Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

SAMTALK

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I have Celebrations/Roses/Quality Street/Mince Pie withdrawals at the moment. I'd even eat one of the green triange Quality Streets at this stage.

I just have food withdrawals in general. If I dont get to lunch break soon my stomach will make some serious sounds..
Please Please Please hold on for 10 mins

kfallon

SAMTALK wrote: »

I just have food withdrawals in general. If I dont get to lunch break soon my stomach will make some serious sounds..
Please Please Please hold on for 10 mins

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Had that yesterday, stomach rumbling at 9am (I usually don't eat til 11.30am on a work day) so had to tell it there are no more ham & cheese toasted sambos for breakfast or Celebrations and Vienetta :pac:

OldNotWIse

Five hours traipsing around IKEA on Sunday in the general nightmare of fighting couples, kids screaming loudly, husbands screaming silently as everyone rushes to buy flat pack suburban dreams and make their houses all look the same on the inside. Give me a local store any day but the OH insisted on IKEA and since she was paying I didn't have a say. Eventually got everything sorted after agonising over frivolities such as press handles and knob colours (snort). Got the order in, paid for it and collected it all at the end. Not without having to go through the mill with the automated robotic moron working at collections who informed us we had a wait time of two hours because "people have ordered furniture today" - Really? Was this some kind of force majeure? That in a furniture store, people might order fúcking furniture? Eventually got our stuff and packed it all up, left vowing never to return.

Phone call from Dad just now.

They gave us all the wrong stuff.

razorblunt

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Five hours traipsing around IKEA on Sunday in the general nightmare of fighting couples, kids screaming loudly, husbands screaming silently as everyone rushes to buy flat pack suburban dreams and make their houses all look the same on the inside. Give me a local store any day but the OH insisted on IKEA and since she was paying I didn't have a say. Eventually got everything sorted after agonising over frivolities such as press handles and knob colours (snort). Got the order in, paid for it and collected it all at the end. Not without having to go through the mill with the automated robotic moron working at collections who informed us we had a wait time of two hours because "people have ordered furniture today" - Really? Was this some kind of force majeure? That in a furniture store, people might order fúcking furniture? Eventually got our stuff and packed it all up, left vowing never to return.

Phone call from Dad just now.

They gave us all the wrong stuff.

I hear you!
Try buying two three door wardrobes and finding out the panel on the second one is faulty and can't be built. Shítebags.
They need to place more of those soft footballs around the store that you can hoof when you're frustrated.

Also, there's a special place in hell for the parents who treat the whole place as a jungle gym for their kids.

everlast75

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Five hours traipsing around IKEA on Sunday in the general nightmare of fighting couples, kids screaming loudly, husbands screaming silently as everyone rushes to buy flat pack suburban dreams and make their houses all look the same on the inside. Give me a local store any day but the OH insisted on IKEA and since she was paying I didn't have a say. Eventually got everything sorted after agonising over frivolities such as press handles and knob colours (snort). Got the order in, paid for it and collected it all at the end. Not without having to go through the mill with the automated robotic moron working at collections who informed us we had a wait time of two hours because "people have ordered furniture today" - Really? Was this some kind of force majeure? That in a furniture store, people might order fúcking furniture? Eventually got our stuff and packed it all up, left vowing never to return.

Phone call from Dad just now.

They gave us all the wrong stuff.

razorblunt wrote: »

I hear you!
Try buying two three door wardrobes and finding out the panel on the second one is faulty and can't be built. Shítebags.

Try buying a wardrobe with doors and having rented a van and driven up and back from Drogheda to Belfast (there wasn't one in Ballymun back then), only to note that hinges are "an extra", are not supplied and sold separately....

miezekatze

Boom_Bap wrote:

I have Celebrations/Roses/Quality Street/Mince Pie withdrawals at the moment. I'd even eat one of the green triange Quality Streets at this stage.

The green triangle is the only nice one in the quality street tin! I'm sick of all that stuff though, ate too much over Christmas!

