Indulge your grumpy old woman (or man) inside on this thread

[StealthPomBear]

Why is the background music/sound effects on TV dramas these days so loud it drowns out the actors' voices?

Serendippy - this only helps if kreecher has gas and no fringe

otherwise she may return grumpier.

Pissed off because at the moment I feel too lethargic and apathetic to think of anything.

I can light mine off the electric hob, just wait for it to heat up. Kirby grips for fringe, problem sorted.

I did light it off the cooker (and before I saw the reply).
Another thing that I am grumpy about is the snow forecast for next week. Me and DD are driving to England on Friday and I just know that it will bloody snow. I have a set of winter tyres that are down in the cellar. There is no way on this earth that I can manage to get them upstairs and out into the car to have them fitted.
Watch out those of you who live in and around Dover for a Swiss registered car skiddng about.

I always atch stuff with subtitles on, have done since I was a teenager. Drove my brothers barmy.

and the buses around here, have the most uncomfortable seats. Every day I feel my back aging 10 years.

I'm not even late twenties

People shouting so much on X Factor that you can't hear the judges speak. Why don't they sort out their microphones?

People who don't know how to reverse when they live in the country (think narrow lanes) one day I will get you with my tractor!!!

Helicopter Parents

Leggings on women who are old enough to have worn them the first time around (that includes me, sadly)

MadamD.

I did.

I'm not seeing what you're seeing, or I'm being dense?

I don't get the Dekalb thing either

Nor me

The Times starting to charge for online readers, right in the middle of a year when I'm living in a country that has one weekly newspaper which tells me nothing about the outside world!

Being offered cheap sweets/choc in WHSmith, petrol station, etc.

If I wanted choc I would have bought it.

The way american audiences clap and cheer for waaay too long when Oprah/Ellen/whoever comes on stage. And Oprah/Ellen/whoever have to pretend to enjoy waiting for it to be finished and pretend to be humbled. Drives me BONKERS!

Ditto that fake walk off stage-audience clap-come back on stage-audience clap again-walk off stage again routine that performers do after a show. Just CLAP ONCE AND BE DONE WITH IT ALREADY!
and breathe...

Ooh, actually, I can beat that, Kiwi.

Bloody encores.

We all know you're going to come back on and tell another joke/sing another three songs/etc., why do we have to go through the whole clapping, walkoff, walkon, oh truly you are so kind routine? Is it just to give a gracious way out to performers who are really abysmal? Just plan your show, perform your show, go away.

also, there are youngsters on my lawn again with their loud music.

lol at "youngsters"

ChristmasTrulyReigns, I said "indulge", not "hand over all power to" :o

"People who queue for the left hand side of the petrol pump. Live dangerously, bring the hose over the car to the other side!"

I've done that before and the hose wasn't long enough to stretch to the otherside of my car I only had an old crappy polo as well!

I agree weenawoo. I miss the Times. Now I end up reading the Guardian, Torygraph and the BBC in order to get the news and its tiring. I also read the NYTimes, which is awesome, but leaves me clueless as to what's happening in the UK (though I am totally up to date on news in the NY State area. Which is not particularly useful in London).

Other commuters on the tube. They are ALL idiots. Apart from some of them.

The random ticking in our room which wakes me up every night. Does it happen during the day when I am able to get up and find its source and stop it? No. Not once. But every night, it starts, and I can't be bothered to get up out of bed to try and find what the hell it is.

The fact that most High Street shops seem to believe that all women want to wear mini skirts, even when they don't. It is nigh on impossible to find skirts suitable for work. I now just think that I have super-model length thighs and take it as a compliment.

People who disagree with me on MN. How dare they.

People coming to a halt at the top / bottom of an escalator. Or a shop entrance

Drivers failing to indicate left at a roundabout so that I miss my opportunity to go straight on

DP saying 'Would you like me to...wash up / do the washing / iron ...?' Of course I would like you to! Just do it! Surprise me

Extreme close ups of the face of a person talking on TV. I don't need to see open pores thank you

Failure by anyone else in the house to replenish the toilet roll or to use the last toilet roll to mop up spilt vimto freshly squeezed juice thus leaving muggins stranded on loo

People leaving unemptied cups in the washing up bowl

BMW and Audi drivers in London. I drive a Mini, which is clearly a GIRLS CAR, and GIRLS ARE EASY TO BULLY, so they always try to pull out of side streets RIGHT AT ME even though I'M OBVIOUSLY THERE IN THE SPACE YOU'RE TRYING TO DRIVE INTO YOU TOSSER.

These days I lean on my horn, put on my psycho stare and accelerate.

why oh why do little old ladies think it is acceptable to hog the self service check outs?? If you wanting serving then should bloody well queue up at a regular check out.

And breathe