Author Topic: The moaning old git thread (Read 386494 times)

Fat Rat · « **on:** June 25, 2012, 17:55:51 »

As I get older I am noticing that things which mildly irritated me before now drive me bonkers. So, I thought this thread would be a good one to see if I am the most bonkers here.

I shall be adding to it regularly, right up to the point that it starts to irrit........ You know

Fat Rat · « **Reply #1 on:** June 25, 2012, 18:00:42 »

Right...

When you sell something on eBay and the punter pays you via Paypal, you are usually sent their address. The information Paypal sends you is the information that the punter fills into their account profile.

With me so far?

So, what drives me nuts (OCD detector started) is when I receive some illiterate bollocks that I have to then amend before I can use. There is no way I can print a postage label when everything is written in lower case.

Example;

andy bloggs
27 the street
Devon
dt12 7ui

I have to change it

Anyone else?

Fat Rat · « **Reply #2 on:** June 25, 2012, 18:05:59 »

One more, I'm on a roll.

There are two words (used many times on this site and others), they are two completely different words meaning two different things and yet people can't grasp the basic idea

YOUR and YOU'RE

You're is an alternative to 'You are' example - You're an illiterate fecker, you're a V-Strom owner and you're welcome (YOU ARE)..

Your It's your bike, it's your house, it's your round...Never, never, never 'your okay' (it makes no sense).

This is great. I'm moving on to politics and religion next :violence-uzi:

Join in, otherwise I'll have to rant about being the lone old git.

PHIL FAT · « **Reply #3 on:** June 25, 2012, 18:13:43 »

if that's all that bothers you . you need help life is too short get out on that bike buy a cigar stop at a lake sit down and relax with some peace and quiet oh and don't forget the flask of coffe enjoy

Fat Rat · « **Reply #4 on:** June 25, 2012, 18:28:45 »

Quote from: "PHIL FAT"

if that's all that bothers you

Good god no (as time will show)

Quote

you need help

Possibly

Quote

get out on that bike buy a cigar

Now don't get me started on smokers

Piglumps · « **Reply #5 on:** June 25, 2012, 18:35:10 »

Sadly, I'm with you Andy....

You're, your and (sometimes) yore!

There, their and they're...

To instead of two or too or any combination of these three..

Not enormous things granted, but they just infuriate, sometimes more than others....

Don't even get me started on bloody mother and baby parking spaces - there are so many at the Tesco nearest work that I wonder if half the female population of Abingdon is up the duff! You chose to have a nipper, deal with it!

Disabled spaces are different, though there seem to be about 30 at the same store..

Strombone · « **Reply #6 on:** June 25, 2012, 18:37:47 »

Hmmmm. I think what is happening here is that you are going through the 'everything is annoying' phase of middle age. I am of a similar age to you, and have been through it myself.
Poor grammar and lazy speech used to have me seething. Now I just roll my eyes.

What saddens me is the ease at which we surrender our English culture to the onslaught from 'international English' and manners.It's almost as if we should like to be anything but British. By this I don't mean clinging to things like Imperial measures and currencies etc (Sorry FR), just our funny little ways

Here are a few more niggles to add fuel to the fire:
Using nouns as verbs.
Eating with a fork in the right hand. Fine in the privacy of your own home though but not in public is it?

Over familiarity of shop staff. I don't really want to discuss my weekend plans with a cashier I have never spoken to before, regardless of their social standing and education. I am sure they are all lovely people but it is too over familiar for the likes of this old public schoolboy.Give them the cane or beast them, that's what I say

Anyway, my advice to you is just relax about it bloke. You wouldn't expect us to be talking in the same manner as they did two or three hundred years ago, and the reason is that language evolves whether we like it or not. So maybe it's OK really...

Can't wait for the religious rant

Have a nice day now.

Brockett · « **Reply #7 on:** June 25, 2012, 19:07:41 »

Fat Rat

you're right

But for me those who write

and end of what they hope is funny.
Is it because they think the reader is so thick they might not know it's a joke
and
those who do not Know that no, now and know mean something different.

I love a good rant

disgusted of Harwich

Dave

StromGeeza · « **Reply #8 on:** June 25, 2012, 19:36:47 »

I knew I'd become a bona fide Old Git when I got round to reading "Is it just me, or everything shit?"

Sure enough, the book was shit.

Geeza

This thread could overtake '4 Word Story', you know....

Piglumps · « **Reply #9 on:** June 25, 2012, 19:41:50 »

It could overtake four-word story indeed! Of course, years ago it was seven-word story, so much better then. Of course, even nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be...

Gassoon · « **Reply #10 on:** June 25, 2012, 19:47:12 »

Once again, yaw right, Andy.

Hmmmm - that should be 'starboard' : I actually annoyed myself on that occasion.

Now that's uber-old-git territory... : (

Piglumps - I blame the nostalgics of today. Just not up to it.

Fat Rat · « **Reply #11 on:** June 25, 2012, 20:02:40 »

I'll repeat myself from another thread (now I'M annoying myself)..

What's all this bloody euro-bollocks with shoe sizes

What the feck is a size 48 shoe

Captain Sensible · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2012, 20:18:32 »

Fat Rat

you are quite right.

We couldn't say anymore : ''Act your age not your shoe size'' could we if we used continental shoe sizes?

As for the EU or European Union of undemocratic over pompous self righteous money grabbing bureaucrats I have ever come across in my middle aged life

I only have utter contempt

Dave

Strombone · « **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2012, 20:19:26 »

As this is directed at me, I suppose I ought to respond, if only to allow you to vent your outrage further.
Euro sizes have been around for a long time now, and I am surprised that you feign ignorance of them.
As with anything else, the internet provides plenty of information should you require it. However, just as I know that I am size 12 to 12.5 depending on manufacturer, I also know that I am size 47. Easy isn't it?

Jeff999 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 25, 2012, 20:28:21 »

I'm fed up of incidental music being played on most tv programmes now adays. Is this just me or an age thing?

Chris Graves · « **Reply #15 on:** June 25, 2012, 20:46:26 »

People saying "I should of done something" when they mean "I should have done something"

Confusing less and fewer. It should be ten items or fewer at supermarket quick checkouts but will they change the sign? No. I've tried. It's simple, less is for quantity and fewer is for numbers.

"How are you today?" "I'm good" is the reply. No, I'm not asking about your behavioural state, I'm asking after your well being.

Don't get me started on apostrophes or I'll be here all night.

Drivers reversing out of driveways, they should be shot at dawn in front of their families. We've already seen the results that this action can cause here on this very website.

I'm going for a rest now and a glass of wine to calm me down.

Fat Rat · « **Reply #16 on:** June 25, 2012, 20:53:03 »

"I brought a new car"

Did you? where did you bring it?

Strombone · « **Reply #17 on:** June 25, 2012, 21:16:17 »

Can I get a skinny Latte?
No, it's not self-service. Now bugger off!

Gassoon · « **Reply #18 on:** June 25, 2012, 21:31:56 »

Quote from: "Jeff999"

I'm fed up of incidental music being played on most tv programmes now adays. Is this just me or an age thing?

Aye, and why are so many cameramen with the ague employed these days? All these shaky camera shots plays havoc with my eyes and gives me a headache. Can't they afford tripods? The bloody BBC is doing this now...They're as useless as a butchers apostrophe.

And speaking of the BBC, during the unutterably tedious event-coverage of the olympic torch bollocks, a commentator kept alluding to 'the amount of people who have turned up'. Not numbers. Amount. How soddin insulting! :violence-rocket:

frez · « **Reply #19 on:** June 25, 2012, 21:35:45 »

your joking