The grumpy thread

[AlsoMike]

" How soon is now " is the only truly great Smiths track , one of my all time top 10 , the rest makes me want to slit my throat

No wai! 'Hand In Glove' (sung by Morrissy) or 'There Is A Light' are absolutely awesome tracks.

I'd call it a draw, all of those tracks are wank.

[Mr H Sceptre]

" How soon is now " is the only truly great Smiths track , one of my all time top 10 , the rest makes me want to slit my throat

No wai! 'Hand In Glove' (sung by Morrissy) or 'There Is A Light' are absolutely awesome tracks.

There is a Light...' is a beautiful track.I do like The Smiths on the whole, but didnt Johnny Marr write all the music? Brilliant guitar player.Not so keen on Morrissey's solo stuff. Also don't give a flying f**k about what musicians/authors/artists have to say. If I like your record/book/picture, great, but dont start waffling on about shit.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Actually, whilst I'm on the subject, I absolutely bloody hate it when singers/musicians call themselves 'artists'. Especially when they are some two-bit talentless oaf.Van Goch, Tony Hart, Picasso, Rolf Harris - they're artists, not bloody Beyonce, Madonna, David Gray etc etc.....

[barrett]

This Charming Man? I bloody love that song.....

[RedSparrow]

I like the Smiths, so there.Not to keen on Mozzas solo stuff though.

[Angrydicky]

Vernon Kay/Family Fortunes. That fucking stupid accent echoing out from the next room every fooking Sunday FFS

[Mr Lobster]

Weather. I mean, really, is there any danger it will ever stop raining?Got home from work and as it is being collected tomorrow thought I'd get the R11 up and running. It's still raining and dark though. Battery flat so stuck booster pack on it which at least got it turning over but died before it would actually start. Bumhats. So, have a quick look around and find it's also developed a flat tyre. No worries, I'll just get the little compressor out, attach to wheel and off we go. Except as it's dark, rainy and i'm trapped between car and hedge I can't really see properly. So I end up standing on some important bit and breaking that. No problem, go into the garage and find the foot pump. Except I can't. Do manage to rummage through a box of stuff though, some of which falls out and I'm then hit on the head by a steering wheel. This hurts and the neighbourhood learns some new swear words. So I go inside to discover I've run out of beer.

[M'coli]

Tracy Emin going on about her fucking bed. She's so far up her own arse it's unbelievable, and yet nowhere near as talented nor as influential as Tony Hart was, or Neil Buchanan from Art Attack.

[Lankytim]

I have to say I do enjoy Morrissey and The Smiths. I was a bit young to get into them first time round and ive been discovering their back catalogue over the past few years. Some real gems in there too. The wife fucking hates him and all his music however.

[dollywobbler]

Tracy Emin going on about her fucking bed. She's so far up her own arse it's unbelievable, and yet nowhere near as talented nor as influential as Tony Hart was, or Neil Buchanan from Art Attack.

Wise words indeed. Especially about Tony Hart and Neil Buchanan! Great TV.

[Cavcraft]

Vernon Kay/Family Fortunes. That fucking stupid accent echoing out from the next room every fooking Sunday FFS

100% agreement there. Annoying poncey twat he is.His bird on the other hand...PHOARRR!

[michiel]

I think Sing me to sleep might be my favourite Smiths track.

[chester drawers]

Jumping on the bandwagon I’d have to say I’m a big Smiths fan. In common with others I can take or leave most of Morrissey’s solo contributions. I am quite amused at his flouncing off stage the other week though. People travel half way round the world to see him and he’s off after 15 minutes and a glancing connection with a bit of plastic.Evidently having a captive, largely adoring audience doesn’t mean that much to him anymore. Most weeks I see support bands giving it their all, trying to prove themselves to largely indifferent, sometimes hostile audiences impatient for the main event. He’s either forgotten what hard work that is or he’s arrogant.At least when MES storms off not to return he injects a bit of drama into the occasion.

