GOGS...Grumpy Old Gits Society..

I read that to my wife and she asked me what exactly I was trying to say

Fortunately, she acknowledges the fact that I am a better cook. She just does everything else better

Trisha said:

Grumpies are too quiet recently. Nothing to gripe about?

Perhaps we should start the Reformed Old Gits Society. Not for me, though, yet.

A new accent emerged in the UK a few years ago, and it's prevalent among young folk. It irritates the carp out of me.

They say gidd morning, pidding instead of pudding, Seezan instead of Susan, and a good-looking bloke is now a gidd licking blake.

Naturally, their grinning countenances punctuate this BS with the word, like, as part of their overall strategy of inefficient communication technique.

Spare us, please.

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When I read that out to Ronnie, she asked my why I was putting on a South African accent!! Maybe that's an influence like?

Anyway, the grumps are alive and well around here ta very much.

We have a large house out here in France with four acres of land. Like many, we are thinking about going back to the UK. Something about our final years back where we came from appeals although rather further north than our roots in the south.

We have someone interested in buying it but suddenly, I am somewhat reluctant to let him have it. I keep looking at the space we have (although one reason for selling is that a lot of the space is wasted with just the two of us) and then look at the houses we could afford in the UK - damned exchange rate is a problem, we were hoping that sterling would collapse not recover, and the expression 'generously proportioned' makes us laugh. Little boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same! Our bathroom is bigger than the lounge in most of them. Even on the islands where the prices are fine, the room sizes make me cringe and the feeling of being enclosed like that makes me have second, third and fourth thoughts.

Rats

PETER GUNN said:

I suppose like everything else in life it will have changed, I doubt like most things now not for the better.

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That's just a function of age I guess. Every generation thinks the next one has gorn downhill and life ain't what it was. It certainly seems that way to me but I don't particularly trust my judgement to be impartial.

I wrote a pome about a function of age!! I suspect the expression 'poetry' may well be in the ear of the listener or reader. This should cause a few grumps, I was a bit younger at the time and had just finished my period of bankruptcy .

A FUNCTION OF AGE - Poetry it ain't!

You're finished at fifty, just accept the truth
that you can't compete with the power of youth.
Don't believe what you're told, that experience counts,
to prove you can cope when the pressure mounts,
you have to have studied and we need to see
that you carry the passport - a good degree.

We don't want you to prove you can still be a thinker,
we want you in our stream, hook line and sinker.
You're fixed in your ways and your ways are out,
what the hell do you think this life is about?
Its cash that is king, sod the old, sod the poor,
don't bring their troubles to our front door.

So you ran it yourself, that was then, this is now.
You tried and you lost, we're not interested how
you arrived at this stage,
its probably just a function of age.

You've lost the lot, well we all make mistakes
but it does go to show, you've not got what it takes.
You can't expect that, at your time of life,
when you've lost your home your car and your wife,
you'll able to do what you once did so well,
you have to accept you've got nothing to sell.

You're bankrupt of cash, bereft of ideas.
I don't understand your unnatural fears
of never again earning a living wage,
its probably just a function of age.

Lets face it old man, you've got nothing to give,
we need someone who's got a long time to live,
someone who's happy to work hard and long,
someone who'll sing the company song,
someone who won't put too much of a strain
on the pension fund, so we can be sure that we gain
the maximum profit from the time they are here,
we don't want them costing the company dear.

We need to be sure time's for us, not for them.
We don't want them for life, just a short while, pro-tem,
to extract what we need while we're telling them how
when they're older and wiser then they'll have the power to make the decisions they think they can make
and of course we must tell them, for their own sake
that at the end of the day, when all's said and done,
they don't have the experience to know how to run
a company that uses the young and the strong
to help put one over the rest of the throng.

Finished at fifty?, perhaps its the truth
that those of us over the first flush of youth,
just need the chance to be able to say
that we're here, that we're needed and that is the way
to escape from the trap, get away from this cage
but maybe that's just a function of age.

gus3049 said:

I have never - knowingly - fathered any further human beings

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I've sometimes used a very similar phrase, when asked about offspring. I once blurted it out when a "date" asked if I have children. I replied ".....None that I'm aware of". Strangely, she wasn't bothered about meeting a second time.

We have this outfit in New Zealand called Trademe which is similar to ebay but works so well that ebay doesn't really have much of a chance competing with it for local trading, auctions etc. Today I received an email from Trademe informing me of changes to the privacy policy. It seems that people like me who have 'opted out' from advertising and marketing directed at us won't have this option in the future and we will have Trademe marketing directed at us. Good on you Trademe. Show me your stuff. The email waffled on for quite some time and I 'opted out' from reading any more of it.

I decided it needed a reply and here is a copy of it.

Hello,

I've just received an email waffling about changing a privacy policy to allow advertising directed more at me when I'm logged on or some such thing. Knock yourself out. I don't care how much advertising is directed at me as I am immune to it. I was opted out because I just don't care. That hasn't changed. You can attempt to market as much as you like directed at me but it will make no difference. In fact, it will cause the opposite to happen and I'll be even more determined to ignore your marketing. I use Trademe, and enjoy doing so, to buy and sell stuff I want to buy and sell. You can't sell anything to me I don't want to buy, and that will not change, so good luck with it. Hope you enjoyed the waffle. Would've been silly to read it all and I bet you can guess that I probably didn't read all the waffle you sent me either.
regards etc

I get no advertising at all

Is this why I don't have much stuff?