[marvinbarcelona]

As I get older, these are the things that I'm getting grumpier about;

01. Litter - there are bins, use them.
02. Car stereos at full blast with the windows down - why? I don't want to hear it.
03. Wearing jeans that hang round your ass - I really don't want to see it, and you look like an idiot - pull 'em up.
04. Why would I ever want to have a mobile phone hanging on a bit of cord around my neck? Why?
05. What's hard about being punctual? Note the time down, set out in good time, and make sure you arrive on time.
06. What on earth would make me hand over my bank details to some 'student' with an 'ID badge', just because he's collecting for charity?
07. I am the customer, you are the sales staff. You wait on me, I don't wait for you to finish your, ever so interesting, conversation with your mate. Serve me!
08. Drinking alcohol on the streets doesn't make you (a)hard (b)cool ©a rebel (d)classy. Especially when you're over 18 years of age.
09. Having a car that can do a maximum of 80 miles per hour, but then fecking around with the exhaust so that it sounds like it's doing the speed of light, isn't impressive. Get a job, save money and buy a decent car.
10. Baseball caps: I'm not a fan, but each to their own. There are, however, some rules: the cap can be worn with the peak to the front, and even (if you're American) with the peak to the back. Any other position and you will be laughed at.


I didn't want to do an 11th, but;

11. You're British, you're black......so stop trying to talk in that ridiculous American accent. You're not 'gangster' or 'ghetto', your name is Kevin and your father teaches English Lit.....deal with it!

Right, I'm off for a lie down.

This post has been edited by marvinbarcelona: 20 July 2009 - 06:08 PM

[Hugh]

It turns out that I'm a grumpy old man. :whee:

[marvinbarcelona]

Just found a 12th;

12. When I'm grumpy, my typing fingers don't seem to work correctly, and so typos and stupid grammer sneak into my posts!

[SammytheMc]

There's only one thing I can come up with that has been really bothering me these days: argumentative, closed-minded people. One or the other isn't so bad, because if you're closed minded and you keep to yourself, whatever, you're entitled to your (probably ill-informed) opinion. If you're argumentative, which I consider myself to be, you can either argue to win as an ego thing or argue to communicate your point and open a dialog with someone. If you're both argumentative and stubborn, you end up just yelling over people, and even if you make your point to your satisfaction, your counterpoint is about 5% as likely to listen to them, because if you're unwilling to give people's opinions respect, you can generally expect your counterpart to return the favor. Respectful, decorous argument can be such a great tool, probably one of the best and most human things people can do, and the internet should be a boon for argument, but it also offers too much opportunity for impersonal, pithy guerrilla tactics, calling someone stupid for supporting McCain or whatever and then walking away to a different website before you figure out why or even attempt to convince them why you think they're wrong. It's gotten to the point where someone admitting they're wrong on the internet is a crazy find, but to me it seems that's only because so many people haven't realized that admitting you're wrong is just admitting that you're a little more intelligent than you were.

That and those god damn kids on my lawn.

[marvinbarcelona]

Sammy, you're one of us, brother. ;)

[ShyShy]

I'm a grumpy old woman :flowers:

I really hate people chewing gum with their mouths open (worst offenders are pro-athletes, i.e. baseball and criket players)

[Spaceplay]

Well count me in the team of grumpy old forummembers.

- people using their mobile phones on public transport to tell the other end they will be home in 5 minuts.

Yea, your mom knows the timetable so she expect you to be there and there is a distance between you that is the reason you can call them , you don't have to shout the distance.....

- moblie phones in general. No it doesn't have to have internet, a camera , 20.000 ringtones, mp3 and radio

I just want to call with it whenever it's needed and be able to accept a call when needed.

This post has been edited by Spaceplay: 21 July 2009 - 04:00 PM

[DragonSon]

Turns out I'm as grumpy as the rest of you guys. Another thing (that hasn't been mentioned yet) that really annoys me is when a driver cuts into a store (or gas station) parking lot just to avoid a red light. Seriously, you cannot wait one or two minutes? If you're that much in a hurry, maybe you should have left the house a little earlier?

[Sandman2012]

I'm grumpy too. No surprises there, eh? ;)

[aaronsen]

marvinbarcelona, on 20 July 2009 - 09:04 AM, said:

01. Litter - there are bins, use them.

Yeah, that shits me. Where I'm living now is full of bins, but there's litter and cig-ends blowing about all over the place, it's a right state. Just no need for it.

