The grumpy thread

[richardthestag]

I love sprouts. Sometimes I have a bowl of sprouts for tea and nowt else. Or fry them with bacon and egg. Yum.

 

If they are in season, I'm eating them.

 

Crikey you must fart like a herd of dairy cattle

[richardthestag]

I really like sprouts.  I do.

 

But if you haven't had them on a low simmer since the week after Easter you've missed the boat for this Christmas...

 

 

 

Also it is good for digestion to "take" a cupful of Sprout brine weekly.

 

Swear I can levitate after that! Drives Mrs theStag up the bloody wall

[richardthestag]

Grump

 

Christmas is just one huge fuck off balls ache for me, I dont hate it but I could easily do without it.

 

Currently juggling nightmare low mood (nowt like Bubbs is going through) but still a shit time and Mrs thestag threatening me with all manner of orrible shit if I dont go on "holiday" for 3 weeks in December with her and three teenage thestags who are all full on Kevins. I do love them and will do almost anything for them.

 

I need comfort zone, I dont need stress, last holiday was a Horrorday. she doesnt get it!

 

Not even like this is a recent event in my fucking life, I told her it was a maybe 6 months ago when she started planning and now she is just loading up the pressure and stress.

 

fuck holidays and fuck christmas 

[mercrocker]

Feel for you, Mr. Stag.  Holiday AND Xmas can get in bed together at the far end of Fuckoff Land.   Jeez, that is some killer way to spend December......

[AlabamaShrimp]

Want to get rid of a few old Dvds that we've somehow acquired over the years and to save a bit of messing I thought I'd have a look at cex and see what they offer as although they're all crap the shop is always full.

 

1p each?? Bargain! I'll send you the lot then and make a whole 10pm. Not bothered that they sell for 50p 1p is a joke.

 

Who even sells them stuff?

[omegod]

Sprouts currently on offer at Aldi, 49p a bag ,bet they are more than that in 4 weeks !

[fordperv]

Aldi are also selling sprouts on the stalk

[Lord Sterling]

Want to get rid of a few old Dvds that we've somehow acquired over the years and to save a bit of messing I thought I'd have a look at cex and see what they offer as although they're all crap the shop is always full.

 

1p each?? Bargain! I'll send you the lot then and make a whole 10pm. Not bothered that they sell for 50p 1p is a joke.

 

Who even sells them stuff?

 

Try us, I like DVDs and seem to forever be in charity shops buying a DVD or two. I am picky though...

[M'coli]

I love sprouts too, even if they're just boiled.  I have stuck them into home-made lentil madras in the past...

[Pillock]

Sprouts?

 

Scotch Sprouts.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Try us, I like DVDs and seem to forever be in charity shops buying a DVD or two. I am picky though...

When I get chance I'll post them all in the selling hit on the open forum

[Bucketeer]

Regarding all the sprout talk, I would much plenty heartily recommend Kalettes which I discovered in Tesco the other week ('cos they were in the reduced/out of date section). They're a hybrid of Kale and Sprouts and are flipping lovely. A few minutes of steaming are all they need.

[omegod]

Asda doing a christmas dinner pizza...with sprouts 

 

http://www.pretty52.com/tasty/food-and-drink-asda-is-selling-a-christmas-pizza-and-its-as-amazing-as-youd-expect-20171114

[Supernaut]

Like a lot of people posting in here recently... I'll be going to a funeral soon.

 

It still hasn't sunk in properly yet. A family friend who my parents have known 10 years longer than I've been on this planet died yesterday morning. He was only in his early 60s and hadn't yet retired.

He'd had 2 minor strokes over the past couple of years, and yesterday morning he got out bed, told his wife he felt a bit dizzy... and dropped like a sack of rocks.

 

He was almost family to us. He even employed me for a summer as a forklift driver at the steel merchants he was a manager of at the time. Let alone all the work he's done with my parents breaking in numerous horses over the years. Hell, he was a qualified riding instructor. Generally an all-round top bloke.

 

To say it's a shock is... an understatement.

[chodweaver]

Sprouts?

 

Scotch Sprouts.

You boil them in whisky?!?!?!?

 

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[DodgeRover]

You boil them in whisky?!?!?!?

 

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Don't be ridiculous that would be a waste of good whiskey, drink the whiskey and eat them raw

[Ghosty]

Asda doing a christmas dinner pizza...with sprouts 

 

http://www.pretty52.com/tasty/food-and-drink-asda-is-selling-a-christmas-pizza-and-its-as-amazing-as-youd-expect-20171114

 

Someone's been watching Serafinowicz.

 

[chodweaver]

Of course! Silly of me

 

They do look curiously appealing in their little lard overcoats, though...

 

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[DodgeRover]

Tonight's grump - watched Whale Rider (again) with the kids, it's successfully reminded me how much more I like New Zealand than the UK.

