Grumpy old buggers thread

[ChookD2]

No. Get out. Who would have thought?

I don't think it would be a good idea for the both of us to shop together.................or it may be entertaining?

Yes, entertaining is a word. I'm not sure who would be entertained though.

[RANDLOVER]

No. Get out. Who would have thought?

I don't think it would be a good idea for the both of us to shop together.................or it may be entertaining?

Once without thinking I sent one of my guys who was nearly blind in one eye to look at a job in a storage room with a client who was legally blind, he said that they were bouncing of each other and the shelving units like they were in a pinball machine.

[NavyDiver]

My first house cost me less than the stamp duty I have to pay on a house I just brought

On the bright side several boat ramps MUCH closer to the new pad

[Saitch]

On the bright side several boat ramps MUCH closer to the new pad

Money well spent!

[Tins]

Where I am we are putting stuff out for the annual hard rubbish thing we are lucky the council still gives us. I have some stuff out there. There are the usual gannets going around picking through the stuff. I don’t care, as long as they don’t make a mess. I don’t want it so they’re welcome to it.
But, today I saw a bloke wandering around my front yard. I have some OKA related things stacked up. He, when confronted, asked me if it was hard rubbish. The stuff is at least five metres inside my property line, AND behind the actual OKA. Talk about rude. I’ll bet it would have gone had I not been here. I’ll have to relocate a camera, because currently I can’t lift the stuff to move it.

Some people are unbelievable.

[Saitch]

I got roped in to doing something I should never have been involved with. It made me quite grumpy.
On completion of the small task, I received this gift.
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I have now un-grumped considerably.

[Tins]

I got roped in to doing something I should never have been involved with. It made me quite grumpy.
On completion of the small task, I received this gift.
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I have now un-grumped considerably.

That would only make me grumpier, as I'd have to give them away. Enjoy 'em Steve.

[NavyDiver]

"
In short:

A Sydney man, identified by the NSW Game Fishing Association as Paul Barning, fell overboard during a fishing competition north of Newcastle on Sunday.
Police say Mr Barning was dragged into the water by the shark when he became tangled in tackle and that it was not a shark attack."


Wow Hang on rings a bell to me and never step over a rope or chain line was a LAW in the Navy Police say missing fisherman Paul Barning pulled overboard by mako shark - ABC News

Commiserations to Mr Barings Friends and family!!!

Mako's are a targeted game fish. Like any LARGE animal or fish they can hurt if not handled correctly. Honestly thought this was highly unlikely - Repeat after my old Buffer. Never Straddle a line!

[V8Ian]

Reminds me of a true yarn from many years ago.
I had volunteered to assist the annual re-accreditation of the non-flying crew of our rescue helicopter. Each crewman had to winch a casualty from a boat, a life raft and the water. My brief for each of the scenarios was to cooperate, without assisting, putting on the harness.
Keen as mustard, I went first. I was to be winched from an SES flood boat into the helo. A very small TI fellow decended from the aircraft, introduced himself hastily and got me to stand-up, making the boat somewhat unstable. He had just finished adjusting the harness when the wash from the rotors above rocked the boat. Suddenly the two craft got closer creating a loop of winch cable, attached to my rescuer, on the bottom of the boat and I staggered. I realised that my foot was going to step into the loop and there was a real possibility that I could have lost my leg if the chopper ascended. In a swift, single action I converted my clumsy stagger into a graceful dive into the safe water of Wivenhoe Dam. My rescuer, believing that I had fallen, immediately dived in to rescue me. Highly concerned, he connected my harness and I was magically lifted from the water.
At the debrief, after giving my version of events, the pilot apologised, explaining that when hoverng over water there are no fixed reference points so trying to hover a fixed distance from a boat involves a lot of anticipation, bearing in mind that the helo can and does blow the boat away. The pilot expected the boat to move further than it actually did, creating the slack. Better, but less amusing, than having the rescuer yanked upward and left dangling. That episode was changed and a tick placed in the 'Rescue from Water' box.
My rescuer, despite only just over half my size, at all times instilled a feeling of safety and confidence. When he dived in to "save me from drowning", there was genuine concern. For which is up for debate, my safety or avoidance of unnecessary paperwork.

[RANDLOVER]

I was a volunteer patient in a 1st aid competition for the fire brigade IIRC, and the competitor pinned the sling around my arm through the flesh of my elbow, I kept quiet so as not to affect their ranking.