The grumpy thread

[Father Ted]

Most television sucks goats.

 

Excepting Sarah Beeney and Kirsty whatevermathig from those property shows on Ch 4.

 

I spend most of my (free) time listening to the wireless, that excellent Radio 7 and sometimes Radio 4.

[/victorian dad mode]

[Jewel25]

Coast , Top Gear ( ok ish ) , Mock The Week , Newsnight and a few other bits and pieces. I did find myself addicted to Coach Trip, maybe because the overall production lacks any gloss and the people on it are there for a free holiday , rather than to be famous.

[Pete-M]

Top Gear, Clarkson, James May, Family Guy, Simpsons, QI, No Heroics, Who do you think you are? along with the odd blob of whatever else looks interesting is pretty much all I have a telly for.Watched that "Skins" the other week and thought it was rather good.Love Boston Legal, but it's never on the freeview thingy.I'm mega pissed about UKTV History (or Yesterday as it seems to be known now) closing down at 6pm on freeview. What, like it's a good idea to be free for the doley slackers, pensioners and other parasites to watch but I'm stuck with Celebrity X Bollocks Dancing In the Jungle?I've been watching loads of old films lately instead.

[Father Ted]

  Pete-M said:

Celebrity X Bollocks Dancing In the Jungle?

Which is why telly is shit - far cheaper to make this sort of programming than say a decent period drama

[andrew e]

  Pete-M said:

Top Gear, Clarkson, James May, Family Guy, Simpsons, QI, No Heroics, Who do you think you are? along with the odd blob of whatever else looks interesting is pretty much all I have a telly for.I've been watching loads of old films lately instead.

Pete stick "Spooks" on that list, and we can share a TV.

[retrogeezer]

Entry fees at places for kids...When I was little, kids were half price. Now, over 5 and they pay virtually the same as an adult.Today, we 'were' going to go to Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire but I just had a look at the website and it's £4.50 for an adult and £4 for a child! My 6 year old isn't really interested in castle ruins but does like a picnic!Not only that, but now child fees are only seem to be for 5-12 yr olds - are 13-16 year olds no longer kids?Tutbury won't be getting any of my money today.

[Negative Creep]

Went to buy my Sister a birthday card yesterday and what is taking up half the shop? Xmas cards

[Minimad5]

  retrogeezer said:

Entry fees at places for kids...When I was little, kids were half price. Now, over 5 and they pay virtually the same as an adult.Today, we 'were' going to go to Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire but I just had a look at the website and it's £4.50 for an adult and £4 for a child! My 6 year old isn't really interested in castle ruins but does like a picnic!Not only that, but now child fees are only seem to be for 5-12 yr olds - are 13-16 year olds no longer kids?Tutbury won't be getting any of my money today.

Not a rant about the exact same thing But hate it when you have to pay for "Park entrance fee" then "Event Fee"such as Tatton Park afew quick in the park £6 then £5 or £6 to get into the field of cars and snoop around

[Guest]

  Minimad5 said:

  retrogeezer said:

Entry fees at places for kids...When I was little, kids were half price. Now, over 5 and they pay virtually the same as an adult.Today, we 'were' going to go to Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire but I just had a look at the website and it's £4.50 for an adult and £4 for a child! My 6 year old isn't really interested in castle ruins but does like a picnic!Not only that, but now child fees are only seem to be for 5-12 yr olds - are 13-16 year olds no longer kids?Tutbury won't be getting any of my money today.

Not a rant about the exact same thing But hate it when you have to pay for "Park entrance fee" then "Event Fee"such as Tatton Park afew quick in the park £6 then £5 or £6 to get into the field of cars and snoop around

+1

[garycox]

I just broke my favourite (and relatively expensive) glass!Balls.Now I will have to drink my gin and tonic from, er one I don't like as much.

[155V6]

The daft bint on the way home tonight I could see her ahead in her Renault Clio,holding up the 3 series behind her by staying in the right hand lane of the dual carriageway when there was nothing in the left lane.He got past though when it went down to one lane.It then went down to an A Road with a national speed limit,so she carried on at about 35-40 mph.This wasn't too bad,but when we came to a gentle curve,she jammed on the anchors as though she was doing an emergency stop & looked surprised when I was suddenly much closer. Cue her sounding her horn at me ,& getting a blast of air horns back.