Those small cars with stupid exhausts make me laugh, especially when they scrape their plastic bodykit on a kerb or speed hump. I just don't get it - a Corsa with a stupid exhaust sounds like a Corsa with a stupid exhaust, so why bother? Nobody's fooled into thinking it's a V8, and even if someone does get fooled by the engine note, it's still clearly a Corsa.

[Fickle]

There's a storage place down the road from me that has one of those light-up signs that you can put plastic letters on to create words. You know, like the kind in front of car dealerships telling you how "hot" their sales are. This one, instead of listing a deal on storage facilities has this to say:

Quote

If man evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

hmm.
The biggest problem (other than the statement, which is beyond ridiculous) is that now whenever I drive down that particular road, I have this crazy desire to drive into the place and burn it to the ground. Or just go in and start screaming at them. I don't know why, perhaps it's just the smugness of the statement: as if it is infallible logic that no one could ever possibly argue, or perhaps it's just that I think storage facilities should stick to what they are (i.e. selling storage units) as opposed to preaching or trying to tell others what to think. It's their right, I know, but I feel that I should have the right to drive in there late at night and use their letters to write something wholly offensive, that way the morons who own the place will get a taste of their own medicine.

How can people who are successful (the place has been open since I was 6) be so fucking stupid?

[aaronsen]

Because drive, determination and luck are a large part of success?

[Chica]

Fickle, on 27 July 2009 - 12:35 AM, said:

There's a storage place down the road from me that has one of those light-up signs that you can put plastic letters on to create words. You know, like the kind in front of car dealerships telling you how "hot" their sales are. This one, instead of listing a deal on storage facilities has this to say:

Quote

If man evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

hmm.
The biggest problem (other than the statement, which is beyond ridiculous) is that now whenever I drive down that particular road, I have this crazy desire to drive into the place and burn it to the ground. Or just go in and start screaming at them. I don't know why, perhaps it's just the smugness of the statement: as if it is infallible logic that no one could ever possibly argue, or perhaps it's just that I think storage facilities should stick to what they are (i.e. selling storage units) as opposed to preaching or trying to tell others what to think. It's their right, I know, but I feel that I should have the right to drive in there late at night and use their letters to write something wholly offensive, that way the morons who own the place will get a taste of their own medicine.

How can people who are successful (the place has been open since I was 6) be so fucking stupid?

Because they saw it somewhere and thought it was cute and thought-provoking.

It's better than the ones the church near me in Biloxi used to put up - "Don't be so open-minded that your brains fall out" and "Merry Christmas, NOT Happy Holidays"

[DragonSon]

Fickle, on 27 July 2009 - 12:35 AM, said:

There's a storage place down the road from me that has one of those light-up signs that you can put plastic letters on to create words. You know, like the kind in front of car dealerships telling you how "hot" their sales are. This one, instead of listing a deal on storage facilities has this to say:

Quote

If man evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

hmm.
The biggest problem (other than the statement, which is beyond ridiculous) is that now whenever I drive down that particular road, I have this crazy desire to drive into the place and burn it to the ground. Or just go in and start screaming at them. I don't know why, perhaps it's just the smugness of the statement: as if it is infallible logic that no one could ever possibly argue, or perhaps it's just that I think storage facilities should stick to what they are (i.e. selling storage units) as opposed to preaching or trying to tell others what to think. It's their right, I know, but I feel that I should have the right to drive in there late at night and use their letters to write something wholly offensive, that way the morons who own the place will get a taste of their own medicine.

How can people who are successful (the place has been open since I was 6) be so fucking stupid?

I totally agree with you man. If I saw that I would be really pissed off at the ignorance and the sheer stupidity of the statement. I really hate the close-minded religious types who think that their way is the only true way and that anyone who disagrees with them is either just totally wrong, or sent from the devil. That really gets under my skin.

[Fickle]

Weird. As soon as I wrote this, they changed their sign. Literally the next day the sign was changed. Now it asks a weird question. Of course, I can't remember the question, though I think it has something to do with "why feet smell." I knew the question yesterday, I can't remember it now. Must have been all the drinking.

[cooky560]

Turn's out I'm a grumpy old man too.