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Not The Annoyingly Trivial Things-Bitches be cray cray week.

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  • #602
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Weather that cannot make its mind up.


  • #603
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Weather that cannot make its mind up.

    It's like Winter out there. It feels like it's been Winter for all Winter Long, and all Summer long too. :pac:


  • #604
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    It's like Winter out there. It feels like it's been Winter for all Winter Long, and all Summer long too. :pac:

    You can do better than that ONW!

    TA that ONW might be losing her touch. :(


  • #605
    mikemac2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,002 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Angry typers :mad:

    There is a girl here in the office and we reckon she must go through a few keyboards a year. Hammering the buttons all day long

    You'd assume she was getting horrible email complaints or something but nope, does the same work as the rest of us.

    Why the rage?


  • #606
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Winterlong wrote: »
    You can do better than that ONW!

    TA that ONW might be losing her touch. :(

    Ah here.

    TA that Winterlong thinks I am losing my touch :(

    I don't take buses anymore which is a major contributing factor. Buses are ripe with TA possibilities. Unlike the Luas where people are not so much TAing but just generally dangerous and lethal.


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  • #607
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    The waitress in the restaurant at lunch time took our oil and balsamic vinegar for the guy sitting beside us even though there was still a slice of bread left in our basket.


  • #608
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Ugh a friend of mine on Facebook, very sympathetic towards why someone may feel the need to murder children in Manchester, and murder people in London and finds they deserve it much worse for what they've done to the Islamic countries.
    Questions why there's no benefit concerts for the children of Kabul or Syria and is distraught today because some mosque had its windows broke but had a video up today of some American lunatic conspiracy theorist that the prompt reaction from police suggests that it was infact actors (police themselves) hired to act as terrorists in London Bridge to create more islamaphobia.

    I am proper ticked off. I know Facebook is a platform for the mentally challenged at times but I'm fast running out of willpower to keep my opinions to myself.

    It's frustrating and annoying I let stupidity get the upper hand on me when I'm trying so hard to keep my sh1t together


  • #609
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Weather that cannot make its mind up.
    Me not being able to make up my mind!


  • #610
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Ugh a friend of mine on Facebook, very sympathetic towards why someone may feel the need to murder children in Manchester, and murder people in London and finds they deserve it much worse for what they've done to the Islamic countries.
    Questions why there's no benefit concerts for the children of Kabul or Syria and is distraught today because some mosque had its windows broke but had a video up today of some American lunatic conspiracy theorist that the prompt reaction from police suggests that it was infact actors (police themselves) hired to act as terrorists in London Bridge to create more islamaphobia.

    I am proper ticked off. I know Facebook is a platform for the mentally challenged at times but I'm fast running out of willpower to keep my opinions to myself.

    It's frustrating and annoying I let stupidity get the upper hand on me when I'm trying so hard to keep my sh1t together
    I know how you feel.


  • #611
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    that dread when you get stuck behind aul ones in the post office. went and posted off a package, forgot to do something else, went back to do it and bam 3 of them in the queue ahead. feel like an awful bastard for posting this but TA.


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  • #612
    dee_mc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,212 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Mental customer requests.
    I work in a tourist oriented clothes and souvenir shop, woolly jumpers and leprechaun magnets, you know the type.
    Today and yesterday I've had people ask for 'a jar with a tight sealing lid', 'two coffees' (there's a cafe next door?!), ice cream, chewing gum, leggings (nice ones), €200 cash back on a €4 card sale, recommendations for a 'nice' restaurant in a town 3 hours drive away, oh, and a request for discount because the guy was buying three postcards. My favourite though was the lady who brought two magnets up to the till and asked which one I thought her aunt Ivy would prefer. Not having met her aunt or ever seen the lady before, I found it hard to advise.
    Also TA at people who don't respond to a sneeze - how hard is it to say 'bless you'?!


  • #613
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Ugh a friend of mine on Facebook, very sympathetic towards why someone may feel the need to murder children in Manchester, and murder people in London and finds they deserve it much worse for what they've done to the Islamic countries.
    Questions why there's no benefit concerts for the children of Kabul or Syria and is distraught today because some mosque had its windows broke but had a video up today of some American lunatic conspiracy theorist that the prompt reaction from police suggests that it was infact actors (police themselves) hired to act as terrorists in London Bridge to create more islamaphobia.

    I am proper ticked off. I know Facebook is a platform for the mentally challenged at times but I'm fast running out of willpower to keep my opinions to myself.

    It's frustrating and annoying I let stupidity get the upper hand on me when I'm trying so hard to keep my sh1t together

    I ripped my friend a new one for the same insulting rubbish. Like banging your head against a brick wall though He doesn't believe anything the mainstream media says but literally everything, and anything, he sees on some weirdo or other's trippy youtube videos. Now he's sulking.

    That's my TA: Sulky people.


