Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

LeeLooLee

lawlolawl wrote: »

The boom or bust mentality of the Irish is truly scary.

Complain incessantly when you you are short a few quid then go nuts and spend every penny you have and more when things pick up even slightly.

We really don't understand sustainability or forward thinking and the situation around the shops this Christmas scared me a bit to be honest. We've learned nothing.

It's because people have to be keeping up with the Joneses. I can't get over how obsessed so many Irish people are with stuff like brands. Was round my cousin's house there yesterday and she was all, I got Michael Kors this, Kurt Geiger that....I couldn't give a sh1te what words are written on her bag or shoes. It's not like this in other places I've lived at all. People would just think you were an idiot spending 200 quid on a bag when you have an entry-level job. It's pure madness.

jimgoose

OldNotWIse wrote: »

...The huge amount of unnecessities drives me mad. Frozen pizzas, slabs of coke and novelty kid yoghurts for my 36 year old man-child brother who has never moved out (why would he with such a set up?). Then there are copious amounts of diet yoghurts and fat free this that and the other. Litres and litres of milk that are then frozen. Miniscule, overpriced cuts of meat that roast away to nothing. Expensive toilet paper. All the while doing the poor mouth. I have given up trying to get them to go to Lidl or Aldi...

Fat-free high-sugar, artificial over-processed shíte is banned outright in our house. Real butter, full-fat yoghurts with lumps of fruit in, fresh cabbage, turnip, parsnip, carrots, etc. and proper lumps of meat from the local craft butcher. People should try it - I'd bet a lot of folks would cut their current grocery spend by about a third and eat a hell of a lot better. The bog-roll is recycled cheap stuff right enough, I don't wipe my arse with money. :pac:

OldNotWIse

LeeLooLee wrote: »

It's because people have to be keeping up with the Joneses. I can't get over how obsessed so many Irish people are with stuff like brands. Was round my cousin's house there yesterday and she was all, I got Michael Kors this, Kurt Geiger that....I couldn't give a sh1te what words are written on her bag or shoes. It's not like this in other places I've lived at all. People would just think you were an idiot spending 200 quid on a bag when you have an entry-level job. It's pure madness.

This is so true. And then you get muppets buying knock off labels too. The only "designer" item I own is a pair of Hunter boots simply because I was out the door buying cheaper ones that kept tearing. But these are purely functional and lightweight so great for walking the dogs in the muck/forest/snow. They get dirty because they are functional. I do laugh at people who wear them in the city centre for tip toeing around puddles

jimgoose

OldNotWIse wrote: »

This is so true. And then you get muppets buying knock off labels too. The only "designer" item I own is a pair of Hunter boots simply because I was out the door buying cheaper ones that kept tearing. But these are purely functional and lightweight so great for walking the dogs in the muck/forest/snow. They get dirty because they are functional. I do laugh at people who wear them in the city centre for tip toeing around puddles

I have a pair of Heuger Aztecs from a boutique so exclusive it's not even on Grafton Street:

https://www.coopsuperstores.ie/Clothing/Footwear/Safety--Rigger-Boots/Heuger-Aztec-Boot-AZTECBOOT

LeeLooLee

OldNotWIse wrote: »

This is so true. And then you get muppets buying knock off labels too. The only "designer" item I own is a pair of Hunter boots simply because I was out the door buying cheaper ones that kept tearing. But these are purely functional and lightweight so great for walking the dogs in the muck/forest/snow. They get dirty because they are functional. I do laugh at people who wear them in the city centre for tip toeing around puddles

Same, I buy brands sometimes, but I'm looking for quality, not to show off the label, and I get them as cheap as I can, usually second hand. I don't know why you'd boast about spending lots of money on something...I'd be more inclined to boast about what a great deal I got!

lawlolawl

LeeLooLee wrote: »

It's because people have to be keeping up with the Joneses. I can't get over how obsessed so many Irish people are with stuff like brands. Was round my cousin's house there yesterday and she was all, I got Michael Kors this, Kurt Geiger that....I couldn't give a sh1te what words are written on her bag or shoes. It's not like this in other places I've lived at all. People would just think you were an idiot spending 200 quid on a bag when you have an entry-level job. It's pure madness.

There is a certain amount of that alright but I genuinely think that there is something broken in a lot of Irish people's thinking when it comes to money.

It's treated as something that should be completely flittered away with no thought or planning or saving done unless it is being done to spend on another big silly expenditure.

My two friends that are living with me are both in full time employment for years and they are still somehow living pay day to pay day. They have **** all bills because I don't charge them much for rent, electricity etc. and yet they still occasionally have little or literally no money. Neither of them have credit cards because they don't trust themselves, they are routinely overdrawn on their current accounts and any bill that can be paid in installments is (with the 15-20% "convenience" tax on top to do that).

