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Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

  • 12-11-2015 11:57pm
    #1
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    I would like to stress the TRIVIAL part. This isn't a thread to rant or vent. People come here to read trivial annoyances.

    Other usual rules:
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Please remember this is not your personal Facebook newsfeed. Post your trivial annoyances and of course you may discuss them, but no chit chat and no flirting. Keep the cliqueyness (not a real word) out of it please and thank you. Personal digs will result in bans.

    Last thread here.


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  • #2
    The Sidewards Man
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭The Sidewards Man


    Wouldnt you let it rip to 10000 anyway ^


  • #3
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    TA'd that there is no sequence in the numbering convention of the TA threads.


  • #4
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    TA'd that there is no sequence in the numbering convention of the TA threads.

    We lost the number somewhere along the way. I don't even know which number this actually is.


  • #5
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    When no matter how many duvets and layers of clothing you have on/over you, you're still bloody freezing :(


  • #6
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,204 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    TA that I almost had a shìt fit when I saw my favorite thread was locked!

    Phew! :D


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  • #7
    Medusa22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Medusa22


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    TA that I almost had a shìt fit when I saw my favorite thread was locked!

    Phew! :D

    Me too!! I actually gasped and called out to my OH to tell her that our favourite thread was locked :pac: :D


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    People approaching a main road from a side road and sticking their nose out into the traffic so you have to swerve right to avoid their ignorant selves. :mad:


  • #9
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Someone told me to add cinnamon to my coffee to aid my diet and I have lost at least three stone in the loo since. Did he mean to do this to me? I am wondering furiously about this here.


  • #10
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Deleted User wrote: »
    People approaching a main road from a side road and sticking their nose out into the traffic so you have to swerve right to avoid their ignorant selves. :mad:

    Better still, the fúcktards who don't stop and drive straight out onto the hard shoulder. These saps don't seem to understand that not only is it not to be used for merging with traffic, but it's not even a driving lane.


  • #11
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    eternal wrote: »
    Someone told me to add cinnamon to my coffee to aid my diet and I have lost at least three stone in the loo since. Did he mean to do this to me? I am wondering furiously about this here.

    Sounds like you've been doing something else quite furiously as well.....:pac:


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  • #12
    Medusa22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Medusa22


    eternal wrote: »
    Someone told me to add cinnamon to my coffee to aid my diet and I have lost at least three stone in the loo since. Did he mean to do this to me? I am wondering furiously about this here.

    I'm TA'd that you told us about this and now my OH wants to try it, I'll be staying out of the bathroom tomorrow!


  • #13
    Bridge93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭Bridge93


    Those electric revolving doors. Not keen on the revolving door in the first place as I don't see how it speeds up or contributes anything but the electric ones are worse. They just slam to a halt if you get in slightly to close to when it's closed and you nearly walk into the front of it.


  • #14
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    People who seem unable to read a very, very simple sentence and grasp the very simple point it makes.

    People who then reply trying to make a point, by bringing up something that is unrelated to the point being discussed.

    (I probably make no sense. It's unrelated to boards, something I encountered elsewhere tonight, and was very WTF, but if I went into all the details it'd take forever).

    Blah.


  • #15
    Owldshtok
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭Owldshtok


    News bulletins on radio stations that play a groovy uptempo beat while the news is being read,usually by someone with a semi frivolous voice.


  • #16
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    Found out that my latest and dearest application "will not be invited to interview at this time".


  • #17
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    People standing two-abreast on escalators like they're Victorians on a 19th Century fairground ride.

    Get out tha way.


  • #18
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    When you're out in the smoking area and some old **** comes up to you..
    What's that?
    It's an e-cigarette
    But what is it...


  • #19
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,868 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    It's a major TA that every hour of the day doesn't (seem to) go as fast as the first one when you have to get up and go to work

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • #20
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Making acronyms of everything. Even a trivial annoyance has been reduced to TA.


