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Are you a Grumpy older person?

TheCatWoman

I remember that tv program years ago called Grumpy Old Men, they did a Grumpy Old Women one too, it was so funny.

I'm definately grumpy and I'm getting grumpier the older I get, things make less sense, they keep bringing out "new and improved" things when the old ones were perfectly good. 

Why can't you just plug things in and have them work anymore? Everythings such a faff and no I don't want a relationship with my fridge, toaster, other household appliance, I just want it to work and do as it's told, I don't need my fridge trying to comunicate with my mobile phone to make a shopping list to send to tesco for me! I want my toast well done on both sides and a knob to twiddle so as everyne can have toast the way they like it.

I'm grumpy about socks too, I mean why are the ankles so tight, even ones that are meant to be for diabetic people, has the nations ankles got narrower in the last 50 years?

Are you grumpy and what about?

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  • Oh yes! I’ve just been having a good grump to poor  in another post. 

    TheCatWoman said:
    Why can't you just plug things in and have them work anymore? Everythings such a faff and no I don't want a relationship with my fridge, toaster, other household appliance, I just want it to work and do as it's told

    That annoys me too. It’s design gone mad, supposedly to make life easier and simpler when it does the exact opposite. If you need to speak to the appliance manufacturer, it’s either by email and wait a day or days for a response, or a chatbot which tells you stuff you don’t need to hear before telling you that all their agents are busy but there is information on the website… it’s so time consuming.

    I’m really annoyed about several other things too at the moment.

    ”Yer man” because petrol and energy is costing so much and he decides that if the US can’t sail through the Strait of Hormuz, the rest of the world shouldn’t either. The other guy who said it would be just “a little pain” short term etc., when it seems the US is barely affected, meanwhile innocent people are being killed and the rest of the world suffers. 

    I’m cross about the state of the NHS.

    And I’m just grumpy! 

    Maybe this thread will keep going and people can add their grumps as needed. A problem shared/get it off your chest etc. seems therapeutic in short blasts only. 

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  • Oh yes! I’ve just been having a good grump to poor  in another post. 

    TheCatWoman said:
    Why can't you just plug things in and have them work anymore? Everythings such a faff and no I don't want a relationship with my fridge, toaster, other household appliance, I just want it to work and do as it's told

    That annoys me too. It’s design gone mad, supposedly to make life easier and simpler when it does the exact opposite. If you need to speak to the appliance manufacturer, it’s either by email and wait a day or days for a response, or a chatbot which tells you stuff you don’t need to hear before telling you that all their agents are busy but there is information on the website… it’s so time consuming.

    I’m really annoyed about several other things too at the moment.

    ”Yer man” because petrol and energy is costing so much and he decides that if the US can’t sail through the Strait of Hormuz, the rest of the world shouldn’t either. The other guy who said it would be just “a little pain” short term etc., when it seems the US is barely affected, meanwhile innocent people are being killed and the rest of the world suffers. 

    I’m cross about the state of the NHS.

    And I’m just grumpy! 

    Maybe this thread will keep going and people can add their grumps as needed. A problem shared/get it off your chest etc. seems therapeutic in short blasts only. 

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