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Or should it be the the Victor Meldrew thread?

Anyhow, I thought it would be fun to have a place to document all those little things in life that niggle you.

I'll start...


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 8:41 am
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Bloody eco toilets!

Can't shift a man-size poo resulting in much brush wielding, several flushes with the attendant long waits for the cistern to refill.

Not only are they a waste of time, but they must use much more water.

Bloody eco toilets!

Grumble, grumble.....


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 8:41 am
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People who say "I'll start.." but don't.

Even worse they then start in a second post.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 8:42 am
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staying with the toilet theme... people who put a chemical bog in their camper van

why would you want your home from home to smell like a festival loo?


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 8:46 am
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Not the kind of grumble I was hoping for.

Anyway:

Dirt embedded deep in leeks from the garden
When coffee grounds escape around the edge of the cafetiere press
Fatuous bollocks


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 8:46 am
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People who say 'Sorry but' and then list all the reasons they're not sorry.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 8:51 am
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Ruddy jobsworth train drivers that stick with the 2 bikes on a train rule on a commuter train.

If you don't stack the bikes like a moron then you can get 4 bikes in there and still be able to open the door. But no, you have to wield that tiny bit of power you have don't you, you miserable, coffin dodging got.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 8:53 am
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The water flooding my yard every time it rains hard.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 9:12 am
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Brexit
&
Brexiteers

😆 😛


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 9:12 am
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Other people who don't understand the joy of riding bikes.

Think that covers it 😀


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:10 am
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People who refuse to take responsibility for themselves and their impact on the world.

Which is a lot of people.

**** the lot of them.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:13 am
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Threads that advertise grumble. Slinks off to a hedge on an A14 layby.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:16 am
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People who drive in to a yellow hatch on the road without the exit being clear.

YOU ARE THE REASON THAT TRAFFIC JAMS EXIST. GET OF THE FUKKEN ROAD YOU NITWITS.

Sorry, bit extreme for a grumble, but I nearly missed collecting my parcel yesterday because of these absolute plums.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:26 am
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My beefs, 2016


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:33 am
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The people stood on the high street with clipboards who come up to you and ask "who's your gas and electric with?" as if that's a reasonable opener for a conversation with a stranger. Which brand of tampon does your wife use, you c@$£?

Every sodding lunchtime. I'm running out of t**tish responses.

Oh, and pretty much anything to do with the railways in this country.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:45 am
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Lazy link posting and clickbait headings in forums 😆


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:47 am
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Opening the dishwasher at the end of the cycle to find that the tablet has embedded itself on the top of a plate.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:48 am
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Things that stop working for no bloody good reason. Usually computer related.
Case 1. Canon printer. Not used much, practically brand new. Works fine. Switch it off. Few days later switch it on. Shagged. No response. Why? Hammer.

Case 2. iPod. Added songs to it one day. Few days later, plug it in. Not recognised. Large brick.

My spare room is littered with computery debris.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:58 am
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Nom nom....


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:59 am
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Oh and picking up on Loddrick's dishwasher - why is the "Salt needed" light on all the bloody time? Salt thing full to the brim? or empty? Salt light. Argh.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 10:59 am
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@ loddrick - teach it who's boss, put the tablet on the base of the dishwasher. Unless you have pre-rinse, obvsly.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:03 am
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And people who use trendy messaging abbreviations


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:04 am
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People who use the word "trendy"


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:07 am
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Fog lights (rear in particular) when it's not foggy - really grinds my gears.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:09 am
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It's lovely here after a few days of bobbins weather and I'm not very well 🙁


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:10 am
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[i]People who use the word "trendy" [/i]

People who put words in quotes unnecessarily.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:12 am
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MIDI. I just want to play my synths, not spend my evening figuring out some poxy MIDI routing software that was designed by engineers, for engineers, and never UI tested by any normals 😡


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:16 am
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People who are supposed to be in charge.
The machines stopped.
Yes,it's that fault I told you about months ago.
But why has it stopped.?
Because of the fault I told you about months ago.
But why has it.....


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:17 am
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in fact any UI that was clearly never user-tested.

(Or manual for said item that was never proof-read by someone who didn't already know how the thing worked)


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:17 am
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People who can't cope with perfectly rational engineering applications.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:19 am
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Posted : 23/11/2016 11:21 am
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Remoaners who never miss a trick to introduce Brexit into an STW thread even when it has absolutely nothing to do with it.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:22 am
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People who use the word "Remoaners".


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:23 am
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People that open a for sale ad with "Here we have..."

People who walk slowly and/or change direction without looking

The Kardashians. The decline of western civilisation in a nutshell. The perfect storm of greed and stupidity.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:25 am
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So.....


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:31 am
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People that write "loose" instead of "lose" 👿


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:35 am
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well...

slow walking people who meander so you can't get past them

****s driving whilst texting, i nearly got run over walking to work this morning and not for the first time

ar'holes who accelerate towards zebra crossings when there's people waiting or even already on the crossing. Mind boggles at what they think they are doing


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:36 am
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Fog lights (rear in particular) when it's not foggy - really grinds my gears.

Alan doesn't like that much either.....

😆


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:39 am
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People in front who take several years to turn off the road onto another road or a drive. My cars got the fancypants autostopping thing so the lights flash on the dash and occasionally it'll brake if they take too long to get out of the way.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:43 am
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People that open a for sale ad with "Here we have..."

yes, good point. First up against the wall come the revolution.

Also Cath Kidston, anything she has ever designed, and anyone who has ever purchased anything she has ever designed.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:45 am
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Icy roads
People who stop at the top of escalators
people who blame everyone else for their own failings


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 11:48 am
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People who stop at the top of escalators

At the gate at an airport, people were filing down corridor, down an escalator, and towards the door for the bus to the plane. It wasn't there yet, so they queued - back from the door and to the bottom of the escalator... I had to physically move a couple of people to prevent a huge pileup.

Honestly 🙄


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 12:03 pm
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so they queued

Any queue in a public place should be a right angles to the 'flow' of pedestrians. #itsthelaw

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Posted : 23/11/2016 12:09 pm
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People when asked a reasonable question who answer, "so" then the answer, is this a new thing?

Is it buying time?


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 12:10 pm
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People who post something deliberately contentious to wind people up and end it with "just sayin'"

People who get all arsey over something you're doing on your own property, when it has no impact on them whatsoever.

Crap spelling and the use of completely the wrong words, like draws when they mean drawers, aloud when they mean allowed etc.

Adverts that have stuff for sale, but expect you to guess how much they deem a "reasonable offer" and then get arsey when you offer them less than they are willing to accept.


 
Posted : 23/11/2016 12:16 pm
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