#grumpyoldman — Public Fediverse posts

I outed my usually inner grumpy old man this morning and told off a schoolboy on the train for having his bag on the seat beside him. As usual these days the trains are very crowded and people were standing. I felt a bit bad for him afterwards, but I can't abide those that 'seat hog' this way.

#TrainLife #GrumpyOldMan

I’m not a killjoy usually, but if we are in a school pickup line (don’t get me started on why that is even needed) and your music is so loud it is making MY car vibrate, maybe it’s time to turn it down a smidge?

#music #grumpyoldman

What The F**K Happened to Customer Service? #customerservice #grumpy #grumpyoldman youtube.com/shorts/S80F1...

What The F**K Happened to Cust...

Whole lotta Canadian Gothic going on in the #CanadaReads books this year. I don't think I have the stomach for another depressingly bleak rural/small-town landscape where the people can't talk about their feelings and have … SECRETS! 😕

p.s. Sprinkling a bit of dystopia or magical realism on them doesn't do much to improve the flavour.

#reading #novels #grumpyOldMan

I enjoy reading about the mundane things happening in your lives, and in return I toot the trivialities of my daily round.

But a lesson I repeatedly fail to take under my belt is that I shouldn't tell you lot when I'm unwell or, in particular, describe my unwellness.

Because every time I do someone - well meaning certainly - will be along to tell me that I should be taking more Vitamin Q, Pangolin Tail Extract or to remember to Hydrate.

Equally, there's sometimes some concerned individual who knows of someone - his brother's nextdoor neighbour's friend - who had exactly the same thing as I've got, but who delayed contacting the doctor by 17 nano-seconds resulting in them having to have their head amputated.

It's not your fault - you mean well, you don't know me or about my 40 years in healthcare - it's me, I'm over sharing.

Thanks for reading

#GrumpyOldMan

i find it extremely annoying that MacOS 26 screwed up folder icon caching. (2023 M3 iMac w/ 24 GB of RAM and no memory pressure)

this happens not every time but multiple times a day

#GrumpyOldMan

It's always lovely when someone in the shared office space decides to have a Teams call on his speakers. Who needs head phones anyway?

Can't figure out if that's anti-social or too social.

#officelife #office #grumpyoldman

Ugh I'm getting tired of the endless openings of dessert and novelty drink venues in the CBD. I don’t have a sweet tooth, and I don’t want to spend any disposable income I have on sugary food/liquids.

I suppose these places are popular partly because they're cheap to run and they fit with a cost of living crisis (cheap treats), but god I'm bored with them. Not to mention the endless plastic cups produced for the sugary coffee-based drinks.

#Melbourne #food #GrumpyOldMan https://www.theage.com.au/goodfood/melbourne-eating-out/eleven-new-cbd-spots-for-lunch-treats-and-coffee-plus-a-bistro-where-everything-is-14-20260126-p5nx2k.html

Thinking about getting a bunch of business card sized cards made with instructions on good manners and etiquette that I can hand to inconsiderate and ignorant people. Like the person next to me in this cafe having a video call on their phone without using earbuds or headphones. It’s not only the noise but also the fact I don’t want to be in the background of their video.

#GrumpyOldMan

Is Grumpy Old Man Syndrome a thing?

#Stuff #OldPeopleOfMastodon #GrumpyOldMan

https://www.stuff.co.nz/wellbeing/360863698/grumpy-old-man-syndrome-thing

Oh good. Seems Tesco has discontinued their 8p-per-bag compostable caddy liners, and are replacing them with some branded 21p-per-bag compostable caddy liners. #grumpyoldman

Question: What made ‘old men’ grumpy before social media? 5 minutes on any platform makes me want to sit on the front porch and yell at all passers by.
#grumpyoldman

Dear Democratic National Committee. I pledge to send you $100 on the last day of each month. I will reduce that amount by $1 for every unsolicited communication (text, email, phone call, voice mail, physical mail piece) I receive from a left leaning candidate, cause, or PAC requesting a donation.

Although I am pledging up to $1,200 for the next year, I suspect my total donation under this pledge will be between $0 and $60.

#USpol #SPAM #GrumpyOldMan

Well, seems that this #GrumpyOldMan will be hanging around for a little while yet. Well, at least it won't be #BowelCancer doing me in.

I've also had a recent blood test at my doctor's surgery and will go back fro the results of that next week. The only concern is that I know I'm #preDiabetic and so I'll find out if that has got better or worse.

I've always managed to avoid needing to see medical professionals but looks like getting old has put paid to that. Ho hum.

At least we still have an NHS that works in this respect. Thankfully it is a very resilient NHS as just about every government we've had recently has tried to bring it to its knees. Bastards.

Maybe this marks me out as a #curmudgeon , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the #listicle, I may mute you entirely.

It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.

You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.

#EmptyCalories #information #InformationSphere #JunkFood #JunkInfo #JunkContent #InformationLite #PetPeeve #peeve #grumpy #GrumpyOldMan #content

grumble I just want neovim normally yo..

This is dumb. This is bordering on "your distro is dumb" :D

To the list!

Update: I used brew again.. Its ok.

#grumpyoldman #linux #bazzite

Something's gotta give.

Either OS user interfaces like Windows have to make it easier to change where notification boxes pop up, or stuff like online banking systems need to stop putting important buttons at the bottom-right of the interface.

#GrumpyOldMan #YellsAtCloud

We don't really need another variant on rickrolling, do we.

#grumpyoldman #enoughalready