Grumpy Old Man
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@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
First day of school holidays.
13yo Daughter unit informs me that she potentially has a boyfriend.
Tell her if she gets one you're going to get one too, same age and everything.
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
First day of school holidays.
13yo Daughter unit informs me that she potentially has a boyfriend.
Tell her if she gets one you're going to get one too, same age and everything.
Calm down. He'll be 18 for sure.
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@JC packing shelves at Woolies and with a clapped out corona. Extra cred for a mullet!
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@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@JC packing shelves at Woolies and with a clapped out corona. Extra cred for a mullet!
... for now. @NTA will surely upgrade his daughter's baby daddy to a 90s WRX.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fluffybunny car drivers who crawl or even stop halfway round a tight corner ahead of you
Car drivers who want to turn right across two lanes of traffic at rush hour with no turning lane. Usually it takes a minute or two before they give up and move on, as if it's a surprise that RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC IS HEAVY. Ah, the joys of big city living
Rarely have that problem in the UK as people will almost always flash/stop to let you turn. We all moan, but UK drivers are generally pretty considerate.
It's the fluffybunnies who still won't turn when flashed who give me the shits....
Man, you learn quick in Thailand that flashing lights from oncoming traffic screams "I'm not even slowing down fluffybunny, let alone stopping to let you in!!"
Flashing lights over there means "don't you fucken dare"
Interesting cultural differences eh?😉
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@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@JC packing shelves at Woolies and with a clapped out corona.
I had a 1981 Toyota Corona.
@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@JC packing shelves at Woolies and with a clapped out corona. Extra cred for a mullet!
... for now. @NTA will surely upgrade his daughter's baby daddy to a 90s WRX.
Should anything like that happen, I will upgrade him to an unmarked grave.
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@NTA ha ha then you know exactly what's on this young lothario's mind!
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@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA ha ha then you know exactly what's on this young lothario's mind!
Bunch of hypocrites.
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@Victor-Meldrew Well that’s something else I’m stealing. I’m a sucker for a flowchart. That’s not even a joke, three of my favourite books are Pete Frame’s Rock Family Trees. I can get lost in one of those charts for hours, playing a track form each band / incarnation as I work through it. Marvellous. Sad. But marvellous.
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@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
Pete Frame’s Rock Family Trees.
They were great. The BBC had a series based on those IIRC.
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@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew Well that’s something else I’m stealing. I’m a sucker for a flowchart. That’s not even a joke, three of my favourite books are Pete Frame’s Rock Family Trees. I can get lost in one of those charts for hours, playing a track form each band / incarnation as I work through it. Marvellous. Sad. But marvellous.
Yeah, I'm quite sad like that too. My favourite one is a daft punk one
(in other news, today was when I finally learned how to make the picture come up instead of just the link)
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean depends which way they are turning, if they are travelling the same way as you, then you creating the gap means it is pretty safe, against the flow I come to a stop if I can see the opposite road is clear too, otherwise I'd not flash them to come out if the opposite side is still flowing.
There's plenty of examples on this YouTube channel of cars being left a gap and flowing into oncoming traffic they can't see. I've witnessed it myself numerous times. Even a car turning right across one lane of traffic can impact a cyclist or motorcycle neither cage driver can see. It's dangerous.
Happened to our nanny a year ago. She was driving our kids, turning right across 2 lanes into a car park on the other side of the road. Car in the lane next to her waved her across, and she went, got plowed into by a car in the 2nd lane, that neigltherbhad seen.
neigltherbhad is an outstanding word. I'm stealing it.
my fat fingers are unrivalled
Yeah, nah
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean depends which way they are turning, if they are travelling the same way as you, then you creating the gap means it is pretty safe, against the flow I come to a stop if I can see the opposite road is clear too, otherwise I'd not flash them to come out if the opposite side is still flowing.
There's plenty of examples on this YouTube channel of cars being left a gap and flowing into oncoming traffic they can't see. I've witnessed it myself numerous times. Even a car turning right across one lane of traffic can impact a cyclist or motorcycle neither cage driver can see. It's dangerous.
Happened to our nanny a year ago. She was driving our kids, turning right across 2 lanes into a car park on the other side of the road. Car in the lane next to her waved her across, and she went, got plowed into by a car in the 2nd lane, that neigltherbhad seen.
neigltherbhad is an outstanding word. I'm stealing it.
my fat fingers are unrivalled
Yeah, nah
We can call it a tie 😎
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@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA ha ha then you know exactly what's on this young lothario's mind!
Bunch of hypocrites.
I'm fairly open minded, but they're both 13. Even by today's standards that is a bit too young for more than holding hands and the odd peck
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean depends which way they are turning, if they are travelling the same way as you, then you creating the gap means it is pretty safe, against the flow I come to a stop if I can see the opposite road is clear too, otherwise I'd not flash them to come out if the opposite side is still flowing.
There's plenty of examples on this YouTube channel of cars being left a gap and flowing into oncoming traffic they can't see. I've witnessed it myself numerous times. Even a car turning right across one lane of traffic can impact a cyclist or motorcycle neither cage driver can see. It's dangerous.
Happened to our nanny a year ago. She was driving our kids, turning right across 2 lanes into a car park on the other side of the road. Car in the lane next to her waved her across, and she went, got plowed into by a car in the 2nd lane, that neigltherbhad seen.
neigltherbhad is an outstanding word. I'm stealing it.
my fat fingers are unrivalled
Yeah, nah
We can call it a tie 😎
@BartMan has retired that jersey guys. No use squabbling over it, it hangs from the roof.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA ha ha then you know exactly what's on this young lothario's mind!
Bunch of hypocrites.
I'm fairly open minded, but they're both 13. Even by today's standards that is a bit too young for more than holding hands and the odd peck
At 13 I was trying on far more than holding hands. Second base target.
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
When you can't find the start of the gladwrap/cellotape
When you make a point of folding over the end of sellotape so you can find the start the nest time you use it, and some useless fuckwit uses it before you and doesn't.
