Grumpy Corner

To save you from being grumpy and spoiling other people posts i now declare the Grumpy Corner Open!!!

Come here to give off about the things in life that really wind you up, like when the traffic lights turn Red as you approach........EVEN WHEN THERE'S NO OTHER CARS ON THE JUNCTION!!!!!

Or the GT 100 - The registered posters on here that have yet to post!!!!!

Fire away folks!!!!

hot of the BBC press:

Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'

An attack of the grumps can make you communicate better, it is suggested
In a bad mood? Don't worry - according to research, it's good for you.

An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly.

In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.

While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine.

'Eeyore days'

The University of New South Wales researcher says a grumpy person can cope with more demanding situations than a happy one because of the way the brain "promotes information processing strategies".

Negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world

Professor Joe Forgas
He asked volunteers to watch different films and dwell on positive or negative events in their life, designed to put them in either a good or bad mood.

Next he asked them to take part in a series of tasks, including judging the truth of urban myths and providing eyewitness accounts of events.

Those in a bad mood outperformed those who were jolly - they made fewer mistakes and were better communicators.

Professor Forgas said: "Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world."

The study also found that sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments, which Forgas said showed that a "mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style".

His earlier work shows the weather has a similar impact on us - wet, dreary days sharpened memory, while bright sunny spells make people forgetful.

Everyone hates a smartarse Sami!

bald eagle wrote:Everyone hates a smartarse Sami!

I'm merely keeping everyone up to date with the topical news!

I've only just noticed this Sami, but looking at all the info you put up on "Being Grumpy is Good For You" and then at your Signature, i can't help but smile at the irony!!!!

bald eagle wrote:I've only just noticed this Sami, but looking at all the info you put up on "Being Grumpy is Good For You" and then at your Signature, i can't help but smile at the irony!!!!

hahaha yes well spotted. perhaps a bit of both is the best for you!

What do we need a bloody grumpy corner for? Bah - grumpiness indeed. Maybe some people get grumpy cos they want this to be the best site and are not getting much help .... just a thought.

[quote="Eddie Windsor"]What do we need a bloody grumpy corner for? Bah - grumpiness indeed. Maybe some people get grumpy cos they want this to be the best site and are not getting much help .... just a thought.[/q

Remember its all local issues now not general agms etc coming up give it a while till something explodes - your keyboard by the sound of it

Something thats really getting on my wick at the minute is the England Cricket team! I mean, how can they call themselves the England Cricket team any more when they have players from South Africa and Ireland playing for them?!?!

I know the Irish soccer team done it years ago, but we picked player that would never have made the England team and Jacko made them into a better team than England!!

But of the squad to play S.A. in the One Dayers Andrew Strauss, Eion Morgan, Kevin Pieterson and Jonathan Trott are all not English or Welsh and could easily make their own country sides! That coupled with the players from Scotland, Ireland and the West Indies over the year, perhaps the England and Wales Cricket Board should be renamed the Dick Turpin Cricket Board!!!

Perhaps you just gotta live here for it to annoy you? Either way, my English mates can't take it when i wind them up about "stealing" players from other countries!!!

bald eagle wrote:Something thats really getting on my wick at the minute is the England Cricket team! I mean, how can they call themselves the England Cricket team any more when they have players from South Africa and Ireland playing for them?!?!

I know the Irish soccer team done it years ago, but we picked player that would never have made the England team and Jacko made them into a better team than England!!

But of the squad to play S.A. in the One Dayers Andrew Strauss, Eion Morgan, Kevin Pieterson and Jonathan Trott are all not English or Welsh and could easily make their own country sides! That coupled with the players from Scotland, Ireland and the West Indies over the year, perhaps the England and Wales Cricket Board should be renamed the Dick Turpin Cricket Board!!!

Perhaps you just gotta live here for it to annoy you? Either way, my English mates can't take it when i wind them up about "stealing" players from other countries!!!

The thing is Boc those South Arican guys had to choose England first, they only got picked because they became eligible for England first, in Pieterson's case I beleive he made the decision to play for England then waited to be eligible, I may be wrong but that's the way I see it.

Worse than this though I believe is the New Zealand Rubgy team. South Africa are an established cricket side, currentley and in the past the best in the World so even to loose some very good players to England hasn't hurt them too much over the years. New Zealand however are ripping the lifeblood out of smaller rugby nations in the South Pacific. I know they're offering better wages to these guys but imagine how much better Fiji, Tonga and Samoa wold have been over the years had they kept their best players. I'm convinced that I read somewhere that Samoa has produced more World class rugby players per percentage of the population than any other nation in the World. Indeed had they kept all their players at that rate they'd probably be better than the All Blacks! I know all rugby nations are guilty of this but none more so than the All Blacks and to be honest it bothers the hell out me when the All Blacks are playing Fiji and Joe Rokocoko is stood there doing the Haka in font of lads he probably played alongside as a kid

Sorry lads the first part of the last message should have been addressed to Bald Eagle and not Bocerty, sorry to the pair of you for that mix up.