  • #21
    KatW4
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭KatW4


    When my engine oil light comes on when I'm driving to school. Happens at least once a month now, I should have known! :(


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  • #22
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    KatW4 wrote: »
    When my engine oil light comes on when I'm driving to school. Happens at least once a month now, I should have known! :(

    Get that sorted out or you'll be walking back shortly. Is there enough oil in it?


  • #23
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    KatW4 wrote: »
    When my engine oil light comes on when I'm driving to school. Happens at least once a month now, I should have known! :(

    Funny thing that, my 'You need to add Coolant' message popped up this morning.
    Its fcking freezing outside and my car wants coolant!


  • #24
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Menas wrote: »
    Funny thing that, my 'You need to add Coolant' message popped up this morning.
    Its fcking freezing outside and my car wants coolant!

    Another one. Ditto!


  • #25
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,722 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    KatW4 wrote: »
    When my engine oil light comes on when I'm driving to school. Happens at least once a month now, I should have known! :(

    You probably just need a top up, engines usually lose a litre or so of oil over the course of an oil change cycle. check the dipstick. a €10 bottle of oil now could end up saving you a lot down the road.


  • #26
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Menas wrote: »
    Funny thing that, my 'You need to add Coolant' message popped up this morning.
    Its fcking freezing outside and my car wants coolant!

    Is there a curse? I got that today too :eek:


  • #27
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    The condescending way Americans say "That's so funny" instead of actually laughing.

    Eh, no, if you were telling the truth, you'd be actually laughing.


  • #28
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Another one. Ditto!
    smash wrote: »
    Is there a curse? I got that today too :eek:

    Some fcker is trolling us in real life...:eek:
    List of suspects please?


  • #29
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    whatismyname wrote: »
    People who seem unable to read a very, very simple sentence and grasp the very simple point it makes.

    People who then reply trying to make a point, by bringing up something that is unrelated to the point being discussed.


    Probably related to the old saying "Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and then beat you from experience."


  • #30
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    TA'd that there is no sequence in the numbering convention of the TA threads.

    TA'd that someone says this every time a new TA thread gets started.


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  • #31
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Menas wrote: »
    Some fcker is trolling us in real life...:eek:
    List of suspects please?

    You misunderstand. I meant to repeat my "Get that sorted out or you'll be walking back shortly" comment for you!

    When Jaaaaags run a tad low on coolant, they order a tincture from the bar with ice and lemon, with a devastatingly devilish grin. :pac:


  • #32
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    jimgoose wrote: »
    You misunderstand. I meant to repeat my "Get that sorted out or you'll be walking back shortly" comment for you! :pac:

    Ah. I see.

    But life on the edge Jim...driving with that light on is like automobile russian roulette....tis the only excitement I get these days!


  • #33
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Peregrine wrote: »
    We lost the number somewhere along the way. I don't even know which number this actually is.

    keeping count is more of a Shelbyville idea.


  • #34
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Menas wrote: »
    Ah. I see.

    But life on the edge Jim...driving with that light on is like automobile russian roulette....tis the only excitement I get these days!

    TA at the amount of people who don't seem to understand the importance of oil. I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of bearings suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. :(


  • #35
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    This is really petty I know, but it is Trivial Annoyances.
    The wife shook me awake this morning, "it's time to get up"... 13 minutes before my alarm was to go off!
    Fûck off woman!... I've never missed work through sleep... And then (maybe rightly) she gets annoyed at me for being rude to her.
    Oh I was like a an anti Christ this morning. I hate being woke before my alarm. Bad enough I have to wake up without being woke earlier.... 13 minutes of good sleep disappeared!


  • #36
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    When you hear the postman making an almighty racket delivering your post through your letterbox, and so you expect to see a load of post on the ground when you go to the door to collect it, but instead you find one single sh_tty little flyer lying there. Wtf was he doing to make all that noise?!


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  • #37
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    And then... On my way to work, if I stop to let you pull out of a junction, then at least have the courtesy to muster the effort to lift your sausage fingered paw and wave or something.


