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Brain glitches

  • 04-10-2013 08:52PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭


    Every time I vote, I go completely blank afterwards, and panic that I marked the wrong box. They couldn't make it simpler, with instructions in two languages and big yes and no boxes for me to put an X in, but I'm always convinced I voted against my own opinion as soon as I drop the ballot in the box. It's like pushing a door with a big 'pull' sign on it. (which I NEVER do, and I always get left and right right too. :o )

    Does anyone else go stupid-blank at simple things?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    No


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Love2love wrote: »
    No

    :(


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    See a doctor. A brain doctor. Immediately.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭SparkySpitfire


    Yes, you're not alone :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Muise... wrote: »
    Every time I vote, I go completely blank afterwards, and panic that I marked the wrong box. They couldn't make it simpler, with instructions in two languages and big yes and no boxes for me to put an X in, but I'm always convinced I voted against my own opinion as soon as I drop the ballot in the box. It's like pushing a door with a big 'push' sign on it. (which I NEVER do, and I always get left and right right too. :o )

    Does anyone else go stupid-blank at simple things?

    Supposed to vote with a tick not an x.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 100 ✭✭JBTM


    Muise... wrote: »
    Every time I vote, I go completely blank afterwards, and panic that I marked the wrong box. They couldn't make it simpler, with instructions in two languages and big yes and no boxes for me to put an X in, but I'm always convinced I voted against my own opinion as soon as I drop the ballot in the box. It's like pushing a door with a big 'push' sign on it. (which I NEVER do, and I always get left and right right too. :o )

    Does anyone else go stupid-blank at simple things?

    Arah Muise God help ya :( What'll we do with ya at all at all? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,720 ✭✭✭wiz569


    Muise... wrote: »
    Every time I vote, I go completely blank afterwards, and panic that I marked the wrong box. They couldn't make it simpler, with instructions in two languages and big yes and no boxes for me to put an X in, but I'm always convinced I voted against my own opinion as soon as I drop the ballot in the box. It's like pushing a door with a big 'push' sign on it. (which I NEVER do, and I always get left and right right too. :o )

    Does anyone else go stupid-blank at simple things?

    Yes although not about voting but it does happen,maybe its an age thing :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,701 ✭✭✭Lisha


    I was a bit 'eenie meenie miney mo' with the Seanad ballot paper today .!

    Voting is very important , everybody should exercise their right to vote but I'm always afraid I'm missing the vital piece of information .

    Today I was very clueless :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    I thought...I thought I'd already posted a reply?? :(


  • Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think it's similar to that feeling when you can convince yourself you didn't lock your house or your car even though you definitely did.



    ......didn't I?


    Shit.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    OP is clearly blonde.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,701 ✭✭✭Lisha


    kneemos wrote: »
    Supposed to vote with a tick not an x.

    Nope it was an 'x' that was required today not a tick :)


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I sometimes forget what I'm talking about right in the mid


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,669 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    Not that simple according to tonights news, people only marking one paper and not the other.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 100 ✭✭JBTM


    I sometimes forget what I'm talking about right in the mid

    ... dle of a sentence :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    Does anyone else ever hit a bump in the road and momentarily convince themselves that they hit someone or something, despite the fact that there was literally nothing in front of or behind you.

    I'm definitely not one of those people...ahem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    I think they should definitely make the voting ballot even simpler for the stupid folk (me).

    MAKE SEANAD GO AWAY?
    YES__ NO__

    MAKE EXTRA COURT TO HELP SOME PEOPLE?
    YES__ NO__

    I'd prefer if we got a crayon as well and you can put an X, or a tick or you can circle the yes or no options.

    Next referendum should be lets make life easier for dumb people. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    had an interview earlier, brain decided to no function about five minutes in. I actually said pass on one question.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    pharmaton wrote: »
    had an interview earlier, brain decided to no function about five minutes in. I actually said pass on one question.

    :pac::pac::pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    What about fake ones? :)

    I brought my young kids down with me when I was voting tonight and it's the same 2 people that always man my station. They're a bit officious - local busybodies.

    For a laugh, I loudly said to my kids in front of them that they could put the X in whatever box they wanted but really I did it myself behind the screen and they gave me this hilarious, affronted look - as befits FF lickspittles - at my supposed imbecility, no doubt accentuated by me wearing tracksuit bottoms.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I regularly find myself lodged between a wall and a car and unable to jump my way out. The cops sometime show up and shoot me in the face with a shotgun


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 100 ✭✭JBTM


    I sometimes forget what I'm talking about right in the mid

    Great little bit of wit shown there, very clever. Fair play to you Whoopsadaisydoodles :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    anncoates wrote: »
    What about fake ones? :)

    I brought my young kids down with me when I was voting tonight and it's the same 2 people that always man my station. They're a bit officious - local busybodies.

    For a laugh, I loudly said to my kids in front of them that they could put the X in whatever box they wanted but really I did it myself behind the screen and they gave me this hilarious, affronted look - as befits FF lickspittles - at my supposed imbecility, no doubt accentuated by me wearing tracksuit bottoms.
    You've a great grasp of the aul English language anncoates.




    I often have to doublecheck my phone to see if I sent a message to the correct person. Not sure I've ever sent it to the wrong person actually, but still continue to check.


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


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Not that simple according to tonights news, people only marking one paper and not the other.

    I reckon that could have been due to people not knowing what the Court of Appeal one was about.

    There was f@ck all reporting done on it, (that I saw of anyway)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    I've never voted on anything, ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    Does anyone else ever hit a bump in the road and momentarily convince themselves that they hit someone or something, despite the fact that there was literally nothing in front of or behind you.

    I'm definitely not one of those people...ahem.

    I Know what you did last summer :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    I think they should definitely make the voting ballot even simpler for the stupid folk (me).

    MAKE SEANAD GO AWAY?
    YES__ NO__

    MAKE EXTRA COURT TO HELP SOME PEOPLE?
    YES__ NO__

    I'd prefer if we got a crayon as well and you can put an X, or a tick or you can circle the yes or no options.

    Next referendum should be lets make life easier for dumb people. :)

    And a pencil and rubber in case I make a mistake and need to start again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    It took me a minute of double checking to see which was which when it came to the Court of Civil Appeal or the Fcuk the Seanad ballot papers.

    They didn't make it very very clear.


    They should have worded it a bit clearer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Lickspittle is my favorite recently learned word


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    I get stage fright when I'm counting change to pay the waiting cashier so my mind goes into shut down like how Terminator's lights go out.
    anncoates wrote: »
    I loudly said to my kids in front of them that they could put the X in whatever box they wanted

    This has lots of funny in it.


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