Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

BeerWolf

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

That's your fault for selecting that background.

Easier on the eyes, default text becomes grey. Quoted was set as black, overriding that.

Czarcasm

dub_skav wrote: »

Smart watches piss me off too, they give you access to some (but not all) of the features of some (but not all) of the apps on your phone, just so you don't have to go to the arduous task of looking at your phone. Oh, and as a bonus they make you look like a Michael Knight wannabe

Where do I get me one of these smart watches? :eek:

roro1990

When there's a loose sewer cover on the road and a car drives over it causing it to make a really loud noise that tends to scare the sh!t out of me and piss me off in equal measure.

Aglomerado

roro1990 wrote: »

When there's a loose sewer cover on the road and a car drives over it causing it to make a really loud noise that tends to scare the sh!t out of me and piss me off in equal measure.

Yes! There used to be one near where I worked. I used to run past it!

dub_skav

Czarcasm wrote: »

Where do I get me one of these smart watches? :eek:

Ebay?

Not as good as the real thing though:

Pumpkinseeds

Ouch, I dropped a can of furniture polish on my bare big toe. Needless to say I let out a long string of expletives.

Frigga_92

The thread title is upsetting me greatly

Joya

that boards.ie is addictive?

MagicIRL

Went around to all the meeting rooms to find my manager because Jimmy from the UK needed the conference dial in number, only to get back to my desk and phone to find that Jimmy had hung up.


Well Jimmy, **** you.

Frigga_92

One of the women I work with is bringing her kids to the circus tonight and just said "it'll be sh!t though because there's no animals in it", I said "sure I thought circuses weren't allowed use animals anymore?" (which I did, I only went to a circus once as a child as part of a school thing, even my crazy mother doesn't agree with circuses) and she said that Duffys still use loads of animals, tigers, zebras etc.
Why would you even want to see animals doing anything other than being animals?
If animals need to be held in captivity for reasons like extinction or preservation they deserve to be sitting there chilling out and sipping mocktails.

OldNotWIse

roro1990 wrote: »

When there's a loose sewer cover on the road and a car drives over it causing it to make a really loud noise that tends to scare the sh!t out of me and piss me off in equal measure.

There was one of these beside a bus stop one morning. I lost the will to live.

gramar

dub_skav wrote: »

Smart watches piss me off too, they give you access to some (but not all) of the features of some (but not all) of the apps on your phone, just so you don't have to go to the arduous task of looking at your phone. Oh, and as a bonus they make you look like a Michael Knight wannabe

Czarcasm wrote: »

Where do I get me one of these smart watches? :eek:

Remember Czarcasm, Michael Knight is just David Hasselhoff in disguise and you don't want that!

OldNotWIse

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

One of the women I work with is bringing her kids to the circus tonight and just said "it'll be sh!t though because there's no animals in it", I said "sure I thought circuses weren't allowed use animals anymore?" (which I did, I only went to a circus once as a child as part of a school thing, even my crazy mother doesn't agree with circuses) and she said that Duffys still use loads of animals, tigers, zebras etc.
Why would you even want to see animals doing anything other than being animals?
If animals need to be held in captivity for reasons like extinction or preservation they deserve to be sitting there chilling out and sipping mocktails.

Eugh, ignorant b1nt. Come on darling, let's go look at the captive animals taken out of their natural habitats and beaten into submission with electric prods and kicks. It will be delightful.

After, we can find a starving child and make him sit outside Jimmy Chungs and look in at us while we gorge, and on the way home we'll find a homeless man and kick him 'cause aint nothin' more fun than kicking someone who's down!

Morons. Dont know the first thing about educating children.

Fúcking circus. Fúck sake

I hate Mondays even more now.

eisenberg1

gramar wrote: »

Remember Czarcasm, Michael Knight is just David Hasselhoff in disguise and you don't want that!

I just a vision of Czarcasm, running in slow motion on a beach, wearing budgie smugglers and with a very, very fancy watch on his wrist:D

Czarcasm

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

Why would you even want to see animals doing anything other than being animals?

Because watching a guy sticking his head in a lions mouth and secretly hoping the lion will bite down, is always going to be more exciting than watching some guy in a tiger print body suit doing some weird french polishing movement slithering all over a coffee table?

I dunno whether it was Courtney's or Fossett's, but I felt a bit robbed after paying the guts of €20 hoping to see some exotic animals, and ended up paying another €4 twice to give the young lad a bit of a pony ride at the end of a crappy show!

I'm aware of the animal cruelty side of things, and absolutely that should be stamped out, but short of flying the child out to countries like Kenya, India or Arabia, he's unlikely to see exotic animals in their natural habitat any time soon!

