At what age does true grumpiness start?

I have got to be the grumpiest cunt I know but I didn't used to be. I have to say that since my two kids nudged puberty and we acquired two dogs it has got worse. I tend to play on it at work just to see how far I can push it with senior and fellow officers and that might be making me worse because I'm enjoying it too much. It crept up on me when I reached 45. Is it just a middle age thing?

Dunno, but it sounds like something to look forward to

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Ask Clive.

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Snap!

Apparently I was a happy pleasant child...

until I fell on my head :-(

45 is about right. Now divorce your wife, for a real insight into grumpiness.

Depends if you get to start fucking something lithe and perky.

That'd cheer up even the most curmudgeonly of divorcees.

It will probably com as a surprise, but I'm rather well known as a grumpy, bitter, cynical cunt at work.

I've been like that for years. If I get any grumpier I'm going to go into grumpy super nova.

On the upside, I did read that this is normal. You get really fucked off in your forties, then gradually cheer up...

Until you have a stroke, heart attack or brain tumor and die.

then gradually cheer up...

Until you have a stroke, heart attack or brain tumor and die.

Yeah, that'd really piss me off.

45 is about right. Now divorce your wife, for a real insight into grumpiness.

Alternatively, just find someone you don't like and give them your house.

For authenticity, you should probably spend 5 or 6 years of misery with them first, most of those spent in resentful silence and loneliness.

tags: #bitteroldmen

Ah, but my method just saves you time.

Divorced, got thoroughly fucked by the CSA, fucked lithely and perkily (twins!), remarried happily (and surprisingly considering I am such a fucking misery), high blood pressure, high cholesterol and Type II diabetes but those three are well under control.

Fred says: "You need to get a hobby, something you can really sink your spade in."

Ask JB. He is permagrump

... On the upside, I did read that this is normal. You get really fucked off in your forties, then gradually cheer up...

Until you have a stroke, heart attack or brain tumor and die.

Sounds about right. My dad progressively got more and more grumpy in his forties, then had two more kids which made it worse and it peaked last year when his blood pressure got to the point of about-to-have-a-stroke.
His doctor gave him meds etc but the funniest thing was that he was told to keep calm and relaxed during this period, which looked painfully difficult. My two younger siblings had to practically be kept away from him in order to not piss him off. He's pretty chilled out these days now.

So yes, I think we as males are destined to become grumpy and short-fused as we get older. I think people tend to mellow a great deal in their fifties though, as I've seen with others.

I taught Morrissey everything he knows....

Two insane dogs, one ditto partner, 18 year old stepdaughter about to make me a grandfather, need I say more? (51!).

Hi I'm Darren, 34, father of three and miserable as fucking sin.

With or without alcohol so there is no help for me.

Funnily enough when I stopped smoking and attempted to lose weight I found that they conincided with the grumpiness.

Maybe you were all born grumpy but spent most of your lives caring too much about what others thought of you, so covered it up or tried to change your ways.

I quite like grumpy people, provided they don't direct it at me. Permanently cheerful people are unnerving, imho.

Anyway, Jeremy Paxman, John Humphries and Oscar the Grouch have made a living out of being grumpy!

They're the kind of weirdos that join cults. Lock them up.

There is ( is there ? ) positive grumpy and negative grumpy.