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Bah! Humbug! Thread

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I thought I would be seasonal rather than call ir Grumpy Old Men thread as some might be female and some young.

Anyway what has annoyed you today or recently? My starter is Christmas card envelopes. I should have looked closer as well as checking they are blank inside or have limited Wordling (e.g. With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year") as I hate twee sayings and carp little poems. The problem was half the cards came with red envelopes and with both my fountain pen and biro I find the addresses difficult to see. I know this is partially me as as a kid I struggled with the tables on the back of red Silverline exercise books (from Woolworths) so with the aid of Dad before I was 8 I had learnt my multiplication tables, and Imperial weights and measures by heart. I probably need a white or yellow biro if such a thing exists! :(
 
MikeyBikey said:
I thought I would be seasonal rather than call ir Grumpy Old Men thread as some might be female and some young.

Anyway what has annoyed you today or recently? My starter is Christmas card envelopes. I should have looked closer as well as checking they are blank inside or have limited Wordling (e.g. With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year") as I hate twee sayings and carp little poems. The problem was half the cards came with red envelopes and with both my fountain pen and biro I find the addresses difficult to see. I know this is partially me as as a kid I struggled with the tables on the back of red Silverline exercise books (from Woolworths) so with the aid of Dad before I was 8 I had learnt my multiplication tables, and Imperial weights and measures by heart. I probably need a white or yellow biro if such a thing exists! :(
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Silver gel pens work well on red or dark backgrounds. They take a little bit longer to dry but they write like normal pens. Usually readily available to buy this time of year and last ages. I had mine (gold &silver) for over 3 years.
I know what you mean about the Christmas messages and poems. Quite often totally inappropriate to send to someone who is having a tough Christmas who you want to offer support without jolly greetings
 
silver minion said:
Silver gel pens work well on red or dark backgrounds. They take a little bit longer to dry but they write like normal pens. Usually readily available to buy this time of year and last ages. I had mine (gold &silver) for over 3 years.
I know what you mean about the Christmas messages and poems. Quite often totally inappropriate to send to someone who is having a tough Christmas who you want to offer support without jolly greetings
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Thank you - will look in Amazon after Christmas.
 
I don’t mind what colour the envelopes are, but when they’re as thin as gossamer and don’t stick that annoys me!
 
I normally reserve red envelopes exclusively for my wife. On Valentine’s Day? Cards are a waste of resource. I get sick of posting these things to others.
 
I stopped doing Christmas cards in 2008 (oddly specific, I know, but we had a significant bereavement in October that year and I was barely able to celebrate Christmas at all, never mind cards). I just never rediscovered the need to start sending them again - one or two, now and again, to people I might not otherwise have contact with.

My solution for coloured envelopes - Christmas or otherwise is white sticky labels - write the address with my normal pen and apply to the envelope.

My current minor 'bah humbug' is that I was an early failure in the Whamaggedon competition this year!!
My car radio auto uploaded Heart Xmas when it went live in November so I've had access to Christmas songs now for 2 months! Was too careless so had already heard 'Last Christmas' by middle of November!!
 
My 'bah humbug' is trying to get round the supermarket for a few bits and getting stuck behind/between people with two trolleys loaded with goods. Shops are only closed for two days! How much food and drink do people really need?!
 
Nothing has annoyed me yet today but then I have not been out on foot and had to navigate all those cars parked on pavements or driven out and had to deal with all those complicated and uncoordinated traffic lights that keep appearing around the place.
 
freesia said:
My 'bah humbug' is trying to get round the supermarket for a few bits and getting stuck behind/between people with two trolleys loaded with goods. Shops are only closed for two days! How much food and drink do people really need?!
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Believe it or not, some places are open on Boxing Day? I read a statement from Sainsbury’s not only urging that people get what they need by the 24th & reminding they will be closed Christmas Day to give their workers a well earned rest. (Nice of them.) But anyone contractually obliged to do a shift on the 26th, will be there in Santa hats. (Smiling like contestants at a “bullet catching contest.”)
 
People talking loudly on mobile phones. Yesterday, I had to visit the opticians in Bedford, so to avoid the traffic, I chose to catch the bus instead of using the car.

The only seat left available was next to a young lady in her 30s who was on a three-way video call, as it was a bus and noisy her volume was turned right up and she was almost shouting to be heard (funny that, everyone on the bus could hear her) and it wasn't even in English.

