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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StuBeeDoo

· #801 · Dec 12, 2017

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I'm looking for another 1:1 car. My first point-of-call is Autotrader. I've noticed that a certain large dealership group, whose initials are EH, are in the habit of posting images of their cars before they are valeted.

What on earth is that all about? Surely they're not taking these cars in and punting them on without spending a couple of hours getting them smartened-up? Do they not realise that the likes of me (and I'm sure there must be plenty like me) will take one look at the car and say "If the last owner left the car that manky then it's unlikely to have been looked after mechanically, either"? These aren't cheap cars, either - today's example had an asking price of £15.5k!

..........And I have it on very good authority that this particular dealership group habitually fit the cheapest parts they can source on the vehicles they sell. I don't know about you, but if I'm buying a car from a franchised dealership, I expect it to have been fitted with genuine parts - not some cheap, barely-up-to-spec items.

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injectorman

· #802 · Dec 13, 2017

StuBeeDoo said:
I'm with you, Gordon.

I hadn't noticed any fresh surface dressing, on my travels, for years. I thought it had fallen out of favour. Then, lo-and-behold, we out on Saturday afternoon (after I had read your first post on the subject) and came across half a mile of the stuff that had only been laid a few days previously.

Anyway, my latest grump is barbecues. Bloody offensive smelling pastime.

Our neighbours have had one every evening for the last week. 3 times they have fired-up just as Wor Lass has hung washing on the line. I admit my feelings on this particular subject are also influenced by the fact that I'm choosy about what I eat and I dislike barbecued food. I can't understand how anyone can enjoy meat that is burnt to a frazzle on the outside and barely warm in the middle.
I suppose that proper barbecuing is a black art and the food can be cooked evenly but (a bit like plastering) you can either do it or you can't. .....I've never yet come across anyone who can.

In Oz everyone can BBQ

StuBeeDoo

· #803 · Dec 31, 2017 (Edited by Moderator)

Here's a good one for New Yer's Eve (19hr30 currently in the UK). My "got-to-have-everything-his-own-way-at-all-costs" millennial step-son..................

I find it hard tolerating him at the best of times for various reasons, most of all his insistence that everyone who voted "leave" - or abstained - has ruined his life. But today's revelation from him really takes the biscuit. (He's known for at least eighteen months that his mother and I have been planning a road trip to Italy in September '18. He also knows how much this holiday means to us because we both turn 60 in 2018. He hasn't forgotten because every time he visits he enquires how the Italian lessons and trip planning are going.)

So now he announces that he and his Ukrainian girlfriend are going to marry in Kiev in September. Apparently there are no options on wedding date, and we are expected to be there (and obviously his mother wants to be).

Apart from our (potentially spoiled) road trip being that month, neither Wor Lass or I are good flyers. Also, girlfriend's parents don't speak English and we don't speak Russian. I suppose that it's natural for the bride to want to get married on home turf, but I'm really not happy about the flying - I'd rather go by land, but then our "60th birthday treat" definitely wouldn't happen.

(........... And don't get me started on this being his second marriage within 4 years)

He hasn't considered his sister, either. She's a teaching assistant and will have difficulty getting time-off in term-time.

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Ade

· #804 · Dec 31, 2017

Hi

isn't the Italian GP on at Monza in September

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StuBeeDoo

· #805 · Dec 31, 2017 (Edited by Moderator)

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Ade said:
Hi

isn't the Italian GP on at Monza in September

Bollocks to the GP, I want to stay long enough for RallyLegend.

EDIT:- Something else to be grumpy about - RL doesn't start until 11 October.

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Ade

· #806 · Dec 31, 2017

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Hi

age must have it's liberties so I'm told

me personally would dig my heels in very hard and not change, you announced first and if they really want you there they will fold first

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StuBeeDoo

· #807 · Dec 31, 2017

Ade said:
........ you announced first and if they really want you there they will fold first

Unfortunately he has plenty of "previous". Not only does he expect everyone to be where he wants, when he wants - he also thinks nothing of ducking-out of previous engagements if he gets an invitation he thinks is preferable.

Ade

· #808 · Dec 31, 2017

Hi

the Lad is clearly in need of tough love

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gus3049

· #809 · Dec 31, 2017 (Edited by Moderator)

Since when is a date nine months hence not adjustable? Do you know why it is carved in stone and held in cement?

StuBeeDoo

· #810 · Dec 31, 2017

gus3049 said:
Since when is a date nine months hence not adjustable?

Since it was arranged by the original "millennial".

gus3049 said:
Do you know why it is carved in stone and held in cement?

Refer to previous answer.