[whitevanman]

Vernon Kay/Family Fortunes. That fucking stupid accent echoing out from the next room every fooking Sunday FFS

I worked with him back in February........I can find no reason to disagree with you..............his parents are ok, but his brothers an even more anoying twat.........

[barrett]

At least when MES storms off not to return he injects a bit of drama into the occasion.

More like people expect that to happen and can deal with it, he's not been too dramatic when i've seen 'em, just buggered off and figured the audience don't care (i think he's walked off roughly 80% of the times i've seen 'em)my GOM: A girl asked me how old I was tonight. 23, I said. ''sure you're not 53?'' she said. This was before I started talking about how Datsun 140Js were highly desirable cars/how music hasn't been the same since the Floyd split up etc. On a good note someone did remark that I looked like a 1970s geography teacher which is pretty much the look i'm going for.... I told them I was picking up my new Austin Maxi on Monday.... I don't think they got it....

[outlaw118]

Germs!!!When I got married, and took the vows."All my worldly goods to share",it appears my wife sees her throat and lung infection to be a worldy good.So now i have it, and it's mutating into man-flu.i might die soon....(cough)...

[Mr H Sceptre]

At least when MES storms off not to return he injects a bit of drama into the occasion.

More like people expect that to happen and can deal with it, he's not been too dramatic when i've seen 'em, just buggered off and figured the audience don't care (i think he's walked off roughly 80% of the times i've seen 'em)my GOM: A girl asked me how old I was tonight. 23, I said. ''sure you're not 53?'' she said. This was before I started talking about how Datsun 140Js were highly desirable cars/how music hasn't been the same since the Floyd split up etc. On a good note someone did remark that I looked like a 1970s geography teacher which is pretty much the look i'm going for.... I told them I was picking up my new Austin Maxi on Monday.... I don't think they got it....

70's geography teacher is a good look.

[seth]

80's Geography teacher was a pretty good look, especially when she wore fairly see though dresses.

[Mash]

80's Geography teacher was a pretty good look, especially when she wore fairly see though dresses.

Huh we only had the standard patches jacket guys for Geography. Mind you the English teacher was pretty hot Going back to being grumpy though, will people ever learn to drive properly? I know we've had it before but I'm sick to death of trundling along behind someone doing 40mph when it's perfectly safe to do at least 55 and braking at the merest hint of a bend, then leaving me for dead when we come to a 30 limit because they're still dong 40.

[Guest]

Prime-time television on the normal channels. If I switch on the TV in the evening, it seems to emphasize the ever-increasing gulf between me and the public at large.Having a look at tonight's listings for an idea - there's the soaps, never been into soaps, any of them, that wipes out a good portion of shows. And I can't think of many things I'd like to watch less than The One Show, or anything of that ilk. Some kind of "daily fanzine" devoted to Strictly Come Dancing - unless it involves them being burned alive, I'll leave it. I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here - rotten. Some kind of drama about the Queen, can't be bothered. Ugly Betty, what a hateful show that is. Never quite grasped the appeal of QI, either. And Gordon Ramsey wants flattening. Don't want to see Graham Norton unless it's on an episode of Father Ted.Basically, I can strip it down and I'm left with a few documentaries (some will probably be alright), Panorama and Have I Got News For You. It's not like I'm a snob or anything, but where's all the good comedies, decent gameshows, just some nice general entertainment. They do exist, but they've probably all been punted onto an odd channel somewhere down the listings. I don't tend to bother searching stuff out now, I just watch a hell of a lot of DVDs.Now I'm not saying that TV in the "old days" was great either, but it seemed like there was a bit more there in the evenings - in between all the dreary costume dramas and boring rubbish you might be able to dredge up an episode of The Krypton Factor/You Bet/Catchphrase, a repeat of Only Fools and Horses/Steptoe and Son/The Brittas Empire and then some old American action film about a weatherbeaten cop/an ordinary working Joe/a likeable antihero.I think they use these extra channels as an excuse to fill the main ones up with rubbish. That's the only conclusion I can give.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

You should watch 'the thick of it', thats a good quality 'new' comedy, I love that.

