Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

iamstop

Oh, thank you for clicking on to our site! We're so glad you came. I'll just wait for a few seconds until you have started reading the thing that you came here to read before I suddenly and without warning obtrusively block your reading and completely distract you with a pop up asking you to; sign up to our news letter, avail of a 10% discount, allow us to reap all of your data, permit push notifications and allow tracking even when you're not on our site. Thanks a billion, toodles.

It wasnt me123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122946279#Comment_122946279

This happens to me all the time, memory like a sieve. So I ask hows himself (hoping for a name back), busy at work (if they are young enough to work), hows the family if they are married with children - you get the drift, eventually they say something and my memory kicks back in. Very embarrassing and I run a business so patient recall is practically a given

Dial Hard

Pubs that charge 9 quid for a dribble of wine. Where's the rest of me glass???

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122946862#Comment_122946862

Are there not legal measures of wine like there are with beer?

Gremlinertia

Stress cleaning yesterday so tackled the oven with the serious stuff. Left glove leaked, entire hand is like sandpaper now.

Poochie05

New Scan and shop tills in Tesco. You scan vouchers and coupons and then have to put them in a slot, but it doesn’t acknowledge that a coupon has scanned until you put it in the slot at which point you don’t have it anymore if there is a scan issue! Especially annoying if you’ve more than one. To top it all they were Deposit Return coupons as if they weren’t annoying enough in their own right 🙄

cj maxx

^^^^ I thought there is . I was in the Eruopa Hotel in Belfast a few years ago and all my pints were in 'branded' glasses . I took one home and discovered they weren't a full pint at all .

My TA is my Internet is off , again .

castletownman

Getting ignored by my dog right now because I have spent more quality time with my adorable 8-month old niece than with her.

Hell hath no fury like a dog scorned.

Archeron

Had lunch in a pub grub place today where a couple were intermittently arguing and sucking the faces off each other, at two o clock in the afternoon, surrounded by other patrons.

The sounds coming from them varied from 'i never said that you f*cking pr*ck' to what i imagine an octopus climbing up a wet wall sounds like.

Get a room you dopes, for multiple reasons. Ruined my chicken and bell pepper sambo altogether.

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122947055#Comment_122947055

Haha, reminds me of one time I was buying a drink in a sort of fancy bar in Singapore. The menu said pints of 1664 Blanc were like $7 SGD

Okay, so I ordered one. They served me it in a 1664 glass that was notably less than a pint. I said it to the server and he tried to tell me, an engineer, that that was the size of a pint of 1664! Lol.

Eh, nah bruh, that's not how pints work.

kowloonkev

Went to post a couple of Christmas cards today (a bit late I know). I had all the stamps and everything and then the lady told me in order to post a card or letter or anything into the EU I need to make a customs declaration. Sooner we are out of it the better.

everlast75

The extremely casual manner in which dentists/doctors make you wait for absolutely ages, without apology or even acknowledgment.

"Your time doesn't mean jack **** to us"

miamee

The puppy next door likes to jump against the doors when he's looking for attention either first thing in the morning (around 7 -7.30am) or when they have gone out and left him there. TA is that the noise of the rattling door is driving me mad. At least he's not barking I suppose!

odyssey06

As noted, can't find usual stuff in supermarkets as stuff moved to make way for Christmas range.

And extra TA… this year looks like supermarket won't have a seasonal item from previous years that I liked.

SAMTALK

Went down town on lunch break and the madness around the place. Then come back wondering why I dont have anything to get, have I forgotten something , is there going to be a total shutdown for the month of January that I wasnt told about.

What is everyone buying day after day after day !

castletownman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122949358#Comment_122949358

Its the keeping up with the Joneses of Christmas. Let's all spend every waking moment at home with the family. Which gets tiresome by around 1PM Christmas Day.

TA 1: getting pretty much chased down by a customer just as I was pulling off after emptying a post box earlier. Blocking the road like it was an ambush. She had Christmas cards, not exactly a highly confidential legal letter. The preciousness of some people.

TA 2: rostered to work the Saturday between Christmas and New Year. Wasn't even asked if I was available, just rostered no questions asked.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122948371#Comment_122948371

What are you waffling about?

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122949358#Comment_122949358

I think everyone is terrified the (cheap) money is going to run out so they are spending as much of it while they can and before someone else spends it.

kowloonkev

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122950107#Comment_122950107

Which part is beyond your comprehension?

cj maxx

Sooner we're out of the EU?

It sounds like crap since we are in the EU

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122951627#Comment_122951627

well that but more the statement about having "post a card or letter or anything into the EU"

Bredabe

Me giving out about not getting a vital doc I've been waiting 6 months for. It is getting to be an issue for other staff(tho I have updated them every step of the way)

1st question from pretty much everyone who is impacted is "Did you send them the original, at the start"? DUH!!!!

Bredabe

The fact that the AI on my devices isn't interlinked, so I cant see the responses to a question asked on one device on another one.😡

Strumms

leave my mobile on overnight, I never think to put it on silent or whatever but looking at it first thing it says I have one new voicemail from 7.34 am, strange, as the phone was left on and I have no missed calls. Listen to voicemail and there is only the one old one from last weekend.

So I change network days ago to procure a better deal money-wise but now I’m getting extra free notifications for voicemails that I never got. 😵‍💫 I won’t be impressed if this is a recurring feature of being a customer with this shower.

miamee

TA that the mobile phone reception at our house has been absolutely diabolical since Storm Darragh last weekend, calls dropping mid-sentence or not connecting at all when you try to ring someone

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122952511#Comment_122952511

And again. 👀

freshpopcorn

I couldn't find any of my belts this morning. As a result I spent the whole day pulling up my jeans.

FishOnABike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122948371#Comment_122948371

Where are you posting from? This is an Irish discussion site. Ireland is in the EU. There is no customs declaration needed for intra-EU post.

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122953866#Comment_122953866

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Hong Kong…

Bogey Lowenstein

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122953866#Comment_122953866

Must be in Hong Kong by the username.