Jesus, I'm losing it, Bocerty is not even in this thread! Sorry Bald Eagle, it's those Bloody Kiwis, I can't even think straight they've got me so angry!

6inarow wrote:Sorry lads the first part of the last message should have been addressed to Bald Eagle and not Bocerty, sorry to the pair of you for that mix up.

no problem 6inarow - no offence taken

6inarow wrote:Jesus, I'm losing it, Bocerty is not even in this thread! Sorry Bald Eagle, it's those Bloody Kiwis, I can't even think straight they've got me so angry!

cant say i like the taste of them much myself

bocerty wrote:

6inarow wrote:Jesus, I'm losing it, Bocerty is not even in this thread! Sorry Bald Eagle, it's those Bloody Kiwis, I can't even think straight they've got me so angry!

cant say i like the taste of them much myself

You just can't trust hairy fruit can you!!??

The use of a mini-digger in a small rural graveyard is unjustifiable to my mind. We're not at Auswitch here.. .

Boxtyeater wrote:The use of a mini-digger in a small rural graveyard is unjustifiable to my mind. We're not at Auswitch here.. .

but they're a killer to dig by hand Boxty especially if it a fresh grave.......

bocerty wrote:

Boxtyeater wrote:The use of a mini-digger in a small rural graveyard is unjustifiable to my mind. We're not at Auswitch here.. .

but they're a killer to dig by hand Boxty especially if it a fresh grave.......

There's no place in Grumpy Corner for a sensible answer Boc, only rants allowed!

bald eagle wrote:

bocerty wrote:

Boxtyeater wrote:The use of a mini-digger in a small rural graveyard is unjustifiable to my mind. We're not at Auswitch here.. .

but they're a killer to dig by hand Boxty especially if it a fresh grave.......

There's no place in Grumpy Corner for a sensible answer Boc, only rants allowed!

that was a rant i'm talking from much experience

bocerty wrote:

bald eagle wrote:

bocerty wrote:

Boxtyeater wrote:The use of a mini-digger in a small rural graveyard is unjustifiable to my mind. We're not at Auswitch here.. .

but they're a killer to dig by hand Boxty especially if it a fresh grave.......

There's no place in Grumpy Corner for a sensible answer Boc, only rants allowed!

that was a rant i'm talking from much experience

Sorry Boc, it read too rational an answer for a rant but from experience also i can agree with you!

My post was a rant as well...Where's our customs and traditions going when this malarkey comes in?
I agree with the lads views on this but nothing beats a small meithéal of neighbours at the digging of a grave.
Oul' yarns about the deceased, moving on to neighbouring plots, tales of past diggings and past glories or misfortunes.
Depth checking, width checking and general conviviality combine wonderfully with the gentle consumption of refreshments.

And on the day itself, the ultimate accolade - the Parish elders nod their heads and proclaim "a grand fine grave indeed".

bald eagle wrote:

bocerty wrote:

6inarow wrote:Jesus, I'm losing it, Bocerty is not even in this thread! Sorry Bald Eagle, it's those Bloody Kiwis, I can't even think straight they've got me so angry!

cant say i like the taste of them much myself

You just can't trust hairy fruit can you!!??

Somebody should run for the EU presidency under that slogan, I'd vote for them, if I got a vote (a hint of rant there for you)

Another grump...after existing on our own as an independent parish for hundreds of years the priest has decided to further his career by linking up with the destitute community in Lahnden town as pastor to the Irish center. We have no priest at all now.

But Mother Church in her wisdom have amalgamated us with those coonts in Mohill. Now joining with Kiltubrid, Cloone or Aughnasheelin mightn't be too bad, but Mohill..

There will, after all, be a vacancy on the club committee this year because there's no way in fook that any PP from Mohill will get the Presidency of the club. Canvassing will commence in the morning, what's it called..negative canvassing I think..

Boxtyeater wrote:My post was a rant as well...Where's our customs and traditions going when this malarkey comes in?
I agree with the lads views on this but nothing beats a small meithéal of neighbours at the digging of a grave.
Oul' yarns about the deceased, moving on to neighbouring plots, tales of past diggings and past glories or misfortunes.
Depth checking, width checking and general conviviality combine wonderfully with the gentle consumption of refreshments.

And on the day itself, the ultimate accolade - the Parish elders nod their heads and proclaim "a grand fine grave indeed".

is that the tradition down your way Boxty, its not half as much fun up here my father who is in his 70's has been the sole digger in our graveyard for god know show many years now - i was glad to see him finally use a mechanical digger when he could - always feared finding him in one of the graves one day............

We tend to "make a day" out of it. A scatter of neighbours, 6/10 at max, fortified with 2 bottles of whiskey, case of stout and rake of sambos provided by the family of the deceased. There would be no drink until we'd the back broke in the job and we'd then drag it out into an afternoon/evening of oul' yarns and lies. (There have even been small sing/songs at times)

The family of the deceased would never come into the graveyard to inspect progress or anything like that. The job was entrusted to the neighbours and would be spot on for the burial.
The proximity of the "local" 100 yds away often caused comments from more penniless citizens, such as "look at them hoors above in the graveyard drinking XXXXX's money"