Grumpy old women...

[louisiana]

VeryBerryCherry Wrote:

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> My gripe has to be child related, and I am a

> little reticent to write this, as being a

> non-parental, and can only imagine in my worst

> nightmares what it?s like. But...

>

> Kids in Sainsburys!!!

Yes indeed, and one of the main reasons I don't go there.

Mind you, there are often about 200 adults in a trance state too.

[KalamityKel]

That's no way to talk about the staff ;-)

[DJKillaQueen]

You wake up said child and fold up said buggy (and then it takes up less room than it needs to).

Dita....it get's worse as you get older and you'll find that bacon alone is not enough.

[louisiana]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> That's no way to talk about the staff ;-)

And talking of staff, another reason for not going there is all those checkout staff continuously demanding a Nectar card. Tiresome.

[louisiana]

In fact, I've developed a huge loathing for all automatons in chain shops. Sainsbury's, Boots, WH Smith, you name it.

[KalamityKel]

Or just shops in general

[dita-on-tees]

I have just been one of those tranced sainsburys shoppers. i attempted the self check out too ha ha. what was i thinking. need a lie down now.

[louisiana]

Did I mention the people on my road (owner-occupiers) who insist on filling every window of their many-windowed house with crappy, universally broken, dirty net curtains, which are always drawn (in a broken kind of way)?

If they ever see it from the outside, they must realise how crappola it looks to all the neighbours and passers by, and if they never come out they must be seeing their entire world through those ghastly filters 24/7.

[louisiana]

dita-on-tees Wrote:

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> I have just been one of those tranced sainsburys

> shoppers. i attempted the self check out too ha

> ha. what was i thinking. need a lie down now.

Sainbury's is the new Valium. That's why parents go there: it absolves them of all responsibility for the antics of their 'he's got ADHD' kids.

[louisiana]

Shrieking women. If there's anything liable to make me go out and buy a shotgun, it's shrieking women. You know, the ones that shriek and scream for 3-4-5-6 hours when drunk, shriek for four days 24/7 in the tent next to yours etc. Have they got a birth defect or defective gene or summat?

[The Commander]

louisiana Wrote:

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> Shrieking women. If there's anything liable to

> make me go out and buy a shotgun, it's shrieking

> women. You know, the ones that shriek and scream

> for 3-4-5-6 hours when drunk, shriek for four days

> 24/7 in the tent next to yours etc. Have they got

> a birth defect or defective gene or summat?

the words grumpy and old come to mind.......

[binary_star]

Weedy&/or obsequious men. I HATE them. Grow a pair, please!

Example - *** seriously winds me up - he has his head so far firmly wedged up ***'s anus it actually makes me feel nauseous to watch them together...*** And apparently he's always in the doghouse with his parnter for something ridiculous like burning the toast.

EDIT: Stars replace incriminating evidence because they read the forum :-$

[michelle-b]

Of course my first ever forum post would be on this thread ;)

People who cycle with their hairy bum cracks on show, that also extends to underwear!

[ClareC]

Polly D Wrote:

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> What makes me grumpy: people assuming that all

> parents are selfish. Where would you like me to

> stick my buggy quite possibly containing sleeping

> child? Should I really drive everywhere even

> though we have a good public transport system?

> Then you'd moan the roads were clogged up with

> smug mothers driving outrageous cars. Get over

> yourselves fellow grumpsters. Being a parent does

> not automatically make one selfish. And if I'm on

> a bus with son and buggy and a wheelchair user got

> on, I would of course move and/or get off.

I second this! Along with intolerance of others.... especially others that are "different" to yourself. Prejudicial generalisations!!

[dita-on-tees]

michelle-b Wrote:

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> Of course my first ever forum post would be on

> this thread ;)

>

> People who cycle with their hairy bum cracks on

> show, that also extends to underwear!

eughhhh another reason for my cycle to stay in the cellar!

Binary - I used to work pretty much in an all male office and I have never seen so much embarrassing fawning in my life. I have an insight in to the all boys public school world, there is a definite hierarchy...

[binary_star]

dita-on-tees Wrote:

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> Binary - I used to work pretty much in an all male

> office and I have never seen so much embarrassing

> fawning in my life. I have an insight in to the

> all boys public school world, there is a definite

> hierarchy...

Yes it's sad to watch, all that back-slapping and false smiling at the jolly good ribbings they get from each other, oh and how they fake laugh at it all...bleugh! Actually I'm thinking of starting a comic strip about it for cathartic purposes.

[binary_star]

People who make stupid/erroneous/embarrassing statements based on flawed logic or their own opinion rather than fact. I am constantly amazed by how many people who do this, knowing full well that their claims cannot be substantiated, or even worse can be clearly and publicly refuted by known facts. My gripe at the moment (apart from spurious claims about what percentage of the population has below average income) is ignorant statements about cyclists. They normally include something about jumping red lights, cycling on pavements and/or not paying road taxes/wearing lycra/hugging trees/killing kittens and puppies. Why don't people arm themselves with the FACTS first before spurting out drivel they know nothing about??? Grr...

[louisiana]

Could I shorten that one to: 'people who make a voluble public display of their ignorance'?

On the 'averages' one, it's clear that quite a few people have no grasp of basic school-level stats.

[binary_star]

My main issue is when people make ignorant statements to back up their wrong opinions. Displaying ignorance doesn't actually bother me that much, but trying to spread nonsense about based on it does.

[louisiana]

I don't think opinions can be wrong. 'I think the Pope should be shot' is an opinion and is as valid as any other opinion.

I think the problem lies with (a) an inability to distinguish fact from fantasy, and fact from opinion, and (b) a complete absence of logic, both of which are subsets of a complete lack of general education.

[KalamityKel]

Grumpy old women! Just wot IS the deal wiv 'em? ;-)

[DJKillaQueen]

Once a month we have to moan about everything Kalamity!

[katie1997]

and for some us, considerably more than once a month.

[DJKillaQueen]

But an opinion requires fact if it is to then be acted upon you would think......yet even government often shapes policy based on 'impression' or 'opinion' rather than fact. Is it just something we as humans can't seem to stop ourselves from doing.

[KalamityKel]

I don't want to get old! ::o