Grumble Thread

[pastoralguy]

Whose fed with Megxit?

And its related tv show, formally known as the BBC News...!

[Stanfordian]

Whose fed with Megxit?

Put me down as one who is fed up of Megxit. The sooner the better those two are out of the British news. I'm glad to see the back of them. Let them make their money by opening Canadian supermarkets etc. It's time we slimmed down the monarchy.

[Old Grumpy]

Put me down as one who is fed up of Megxit. The sooner the better those two are out of the British news. I'm glad to see the back of them. Let them make their money by opening Canadian supermarkets etc. It's time we slimmed down the monarchy.

Would that be the Sussex Royal diet?

OG

[StephenMcK]

** Too loud mobile phone conversations, especially the ones by disaffected partners who seem to regard their phone solely as a means of continuing domestic hostilities remotely.

How is it these people never seem to experience poor connectivity.

** Being seated in a next to empty restaurant hard by the only other diners there.

** London commuters attempting to walk through me. 'I'm very sorry. It's just that I thought I was stood here. Silly me.'

** Supermarket queue nudgers. 'Yes, I could move up another six inches, but I prefer not to catch the heels of the shopper in front of me, and I'd thank you to pay me the same courtesy.' (Said in my very best Margo Leadbetter!)

** Public mastication and the burger/chips routine on the last train home. Yikes, the smell!

** Netflix - mistranslated subtitles

** Losing my male vigour

** 11pm, 30th January 2020. Nuff said.

[Dave2002]

* People who go down (or perhaps up, but often down) an escalator, and then stop immediately to talk to a friend. Complete idiots!

* In London - perhaps at Waterloo station, people who somehow manage to keep going in their straight line, even if it’s through me, yet when I try to do the same in return I have to zigzag like fury.

I’ve tried everything I can think of - including

:: deliberately not looking where I’m going
:: staring straight ahead
:: trying to look strong and determined
:: looking down at the floor, but keep-moving.

Nothing works!

[Stanfordian]

Would that be the Sussex Royal diet?

OG

Good one OG! But 'slimmed down' is the right term, that's unless you want me to use the word 'downsize' but this seems rather too corporate. All in all I'm sick of the Sussexes!

[StephenMcK]

Waterloo is my least favourite terminal. I find the commuters there most unmannerly, full of stockbrokerish self-import.

That it is also the most open concourse doesn't help matters, lacking any kind of natural conduits which would coral the crowds to some extent.

[Dave2002]

* People who go down (or perhaps up, but often down) an escalator, and then stop immediately to talk to a friend. Complete idiots!

Quite often that's mrs d - sadly, but she's not alone or unique in that behaviour!

[oddoneout]

Good one OG! But 'slimmed down' is the right term, that's unless you want me to use the word 'downsize' but this seems rather too corporate. All in all I'm sick of the Sussexes!

I'm not sick of the Sussexes - after all I don't know them - but I am sick of the media circus that surrounds them. The hypocrisy and double standards seem to become marked by the day.

[pastoralguy]

Well paid 'celebrities' who do commercials. Ant and Dec advertising for Santander and Philip Schofield peddling something else! Don't these buggers have enough money?!

[cloughie]

Well paid 'celebrities' who do commercials. Ant and Dec advertising for Santander and Philip Schofield peddling something else! Don't these buggers have enough money?!

To say nothing of Titchy and Parky feeling the need to boost their pensions!

[gurnemanz]

Well paid 'celebrities' who do commercials. Ant and Dec advertising for Santander and Philip Schofield peddling something else! Don't these buggers have enough money?!

Horrible to see Brian Blessed doing gambling ads.

[cloughie]

Horrible to see Brian Blessed doing gambling ads.

He’s got previous with the lottery!

[pastoralguy]

Toilet facilities in pubs, restaurants and supermarkets that only have one stall! There's nothing worse than sitting waiting for nature to take its course suspecting there's a queue forming outside!

[LezLee]

Toilet facilities in pubs, restaurants and supermarkets that only have one stall! There's nothing worse than sitting waiting for nature to call suspecting there's a queue forming outside!

It's like that everywhere for ladies. We take, erm, longer than gents and have to queue, legs crossed, for ages. Theatres are particularly bad and there often isn't time for a drink in the interval.