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		<title>&#8220;Have a nice day&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It really pisses me off how often people in America say &#8220;Have a nice day&#8221;. You can&#8217;t even buy some chewing gum without some idiot till attendant telling you to &#8220;Have a nice day&#8221;. You know it&#8217;s not sincere because they don&#8217;t even fucking know you. You could be a mass murderer, but they will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grumpyblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2135228&amp;post=10&amp;subd=grumpyblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It really pisses me off how often people in America say &#8220;Have a nice day&#8221;.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t even buy some chewing gum without some idiot till attendant telling you to &#8220;Have a nice day&#8221;.</p>
<p>You know it&#8217;s not sincere because they don&#8217;t even fucking know you.</p>
<p>You could be a mass murderer, but they will still say &#8220;Have a nice day&#8221;.</p>
<p>And sometimes they say it to you even when the day has long gone.</p>
<p>How can I have a nice day, if it&#8217;s nighttime already, douche bag?</p>
<p>Their employers probably tell them its good for customer service to say &#8220;Have a nice day.&#8221;</p>
<p>But it is infact bad for customer service because you know they don&#8217;t really mean it.</p>
<p>They couldn&#8217;t care less if you walked out of the shop and got run over by a lorry.</p>
<p>Have a nice day. No.</p>
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		<title>Shower curtain sir? The hooks are extra.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another day. Another rip off. My empty shell of an apartment has a bath and shower, but no shower curtain. So to avoid wetting the floor and possibly slipping up and cracking my head open on the tiles, I went to a department store today and bought a shower curtain. It said on the pack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grumpyblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2135228&amp;post=6&amp;subd=grumpyblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Another day. Another rip off.</p>
<p>My empty shell of an apartment has a bath and shower, but no shower curtain.</p>
<p>So to avoid wetting the floor and possibly slipping up and cracking my head open on the tiles, I went to a department store today and bought a shower curtain.</p>
<p>It said on the pack &#8216;with metal grommets&#8217;.</p>
<p>I assumed this meant hooks.</p>
<p>So I go home excited to be able to have a shower and wash away the cheese under my foreskin, unwrap the shower curtain pack only to find there&#8217;s NO FUCKING HOOKS IN IT.</p>
<p>What the fuck is that about?</p>
<p>Who the hell would want to buy a shower curtain without hooks?</p>
<p>Surely not all shower curtains are the same or have the same number of holes in them?</p>
<p>Is there a universally agreed standard amongst shower curtain manufacturers as to the number of holes a shower curtain should have?</p>
<p>If there is, they should get a life.</p>
<p><strong><span class="hw">grommet</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>n.</em></strong> an eyelet placed in a hole in a sheet or panel to protect or insulate a rope or cable passed through it or to prevent the sheet or panel from being torn.</p>
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		<title>Unfurnished apartments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why on God&#8217;s Earth, do apartments in America come unfurnished? I recently moved to America from Britain and am horrified to find that the only apartments for rent are empty shells. An empty room. Four walls. A roof. A floor. That&#8217;s it. It might as well be a prison cell. At least they come with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grumpyblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2135228&amp;post=4&amp;subd=grumpyblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Why on God&#8217;s Earth, do apartments in America come unfurnished? I recently moved to America from Britain and am horrified to find that the only apartments for rent are empty shells.</p>
<p>An empty room. Four walls. A roof. A floor. That&#8217;s it.</p>
<p>It might as well be a prison cell. At least they come with a bed and a mirror.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a conspiracy I think, to stop people from moving and to get them to buy more shit they&#8217;ve already got.</p>
<p>If an American wants to move apartments they have to bring their entire home contents with them.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s often more hassle than it&#8217;s worth. So people move with only a few essential possessions.</p>
<p>Then they buy the rest when they get to their new city or town, increasing demand for disposable consumer products.</p>
<p>Every American I&#8217;ve spoken to thinks this is totally fine. A necessary sacrifice.</p>
<p>But for me, a Brit who came to America with two bags, I think it&#8217;s bollocks.</p>
<p>Hey, at least I discovered what tramps always knew &#8211; carboard boxes are actually bloody comfortable.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;m grumpy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started this blog because there are lots of things in the world that annoy me. I&#8217;m British and a journalist, so that pretty much makes me the most cynical, pessimistic and gloomy bastard on the planet. I recently moved to the United States of America, the home of optimism, positivity and life coaches. That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grumpyblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2135228&amp;post=1&amp;subd=grumpyblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I started this blog because there are lots of things in the world that annoy me. I&#8217;m British and a journalist, so that pretty much makes me the most cynical, pessimistic and gloomy bastard on the planet.</p>
<p>I recently moved to  the United States of America, the home of optimism, positivity and life coaches. That has only highlighted my negative outlook on life even more. I stick out like a sore thumb, a dark cloud in a perfect blue sky.</p>
<p>But rather than lie on a psychologist&#8217;s coach or pop some Prozac, I thought I&#8217;d embrace life&#8217;s doom and gloom and complain about everything that annoys me (there&#8217;s a lot).</p>
<p>Hopefully this blog will become a haven for negativity (not hatred), a place for people to complain about whatever they feel like, a utopia of grumpiness, a home for people who think everything&#8217;s rubbish. Because life isn&#8217;t rosy.</p>
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