As near as I can tell, they seem to spend every cent they have left over after essentials on eating out, going out drinking and going on holidays. They went out 4 or 5 times at Christmas alone and spent well over €100 each time between drinks, taxis and food.

They asked me for advice on saving a while ago because they want to buy their own place, get married etc. and I told them to stop throwing away 100s a month on frivolous, ephemeral things. They both looked at me like I had two heads and basically said "sure what's the point in working if you can't spend the money on things you want?".

I couldn't live like that. Pay check to pay check with no buffer money if anything goes wrong and nothing to invest to earn a return. The stress of it has to outweigh the fun of meals out or going down the pub.

eisenberg1

OldNotWIse wrote: »

This is so true. And then you get muppets buying knock off labels too. The only "designer" item I own is a pair of Hunter boots simply because I was out the door buying cheaper ones that kept tearing. But these are purely functional and lightweight so great for walking the dogs in the muck/forest/snow. They get dirty because they are functional. I do laugh at people who wear them in the city centre for tip toeing around puddles

I never really got the whole label thing. Why people want to buy a jacket and then do the free advertising for the "designer" with the name plastered all over the garment is beyond me. Hunter make Wellington boots, they put their name on their product, that makes sense. "designer" pays Some guy in a factory in China/Mexico/India to make shoes, bags or whatever, usually not all that well and Slaps a label on it. Loads of people then buy the bag to show they are "individual", nothing to do with whether is is a well made product that will stand the test of time.

Mercedes make cars, very good cars, in their own factories. But i wouldn't buy a Pair of Mercedes shoes, or a Mercedes suit if you get my drift.

BenedrylPete

Wanted some sparkling water.
5 ****ing shelves of still water.

Who the fck did the stock control.
This isnt Mexico in the summer.

Spanish Eyes

I'd say much of the "label" stuff is made in places like India, China and so on in sweatshops.

OK you may say, NOOOOO they are ethically produced in the "label's own factory".

Hmmph, I don't believe it for a minute.

Some people just do not understand that the majority of people couldn't give a feck about labels. AT ALL, so there!

If it looks nice, if it suits me and is comfortable I will buy it. (Usually in Penneys). Ha, but at least I know they use sweatshops and have agreements with them. Labels are a joke. As someone else said, you pay through the nose to give the "label" free advertising! You could not make it up.

But of course, as a peace offering..... Each To Their Own.

LeeLooLee

lawlolawl wrote: »

There is a certain amount of that alright but I genuinely think that there is something broken in a lot of Irish people's thinking when it comes to money.

It's treated as something that should be completely flittered away with no thought or planning or saving done unless it is being done to spend on another big silly expenditure.

My two friends that are living with me are both in full time employment for years and they are still somehow living pay day to pay day. They have **** all bills because I don't charge them much for rent, electricity etc. and yet they still occasionally have little or literally no money. Neither of them have credit cards because they don't trust themselves, they are routinely overdrawn on their current accounts and any bill that can be paid in installments is (with the 15-20% "convenience" tax on top to do that).

As near as I can tell, they seem to spend every cent they have left over after essentials on eating out, going out drinking and going on holidays. They went out 4 or 5 times at Christmas alone and spent well over €100 each time between drinks, taxis and food.

They asked me for advice on saving a while ago because they want to buy their own place, get married etc. and I told them to stop throwing away 100s a month on frivolous, ephemeral things. They both looked at me like I had two heads and basically said "sure what's the point in working if you can't spend the money on things you want?".

I couldn't live like that. Pay check to pay check with no buffer money if anything goes wrong and nothing to invest to earn a return. The stress of it has to outweigh the fun of meals out or going down the pub.

It's pure mental what people spend on drink. 50-100 quid easy on a night out and this is every week, if not more than once a week. I like a drink as much as anyone, but what's the need to have more than a couple of pints? Sure, I also go a bit mad on special occasions, but 8-10 pints EVERY Friday night? Surely the pain of draining your bank account would override the fun you have in the pub? People say I'm mental for going to South America or Asia on holiday, but those are experiences I'll remember forever and I plan every detail to save as much money as I can. All my pub trips over the last year blur into one, can barely even remember where we went and who was there.
I wouldn't mind but all the people I know who fritter their money away then play the poor mouth. These are people on twice what I earn, asking for money to pay the electricity bill. Insane.

Rosie Rant

Being offered sweets, cake, chocolate, fizzy drinks and other crap at every place I visit and people absolutely insisting I take some or asking "Are ya sure? Are ya sure? Are ya sure?" when I refuse, asking so many times that I have to relent and stuff my face again. People are desperate to get rid of the stuff because they want to be healthy again. Well so do I! Thankfully, miraculously, I didn't gain any weight over Christmas but my cholesterol levels can't be good!

