Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Duke of Schomberg

Households that "decorate" for hallowe'en by piling a load of pumpkins/squashes beside their gate/front-door - then leave then there for days after, by which time they've turned into a rotting, soggy, slug-infested mess.

And "plastic-Paddy" households that decorate for St Patrick's Day by displaying the flag of the Ivory Coast - the local UDA bonfire often displays the same mistake, but that's understandable.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123959782#Comment_123959782

I seen a Xmas tree up over Halloween.

Duke of Schomberg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123911664#Comment_123911664

Eh? I've been driving for forty years and it has never been the done thing to move one's car off the pump before paying - it's never occurred to me to do so and I've never seen anybody else do it . . .

Dan Steely

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123960546#Comment_123960546

They'd think you were trying to drive off without paying.

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123960546#Comment_123960546

I've been moving my car before paying for years. If it helps you out you can even think of it as me being lazy as you can often drive closer to the shop to pay.

I wouldn't do this every time I get fuel as it depends on a lot of factors. Firstly is there a big queue for petrol, if so then I'll definitely look to see if I can at least pull forward after fueling if not park somewhere more convenient. Which brings me on to secondly which is it depends on the design of the petrol station. Often there just isn't anywhere to move the car because of other cars parked or just the design of the petrol station.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123960624#Comment_123960624

Been doing it for years and no one has said anything yet.

odyssey06

Expecting a couple of deliveries of items.

Seems like a wet day today so don't mind being around for them. But it looks like only 2/3 will arrive today :(

The Continental Op

Third day in a row the dog hasn't had a proper (3 mile) walk. Checked met.ie and could see the rain moving over us on the radar. Went out when it was supposed to be dry but with just a bit of drizzle. OK so far but 300m down at the beach the "no" rain was just horizontal and had me soaked in a couple of hundred meters along the beach so came back.

tbh I don't think the dog minded at all ;-)

SuperBowserWorld

When you need to enter the exact payee name in the banking app. But their field only allows a tiny number of characters, and doesn't allow ampersand (& is in the exact payee name).

Also, the app removes the decimal point when you paste in a figure. So, 100.10 is pasted in as 10010.

🤣🤣🤣

SuperBowserWorld

When you hear about there being a shortage of roofers in the UK (example) and realise, again, that as a society, we can't do anything useful anymore.

The Continental Op

Its wet, its miserable, I'm bored and I've just eaten a totally unnecessary 500 Kcalories of Lidl Marzipan log.

I had a coffee (bad move when there is something sweet on hand) and my wife said look what I bought you - Lidl Marzipan Log - nice :-Q

One coffee later and no more Marzipan Log. I had planned to make it last 4 coffees but failed.

OK I can put away well over 3,500 Kc a day and not put on an ounce of weight but I like to think I have some self control.

If there was another one in the house I think I'd probably eat it.

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123961664#Comment_123961664

I think the real issue here is that you're eating marzipan, seemingly of your own free will???

Ahcrod

A piece of stupidity so common now that it has become the norm: centralising the lines of a poem. I believe it first started when some uneducated poet acquired a word processor. The sheer ease with which lines could be centralised overcame whatever common sense he had. He probably thought it looked prettier that way.

Well, I suppose, that’s their funeral, but the trouble now is that every gobdaw who wants to post up a famous poem centralises the lines. I suppose he pities the original writer for being forced to left justify his composition.

I looked up Kipling’s “If” today because I’d forgotten how some of the lines went and the first two I came upon had centralised the lines. I went no further. Faugh!

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123961767#Comment_123961767

Well to add to the story I had seen the marzipan in Lidl the week before and decided not to buy any on the bases that if it wasn't in the house I couldn't eat it.

kneemos

Six recall notices on Aldi's door.

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123962014#Comment_123962014

Posts that leave me wanting more?

Aldi Product Recall - https://help.aldi.ie/faqs/category?cat=Product-Recall

SuperBowserWorld

OMG

Desecrated coconut 🎃

Ozymandius2011

Ive lost my watch. I took it off when I was taking a bath

Bogey Lowenstein

A cloud of midges descended on me and in the space of two mins my whole head and ears were bit to hell. Itching like a bitch now.

bonzodog2

AliExpress offering me super discounts, on things I've just bought. Not things you'd want more than one of!

CrowdedHouse

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123962269#Comment_123962269

Wonder what's the story now with Fastway up in the air?

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123962288#Comment_123962288

Fcuk! Thanks for that :-( You have just reminded that one of the items I'm waiting on from Aliexpress is probably stuck with Fastway.

Bredabe

The organisation intranet, as we are in flux, has a lot of conflicted posts

Message at the weekend, "PLEASE KEEP YOUR POSTS IN THIS FORA HIGH VIBERATION"

Where to freaking start, ta a venting section of an organisation in flux and they are told to "be positive", pfo! and using language so many people here will not understand.

Dear moderator, in a world wide organisation like ours with multiples of qualifications and languages, you choose phrases like this, dfuk?🙄🙄🙄