Grumpy Old Man
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@tim you don't think saying something along the lines of "slipknot fans being too sad to be school shooters" (in response to a slipknot song) is rude or an absurd generalisation?
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@r-l I don't care if it's rude. It was funny.
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@tim most of us aren't rude
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@r-l Good for you. This place isn't going to change.
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@tim shame, being able to block a mod would be a good change as I don't have any interest in reading your posts when I see them crop up mid discussion, usually being rude.
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@tim said in Grumpy Old Man:
@r-l This is a discussion forum and an opinion like that will get pushback. This isn't anyone's personal blog.
Mate. you've completely lost me.
I've had two really expensive pieces of kit, bought on the basis of being quality-engineered in Germany, which have broken in the last 10 days way ahead of their expected shelf-life. Feeling more than grumpy about it, I expressed my feelings as befits a posting in the Grumpy Old Man thread.
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@r-l Everyone will really miss your posts in the sports forum.
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@victor-meldrew You're completely entitled to post whatever.
I'm also going to see an old man post and call it as bullshit:
"Quality" German engineering. A bloody misnomer if there ever was one.
As a professor of engineering that is ridiculous to me.
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@tim said in Grumpy Old Man:
As a professor of engineering that is ridiculous to me.
With all due respect, as someone who's spent 20 years on shop floors improving manufacturing and business processes for multiple companies in the EU & US, the idea that German engineering/manufacturing is any better or worse than other countries is equally ridiculous to me (as any car reliability survey will show).
I'm going to leave it here, as I thought this thread is a bit of fun and not meant to be taken that seriously.
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@catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
I don't know whether to put this in a covid thread or here. But seeing as I'm a grumpy old man and I'm already here, then here it is.
So the story is, Mrs Cato, myself and the mutt went for a walk to a local pub. This entails a miserable bit of walking through housing and then some really nice stuff through fields, over rivers and canals etc so the default position is to drive the 2 miles of shit and walk the rest. So far so usual; however Mrs Cato has been out an about on her bicycle and has a "new route". It seems a little vague to me but I'll go along with the plan because she knows what she is doing. Anyway once parked up and walking we miss the turning even though I had suggested this as perhaps the way to go and ended up waking along a busy road and an even busier cycle path before getting to said pub. Now this pub is in an idyllic situation, between the river and the canal, with a huge garden that has some magnificent trees, which must be over 200 years old. Here is where it all goes wrong and it's Covid to blame, together with over exuberant applications and a dependance upon IT that doesn't always work.
So, sign in, OK, but if I actually want to have a drink I HAVE to order it via the app, which of course I have to download. Naturally the QR code doesn't fucking work, so I have to download it from the app store. Not a big issue but then the fun starts. I can't just download it, I have to get a verification code via my email. I've provided my proper email address rather than my on phone gmail option so now I have to download that fucker and of course I've forgotten my password. Finally I get through this bollocks but lo and behold things can only get more complex. Said app wants me to provide payment details online and, AND provide them with a picture of myself so that their staff know they are dealing with the correct person.
Now, I really wanted a beer by this time but not that fucking much. I realise that much of the problem is my lack of IT nous but for crying out loud, you're just coming out of one of the worst times for the hospitality industry, why not make things easy.
Oh and as a by the way, the pub was about a quarter fulll on the sunniest day of the year when usually it would have been one and a half times over subscribed.
Twats.
The Anchor, Pyrford?
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@r-l said in Grumpy Old Man:
All sorts of grumpy this week.
We've mentioned triggering words before. I have a new one to add to my "fermented"...
Flacid? FLACCID?
Jesus I've heard that word too many times today, not in a personal context either before any smart arses pipe up, and Flacid is not a word any girl wants to hear.
Pronounced flaksid?!
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@pakman said in Grumpy Old Man:
Pronounced flaksid?!
No, that word's not the opposite of "tumescent"...
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@victor-meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@pakman said in Grumpy Old Man:
Pronounced flaksid?!
No, that's not the opposite of "tumescent"...
Potaytoe/potarto? https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2017/11/flaccid.html
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@victor-meldrew tumescence is a lovely word!
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@pakman said in Grumpy Old Man:
@catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
I don't know whether to put this in a covid thread or here. But seeing as I'm a grumpy old man and I'm already here, then here it is.