Spanish Eyes

lawlolawl wrote: »

My two friends that are living with me are both in full time employment for years and they are still somehow living pay day to pay day. They have **** all bills because I don't charge them much for rent, electricity etc. and yet they still occasionally have little or literally no money. Neither of them have credit cards because they don't trust themselves, they are routinely overdrawn on their current accounts and any bill that can be paid in installments is (with the 15-20% "convenience" tax on top to do that).

As near as I can tell, they seem to spend every cent they have left over after essentials on eating out, going out drinking and going on holidays. They went out 4 or 5 times at Christmas alone and spent well over €100 each time between drinks, taxis and food.

Now sorry love, but you are enabling them to live recklessly (in your eyes).

WTF? Raise the rent, get them pay for the bills.

Sorry if I sound like an Irish Mammy here, but you are neither doing yourself, nor your friends any favours here.

Why should you shoulder all the bills and rent/mortgage and stuff so they can party? Doesn't make sense to me anyway. Fair is fair.

lawlolawl

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Now sorry love, but you are enabling them to live recklessly (in your eyes).

WTF? Raise the rent, get them pay for the bills.

Sorry if I sound like an Irish Mammy here, but you are neither doing yourself, nor your friends any favours here.

Why should you shoulder all the bills and rent/mortgage and stuff so they can party? Doesn't make sense to me anyway. Fair is fair.

They were **** with money before that so I'm not the cause of it

One is 25 and the other is 32 and they have **** all to show for all the years they've both worked because of how they spend their earnings.

I can manage the bills/mortgage on my own easily so them throwing me a few quid just makes things even easier on me. I'm not looking to make a profit on it.

I already have a 35 year mortgage more than half paid off after around 5 years.

Spanish Eyes

lawlolawl wrote: »

They were **** with money before that so I'm not the cause of it

One is 25 and the other is 32 and they have **** all to show for all the years they've both worked because of how they spend their earnings.

I can manage the bills/mortgage on my own easily so them throwing me a few quid just makes things even easier on me. I'm not looking to make a profit on it.

I already have a 35 year mortgage more than half paid off after around 5 years.

I've no doubt you can do it all yourself with a "few bob" thrown at you now and then, and I get it that you don't want to make a profit either. That is not the point though.

Can you not see that you are the successful, careful one, paying for the majority of their comforts while they recklessly take you for a mug? Sorry, that to me is what they are doing.

Well done on what you have achieved re the mortgage, that is sensational.

Even though I know you are probably being kind. But you are not being sensible here at all!!

nicki11

LeeLooLee wrote: »

It's pure mental what people spend on drink. 50-100 quid easy on a night out and this is every week, if not more than once a week. I like a drink as much as anyone, but what's the need to have more than a couple of pints? Sure, I also go a bit mad on special occasions, but 8-10 pints EVERY Friday night? Surely the pain of draining your bank account would override the fun you have in the pub? People say I'm mental for going to South America or Asia on holiday, but those are experiences I'll remember forever and I plan every detail to save as much money as I can. All my pub trips over the last year blur into one, can barely even remember where we went and who was there.
I wouldn't mind but all the people I know who fritter their money away then play the poor mouth. These are people on twice what I earn, asking for money to pay the electricity bill. Insane.

Yeah my friends are like this and for some reason I never got drawn into the spend all your money on a night out thing (maybe I like having money for food the rest of the week too much). Its part of the reason we aren't close anymore as it was the only way they wanted to socialise. I had less money then them as they all got the grant and their parents forked out over a hundred a week to them so maybe they could afford it but I couldn't.

I once went shopping in Dunnes and one of my friends spent 50 euro on vodka and some face cream, that was my shopping budget for two people for the week o.O.

I also got into a slight argument with my Dad at Christmas over money but unlike when I was younger I managed to shut it down quickly with the truth. It started when I said I tried boiling a ham before Christmas and I mentioned the steam coated the walls. He said its alright for some in a kind of I didn't have that kind of money when I was your age. So I simply explained it was on offer in Aldi, was small and lasted for two days. He gave me a grumpy hmmf and I said "well its not like I'm out drinking or smoking all the time like other people my age" (which was him - aren't sisters great for ruining the "we were perfect when we were you age" mystique). So he apoligised and it wasn't brought up again unlike any other time when he'd just keep sliding it in. :rolleyes:

Whitewinged

OH very kindly made a roast dinner yesterday which I was grateful for but what part of "i don't like Yorkshire Puddings" can someone not understand? 12 years we are together and I told him I don't know how many times that I just don't like them but any time he makes the dinner, there it is, a Yorkshire Pudding, plonked right on top of my dinner, contaminating my food.

