get it off your chest you grumpy old git

Nostrodamus

Nostrodamus

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Most sailors on these forums seem to be middle aged or above and have that affliction we get at that age when we become "grumpy old gits".
I must admit I enjoy a good gripe, a moan, and a slagging off occasionally. It's good for you to get it out of the system.
So come on, get it off your chest and have a good gripe about anything sailing related as long as it's not a go at a forumite.
 
Marina charges.. in Marinasville Europeshire

I always got charged for a 12m boat.. Iam only 10.4m... sooo unfair :mad:
 
I suppose I am heading towards the 'grumpy zone'. I just wish people would stop asking me if I am going out on the boat when I have to make a living and the boat is still in the yard with a couple more days work to finish. I'm sure they do it to wind me up, but as you can see, it just makes me grumpy!
(and there is still a chill in the wind, no matter what direction it comes from).
 
People who decide to spray their boat off all over mine when I spent the day cleaning it.

People who fend off their boat from mine by pushing my Stanton... makes my blood boil
 
Drivers that don't keep to the nearside lane when it's empty.
I may be old and grumpy but I like to drive fast enough to get there before I :
1 Wet myself
2 Miss the beginning of a must-see TV prog.
3 Expire..

ANSWER - if you don't like being 'undertaken' pull over. (and have a read at the highway code)
 
Billjratt said:
Drivers that don't keep to the nearside lane when it's empty.
I may be old and grumpy but I like to drive fast enough to get there before I :
1 Wet myself
2 Miss the beginning of a must-see TV prog.
3 Expire..

ANSWER - if you don't like being 'undertaken' pull over. (and have a read at the highway code)
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And especially, at the very top of the self-righteous pile, those who flash you when you do undertake them.
 
Nostrodamus said:
Most sailors on these forums seem to be middle aged or above and have that affliction we get at that age when we become "grumpy old gits".
I must admit I enjoy a good gripe, a moan, and a slagging off occasionally. It's good for you to get it out of the system.
So come on, get it off your chest and have a good gripe about anything sailing related as long as it's not a go at a forumite.
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Oh God, here we go again! Why on Earth do people start such stupid threads? Don't you imagine I have better things to do with my time than read this sort naval-gazing twaddle? When I was a lad we'd have been beaten to within an inch of our lives for even thinking rubbish like this, so clear-off whatever your flamin' name is. And for the record, I am not a grumpy old git. I'm simply trying to preserve our heritage, maintain the English language and uphold a decent set of standards. So there!

;)
 
Happily paying tax on a very modest pension that I paid for over 40 years listening to people who retired early on very generous police pensions paid for by the rest of us moaning about paying UK tax on UK income and who insist on inflicting right-wing gibberish about immigrants and welfare scroungers in support of their specious complaints. There, that's better!!
 
Sailing folk talking absolute rubbish about: places they have never seen; experiences they have not had; negativity directed at people of some countries that they've not visited, and my pet peeve? Moaning that foreigners don't speak English. To them I can only say please get a life, it's fun :)
 
Billjratt said:
Drivers that don't keep to the nearside lane when it's empty.
I may be old and grumpy but I like to drive fast enough to get there before I :
1 Wet myself
2 Miss the beginning of a must-see TV prog.
3 Expire..

ANSWER - if you don't like being 'undertaken' pull over. (and have a read at the highway code)
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People who break speed limits because they don't know how to plan ahead and leave earlier . . . oops!
 
Billjratt said:
Drivers that don't keep to the nearside lane when it's empty.
I may be old and grumpy but I like to drive fast enough to get there before I :
1 Wet myself
2 Miss the beginning of a must-see TV prog.
3 Expire..

ANSWER - if you don't like being 'undertaken' pull over. (and have a read at the highway code)
Click to expand...

Decades ago I used to share lifts to work with a colleague via the M4. Me in my Hillman Imp; he in his E-type Jag. I noticed that his bonnet acreage in the rear-view of the car in front was much better at deflecting them out of the RH lane than my diddy boot-lid (engine at back)...

Mike.
 
Nothing to do with leaving earlier, any more than sailing faster because you didn't leave the harbour earlier. It's using your car and the roads as they were designed.

Its also really really hard to stay awake after a long day at work without fast driving and lots of interaction with people who don't know what lanes are for.
 
You've got me started now...

People who arrive early - so rude. My father-in-law used to do this every single time. In one of many tantrums of which I am less than proud, when he arrived 1 1/2 hours early for Sunday lunch I refused to leave the newspapers and greet him until the agreed time. Wait in the car. Or in the rain. Just somewhere else...
 
bromleybysea said:
Happily paying tax on a very modest pension that I paid for over 40 years listening to people who retired early on very generous police pensions paid for by the rest of us moaning about paying UK tax on UK income and who insist on inflicting right-wing gibberish about immigrants and welfare scroungers in support of their specious complaints. There, that's better!!
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People who moan about something they no nothing about!!!!
That is usually me as well
 
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