Grumpy old buggers thread

[windsock]

Aaaarrggh! Earworm for a song I intensely dislike.

Curse you, Winsock!

You too huh! the earworm that is, except I like it and that has been the problem, again and again and again ...

[4bee]

I'm so GRUMPY that I will have to post my Grumpiness in 2 post!
My first cause of Grumpiness is getting dressed up.
Last Friday was our eldest Foster Sons year 12 Graduation. This was held in Cloncurry & somehow SWMBO managed to volunteer me to go with him.
What's the problem, you may think? Well, I don't own any long pants. Yes I do own a pair of jeans which are several years old & nearly cut me in 2 when I do them up but nothing you would call "Nice". Second I only own & wear polo shirts or T-shirts which are all well worn & "Comfortable".
So, a SWMBO mandated trip to Mt Isa to buy pants & shirt. Apparently, somehow, I have put on a little weight (which I had NOT noticed) so to get pants that fit around the middle they were way long & I bought a medium **** which I have been wearing for years.
So, I get home to dress Wilfred & he looks a million bucks in his well fitting black pants, nicely fitting bright patterned shirt, flash tie & new shoes.
Me - not so good, pants folded up inside & look odd, shirt plain white & tight not to mention long sleeved & track shoes I use for work. SWMBO could not convince me to wear a tie!
Just to top of things it is 40 odd degrees & I'm just feeling totally uncomfortable.
Anyway, I did my duty & took Wilfred to his graduation which was, despite my discomfort a great night & he had a great time.
My Grump is that you should not be expect to dress up & be something/someone you are not.
I have 2 more Graduations over the next 2 years, I either get better prepared for them or its shorts, work boots & a daggy polo shirt.
Jonesfam
PS Wilfred had a great time, thanked me & went to an after party which he got home from early AM the next day decidedly seedy but happy.

I reckon RM would have been quite pleased with his clobber but not so much yours although I would have given his shoes a miss & replaced those with some High heeled tan elastic sided jobs.


Dressing up is not necessarily being something you ain't but out of respect for the lad when he is with his mates & peers.

Now that event is over you will have time to have the Daks altered to fit properly. Or lose some weight.

Just sayin'.

[NavyDiver]

I thought one policeman here was just A/Lazy B/ Very Busy or C/ told not to bother about finding my stolen bike so clearly shown on security cameras and the thief very easy to locate once I got a picture a few months later.

ACT might be following Vicpols rulz? The thing that bothers me about this is had I known the cust- able plod would not try to recover my bike, I would have take steps to get it back myself. The risk in that is some one could get hurt which then oddly the police might be interested in I generally like our hard working Police. I have an intense dislike for poor cust- able plod who has not bothered apologizing for another muck up he didn't do once I fed the thief's detail to him. He thought I should apply for victims of crime compo rather than him asking the judge to order the thief to pay the cost of the bike he sold and used for smoking money.

Poor show ACT I think. Get rid of the paper work and make police do police work!

ACT police will soon no longer attend most home break-ins as reporting moves online - ABC News
ACT police will soon no longer attend most home break-ins as reporting moves online

[RANDLOVER]

What is really making me grumpy lately is people who insist on removing the tops from pens, so that they roll around on the desk or even worse off the desk. Why are they removing the tops anyway? Hopefully not to dig in their ears or worse other bodily orifices!

[scarry]

This makes me grumpy,SWMBO inherited this old fisherman’s shack in the Coffs council area.
Seems the recyclables bin gets emptied every week,but the rubbish every second week.
Brisbane is the opposite,which IMHO is correct.
The rubbish can get pretty cherry ripe when it’s been in the bin for a couple of weeks.

Anyway,yes there is the bin down the park which we can use as well,but it all seems odd to me.

[4bee]

This makes me grumpy,SWMBO inherited this old fisherman’s shack in the Coffs council area.
Seems the recyclables bin gets emptied every week,but the rubbish every second week.
Brisbane is the opposite,which IMHO is correct.
The rubbish can get pretty cherry ripe when it’s been in the bin for a couple of weeks.

Anyway,yes there is the bin down the park which we can use as well,but it all seems odd to me.

A kg of Prawn shells does make a bit of a pong whereas a few ally beer cans doesn't, but the eagle eyes at the dump can see more money in it.


Go on Paul guess what they plump for? ............................................... Right on!



Here, it is normal House trash gets picked up each week while Recyk is once per fortnight.



I suggest your operations staff are a bit Dylsexic when arranging schedules.

[cuppabillytea]

I wish I had an old fisherman's shack in coffs. Smell or no smell.

[4bee]

I wish I had an old fisherman's shack in coffs. Smell or no smell.

Maybe if you had a shower before your visitors arrived cuppa, it wouldn't be so bad?

[cuppabillytea]

Maybe if you had a shower before your visitors arrived cuppa, it wouldn't be so bad?

All visitors would be denied access. Smelly ones bearing prawns excepted, so I guess that means present company, hey?

[4bee]

All visitors would be denied access. Smelly ones bearing prawns excepted, so I guess that means present company, hey?

I guess so, & as they used to say in the Army in 1942........... "Don't come the Raw Prawn with me".