Grumpy Old Man
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew don't come back to NZ, drivers here are by and large fluffybunnies
Recent trip to France makes kiwis look like angels on the road.
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Motorists sitting at intersections who start edging slowly forward when there isn't yet a safe gap for them to enter.
What the fuck you doing bro? Are you going to launch like an exocet missile into an imagined gap? Do you just have weak legs and poor control of brake/accelerator? In either case - now I need to keep a cautious eye on you, along with everything else, and put myself in a position/speed to be able to cope with whatever madness you might be considering. Instead of just continuing by at a standard rate, as I'd otherwise be able to do. -
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Motorists sitting at intersections who start edging slowly forward when there isn't yet a safe gap for them to enter.
What the fuck you doing bro? Are you going to launch like an exocet missile into an imagined gap? Do you just have weak legs and poor control of brake/accelerator? In either case - now I need to keep a cautious eye on you, along with everything else, and put myself in a position/speed to be able to cope with whatever madness you might be considering. Instead of just continuing by at a standard rate, as I'd otherwise be able to do.I’m a bit like this. The bottom of my street is a fluffybunny to get out of. I blame transmission gully.
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Anyway, as I got to 69yo today and deeper into grumpy old man territory, I would like to add one more thing that pisses me off, I turn 69 a week after becoming the youngest brother in family. Young brother jumped the queue and passed away last week! And in a big family like ours we were always told to wait your turn!!!
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Will say it put's things in perspective, ABs lost? Big deal ! if you understand.
Anyway I can still get in car in a minute or soand go to golf so life is still good!
Well until I actually start to swing clubs, and get reminded I bloody hopeless at game.
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I forgot to post this last week. Music at games. Penrith has the worst by far of any live game I've ever been to. It was constant, even when play was going on.
Why does the organisation with the best team in the game feel the need to ruin the spectacle by pumping MoreFM (hits from the 70s, 80s, 90s and today) down our ears constantly?
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
I forgot to post this last week. Music at games. Penrith has the worst by far of any live game I've ever been to. It was constant, even when play was going on.
Why does the organisation with the best team in the game feel the need to ruin the spectacle by pumping MoreFM (hits from the 70s, 80s, 90s and today) down our ears constantly?
This.
Don't think it's exclusive to Penrith.
Ruined the last/only two games I've been to at Suncorp.
Repeating myself I know.
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When you into a Hi Fi shop just wanting to look at a pair of speakers and get salespeople wanking on about how this amplifier or other "gives a warmer, deeper sound-stage", how £200 speaker cables "enhance the bass presence" or how vinyl records "contain more melodic information than digital".
No, they fucking well do not, now piss off and study some basic physics and audio engineering you pimply-faced twat.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
When you into a Hi Fi shop wanting to look at a pair of speakers and get salespeople wanking on about how this amplifier or other "gives a warmer, deeper sound-stage", how £200 speaker cables "enhance the bass presence" or how vinyl records "contain more melodic information than digital".
No, they fucking well do not, now piss off and study some basic physics and audio engineering you pimply-faced twat.
This is ironically enough exactly the kind of advice I need right now. We have the niggly combination of a big lounge with very high ceilings and a slightly out of date TV set up. Really fucken irritating when watching Kin ( and all those Micks talking really fast ) and not able to understand them when closed captions aren’t available.
You’re grumpy that someone is giving you this advice.
I’m grumpy that no one is.
Our respective gripes typify this thread.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
not able to understand them when closed captions aren’t available.
this is modern bloody TV and Cinema. The audio tracks are turned down so far if you turn them up to hear them, your house shakes with any action.
Pisses me off. Makes me grumpy. And it's not just you
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@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
not able to understand them when closed captions aren’t available.
this is modern bloody TV and Cinema. The audio tracks are turned down so far if you turn them up to hear them, your house shakes with any action.
Pisses me off. Makes me grumpy. And it's not just you
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My boys will come and stay and we’ll watch an action movie as boys do. All well and good. The potential future Mrs MN5 generally buggers off to the other room to watch Love Island or farming for a wife or whatever…..
Problem is during the quiet “talky” bits we have to turn it right up just to hear……but then when the machine guns/explosions/rockets/bazookas start the house literally fucken shakes just as you say. Passive aggressive shitty messages from the other room telling me to turn it down start pinging on my phone, it’s all on.
Why do they do this to us ?
Oldest boy is pretty good with technology ( certainly compared to me ) but probably not quite as good as he thinks he is.
Next time the girl watches something on the big TV you can guarantee she’ll whinge about him fucking with the levels and making it hard for her to hear.
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@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
this is modern bloody TV and Cinema. The audio tracks are turned down so far if you turn them up to hear them, your house shakes with any action.
"Ooh look, this new dynamic range expander in Adobe Audition is seriously cool. We can make the bomb going off in a quiet street way more realistic".
Ignorant twats
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
Why do they do this to us ?
Because they can and because they are fluffybunnies.
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On the subject……..
Trying to get a 13 and 15 year old to agree on a film to watch.
Fucks sake you pair of doorknobs, back in my day we had one or two channels ( discounting TV1 cos that was what old people watched ) and if we were lucky a video or two on a Friday or Saturday.
“No Dad, I’ve seen the trailer on instagram, that looks crap”
“No Dad, such and such at school said that was bad”
Does my head in.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
On the subject……..
Trying to get a 13 and 15 year old to agree on a film to watch.
Fucks sake you pair of doorknobs, back in my day we had one or two channels ( discounting TV1 cos that was what old people watched ) and if we were lucky a video or two on a Friday or Saturday.
“No Dad, I’ve seen the trailer on instagram, that looks crap”
“No Dad, such and such at school said that was bad”
Does my head in.
Been there. Done that. Have several T shirts.
What really pisses me off is having to sit thru 3-4 minutes of a trailer before they tell you the name of the bloody film, by which time the zoom cuts, flashes and booming sound has given you epilepsy.
