The New Grumpy Old Man Thread.

:furious3: Those idiots that don't think the white lines down the road have anything to do with them, especially on roundabouts. Yep, poor lane discipline really :daisy:s me off big time. After all, why get in lane good and early and stay put if you can gain a few yards by dodging and weaving and cutting someone up at the last moment.... gah! (Yes, I am having anti-tank grenades cross-wired to my horn :devil:)

Caius, you don't know how lucky you are - you live in the land where the REAL best steak can be found, and las chicas argentinas look much, much, much better in scanty clothes than what we have to put up with in England :2thumbsup:

I'm with the sun-haters here. I'm a pretty pale guy and I do not take well to the heat. Plus it means I look stupid with my jacket on but I hate going anywhere without it.

Also its just annoying looking out at 7 and its still light outside. It should be pitch black by half five every day!

Oh, I don't hate the sun - just some of the people it brings to the outdoors.

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Originally Posted by Geoffrey S

And I never thought I'd hate sunshine, but I'm getting there. Why? Because at the sight of a ray of sun every bloody yahoo gets on his boat and potters around aimlessly, without a thought for keeping to starboard and enjoying making big, big waves... :wall:

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That is punishment for not waving back, you rowers think you are better then us huh??

I love the sun. I don't know about you guys, but I get to enjoy the serenity of the outdoors, especially early morning as the rays are just peaking over the hills, Ms. Waki is snoring like a chainsaw, I climb out of bed, make a pot of coffee, fill up the thermos, grab my fishing gear, and a jacket, and walk down to bank of the Blackfoot River, and caste out my line, reeling in slowly, taking in the fresh cool, damp morning air, watching the snow capped mountains slowly illuminate in gold and then working their way down into the tall forested canopy. as an Osprey circles around in the clear skies, diving every once and awhile into the cold river, in hopes of catching the same five pound rainbow trout I've been teased by on seemingly several occasions. And the fish leap out of the rapids, eating the water nymphs or mayflies that lazily hover over patches of sunlight casting their long fingers through the trees. I have no problem with sunlight whatsoever. :beam:

and another thing, I hate angling and anglers.....

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Originally Posted by Fragony

That is punishment for not waving back, you rowers think you are better then us huh??

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Well, you ever seen what happens when a rower does wave?

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Originally Posted by Geoffrey S

Well, you ever seen what happens when a rower does wave?

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Nodding or a wink is entirely possible, it should be me foaming at you because I can't stand these rowing vultures, my boat is bigger then your canoe so move it already. But no, they are doing sports and won't move for anyone.
By the way, I do know what happens when a wave hits a rower. Now that isn't possible with my boat but my friend has a V8 and well heheheomglol. Yes I am the enemy.

Oh, and to add a pet-peeve, flashy dvd menu's that take way to long, and most of all unskippable thou shalt not steal adds. I didn't. Shut up.

Pop-ups! :stare:

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Pop-ups!

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Yeah I know , they seem like a good idea and there are some really good ones ...
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul...tanar/p-ex.htm
.....but they just end up folding wrong or getting torn .

People that feel the urge to keep pressing the button for the crosswalk light. Pressing it once is fine! The light does not change faster because you keep pressing it!

People that do not return my phone call when I really need to speak with them. I left a message and a number so please call me back damn it! I would rather not nag but urgent business requires quick response time!

Applications on facebook. I use this to keep in touch with people, not play stupid werewolf games, do pointless quizes, and other such stuff!

Teh sun is awesome, but it shouldn't stay up that long at night. Nigh impossible to fall at sleep with that giant spotlight hanging on the horizon.

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Originally Posted by Viking

Teh sun is awesome, but it shouldn't stay up that long at night. Nigh impossible to fall at sleep with that giant spotlight hanging on the horizon.

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Then move closer to the equator you northern barbarian.

Oh, and for what really ticks me off:

https://img186.imageshack.us/my.php?...gesaspxyn1.jpg

Facebook/Bebo, they should just rename it to Paedo's Menu

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Originally Posted by Ja'chyra

Facebook/Bebo, they should just rename it to Paedo's Menu

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Facebook must be destroyed, its inventor maimed beyond all recognition. :brood:

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Oh, and for what really ticks me off:

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Now you're talking , them miserable bastards with their brass and drums on a Sunday morning marching past your door making a godawful racket when any civilised person should only just be crawling into bed:furious3:

Im not an old fogie but whatever

Those :furious3: twats that play there Drum and Base :disguise: so loud you can here the wind screen vibrate! :stars:

another thing:
Internet tough guys,
Me: you can't hit me, you don't even know where I live, then they reply: Yea a :furious3: box

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Originally Posted by Abokasee

Im not an old fogie but whatever

Those :furious3: twats that play there Drum and Base :disguise: so loud you can here the wind screen vibrate! :stars:

another thing:
Internet tough guys,
Me: you can't hit me, you don't even know where I live, then they reply: Yea a :furious3: box

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Good grumps. :bow:
You and I could start a movement.

