Grumble Thread

[french frank]

... if God had intended us to live out in the country he wouldn't have invented metropolises

... and left it to humankind to ruin them with overcrowding, traffic noise and pollution, and higher crime rates. Choose your downsides

[Roger Webb]

... if God had intended us to live out in the country he wouldn't have invented metropolises

....if God had intended us to live herded together in the urbs he wouldn't have invented crime....

[vinteuil]

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... I always cherish the line of Sydney Smith - 'My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.'

I think my growing up in an insignificant Wiltshire village (several miles from a lemon) was the driver that made me choose to spend my grown-up life in cities well away from any 'rustic charms' ...

[antongould]

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... I always cherish the line of Sydney Smith - 'My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.'

I think my growing up in an insignificant Wiltshire village (several miles from a lemon) was the driver that made me choose to spend my grown-up life in cities well away from any 'rustic charms' ...

but you will always have Cambois

[Roger Webb]

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I think my growing up in an insignificant Wiltshire village (several miles from a lemon) was the driver that made me choose to spend my grown-up life in cities well away from any 'rustic charms' ...

I too grew up in a village (significant as the home of several artists, incl. Eric Gill....who obviously thought lemons were not the only fruit!), where my grandfather ran an agricultural school....so other produce was plentiful!

Whilst not unaware of the difficulties of country living......let alone fruits that we don't grow, we are 12 miles from any bank....I remember the break-ins we suffered, graffiti (now a 'feature' of Bristol....'worth a detour'), noise, traffic......and consider ourselves fortunate!

[vinteuil]

but you will always have Cambois

... ah, happy memories, happy memories


(planning to be in Northumberland this autumn - who knows, if in Blyth... )

[antongould]

... ah, happy memories, happy memories


(planning to be in Northumberland this autumn - who knows, if in Blyth... )

good choice I shall inform Wor Mayor

[teamsaint]

Hit a pothole at about 25 mph last night and got a wrecked tyre.
fortunately I have ( very cheap option ) a spacesaver spare, so I was home after about an hour and at least mobile. The grumble is the absence of spare wheels in cars nowadays. It is utter madness.
as for the state of the roads……

[smittims]

I hate those thin 'temporary' wheels. When I bought a car for my O-H I insisted on a full-size spare .

[eighthobstruction]

....sliding towards the ridiculous - " [guardian] UK Sport has spent £5,765,123 of National Lottery funding on skeleton sliders over the past four years"....

[oddoneout]

....sliding towards the ridiculous - " [guardian] UK Sport has spent £5,765,123 of National Lottery funding on skeleton sliders over the past four years"....

Lot of flesh on dem bones...

(Thought at first it was something to do with those items of plastic footwear that some men in the spotlight seem to favour)

[Serial_Apologist]

....sliding towards the ridiculous - " [guardian] UK Sport has spent £5,765,123 of National Lottery funding on skeleton sliders over the past four years"....

"Following Armageddon, normal services can be expected to be resumed fairly quickly after the event, but it must need to be something of a skeleton service". (Peter Cook, from "Beyond the Fringe", 1961)

[LMcD]

Special Games in the Middle East for would-be record-breakers using performance-enhancing drugs ... ....split screens for ads (only 1 per half at present ) during Six Nations matches on ITV ......any inspired guesses as to what will be next?

[Serial_Apologist]

Passing a nursery school while biking to the shops this afternoon, a family of around four small children, some on mini-scooters, rushed across my path a few metres ahead without warning, causing me to brake violently and swerve into the kerb, somehow managing not to fall off. The mother - presumably - called out, "Careful now, Katieeeee", with no indication of the seriousness of what had just occurred, and no apology to me. I had been within a hair's breath of massacreing a family of toddlers. Relating what had just happened to one of my neighbours, she said to me, "I think this was an example of what is known as 'low intensity parenting'"

[eighthobstruction]

,,,"any inspired guesses as to what will be next?">>>


...touch screen to get food /beer?