Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

shroom007

people with bloody umbrellas who are always last to kop that its stopped raining
people with bloody umbrellas on windy days ,your gonna lose an eye
people with bloody umbrellas at the paddies day parade,at protests at anything
bloody umbrellas really

Pumpkinseeds

Over enthusisatic gardening. I always get carried away with gardening and overdo it. I dragged 3 x 75 litre bags of bark and 2 bags of compost around today and I know I'm going to pay for it tomorrow, I'm already starting to feel it. Plus I've got to take a large cat to the vet tomorrow, he's a hefty chap.

Pumpkinseeds

'Conscious uncoupling' I think I've heard it all now. Us plebs just call it seperating. But I guess Gwynette and Chris are special. I've got to turn off Sky news now, they're going to bring on the woman who coined the term. Must be a very slow news day.

shroom007

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Over enthusisatic gardening. I always get carried away with gardening and overdo it. I dragged 3 x 75 litre bags of bark and 2 bags of compost around today and I know I'm going to pay for it tomorrow, I'm already starting to feel it. Plus I've got to take a large cat to the vet tomorrow, he's a hefty chap.

are you sure its a cat

aimtobethetop

Im in college(26 year old mature student) one of the biggest irritations for me is when the class whinge about having 4 classes in a row with no break!!
Try a 9 hour working day with 1 hour of a break!!!!

maguic24

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

I have been quite well behaved of late in fairness but not being able to go out for a few on a Sunday evening after being cooped up Friday and Sat night with my head in the laptop stressing would be cruel on myself! I am quite the opposite with regards to bed, i never wake up before my alarm regardless of if i've drank or not! I can actually sleep in until at least 12 without waking once most days if i have no reason to get up, i've been known to rise at 2 or even 3 in the afternoon though on spectacularly lazy days too!

Going back to your chocolate addiction, I am just back from Tesco with 2 bars of lindt dark chocolate with seasalt, 1 bar of lindt 70% dark chocolate and 1 bar of 72% Tesco swiss dark chocolate. :P I was also very naughty and bought a bottle of baileys, pork pies, and brie.

I told the lady at the till I was on a diet, I'm just having a bad day and it's totally okay because I drink diet coke. I don't think she got the joke......:p

Now off to hide the chocolate on myself everyone else, om nom nom all mine. :P

maguic24

aimtobethetop wrote: »

Im in college(26 year old mature student) one of the biggest irritations for me is when the class whinge about having 4 classes in a row with no break!!
Try a 9 hour working day with 1 hour of a break!!!!

I went from having about 12 hours of classes a week in college, to working a 40 hour week and doing a course part time. I seem to get more done now then when I was in college! I used to whinge about that as well, I take it all back now. :P

Oops69

Czarcasm wrote: »

How can you not remember these from the 70's with the solid rubber wheels that made for a great set of wheels on a go-kart with an engine from a snapper lawnmower?

We couldn't afford lawn mower engines on our trolleys as we called go karts ,we had to rely on gravity ....... Anyone out there who couldn't afford wheels ???, I feel an Angela's ashes thread coming on .

minusthebear

visitors who call over unannounced.

shroom007

Piscaterians

give me bloody strenght

czechlin

maguic24 wrote: »

Going back to your chocolate addiction, I am just back from Tesco with 2 bars of lindt dark chocolate with seasalt, 1 bar of lindt 70% dark chocolate and 1 bar of 72% Tesco swiss dark chocolate. :P I was also very naughty and bought a bottle of baileys, pork pies, and brie.

Are you my sister!? :eek:
Sounds like my kind of shopping! Well I wouldn't buy all the chocolates in one go unless I was bringing them into work but god the dark chocolate with sea salt is just a treat! Yum. Have you tried the ones with mint, chilli, blueberries and the pear one?? I don't eat chocolate much but I wouldn't say no to a few squares of any of those

maguic24

czechlin wrote: »

Are you my sister!? :eek:
Sounds like my kind of shopping! Well I wouldn't buy all the chocolates in one go unless I was bringing them into work but god the dark chocolate with sea salt is just a treat! Yum. Have you tried the ones with mint, chilli, blueberries and the pear one?? I don't eat chocolate much but I wouldn't say no to a few squares of any of those

Love the mint one, haven't tried the others. I was going to buy the chilli one for my manager, as he loves chilli and then decided ah feck him, better spending my chocolate money on me. :P

aimtobethetop

I want a big box of Toffifee now... cant just eat 1 sweet!!!