Taking the decorations down last night was super annoying! I had to de-tangle 3 sets of fairy lights, was close to dumping the lot. Luckily one set wasn't working anymore, I ended up having to cut that one up in order to save the other two. When I almost had the bastards off the tree, my cat decided to have one last go at climbing the tree. She got tangled up and panicked, so now I have a big scratch on my arm.

Ally Dick

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I have Celebrations/Roses/Quality Street/Mince Pie withdrawals at the moment. I'd even eat one of the green triange Quality Streets at this stage.

I'd even eat a Ferraro Rocher from under the sofa covered in cat fur

Medusa22

weight watchers have changed their system and increased the points of all the foods that I like, it was bad enough trying to get back on the wagon and now I can't eat anything. I need chocolate, copious amounts of chocolate and I can't have any (well correction, I can probably have one square for about 100 points) :mad:

jimgoose

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Five hours traipsing around IKEA on Sunday in the general nightmare of fighting couples, kids screaming loudly, husbands screaming silently as everyone rushes to buy flat pack suburban dreams and make their houses all look the same on the inside...

I envisage an eleventh circle of Hell especially for Ingvar Kamprad, where he can sit in chains forevermore in fire, torment, toddlers with melting ice-cream and crappy MDF boards that spit out fixtures as soon as you put a screwdriver to them.

Aglomerado

jimgoose wrote: »

I envisage an eleventh circle of Hell especially for Ingvar Kamprad, where he can sit in chains forevermore in fire, torment, toddlers with melting ice-cream and crappy MDF boards that spit out fixtures as soon as you put a screwdriver to them.

You're lucky if it's even MDF. more often it's shyte quality chipboard! :mad:

whiskeyman

No one wants to meet up for January pints

Sure, you're probably broke and want to stay off the booze, but it's my favorite time of the year for a few!
I'll twist their arms yet!

eisenberg1

^^

"Your furniture will be ready to collect in two hours, in the meantime, please take a seat. But you will have to assemble it yourself"

OldNotWIse

eisenberg1 wrote: »

^^

"Your furniture will be ready to collect in two hours, in the meantime, please take a seat. But you will have to assemble it yourself"

Badly Drunk Boy

A lad I work with has the most (I mean trivially) annoying sig on his e-mail. He is a contractor but I'd have a lot of dealings with him.

Maidir chineál sin , Mit freundl. Grüßen , kind regards .
HIS NAME
HIS TITLE   ¦     HIS COMPANY  ¦   C/O MY COMPANY (in a very confusing format) ¦  BUILDING , THE ROAD  , THE INDUSTRIAL EST    ¦  THE TOWN    ,   THE COUNTY  ,   IRELAND. ¦
¦ (Then various contact numbers.  ¦

One year he added a big fancy Santa with his sled and reindeer before any of this. He randomly uses no capitals or punctuation, or he may just do all capitals. Sometimes I'm out of breath after reading his two or three 'sentence' e-mails.

Just thought I'd share that.

nicki11

Whitewinged wrote: »

Ah yea, we don't take it serious or anything but I can only conclude that he does it intentially since I've been so vocal about my dislike for the things. He's on some mission to get me to like them because he does

Next time he puts said yorkshire pud on my plate, I'm going to pick it up, spread it with his beloved cranberry sauce and fling it across the table at him ah no only joking Spanish Eyes, I'm far too nice a girl for that carry on

I'm afraid I do this :rolleyes:, my OH doesn't like spicy food but my favorite food is thai curry so my OH puts up with it and I compromise by making it mild. Though there is bother whenever I get a new paste as it could be spicier then normal and I have a higher spice threshold so I keep extra coconut milk on hand and he is my guinea pig , its the only way it works.