As for the opticians, six people in the waiting room, four talking on their phones and that's my moan over.
 
freesia said:
My 'bah humbug' is trying to get round the supermarket for a few bits and getting stuck behind/between people with two trolleys loaded with goods. Shops are only closed for two days! How much food and drink do people really need?!
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Whenever I'm in a supermarket and I hear someone say to another person, "Don't people realise that the shops are only closed for two days?", I want to ask them, "Then what are you doing here?".
 
freesia said:
My 'bah humbug' is trying to get round the supermarket for a few bits and getting stuck behind/between people with two trolleys loaded with goods. Shops are only closed for two days! How much food and drink do people really need?!
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Today in Sainsbury's someone dropped several things out of her heaped basket. As I picked them up for her, she said, "I'm overloaded!". I resisted the temptation to ask her, "Do you mean psychologically?".
 
Not exactly a Christmas problem although it tends to get worse this time of year is car drivers who think pavements are parking spaces.
It is bad enough for someone fit and agile like myself having to duck out into the road with fast moving traffic when I am walking to the shops but far worse for children or people in wheelchairs.
As a pedestrian, I do not take over roads so cars should not take over pavements.
 
helli said:
Not exactly a Christmas problem although it tends to get worse this time of year is car drivers who think pavements are parking spaces.
It is bad enough for someone fit and agile like myself having to duck out into the road with fast moving traffic when I am walking to the shops but far worse for children or people in wheelchairs.
As a pedestrian, I do not take over roads so cars should not take over pavements.
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It doesn't help that so many people nowadays drive SUVs that look twice as big as cars used to be. I'd like to make them all (apart from people with physical disabilities) squeeze into a Fiat 500: a 'real' one, not the bloated modern version.

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I did a supermarket run today, it was just regular groceries and the fresh veggies for Xmas dinner. I knew that it would be busy when I arrived and there were no trolleys, I had to go back to the carpark to get one. Yes it was crowded but easy to negotiate with a little patience. I didn't see any massively loaded trolleys but some people could be catering for their extended family and therefore need to buy more food. I got another two packs of Biere Deluxe lager which they are practically giving away at present*. Queues were about twenty deep at the regular checkouts so I queued at the self checkouts instead. I feel a duty to check out my stuff nice and efficiently when it's busy. While waiting in line I watched bemused as a couple were checking out, her scanning with one hand while on her phone and him standing there looking like a spare part not doing anything. She stacked the contents of her full trolley in an unsteady pile on the scales and then bagged it all up after she had paid. There appeared to be extra staff on at the self checkouts because any minor hitches were being dealt with nice and promptly to keep things moving.

*Ten 250ml stubbies of pretty decent 4% lager for £2.85
 
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Whenever I'm in a supermarket and I hear someone say to another person, "Don't people realise that the shops are only closed for two days?", I want to ask them, "Then what are you doing here?".
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Some carrotts, parsnips, cream and a pork pie. Thats all 🙂
 
CliffH said:
It doesn't help that so many people nowadays drive SUVs that look twice as big as cars used to be. I'd like to make them all (apart from people with physical disabilities) squeeze into a Fiat 500: a 'real' one, not the bloated modern version.

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My other half would not fit in a Fiat 500. He barely managed to fit in my mini cooper on the very odd occasion I would let him drive it.
I'm afraid we drive a biggish SUV but as we live in very rural Lincolnshire, the roads are pretty awful. Plus our driveway gradient is approx 1:4 with a raised hump in the middle.
The new neighbours removals truck managed to ground itself.😱
 
I drive an SUV too but I do try to be considerate when I park it. I don't have a problem having to walk a little further if that's what it takes. It really is the best car I've ever owned, it is just so versatile. It is particularly good at swallowing large pieces of furniture. It is so spacious with masses of legroom both front and rear which is really useful on longer journeys. The performance is similar to a 1970s V8 muscle car but it does 45mpg.
 
Chris Hobson said:
I drive an SUV too but I do try to be considerate when I park it. I don't have a problem having to walk a little further if that's what it takes. It really is the best car I've ever owned, it is just so versatile. It is particularly good at swallowing large pieces of furniture. It is so spacious with masses of legroom both front and rear which is really useful on longer journeys. The performance is similar to a 1970s V8 muscle car but it does 45mpg.
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Ours is not particularly high performance but we can fit large packs of chicken bedding and feed sacks plus loads of normal shopping. Like you I try to be considerate when I park. Our local villages have 2 hours free parking in the local authority carparks so I use them and walk a few minutes to destination
 
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