Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

OldNotWIse

Czarcasm wrote: »

:pac:


At least my shower is back working, I'm off in for a cold one


(water pump went on the blink this morning, far too annoying for the trivial thread as I couldn't take a shower, plumber left just now )

Cold one for me too. Our water went off and then there was an air lock so no hot water Character building stuff :P

Maximus Alexander

czechlin wrote: »

Anyway trivial annoyance for this week: dilemmas
Doing the whole pro/cons thing and yet getting nowhere

Aha! This is where my patented Coin Flip Decision Making® service will save the day.

Now normally I'd suggest getting one of our registered Coin Flip Decision Making® specialists to carry out the procedure for you, but for one time only I'm going to tell you how to do it yourself!

Take one coin, any coin will do, but the smaller and thinner the coin is, the higher it will go.

Make a fist with your thumb pressed into the hollow left by your curled index finger.

Rest the coin such that approximately half of it rests across your index finger, with the remainder covering the nail of the thumb.

Draw your thumb up sharply, impacting the underside of the coin in the process. This should send the coin upward on a ballistic trajectory, spinning on its own axis as it goes.

Whilst the coin is airborne, choose one side of the coin to represent one of your options.

Attempt to catch the coin. If you fail, ensure that you have kept your eye on the coin as it falls so that it does not become lost.

Whichever side of the coin is facing upwards when it comes to rest represents the decision you should make, as per your earlier assignment.

At this point, you are probably expecting me to tell you that the decision is made - but wait, there's more! Now that the coin has made the decision for you, carefully examine your emotional state. Do you feel happy or excited about the outcome? How about disappointed or fearful? These emotions, not the coin, should now be your guide.

You are ready to decide.

seagull

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

At this point, you are probably expecting me to tell you that the decision is made - but wait, there's more! Now that the coin has made the decision for you, carefully examine your emotional state. Do you feel happy or excited about the outcome? How about disappointed or fearful? These emotions, not the coin, should now be your guide.

You are ready to decide.

Don't like the way the coin comes down? It has to be best of 3 becomes 5 becomes 7 becomes 9.....

Maximus Alexander

seagull wrote: »

Don't like the way the coin comes down? It has to be best of 3 becomes 5 becomes 7 becomes 9.....

Nooooo the whole point is that once the coin comes down your emotional response will reveal how you really feel about the decision. The coin itself is meaningless, a mere mechanism to spur your heart into action.

Birneybau

Twats in woolly hats in the nice weather, always accompanied by a beard.

Raggle taggle [EMAIL="w@nkers"]w@nkers[/EMAIL].

eisenberg1

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Cold one for me too. Our water went off and then there was an air lock so no hot water Character building stuff :P

Bucket of ice anyone?:D

Czarcasm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Bucket of ice anyone?:D

Not on your hairy balls of goodness!

eisenberg1

Czarcasm wrote: »

Not on your hairy balls of goodness!

Peeled, don't forget to peel them:eek:

OldNotWIse

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Peeled, don't forget to peel them:eek:

I dont even have man plumbing and that made me squirm uncomfortably....

eisenberg1

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I dont even have man plumbing and that made me squirm uncomfortably....

And dipped in salt:D

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

The smell of bleach. And the way it lingers for hours after.
I've scrubbed the bathroom, walls/floors/bath/shower/toilet with bleach. And although the place is spotless, it's making me feel nauseous, and I don't like the fact if anyone comes over later, the house smells wretched.


Maybe one day someone will bring out bleach that smells like a garden full of roses.

Pumpkinseeds

Humidity, again. I just finished hoovering, washing dishes and mopping the floors. Mr P was on nights this week so stuff gets left until he's finished for the week. I had to take a shower after it all, dripping in sweat. It's oppressively humid and feels thundery.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

This time of year when the mice manage to get inside. First one of the year

glynf

ATM's that ask me to choose between English or Gaeilge, I know it takes an additional 2-3 secs, but what a complete f**ing waste of time. I find it hard to believe there are Irish speakers that don't have an adequate grasp of English to withdraw cash from an ATM. Pointless.

Pumpkinseeds

You know when you've been looking forward to a lie in, then something happens and you can't have that lie in, that bugs me. It was a kind of on again off again potential lie in, but no chance now. Builder calling in the morning so early start for me so that I'm not still in my dressing gown. Forgot to ask him what time he was calling here.

