The grumpy thread

[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!

[gordonbennet]

Darwin Award candidates, especially when they sit right beside the offside drive axle of johnny foreigners left hooker artic.

The safest* place anyone could lurk.

[Pillock]

I've seen an increase in the number of bikers, who you would think understand about blind spots and the dangers thereof, lurking on the offside quarter of my car on a motorway.

[Guest Hooli]

I've seen an increase in the number of bikers, who you would think understand about blind spots and the dangers thereof, lurking on the offside quarter of my car on a motorway.

 

Bikers or car drivers with a bike?

 

My experience is those are the ones who normally drive cars & are probably the same people Dan has been complaining about. Considering how easy it is to overtake on a bike there isn't even an excuse for it.

[Bianconeri]

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

Back in about 1998 I got off an overnight flight from JFK, felt a bit rough but drove home anyway. I discovered I had food poisoning while on the M3 near Basing-grad. While puking all over the hard shoulder the BiB arrived and I almost chundered over the patrol car.

 

When they were satisfied I was ill rather than drunk they were fine and followed me to the A303 junction. I puked at the roadside in three counties that morning (but not on my boss’s desk).

[Pillock]

Bikers or car drivers with a bike?

 

My experience is those are the ones who normally drive cars & are probably the same people Dan has been complaining about. Considering how easy it is to overtake on a bike there isn't even an excuse for it.

Aye. Thankfully I'm quite observant on what's coming up behind me and tend to notice when a bike was there, and then it's not. Also I still do an over the shoulder look 20 years after passing my test which appears to be something that's easily forgotten.

 

But still. A true biker should surely understand the danger if sitting there... Either drop back in behind the car (nice and visible) or carry on overtaking. I'm usually keeping a constant speed on the limiter anyway.

[bub2006]

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

Cant beat em

[cort16]

I just spent 25 minutes looking for my car keys in my lockup. I had the Panda outside, all my work benches emptied and the car cover off the cortina. Rolling around on the floor looking under cars, in piles of scrap metal.

I found them. The location? My pocket.

 

Mother fucker.

[Guest Hooli]

Aye. Thankfully I'm quite observant on what's coming up behind me and tend to notice when a bike was there, and then it's not. Also I still do an over the shoulder look 20 years after passing my test which appears to be something that's easily forgotten.

 

But still. A true biker should surely understand the danger if sitting there... Either drop back in behind the car (nice and visible) or carry on overtaking. I'm usually keeping a constant speed on the limiter anyway.

 

Exactly. I ride my bike most days as traffic drives me nuts & the one place I don't ride is alongside or in the blindspot of anyone. Funnily enough the majority of people I know who want or have got helmet or dash cams are the same ones I spend a lot of time thinking 'wtf are doing? are you trying to have an accident?'.

[purplebargeken]

Communication. Is it really so difficult ffs.

[adw1977]

Communication. Is it really so difficult ffs.

Ironically, you haven't really communicated what the grump is!

[purplebargeken]

Nope. Can't really.