Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

mickydoomsux

vitani wrote: »

That 'Donal!' ad for Bord Gáis is driving me crazy. If Donal is no good at DIY, then his wife should do it herself. Not leave it up to him because he's the man of the house and it's his job to do it.

Can you imagine a husband wandering around the house shouting at his wife because the dinner is burned or the floor hasn't been hoovered properly?

Look at all TV humorous TV ads featuring a couple. The man is always portrayed as a bumbling clown who is under the thumb of his super intelligent wife who can do everything so much better than him.

If it was the other way around there would be uproar from womens special interest groups for belittling the modern, independent female.

eisenberg1

vitani wrote: »

That 'Donal!' ad for Bord Gáis is driving me crazy. If Donal is no good at DIY, then his wife should do it herself. Not leave it up to him because he's the man of the house and it's his job to do it.

Can you imagine a husband wandering around the house shouting at his wife because the dinner is burned or the floor hasn't been hoovered properly?

Same thing when it comes to washing up or laundry, it always portrays the moronic husband/son trying to operate a washing machine or dishwasher, walking around the house leaving a trail of Daz, and putting ONE pair of socks or a tshirt in the machine, and then along comes the long suffering mum to the rescue, all smiley and only too happy to help the idiot husband out.

Pumpkinseeds

vitani wrote: »

That 'Donal!' ad for Bord Gáis is driving me crazy. If Donal is no good at DIY, then his wife should do it herself. Not leave it up to him because he's the man of the house and it's his job to do it.

Can you imagine a husband wandering around the house shouting at his wife because the dinner is burned or the floor hasn't been hoovered properly?

That one is so annoying but the Hotels Combined one is worse. I find it so annoying that on principle I wouldn't use their site, I'd actually go out of my way to avoid them. What exactly is the point of this sort of ad? Are we supposed to empathise with women who stupidly married men who appear not to be able to do the most basic of things

jimgoose

vitani wrote: »

That 'Donal!' ad for Bord Gáis is driving me crazy. If Donal is no good at DIY, then his wife should do it herself. Not leave it up to him because he's the man of the house and it's his job to do it.

Can you imagine a husband wandering around the house shouting at his wife because the dinner is burned or the floor hasn't been hoovered properly?

I await the day when this "Donal" pulls up in his Mercedes-Benz CL500 AMG and €2,000 Boss suit, sees that some DIY needs DIYing, calls a chap on his cellphone to see to it, then drives off to the airport for a week in the Maldives playing golf and bonking the hot secretary while the wife natters to her mate on the phone about what a prat he is because he can't hang a picture frame! Like a fukkan Boss, hi! :cool:

Roquentin

people who when driving on a roundabout and think they are supposed to stop on a roundabout and give right of way to those waiting to get on the roundabout. You are on the roundabout, you have right of way.

Very dangerous, nearly caused an accident today.

Colser

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Same thing when it comes to washing up or laundry, it always portrays the moronic husband/son trying to operate a washing machine or dishwasher, walking around the house leaving a trail of Daz, and putting ONE pair of socks or a tshirt in the machine, and then along comes the long suffering mum to the rescue, all smiley and only too happy to help the idiot husband out.

Stop will ya..:o Those ads could be based on my house just exchange the happy woman with one thats roaring and shouting..morto now.:pac:

eisenberg1

Colser wrote: »

Stop will ya..:o Those ads could be based on my house just exchange the happy woman with one thats roaring and shouting..morto now.:pac:

I have a younger brother( married with kids)who NEVER used a washing machine! I don't know what the big deal is, the instructions are on the machines, and in most cases are very straightforward.

eisenberg1

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I have a younger brother( married with kids)who NEVER used a washing machine! I don't know what the big deal is, the instructions are on the machines, and in most cases are very straightforward.

The fault of many an irish mammy...:p

Colser

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I have a younger brother( married with kids)who NEVER used a washing machine! I don't know what the big deal is, the instructions are on the machines, and in most cases are very straightforward.

Add oven, dryer, hob,iron ect to the washing machine and you will start to get an idea of what I put up with :rolleyes: unless it has an engine (or a kebab:D) my Oh isnt interested .

OldNotWIse

Jake1 wrote: »

The fault of many an irish mammy...:p

There's a thread in itself

My brother is in his mid thirties, still lives at home and will actually get up from the table and leave his plate there. It baffles me. Sometimes I can't resist saying it to my mother, who replies "ah sure isn't he good in the garden?" - Well, an attitude like that deserves to be cleaning up after someone. It's not as if we live in Powerscourt - quick go-over with the lawnmover once a month does it. He's hardly out harvesting the crops and ploughing the soil, stenciling butterflies onto the garden shed or playing soothing music for the tadpoles...

jimgoose

OldNotWIse wrote: »

There's a thread in itself

My brother is in his mid thirties, still lives at home and will actually get up from the table and leave his plate there. It baffles me. Sometimes I can't resist saying it to my mother, who replies "ah sure isn't he good in the garden?" - Well, an attitude like that deserves to be cleaning up after someone. It's not as if we live in Powerscourt, a quick go-over with the lawnmover once a month does it. He's hardly out harvesting the crops and ploughing the soil...

No no, I think she means when he's in the garden he's not in the house creating work, so that's good! :pac:

mickydoomsux

Roquentin wrote: »

people who when driving on a roundabout and think they are supposed to stop on a roundabout and give right of way to those waiting to get on the roundabout. You are on the roundabout, you have right of way.

