Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

Badly Drunk Boy

OldNotWIse wrote: »

When we were 16 and both worked full time for the summer, she never even opened her pay cheques (ah the days when you'd get a physical cheque!). I remember at the end of the summer she had a neat pile of them unopened because she'd been bumming off her parents even while she worked.

Wouldn't it have been lovely if they went out of date before she cashed them? :pac:

fussyonion

miezekatze wrote: »

I tried shopping around for a new gym membership, but hardly any gyms list their prices on the website. Well I'm not going to call or visit them to find out, I'll just assume they're over my budget.

Where are you based?

fussyonion

My other half won a box of Keogh's crisps and although it's great, I'm trying to lose weight.
The box is just sitting in the living room smiling at me.
12 bags of cheese and onion. Large bags.
Someone take them away!

fussyonion

TG1 wrote: »

That specific burn behind your two front teeth that you get from pizza.

Guess what I had for lunch!

And then it scars a bit so you've got hard skin there for days and you keep touching it with your tongue.

whiskeyman

fussyonion wrote: »

My other half won a box of Keogh's crisps and although it's great, I'm trying to lose weight.
The box is just sitting in the living room smiling at me.
12 bags of cheese and onion. Large bags.
Someone take them away!

fussyonion wrote: »

Where are you based?

Where are *you* based?

:pac:

OldNotWIse

When you're browsing in a shop and there is someone standing in front of the one thing you want to look at.

Also the converse of that annoys me, when you're standing in front of something in a shop and that is the only thing that someone else seems to want to look at.

fussyonion

whiskeyman wrote: »

Where are *you* based?

:pac:

:D Heh I'm in Dublin so unless you want to come up on the oul train, I'll have to share said crisps out amongst people not concerned with their love handles.

BenedrylPete

fussyonion wrote: »

My other half won a box of Keogh's crisps and although it's great, I'm trying to lose weight.
The box is just sitting in the living room smiling at me.
12 bags of cheese and onion. Large bags.
Someone take them away!

Its sitting there.
Looking at you.
With a big smile on its face.


The durty fffecker.

fussyonion

OldNotWIse wrote: »

When you're browsing in a shop and there is someone standing in front of the one thing you want to look at.

Also the converse of that annoys me, when you're standing in front of something in a shop and that is the only thing that someone else seems to want to look at.

This happens a lot to me in my local chemist.
There's a security guard there and he seems to like standing in front of the tampons and sanitary towels and when I want to buy them, I have to stand right beside him so he realises...his walk away shows he feels awkward.
Well, stand somewhere else in future!

OldNotWIse

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Wouldn't it have been lovely if they went out of date before she cashed them? :pac:

Probably wouldn't have made a difference to her anyway. She never spends a penny. I'd say that money is still sitting in her account, along with her communion money.:rolleyes:

whiskeyman

OldNotWIse wrote: »

When you're browsing in a shop and there is someone standing in front of the one thing you want to look at.

Happened to me last week... they were looking at it, but not 'actively' so... so I swiped in and.... *yoink*
Off I go with the last one straight to the cash register, and I could hear them make a slight mumble noise.

You snooze, you lose!

whiskeyman

fussyonion wrote: »

This happens a lot to me in my local chemist.
There's a security guard there and he seems to like standing in front of the tampons and sanitary towels and when I want to buy them, I have to stand right beside him so he realises...his walk away shows he feels awkward.
Well, stand somewhere else in future!

In fairness, a chemist can be a minefield of awkwardness!!
If you're just randomly walking and not careful, you could be mistaken for checking out the hemorroide creams or perusing the best type lubricant jelly...

OldNotWIse

fussyonion wrote: »

This happens a lot to me in my local chemist.
There's a security guard there and he seems to like standing in front of the tampons and sanitary towels and when I want to buy them, I have to stand right beside him so he realises...his walk away shows he feels awkward.
Well, stand somewhere else in future!