Also since Christmas, he keeps offering Cranberry sauce any time we have a roast. I don't like this either. He gave our daughter some on her dinner on Christmas day and she said "ugh jam?" which is basically what it is, jam.

Spanish Eyes

Whitewinged wrote: »

OH very kindly made a roast dinner yesterday which I was grateful for but what part of "i don't like Yorkshire Puddings" can someone not understand? 12 years we are together and I told him I don't know how many times that I just don't like them but any time he makes the dinner, there it is, a Yorkshire Pudding, plonked right on top of my dinner, contaminating my food.

Also since Christmas, he keeps offering Cranberry sauce any time we have a roast. I don't like this either. He gave our daughter some on her dinner on Christmas day and she said "ugh jam?" which is basically what it is, jam.

I know it's annoying, but be grateful he made the dinner!

Carefully remove said yorkshire pud from your plate to his. With thanks.

Cranberry sauce is indeed a sugary thing like jam. I don't get it either.

But each to their own and all that.

Savage Tyrant

LeeLooLee wrote: »

It's because people have to be keeping up with the Joneses. I can't get over how obsessed so many Irish people are with stuff like brands. Was round my cousin's house there yesterday and she was all, I got Michael Kors this, Kurt Geiger that....I couldn't give a sh1te what words are written on her bag or shoes. It's not like this in other places I've lived at all. People would just think you were an idiot spending 200 quid on a bag when you have an entry-level job. It's pure madness.

I bought my wife a Michael Kors watch... The brand was picked because she has a few friends that have them and I thought I'd get her a luxury that she would NEVER ask for. I genuinely didn't mind the price as she is a very low maintenance wife I have to say.
But a few weeks ago we brought it into the Michael Kors shop in dundrum for a minor repair and the girl told me it had to be returned to "fossil" for repair as they are the manufacturer.... Fossil make some decent watches, but they aren't anything special... So essentially with a MK watch you are paying a premium for the branding... I know, not a great revelation to anyone here but it does show the silliness of it.

Dial Hard

razorblunt wrote:

I'm one episode into Making a Murderer on Netflix and I'm already annoyed at the case. This will escalate from trivial quite quickly.

I'm TA'd that my sister cancelled the Netflix subscription and gave away the Chromecast and then this came out a month later.

major bill

Some little **** cycling through an industrial estate on me way home from work, no lights, no high fiz and no cycling etiquette obviously got the bike for Christmas, poor dope will kill himself on the road.

kfallon

Nose is getting very sniffly over the past few hours, say I'll be firing out some snotrockets at football tonight!

selous

major bill wrote: »

Some little **** cycling through an industrial estate on me way home from work, no lights, no high fiz and no cycling etiquette obviously got the bike for Christmas, poor dope will kill himself on the road.

Or nicked it...

A friend rang me earlier, while cycling home got caught short, locked the bike to a post, ran into café, came out, and as unlocking the bike key broke in the lock, a E200 lock, asked did I have my angle grinder handy, all I could say was where would I plug it in?? ring the shop where ya bought the lock and see can they help, what a feckin predicament.:(

Shannon757

selous wrote: »

Or nicked it...

A friend rang me earlier, while cycling home got caught short, locked the bike to a post, ran into café, came out, and as unlocking the bike key broke in the lock, a E200 lock, asked did I have my angle grinder handy, all I could say was where would I plug it in?? ring the shop where ya bought the lock and see can they help, what a feckin predicament.:(

Because you would look so normal cutting a bike lock with an angle grinder:rolleyes:

5 month ago there were at least 12 spoons. Now there are none apparently. Not even one to wash before I can use it.

Ted_YNWA

Deleted User wrote: »

5 month ago there were at least 12 spoons. Now there are none apparently. Not even one to wash before I can use it.

It's the exact same here, but for forks. They have all walked !!

The_Kew_Tour

OAP's who skip the bus que annoys the **** out of me.

If they are walking very slow etc or wheelchair, no problem. But ones who think they have divine right and are well able to wait 10 extra seconds annoy me no end.

Ted_YNWA

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

It's the exact same here, but for forks. They have all walked !!

We also had 20+ forks, 15 butterknives and 5 or so teaspoons, all gone save a couple of forks and knives.

TG1

[Deleted User] wrote: »

We also had 20+ forks, 15 butterknives and 5 or so teaspoons, all gone save a couple of forks and knives.

They must be hiding out with the 100 hair ties I bought about a month ago.

kfallon

This cold has really gotten worse, gonna have that bunged up head/no sleep scenario when I go to bed

Medusa22

kfallon wrote: »

This cold has really gotten worse, gonna have that bunged up head/no sleep scenario when I go to bed

I can always nurse you back to health