So the story is, Mrs Cato, myself and the mutt went for a walk to a local pub. This entails a miserable bit of walking through housing and then some really nice stuff through fields, over rivers and canals etc so the default position is to drive the 2 miles of shit and walk the rest. So far so usual; however Mrs Cato has been out an about on her bicycle and has a "new route". It seems a little vague to me but I'll go along with the plan because she knows what she is doing. Anyway once parked up and walking we miss the turning even though I had suggested this as perhaps the way to go and ended up waking along a busy road and an even busier cycle path before getting to said pub. Now this pub is in an idyllic situation, between the river and the canal, with a huge garden that has some magnificent trees, which must be over 200 years old. Here is where it all goes wrong and it's Covid to blame, together with over exuberant applications and a dependance upon IT that doesn't always work.
So, sign in, OK, but if I actually want to have a drink I HAVE to order it via the app, which of course I have to download. Naturally the QR code doesn't fucking work, so I have to download it from the app store. Not a big issue but then the fun starts. I can't just download it, I have to get a verification code via my email. I've provided my proper email address rather than my on phone gmail option so now I have to download that fucker and of course I've forgotten my password. Finally I get through this bollocks but lo and behold things can only get more complex. Said app wants me to provide payment details online and, AND provide them with a picture of myself so that their staff know they are dealing with the correct person.
Now, I really wanted a beer by this time but not that fucking much. I realise that much of the problem is my lack of IT nous but for crying out loud, you're just coming out of one of the worst times for the hospitality industry, why not make things easy.
Oh and as a by the way, the pub was about a quarter fulll on the sunniest day of the year when usually it would have been one and a half times over subscribed.
Twats.
The Anchor, Pyrford?
No mate, down here in Devon. The Double Locks in Exeter.
Edit: The Anchor looks good but then I saw the dread words Hall & Woodhouse. Badger Beer by name, Badger Piss by nature. Truly awful beer and the bastards took over one of my favourite brewers, King & Barnes in Horsham. Utter, utter bastards.
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@catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
@pakman said in Grumpy Old Man:
@catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
I don't know whether to put this in a covid thread or here. But seeing as I'm a grumpy old man and I'm already here, then here it is.
So the story is, Mrs Cato, myself and the mutt went for a walk to a local pub. This entails a miserable bit of walking through housing and then some really nice stuff through fields, over rivers and canals etc so the default position is to drive the 2 miles of shit and walk the rest. So far so usual; however Mrs Cato has been out an about on her bicycle and has a "new route". It seems a little vague to me but I'll go along with the plan because she knows what she is doing. Anyway once parked up and walking we miss the turning even though I had suggested this as perhaps the way to go and ended up waking along a busy road and an even busier cycle path before getting to said pub. Now this pub is in an idyllic situation, between the river and the canal, with a huge garden that has some magnificent trees, which must be over 200 years old. Here is where it all goes wrong and it's Covid to blame, together with over exuberant applications and a dependance upon IT that doesn't always work.
So, sign in, OK, but if I actually want to have a drink I HAVE to order it via the app, which of course I have to download. Naturally the QR code doesn't fucking work, so I have to download it from the app store. Not a big issue but then the fun starts. I can't just download it, I have to get a verification code via my email. I've provided my proper email address rather than my on phone gmail option so now I have to download that fucker and of course I've forgotten my password. Finally I get through this bollocks but lo and behold things can only get more complex. Said app wants me to provide payment details online and, AND provide them with a picture of myself so that their staff know they are dealing with the correct person.
Now, I really wanted a beer by this time but not that fucking much. I realise that much of the problem is my lack of IT nous but for crying out loud, you're just coming out of one of the worst times for the hospitality industry, why not make things easy.
Oh and as a by the way, the pub was about a quarter fulll on the sunniest day of the year when usually it would have been one and a half times over subscribed.
Twats.
The Anchor, Pyrford?
No mate, down here in Devon. The Double Locks in Exeter.
Edit: The Anchor looks good but then I saw the dread words Hall & Woodhouse. Badger Beer by name, Badger Piss by nature. Truly awful beer and the bastards took over one of my favourite brewers, King & Barnes in Horsham. Utter, utter bastards.
Mine, too.
Wouldn't have been my first choice, but the family were going to sell to someone, after Shepherd Neame made an unsolicited offer. Deals often done on shoots.
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@tim said in Grumpy Old Man:
@victor-meldrew You're completely entitled to post whatever.
I'm also going to see an old man post and call it as bullshit:
"Quality" German engineering. A bloody misnomer if there ever was one.
As a professor of engineering that is ridiculous to me.
What the fuck man? What's with the douche crusade lately?
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@r-l said in Grumpy Old Man:
@victor-meldrew tumescence is a lovely word!
Hard to pronounce after a couple of glasses of wine though.
