... to ask if MN has a grumpy 'old' women topic?

[Pipbin]

I know there is pedants corner but I was wondering if there was anywhere where like minded people who want to complain about words like amazeballs, and other grumpy things can go and be grumpy without being told to get a life?

Ilkley As I said, it is a constant point of discussion with me a DH. I was brought up with breakfast, lunch and supper. He was brought up with breakfast, dinner and tea. Now, I think, we have breakfast, lunch and dinner.

MehsMum Your DH needs to get a little perspective I think.

I don't mind dithery walkers with earphones in so much as at least they cant hear me TUTTING LOUDLY as I swoop past them.

Apologies for missing apostrophe in the above post. That's enough to make anyone grumpy!

Pip

advance search words such as toast, scone and sandwich. you'll be amazed at the intense emotions!

Ilkley - trifle is a Christmas Day tradition in my family. Real, rather than Birds, but decorated by the children of the house while the grown-ups are clearing up the first course.

Think "a sweet shop exploded" and you're getting there.

::wistful::

Dido

I once felt lucky to escape with my life in a shopping centre because I was doing my striding along and I nearly ploughed into a rough looking family of ditherers that stopped suddenly in front of me. I tutted involuntarily and one of them yelled after me agressively, clearly confident in their right to take as long as they damn well pleased.

The lack of tolerance over often inconsequential lapses in punctuation on here to the extent that people feel the need to apologise for a missing an apostrophe makes me grumpy.

Pipbin, DH is not famous for his patience. But if the egg and soldiers work out well, he is a joy to be with.

Slow walkers. AAARGH! The only ones worse are the zombie walkers who drift along not looking where they are going because they are so busy texting. Don't these people realise how much more they could get done if they just sped up a little?

Yes I would like a grumpy corner. In fact I could probably just post in that topic for ever more now. Everything makes me grumpy nowadays.

I bought the Guardian last week for the very first time in my life, and I officially retired at 4.35 pm yesterday for the second time in my life.

Its just going to go down hill from here. There is no going back. Its incontinence pants and ennui and daytime TV from here on and an irascible dislike of everything. I wish I was still working although that used to annoy me a lot but at least I had something to do between episodes of rage.

Oh and if anyone sends me any 'Congratulations on retiring cards' they will go in the bin.

I'm watching Interior Design Challenge from a couple of days ago. There is a woman talking about 'Upcycling' some jam jars when they are ones that she has bought new. It's not fucking Upcycling (which isn't even a word) then, is it.

Buying jars new. Now that really is the opposite of crafting and upcycling, which is all supposed to be about 'make do and mend' isn't it?

Well never mind, because Lakeland have the perfect punishment for anyone who has missed the point of recycling, because they will sell you new empty jars for more than the cost of buying them full of jam .

For the princely sum of 98 pence per jar plus lid, (only available in packs of 12, with p+p on top):

www.lakeland.co.uk/3819/-Jam-Jars-1lb-454g

and

www.lakeland.co.uk/p3812/Twist-Off-Lids

I don't know if I am grumpy or amused that people buy that sort of thing.

Exactly. There was once a joke top tip in Viz which was along the lines of 'don't buy jam jars from Lakeland when you can just buy 5p curry sauce from Morrisons and tip the sauce down the loo'.

morebeta you retired? YOU RETIRED?
That must mean you have some sort of pension which is enough to make me very jealous grumpy.

I Scoon & Sconn, but never Sc-own.

Thin, thin layer of butter, then jam, then great dollops of cream.

Slow walkers are no bother - dithery, vague meanderers give me the rage.

People who don't get to the point when answering a direct question, and strangers on the phone who ask me 'how I am today', 'am I having a good day', 'getting sorted for Christmas?' etc etc.
IT'S NONE OF YOUR FUCKING CONCERN. You don't actually give two hoots, you are just being unnecessarily pleasant and wasting my time. Just get to the point!!!!!

I am now ready to live the rest of the day after that mini-rant!
Thanks pip, for this thread.

Oh, are we allowed to grump about scones (pronounced sconns)?

Good, because it is unacceptable in a civilised world to serve squirty fucking 'cream' on a cream tea. Those cheap mass market plastic jam portions are wrong too.

Only clotted cream and naice mini jars of jam or some jam portioned out into a ramekin are acceptable. Scones must be fresh too. I don't care what order the jam and cream are put on the scone, but Devon and Cornwall are free to argue about that for as long as they like. I don't bother with butter myself if there is clotted cream, but if other people want butter and jam and cream that's fine.

Can I join please?!

I have lots to rage at, I might be here a while.

If I see another "Happy Holidays" card amongst the Christmas cards again this year, I might have a meltdown. We don't live in the US. You may have "happy holidays" - we have "Happy Christmas".

There... that feels better.

With you all the way, Ilkley. Just cannot get my head around the idea of buying a jar with NOTHING IN IT!!

Dido - pension?

Don't even get me started on pensions!!

My first day of retirement was as follows.

Got up and noticed roof was leaking into bathroom.

Rang repair man and he says he will come on Sunday and told me to hope it doesn't rain until then

Had breakfast and watched Jeremy Kyle.

When I'm in charge any cafe that serves squirty cream with scones will be closed without notice.

Agree Pipbin - oh and the vile stuff with brandy/rum

Grump tonight - in between the pouring rain just dashed to shops- one I wanted closed 15 minutes early pah- why have opening times on the door?

See, I love upcycling, have done it for years but it is more a case of having been too poor to buy new carp and liking old solid furniture that I can customise, and I hate mass consumerism. Now it is all trendy and everyone is doing it and calling it fancy names. Gives me the rage.

I also get ragey reading the Christmas starting on 1st December with presents and hampers nonsense I keep seeing on here. I love Christmas but find that over the top and have never heard of it outside MN.

Ooh I used to love Viz though Pipbin - my favourite was "There go the pips" with a picture of phonebook and Gladys Knight's backing group coming out of it.

Grr I mean phonebox. And another thing.... bloody incorrect.

Getting my eyebrows threaded with White Christmas on full blast
I nearly sat up and screamed " its sodding November" but I didn't want to end up with half an eyebrow ripped off.

Toast tents, yes! Now I know I have found my spiritual home, though I am clearly still a bit new to MN to have so naively blundered into toast and scone wars in a mere handful of posts (in this thread).

I want to rage about working on a Mac today and being against a deadline, where having to go looking for every single bloody function I'd normally point and click/right click to get on my usual PC took ages. It was like the last 5-8 years never happened - good job I am old enough to know the older versions of Office & had a frigging clue where to look.

I just hate smartphones dust that assume you know how to do everything. My daughter comes and patiently shows me how to do it :) and I've used computers in my work for more years than I can bear to think of. Glad I 'm retired now, its too much brain work