The Grumpies met for their fortnightly Friday lunch and to consider contemporary issues.

As usual, we discussed candidates to be “put on the bus” for having met our displeasure this month. The candidates selected are the bosses of petrol companies who are profiteering from Trump’s latest war.

Topics for discussion included:

• What did the Romans ever do for us? - introduced pet cats.
• Andrea Thompson won the world's strongest woman competition after the original winner was found to be a biological male.
• A man hid his mother's dead body for three years and dressed as her to collect her benefits but was caught when an official notice to his Adams apple.
• A school has removed all the mirrors from the toilets as pupils cannot stop looking into them and causing congestion.
• A Syrian girl In the Netherlands was drowned as an honour killing because her western behaviour shamed her family.
• The Manchester to London “ghost train” will now carry passengers rather than just staff.
• A Survey of school pupils found 30% describe themselves as not motivated up from 25% the year before.
• Research reveals that, Pomegranate juice could help clean your arteries and assist with other heart related issues,
• Emily Thornberry MP described President Trump as “no Churchill.”
• A very drunk driving instructor drove into a ditch on route to his first pupil of the day.
• Elon musk's X platform removed eight hundred million fake accounts in 2024.
• Scalextric brand to be sold by Hornby for £20 million.