[Mash]

Yeah, I'm pretty much tuned to channels 6 and above these days, as Hirst says it's mostly just dross on the "normal" channels now. I've never ever got the appeal of soaps, if you happen to catch one as you're channel hopping it tends to be people having a right barney every time, truly entertaining I'm sure.

[mnde]

You should watch 'the thick of it', thats a good quality 'new' comedy, I love that.

+1We went to see the spin-off film "In The Loop" and it was hilarious. Resulted in us buying the DVD set of series 1 and 2 and queuing up Series 3 on Sky Plus. Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker is bloody brilliant.Mark.

[Guest]

You should watch 'the thick of it', thats a good quality 'new' comedy, I love that.

I've been meaning to watch that for a bit, sounds bang up my alley at least. Might just get it on DVD.Here's another thing I don't like, taking deposits on a car and then having it around in the next few days until sale. I'm still using it as there's one or two little things I want to sort out before I pass it on, so I want to keep it close. It seems like since then everyone wants to drive badly near it - had a Mondeo closely tailgating me yesterday and some old geezer in a Picanto nearly run down the side of it this morning. The stress is too much, I'm going to sort it all out this evening in the rain/dark and use the Charmant instead.

[Rusty Pelican]

80's Geography teacher was a pretty good look, especially when she wore fairly see though dresses.

My art teacher was like that , couldnt concentrate on art for shit , just stared at her like a true perv .

[Mr Lobster]

Prime-time television on the normal channels. If I switch on the TV in the evening, it seems to emphasize the ever-increasing gulf between me and the public at large.

Agreed!I hardly ever watch tv now, theres just nothing on I want / can be bothered to watch. There have been one or two BBC things I have enjoyed though - Outnumbered and Not Going Out made me utterly stuffed full of ROFLz but other than that, nothing.Do like Casualty though (actually, I'm going out on the works Christmas 'do' on Saturday. I'd much rather stay at home and watch Casualty. Plus, I'd save a good amount of money and get a decent sleep)

[Lankytim]

Id like to moan about the local Fiat dealership here. I was asked to deliver a brand new Fiat 500 to a customer up in Aberdeen, 400 miles odd. Left at 3AM, got there at 9.30AM. What a treck, but the Fiat 500 is a surprisingly capable and comfortable little car... Anway I encountered the following problems..1) When I got there the customer wasnt it. after a delay the dealer got hold of the customer and luckily she was still in the area so came round about 30 minutes later.2) The delay caused me to miss my train to Dunfermline where my return job was.3) Apparently I was suppost to be round last Thursday to deliver the car, she stayed in all day e.t.c.4) The car was completely the wrong spec, no alloys, wrong interior e.t.c, so the now very annoyed customer rejected it. She had already had to wait 2 MONTHS longer than the dealer promised, all the time shes paying the monthy installments for a car she doesnt actually have yet. She was so cross she told the dealer to cancel the whole thing and refund her money.What a palava! Luckily for me I was told to take the 500 to the nearest Fiat dealer and dump it there, which just happend to be Dunfermline and 5 mins from my return car, so that was a stroke of luck. The Fiat will eventually get taken back to the dealer, no idea when though. When I picked the little fiat up it had 3 miles on the clock, by the time it gets back to Stoke it will have nearly 1000 miles on it and a previous owner on the logbook, making it as "used" car, rather than brand new, meaning its worth a couple of grand less than it was worth on Friday.How on earth somone can fuck things up as much as this is anyones guess. This cock up must have cost the dealer an absolute fortune with delivery charges, fuel e.t.c I thought they were desperate for people to buy cars?

[Tayne]

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[Lankytim]

Theres one in Aberdeen?? Good job they didnt realise! Saved me a 40 quid train fare anyway

[chester drawers]

Id like to moan about the local Fiat dealership here. When I picked the little fiat up it had 3 miles on the clock, by the time it gets back to Stoke it will have nearly 1000 miles on it

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