  • #38
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    When people pull out in front of you and then proceed to drive at 20/30kmp. Aaaaaaaaagh


  • #39
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,693 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Dustpans that don't sit flush with the floor so you end up sweeping dust under them.


  • #40
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    osarusan wrote: »
    Dustpans that don't sit flush with the floor so you end up sweeping dust under them.

    Yes, yes, yes. Although it usually means I bought a cheap-ass dustpan set. :P


  • #41
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    osarusan wrote: »
    Dustpans that don't sit flush with the floor so you end up sweeping dust under them.

    While on the subject


    One of my front headlights needs replacing.
    I have the spare bulb, but do you think it's a simple job as just popping the bonnet and changing it?

    Hell no! I need to unhinge an air vent duct with some special tool and carefully remove it before pushing some other wires or stuff outta the way before slicing the skins on my hands to pieces on sharp metal bits as I try to get the old bulb out and new one in.
    I swear the motor manufactures designed it so that only people with midget hands can change bulbs...


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  • #42
    sebcity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭sebcity


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    While on the subject


    One of my front headlights needs replacing.
    I have the spare bulb, but do you think it's a simple job as just popping the bonnet and changing it?

    Hell no! I need to unhinge an air vent duct with some special tool and carefully remove it before pushing some other wires or stuff outta the way before slicing the skins on my hands to pieces on sharp metal bits as I try to get the old bulb out and new one in.
    I swear the motor manufactures designed it so that only people with midget hands can change bulbs...

    Weird, I just changed my side lamp bulbs for NCT later. Very tricky getting them in and out of the tiny holes with numb hands in that cold!


  • #43
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    DareGod wrote: »
    When you hear the postman making an almighty racket delivering your post through your letterbox, and so you expect to see a load of post on the ground when you go to the door to collect it, but instead you find one single sh_tty little flyer lying there. Wtf was he doing to make all that noise?!

    Especially when it's a "sorry we missed you" leaflet, because he couldn't be bothered delivering your package which is only marginally bigger than the letterbox.


  • #44
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    While on the subject


    One of my front headlights needs replacing.
    I have the spare bulb, but do you think it's a simple job as just popping the bonnet and changing it?

    Hell no! I need to unhinge an air vent duct with some special tool and carefully remove it before pushing some other wires or stuff outta the way before slicing the skins on my hands to pieces on sharp metal bits as I try to get the old bulb out and new one in.
    I swear the motor manufactures designed it so that only people with midget hands can change bulbs...

    It's not a Megane is it? If it is there is a special way to do that.
    When I had a Megane I scrapped the bejaysus out of my hands and arm trying to figure it out. That annoyed the sh*t out of me.
    On my Corolla now, one of the bulb is gone, went out and bought a new bulb, tride to take out the old one, but the fecker had melted into the plastic joke the bulb sticks into.


  • #45
    miezekatze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭miezekatze


    We have an old fridge in work, if you slam the door closed it just bounces back open again, so you have to close it gently. Whenever I pass it, I end up having to close it because some idiot must have tried to slam it closed and it opened again. I know it's not me paying the electricity bill here, but it's just such a waste! I think I close it about 3-4 times a day!


  • #46
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    having worked in a shop part time for a few months, my annoyance is folks not saying please, thanks, or kiss-me-a*** . A little manners goes a long way, like looking at the person that is serving you.

    Also, when kids say to me "can I get x", I reply ...No, you cant get it. I will get it. You dont work here. Do you mean "Can I have x" ... (its a petty little annoyance, but its my petty little annoyance)


  • #47
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,701 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I'm trivially annoyed that I persist in watching Ireland AM before going in to work. It's only for 30 minutes but it never fails to annoy me in at least one way (but usually more).

    This morning they were talking about George Clooney meeting the ordinary folk of Edinburgh. Somebody on the video shown said something like "He's even more gorgeous in real life!" to which Sinead Desmond said "He really is. Sure, just look at him!". Eh, that's a video. You're not looking at him in real life.


