The grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

Wasted sodding ages trying to put new front brakes on my sons bike.

 

The twating things are like nothing I've seen before and were either on or totally useless, sorted now. Took longer as mini Shrimp, who's two weeks off being 8, was utterly useless at helping. Before we even started he said it was boring...

 

I know we can't alloke like everything but if you don't even learn the basics how you going to do anything later?

[Louise2cv]

You'll be fine it that there Wales. I got collared by and unmarked car on a certain patch of Polis Scotland, long renouned as being the biggest bunch of ..... er, going.

 

In relation to your (weak) defence, I know of someone who apparently did similar and got a 3 month ban for Careless.

Last time I did it (years ago and I don't make a habit of it) it was in the 2cv. Both times cutting in right as the lines start, rather than being the wrong side for ages (just to clarify) I got a TS20 3 pts. Everyone else thought a 2cv over taking anything was LOLs #originaljokes

[dave21478]

Wasted sodding ages trying to put new front brakes on my sons bike.

 

The twating things are like nothing I've seen before and were either on or totally useless sorted now. Took longer as mini Shrimp, who's two weeks off being 8, was utterly useless at helping. Before we even started he said it was boring...

 

I know we can't alloke everything but if you don't even learn the basics how you going to do anything later?

 

I worry about my 12 year old nephew with this sort of thing. He is proving to be.....I hesitate to use the word thicko, because he isnt but he just doesnt do well academically. He really needs to be thinking about a trade IMO, but barely knows which end of a scredriver he should be holding.

I thought about a session of fixing up his bike as its pretty knackered, but he would be bored with it after a couple of minutes....I dunno what to do. If its not on the fucking xbox, he isnt interested.

[JayW]

This is my life with my (nearly) 15 year old boy. Genuinely doesn't care and has zero interest in anything but his Xbox.

 

I have tried everything. Really.

 

My advice is for you to get on it now. Do something drastic, for yours and your boys sake. Be ruthless. Force him against his will to do something, a club, a hobby, after school activities, something, anything! When you're where I am with mine it's too late and you will only blame yourself, I know I do.

 

Anyone who says "he's fine, he likes his Xbox, it makes him happy", is wrong, they don't understand that happy now, means miserable later. Unmotivated, uneducated, selfish, single minded, unhealthy and immature is where the Xbox generation is heading. My boy and his peers are no different.

 

<edit: read it as your son, not nephew> Do your best.

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^it's the same. He'll watch shit for hours, play games or mess with Lego and isn't thick and can show intrest yet when it comes to actually doing stuff* he's worse than shit.

 

His worst thing is not engaging his brain. Like I'm trying to adjust the brake cable yet he pulls the lever...

 

I know it shouldn't but it proper winds me up how easily he just gives up. I know I should come back with some encouragement and help but I've tried that before now if he knows he's annoying and not helping then he knows it!

 

He has been going to cubs for the last few weeks (not sure he'll stick to it yet) as at least they do stuff in groups and it might make him motivated.

 

See when I'd finished typing this, as he's stood outside, I asked why he didn't help. Said I hadn't asked! As he was messing with a Frisbee he accidentally threw it in to next doors garden and now gone off in a sulk because I won't help him get it.

 

I can't describe how much I love him but he can be really annoying

[Cavcraft]

Yeah, I can see forcing kids to join after school clubs etc ending well. Kids are kids, just let them be it's a different generation now, they're happier sitting at home. My lad was glued to his PSXBOX360 thing, to the point of waking us up at 3.00am as he 'whispered' into his mouthpiece thing when playing his mates on line. He packed up football, wasn't that arsed about school or what he'd do after he left and you'd have had to have bombed his out of his bedroom.

He's 24 now: hard working, studious, motivated and most importantly an absolute credit to me and his mother, if I do say so myself. 

[JayW]

He has been going to cubs for the last few weeks (not sure he'll stick to it yet) as at least they do stuff in groups and it might make him motivated.

 

Some dad to dad advice: don't give him the option! If you think it's the right thing for him to do, make him do it, tell him there's no alternative. Tell him it's a requirement and there's no compromise.

 

Everything else he will want to do will be bad, this is modern societies will. It ain't like it was when we were kids.