Wotsername

Ring4fee:

Oh Dear, Such vitriol! I seem to have touched a nerve.

I have no intention in getting into any kind of exchange with some disgruntled, petulant, twenty-something, stranger with an obvious agenda, Not to mention an enormous chip.
I will leave you waxing loquacious, regurgitating and spewing your bile, in another direction.

True talent, like art and beauty, Needs no fanfare, Nor, need it be screamed from the rooftops.

And for the record.
Unless you have contributed to, and have had published, Artwork, articles or papers, in a worldwide 'Health Science' magazine or journal, Then It is highly unlikely that I have ever come into contact with your work in a professional capacity.
Oh, and by the way, I don't have any older siblings.

Adios for now thread.

SpaceCowb0y

maguic24 wrote: »

Going back to your chocolate addiction, I am just back from Tesco with 2 bars of lindt dark chocolate with seasalt, 1 bar of lindt 70% dark chocolate and 1 bar of 72% Tesco swiss dark chocolate. :P I was also very naughty and bought a bottle of baileys, pork pies, and brie.

I told the lady at the till I was on a diet, I'm just having a bad day and it's totally okay because I drink diet coke. I don't think she got the joke......:p

Now off to hide the chocolate on myself everyone else, om nom nom all mine. :P

Mmmmm dark chocolate I tend to go for a nice 80% or 90% if i can find it! I make protein pancakes for snacks and melt the chocolate to spread on them! They are actually quite a healthy snack and the taste is fantastic

dmodonov

People who wait until the last possible moment to get on a bus or train because they're sucking away on their cigarette, trying to get every last possible drag off it -- and then exhale the last of the smoke when they're actually on board. Disgusting.

czechlin

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Mmmmm dark chocolate I tend to go for a nice 80% or 90% if i can find it! I make protein pancakes for snacks and melt the chocolate to spread on them! They are actually quite a healthy snack and the taste is fantastic

Thanks for the tip off, I love making pancakes and have gathered few healthier options recipes that I have yet to try. The poor flatmates, they'll have pancakes coming out of their ears

Bridge93

When you get on to the dart or Luas etc with a group of friends or family and every one of the 4 person seat sections is taken by a person sitting on their own.

I generally stand on busyish trains so it drives me crazy.

Ring4Fea

Wotsername wrote: »

Ring4fee:

Oh Dear, Such vitriol! I seem to have touched a nerve.

I have no intention in getting into any kind of exchange with some disgruntled, petulant, twenty-something, stranger with an obvious agenda, Not to mention an enormous chip.
I will leave you waxing loquacious, regurgitating and spewing your bile, in another direction.

True talent, like art and beauty, Needs no fanfare, Nor, need it be screamed from the rooftops.

And for the record.
Unless you have contributed to, and have had published, Artwork, articles or papers, in a worldwide 'Health Science' magazine or journal, Then It is highly unlikely that I have ever come into contact with your work in a professional capacity.
Oh, and by the way, I don't have any older siblings.

Adios for now thread.

LMAO. if your previous post touched a nerve, my reply clearly set off your case of emotional shingles. As for your response above, as Amy Farrah Fowler said to Penny when Penny attempted to use the word "homogeneous", one might say to your final comment here..

"It's so cute when she tries."

Don't forget this interchange began when you snarked at a post I made about others never found on these boards. Without you having been provoked either. And YOU choosing to continue this interchange for several pages despite what you said above. As someone who DOES know internationally renowned luminaries in the field of health who have had their hand shaken by the previous elected leader of the Republic in the field of health and associated neurological conditions, unlike yourself, all I can say is that you manage to stay on topic during peer review more than you do here.

Toodles!

BeerSteakBirds

dmodonov wrote: »

People who wait until the last possible moment to get on a bus or train because they're sucking away on their cigarette, trying to get every last possible drag off it -- and then exhale the last of the smoke when they're actually on board. Disgusting.

I'm not anti smoker. I believe in liberty but ..... if I have my toddler on my shoulders and we walk past someone on a narrow street who is blowing smoke across us ... that annoys me...I worry it will hit her face first too ... There were quite a few smokers at the st patricks parade for example. The whole city was a drunken smoking mess

Ring4Fea

As an ex smoker of 20 to 35 per day I more than agree with you. Of course I would have when smoking as well.

