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?

People who throw rubbish out of their cars - haven't you got a fucking bin at home?!?!

Shop assistants who are too busy discussing their social life to do their job properly and let me pay for my stuff.

Facebook - gah!

People who park too near to corners - when did this suddenly become acceptable?

They've dug up the roads, diverted traffic, closed whole areas down, disrupted shopping/ travel/access to the city centre, spent hundreds of millions AND STILL NO BLOODY TRAM.
We had an adequate bus service so why try and replace it??????

Guess who had to go into town today? And I'm supposed to be getting my BP down

and breathe

Bars/pubs that play music so loudly you have to shout at the person next to you.

FindingMyMojo - I could write a very long story about my lack of rubella immunity despite several jabs, and not being informed. But that's not grumpy, that's angry. And maybe that's for a different thread.

I'm afraid I've moaned about these on Mnsnet many times before but always up for another opportunity

• clothing websites where colour of article you want to buy is described as "ashes" or "rainshadow" - picture too dark to tell - just tell us the sodding colour!! Is it blue, taupe, dark grey or black fhs???

• people who walk too slowly on crowded pavements

• people who never open a window

• people who spit

• moronic television presenters who patronise (Kate Humble being one of the worst culprits)

• design magazines in which rooms featured never have toys, laundry basket, newspapers or a bin

• all the so-called experts writing in magazines, being published, or presenting tv shows who got where they are through their family connections (Jo Swift, Daisy Goodwin)

• Dan Pearson in the Guardian (humourless, self-important, infuriatingly pleased with himself)

• people who spout and repeat all the bullshit and myths they read in English newspapers about Europe and the Euro without really knowing anything about it

• people who just stand and stare or bury their heads in a newspaper when it is obvious some poor comuter (usually pregnant) is about to faint on a train. Stand up and offer them a seat fhs. Same for when a mother is struggling to get on a train or bus with a couple of dc and a pushchair or up station steps. Are the words "can I help you?" too difficult to utter?

Ah, that's better ...

commuter

• people who can't spell

This thread!

going to the toilet and every man child an his fucking dog waiting out side for you or talking to you as soon as you shut the door....

Muuuuuummmmmmmmm!!! what??? Im in the toilet!!!! Muuuuummmmmmm. farkkkk off im in the toilet!!!!!!!!!!!

My fucking family! Don't ask

just grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Stupid woman in my stupid class who yesterday, when I was trying to help said "well, I've been at work all day". So have I sweetheart, I'm just not as dim as you are evidently, and can use the imparfait in French.

BOOYAH

and the grumping continues :)

We are all slowly turning into our parents...

The million cables under my desk - printers, scanner, router, phones and God only knows what else. How do they manage to entwine themselves with each other and tie themselves into knots? Seriously, how does it happen? Jewellery does the same overnight, logic tells me it can't possible but it DOES!

Self-service checkouts that require a 'store override' if my DD so much as touches the scanned goods to try and help me pack or if we deviate in any slight way from the instructions on the screen. I was under the impression these were supposed to save me time. They don't.

Broadband providers who don't give you a customer services phone number and want everything done by email or suggest you visit the help section on their website. Not very bloody easy when your broadband service is so ridiculously inefficient.

Sure there must be many, many more. I am officially my mother

Constant announcements on trains until they stop for no reason and suddenly all is silent for 45 minutes.

Everyone who overtook the traffic queue I was sitting in this morning (and every morning) in the outside lane and then tried to push in at the front.

People who park up on moterway bridges get out, hang over the edge and admire the view, unless you are going to throw a concrete block at me f*uck off.

People chomping

Aka GlitteryBalls I hate that no matter how hard you try you always end up like yer mother

oh, and people who book a seat in the quiet carriage of the train and then chat on their phones. Or cough. Or even breathe, frankly.

Any advert that uses "here come the girls" as the soundtrack.

ToysRUs today - general background music (loud carols) plus extra promotional material being blasted out in every other aisle, plus additional people trying out toys and the odd tannoy announcements. At least two loud competing melodies most of the time - most conducive to a relaxing and fun shopping experience.

Endless announcement on public transport, usually on crackly intercom.

"We'd like to welcome you aboard this late-running, dirty, foodless joke of a train service, that will no doubt stop for an interminable 30 minutes, without explanation, on a remote stretch of track before crawling forward at the pace of a snail carrying heavy shopping before groaning to a halt for a further 20 minutes, when all the lights will inexplicably go out.

"Please remember to take all your belongings with you when you de-train and thank you for enduring another travelling experience with Icouldwalkfasterthanthis Trains."

The fact that I'm 37 tomorrow and I'M NODDING AND AGREEING WITH ALL OF THESE!!! I really am a Grumpy Old Woman!!
Also:
Skinny jeans fit nicely and don't go all like MC Hammer's trousers, leggings too.
And furthermore:
I have big woolly walking socks on and Fluffy Bootee slippers. My feet should be toasty warm.
They're not. Pah!

Oops - that should be skinny jeans/leggings that fit nicely. As you were!