Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

Yamanoto

LynnGrace wrote: »

I used to wonder what would become of him if some of the people he follows around, ever left the country.

Gerald Keane pays to have him kennelled I believe.

The heat of Marbella's just too much for the wee fella.

LynnGrace

Yamanoto wrote: »

Gerald Keane pays to have him kennelled I believe.

LynnGrace

This is really trivial, and it doesn't annoy me but I occasionally wonder why shops bother having signs up asking people to only use the baskets and trolleys provided by the store.
People blatantly disregard the signs, but the shop management never seem to enforce it anyway so what is the point even having the signs.

Crumpets

My local Dunnes has a sign on the travelator saying "Do not walk on the travelator"

Who on earth has the time or patience to actually just stand and wait on one of those things?

Paddy Cow

Crumpets wrote: »

My local Dunnes has a sign on the travelator saying "Do not walk on the travelator"

Who on earth has the time or patience to actually just stand and wait on one of those things?

Someone like me who's wearing runners when it's raining outside and the travelator moves at an angle. I cling on for dear life as it's highly likely I'll go flying down it if I try to walk. Those things are slippery as hell.

Crumpets

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Someone like me who's wearing runners when it's raining outside and the travelator moves at an angle. I cling on for dear life as it's highly likely I'll go flying down it if I try to walk. Those things are slippery as hell.

Wipe your feet before getting on it

fiachraX

Acquaintances (e.g. reps) who make a point of trying to demonstrate how interested they are in you and your life by following up on things you mentioned last time you spoke, such as family members they'll never meet and have zero interest in. You think I don't know you just read up your notes on me in the car before you came in?

Pumpkinseeds

Elmo wrote: »

Prob thought they were roma, was she in the full Burqa?

No, she just had her head scarf on and was in ordinary clothes. There was no way of mistaking her as Roma.

gubber

In-movie predictions. I mean, why try blurt out your predictions as the movie/tv show is playing?

"OH MY GOD HE's GOING TO KILL HI- TOLD YA!!"

Possibly the most annoying thing you can do when watching something.

gramar

Crumpets wrote: »

My local Dunnes has a sign on the travelator saying "Do not walk on the travelator"

Who on earth has the time or patience to actually just stand and wait on one of those things?

Is that what they're called? Travelators. Well bedejaysus.

I've no problem with them except for the knobs who stand in the middle and worse the dickwads that leave the trolley right in the middle or crossways so you can't get past either side. At least you can ask the knobs to get out of the way but the trolleys are stuck there.

Stavros Murphy

Standing in a filling station, waiting to get a coffee, and the lad(it's nearly always a lad) using the self-service machine ahead of you insists on adding 22 sugars, a dash of milk, taste, then a dash more, some stirring, taste...GET THE FCUK ON WITH IT FFS!!!!Or do your Darina Allen impression off to one side, so us unfussy ones can get our black with a dash of milk.

Then, then they usually do the whole "I have never seen a lid before! How do these wondrous things go onto the cup??" thing. All the while standing at the machine, a zombified, frothing queue of caffeine addicts slowly writhing with inner demons behind them. If I had a machete at times like those, I feel bad things could happen.

czechlin

Grocery shopping.
I don't know what's going on but I really hate it lately :mad:

And what the hell is a 'travelator'??

Elmo

czechlin wrote: »

Grocery shopping.
I don't know what's going but I really hate it lately :mad:

And what the hell is a 'travelator'??

its a flat escalator or diagonal, for people who can't walk up escalators!

CrowdedHouse

Dandelions feckin' dandelions in my garden

md23040

On asking a group at a party the other day whether they watched some programme on the TV during the week, or have you seen Breaking Bad on Netflix yet etc - the unanimous response was “Oh I don’t watch a lot of TV, don’t have the time – no didn’t see it”.

My reply back was “Jesus are you serious, if I didn’t have TV and the internet my life would be pretty vacant and boring, and there’s certain days I look forward to because of what’s on that night”.

Lying bast4ards the lot of them I reckon.

gramar

md23040 wrote: »

On asking a group at a party the other day whether they watched some programme on the TV during the week, or have you seen Breaking Bad on Netflix yet etc - the unanimous response was “Oh I don’t watch a lot of TV, don’t have the time – no didn’t see it”.