  • #614
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    dee_mc wrote: »
    Mental customer requests.
    I work in a tourist oriented clothes and souvenir shop, woolly jumpers and leprechaun magnets, you know the type.
    Today and yesterday I've had people ask for 'a jar with a tight sealing lid', 'two coffees' (there's a cafe next door?!), ice cream, chewing gum, leggings (nice ones), €200 cash back on a €4 card sale, recommendations for a 'nice' restaurant in a town 3 hours drive away, oh, and a request for discount because the guy was buying three postcards. My favourite though was the lady who brought two magnets up to the till and asked which one I thought her aunt Ivy would prefer. Not having met her aunt or ever seen the lady before, I found it hard to advise.
    Also TA at people who don't respond to a sneeze - how hard is it to say 'bless you'?!

    What if it turns into one of those endless series of sneezes..when do you stop blessing them


  • #615
    dee_mc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,212 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Widdershins wrote:
    What if it turns into one of those endless series of sneezes..when do you stop blessing them

    I only want to be blessed for the first one - withering glances and hayfever comments will suffice for all subsequent sneezes.
    Also annoyed that every time I open a window I get either hayfever symptoms or a whiff of slurry - the joys of country living!


  • #616
    Heighway61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    No, I don't want to set up a google account. I just want to make a phone call. PFO.


  • #617
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Went to sleep at 9 and now I'm awake since 3.50. Have counted all the sheep but I'm wide afeckinwake and I don't need to be up for nearly two more hours. Sake.


  • #618
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    dee_mc wrote: »
    Mental customer requests.
    I work in a tourist oriented clothes and souvenir shop, woolly jumpers and leprechaun magnets, you know the type.
    Today and yesterday I've had people ask for 'a jar with a tight sealing lid', 'two coffees' (there's a cafe next door?!), ice cream, chewing gum, leggings (nice ones), €200 cash back on a €4 card sale, recommendations for a 'nice' restaurant in a town 3 hours drive away, oh, and a request for discount because the guy was buying three postcards. My favourite though was the lady who brought two magnets up to the till and asked which one I thought her aunt Ivy would prefer. Not having met her aunt or ever seen the lady before, I found it hard to advise.
    Also TA at people who don't respond to a sneeze - how hard is it to say 'bless you'?![/QUOTE

    I worked with the public for a while and it never ceased to amaze me how stupid some of the questions could be. a friend of mine ewho worked in a shoe shop a few years back told me about a customer who came in and asked for a particular shoe, put them on and proceeded to walk up and down the shop for a few mins and then turns to my friend and asks "do they fit me ?"


  • #619
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    For the first time in my life, I had to queue in the gents toilet on Saturday night. That's probably the biggest TA ever for me. Ever.


  • #620
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    For the first time in my life, I had to queue in the gents toilet on Saturday night. That's probably the biggest TA ever for me. Ever.

    Welcome to our world! :p

    TA'd about a biddy in work who treats me like her PA even though we both have the same job. I'm too nice to tell her to go and shove it.


  • #621
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    I woke up this mornin with dem back to work blues.


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  • #622
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    For the first time in my life, I had to queue in the gents toilet on Saturday night. That's probably the biggest TA ever for me. Ever.

    Was there a George Michael tribute act on? 😉 😉

    It's like the middle of March!


  • #623
    Bredabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,569 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    The only few nights of the year I DONT have a free gaff in Dub, I get a cancellation with the eye surgeon! Bieber is playing and places to stay are one and a half times the cost they would normally be.

    * Airbnb are horribly hard to join if ppl dont have a scanner and online profile...........

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • #624
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Was there a George Michael tribute act on? 😉 😉

    It's like the middle of March!
    No!
    Saturday night, in a pub/club thing in Swords of all places!


  • #625
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Bought a jacket online yesterday, today it's ?20 cheaper :mad:


  • #626
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    kfallon wrote: »
    Bought a jacket online yesterday, today it's ?20 cheaper :mad:

    If it's free postage and returns - buy it again and return the more expensive one :)


  • #627
    Jrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Jrop


    had an interview yesterday thought it went ok but TA I didn't get the job


  • #628
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Jrop wrote: »
    had an interview yesterday thought it went ok but TA I didn't get the job

    That's the worst. Its ok to do an interview and know what went wrong so you can learn for next time.
    But when you think it went ok and you do not get the job- big TA as you dont know what to improve next time.


  • #629
    Jrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Jrop


    Winterlong you're right. TA at my current job and really want to leave but leaving for leaving's sake isn't right


  • #630
    DunnoKidz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,587 ✭✭✭DunnoKidz


    Winterlong wrote: »
    That's the worst. Its ok to do an interview and know what went wrong so you can learn for next time.
    But when you think it went ok and you do not get the job- big TA as you dont know what to improve next time.
    Maybe you did everything right, but they were looking for something they didn't address, or perhaps they just conducted interviews as a formality when Cousin Colin was slated for the position all along. I lost out on a job once, for admitting to taking the bus. Their last employee used the bus as an excuse for always being late. Had nothing to do with me.

    TA'ed at hidden agendas


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  • #631
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    If it's free postage and returns - buy it again and return the more expensive one :)

    Ah balls to it, I'm collecting it tonight and tbh sure I wouldn't even put ?20 on a horse. If it's as nice as I hope it is I don't mind.....much :p

    I wouldn't even have known about the reduction only for the internet at work has those tailor made ads on some websites and that's where I saw it.

    Oh well......


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