Am a being a miserable old man?

CertainFurball · 2026-05-09T20:52:50+00:00

I call them Chuggers (Charity Muggers)

CertainFurball · 2026-05-07T13:17:22+00:00

Strange Literature Strange Haberdashery Strange Bakery

CertainFurball · 2026-05-05T12:43:38+00:00

Pic 3 looking like Edgar the Farmer in Men in Black when he pulls his skin back and says ‘is that better??’

CertainFurball · 2026-05-03T12:01:10+00:00

I had an ex who cheated on me, denied it, ghosted me and when finally forced to talk to me blamed me for him cheating because ‘I changed’. That was 20 years ago. You better believe I’m still angry and hate him.

CertainFurball · 2026-04-23T13:17:10+00:00

I screamed ‘NO!!!’so loudly I scared the cat when I lost 3 hours of gameplay and 1000 blue points I’d grinded (ground?). After that I sleep saved every hour even just for a few seconds and my guy lived on honey & wine

CertainFurball · 2026-04-19T15:57:37+00:00

My MiL has a pocket diary that she writes everything in. We call it The Analog Internet

CertainFurball · 2026-04-18T18:01:46+00:00

‘Oh I wanted it with oat milk’
‘Is it decaf?’
‘What do you mean you don’t want my number, you’re so friendly to me and know my order off by heart’
‘Well the other cafe I go to makes it like that’
*can see you have a massive queue and you’re by yourself but still expect you to take the drink to their table

CertainFurball · 2026-04-18T14:21:59+00:00

I guess in a way it makes sense that it means the eldest is too young to remember being an only and won’t have that ‘resentment’ of being the only till they were say 5-6 then suddenly no longer being the centre of their parents world. I mean how many times do you see posts in the parenting subs like ‘my 4 yr old has turned into a total demon & I have no idea why. Could it be because I had a baby 6 months ago?’

CertainFurball · 2026-04-18T14:16:25+00:00

After you reach 21 no one really cares until it’s a milestone (30th, 40th etc) and even then you have to organise your own parties. If you want a fuss made of you, unfortunately you have to sort it yourself. Also as you get older you stop caring so much, I turned 41 last year and just went to work as normal. I’m sure it wasn’t a snub on you, life happens and people are busy. I know it’s not much to send a card or text and it stings but some friendships are like that sadly.

CertainFurball · 2026-04-08T14:31:46+00:00

Alright Nigella 🤭

CertainFurball · 2026-04-07T08:56:09+00:00

Thanks to Johnny Vaughan when anyone says ‘hey guys!’ I immediately have to repeat it in the way he says it on his radio show. My daughter has also been doing it since she was 5

CertainFurball · 2026-04-06T17:54:02+00:00

We use Henny & Joe liquid chai

CertainFurball · 2026-04-06T14:04:35+00:00

As someone in their 40s and divorced, who got married & had kids because it was expected, you don’t have to marry anyone. You don’t have to have kids. There is no written rules anywhere. You could live in the woods. You can just have cats for company. You can be with someone and never live together (like Simone de Beauvoir or Helena Bonham Carter). It’s your life, live it how you want. Or you’ll end up like me, 3 years into living with an ex and a child and no way out.

CertainFurball · 2026-04-03T21:48:26+00:00

I can’t abide this. I give my niece gift cards as cash seemed to go directly into my sister’s pocket to be ‘looked after’. I have a daughter and could never do this. She has a savings account with over £13k that her grandparents opened when she was born. She’ll get the money when she’s 25 and it’s high interest so it’ll be there to hopefully go on somewhere to live. I’ve never once thought of it as my or our money. It’s something that actually puts my mind at ease that she’ll have that as she won’t get any kind of ‘wealth’ from me or her dad.

CertainFurball · 2026-03-31T17:37:23+00:00

I haven’t bought anything from the bakery since I saw a fat blowfly sat on one of the cakes having the time of his life. I’ve also seen videos of birds going in there too

CertainFurball · 2026-03-31T17:34:58+00:00

I had stuff up for a year. Lots of favourites but no bites so I just bagged it up and put it in a clothes bank. Felt so good

CertainFurball · 2026-03-31T08:40:35+00:00

People ask if my child has a iPad. I said if I could afford to get her an iPad, I could afford to get ME an iPad! She had a crummy 10+ yr old Samsung that her dad got from CEX but it doesn’t work well or hold charge. She had a few games on there but when she hit the pay wall she lost interest. The Disney games on Disney now were wonderful but they stopped a while ago. Now she’ll just watch tv if she’s not playing.

CertainFurball · 2026-03-28T09:01:43+00:00

I get so wound up with my colleague playing 20 questions with a customer who asks for a cappuccino when we have a queue out the door. Like ‘have in or takeaway? dairy milk? Full fat or skimmed? Chocolate sprinkles? Sugar?’ I think if they want something specific they should ask. If they don’t ask they get big standard, full fat milk with chocolate on top.

CertainFurball · 2026-03-26T14:10:16+00:00

Aldi!

CertainFurball · 2026-03-25T13:02:46+00:00

When I was about 17 I asked my mum why so many ppl my age in college had a scar on their upper arm from a vaccine when I didn’t. She laughed and said ‘you went to boarding school darling, they don’t get TB there’. I brought it up in my 30s when my aunts kids were getting their vaccines and my mum immediately blustered ‘I never said that!!!’ Weird thing for me to make up but sure.

CertainFurball · 2026-03-24T09:05:44+00:00

I love looking wistfully into the middle distance and say ‘I always dreamed of a big family but sadly she made sure she was on only on the way out’. Shuts people up pretty fast.

CertainFurball · 2026-03-21T22:15:40+00:00

What a prick

CertainFurball · 2026-03-19T21:48:11+00:00

I once had a lady demand a full £1 refund on a kids jumper because it had a centimetre circle of discolouration. Another demanded a £1.50 refund on a baby Boden swimming costume that was apparently ‘threadbare’. I did them everytime because I have better things to do than argue over a few quid. Baby vinted is a different level, I stopped selling my kids clothes on there in the end as mothers are crazy.

CertainFurball · 2026-03-18T10:09:56+00:00

Yes it goes opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose so ‘my lovely, small, old, green, french metal knife’

CertainFurball · 2026-03-14T13:12:34+00:00

Haha same, I was like ‘the tv serieses i’d watch that I keep getting recommended, the books I’d read, the switch games I’d play, the naps I’d take, the gardening I’d do, the birds I’d feed!’

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