I have never known such an intransigent group of people as Generation Y. Step-son (and -daughter, for that matter) isn't the only one. I work with a bunch of twenty- and thirty-somethings and they are all the same. I'll be honest, I don't like categorising people indiscriminately but I've never known any demographic where people who are completely unknown to each other think, act and talk so alike. :wacko:

My parents were "Silent Generation" and I'm a "Baby Boomer". We had our differences, but most of the time could agree to differ. In my experience the concept of "agree to differ" is alien to Generation Y. If you don't agree with them 100%, you're THE ENEMY.

Ade

· #811 · Dec 31, 2017

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Hi

It's the clique and mindset that Twitter and Farcebook have created

listen to the student brigade on public transport in rush hour talking to there friends while in screen zombie mode bragging how many likes or re tweets they've had

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StuBeeDoo

· #812 · Dec 31, 2017

Further to my last post (810, previous page), they all, without exception, seem to find it difficult to form longer sentences without the prefix "So........".

Me: 'Morning, Simon

Simon: 'Morning Stu

Me: Did you have a good weekend?

Simon: Aye. OK

Me: Did you do much?

Simon: So, we got a babysitter on Friday evening and went out for a meal

Me: Cool. Anywhere nice?

Simon: So, it's this Italian called Primavera. Know it?

Me: Yeah, we've been there. We liked it

Simon: So, Saturday me and some mates went to the match. Got beat again

Me: Not doing very well, are they?

Simon: So, they need to spend money and buy some decent players

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Ecurie Martini

· #813 · Jan 1, 2018

Generations and differences are difficult to deal with. My son was born in 1970. 1970 was a very good year in the Bordeaux. I laid in a goodly stock of '70 Grand Cru thinking that it would be a kick to celebrate an eventual marriage with wine as old as he was. In 1992 he phoned me from Chicago to tell me that he and his live-in girlfriend had just been married. I drank the wine. My daughter, 26 (second marriage) is a very accomplished young woman. She graduated cum laude with a double major in History and French from a very good school and is enjoying rapid career advancement. Nevertheless, she is tethered to her iPhone as if it were an external vital organ. When I confronted (now ex) wife #2 about some serious misbehavior (she is 20 years younger than I, essentially a different generation) her reaction was "I thought you were more of a 90's kind of guy. My friends all say it's no big deal"

Is it any wonder that I only build models of pre 1960 cars?

EM

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JasonB

· #814 · Jan 2, 2018

Tonight we had a family meal, 13 of us, and five of the young lads were looking at their phones.

We asked them to stop looking at their phones and talk to the rest of of us.

Guess what happened?

Well, surprisingly they all put their phones away and talked to us.

Wrong thread for this I know, but I searched for "cheer up you grumpy sods", and "young people can be nice, but they won't always do what we want".

Is there any chance, no matter how small a chance, that we should show a little more love?

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munter

· #815 · Jan 2, 2018

What you need is a good board game to engage the youth.....something like Crokinole?

StuBeeDoo

· #816 · Jan 2, 2018

JasonB said:
We asked them to stop looking at their phones and talk to the rest of of us.

Guess what happened?

Well, surprisingly they all put their phones away and talked to us.

Lucky you! In our extended family we get "So, talk about something I'm interested in then!" :grump: The only reason they visit is that they get fed. Usually, once their meal has settled they're making excuses to leave. Oh, and step-son's usual reason for rocking-up is that he's meeting friends locally (he lives 150 miles away) and wants a free bed for the night.

StuBeeDoo

· #817 · Jan 8, 2018 (Edited by Moderator)

Well, as predicted, the Ukrainian wedding will happen in September and as a consequence our Italian roadtrip is now on indefinite hold. My personal misgivings have been over-ruled by "a mother's love". The 4-day trip to Kiev is going to cost pretty-much half of what we would have spent travelling to Italy for 2 weeks.

The only minor plus-point is that going to Kiev will either conquer or strengthen my (perceived) fear of flying. I'll be visiting my GP beforehand to discuss what I can take to reduce both my anxiety (a part of which is claustrophobia-induced) and my motion-sickness.

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StuBeeDoo

· #818 · Jan 11, 2018

A mug of coffee made with a shot of espresso topped-off with a generous helping of steamed milk is correctly pronounced "lat-teh" not "lar-tay".

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gus3049

· #819 · Jan 11, 2018

I definitely get the impression that you have felt more at peace with the world

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StuBeeDoo

· #820 · Jan 11, 2018 (Edited by Moderator)

gus3049 said:
I definitely get the impression that you have felt more at peace with the world

Actually, Gordon, as I keep telling Wor Lass - I'm smiling inside. :lol:

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