[somewhatfoolish]

See when I'd finished typing this, as he's stood outside, I asked why he didn't help. Said I hadn't asked! As he was messing with a Frisbee he accidentally threw it in to next doors garden and now gone off in a sulk because I won't help him get it.

 

 

A good learning experience; leave him to solve that problem himself. Whether he does it the 'proper' way, knocks on the door and asks permission or leaps the fence without, will require initiative and thought.

[Cheggers]

Yeah, I can see forcing kids to join after school clubs etc ending well. Kids are kids, just let them be it's a different generation now, they're happier sitting at home. My lad was glued to his PSXBOX360 thing, to the point of waking us up at 3.00am as he 'whispered' into his mouthpiece thing when playing his mates on line. He packed up football, wasn't that arsed about school or what he'd do after he left and you'd have had to have bombed his out of his bedroom.

He's 24 now: hard working, studious, motivated and most importantly an absolute credit to me and his mother, if I do say so myself.

Well said. I know this place is inclined to take the view that nothing good happened after 1990, but we're writing kids off before they've even had a chance.

 

*can you tell this is a pet soapbox of mine?

 

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[Pillock]

My lad plays loads of Xbox but does well at school and at 14 has just started a motor vehicle engineering course at school working with Scania.

 

Still plays Xbox though. Nowt wrong with that. All the kids in the 70s used to go and play football or run around in the woods for hours, hardly any of them are professional footballers or Ray Mears.

[MrDuke]

If I'd had Minecraft when I was a kid, I'd have found it a hell of a lot easier (not to mention enjoyable) to grasp the basics of electronic circuits, wouldn't have needed to crib my way through any exams at college, and probably wouldn't have needed to pay other people to sort out any and every wiring issue with the cars I've owned.

[DodgeRover]

Why? Minecraft is just electronic lego from what I can see when my son is playing.

[Parky]

My boys much the same. Much time is "wasted" on online gaming, although he has picked up some Russian insults for when he is assassinating some kids in Vladivostok or wherever on Counterstrike.

 

It's a bloody disgrace I tell you. Sitting upstairs online gaming, not like in my day where I'd be in the lounge on the Commodore 64 playing Ace 2 or PSI-5 Trading Company all day. If I had the ability to play against other people around the world, I wouldn't have gone out ever. I'd probably still be in the lounge.

 

Sooner or later the hormones are going to kick in big style and he will want to go out and impress women. And we all know that a Citroen C1 with cheap alloy wheels and a massive stereo from eBay are truly the way to fair maidens heart. That will be the point that he will start asking me how to make the funny light on the dash go out or how can he make it quicker.

 

"Circle of Life" will play in the background and the next generation will step forward. And nick my tools....

[chaseracer]

My kid started playing drums before he was five - and look where that's got him... 

[MrDuke]

Why? Minecraft is just electronic lego from what I can see when my son is playing.

 

There's a substance which you can effectively make into wires, capacitors, logic gates and switches. Except it's part of a game, so it must be fun, right? You start by making elaborate booby-traps for monsters, or crop-irrigation systems, but can literally build simple computers with it. Here's one example:

 

https://youtu.be/ydd6l3iYOZE

[anonymous user]

Today I went down to West Wales to see family, it has not gone well.

 

I nearly reversed over a car when parking in the services, as it tried to drive behind me and through the parking spaces. It hooted at me, the temptation to just keep going was strong, but I resisted.

 

I could smell petrol when I stood next to the Land Rover and the fuel tank appears to have a damp bottom, that will teach me to fill it up. I need to fit a new temperature sender as it is reading hot (as soon as you switch the ignition on the gauge goes up to half when the engine is cold) I'm hoping it is the sender, as I did spill coffee down the back of the dashboard a while ago. It still has a leaky rocker gasket so I had an oily engine smell as well, my deferred maintenance seems to be catching up with me; unfortunately I have accidentally gone back to work full time so do not have the time/inclination to sort it out.

 

I did not realise that helping to "choose" flooring would involve me having to load and unload a large quantity of limestone tiles.