Gongoozler

BeerSteakBirds wrote: »

You dont seem to get the point of my post though. Inspector Javert types abound. I actually consider others when I am behind the wheel. The law can be an ass sometimes but I will not park in a disabled bay and hence give a disabled person no option but to risk being clamped himself if he wants to go about his business.

Well only you know how you actually drive, maybe you are mostly considerate, but I would have my doubts if you genuinely see nothing wrong with parking on double yellow lines just because you deem it ok.

Here's more illegal parking for yiz. But ya know, it was only for a minute. And shur didn't he have his hazards on.

tomwaterford

Gongoozler wrote: »

Well only you know how you actually drive, maybe you are mostly considerate, but I would have my doubts if you genuinely see nothing wrong with parking on double yellow lines just because you deem it ok.

Here's more illegal parking for yiz. But ya know, it was only for a minute. And shur didn't he have his hazards on.

that's actually mental...a parking space literally right beside it:pac::pac:

Ted_YNWA

tomwaterford wrote: »

that's actually mental...a parking space literally right beside it:pac::pac:

Would love to drive a bin lorry & plow through these idiots.

Gongoozler

I know, this is the kind of genius I see all the time from drivers.


My mini rant for tonight... Hammering has started next door, which I can hear very clearly. And now I have to decide whether to go ask them to stop or sit here fuming hoping I can sleep. I hate confrontation but I need to sleep

Barely There

When you need a pen to write something down and you have to root through loads of drawers and then you eventually find one

and it doesn't work.

maximoose

Shít songs that are just too damn catchy for their own good

Like Chocolate by 1975

Or more recently

Why you gotta be so ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude?

OldNotWIse

glynf wrote: »

ATM's that ask me to choose between English or Gaeilge, I know it takes an additional 2-3 secs, but what a complete f**ing waste of time. I find it hard to believe there are Irish speakers that don't have an adequate grasp of English to withdraw cash from an ATM. Pointless.

I think they have but they just want to make a point. How much has the official languages act cost the state? Which reminds me, although I think I mentioned this before, people using random smatterings of cupla focal to try to be all cool

Boom_Bap

Pistacchio Nuts. You are delicious but......

- when you open the shell and there is no nut
- the shell is sealed shut and you need to find a tool to open it
- you are more addictive than crack
- when Mrs Bap doesn't put the bag o nuts back in the press properly, I open the press and you fall and spill everywhere.

Boom_Bap

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I think they have but they just want to make a point. How much has the official languages act cost the state? Which reminds me, although I think I mentioned this before, people using random smatterings of cupla focal to try to be all cool

Try dealing with problems from ATM's in the Middle East where the Arabic isn't displayed correctly and you need to figure out why. I've only got a cupla focail of Arabic myself. Salam.

OldNotWIse

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I think they have but they just want to make a point. How much has the official languages act cost the state? Which reminds me, although I think I mentioned this before, people using random smatterings of cupla focal to try to be all cool

Some wan keeps doing that on the radio, I don't know which station, and it's ridiculous. It's literally about two words thrown into an English sentence occasionally, and it seems to be a particular 5 min slot where they try talking irish. I don't get it

grundie

Our next door neighbor who wanted to put up a new fence and came in to our yard without asking and cut down a tree as it stopped him swinging the panels round.

grundie

glynf wrote: »

ATM's that ask me to choose between English or Gaeilge, I know it takes an additional 2-3 secs, but what a complete f**ing waste of time. I find it hard to believe there are Irish speakers that don't have an adequate grasp of English to withdraw cash from an ATM. Pointless.

Surely not as bad as when the screen doesn't line up with the buttons and you end up selecting the wrong option?

Frigga_92

For some bizarre reason I was speaking an awful lot of Irish last weekend at EP... I'd be an okay Irish speaker, I'd remember quite a bit from school and my sister and I speak a good bit of Irish when we're together to try keep conversations private in public, but for some reason last weekend I was practically fluent...

Fat Christy

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Pistacchio Nuts. You are delicious but......

- when you open the shell and there is no nut
- the shell is sealed shut and you need to find a tool to open it
- you are more addictive than crack
- when Mrs Bap doesn't put the bag o nuts back in the press properly, I open the press and you fall and spill everywhere.

I have broken many a nail trying to open a pistachio. :mad:

Boom_Bap

Fat Christy wrote: »

I have broken many a nail trying to open a pistachio. :mad:

I've broken my heart trying to open them