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

Now you're talking , them miserable bastards with their brass and drums on a Sunday morning marching past your door making a godawful racket when any civilised person should only just be crawling into bed:furious3:

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Teh Sally Army? :inquisitive: :laugh4:

Cyclists. If it wasn't bad enough that they completely ignore road signals, bypassing them via the pavement, they go and wear fluorescent lycra, so loud it frightens people of a sensitive disposition and horses. :furious3:

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Originally Posted by InsaneApache

Teh Sally Army? :inquisitive: :laugh4:

Cyclists. If it wasn't bad enough that they completely ignore road signals, bypassing them via the pavement, they go and wear fluorescent lycra, so loud it frightens people of a sensitive disposition and horses. :furious3:

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Worse: unwashed, fat, ugly, screaming kids on bicycles with those [bleeping] helmets on their repulsive little heads and the [bleeping] orange safety flags wagging above them.

Well at least now they're getting noticed in stead of being scraped of the pavement.

I'm constantly enervated with other people though, especially grumpy old men.

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Originally Posted by Conradus

I'm constantly enervated with other people though, especially grumpy old men.

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Good!

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Teh Sally Army?

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Nah the Sallys were not that loud and only played at the end of the street once a month , plus it wasn't till around 10 , this was the bloody boys brigade every Sunday at 7 .:thumbsdown:
Things like that should be included in a surveyors report

You see, this is why sunshine is such a bad thing.

Even if it wouldn't deter them completely, a good downpour as they're marching past would at least deaden the sound.

And in response to the cyclist-haters, I would have to say the same about dim-witted pedestrians who cannot grasp the concept of a cyclepath, feel the need to meander across my path without so much as a cursory glance, and then have the nerve to get annoyed at me when I ring my bell at them as I swerve wildly to avoid them.

With you on the lycra though, no one should have to look at that.

Speaking of pedestrians...

I've had an ongoing battle with the bastards for over a year now. Where I lived(moved now), there was a university. With lots of students. Who of course walked. And they had to cross the road that I had to use to get through the town to get where they wanted to be. Now here's when the problem starts: where they crossed the road. It was at a roundabout, like this:

https://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?...eturno2wq2.jpg

The large red slash would be the crossing. I would be driving from the road at the bottom to the road at the top(never mind the arrows, I got the pic from wiki). The crossing is all fine, signs and everything. BUT, none of the students EVER looked to see if a car was coming or not. They simply assumed that "Hey, this is the pedestrian crossing, the cars should stop for us!" All very true, of course, if you ignore the fact that our country has weather. Cold weather. And lots of it. Which turns into snow and ice in the winter. And places like these will be particularly slippery, since that's where the cars are standing still with engines running... Snow + heat = water, water + cold = ice.

And now for the great bit; if a car slips on the ice one day, he will hit the pedestrians, since they're high on their Ipods they won't know it's coming, and the blame will be COMPLETELY on the driver, since the pedestrian is a soft target in traffic, even though they could have avoided the accident easily by just doing what mommy told them to at 5...

Grumpy people and not just for the sake of irony...

My friend was parked up earlier at least 300m from the nearest house, one of our friends went into a bowls centre nearby so he beeped twice to get his attention, he didn't notice so he beeped at him twice as he was leaving and got his attention. 10 minutes later some guy drives up in a jeep and has a go at my friend for loads of beeping.. wtf?! this guy made the effort to stop what he was doing get in his car and drive to my friend to have a whinge.

Bastards who beep their horns outside my house. ~:pissed:

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Originally Posted by InsaneApache

Bastards who beep their horns outside my house. ~:pissed:

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The honkies drive you wonky?

IA, is it okay if your King/Queen beeps their horn? I ask because some of them were Tootors as I recall.

<Gregoshi runs for it...>

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Originally Posted by Gregoshi

IA, is it okay if your King/Queen beeps their horn? I ask because some of them were Tootors as I recall.

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That right was taken away after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 because the celebrations had given many of the neighbours Hanovers.

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Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

That right was taken away after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 because the celebrations had given many of the neighbours Hanovers.

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Awesum. :2thumbsup:
Historical puns FTW!