GOGS...Grumpy Old Gits Society..

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gordonzz

Discussion Starter · Apr 30, 2016

after all the years of suffering being called a miserable old bar-steward by mrs zz , I am finally rejoicing that she has come round to my way of thinking. the source of this wonderment?... a newly found joint loathing of the foul phenomenon of otherwise seemingly intelligent individuals starting a sentence with the word "so"!!!! if you have been asked , "how do you propose to re-attach that button"? , or , "what method would you use to distribute seed in your garden" , fair enough but otherwise , nooooooooooo! other current hot favourites are "yoofs" with their kecks hanging out the top of their trousers and newly qualified drivers with a green p plate (clearly designating pillock) who refuse to commit to crossing a roundabout without having received a written invitation at least a fortnight in advance! what gets your hackles up?

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Mr Modifier

· #54 · May 8, 2016

Yappy dogs. Especially in pairs.

My neighbour bought a pair of sausage dogs and leaves them in his garden. Now every time I sneak out to the garage to fetch a beer the hounds from hell break out into a yapping contest that registers at least 5.9 on the Richter scale.

Oh and slot cars that won't drive straight out the box. It's no way to encourage newbies if their shiny team slot Saleen won't move or their cute SCX 4wd 2CV won't go round a corner without falling over. OK I can accept a need to fettle to make a car go quick but not a need to fettle to just make it go!!!

Mr Modifier

· #196 · Jun 24, 2016

My biggest grump is I have too many projects and too little time because I'm not old enough to retire and will probably never be able to afford to retire and when I am old enough to retire my eyes won't be able to see well enough and my hands will be too shaky to execute my projects and my reactions will be shot so I won't be able to win races.

I guess that my other grump therefore has to be that in playing the lottery since the very first draw all I have won is about £100 - not enough to retire on.

Mind you when the EU collapses soon I could probably use the £100 to buy Belgium.

Mr Modifier

· #198 · Jun 24, 2016

Holland. Need somewhere to park the car

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Mr Modifier

· #201 · Jun 24, 2016

and a haircut

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Mr Modifier

· #204 · Jun 25, 2016 (Edited by Moderator)

Blimey! And we valued the Netherlands at 3x Belgium! I guess tongue-in-cheek banter doesn't cross borders so well.

No insults were intended. Better keep my £100 in the piggy bank then

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Mr Modifier

· #208 · Jun 25, 2016

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Mr Modifier

· #1,278 · Nov 14, 2018

Im at work, full of cold, still 4 hours left on the clock and Im at least 15 miles from the nearest slot car.

Im definitely grumpy. Compared to 95% of my colleagues I am old. Not sure if Im a git - but if anybody is cheerful around me before 5pm I may find out.

Apart from that Im fine 🙂

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Mr Modifier

· #1,280 · Nov 14, 2018

Turns out Im not a git - well nobody was cheerful in my presence before 5pm so I may be a latent git but at the moment I am lacking corroborating evidence of gitness.

So until I can complete the holy trinity I think I had better jump over to the pedants thread and work a bit harder....

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Mr Modifier

· #1,389 · Jan 7, 2019 (Edited by Moderator)

Actually the Welsh for Park is Parc - just saying...

Oops sorry - this is GOGS - thought I was in Pedants for a mo 😎

Mr Modifier

· #1,548 · Apr 17, 2019

1. People
2. People
3. Microscopic organisms
4. People

Mr Modifier

· #1,746 · Dec 3, 2019

The BBC news carried some devastating news last week . The demise of the Apostrophe Protection Society.

Formed in 2001 it enjoyed some success in preventing the abuse of the apostrophe. Sadly it closed a week or so ago because the 96 year old founder said that ignorance and apathy had won the war against bad grammar.

Successes included getting libraries to write the plural of CD as CDs this removing the apostrophe between the D and the s. Ironically I cannot illustrate this because SlotForum strips all apostrophes from my text when I post from my iPhone.