Ask him which ones are the most absorbent next time, he'll probably never come back. :eek:

Reminds me, I hate the third degree you get when trying to buy anything with codeine in it. I instantly feel shifty and guilty and start acting that way even though I'm not an addict! It's immensely irritating when it's some fresh out of college boy quizzing me, especially when you've asked for feminax and are buying them alongside tampons!

Security guards in general do trivially annoy me. I know they have a job to do but some cant seem to do it with any sense of diplomacy or decorum, not even trying to hide the fact that they are following you. I get really annoyed by this and on occasion have asked their opinion on various products* since they seem to be so interested in what I am buying

*this has only happened in my head

Realt Dearg Sec

People who use the word "cringe" as an adjective. I.e "That ad is so cringe", instead of "that ad makes me cringe". Ironically, I find the usage really cringe.

miezekatze

fussyonion wrote: »

miezekatze wrote: »

I tried shopping around for a new gym membership, but hardly any gyms list their prices on the website. Well I'm not going to call or visit them to find out, I'll just assume they're over my budget.

Where are you based?

South Dublin, along the green luas

OldNotWIse

I hate the deliberate mis-use of the word smart by advertising wánkers. "We're rewarding smart". And brave too, aren't they "rewarding brave" - I'm rewarding people who can't speak English properly, by taking their smart bravery and shoving it up their holes.

jimgoose

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I hate the deliberate mis-use of the word smart by advertising wánkers. "We're rewarding smart". And brave too, aren't they "rewarding brave" - I'm rewarding people who can't speak English properly, by taking their smart bravery and shoving it up their holes.

Apple started this back in the late 1990s with their "Think Different" advertising campaign, may the devil roast the whole polo-neck wearing, Segway-riding, goatee-bearded, bespectacled lot of them in their underpants.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Or "bookface" - all, "I'm so cool I don't even know what it's called"

It is in fact called "Ye Booke of Faeces". You're welcome.

22catch

Selfies, I really just don't understand why it's so popular and the shocking level of narcissism in the world worries me.

KatW4

It stopped raining today, just on time for me to have to do yard duty in school. Damn you rain clouds, I'm still not warm after being stuck out in the bloody cold!

DareGod

Colser wrote: »

I didnt see that programme last night about sugar in your diet with Dr. Ava(is she an actual doctor) but Ive heard enough about it today to last me a lifetime.STFU about sugar its common sense mostly and I will eat what I want thank you:mad:

Anybody who has somehow managed to reach adulthood without realising that sugar is in almost everything in some way, shape or form, and that it is NOT good for you (i.e COMMON SENSE).... well, two words: "natural selection."

These "revelatory" journalistic pieces are either not revelatory at all or else the general public really are dumber than we thought.

Ally Dick

Was in the welfare office earlier queuing to sign on. There was music blaring out over the intercom. "Dead End Street" by The Kinks. Then up was "Tired Of Waiting" by The Kinks. Someone has a sick sense of humour

DareGod

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'd one of those "friends" who used to only come along to maybe 1 in every 4 events/meet ups she was invited to. Not only that, she was too cheap to pay for a taxi and too stuck up to get a bus and too cheap to buy a soft drink so she would order a lime cordial for 50c or something and nurse that for the time she was there. First thing she'd say when she arrived was, "I cant stay long, I've only paid parking until 10". Great way to set the mood like. She'd spend half the night checking her phone to make sure her kid hadn't topped himself with a bottle of calpol while under the supervision of her presumably well capable partner. She'd feck off them at five to ten and we'd get a text later saying, "thank you for the amaaaazing night!"

What I only realised after we ended our friendship, was this. Any time I texted and asked if she wanted to meet up, she would suggest a night that she was in college. (Think she did two nights a week). I'd get a text back saying, "well I have class on Monday and Wednesday so either of those nights are good for me" - she was basically slotting me in at the end of a night that was already gone anyway. She wouldn't "waste" a free night on her supposed best friend. She always seemed to have an out because she has a kid but she was living in a build on next door to her parents, had her partner living there, had her parents minding the kid any time she wanted and they couldn't get enough of him, plus she wasn't working. I've done the study and work full time thing and never treated my friends like that. If I was in college Monday and Wednesday, I'd say, "does Tuesday or Thursday suit?" :rolleyes:. Bítch. Well shot of her now.

