The Grumble thread…

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…

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…..

People who say “I’ll start..” but don’t.

Even worse they then start in a second post.

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?

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

People who say ‘Sorry but’ and then list all the reasons they’re not sorry.

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.

The water flooding my yard every time it rains hard.

Brexit
&
Brexiteers

😆 😛

Other people who don’t understand the joy of riding bikes.

Think that covers it 😀

People who refuse to take responsibility for themselves and their impact on the world.

Which is a lot of people.

**** the lot of them.

Threads that advertise grumble. Slinks off to a hedge on an A14 layby.

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.

My beefs, 2016

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.

Lazy link posting and clickbait headings in forums 😆

Opening the dishwasher at the end of the cycle to find that the tablet has embedded itself on the top of a plate.

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.

Nom nom….

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.

@ loddrick – teach it who’s boss, put the tablet on the base of the dishwasher. Unless you have pre-rinse, obvsly.

And people who use trendy messaging abbreviations

People who use the word “trendy”

Fog lights (rear in particular) when it’s not foggy – really grinds my gears.

It’s lovely here after a few days of bobbins weather and I’m not very well 🙁

People who use the word “trendy”

People who put words in quotes unnecessarily.

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 😡

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…..

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)

People who can’t cope with perfectly rational engineering applications.

Remoaners who never miss a trick to introduce Brexit into an STW thread even when it has absolutely nothing to do with it.

People who use the word “Remoaners”.

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.

So…..

People that write “loose” instead of “lose” 👿

well…

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

**** 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

Fog lights (rear in particular) when it’s not foggy – really grinds my gears.

Alan doesn’t like that much either…..

😆

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.

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.