I need a good rant!!

[Nostrodamus]

Look, I am a middle aged man and when I lived and worked in the UK I was perfectly happy being a “grumpy old git”. There were so many things that happened during the day there was never a shortage of material I could rant on about. Everyone and everything was wrong.

Now I am living aboard I am having trouble finding things to be grumpy about. I need a good rant occasionally. There has to be something.

Any suggestions before I become to mellow ?

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

Look, I am a middle aged man and when I lived and worked in the UK I was perfectly happy being a “grumpy old git”. There were so many things that happened during the day there was never a shortage of material I could rant on about. Everyone and everything was wrong.

Now I am living aboard I am having trouble finding things to be grumpy about. I need a good rant occasionally. There has to be something.

Any suggestions before I become to mellow ?

I am sure that if you post this in the lounge you will not be short of material.

 

[Koeketiene]

Look, I am a middle aged man and when I lived and worked in the UK I was perfectly happy being a “grumpy old git”. There were so many things that happened during the day there was never a shortage of material I could rant on about. Everyone and everything was wrong.

Now I am living aboard I am having trouble finding things to be grumpy about. I need a good rant occasionally. There has to be something.

Any suggestions before I become to mellow ?

Check out the Daily Mail.

If you don't find something to rant about there - it's too late already.
Either that, or just check out The Bilge (Lounge) and jump on any of the fashionable bandwagons.

Enjoy

 

[photodog]

Did you want just one rant, or were you thinking of taking a course...
Because is £! for a single rant or £8 for a course of ten...

 

[Poignard]

I'm glad you said "living aboard" and not "living abroad". There's few things worse than getting collared by some expatriate who bores you stiff telling you how rotten England is and how clever he was to get out when he did. I never met one yet that England wasn't better off without.

 

[Blueboatman]

Am I bovvered

Recant your rant, sounds like sailing is beginning to agree with you!

 

[Seajet]

I'm glad you said "living aboard" and not "living abroad". There's few things worse than getting collared by some expatriate who bores you stiff telling you how rotten England is and how clever he was to get out when he did. I never met one yet that England wasn't better off without.

I can think of 4 for a start but they don't go on about it, that's probably the difference !

 

[AndrewB]

I'm glad you said "living aboard" and not "living abroad". There's few things worse than getting collared by some expatriate who bores you stiff telling you how rotten England is and how clever he was to get out when he did.

Suprised he had time to collar you, as this type is generally too busy telling the locals how they should run their own country better, having singularly failed with his own!

 

[Poignard]

Suprised he had time to collar you, as this type is generally too busy telling the locals how they should run their own country better, having singularly failed with his own!

 

[Tranona]

I'm glad you said "living aboard" and not "living abroad". There's few things worse than getting collared by some expatriate who bores you stiff telling you how rotten England is and how clever he was to get out when he did. I never met one yet that England wasn't better off without.

Glad its not just me! Fortunately I have been able to escape many after watching them slide off their bar stool and before the taxi arrives to take them "home"! Sometimes, though it is their wives that come to shovel them up, then you have to listen to how they could never go back to living in England.

 

[Champagne Murphy]

Check out the Daily Mail.

If you don't find something to rant about there - it's too late already.
Either that, or just check out The Bilge (Lounge) and jump on any of the fashionable bandwagons.

Enjoy

 

[Poignard]

We got caught by one in a French port once. An old singlehander, living aboard, looked a bit lonely.

Expecting somebody with an interesting life story to tell, I invited him on board for a drink. He turned out to be The Daily Mail incarnate and, after politely putting up with his bigoted nonsense for an hour, we said we would have to say goodbye as we were going ashore for a meal.

"Ah, mind if I join you?", says he.

 

[DanTribe]

Glad its not just me! Fortunately I have been able to escape many after watching them slide off their bar stool and before the taxi arrives to take them "home"! Sometimes, though it is their wives that come to shovel them up, then you have to listen to how they could never go back to living in England.

Even worse is the ones that do come back and insist on telling you how much better life used to be when they lived abroad.
Why don't they go back then?

 

[macd]

Nostrodamus: have you not heard about the latest from Apple?
It's an i-Rant and it was just made for you

 

[Nostrodamus]

That is the point, I am abroad and I have no intrest in ranting about the UK. When I was there everything was wrong but now I am away I am not really bothered. What happens, happens.
Life has become too mellow to argue the cuss and tell everone how to do their job. They are doing as they always have with or without me.
I need something to really get my teeth into. Everyone here in the marina is wonderful. They drink with me, say hello and even speak English to me knowing my French is not to good. They even came round with drinks and ofered to help me when I am doing something to the boat. I havn't even come across the marina Pratt. There is always a marina pratt but I have not found him yet, that is unless ....... I am the marina Patt... ahhh.. best we cancel this thread.

 

[sailorman]

look, i am a middle aged man and when i lived and worked in the uk i was perfectly happy being a “grumpy old git”. There were so many things that happened during the day there was never a shortage of material i could rant on about. Everyone and everything was wrong.

Now i am living aboard i am having trouble finding things to be grumpy about. I need a good rant occasionally. There has to be something.

Any suggestions before i become to mellow ?

green decks

 

[Baggywrinkle]

As an ex-pat living abroad I take exception to the stereotyping displayed by forumites in this thread.

I miss proper bacon, proper tea ... I can't get turnips for haggis, neeps and tatties and they all speak a fiendishly difficult language here.

Life was much simpler in the U.K. .... but where's the challenge in a simple life eh?

I might come back some day, but then I might not.

The wierdest thing about moving abroad long-term is that the kids are growing up with no British culture. In two generations I'll be the strange grandparent that doesn't speak German quite right. A sobering thought.

 

[Poignard]

Baggywrinkle

I once read about a British diplomat in Russia who used to send his collars back to London to be laundered because the Russians couldn't starch them as well as he liked.

 

[Nostrodamus]

green decks

Bought patio cleaner two days ago so green decks are no longer a problem.

Nearest I got latley was a light that kept dropping out the headlining but I bought new ones yesterday and they work great. Cannot even complain about the price as they were in the sales.

I was getting worked up about having no Heinz salad creme but then found a shop that sell it.

Any more of this rantless existance and I will have a permanent smile.

 

[nimbusgb]

As an ex-pat living abroad I take exception to the stereotyping displayed by forumites in this thread.

I miss proper bacon, proper tea ... I can't get turnips for haggis, neeps and tatties and they all speak a fiendishly difficult language here.

Life was much simpler in the U.K. .... but where's the challenge in a simple life eh?

I might come back some day, but then I might not.

The wierdest thing about moving abroad long-term is that the kids are growing up with no British culture. In two generations I'll be the strange grandparent that doesn't speak German quite right. A sobering thought.

1 - British & culture - 'nuff said!

2 - 2 generations and you can't be bothered to learn the lingo! How terribly British Ex-pat of you sir!