The grumpy thread

[myglaren]

Aldi is every bit as pleasant to shop in at Christmas as it is at any other time of the year- vegetables are the only "seasonal" stuff, there aren't too many extra shoppers/queues and there is no "Christmas" music doing your head in. In short, it's perfect for the atheist miser (i.e. me).

 

Me too - except they did charge me £50.00 for some bread buns.

I did say it looked rather a lot for what was in the trolley and the checkout guy (manager?) agreed.

£42. 92 was a much better sum

 

In and out in ten minutes. Only forgot tomatoes which I can probably manage without for a few days.

 

A guy I work with was shopping in Sainsbury's where his next door neighbour works.

She was putting cheese out on the reduced aisle and there were two women fighting over it, pushed the old lady out of the way and pulled her hair (she's 67).

Security & police waded in and dragged the two women away, will be charging them with assault of staff at the very least.

 

You don't see tat kind of behaviour in Aldi.

[Cavcraft]

You don't see that sort of thing in my local Aldi because most of them CANNOT BE ARSED to get off their disability scooter or wouldn't want to ruffle their tracksuit.

[whitevanman]

After we had emptied the bar we'd all drive home in mk3 Cortinas.

 

I didn't see you in the pub last night you should have said hello

[Mr H Sceptre]

No birds, what kind of night out is that? I'd like to get pissed and feebly attempt to chat up the FLANGE on the cover of the TR7 brochure please.

 

We'd have to have a bit of 70's totty, such as Diane Keen or Linda Bellingham.

[Albert Ross]

Felicity Kendal.....

[warren t claim]

Felicity Kendal.....

 

[Negative Creep]

Well it's finally Christmas, and for all that buildup it's just another day off work. With family 300 miles away, no partner and no kids it's just me, myself and I today. On the one hand, it can be hard, especially when you have put up with weeks of work colleagues going on about spending hundreds, or complaining they'll be bought crap they don't need. In a way it does make you wonder what you did wrong, or who you offended to end up in such a situation.

 

On the other hand, peace and quiet, no screaming kids, bickering inlaws, cracker jokes, being stuck in the kitchen all day making food for people who won't appreciate it, pretending to like distance relatives, debt........perhaps it's not so bad?

[Cavcraft]

We've celebrated by flooding the hall with water and cleaning my son's car.

[RedSparrow]

I would LOVE to spend the day on my own with a bottle of Baileys watching James Bond films. Sadly I have to spend all day driving round to all parts of my family where we all have to sit in an awkward silence prentending to enjoy eachother's company.

[autofive]

just waiting for SWMBO's family to ring and demand a lift (once the club kicks them out) then we will have 2 hours of awkward conversion and chomping of all the food I bought and drinking all the booze I bought, then they will want a lift home again.

and i might get a bottle of brown ale as a present, if im lucky

 

ahhhh xmas.... dont you just love it

[chaseracer]

We're just about to go up to the monster-in-law's for a while. Which is fine, because she's a lovely old stick

 

Sorry, wrong thread...

[whitevanman]

Well.....I am in the garage welding the sill end of a Cortina cold beer in the fridge when I get home but the other half will be home as well....which is a pisser as I prefer being left on my own at this time of year

[autofive]

Well.....I am in the garage welding the sill end of a Cortina cold beer in the fridge when I get home but the other half will be home as well....which is a pisser as I prefer being left on my own at this time of year

 

i was just thinking about nipping out to change the oil and filter on the granada, but SWMBO has told me NO, so it will have to wait until tomorow

[scaryoldcortina]

^ I'll probably see you there. For now, I'm getting pissed in front of the fire and listening to Lou Reed.

[autofive]

^ I'll probably see you there. For now, I'm getting pissed in front of the fire and listening to Lou Reed.

 

 

......bom bom bom Satellite of Love.......

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I've been dieting for the past few months and I vowed I wouldn't eat a whole chocolate orange.

 

I ate a whole chocolate orange.

[ProgRocker]

^ I'll probably see you there. For now, I'm getting pissed in front of the fire and listening to Lou Reed.

 

 

......bom bom bom Satellite of Love.......

 

"Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather..."

 

I've eaten too much today. My mum's home made sausage rolls are to die for.

[CIH]

Well it's finally Christmas, and for all that buildup it's just another day off work. With family 300 miles away, no partner and no kids it's just me, myself and I today. On the one hand, it can be hard, especially when you have put up with weeks of work colleagues going on about spending hundreds, or complaining they'll be bought crap they don't need. In a way it does make you wonder what you did wrong, or who you offended to end up in such a situation.

 

On the other hand, peace and quiet, no screaming kids, bickering inlaws, cracker jokes, being stuck in the kitchen all day making food for people who won't appreciate it, pretending to like distance relatives, debt........perhaps it's not so bad?

 

I know what you mean dude. I almost missed the arkward christmas dinners at "home" today....almost....

[Negative Creep]

Actually, after speaking to both parents and grandparents and having to lie that I was having dinner at a friend's house - fuck it, I hate Christmas

[M'coli]

Actually, after speaking to both parents and grandparents and having to lie that I was having dinner at a friend's house - fuck it, I hate Christmas

Get on Adult Friend Finder or something like that, see if you can get yourself a dose to take your mind off things.

[Cheggers]

Eaten too much, drunk too much, farting for England...thank god it's only once a year.

[warren t claim]

Actually, after speaking to both parents and grandparents and having to lie that I was having dinner at a friend's house - fuck it, I hate Christmas

Get on Adultwork or something like that, see if you can get yourself a dose to take your mind off things.

 

EFA.

[Lufthansa-Terminal]

Adultwork Its like Crufts on there full of pigs n hounds and women who want to tie you up and beat the shit outta you. B.R.B

[warren t claim]

Some

Adult

Assembly

Required.

 

[TimothyClaypole]

Getting a key hook type thing to put on the wall... handy except for the Trotter van it's in the shape of.

[eddyramrod]

Adultwork Its like Crufts on there full of pigs n hounds and women who want to tie you up and beat the shit outta you. B.R.B

 

Wait for me!

[trigger]

Apologies for bringing something over here from the blue forum but I just stumbled on this, It's one of the reasons i don't bother going on the general forum on RR anymore, It's almost like it's ran by Nazi's.

 

[eddyramrod]

Trig, I can't see that. As so often, all I get is a box with a pic of a frog in an ice cube, and a message: Domain unregistered. To view, register at: bit.ly/imageshack-domain

I get a lot of these.

[trigger]

Sorry Eddy, I'll do it the old fashioned way then! http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... ead=119029

[Guest]

I missed out on Christmas Day because of a vomiting \ shitting bug. Slept the clock round, opened my pressies this morning.

 

Hope everyone had a good one bar the usual familial quarrels \ chocolate orange dilemmas.