  • #48
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,204 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »
    Also, when kids say to me "can I get x", I reply ...No, you cant get it. I will get it. You dont work here. Do you mean "Can I have x" ... (its a petty little annoyance, but its my petty little annoyance)


    This reminds me of something similar. I know they're only being polite and all, but -

    "Can I ask you a question?"


    ...


    I want to sigh, I want to tell them "Just ask the bloody question!", but I can't. I have to overlook the fact I find it annoying because I know they're only trying to be polite, but.... urgh! :(


  • #49
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,701 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »
    Also, when kids say to me "can I get x", I reply ...No, you cant get it. I will get it. You dont work here. Do you mean "Can I have x" ... (its a petty little annoyance, but its my petty little annoyance)
    Irish comedian* Aisling Bea did that when she was selecting letters on 8 Out Of 10 Does Countdown, and Sean Lock wasn't impressed about it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRSt1v2dA0&feature=youtu.be&t=20m44s




    *I was going to refer to her as an Irish comedienne but I thought that might annoy some people, so I called her a comedian, which will probably annoy others. :D


  • #50
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    This reminds me of something similar. I know they're only being polite and all, but -

    "Can I ask you a question?"


    ...


    I want to sigh, I want to tell them "Just ask the bloody question!", but I can't. I have to overlook the fact I find it annoying because I know they're only trying to be polite, but.... urgh! :(


    "Can I ask you a question ?"
    You just did, FFS!

    Thrilled it's not raining today, and I could get some washing out on the line. But driven mad by kingsize duvet covers. It's such a struggle to get them on the line, and then when I'm pulling them to straighten them on the line, the pegs aren't gripping them properly so I'm just pulling the whole thing along the line :(. It's days like this I wish I was taller so that my arms were longer ...


  • #51
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    A morning full of TA's this morning. Had to go to GNIB with the OH to renew her stamp 4, and she's only allowed to stay here as long as she is with me:



    Despite getting up at 6am (TA in itself) we didn't manage to leave the house until 7 and then the traffic was sh*t because seemingly everyone else's girlfriend was due to be deported today also. Massive wait for a ticket and eventually got ticket number 150. At this stage they were at 20...

    Hike back around to the car to put more money in the parking meter. OH forgets where she parked it and asks me where it is. Sure how the fúck would I know, you made me jump out of the car on Burgh Quay in front of an articulated lorry to make sure we got a place in the queue while you parked?

    Eventually find the car so I go up to at least sit into it out of the icy wind while she tops up the parking. I turn around and there she is loitering at the pay machine.

    "What are you doing?"
    "I'm waiting for 10:18"
    "Why?"
    "Because I have paid parking until then. Now it's only 10:15. I want to use up our 3 minutes!"

    :mad::mad:

    Paid it eventually, and went back into the office. They are up to 25. Tick.....tock....tick.....tock....

    Then she says, "I've to top up the parking again"

    Hawk fúcking back outside and start the whole thing again only this time she has no change.

    "We better go to Spar"

    (Spar has no ATM)

    "We'll walk up the quay a bit"

    Find an ATM, take out cash. Back to Spar to get coins.

    "Will I buy chocolate? No I am on a diet. Let's play the Lotto instead"

    Eventually get back into the immigration office and there are no seats, because all the plebs are sitting like this

    3(space)2(space)3(space)1(space)3(space) etc.

    Then when we finally did get seen, the big judgmental head on the silly b*tch who took our 300euro for 60 seconds work, and me unable to be my usual snarly cutting self with her because with a flick of her public sector pen she could make our lives misery.

    Well, it's over now for another year at least.

    Also annoying was the poster they had up on the wall, saying "Do you want a fresh start in your country of origin? We can provide assistance, financial aid and free plane tickets if you do" - in other words "get out of our lovely country, go on. We'll even pay you to go" :P


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