Grumpy Old Man
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In the last week I've replaced my laptop and purchased a new coffee machine - both 8 yrs old. Replacements are great, manuals have been read and setup completed.
I have no more tech to replace. Feeling depressed.
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We've been forced into replacing Citrix with Appstream, after Citrix tried to hold us over a barrel with a 230% annual price hike and a several year contract. What a bunch of eggs. Somehow I've ended up being one of the talking heads running webinars/demos twice weekly to hundreds of clients at a time and prior to that leading testing. The last two to three weeks have been a fucking ball ache.
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@Victor-Meldrew Snapdragon?
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Elderly linguistic gripes.
Amount. It seems to me the misused word of 2026. If there are a discrete number of items you can't use amount. It's not the amount of things in a dozen it's the 'number' of things!!! Rugby pundits seem especially bad on this. 'Do you want to comment on the amount of penalties in the game?'. Just no.
Learnings. Learning is a verb. Lessons is the noun. Simps.
Floor. Handling on the floor. Are they playing on lino? If not, and there's soil and grass, it's handling on the GROUND! -
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@pakman said in Grumpy Old Man:
Are they playing on lino? If not, and there's soil and grass, it's handling on the GROUND!
Posh fluffybunny. I just mowed the floor yesterday.
How did the wife take that?
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@pakman said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@pakman said in Grumpy Old Man:
Are they playing on lino? If not, and there's soil and grass, it's handling on the GROUND!
Posh fluffybunny. I just mowed the floor yesterday.
How did the wife take that?
With a meal.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fluffybunny A tho? They can go and get fucked, because they are a two-faced fluffybunny. The Boy says all their face-to-face interactions have been positive, but then they go and lob a virtual hand grenade into the ether on behalf of "all the girls" in the group who might have taken offence at something completely unintended.
Turns out Fluffybunny A is a they/them (born female), and pretty much a man-hater feminazi.
Having talked to a few people in the wider friend group at this point, none of the males feel entirely comfortable around them.
What a fucking shock.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fluffybunny A tho? They can go and get fucked, because they are a two-faced fluffybunny. The Boy says all their face-to-face interactions have been positive, but then they go and lob a virtual hand grenade into the ether on behalf of "all the girls" in the group who might have taken offence at something completely unintended.
Turns out Fluffybunny A is a they/them (born female), and pretty much a man-hater feminazi.
Having talked to a few people in the wider friend group at this point, none of the males feel entirely comfortable around them.
What a fucking shock.
At least the males are aware enough to be wary of the man hating mentally ill lesbian.
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@pakman said in Grumpy Old Man:
Amount. It seems to me the misused word of 2026.
I'm certainly looking forward to getting grumpy about that...
To be fair - there's a fair few grammar rules I'm bad at (mostly around the whole discrete vs continuous thing - fewer/less, etc) ... not something that was really taught in the schools I went to... but when you do know a rule, or rather - the fucking meaning of a fucking word - it is irritating as shit.
"... amount of <discrete number>..." does 'feel' wrong even to me.
Like how the order of adjectives just seems 'natural'.
I would guess I've made about 3 grammatical errors in this post, but at least I never used the words "ironic" or "acronym" incorrectly. -