My reply back was “Jesus are you serious, if I didn’t have TV and the internet my life would be pretty vacant and boring, and there’s certain days I look forward to because of what’s on that night”.

Lying bast4ards the lot of them I reckon.

I don't watch tv and haven't seen a series for years. I don't even have a smartphone. We do exist!

LynnGrace

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Standing in a filling station, waiting to get a coffee, and the lad(it's nearly always a lad) using the self-service machine ahead of you insists on adding 22 sugars, a dash of milk, taste, then a dash more, some stirring, taste...GET THE FCUK ON WITH IT FFS!!!!Or do your Darina Allen impression off to one side, so us unfussy ones can get our black with a dash of milk.

Then, then they usually do the whole "I have never seen a lid before! How do these wondrous things go onto the cup??" thing. All the while standing at the machine, a zombified, frothing queue of caffeine addicts slowly writhing with inner demons behind them. If I had a machete at times like those, I feel bad things could happen.

That or if in a coffee shop queue where someone has to make the enormous decision of which type of scone they would like, currant, no,plain, no, currant...while the queue builds, and the staff member waits patiently.

Tell you what, try one today, and the other type next time around.

brooke 2

Elmo wrote: »

Or when a Interviewer asks a question when it has already been answered by the interviewee.

Interviewer: You have been working in this area for a number of years...
Interviewee: Yes I been working in the industry for 20 years I was just 15 when I started
Interviewer: Wow what age where you then?

Remember when Donna Air asked the
Corrs how long they had known one
another!!

brooke 2

LynnGrace wrote: »

I gave up on trying to read the Sunday Independent a long time ago, the standard of 'journalism' in it is abysmal, in my opinion.
He is one of the worst, I used to wonder what would become of him if some of the people he follows around, ever left the country.

Came across the article accidentally when McNamara's name popped up!
Rarely buy a newspaper nowadays as I tend to get most of my news online.
Am amazed Egan is still on the go -
thought he would have vanished with the Celtic Tiger!!

miss no stars

bluewolf wrote: »

Also from pine mouth

Vile, vile experience. I had it and it lasted over 2 weeks.

LynnGrace

brooke 2 wrote: »

Am amazed Egan is still on the go -
thought he would have vanished with the Celtic Tiger!!

But...but...who would breathlessly follow the 'slebs' around if Barry Egan didn't exist.

C14N

Scones or buns that have surprise raisins in them. Yuck.

Kitty6277

When people have a huge trolley full of shopping and are ahead of you at the till and they're only unpacking the trolley and it's taking ages and you only have one or two items and they don't ask you if you'd like to go ahead.

Pumpkinseeds

The song from the Tassimo ad, it's stuck in my mind and I keep humming it.

miss no stars

miss no stars wrote: »

Vile, vile experience. I had it and it lasted over 2 weeks.

We couldn't figure out what it was at all! Is the milk off? Is something else off?

Found out a couple weeks after. Nothing worked! Not mouthwash or chewing gum or anything!

Pumpkinseeds

What is it with all this European elections stuff in Irish popping up everywhere? Any party or candidate that does that can be guaranteed of not getting my vote. Frankly, there are more non Irish speakers than Irish speakers in this country. It'd be really great if the powers that be could pull their heads out of their arses and stop paying homage to a dead language.

Planet X

.....in anyways.........

......in all nin anyways......:)

Elmo

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

What is it with all this European elections stuff in Irish popping up everywhere? Any party or candidate that does that can be guaranteed of not getting my vote. Frankly, there are more non Irish speakers than Irish speakers in this country. It'd be really great if the powers that be could pull their heads out of their arses and stop paying homage to a dead language.

People getting at Irish, sorry Pumpkinseeds. Though they won't be getting my vote but for a huge range of reasons. Oh and the fact I have decided not to vote.

Pumpkinseeds

Elmo wrote: »

People getting at Irish, sorry Pumpkinseeds. Though they won't be getting my vote but for a huge range of reasons. Oh and the fact I have decided not to vote.

Sounds like Elmo needs a tickle:D

delw

The tv for an Easter weekend has been really crap ( i know it's crap all the time but even worse this bank holiday)