Have YOU Become a Curmudgeon?

[93marlin]

I am happy to see that I'm in good company!

Here's to being a curmudgeon...

 

[analog_peninsula]

No, dammit, I'm not! And stay off my lawn!

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

No.

I’m actually trending the other way…

-I don’t want to go to prison at this point in my life!

 

[BruceS]

I suspect I AM but how would I know for sure? Open to suggestions/descriptions, since I/we are all getting older. Maybe on the order of "If you think Iran should have nukes, but law abiding citizens should not have guns, you MIGHT be a Democrat" only applied to Curmudgeonery.

If your favorite Clint Eastwood quote is "GET OFF MY LAWN" (Gran Torino)

YES....and proud. Lol

 

[458JCE]

The older I get, the less that "life in prison" is a threat!

 

[Rimbaud]

Curmudgeon or elitist?

The thread reminds me of a Yeats poem that I bumped into in college. I think the poem resonates these many years later. If you like, change the fellow-artist to fellow-hunter. The meaning is the same.

To A Young Beauty​

DEAR fellow-artist, why so free
With every sort of company,
With every Jack and Jill?
Choose your companions from the best;
Who draws a bucket with the rest
Soon topples down the hill.
You may, that mirror for a school,
Be passionate, not bountiful
As common beauties may,
Who were not born to keep in trim
With old Ezekiel's cherubim
But those of Beauvarlet.
I know what wages beauty gives,
How hard a life her servant lives,
Yet praise the winters gone:
There is not a fool can call me friend,
And I may dine at journey's end
With Landor and with Donne.

 

[MS 9x56]

Hell I have been a proud curmudgeon for 5 or 10 years now. And I am not sorry!

 

[coreydb]

Not me man, I'm 19.....fourth time around

 

[double rifle newbie]

born in 1970. drank from the hose, milked cows by hand, got my first bb gun in 1st grade, had a shetland pony and rode it with no helmet playing cowboys and indians at 7years old, mini bikes without helmets growing up, first shotgun at age 10.

then i look around at kids these days…yep im there

 

[Woodcarver]

I became a recluse to avoid being identified as the curmudgeon I (probably) am. If I had a lawn, I'd tell people to get off it, even if they were actually just close to it. My dogs like me, that's enough.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

I suspect I AM but how would I know for sure? Open to suggestions/descriptions, since I/we are all getting older. Maybe on the order of "If you think Iran should have nukes, but law abiding citizens should not have guns, you MIGHT be a Democrat" only applied to Curmudgeonery.

If your favorite Clint Eastwood quote is "GET OFF MY LAWN" (Gran Torino)

If you think nylon is "the Devil's fabric" and leather is better, you might be a curmudgeon

If you think all real rifle stocks are made of walnut, you might be a curmudgeon.

If you think all " plastic" gun stocks are made by Mattel, you might be a curmudgeon.

If you think "light" beer is only for sissies, you might be a curmudgeon.

If you think face tattoos, man buns and septum rings only belong in freak shows, you might be a curmudgeon.

If you think of the '80s as a few years ago ... Okay, I am one...

 

[JGH]

Certainly am, though I've lost the desire to correct people on their dumbassery.

It never makes a difference. They never listen to sense. I just usually say something like "Well, I never thought of it that way."

Telling people how wrong they are has never ended as satisfactory as just letting them live in their own self-imposed idiocy.

 

[MS 9x56]

I drive 35 miles to get raw milk fresh from the cow. Raise my own chickens and eat mostly game and fish that I harvest and dress. Never understand why anyone would want to drink the milk that had the cream removed.

 

[Kharn]

110% absolutely, period.

If there is one that I really REALLY admire It's a nice big intimidating industrial grade fence/wall that silently says to those on the other side "F*CK! RIGHT! OFF!"

 

['68boy]

I am. And proud of it. And that reality tv star got elected because he has the balls to do what his immediate predecessors didn’t — and still does! I just “fired” an acquaintance I had regarded as a friend after he proved not to be. It is liberating! Curmudgeonly!

 

[CBH Australia]

Putting Pineapple on Pizza is like putting a small block Chevy in a Ford. Its just WRONG

I hear the Pineapple on a Pizza is a problem, allegedly Italians don’t like it.

Seriously, is this a first world problem? Have you tried a Hawaiian pizza in Australia. They are a favourite alongside Meatlovers.

Yours truly.
A.Curmudgeon

 

[MS 9x56]

More and more every day, and I’m only 41

It only gets better as you slowly care less and less what others think.

 

[TheRookie]

I know I am. I've known for a while, but it really hit me when I realized people who aren't bright enough to work an internet forum still get to vote. How depressing. I guess that's how a reality TV star wins 2 elections.

"Get off my lawn" is right.

I think you got to consider who he beat. Trump has yet to beat a decent candidate or a man. I think any intelligent Democrat didn’t show up for Kamala because they kept getting told to protect democracy but then the Dems completely ignored their primary votes and appointed a candidate against the results of their own elections.

 

[TheRookie]

Wait till you're over 65 and can no longer hear the damn thing unless it's turned to speakerphone.

Actually, I see more young people doing that bullshit in public places. Especially East Indian young people who hang out in the nearby donut shop zooming with their relatives in the Punjab. On and on and on with that jabbering. Hey, the f*cking phone is in your hand in front of your face. Why are you shouting at it? Moron! Unfortunately, it's -20° outside so the rest of us have sit and listen to it. Ugh!

Speakerphone is for group conversations. Join in!

 

[JG26Irish_2]

• If your smile makes little kids cry... You might be a curmudgeon.
• If your new hunting rifle is more than 50yrs old,... You might be a curmudgeon.
• If your idea of an ideal breakfast is to drink a shot of Bourbon and then go feed the cattle and chickens and then take another shot for dessert,... You might be a curmudgeon.
• If you own more than three 4x4's,... You might be a curmudgeon.
• If a stranger sits down beside you and the first words out of their mouth is, "Dude, why are you so sad?" and your reply is, "This is my Happy Face.",... You might be a curmudgeon.
• If, you tend to answer the door with a pistol tucked into your belt,... You might be a curmudgeon.
• If you like to practice your marksmanship by shooting at your neighbors cats,... You might be a curmudgeon.
• If you have thought about building an underground bunker in your back yard,... You might be a curmudgeon.
• If you already have an UG bunker,... Well my brother, you ARE a Curmudgeon!!!, lol

Now get off my yard!