Grumpy Old Man
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
When you've had a large Christmas dinner, some good Pinot and you fall into a deep, satisfying sleep on the sofa. And some arsehole keep waking you up.
Assume it’s your own arsehole? Just get up and have a dump. It’s better in the long run.
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
Assume it’s your own arsehole? Just get up and have a dump. It’s better in the long run.
We all saw what you did there....
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Tech platforms that do updates that make the user experience worse. For example:
Teams: After the update to the new improved Teams 2.0 you hit refresh on the Chat tab it now defaults to the Teams tab. Other than that I can't really see what's different for it to be improved.
Youtube: YT did an update which moved the History and Playlist from easy to navigate one page lists to two separate pages of large icons.
Prime: They updated their interface and it's now almost impossible to find anything new to watch unless you specifically look for it.
Apple: I know that Apple would have done something stupid recently, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
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People who tell you authoritatively that vinyl sounds better and is more faithful than digital as "it captures all the sound unlike digital which doesn't as it has gaps".
No it doesn't. It might if you had ears with a frequency range 5 times that of a cat or dog- but you don't.
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@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
Apple: I know that Apple would have done something stupid recently, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
Peak peak GOM! Grumpy at a company without a reason!
It's Apple, reason enough
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People who are repeatedly late.
Everyone is late sometimes, shit just happens. But we have multiple people in our lives that are late EVERY time. It’s just disrespectful - why do they think that their time is more important than ours?
My daughter is missing running training right now because the mum of her mate was more than 2 hours late to collect her. Fucking irritating.
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
People who are repeatedly late.
Everyone is late sometimes, shit just happens. But we have multiple people in our lives that are late EVERY time. It’s just disrespectful - why do they think that their time is more important than ours?
My daughter is missing running training right now because the mum of her mate was more than 2 hours late to collect her. Fucking irritating.
I wouldn’t move to Rarotonga if I were you
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
People who are repeatedly late.
Everyone is late sometimes, shit just happens. But we have multiple people in our lives that are late EVERY time. It’s just disrespectful - why do they think that their time is more important than ours?
My daughter is missing running training right now because the mum of her mate was more than 2 hours late to collect her. Fucking irritating.
Yeah, as x military it really fucken annoys me. But even before I couldn't live without having a watch on even as a kid. Probably my part of the spectrum that.
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
I am never late. It annoys me too much, but I'm not one of those turn up way early types either. I have the misfortune to travel with someone who likes to be at the airport 3 hours ahead of departure...
Tardiness is laziness
I'm that guy - partly because I get nervous cutting flights too fine, but mostly because I really like airports and I really love airport beer...
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@dogmeat I've got a mate who's a turns up early to the airport guy. One time when he came over to Sydney, we had a great week of doing stuff, then had a huge shitfight on the day he left because he was scared he'd miss his flight and we were out at some markets. In the end we dropped him for his flight 4 hours before departure.
I'll happily go to the airport early if I have lounge access, but if not I'll leave it as late as possible.
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
I am happy to be in the lounge an hour or a bit more before my flight is called, but you're still just killing time.
Fortunately, I can get into any Star Alliance lounge but 4 hours is ridiculous.
I've been lucky enough to have access to the Qantas First Class Lounge for the last 10 years or so (will expire for good 30 April this year...
) - I could spend all day in that place, the food is top notch, the booze exceptional, and I was typically there waiting for a long haul work flight with no kids around...absolute bliss! -
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
I am happy to be in the lounge an hour or a bit more before my flight is called, but you're still just killing time.
Fortunately, I can get into any Star Alliance lounge but 4 hours is ridiculous.
Yep, it is, and he usually doesn't have lounge access. He even wanted to go to the airport early in Raro before they did the renovations and it was just a hot square waiting room.
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going to the Airport is generally a cause for a fight in my house as my wife will not relax until we are checked in and through security, and i refuse to get to the airport even a minute too early.
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Boys, it's about how you play it. I'm all about the minimum possible time, but when with the family the wife will always go ridiculously early. We live 20 mins from Heathrow T5 and will happily pay extra to fly out of it, it's never let me down (until the next time now of course, after writing that).
So we go 2-3 hours early, bags dropped, through security its usually at least 2 hours now til flight. Girls like to shop, so I hit the bar with the boys Unlock his screen time so he'll be quiet and I have a couple of beers.
Whats not to like?
