Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 43, ouch, that's enough to give you RSI in your pill popping fingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippydave Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I need to complain about the fact that I have nothing to feel grumpy about...... Every muscle aches this morning but it's the corollary to riding a two hour off road motorcycle race in the ice yesterday, and crashing numerous times...ie Self-inflicted.. I have a some big bills to pay this month, but once again self-inflicted..... I'm reasonably healthy, my family are healthy who needs to complain about stuff.... Oh hang on, my current grump is with people complaining about trivial sh*t.... :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 I think the whole problem started with the Anadin advert a long time ago "nothing works faster than Anadin" so people took nothing I do that too, still talk back to the telly when ads come on that say "nothing works faster" or "nothing is more effective" - "Fine, I'll use nothing, then!" There used to be an Anadin commercial in the States where a guy checks in at the front desk of a busy hotel and asks, "Do you have anything for a headache?" - everyone used to say back to their TVs, "Why do you want a headache?", or "Yes - the room next to the freeway!". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Texts from unknown ambulance chasers, telling me I'm owed £X000 from a road traffic accident I was involved in, some years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippydave Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Reasons to be grumpy part 3... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibby Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 (edited) My other current one is the commercial for this automatic Dettol soap dispenser. You wave your hand under it and it delivers a dollop of soap "so you never need touch a dirty soap dispenser again". A few points here...if you don't touch it, how would it get dirty? Most importantly, why do you touch a soap dispenser? To get soap! And what do you do once you've got the soap? You wash your f***ing hands, that's what! You don't get the soap and walk around with it, moaning about how dirty your hands are now you've touched the dispenser! F***ing ad people must think we're all morons... Oh so very true. I hate that ad and the way it treats as absolute idiots. You don't touch the soap dispenser when you've already washed your hands. The door handle on the way out of the bog is a bigger worry. But in the grand scheme of things, it can't do us any harm, how long have we been living without these things? How have we possibly survived? The politician/ BBC witch hunt over whathisface Heston, taking his £1m bonus off dim despite hitting every target the government set for him, surprised he didn't walk out and let some other mug do the job. But the public outcry doesn't begrude a £6m salary to a football manager than hasn't won a single trophy. The favourite to replace him can barely wipe his own butt, can't spell or use email. Sounds perfect! Restaurants using 'pan fried' in the menu, why do they have to tell us it's fried in a pan? What else are you going to fry it in? A washiny up bowl? Restaurants advertising for 'Chef wanted, no experience required' ... sorry, chef? Don't you mean cook, or trainee with no experience? Same goes for every man and his dog calling themselves an engineer. You don't do a 3 day course in first aid and call yourself a doctor or a surgeon. The news having to report on the weather with a reporter stood on a miserable motorway bridge in the middle of the night, as if we wouldn't believe them when they say it's raining unless they stand the poor b******* out there in it. The news reporting on weather at all, its not news, it snowed, it's winter, report on it if we get snowed in around June but snow in February? That's far more important than the situation in Syria. Jeez, I could moan for Britain. Edited February 13, 2012 by Dibby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark (smokey mow) Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My grump at this minute is packaging. Likewise, I have a hatred for things that come excessively packaged, mainly food but also small electrical items As an example I've just had this delivered this morning (squint and you can just see it in amongst it's packaging). I mean goodness me, I know it's just come from Germany and then rattled around in the back of my postmans van but did it really need 3 boxes and a cellophane wrapper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echoz Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 The news having to report on the weather with a reporter stood on a miserable motorway bridge in the middle of the night, as if we wouldn't believe them when they say it's raining unless they stand the poor b******* out there in it. The news reporting on weather at all, its not news, it snowed, it's winter, report on it if we get snowed in around June but snow in February? That's far more important than the situation in Syria. :d :d tears of laughter so very true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SootySport Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Why does everyone keep asking me if I'm Allwright? Drives me nut's. I'm Bernie goodness me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 Bernie goodness me? Hell of a family surname! What Christian names do your other relatives have? B*gger Off? Shut Up? Grow Up? Do tell! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echoz Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 On the subject of names, It does irritate me when people ask my name, i reply with my name (which is kingston) and then they ask if im okay being called that.... urm well yeah, its my name, why wouldnt i be? Also when persons of authority, mainly police officers, and when i was at school, sub teachers, would question if i was telling the truth when asked my name. i hate being accused of lying! I've also had people say to me that they expected me to be black, again can grind at times that one, so now we have prejudices based on names alone... narrow mindedness is maybe what im describing here, i bl**** hate it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurksalot Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Well, we moan enough, don't we? It deserves a thread! My grump for today is the inability of British newsreaders to pronounce Los Angeles. This was brought on by all the stuff today about Whitney Houston's sad death. Bl**dy stupid BBC and Sky newsreaders and reporters kept saying Los Ang-el-ease, not Los Ang-el-es, which is the way everyone in the damned city correctly says it. Even the British reporter BASED in Los Angeles couldn't say it right! I fired off emails to both broadcasters blasting them and telling them to knock it off...and within ten minutes the bint on the BBC was visibly making an effort to say it right! I also ranted about how, ironically, they could pronounce Whitney Houston correctly, but when it came to the Texas city, they lost the plot and called it "Whos-ton"! Grump over...what's your current grump? goodness me My absolute Grump is the way we pander to the foreign pronunciation of foriegn names and places It really racks me off when the UK news readers try to pronounce these places in the local accent the capital of France is Paris not Pareee Los Angeles is Loss Anjalees , get over it Or do you think you should also be inflicting the hispanic accent aswell , oh , and while you at it give it its full title maybe El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, maybe is a mouthfull , but you might find was original Mexican name of the place, but hey I guess its your heritage to claim or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echoz Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 tough night fella? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 goodness me My absolute Grump is the way we pander to the foreign pronunciation of foriegn names and places It really racks me off when the UK news readers try to pronounce these places in the local accent the capital of France is Paris not Pareee Los Angeles is Loss Anjalees , get over it Or do you think you should also be inflicting the hispanic accent aswell , oh , and while you at it give it its full title maybe El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, maybe is a mouthfull , but you might find was original Mexican name of the place, but hey I guess its your heritage to claim or not So let me get this straight. You get upset when news readers correctly pronounce the name of a place, but you're OK with it when they mispronounce it? In case you're one of the very, very few people in here who didn't know it, as a Yank I lived in southern California for 15 years. NO ONE in LA, American, Mexican or any other nationality, has EVER pronounced it that way. NO ONE. Los Ang-gel-ease is WRONG on EVERY level. WRONG - BAD DOG. BAD. NO DINNER FOR YOU. This also applies to "Hughes-ton" and "Mish-e-gan" (not "Mitch-e-gan"). Hundreds of millions people are right, and a handful of news readers - and you - are wrong. You'll get over it. Perhaps you'd like to return to the name Londidnium? Or don't you want to claim your "heritage"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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