Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

Just catching up on a few threads here. Simon Harris was described as 'scum'. Elsewhere Mary Robinson was 'scum'. There are politicians and others we dislike and even despise but scum?

Scum is someone who'll literally knife you for a phone or money, rape people, beat you to an inch of your life. It's someone who coldly and calculatedly will take your money and pretend they've cancer etc. And fair enough some corrupt politicians are scum.

But the ones who fcuked up policy, unintentionally, or don't share your ideology, or you simply don't like them, aren't scum.

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

TA 2 this evening!

A warning that Reeling in the Years, 1997 may be upsetting 🙈 WTF! Princess Diana's death, Hanson singing MMMBop?

donegal_man

Got a pack of "yellow" shortcake snack at lunchtime.

Shrinkflated (probably not a word) from 6 to 4 biccies and horrifically sweet

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123699083#Comment_123699083

Ffs what did the RA so now

spookwoman

Sunny south east my arse. Every time there is aurora, eclipses etc there is always cloud.

cj maxx

When one vertical blind falls off and you knock 3 others off trying to fix it 😡😡😡😡

CrowdedHouse

It's happened to me before, the 'loose change' credit card bill I expected turns out to be several hundred. All genuine too, just forgotten bin charges a big part. Oh well 🙂

storker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123699562#Comment_123699562

Astronomy must surely be one of the most frustrating hobbies to pursue in Ireland.

Archeron

Oh it's Temu discount code o clock already.

And not a child in the house washed...

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123705070#Comment_123705070

Not as bad as AliExpress. Feckers bombard you all day.

Deregos.

When you have friends around for drinks, and we're all enjoying taking turns casting tunes to the BT speaker, but there's always that one person (with really shite taste in music), who wants to hog the whole evenings playlist.

Reckless Abandonment

When I get an add nearly every time I go to a new page in boards.ie wtf and why are all pages jumping to the last post..

Dial Hard

I was absolutely shattered all afternoon and evening, but am wide awake now, but really need to go to bed cause I've a four-hour drive to do in the morning.

Gremlinertia

Not knowing where or how bad pain will be daily, sometimes a few times

Aglomerado

I went to a pub quiz the other night with a couple of mates. Fairly big event.

We'd gone to the same event last year when it was hosted by a minor actor/ comedian hired for the night and he was very entertaining and acted out some comedy skits and sang songs between rounds. It was a brilliant night - my table even got the top prize, but even if we hadn't we were well entertained for a small fee.

This year it was back to local volunteers being the MCs and they were very good and even funny but they spent the night slagging off the actor from last year and calling him "substandard". Between the rounds there was a DJ who played music at ridiculously loud volumes as well, had to shout to talk to people, so my ears were ringing for a day.

Won nothing but had a lot of fun with the questions apart from that.

Just thought the slagging was a bit much. Both events were good in their own ways, why be d!cks?

whisky_galore

It's weird how batsh1t crazy the US has got when a jeans ad with a blonde girl which would be un pass remarkable in the 1990s or 00s has sparked off yet another culture war.

Bredabe

The wind is slowing down the broadband, so of course I have to pay a few handful of things online.

It takes so long for the id pin's to arrive and the receipts(usually automatic) to show.

Now I've gotten a grownup toddler badgering me to confirm this and that is paid when 1. it can take 48 hours, 2. I cant say its paid or not bc the wind is delaying everything. Ta "Is it paid yet" in the tone of "Are we there yet"? endlessly.

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123706323#Comment_123706323

? Carrier pidgeon?

bonzodog2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123706413#Comment_123706413

edit: there is actually an internet standard for that! [RFC 2549]

Nah, stoopid cloud computing

New Home

Do you know when police officers in films arrest someone and they load them in their car while pushing their heads down? Last week I was loading boxes on the back seat… and I still have the bruise and the sore lump on my forehead to prove it. In case you're wondering why they do it, like.

Bogey Lowenstein

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123706612#Comment_123706612

Watch arrest vids from the gardai and you will never see them do it anymore. They don't even handcuff people half the time.

When they arrested that freak who attacked the female jogger they didn't even pat him down for weapons or drugs either.

The standards are slipping. 👎

wildwillow

Food outlets who don't have trained staff. Had a child with me in a cafe today and asked if they had any vegan cake or biscuit. Yes, plant based chocolate cookie. Are you sure it contains no egg or milk as these are the problem foods. Absolutely sure, I was told, contains only plants and WHEY powder. The protein in these foods cause quite a reaction so I knew enough that whey would cause considerable issues. I never give her anything without an ingredient list but these had none. I probably wouldn't have risked them anyway but glad the whey was mentioned. The assistant was unaware it was a milk by product.

Luckily as the child has lived with these restrictions since babyhood so at 6 years old knows what to avoid. Can even recognise the words MILK and EGG when written in bold print in ingredients since aged about 4.

Strumms

My box of 24 AA batteries. 16 left and I’ve not used 1. My fault for leaving the box on a shelf in full view. Needed to be in a drawer. Buy useful stuff in bulk, leave useful stuff out, stuff gets seen, stuff will get half inched.

castletownman

The unmistakable rustle in the still of the night of a mouse.

Managed to spot the fecker squeeze under the bedroom door, so have one trap ready and more in reserve if needed.

Dial Hard

I will never understand Irish drivers. A significant proportion of them seem to just drive everywhere at 80kmh, regardless of whether the limit is 60, 100 or 120.

CrowdedHouse

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123706899#Comment_123706899

…and then another one or two gets behind them and won't attempt to overtake even on wide clear stretches of road.

Bogey Lowenstein

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123707051#Comment_123707051

Or somebody pootling along and a lorry or tractor comes up behind them that isn't able to overtake, so now a long line builds up until the pootler finally turns off somewhere.

spookwoman

Parents who give their 3 year old the little basket trolley on wheels. Kid goes off doing their own thing and blocking the way while mammy is off down the other end not bothering to watch or control their kid. They were all out this morning shopping

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

For the past year or so unscrewing plastic caps and removing them from little plastic bottles has become impossible. They still continue to be attached by a string of plastic. Yank the cap off with force and you spill the drink etc in the bottle. A recent phenomenon.

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123707828#Comment_123707828

You haven't discovered the twist?