OldNotWIse

I'm about to blow a fuse here. All I want to do is view a document that was sent to me by someone in college. Sounds fairly easy. So I try opening it and I am told it's a zipped file and I don't have winzip. Then I try saving it to my desktop and it tells me I have already saved it there. I try opening it there and I am told that my winzip trial which apparently started 348 days ago is "about to run out" and do I want to register. I tell it I do and then it tells me to fúck off. I then choose to continue with the trial but have to select "annoy me about this again in one week" first. Then, the feckin thing doesn't open anyway. So I go back to the original email and there is another icon there which can click on to open it. It is some kind of Google Drive thing. Tells me I must enter an email address. Each one I enter is invalid. Eventually I enter a seemingly valid one and it asks me for a password. I can't remember that so I have to click password reset. The password reset gets sent to an old redundant Eir account that my Dad once had and...I cant remember the password for that. I have to reset THAT password and they tell me they will send the link to my work email. Work blocks the email and I have to contact administrator to get it through. Reset password. Get into old redundant account. Reset for Google account is there so I click on it. It tells me a code has been sent to my mobile. Scramble around for mobile and enter code. Reset password. Go back and try to log in again and it tells me that I must "request permission" so I select "request permission" and nothing happens.

Ten minutes later I get an email warning me that I have just tried to access my own account and am I really me and would I like to give myself permission to access my own account.

I fúcking give up.

jimgoose

OldNotWIse wrote: »

...I fúcking give up.

I fcuking give up too. Edsger Dijkstra was right - a station-wagon full of tapes is your only man. :pac:

SAMTALK

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'm about to blow a fuse here. All I want to do is view a document that was sent to me by someone in college. Sounds fairly easy. So I try opening it and I am told it's a zipped file and I don't have winzip. Then I try saving it to my desktop and it tells me I have already saved it there. I try opening it there and I am told that my winzip trial which apparently started 348 days ago is "about to run out" and do I want to register. I tell it I do and then it tells me to fúck off. I then choose to continue with the trial but have to select "annoy me about this again in one week" first. Then, the feckin thing doesn't open anyway. So I go back to the original email and there is another icon there which can click on to open it. It is some kind of Google Drive thing. Tells me I must enter an email address. Each one I enter is invalid. Eventually I enter a seemingly valid one and it asks me for a password. I can't remember that so I have to click password reset. The password reset gets sent to an old redundant Eir account that my Dad once had and...I cant remember the password for that. I have to reset THAT password and they tell me they will send the link to my work email. Work blocks the email and I have to contact administrator to get it through. Reset password. Get into old redundant account. Reset for Google account is there so I click on it. It tells me a code has been sent to my mobile. Scramble around for mobile and enter code. Reset password. Go back and try to log in again and it tells me that I must "request permission" so I select "request permission" and nothing happens.

Ten minutes later I get an email warning me that I have just tried to access my own account and am I really me and would I like to give myself permission to access my own account.

I fúcking give up.

And I thought I was having a bad day:D
At this stage Id have the computer in about 500 different pieces

KatW4

My mother never stops giving out and bitching about the people she works with. I know they're an awful group of people but I know for a fact that half the things she says/does are to wind them up. She's delighted with herself for making some charts because one of her colleagues will be raging that she's done it already. My mother needs to grow up!!!

maudgonner

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

A lad I work with has the most (I mean trivially) annoying sig on his e-mail. He is a contractor but I'd have a lot of dealings with him.

[B]Maidir chineál sin[/B] , Mit freundl. Grüßen , kind regards .
HIS NAME
HIS TITLE   ¦     HIS COMPANY  ¦   C/O MY COMPANY (in a very confusing format) ¦  BUILDING , THE ROAD  , THE INDUSTRIAL EST    ¦  THE TOWN    ,   THE COUNTY  ,   IRELAND. ¦
¦ (Then various contact numbers.  ¦

One year he added a big fancy Santa with his sled and reindeer before any of this. He randomly uses no capitals or punctuation, or he may just do all capitals. Sometimes I'm out of breath after reading his two or three 'sentence' e-mails.

Just thought I'd share that.

