Today I'm angry about.....

[thebish]

Yesterday at the bus stop a group of teenagers hopped on the bus ahead of everyone else despite there being a queue of sorts, it is London after all. I tapped one on the shoulder and said "Back of the queue" he told me to take a sexual departure whereupon I lifted him and carried him off the bus and gently set him down with a rejoinder that as I was afraid he might call the police, being a very brave looking boy, if I belted him, I wouldn't belt him, on this occasion. He couldn't look me in the eye and shouted for his mates to get off the bus. As the bus pulled away I got the finger, but hey, you have to pay for your fun. I get just as incensed at the elderly, middle aged, young, children. There is no excuse for bad manners.

but would you pick up a rude pushing-in old woman and carry her off the bus! love to see you do that!

[Lofthouse Lower]

or a midget?

[thebish]

You are Tony Blair and I claim my £5.

arse! now I'll need to set up yet another account....

[TANGODANCER]

When I was at school we were given a lecture about respecting old people - which is all well and good, but in reality they're the most rude and thoughtless members of society. They never queue up properly, and the dawdling drives me mad.

Wonder what you'll be like as an old person?

What exactly do you think we want you to respect? You think older people want you bowing and scraping and thinking "Oh, better respect them they might have fought in the war?" What bollox. All older people want respecting is the fact that we can't do the things we used to do, like moving as fast, being physically incapable of reacting as fast, even thinking as fast and being soft targets for abuse because of the same and the fact we're little danger because of it. Why exactly should people over retiring age take abuse that wouldn't be given to them if they were thirty?

As I said earlier, you probably have parents and grandparents that are in the "old people" category. Do you not think they are entitled to respect that at best they consider mutual? To get respect, the first step is usually to give it. It applies to us all, regardless of age. Maybe the word " respect"itself is wrong. Maybe "consideration" is a better description because that doesn't have any age limits.

[Bruce Rioja]

without fail - every time - the rudest and least respectful are the WI and the townswomens guilds.

You should spend some time in Germany, thebish. Thing is with your average Kraut, when you point out that you're not at all impressed by his/her pitching up at the front of the queue and point them to where they should be, they look at YOU as though YOU'RE the one that's in the wrong. Box-headed bastards!

[TANGODANCER]

without fail - every time - the rudest and least respectful are the WI and the townswomens guilds.

You should spend some time in Germany, thebish. Thing is with your average Kraut, when you point out that you're not at all impressed by his/her pitching up at the front of the queue and point them to where they should be, they look at YOU as though YOU'RE the one that's in the wrong. Box-headed bastards!

I've found that applies elsewhere too. After once complaining about just that on a Spanish forum years ago I was informed you should "state your intent" as queueing isn't recognised as such. So you just throw a few out of the way and that's okay. It all came about after I dragged an ignorant yoof off a bus by his haversack after he shoved the wife out of the way and clonked me with said haversack.

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Old people are great, they just steamroller their way through everyone and everything after the age of 70. As for the jam Bish, she was probably round the corner making the bloody stuff while you were waiting ! You know old women and jam..

To say there aren't folk like this is silly, there are. To class all over seventies as unmannerly and senile is just as silly. Are your parents, grandads and grandmothers in that category? Catch a bus or two and clock the behaviour of schoolkids and tennagers, go compare. It's called life.

The hypocrisy that sometimes get spewed on here is laughable

[Lofthouse Lower]

Old people are great, they just steamroller their way through everyone and everything after the age of 70. As for the jam Bish, she was probably round the corner making the bloody stuff while you were waiting ! You know old women and jam..

To say there aren't folk like this is silly, there are. To class all over seventies as unmannerly and senile is just as silly. Are your parents, grandads and grandmothers in that category? Catch a bus or two and clock the behaviour of schoolkids and tennagers, go compare. It's called life.

The hypocrisy that sometimes get spewed on here is laughable

usually by the same people

It cuts both ways - if people treated all others in the same way, we'd be fine - but old biddies rock along with the 'I'm old, so me first' attitude which then annoys the younger members of society, which creates a vicious circle.

Best thing to do is probably build a town and just throw all the old folk in there, let them shop at their own pace and let them stop dead in their tracks whilst walking on a pavement and other assorted annoyances.

[thebish]

Old people are great, they just steamroller their way through everyone and everything after the age of 70. As for the jam Bish, she was probably round the corner making the bloody stuff while you were waiting ! You know old women and jam..

To say there aren't folk like this is silly, there are. To class all over seventies as unmannerly and senile is just as silly. Are your parents, grandads and grandmothers in that category? Catch a bus or two and clock the behaviour of schoolkids and tennagers, go compare. It's called life.

The hypocrisy that sometimes get spewed on here is laughable

usually by the same people

It cuts both ways - if people treated all others in the same way, we'd be fine - but old biddies rock along with the 'I'm old, so me first' attitude which then annoys the younger members of society, which creates a vicious circle.

Best thing to do is probably build a town and just throw all the old folk in there,

I think it's called Bournemouth...

[TANGODANCER]

Old people are great, they just steamroller their way through everyone and everything after the age of 70. As for the jam Bish, she was probably round the corner making the bloody stuff while you were waiting ! You know old women and jam..