My case is fully rested!

Last week I attended a meeting to inform parents of the subject choices available in the Spring. The first slide was entitled Available choices except there was an apostrophe between the e and the s.

When confronting a teacher with this fact I was met with a look of confusion and a shrug of the shoulders.

Mourn the world dear hearts for it is surely ending in a morass of confusion and chaos.

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Mr Modifier

· #1,796 · Dec 30, 2019

Well I am in my late 50s and my smartphone is invaluable - I use it to keep up to date on SlotForum and another forum.

I also use Whatsapp to manage our slot car club. And it is handy to keep in touch with people I work with because we are rarely all in the office at the same time.

I dont do social media (apart from whatsapp).

The browser is really handy for ordering from various slot car suppliers and for buying and selling slot car stuff on evilBay.

Dont know what non-slotters see in smartphones but it certainly it helps me engage more with my hobby!

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Mr Modifier

· #2,004 · Jan 30, 2020

I lived near Swindon for 20 years and used the Magic Roundabout several times each week. If actually works really well - if you know how to read it. If it is jammed one way there is always another route to your exit.

The most important rule was give way if the other vehicle is worth less than yours - except buses which ALWAYS had right of way because the drivers were bonkers.

Mr Modifier

· #2,137 · Feb 24, 2020

Ah - overuse of hyperbole.

The problem is that once you use hyperbole you have nowhere to go for emphasis.

Maybe its indicative of the modern world where it seems you need to go big in order to get attention.

Its akin to the over-use of swearing. I rarely swear so when I do people sit up and take notice - whereas others who swear regularly have no means to express annoyance/frustration because people are used to hearing it and tune it out.

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Mr Modifier

· #2,503 · Jun 27, 2020 (Edited by Moderator)

Dog poop can contain small parasites that can cause blindness in humans. That explains the fines - you dont want your local park becoming a danger to human health. Even after the dog poo has washed away the roundworm eggs can remain active for several years - these eggs if absorbed by a human can cause an illness that can lead to blindness. No other domesticated animal can cause this so its the only one that there are fines for.

Foxes also carry the parasite but they dont defecate in open spaces and who would you fine?

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Mr Modifier

· #2,600 · Aug 11, 2020 (Edited by Moderator)

English, like any language in current usage, will evolve. Modern technology has decimated grammar. Who knew Like was a noun? Gay certainly has a different meaning from the last century.

This is not a recent phenomenon. Silly used to mean carefree and was something to be admired but somewhere at the end of the 19th century it became synonymous with frivolous and then stupid.

Latin is fixed because it is dead and not in common usage. Nobody has a clue how to correctly pronounce the words - undoubtedly there were dialects.

Canadians believe their version of French is better than that in France - in truth they have simply diverged under the different cultural influences on each side of the Atlantic.

There is no correct usage of any living language because they are constantly adapting to the needs of the time.

Making yourself understood is more important than following a model of correctness that is already out of date before publication.

It doesnt stop me getting irritated at lazy punctuation though! It would appear that, in the spirit of evolution, it is my problem for me to deal with and not the young journo muppet who probably typed it with their thumb on a smartphone with not-so-smart autocorrect whilst half their brain was scanning for the next selfie opportunity.

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Mr Modifier

· #3,001 · Nov 5, 2020

I thought this was a grumpy old gits thread. Now its just a load of pussies.

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Mr Modifier

· #3,981 · Feb 25, 2021

Ah dogs vs. cats. You feed a dog and it thinks you are a God. You feed a cat and it thinks it is a God.

Mr Modifier

· #4,022 · Feb 28, 2021

Pourquoi?

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Mr Modifier

· #4,026 · Feb 28, 2021

Morris Oxford was licensed by Hindustan Motors in India and manufactured between 1958 and 2014 so you could argue that model was made from 1947-2014. It wasnt called the Morris Oxford but it was the same car.

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