Very dangerous, nearly caused an accident today.

Roundabouts are an utter mystery to 99.9% of Irish motorists.

eisenberg1

Jake1 wrote: »

The fault of many an irish mammy...:p

It was only after I got married that I found out that cooking wasn't some dark mystic secret, ditto for the using of a washing machine etc.

Ironing however....:D

jimgoose

eisenberg1 wrote: »

It was only after I got married that I found out that cooking wasn't some dark mystic secret, ditto for the using of a washing machine etc.

Ironing however....:D

As I've posted before, ironing is banned in my house. In fact, anyone who brings an item of clothing into the premises which requires more breastfeeding than a six-week-old gets beaten swiftly about the noggin with a copy of Hilliers and has to commute to work/college/methadone clinic on a spacehopper for a week to learn the clod about efficiency an' that.

dcrosskid

OldNotWIse wrote: »

There's a thread in itself

My brother is in his mid thirties, still lives at home and will actually get up from the table and leave his plate there. It baffles me. Sometimes I can't resist saying it to my mother, who replies "ah sure isn't he good in the garden?" - Well, an attitude like that deserves to be cleaning up after someone. It's not as if we live in Powerscourt - quick go-over with the lawnmover once a month does it. He's hardly out harvesting the crops and ploughing the soil, stenciling butterflies onto the garden shed or playing soothing music for the tadpoles...

Once a month?? T'would be like a meadow!!

Driver's etiquette on motorways. If your in the fast lane you should generally be over-taking, don't fuppin delay and move in. Also what really grinds my gears is when someone over-takes and then decides to slow down.

OldNotWIse

dcrosskid wrote: »

Once a month?? T'would be like a meadow!!

Driver's etiquette on motorways. If your in the fast lane you should generally be over-taking, don't fuppin delay and move in. Also what really grinds my gears is when someone over-takes and then decides to slow down.

People who say "grinds my gears" :mad:

Deadzone

Posts that begin 'So' . It makes no sense

Borrowed these from the Urban Dictionary-

So
1.
Used in an argument when someone has made a good point and the other person doesn't know what to say.
2.
Used before a sentence when someone is not sure what to say. Usually repeated by another person.[/B]
3.
Used by teenage girls and gay men in the middle of a sentence to emphasize a the point. See like
4.
Used by someone in a conversation if it doesn't matter.
5.
Used by someone in a conversation if they don't care.

Trivial but it really annoys me

Philo Beddoe

jimgoose wrote: »

As I've posted before, ironing is banned in my house. In fact, anyone who brings an item of clothing into the premises which requires more breastfeeding than a six-week-old gets beaten swiftly about the noggin with a copy of Hilliers and has to commute to work/college/methadone clinic on a spacehopper for a week to learn the clod about efficiency an' that.

Do you not wear shirts?

jimgoose

Philo Beddoe wrote: »

Do you not wear shirts?

Yes. Quite tidy ones too. They get on just fine without ironing.

dcrosskid

OldNotWIse wrote: »

People who say "grinds my gears" :mad:

If its good enough for Peter Griffen it's good enough for me!

Maximus Alexander

jimgoose wrote: »

Yes. Quite tidy ones too. They get on just fine without ironing.

You must tell me where you buy these magical shirts!

jimgoose

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

You must tell me where you buy these magical shirts!

Dunnes, Debenhams, M&S, the usual. I believe the secret is in the wash temperature, and how they're dried.

eisenberg1

jimgoose wrote: »

As I've posted before, ironing is banned in my house. In fact, anyone who brings an item of clothing into the premises which requires more breastfeeding than a six-week-old gets beaten swiftly about the noggin with a copy of Hilliers and has to commute to work/college/methadone clinic on a spacehopper for a week to learn the clod about efficiency an' that.

I would have thought you would have your valet take care of such things.:D

jimgoose

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I would have thought you would have your valet take care of such things.:D

You would think so, wouldn't you! Unfortunately that fúcker won't do ironing either. :mad:

whirlpool

When you're scrolling through the most recent few pages of a thread / this thread and you read a particular post and you think you have a really smart response to it, and then you notice there are already ten billion responses to it so somebody else has probably already said what you were going to say :pac: Rage!

whirlpool

Is chuggingg even actually profitable??

eisenberg1

jimgoose wrote: »

You would think so, wouldn't you! Unfortunately that fúcker won't do ironing either. :mad:

Aaah, one just cannot get the staff these days..............

jimgoose

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Aaah, one just cannot get the staff these days..............

He's a fair detail at keeping a Bat-Cave dusted, mind. :cool:

OldNotWIse

Weight loss "tips" for those on holidays. Shaaaatuuuuup! Misery upon fuucking misery. "Bring fruit to the airport" / "delay drinking until 10pm" / "bring fruit to the beach" / "take your kids for a walk in the rain and have a packed lunch" / "have just one glass of wine"- wtf? If you eat like a normal person the rest of the year you wont need to be carting around watermelons and pineapples with you and generally acting like an anally retentive idiot. If you're hungry, eat. If you're not hungry, dont. Accept that you are on holidays and may go up a kilo or two...and trust that you will go down said kilo or two when you return home. It really is that simple. You dont need to act like a teenager with body hangups just because you're away somewhere. Go and eat a f*cking cornetto* :P



*washed down with a bottle of chianti

Generic Dreadhead

Being set aflame :(:(:(