OldNotWIse

Czarcasm wrote: »

Because watching a guy sticking his head in a lions mouth and secretly hoping the lion will bite down, is always going to be more exciting than watching some guy in a tiger print body suit doing some weird french polishing movement slithering all over a coffee table?

I dunno whether it was Courtney's or Fossett's, but I felt a bit robbed after paying the guts of €20 hoping to see some exotic animals, and ended up paying another €4 twice to give the young lad a bit of a pony ride at the end of a crappy show!

I'm aware of the animal cruelty side of things, and absolutely that should be stamped out, but short of flying the child out to countries like Kenya, India or Arabia, he's unlikely to see exotic animals in their natural habitat any time soon!

Then why pay to go? If the demand stopped, so too would the supply. I'd rather my child doesn't see an animal than see a sad, broken spirit in a circus

Buzz Killington the third

Czarcasm you need to go to a zoo, at least there they don't beat the animals into behaving on demand!

Fat Christy

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

Czarcasm you need to go to a zoo, at least there they don't beat the animals into behaving on demand!

I hate zoo's. They make me sad inside.

dub_skav

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I just a vision of Czarcasm, running in slow motion on a beach, wearing budgie smugglers and with a very, very fancy watch on his wrist:D

Keep sucking it in Czarcasm

gramar

I was in a zoo a few weeks ago for the first time in decades. Most of the animals were absolutely bored out of their box.
Small pens with no space or stimulation. Wolves, tigers, lions, bears, chimps, wild boar etc etc Probably be better to put them down than subject them to permanent boredom and frustration.

I went to a chinese circus as a kid, it had no animals. Far, far more entertaining than a circus with animals. I could never go to one.
At least zoos generally have a purpose with some conservation, but if elephants etc don't have a massive roaming space, it's equally depressing and I would never go back to the zoo in question

redfacedbear

What kind of a monster would open the tin-foil box at the short end? :eek: And how did I end up married to her!

Buzz Killington the third

Fat Christy wrote: »

I hate zoo's. They make me sad inside.

Why? They hold a purpose. Without them, a lot more animals would be near extinction.

Remember, an animal reared in captivity knows no different and generally they get treated very well. They've come a long way since the days of polar bears going insane in small enclosures.

MagicIRL

We're getting way off topic here but if Zoo's are supposed to be for saving animal populations I emplore you to find out just how many animals have been released back in to the wild from Dublin Zoo.

I remember reading ana rticle while in 5th or 6th year that claimed zero animals had been released back in to the wild. I would be shocked if that's changed.

eisenberg1

I watched a clip on you tube recently where some tool was "training" a crocodile.....by sticking his head in its mouth, and they are all taken aback, when surprise, surprise, it decides to try and remove his stupid fcuking head.

Fat Christy

gramar wrote: »

I was in a zoo a few weeks ago for the first time in decades. Most of the animals were absolutely bored out of their box.
Small pens with no space or stimulation. Wolves, tigers, lions, bears, chimps, wild boar etc etc Probably be better to put them down than subject them to permanent boredom and frustration.

When I was in Berlin I went to the zoo. Never again! I remember looking at the female gorilla and the look in her eyes was devastating. They are so human like. She was 56 years old. No privacy at all, they had no where to go to escape from the crowds of people looking at them.

I would rather they lived freely and went extinct then be subjected to that. At least then they would have lived.

OldNotWIse

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

Why? They hold a purpose. Without them, a lot more animals would be near extinction.

Remember, an animal reared in captivity knows no different and generally they get treated very well. They've come a long way since the days of polar bears going insane in small enclosures.

That's just spin. How would you like to spend your life in an airplane seat?

OldNotWIse

Fat Christy wrote: »

When I was in Berlin I went to the zoo. Never again! I remember looking at the female gorilla and the look in her eyes was devastating. They are so human like. She was 56 years old. No privacy at all, they had no where to go to escape from the crowds of people looking at them.

I would rather they lived freely and went extinct then be subjected to that. At least then they would have lived.

I remember seeing the male gorilla in Dublin zoo years back, and he was sitting outside his shed with his head in his hands, looking so bored and broken and fed up.

jimgoose

Zoos can go to buggery. As can circuses. :mad:

eisenberg1

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I just a vision of Czarcasm, running in slow motion on a beach, wearing budgie smugglers and with a very, very fancy watch on his wrist:D

The budgies were not harmed in the making of said vision, and were treated humanely. Well, if being shoved down Czarcasm's shorts can be called humane:D