Ring4Fea

As an ex smoker, when I smoked, I never left butts in parks nor in the countryside. I had something to keep the ash and filters in. HATED it when anyone would leave remnants of cigs in the grass or on a riverbank.

deise08

When people don't use the dividers at the checkout, then throw a fit when the girl continues to scan their shopping in with the previous persons shopping.

Pumpkinseeds

shroom007 wrote: »

Piscaterians

give me bloody strenght

:eek:How dare you, I'm a piscetarian but I consider myself mostly vegetarian. Bloody cheek of it, don't make me come over there and slap you with a wet fish:p I don't use the term piscetarian though, it sounds very pretentious.

czechlin

Dublin Bus :mad:
There must be a special parallel universe for buses because it clearly doesn't appear at my stop.

Pumpkinseeds

shroom007 wrote: »

are you sure its a cat

Yep, although he is bigger than some dogs. He visits at least 2 different neighbours that feed him, which is why he weighs over 8 kilos. We've asked people to stop feeding him but it's pointless. We were buying really expensive grain free food for him to try to control his weight but it's useless if he's getting food elsewhere.

Keeping him indoors isn't an option though, one of our other cats was a feral kitten and he panics if we lock the cat flap. I know at the vets this morning I'll get the usual comments of 'ohh, he's big cat isn't he' from other people in the waiting room. It always feels like a criticism.

OldNotWIse

The Foosterers. We all know them. Here are the requirements:

Aged between 50 - 70

Possessions include:
Nolans School of Music bags
Used plastic bags
Old tattered oversized purses inside a sandwich bag or shower cap
Stamps
Post office savings book
An umbrella
A hankie

They waste entire days going around post offfices, libraries and public records offices, looking at stuff nobody else in interested in like planning applications, company registrations, obituaries etc. . They buy stamps and wool and brillo pads. They keep Guineys and Boyers solvent and eat dinner with dessert in the middle of the day.

Entire days spent on administerial busy-bodyism. They are the nellies. The nosies. The waste of twilight time-ers. They are, the Foosterers.

Bridge93

Bridge93 wrote: »

When you get on to the dart or Luas etc with a group of friends or family and every one of the 4 person seat sections is taken by a person sitting on their own.

This isn't a dig at you (in fact I've seen it mainly with elderly people and spanish students), but from the opposite perspective, I hate it when I'm sitting on the DART and a group of people get on, see that there isn't a group of seats that will perfectly accommodate their number (a lot of the time they're expecting to get 8 seats all next to each other), and look completely bemused and flustered as though it's unacceptable.

I hate seating awkwardness, so if I get on a busy DART coming from town I just stand the whole way because I couldn't be bothered with getting filthy looks from people, but my stops on the end of the line, so if I'm going the other way I'm essentially getting on an empty train - hardly a time to stand, and when the DART does start to fill up I'm not going to jump up out of my seat to accommodate someone who's looking at me like I've stolen their seat.

Tasden

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

:eek:How dare you, I'm a piscetarian but I consider myself mostly vegetarian. Bloody cheek of it, don't make me come over there and slap you with a wet fish:p I don't use the term piscetarian though, it sounds very pretentious.

I dunno, I don't eat any meat but if my mam is cooking for me she'll always say "you eat fish right?", I don't eat fish. Partly my fault though because I don't like using the word vegetarian for the same reason, it sounds pretentious to me, so just say I don't eat meat (which seafood doesn't really fall under) but if someone does use the term vegetarian I would assume they don't eat fish. So I actually think the term pescetarian is handy. Even if it makes me a hypocrite considering I don't like using any of those terms for myself :pac:

maguic24

I was listening to the radio this morning, as I do every morning. I constantly switch from station to station on my way to work, trying to find some decent music.

What really irritates me about ALL the radio stations is they all claim to be the 'most music station' but still find copious amounts of time to talk about sh*te and tell you that they are 'the most music station'. Play the god damn music and shut up telling us about how you all play 'more music, less talk'....which is a lie!!!! And they all seem to talk complete sh*te at the one time. :mad:

They ALL also claim to NOT play the same songs over and over.....yet they ALL do it!!!! It drives me mad!!!! Even if I initially like a song, it is usually ruined by the radio who loves to overplay music.

And the third thing that irritates me about the radio is the fact that they only play the most popular songs. I suppose that's what everyone wants to hear but there's lots of other good music out there, they could give some good artists a chance. (I'll be waiting for the backlash from this comment).

Will I turn the radio on tomorrow on the way to work in search of good some tunnage? Yes, I will, despite all my ranting. It's a vicious cycle.

Rant over. :P