Grumpy Old Man
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@Victor-Meldrew this should help.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
New season of True Detective is out on January 15th!
Then why the fuck is it being advertised in between every fucking second over? It's more than two months away you tards
What’s wrong with that?
Lots of stuff gets advertised that is months away.
Fuck, what a Grumpy old prick
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I not a huge fan of the whole xmas thing, but some parts are good. This year we going down to Palmerston North to grandson's , which is ok, but best bit? I get a couple of days to spend with 5yo Great-grandson, and so quietly teach him things that mothers don't really find top of the list. Like how you eat like a man, no nancy polite stuff, and that men are the boss, thier job is too run the place and look after girls etc. Then I get to come home and know grandson's partner, as well as my daughter(his grandmother) and grandaughter (aunt) will keep saying "who told you this stuff"?. Well they will know but I will have felt it not wasted time anyway.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
New season of True Detective is out on January 15th!
Then why the fuck is it being advertised in between every fucking second over? It's more than two months away you tards
What’s wrong with that?
Lots of stuff gets advertised that is months away.
Fuck, what a Grumpy old prick
I could circumnavigate the globe by then
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
New season of True Detective is out on January 15th!
Then why the fuck is it being advertised in between every fucking second over? It's more than two months away you tards
What’s wrong with that?
Lots of stuff gets advertised that is months away.
Fuck, what a Grumpy old prick
I could circumnavigate the globe by then
Yeah but you’re lazy so you won’t
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@Dan54 said in Grumpy Old Man:
I not a huge fan of the whole xmas thing, but some parts are good. This year we going down to Palmerston North to grandson's , which is ok, but best bit? I get a couple of days to spend with 5yo Great-grandson, and so quietly teach him things that mothers don't really find top of the list. Like how you eat like a man, no nancy polite stuff, and that men are the boss, thier job is too run the place and look after girls etc. Then I get to come home and know grandson's partner, as well as my daughter(his grandmother) and grandaughter (aunt) will keep saying "who told you this stuff"?. Well they will know but I will have felt it not wasted time anyway.
Nicest description of palmy I’ve ever seen
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
I good mince pie is a thing of beauty. This rules out virtually all shop bought stuff. But a home made pie with quality mincemeat, proper home made pastry and a thin layer of marzipan twixt the two is sublime.
Ignore the marzipan, but agree on home-made. Mincemeat matured for a month or so in brandy, freshly baked and with brandy-infused clotted cream. Heaven
Clotted cream is what makes mince pies, I don't have them in NZ, but when in Kernow I eat a fuck load
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@booboo mince is the process of 'mincing' of an ingredient? Therefore minced >whateveryouminced<
Oh, and I love me some quality Christmas cake with marzipan icing...fuck you all
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
leisurely strolling across
This. Those fluffybunnies that actually slow down. And pricks who don't wave a "thanks".
I walk a lot (100km/week) and always acknowledge someone who stops to let me cross at a pedestrian crossing.
Which is sort of weird and speaks volumes to the entitlement of car drivers'. 'Thank you for magnanimously acknowledging my existence and allowing me to cross where I am legally allowed to, despite the fact that it will delay your journey by 15 seconds....'
one that does truly make me a very grumpy old man though is the number of motorists who accelerate to run a red light at a pedestrian crossing. If I stepped onto the road when the crossing tells me I can I would get killed at least once a week.
I have been very tempted to through something at the assholes but don't as it would end up with me being the one in the shit
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@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
I good mince pie is a thing of beauty. This rules out virtually all shop bought stuff. But a home made pie with quality mincemeat, proper home made pastry and a thin layer of marzipan twixt the two is sublime.
Ignore the marzipan, but agree on home-made. Mincemeat matured for a month or so in brandy, freshly baked and with brandy-infused clotted cream. Heaven
Clotted cream is what makes mince pies, I don't have them in NZ, but when in Kernow I eat a fuck load
Hated mince pies until Mrs M came into my life. Makes her own mincemeat (link for @boobo) and lets it mature for a month or 3. Shortcrust pastry, icing suger and cream - heaven.
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
Oh, and I love me some quality Christmas cake with marzipan icing...fuck you all
Making ours next week. Think we're doing marzipan this year - was a honey/toffee topping last year with walnuts and brazils. Feeding the cake with brandy is taken seriously at Meldrew Towers.
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@dogmeat I expect that is hangover from the days when the old diamond on the road as you approached the crossing was a thing, unlike now where most people, particularly young people just walk out and expectation is that the cars will stop, which most do.
I always stop and check before crossing and give the courtest wave too.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
Took the boys to KFC recently.
I know, I know, don’t judge me, only happens every now and again.
Fuck me, the chicken pieces in my quarter pack were seriously tiny and the potato and gravy tasted like liquid cardboard.
Didn’t KFC used to be good ?
It's proportionate to the hangover. Hungover = marvelous, sober = terrible.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
Didn’t KFC used to be good ?
I had the same reaction when first trying it again a year or two ago - after a decade or two of not having any.
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
No
I do wonder... did it used to be good, and is just shit now?
Or - was it always shit - but so fucking good compared to the muck we got served at home?
A topic which has come up a few times recently in conversations - the absolute shite that parents in the 80s used to cook. (and 70s/90s, probably)
Boiled-to-mush vegetables. Chops cooked until they were charcoal. Bland-as-faaark sausages. Fuck - the fact that Watties-fucking-tomato-sauce is/was somehow considered a condiment ("a substance ... that is used to add flavour to food") - is a fucking dire indictment.The idea was raised recently... when somebody throws a 1980's themed party - offer to do the catering. And do it faithful to the theme. Sawdust cheerios. Mushy canned asparagus rolls. White-bread with fucking hundreds/thousands. In fact - bland white-bread with EVERYTHING.
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@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
White-bread with fucking hundreds/thousands.
don't you fucking DARE! i will absolutely cut a bitch
Fairy bread fucking owns
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@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
I do wonder... did it used to be good, and is just shit now?
Or - was it always shit - but so fucking good compared to the muck we got served at home?
A topic which has come up a few times recently in conversations - the absolute shite that parents in the 80s used to cook. (and 70s/90s, probably)
Boiled-to-mush vegetables. Chops cooked until they were charcoal. Bland-as-faaark sausages. Fuck - the fact that Watties-fucking-tomato-sauce is/was somehow considered a condiment ("a substance ... that is used to add flavour to food") - is a fucking dire indictment.The idea was raised recently... when somebody throws a 1980's themed party - offer to do the catering. And do it faithful to the theme. Sawdust cheerios. Mushy canned asparagus rolls. White-bread with fucking hundreds/thousands. In fact - bland white-bread with EVERYTHING.
I wonder if the British Empire didn't eventuate as a result of people willing to risk it all in the chance there was better food.
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
White-bread with fucking hundreds/thousands.
don't you fucking DARE! i will absolutely cut a bitch
Fairy bread fucking owns
You don’t like Bacon but you like Fairy Bread ?
Jesus Christ…..