[Mash]

The NEC's always been a rip off as far as parking fees go. It's about 8 quid now isn't it?

[mattblack]

Question... is the 'drop down/pick up' area outside a supermarket there so that:A: I can park a minibus containing half a dozen old poeple from the care home where I work (one of whom is in a wheelchair) with an average age of about 80, so they can do bit of shopping, have a brief respite from staring at the same 4 walls and generaly hang on to the last scrap of respect and indipendence they've got, OR...B: So some scrawny, fake tanned, gym attending bint in a fucking 'MINI' dosen't have to walk 10 yards (god forbid!) to get the Rothmans that make up 90% of her calorie intake, OR...C: A fat, tattooed, serial brat-producing pikey slag in a MOT borderline Discovery can park as close as possible to the cash point so that she doesn't get out of breath going to draw her benefit money out...Answers on a twatting postcard...

[Mr Lobster]

The M5, Avonmouth Bridge, today.Not been held up in it myself although it's a road I go down reasonably often. But......why has one man who has decided he doesn't want to commit suicide* but actually wants lots of attention been allowed to hold up the entire vehicle movements of much of the entire vehicle movements of the South West? Surely after an hour of him sitting on the edge of the bridge with a friendly policeman talking to him and getting no where they could just push him off / taser him then he can fall in the Severn and be picked up (possibly) by a waiting plod boat.*If he actually wanted to commit suicide, surely he'd do it with a big bottle of pills or like a customer I had a year or two back in Accrington Asda car park in a hired Luton box van with a load of paracetemol and a bottle of JD and not in a big 'look at me I'm killing myself' way whilst disrupting thousands of other people. I know it might be a cry for help and all but even so...

[Pillock]

Aaaah, the trolley collectors at my local Asda are quite good at policing the dropoff area. In their view if you're dropping off, the car shouldn't be unattended (as it would be for B and C in your quiz), so unattended ones get a snotty note on the screen.It's a shame they can't do more (clamping, towing, filling the car with SmartPrice fireworks and setting light to it) but it's suitably embarrasing for the lazy numpties. You get the little strop when they get back to the car but soon realise everyone's sniggering at them.

[Richard]

I had to phone 999 when that happened on the Tay bridge once. This drunk looking guy, the kind you don't want to make eye contact with, walked past us on the footpath. I felt the need to look round to make sure he'd kept going and he was walking across to the edge.The police were there in minutes, they formed a rolling roadblock with three vehicles. Once they were level with the guy a policeman leaned out of the back of the van and pulled him in. I don't think they even stopped. Once the guy was safely in the van they let everybody go and that was it. Job done.I think they have to do that quite a lot on the Tay Bridge.

[Minimad5]

  Mash said:

The NEC's always been a rip off as far as parking fees go. It's about 8 quid now isn't it?

I agree !Was totally shocked when i did "STICK IT TO MS" (A charity Drumming event - and a world record attempt)But the point is raising money for charity, travelling afew hunDREAD(ed) miles and having to spew up even more cash for parking They could of made an exception as it was for charity /rant overOOh and RAC who seem to employ the most stuck up, arrogant TWOOTS that can never find you as the woman at the RAC room answering your calls cant even use google mapsDid i mention the prices of RAC ?? £350 !!Ooh and the lenght of time it takes to get home because they drop you off at random points and load your car onto a new flatbed instead of just taking you home Think thats the most i have typed on this forum

[Pillock]

  Father Ted said:

Most television sucks goats.

 

Excepting Sarah Beeney and Kirsty whatevermathig from those property shows on Ch 4.

Miss Allsopp?

 

 

I'd show her my subsidence any day.

[garycox]

This:

 

 

AAARGH! How hard is it to write the word 'For' FFS?! Are CCW charging by the character now!?

 

Also, It's not 'PARTS 4 CLIOS & CORSAS', I can't imagine the MG beardies being particularly impressed by this grammatical travesty either...