Damn it, I'll need to watch Once were warriors (not with the kids) to remind me the grass is not all greener now...

[MarvinsMom]

all this talk of sprouts reminds me of my kid sisters best friend, who wound up in hospital over xmas because of brussel sprouts.

 

see, kate was, a few years ago now quite heavily pregnant in the run up to christmas.

 

and she had a craving for sprouts, both cooked and raw. it didn't matter, she just had to eat sprouts.

 

so much so, over a couple of days she ate her way through a whole stone (14 lbs, or for younger viewers 6 and a bit kilos) of them, mostly raw.

 

that year, she spent christmas day and boxing day in hospital with various pipes full of soapy water shoved up her arse trying to clear her impacted bowels.....

[brandersnatch]

Asda doing a christmas dinner pizza...with sprouts

 

http://www.pretty52.com/tasty/food-and-drink-asda-is-selling-a-christmas-pizza-and-its-as-amazing-as-youd-expect-20171114

Dirty bastards!

 

 

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[Bren]

Like a lot of people posting in here recently... I'll be going to a funeral soon.

 

It still hasn't sunk in properly yet. A family friend who my parents have known 10 years longer than I've been on this planet died yesterday morning. He was only in his early 60s and hadn't yet retired.

He'd had 2 minor strokes over the past couple of years, and yesterday morning he got out bed, told his wife he felt a bit dizzy... and dropped like a sack of rocks.

 

He was almost family to us. He even employed me for a summer as a forklift driver at the steel merchants he was a manager of at the time. Let alone all the work he's done with my parents breaking in numerous horses over the years. Hell, he was a qualified riding instructor. Generally an all-round top bloke.

 

To say it's a shock is... an understatement.

My condolences. Life is short. And you never know when it is going to end.

[Bren]

Family at caravan. Except me who has to work. Could'nt even call at Brothers because he has gone out.

 

Josef Fritzl's daughter has a better social life than me.

[puddlethumper]

You boil them in whisky?!?!?!?

 

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Na ! Deep fried in it, maybe.

[purplebargeken]

Everything...... grrrr

[STUNO]

Tonight's grump - watched Whale Rider (again) with the kids, it's successfully reminded me how much more I like New Zealand than the UK.

Damn it, I'll need to watch Once were warriors (not with the kids) to remind me the grass is not all greener now...

 

That must be why all except 1 member (me) of this site in this part of the world has travelled south to live.

names... jon, essexv6, xkjagnz ' and philibusmo.

PS I haven't seen either film ! but I do know they are films not reality tv.

PPS My two lots of ancestors came from Reading Berkshire (mothers 1845) and Blyth Bridge Scotland (fathers 1861)

[DodgeRover]

That must be why all except 1 member (me) of this site in this part of the world has travelled south to live.

names... jon, essexv6, xkjagnz ' and philibusmo.

PS I haven't seen either film ! but I do know they are films not reality tv.

PPS My two lots of ancestors came from Reading Berkshire (mothers 1845) and Blyth Bridge Scotland (fathers 1861)

They're both filmed/ set on the North Island!

 

It was more a reminder of scenery and people I knew/ met while we were working & holidaying there.

 

Speaking of not real I heard Temuera Morrison reminding people he wasn't actually Jake the muss when he was on The Rock radio...

[Jon]

Just come back DodgeRover. We even have some old Transits over here still!

 

[DodgeRover]

Just come back DodgeRover. We even have some old Transits over here still!

 

Quite a few old transits, these belong to a guy in Auckland, the LWB is running a considerably more powerful engine than it started with, he also has a Mk1 with a V8

 

I think some of his vans have been on TV quite recently.

 

If I was on my own I would be there, but I've got the wife and kids to provide for - my wages would be better but costs are more and I'm starting to get to the age where I'm worried about my parents

 

Doh - looked at your post on my mobile and saw the photobucket wants money thing and didn't realize you had posted a pic of the same van!

Edited November 19, 2017 by DodgeRover

[richardthestag]

Like a lot of people posting in here recently... I'll be going to a funeral soon.

 

It still hasn't sunk in properly yet. A family friend who my parents have known 10 years longer than I've been on this planet died yesterday morning. He was only in his early 60s and hadn't yet retired.

He'd had 2 minor strokes over the past couple of years, and yesterday morning he got out bed, told his wife he felt a bit dizzy... and dropped like a sack of rocks.

 

He was almost family to us. He even employed me for a summer as a forklift driver at the steel merchants he was a manager of at the time. Let alone all the work he's done with my parents breaking in numerous horses over the years. Hell, he was a qualified riding instructor. Generally an all-round top bloke.

 

To say it's a shock is... an understatement.

 

sorry for your loss