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What's your pettiest gripe?

  • 11-04-2011 05:59PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭


    What's that one small thing that really annoys you? You know damn well that there are people all over the world who'd give their eye-teeth to have your problems. Japan,Lybia,Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, etc.

    And yet, there's one thing that really pisses you off. It probably isn't your biggest worry. It's just a red rag to a bull.

    For me? Well I'd have to say it's happened a few times, and my patience is wearing thin.

    It's milk. Milk that is well in date. You're just about to sit down to enjoy a big bowl of baked beans and toast.

    Butter? Check.
    Pepper? Check
    Milk? Check
    Lea and Perrins? Check
    Sugar? Check.

    And so you're in your jimjams. Things couldn't be any sweeter, and then, the milk which is supposed to be good for the next five days, goes "Gloop,gloop,gloop"

    I feel like hunting down the delivery man or the shopkeeper who left it out in the sun, as if they were drugdealers or paedophiles preying on the innocent. I feel like organising a community watch, to stop these "evil" people.

    So AHers, what's your irrational gripe that you've blown out of all proportion?

    Chocolate


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    People leaving my gate open and cars on my road beeping their horns.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭cosmicfart


    sock puppets


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Not finding that damm tv remote again ...jasus dont start me :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    bad table manners.

    People that make loud noises like while chewing their food need to be kicked in the face


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭Packet


    Having to ask people if they're in the queue or just happen to be standing there.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    The phrase 'jim jams'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,062 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    My prettiest grape is black one I picked up in San Jose in the Summer of '03. It is still well preserved to this day in my freezer. I often take it out to admire its prettiness.
    :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    After watching The Masters yesterday, its golf fans shouting "get in the hole"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Cats


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


    People not closing doors when they enter or leave a room. Especially swinging it back so it almost closes but stays open an inch or 2. Really gets on my nerves actually. Close the doors properly you bastards!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,969 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Yellow bastards are everywhere in Ireland, nobody wants them here, I wish they would go somewhere else.


    Of course I am referring to wasps


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    People who overtake me when I'm on my bicycle only to immediately stop in front of me to let oncoming cars go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    people who use speakerphone, cnuts the lot of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 612 ✭✭✭JoseJones


    What really grinds my gears...... People who instead of emptying an overflowing bin, prefer to balance their rubbish on top of it for someone else to empty.

    Housemates who turn the fridge down to 1 causing all my milk, meat and veggies to turn manky.



    Also, America!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    When someone has an ould lump of metal outside their house and instead of bringing it to the scrap metal they decide to plonk a load of plants into it and try to pass it off as something good


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭jackiebaron


    People walking in front of me and veering all over the fücking path making my ability to overtake them all the more annoying. If these pricks drove the same way as they walk they'd be getting rear-ended every fücking day!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭faigs


    When you sit in your car and all your change falls out of your pocket and in under/beside the seat, never to be seen again. AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    cosmicfart wrote: »
    sock puppets

    Where? WHERE? AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    People in a queue for an atm or in a shop who only start routing around for their wallet/purse/card when they get to the top of the queue instead of using the time when they were actually queuing ti get their act together, thereby extending everyone elses queue time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭omen80


    1. People who consistently drive in the overtaking lane of a motorway even though they are not overtaking anyone!!

    2. Close talkers - that's just invasion of personal space! Even worse if they have bad breath.

    3. People who are obsessively tight with money - it's only a few euro ffs!

    4. Nightclubs / pubs that let too many people in.

    5. People that only listen to chart music.

    6. People who play tag rugby and think they're hard.

    7. Glee.

    8. The Green Party.

    9. The 2nd day hangover.

    10. Smilie faces :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Txt spk, even in text messages. If you're not a pauper pony up for the price of two texts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    People in a queue for an atm or in a shop who only start routing around for their wallet/purse/card when they get to the top of the queue instead of using the time when they were actually queuing ti get their act together, thereby extending everyone elses queue time.


    ill add to that with people who (with a massive queue behind them) decide to pull out a bag of copper change to pay for a packet of chewing gum / small item, counting each cent on the counter ...****in wrecks my head! :mad:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 406 ✭✭FesterBeatty


    Oim from Sith Afica and I hate red gripes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭MGMTea


    omen80 wrote: »
    1. People who consistently drive in the overtaking lane of a motorway even though they are not overtaking anyone!!

    2. Close talkers - that's just invasion of personal space! Even worse if they have bad breath.

    3. People who are obsessively tight with money - it's only a few euro ffs!

    4. Nightclubs / pubs that let too many people in.

    5. People that only listen to chart music.

    6. People who play tag rugby and think they're hard.

    7. Glee.

    8. The Green Party.

    9. The 2nd day hangover.

    10. Smilie faces :(

    Numer #5 +1000000


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Kit Kat 9 packs advertised on the supermarket shelf on special offer for €1.79. :)

    Get to checkout and charged €2.99. :(

    Checkout girl says "That special offer expired last Friday". :eek:

    Snakey fcukers hoping I wouldn't notice. :mad:





    Take your Kit Kats back and shove them up your ars..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    People who can't use the self service checkout in Tesco and I'm left standing behind them while staff comes to help. :mad: If you can't use it then just get out of my way so I can scan the one thing I want to buy and leave.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    The way they pronounce fine gael on RTE news and when ann doyle says billions instead of billion.... very petty but enough to annoy me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Smegball


    People writing their signature at the end of a post, we can read your fcking username!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    sollar wrote: »
    The way they pronounce fine gael on RTE news and when ann doyle says billions instead of billion.... very petty but enough to annoy me.

    +1! And when people say 'It happened 23 YEAR ago.' It's yearS!!! Plural!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭giftgrub


    I hate it when....

    People leave the tinfoil cover bit on tubs of spread.
    When work colleagues ask if you're making tea and then bitch because its too strong or weak or whatever. (I'll throw it in your face next time)
    You call eircom and you have to speak to some robot like an idiot for the first few minutes.


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