Tell him that his Irish bit makes no sense, he clearly stuck "kind regards" into Google translate

Ally Dick

Medusa22 wrote: »

weight watchers have changed their system and increased the points of all the foods that I like(

For f@cks sake. That's annoying. Was going to rejoin WW tomorrow night but might not bother now. I bought their books and calculator a few years ago and they then changed their system. Now they're at it again

Medusa22

Ally Dick wrote: »

For f@cks sake. That's annoying. Was going to rejoin WW tomorrow night but might not bother now. I bought their books and calculator a few years ago and they then changed their system. Now they're at it again

They are trying to guide you away from anything with fat or sugar in it so they've increased the points and reduced the points slightly for lean protein, it's shyte. I've been a member for 2 years but I cancelled my account today, I think I've been doing it long enough to go it alone at this stage, if you have the books and the calculator you can probably just do it yourself. If you need any help just let me know

kfallon

Did it myself about 5-6 years ago, no points or calculator. Once you have the willpower you'll be grand!

Ally Dick

Medusa22 wrote: »

They are trying to guide you away from anything with fat or sugar in it so they've increased the points and reduced the points slightly for lean protein, it's shyte. I've been a member for 2 years but I cancelled my account today, I think I've been doing it long enough to go it alone at this stage, if you have the books and the calculator you can probably just do it yourself. If you need any help just let me know

Thanks very much. I have spreadsheets done up to track the last few years. I know the points that I need for each weight division, thanks. I am going to do my own version, and go to the classes for the weigh ins. I never bothered with their "filling and healthy" plan when they brought that in. I do my own "nibbling and unhealthy" one !

whatismyname

Strangers calling me 'hun'

xLisaBx

The new ink is complete! Have to say people seem to exaggerate the pain a little bit, it's nothing dreadful and that was the ribs. I do like it, but a little annoyed that it didn't come out as I had imagined and it's a little bit too big. All in all though, I think I'm happy :pac:

Savage Tyrant

xLisaBx wrote: »

The new ink is complete! Have to say people seem to exaggerate the pain a little bit, it's nothing dreadful and that was the ribs. I do like it, but a little annoyed that it didn't come out as I had imagined and it's a little bit too big. All in all though, I think I'm happy :pac:

You're a couple of weeks away from the finished product anyway.
Let it settle down and I'm sure you'll be happy with it... Assuming you didn't just get it on a whim and picked your design at least a few weeks ago.

Pain is subjective.... I have my back, chest and both full arms tattooed... I've fell asleep during a longer session.
Another day I was about 25 mins into a 3 hour sitting and I had to tap out and go home.... Lack of sleep and high or low blood sugars can all play a part, including your general mood.

TA'd that I now really want a new tattoo but have pretty much no upper body free space left.

xLisaBx

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

You're a couple of weeks away from the finished product anyway.
Let it settle down and I'm sure you'll be happy with it... Assuming you didn't just get it on a whim and picked your design at least a few weeks ago.

Pain is subjective.... I have my back, chest and both full arms tattooed... I've fell asleep during a longer session.
Another day I was about 25 mins into a 3 hour sitting and I had to tap out and go home.... Lack of sleep and high or low blood sugars can all play a part, including your general mood.

TA'd that I now really want a new tattoo but have pretty much no upper body free space left.

Ah yeah, it's more it was supposed to be very light pink and white, but it's pretty dark pink and white. He did say that the redness of my skin from the tattoo was making it look dark and would fade nicely. I really really hope so!

Would you consider your legs?

AndyBoBandy

Sky1 (or anyone for that matter) showing a Christmas movie (Elf) on January 5th.

Seriously?

Leave it out.

Savage Tyrant

xLisaBx wrote: »

Ah yeah, it's more it was supposed to be very light pink and white, but it's pretty dark pink and white. He did say that the redness of my skin from the tattoo was making it look dark and would fade nicely. I really really hope so!

Would you consider your legs?

Pink is probably the colour that most needs to settle down. The redness of the skin definitely shows through initially.

Not really fussed on getting my legs done. I might at some point but no strong urge.
I'd LOVE to be able to completely remove my sleeves though, so I could start again with new designs.