Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Dial Hard

I'm also going to go out on a limb and say the rule there is probably in place on the side of the notoriously totalitarian communist ruling system in charge of Hong Kong, and not being enforced by the EU. Just a hunch, mind.

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122952806#Comment_122952806

Look on the bright side, some friends of mine only got their power restored this afternoon.

Dial Hard

Rugby commentators who pronounce Castres as "Cast".

Very trivial, I know.

walshb

These pretentious idiot celebrities on social media posting pics of their children with the children’s faces blocked/blurred. Either show your children properly or fook off

walshb

Irish folks who haven’t got a word of Irish in their vocabulary but think it makes them more Irish by changing their name on social media to the Irish version

kowloonkev

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122953908#Comment_122953908

You'd be wrong. Can post to the UK without issue.

RMAOK

People with just one eyebrow - a monobrow

donegal_man

Anyone using the word "decimated" to mean completely destroyed.

Strumms

people who nominate Saturday morning as their DIY time and who in this case from early AM, 9.15 this morning here are out with the lawnmower followed then by some work on a car where the engine gets revved to fûck and the bonnet is opened and dropped closed several times.

The ‘afternoon’ was invented so people in the ‘morning’ could just especially on a weekend, just relax, in tranquil quietness, peace and just enjoy the vast ‘nothingness’ away from distractions, annoyances, interruptions and the likes. Not everyone got the memo. Especially around here………………. 🤪🥊

Archeron

Went into Dublin today to meet a friend for coffee and see some of the sights, really nice, great lights, nearly everywhere looks great. I do love Dublin. The portal is still brilliant 🙂 ( saw a small child in Vilnius fall over and start crying, and when his mum pointed out there was a group of people watching him through a magic internet hole, immediately stop crying haha)

But its really heartbreaking seeing the absolute dire poverty some people are in, right in the middle of the hyper consumerism and all the glitter and gold.

Got into the city at about seven am, and saw a very elderly man asleep on one of the stone benches on the traffic island next to the college green hotel. It was bitterly cold, he had no cover, no blankets, no sleeping bag, nothing.

When i passed again a few hours later, he was awake, and looking through the litter on the ground for a cigarette butt that had some smoke left in it. He looked really rough, like he'd been on the streets a long long time.

Not more than twenty feet away, one could, if one desired, indulge in festive afternoon tea for just 79 euro per person.

I know its not Dublin specific and you'd see it in any urban area around the world, and i know that i am a big giant softie and things get to me when they shouldn't, but when i got home i finally (finally!!) put up the christmas tree and lights, and couldn't shake the thought of how a person can be just discarded and forgotten like that.

Sorry for a depressing post, but that really got to me today.

Still loved the Dublin experience though.

PTH2009

This time of year

12 pubs/once a year drinkers

The idiots walking snails pace around stores

Strumms

Rookie bedtime mistake. Despite having a late-ish and adequate dinner, I’m early morning peckish. Grab a packet of cheese and onion id in the bedroom , scoff em, immediately I’m thirsty, like seriously but the bag in my room where I keep a couple of cokes and waters, it’s empty I’d overlooked restocking so it’s up and off to the kitchen at 1.40am… the energy is low and motivation not too dissimilar level… grrrr

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122954242#Comment_122954242

These days it's usually code for "I'm a racist wanker" too. Especially if their profile picture is a tricolour.

The Continental Op

The YouTube algorithm that is so dumb it keeps serving me the same suggestions that I've never clicked on for that last 5 years. Hint if I don't click on it them perhaps I'm not interested and if I wasn't interested 5 years ago why would I be interested now?

Deregos.

Fake tan . . horrible muck, it ruins the towels and stains the carpets.

Comhrá

My local pub playing background pop music, while most of the clientele are aged 65 and over and trying to chat, struggling to be heard above the din. Staff grudgingly turn it down slightly when asked.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122959689#Comment_122959689

Urm... The carpets?

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122959711#Comment_122959711

Aye. Walked into an empty place for lunch. Music was deafening. Walked back out.

Comhrá

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122959724#Comment_122959724

I find background music the most annoying thing in many pubs, restaurants and shops. A good premises has enough ambient background sound to make piped music unnecessary and superfluous.

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122959716#Comment_122959716

More of a plus than a TA ;-)

Deregos.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122959716#Comment_122959716

Yeah, it's bad enough when it stains the bathroom vinyl flooring, but they often carry out this tanning technique in the bedrooms were its prone to splashing the carpets too.

dinorebel

Can we please have a forum wide ban for anyone who uses loose for lose.

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122959941#Comment_122959941

You can't have anything here if its not a TA.

Comhrá

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122959941#Comment_122959941

…..and a week in the stocks for people in the motoring forum going on about tires and gards.

lawred2

A barman so disinterested that my hot port last night was just water in port.

No lemon.. no cloves..

Not even a single grain of sugar..

Why are you even behind the bar? Wasn't impressed when I handed it back to him asking if he would like me to explain how to make one!

donegal_man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122960263#Comment_122960263

Or coming to a halt using their breaks.

"Funeral has already taken place"

Bogey Lowenstein

Bargains and special offers in the supermarkets becoming increasingly paltry in the run up to Christmas.

Stephen_Maturin

I know this trivial annoyance has probably been posted here umpteen times with a couple from myself, but it always gets worse around this time of year

People with absolutely no spacial awareness or consideration of the fact that there are other people in this world

See so much of it in the shops or around town with more people out and about. Hogging the centre of the footpath or aisle in a shop while walking incredibly slowly, meandering around the place so nobody can get by.
Stopping suddenly to check their phone or vacantly stare into space, always at an entrance/exit or the top of stairs or an escalator too

So wrapped up in their solipsism they forget they’re not the only individuals in existence on this planet. It should be fully socially acceptable to give them a boot “walk on or get out of the fùcking way if you want to stand there vegetating”

ancapailldorcha

Was there a meeting at some point where a load of people decided that covering their mouths when coughing was a thing of the past. Utterly disgusting and you'd think that after a pandemic, people would know better.