 

What are they thinking? Do people actually think this is the proper way to write?!

[Pillock]

That made me have a rant earlier today too. I texted a code from the top of my lunchtime can of Fanta, as it gives me 50p credited to my mobile bill... and given the can only cost me 40p, it seemed a bargain.I got a reply back, from Fanta who are obviously part of some major soft drinks manufacturer. Worldwide offices, multi-billion pound turnover etc etc. The text read " Thank u 4 texting ur code to gimmecredit. Ur credit will be put on ur bill in 48 hrs."YOUR. YOU. HOURS. Morons.

[Negative Creep]

Maybe they were paying by the letter?

[Guest]

  Pillock said:

  Father Ted said:

Most television sucks goats.

 

Excepting Sarah Beeney and Kirsty whatevermathig from those property shows on Ch 4.

Miss Allsopp?

 

 

I'd show her my subsidence any day.

She was the subject of the only funny line in Dead Ringers:

 

'I wasn't born, I was knitted.'

 

Anyway, boiling my piss today are those Wan Chai Ferry cooking kits.

'Ooh, look at us, we've all got matching aprons and we're doing tai chi cooking in a fucking park, we're so spiritual'

 

IT'S A FUCKING BOX OF NOODLES MADE ON AN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE YOU SMUG CUNTS FUCK OFF AAAARRRRRGHGHGHGHGHHHHGHGHGH.

 

That's the most vile piece of commodity fetishism I've seen for a while anyway.

 

Heston Blumenthal can fuck off as well, taking the lollies from the bloody Little Chefs. Bastard. Another childhood memory ruined, the slaphead prick.

[Mash]

I got a lolly from a little chef a couple of weeks ago.

[Guest]

  Mash said:

I got a lolly from a little chef a couple of weeks ago.

Maybe he only artfully bummed one Little Chef then.....

[M'coli]

  watanabe said:

Heston Blumenthal can fuck off as well, taking the lollies from the bloody Little Chefs. Bastard. Another childhood memory ruined, the slaphead prick.

To paraphrase from that program "Big chef meets Little Chef":

  Quote

Heston decides to get the opinion of the British Public about the new menu, so goes to Kings Cross station

Fat lot of good that's going to do, it's a bloody station. Were you too scared to go to a services and try it?

[r.welfare]

  watanabe said:

Maybe he only artfully bummed one Little Chef then.....

Yes. And only temporarily - it was one down here (Popham services on the A303). No idea whether his menu still stands there, the revised decor probably does though.As long as they still do the Olympic breakfast in it's standard form, they're all right by me.

[pogweasel]

  r.welfare said:

As long as they still do the Olympic breakfast in it's standard form, they're all right by me.

I'd sooner eat my own poo than consume a little chef breakfast. Just dreadful. Limp, undercooked bacon, fortnight-old eggs, generally horrible slop, no matter how / what you ask for. And being a regular B+B dweller, I know breakfasts. Little chef is still below even the most miserable B+B effort I have had in years.

[Parky]

Havent eaten in a Little Thief for many years. Seem to remember being distinctly unsatisfied with the food, service, and price. And being called a stingy git for not leaving a tip by the minger on the till. I probably got unlucky, I'm sure the rest are veritable gastrodomes with customer service to shame Bentley but my previous experience has kind of ruined it. But then again I havent eaten a pear for ten years because that was the last thing I ate before my appendix went pop and I subconciously blame the pear for it!

[whitevanman]

  Richard said:

I had to phone 999 when that happened on the Tay bridge once. This drunk looking guy, the kind you don't want to make eye contact with, walked past us on the footpath. I felt the need to look round to make sure he'd kept going and he was walking across to the edge.The police were there in minutes, they formed a rolling roadblock with three vehicles. Once they were level with the guy a policeman leaned out of the back of the van and pulled him in. I don't think they even stopped. Once the guy was safely in the van they let everybody go and that was it. Job done.I think they have to do that quite a lot on the Tay Bridge.

Who wouldn't want to if they lived in Dundee.....................(personal opinion time)

[Richard]

I was waiting for that