Oh and her car is apparently laden down with presents for me too. On two birthdays and one Christmas event she turned up and said, "sorry I left your present in the car" - and that was the last I heard of them!

OldNotWIse wrote: »

hah the exact opposite! (though I can appreciate how it reads that way). This girl was the tightest person I ever knew. Even when we were kids, say if her dad gave her a tenner going to the shop and asked her to get milk, she'd be delighted if he forgot to ask for his change and would pocket it herself. When we were 16 and both worked full time for the summer, she never even opened her pay cheques (ah the days when you'd get a physical cheque!). I remember at the end of the summer she had a neat pile of them unopened because she'd been bumming off her parents even while she worked. She basically took her parents car by a sort of adverse possession. Started driving it then "loaning" it back to them when they needed it. They paid her tax and insurance and she even used their fuel card for putting petrol into it. They spent their life savings building an apartment for her when she got pregnant and she didn't give them anything off it or pay any rent. She had thousands in the bank even before she finished college and got a decent job, God only knows what she has now.

Some of her characteristics as you've described them suggest to me a potential anxiety disorder of sorts. Being OCD about saving money. Doing minimal socialising. Planning to escape a night out after just a couple of hours. Still living beside her parents. Not that that means you should keep her in your life. She's her own responsibility, she's not yours. But I'm just thinking out loud.

DareGod

22catch wrote: »

Selfies, I really just don't understand why it's so popular and the shocking level of narcissism in the world worries me.

As long as people keep giving selfies attention, people will keep seeking attention by posting them. And millions of people are giving them attention, constantly, while the people posting them lap up the instant gratification with every "Like" they get.

But, who cares? I mean, it's not as if there are much more important things in the world that we need people and kids to start paying their attention to.................

DareGod

OldNotWIse wrote: »

When you're browsing in a shop and there is someone standing in front of the one thing you want to look at.

Also the converse of that annoys me, when you're standing in front of something in a shop and that is the only thing that someone else seems to want to look at.

Or when you're in a shop of any kind and you can feel the shop assistant's eyes on you, and you can tell that they're just dying for you to face their general direction so that they can ask you if you need help. :mad: *immediately leaves shop*

In my local Tesco, when using one of the four self-service checkouts, the shop assistant (whichever one happens to be manning the self-service checkouts at the time) has a tendency to stand within six inches of you... they just stand there, uncomfortably close... it's so strange and irritating!

bnt

kfallon wrote: »

Getting shooting pains in and around my hip this morning ffs!!!! :mad:

Actually - might not be a hip problem: it could be sciatica, which is when a bulging spinal disc presses on nerves. If it coincides with you standing up, that's a sign. If it happens again, get it looked at, stat.

Me? I'm TA'd at myself. I posted earlier about a courier promising to deliver within a specific hour but not making it. Turns out that they did make it, by two (2) minutes. My post was a premature ejaculation, you might say. :eek:

nicki11

Really wanted to go to the shop to get some eggs but I'm expecting visitors at 7 sigh and I really wanted to try making an omelet again

New Home

nicki11 wrote: »

Really wanted to go to the shop to get some eggs but I'm expecting visitors at 7 sigh and I really wanted to try making an omelet again

Ask the visitor to bring you the eggs - sorted!

KatW4

Trying not to have a nap today because every other evening I have and I'm not tired at night. This means I get up late the next morning. It's actually painful trying to stay awake!

shamrock2004

When the train is jammers and some pr*ck brings a bike on.

Menas

When your new cd gets delivered and you go to insert it in to your laptop to copy it to iTunes and discover that you dont have a cd rom drive on your laptop.....what do I do now??!!