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?

ENORMOUS groups of foreign exchange kids who stand halfway up the stairs at the station making a wall out of their giant suitcases when I'm trying to run for the train.

Or worse, SpikyBinkle, a DH who says 'Would you like me to wash up/ do the washing/ iron for you?' Like I'm the only one who requires the outcome of these chores and he is bestowing a special favour on me.

Also... people who talk to me before breakfast, with the exception of ds2 who is only 3 and is still cute and doesn't demand stuff before I'm properly awake.

Anyone who thinks that before 9 a.m is an acceptable time to ring (except for proper emergencies.

Keira Knightley in that scent advert. Gormless is the word that springs to mind.

And the fact that I can't get my hair to curl or straighten nicely, despite half a dozen 'foolproof' implements to achieve the desired effect.

Why do people have to get annoyingly drunk when I can't? (33 weeks pg) The whole world should go teetotal when I'm expecting. It's only fair.

The fact that all the stupid Tesco Expresses near me do not stock what I want to buy, but just go ahead and stock whatever they want to. How rude.

Oh yes Shodan you should be mightily honoured.

And in fact ALL perfume ads. They take themselves way too seriously

People who drive around in FOG and only have their bastard SIDE-LIGHTS on!!!! DON'T DO IT, OK? You might be able to see where you're going just fine on side-lights but I CAN'T SEE YOU!!! DIPPED fucking headlights you morons.. DIPPED!!!

the audience 'whooping' and cheering during a comedy show

if it's funny then bleeding well laugh ffs

it's not a team game, it's a show

that is all until i've made my cuppa then i'll be back

Christmas TV ads, Christmas radio ads, Christmas music in shops. I've chucked out the telly, only listen to BBC radio and do all my shopping online just so I can avoid them.

people leaving litter on the tube

especially coffee cups and the plastic wrapping round the guardian / times mags. As if they are not rubbish.

I see pottonista's Christmas goods, and add all the freaking Christmas goods in Tesco Express instead of the tonic water and popcorn kernels that I want to buy. I mean, come on, they stock gin, why not tonic?!

I hate everyone and everything bar a few good looking celebrity guys and there respective works (oh and the ugly git who is Charlie Brooker and his respective works), a few decent bands and their beautiful music and a few good video games and a few classic pieces of design/engineering (DB9, E-type etc).

Everything else is shit and can fuck right off.

The fact that my boss has just told me that I have no job come 3 weeks time.... But I can still come to the Christmas party if I would like..... Wft???

(((((self indulgent grump)))))))

Our local church has only one bell and it sounds like someone hitting an old tin bath with a hammer. The clanging sometimes goes on for ten minutes just before the 9:30 a.m. service.

Drivers who race down our narrow one-way street, especially at the end of the school day when it's damned obvious there are loads of youngsters around.

Drivers who race down our narrow one-way street during/just after heavy rain soaking everyone, especially youngsters on their way to school.

TV documentaries where the narration has been added in between interviews and they don't balance the sound levels.

Whippersnappers at work who turn up for client meetings without a tie.

People whose default facial position at rest is with their mouths open.

The fact that ALL clothes these days just look cheap and shapeless and FEEL cheap and ugly. NOT ALL OF US CAN PULL OFF POLYESTER SHIFT DRESSES WHICH END MID-THIGH. That means YOU, M&S.

I made a beautiful lunch for myself today, lovely wrap and everything, and kept on thinking this morning "don't forget, don't forget" and what happens? Because I is well old and doddery I went and forgot it.

And what the fuck is going on with most Tv documentaries (thanks for the reminder, huggly) - the opening of the programme lasts for about 10 minutes and they tell you what is going to happen in the rest of the programme, and you are reminded before and after every ad break about the salient points of the documentary. The most dramatic things in the documentary seem to be repeated over and over. Some of them it's literally like they filmed 30 minutes of material but lo and behold it's an an hour-long slot.

I mean - do they think we are STUPID or something?

why do certain members of my familyinsist on speaking to me when they can clearly see im on the phone it drives me mad!
also phone related why people still insist on ringing me early in the morning when they know i have a four month old then call me lazy when i say im in bed (catching up on sleep)

:( geordie what's happened?

Feelin you AbsofCroissant. And I always find that this gives me an excuse to eat crap for the entire day as I've left my lovely healthy lunch at home so am "forced" to get something from a grubby greasy spoon/buger van instead...

Oh, and you, Undertone, yes I know what you mean. Takes "summarising" to a whole new level. Think most of these documantary makers have been to the David Brent school of public speaking...

being 4 months pregnant and finding out I'm not immune to rubella anymore - fucking sucks.

Abs I have the cure to the leaving lunch behing thing - I was always leaving lunchtime shopping at work. Put your car keys or bus pass in the FRIDGE with your lunch (or shopping) - you won't forget then.

Knowing me, I'll still forget them and have to go back. I was so close to remembering ...

People with crap ringtones that they think makes them look either cool or humorous, have them set on volume 100 and inflict them on the rest of us in the office

People who use the offending phones to give their friends/family a running commentary of what they are doing -no matter how mundane.
Why don't you just get tagged FFS!!