 

My journey home has taken over three hours, rather than the normal less than two, due to a tanker fire on the road, I am knackered and grumpy. I did not feel like cooking anything so have eaten three bars of chocolate and had a bottle of wine and am going to bed.

[Pillock]

Yeah, Minecraft has been shown to be quite good at teaching a range of subjects from Electronics to Geography. Some schools use it as part of lessons.

[HillmanImp]

My kid started playing drums before he was five - and look where that's got him... 

 

Where has that got him? Has he driven a Rolls Royce into a pool or something?

[chaseracer]

I believe that's not encouraged at RNCM, but I live in hope once he graduates!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well in answer to a few posts above. I'm sure mini Shrimp will stay at cubs as he does like it but it's still new so we'll see.

 

He did climb over the fence eventually and was really proud with himself that he got over there and back.

 

As for him and other kids playing games I can't say anything on that as I'm obsessed with them and always have been. I've got around 2000 on loads of different systems from the 70's till now and I know they can be good and bad. He sees me playing them and wants to copy me.

 

I'm OK with that but just so long as it's not his entire life. He needs to socialise, develop his own imagination and go out and play so that by accident he doesn't turn out clever but obese and only good for a job glued to a desk where if anything needs making or fixing he has to pay someone.

 

Ultimately I hope he is able to choose a career/future for himself and not have to take what he can get or is forced onto him by others due to some arbitrary exam results or a limited set of skills.

[Paul Dupart]

Don't get your tubes of Autosol and Anusol mixed up.

 

Your chrome bumpers will still look crap.

 

But at least you'll have a shiny sheriffs badge....

[outlaw118]

Tired.

 

Last week I was sick - literally - Monday had to bail from work at 2pm, tuesday fine, wednesday started ok, but was blowing chunks by 1pm. Thursday chucking all day, last emission 2am Friday.

 

This morning, awake at 530 fretting about the bollocking I'm going to get for taking sick leave and hitting a "trigger point" because I had some time off in the summer with stress and depression. 

 

I hate my job.

[chaseracer]

Puke on your so-called-manager's desk.

[Lord Sterling]

Have caught the cold-flu bug. Flu had been a bit lazy though, minor sore throat, a bit of a cold, today a bit of cough but all annoying the same, also just in time to try and spoil my weekend

[chaseracer]

This morning, awake at 530 fretting about the bollocking I'm going to get for taking sick leave and hitting a "trigger point" because I had some time off in the summer with stress and depression. 

 

Bradford System?  If the absence was part of an ongoing pattern that has affected you for twelve months or more (or is likely to), you are protected under equalities legislation.  While the absence counts toward your 'score', it "should be discounted for the purposes of considering a warning or other action".

 

Chin up, me old china 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Have caught the cold-flu bug. Flu had been a bit lazy though, minor sore throat, a bit of a cold, today a bit of cough but all annoying the same, also just in time to try and spoil my weekend

OMG it might be man flu!!! Be extra careful is it's proper dangerous! Make sure you do a lot of sitting down.

[Kiltox]

My other half is full of the cold at the moment, been keeping my distance all weekend

Filling myself full of this at the moment

 

It's alright for her with her permie job and sick pay, none of that for me!

[Slowsilver]

The other type of dick end that annoy me similarly are those who try to overtake you on motorways or dual carriageways who get halfway past or just about level with your arse end and then just sit there doing nothing. It's always when I'm coming up on a truck or slower vehicle and want to pull out and overtake myself but now can't because some twat is speed matching alongside!

 

 

I'm glad someone else has admitted to being annoyed by this.

I call them parrots because they just sit on your shoulder and don't move.

[Guest Hooli]

I move forward a touch & then move out anyway, if they are doing their best to hide in your blindspot then why not let them think they've managed it?

[danthecapriman]

I'm glad someone else has admitted to being annoyed by this.

I call them parrots because they just sit on your shoulder and don't move.

It does really annoy me! I don't know why people do it though? I mean they've clearly had enough brain power to decide they need/want to overtake but then lost the plot half way through the plan. Weird.

 

I move forward a touch & then move out anyway, if they are doing their best to hide in your blindspot then why not let them think they've managed it?

I could do that. But I'm driving a big fully liveried mobile advert for a power company! We're unpopular enough without doing things like that!