To say there aren't folk like this is silly, there are. To class all over seventies as unmannerly and senile is just as silly. Are your parents, grandads and grandmothers in that category? Catch a bus or two and clock the behaviour of schoolkids and tennagers, go compare. It's called life.

The hypocrisy that sometimes get spewed on here is laughable:roll:

Perhaps you'd define that one, just for the sake of me and East Lower? Not sure if, or where, I was being hypocritical, but he seems to think so.

[Gravedigger]

Yesterday at the bus stop a group of teenagers hopped on the bus ahead of everyone else despite there being a queue of sorts, it is London after all. I tapped one on the shoulder and said "Back of the queue" he told me to take a sexual departure whereupon I lifted him and carried him off the bus and gently set him down with a rejoinder that as I was afraid he might call the police, being a very brave looking boy, if I belted him, I wouldn't belt him, on this occasion. He couldn't look me in the eye and shouted for his mates to get off the bus. As the bus pulled away I got the finger, but hey, you have to pay for your fun. I get just as incensed at the elderly, middle aged, young, children. There is no excuse for bad manners.

but would you pick up a rude pushing-in old woman and carry her off the bus! love to see you do that!

An "Old woman" in relative terms to me would have to be 150. But no I wouldn't, which gives you a wonderful opportunity to label me ageist:-)
In your supermarket you had the grace to step aside. Suppose it had been a spotty git that wanted to go ahead because he had a few items; do you think you'd have stood aside?
Anyway, what you doing shopping? It's a womans' job.

[thebish]

Yesterday at the bus stop a group of teenagers hopped on the bus ahead of everyone else despite there being a queue of sorts, it is London after all. I tapped one on the shoulder and said "Back of the queue" he told me to take a sexual departure whereupon I lifted him and carried him off the bus and gently set him down with a rejoinder that as I was afraid he might call the police, being a very brave looking boy, if I belted him, I wouldn't belt him, on this occasion. He couldn't look me in the eye and shouted for his mates to get off the bus. As the bus pulled away I got the finger, but hey, you have to pay for your fun. I get just as incensed at the elderly, middle aged, young, children. There is no excuse for bad manners.

but would you pick up a rude pushing-in old woman and carry her off the bus! love to see you do that!

An "Old woman" in relative terms to me would have to be 150. But no I wouldn't, which gives you a wonderful opportunity to label me ageist:-)
In your supermarket you had the grace to step aside. Suppose it had been a spotty git that wanted to go ahead because he had a few items; do you think you'd have stood aside?
Anyway, what you doing shopping? It's a womans' job.

I always do the shopping - that way it costs less!

as for spotty youths - I usually let people past me regardless of age if they only have a couple of things and I have a trolleyfull...

[Bruce Rioja]

I always do the shopping - that way it costs less!

as for spotty youths - I usually let people past me regardless of age if they only have a couple of things and I have a trolleyfull...

You're a disgrace! Restrain your manner, man, and may frugality be your guide!

[CrazyHorse]

The bastard M60.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Yesterday at the bus stop a group of teenagers hopped on the bus ahead of everyone else despite there being a queue of sorts, it is London after all. I tapped one on the shoulder and said "Back of the queue" he told me to take a sexual departure whereupon I lifted him and carried him off the bus and gently set him down with a rejoinder that as I was afraid he might call the police, being a very brave looking boy, if I belted him, I wouldn't belt him, on this occasion. He couldn't look me in the eye and shouted for his mates to get off the bus. As the bus pulled away I got the finger, but hey, you have to pay for your fun. I get just as incensed at the elderly, middle aged, young, children. There is no excuse for bad manners.

but would you pick up a rude pushing-in old woman and carry her off the bus! love to see you do that!

An "Old woman" in relative terms to me would have to be 150. But no I wouldn't, which gives you a wonderful opportunity to label me ageist:-)
In your supermarket you had the grace to step aside. Suppose it had been a spotty git that wanted to go ahead because he had a few items; do you think you'd have stood aside?
Anyway, what you doing shopping? It's a womans' job.

I was with my father in a check-out line just at the cashier when a woman pushed in front of us and slapped down a tin. She turned and said "You don't mind do you - it's only one tin of dogfood." My father replied: "Not if you are that hungry, madam."

I have waited nearly fifty years to use that line, but the opportunity has not yet arisen.

[General Mannerheim]

There seems to be an awful lot of blokes walking round Manchester with chinos rolled up above their ankles – nobs.

[thebish]

There seems to be an awful lot of blokes walking round Manchester with chinos rolled up above their ankles – nobs.

chinos rolled up above their ankles is one thing..

but rolled up above their nobs - that's disgusting...

[Lofthouse Lower]

There seems to be an awful lot of blokes walking round Manchester with chinos rolled up above their ankles – nobs.

Deck-shoed wankers

[TANGODANCER]

There seems to be an awful lot of blokes walking round Manchester with chinos rolled up above their ankles – nobs.

Ah well, I suppose it's progress from them walking about with a foot of grubby boxers hanging out above their crotch-sagging jeans.

[boltonboris]

The bastard M60.

Missed training last night.. Took us 1hr 50m to get from Carrington to Worsley