feel free to block me.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

If I had a child, and he came home and told me a teacher or other staff member at his school had told him Nelson Mandela was a terrorist I'd go flippin utterly batshit mental. I'd expect a school to take a basic duty of care when discussing such stuff so that kids could have an idea about the context and the rights and wrongs of what Mandela, or any other 'terrorist' had done. Just calling him a 'terrorist' is appalling. If that TA had any professionalism about her at all I'm not surprised she was upset.

[garbaldy]

If I had a child, and he came home and told me a teacher or other staff member at his school had told him Nelson Mandela was a terrorist I'd go flippin utterly batshit mental. I'd expect a school to take a basic duty of care when discussing such stuff so that kids could have an idea about the context and the rights and wrongs of what Mandela, or any other 'terrorist' had done. Just calling him a 'terrorist' is appalling. If that TA had any professionalism about her at all I'm not surprised she was upset.

Here here.

And not forgetting the chldren no childron no childern no sod it the gits at that age don't need to hear the whole truth. Both mine worry about the stupidest of things without adding more.

[derskine]

I heard a modernised, autotuned, horrific "cover" of "Stop me if you think you've heard this one before" By The Smiths in Asda today and I'm led to believe it's in the charts at the moment.

[John F]

I don't think there's any doubt Mandela was a terrorist.

 

He was co-founder of UmKhonto we Sizwe, (MK), the armed wing of the ANC, and was convicted of acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station.

 

Also, Amnesty International declined him 'prisoner of conscience' status because of his refusal to renounce violence.

 

It's easy to disregard this in the light of his motivation to end the injustice of apartheid, but then we end up with the subjective "freedom fighter" euphemism. And that's nothing more than terrorism with good PR.

 

Whatever, he was certainly no Gandhi.

 

Anyway, my grump is that I've just lost out on a very attractive 2-year contract working in Switzerland due to a monumental cock-up by the company's HR department.

 

Fucksticks.

[DodgeRover]

Sorry my reading of it was that was what he had said and it was this the TA had taken offence at