Grumpy Old Man
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
Honestly, who thinks bringing a screaming baby into the office to visit someone is a good idea?
I can beat this. A mate of mine sent me this today.
Magic.
“ One of the directors here is currently going around asking who can mind her dog in the office for an hour while she’s in a meeting.”
The new world!!
I had a new UK bank as one of my business clients years ago. It was headed up by a American chairman who had his spoiled dog as his mascot.
Bloody thing was a menace at times. Bloody loved it when it shat in the entrance foyer and customers stamped it into the carpet.
Metro?
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@scribe said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
Honestly, who thinks bringing a screaming baby into the office to visit someone is a good idea?
I can beat this. A mate of mine sent me this today.
Magic.
“ One of the directors here is currently going around asking who can mind her dog in the office for an hour while she’s in a meeting.”
The new world!!
I had a new UK bank as one of my business clients years ago. It was headed up by a American chairman who had his spoiled dog as his mascot.
Bloody thing was a menace at times. Bloody loved it when it shat in the entrance foyer and customers stamped it into the carpet.
Metro?
I couldn't possibly comment.....
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
Honestly, who thinks bringing a screaming baby into the office to visit someone is a good idea?
The same sort of fluffybunnies who work from home and ask me if I can be quiet for an hour while they have a zoom call.
Everything I do makes noise ffs , but yeah I'll do nothing for an hour.
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@paremata said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
Honestly, who thinks bringing a screaming baby into the office to visit someone is a good idea?
The same sort of fluffybunnies who work from home and ask me if I can be quiet for an hour while they have a zoom call.
Everything I do makes noise ffs , but yeah I'll do nothing for an hour.
I guess this one depends on who you live with !
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@No-Quarter Loved this one for some reason...
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@No-Quarter said in Grumpy Old Man:
A thread for grumpy old men that complain about kids
I do like how old people complain that children have access to quality of life improving innovations.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@No-Quarter said in Grumpy Old Man:
A thread for grumpy old men that complain about kids
I do like how old people complain that children have access to quality of life improving innovations.
In all seriousness, I think kids today have as rough a life as any generation. Materially better off, but life throws them much more shit like cyber-bullying than in days gone past.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@No-Quarter Loved this one for some reason...
... cardboard box in middle t'road ...
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So like, I love TikTok, like its the best, like I spend so much time on it, like I don't know what, like boomers did before.
Why has the word like now become the young person's um, I literally struggle to listen when every other word is like..... It shits me to tears.
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@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
So like, I love TikTok, like its the best, like I spend so much time on it, like I don't know what, like boomers did before.
Why has the word like now become the young person's um, I literally struggle to listen when every other word is like..... It shits me to tears.
yeah our generation was so much more imaginative
So shit, I love TikTok, shit its the best, shit I spend so much time on it, shit I don't know what, shit boomers did before.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@No-Quarter said in Grumpy Old Man:
A thread for grumpy old men that complain about kids
I do like how old people complain that children have access to quality of life improving innovations.
In all seriousness, I think kids today have as rough a life as any generation. Materially better off, but life throws them much more shit like cyber-bullying than in days gone past.
I feel like I lucked out being a kid in the 90s, a lot of the comforts of modern life without what the internet and social media has spiraled into now. We were free to roam the streets on our bikes, then come home and play on the Nintendo and Sega. Good times.
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@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
So like, I love TikTok, like its the best, like I spend so much time on it, like I don't know what, like boomers did before.
Why has the word like now become the young person's um, I literally struggle to listen when every other word is like..... It shits me to tears.
I’ve seen some ferners use “like” in an overly gratuitous fashion it must be said
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@No-Quarter You're clearly too young to post on this thread. This irks me.
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Bitching about the younger generations is literally as old as Socrates:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
Bitching about the younger generations is literally as old as Socrates:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Speaking of literally; that's just over a hundred years old and written by a Cambridge student, Kenneth Freeman.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
Bitching about the younger generations is literally as old as Socrates:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Speaking of literally; that's just over a hundred years old and written by a Cambridge student, Kenneth Freeman.
Tis true, but point stands that they've been bitching about this since ancient Greece.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
I have hardly heard of Paul O'Grady since I got here, now the cumt's death is dominating the news for the second day in a row.
The BBC keep quoting a list of his best one liners as both himself and Lily Savage. None of them actually funny. One or two mildly amusing if you’d heard someone in the pub come out with it, but not more than that.
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