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

erica74 · 09-08-2017 10:32AM

storker wrote: »

TA'd at spice quantities in recipes given in teaspoons, and spices that come in jars you can't get a teaspoon into.

I never knew how much this TA me until I read your post!! I do a lot of "from scratch" cooking so I'm always measuring out different things and that drives me mad!

Dramatik · 09-08-2017 10:36AM

When somebody asks you to do something but they immediately take over because you're not doing it ''their'' way which is just a more arduous process with pointless extra steps.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 09-08-2017 10:36AM

storker wrote: »

People who get in the way because they are walking slowly, in the middle of the footpath, while looking at their phones.

Just don't push them out in front of bus whatever you do

I usually have nothing going on in my life but on Sunday I have two events on and don't want to miss either

donegal_man · 09-08-2017 10:38AM

Winterlong wrote: »

I went to breakfast with a pessimist,
Apart from trivially annoying me with his doom and gloom he has left me with a dose of the blues.

You should have stung him with the bill. It's what he'd expect to happen.

dub_skav · 09-08-2017 10:54AM

erica74 wrote: »

I never knew how much this TA me until I read your post!! I do a lot of "from scratch" cooking so I'm always measuring out different things and that drives me mad!

Not meaning to have a go at you as you are merely qualifying your statement. But the use of the "from scratch" qualifier seems to be growing in popularity recently.

My TA, in my day it was just called cooking
[/old fart complaints]

erica74 · 09-08-2017 10:59AM

Winterlong wrote: »

I went to breakfast with a pessimist,
Apart from trivially annoying me with his doom and gloom he has left me with a dose of the blues.

I used to work in a company that had a clear division between new staff and old staff. The old staff had all worked there for at least 15 years and HATED the place, literally everything about it, the company could throw a party with a free bar and they'd still find something to complain about.
I had to sit near one of the older staff members and it was a big part of the reason why I left - constant complaints about everything and everyone, pessimistic view on life, felt she had been dealt an awful hand in life, nobody's problems were as bad as hers, woe is me etc etc, and if you ever tried to speak about a problem of your own, she had zero interest. It was such an insidious environment.
I mentioned it in my exit interview and the HR person basically just shrugged her shoulders - all of the old staff were on different, more favourable contracts, which made it difficult to get rid of them easily.

erica74 · 09-08-2017 11:00AM

dub_skav wrote: »

Not meaning to have a go at you as you are merely qualifying your statement. But the use of the "from scratch" qualifier seems to be growing in popularity recently.

My TA, in my day it was just called cooking
[/old fart complaints]

Is it? I hadn't noticed that.

Kivaro · 09-08-2017 11:13AM

dub_skav wrote: »

Not meaning to have a go at you as you are merely qualifying your statement. But the use of the "from scratch" qualifier seems to be growing in popularity recently.

My TA, in my day it was just called cooking
[/old fart complaints]

erica74 wrote: »

Is it? I hadn't noticed that.

Ooooooooooooooooh, I sense a fight brewing.
TA'ed I haven't seen a good auld flame war in ages.

erica74 · 09-08-2017 11:18AM

Kivaro wrote: »

Ooooooooooooooooh, I sense a fight brewing.
TA'ed I haven't seen a good auld flame war in ages.

Are you sure you've quoted the right posts?

SusieBlue · 09-08-2017 11:43AM

When you try to be patient and supportive of someone who is kind of acting like an inconsiderate d*ckhead, and not only do they not notice, they don't care either.
TA'd at myself for holding my tongue. One of these days I'm going to explode in a fit of rage.

Iseedeadpixels · 09-08-2017 01:49PM

Coverage is so bad today I've no 3G :mad:

LadyMacBeth_ · 09-08-2017 06:22PM

I'm freezing for no apparent reason, huddled under a dressing gown and a blanket. I also don't have any milk so I can't make tea. Well that it's, no point in going on :P

northgirl · 09-08-2017 06:26PM

Anything that says "Live. Laugh. Love".

Rubberlegs · 09-08-2017 06:38PM

northgirl wrote: »

Anything that says "Live. Laugh. Love".

I'll add to that anything that says "Keep calm and.....". Fcuk off!

The usual TA of not having a shopping bag with me today, and having to buy a new one, nothing new there. But to add insult to injury I put so much into it the handles are all stretched, and there are are a few holes in the bottom of it.

retro:electro · 09-08-2017 06:54PM

73Cat wrote: »

I'll add to that anything that says "Keep calm and.....". Fcuk off!

The usual TA of not having a shopping bag with me today, and having to buy a new one, nothing new there. But to add insult to injury I put so much into it the handles are all stretched, and there are are a few holes in the bottom of it.

I must have 7,432 bags for life at home, and every single time I go to the shop I forget to bring one and come home with another one.

New Home · 09-08-2017 06:59PM

On that note - bags for life. Misleading advertising of the highest order (in a trivial way, of course). Before the plastic bag charge was introduced, you could bring your old bag for life to the shop and they'd change it for a new one for you for free. That all stopped when the charge was introduced. Now, I'm all for that charge, it stopped lots of waste, but why couldn't they keep the bag swapping going, and instead of not charging you at all, why couldn't they just charge you the amount of the plastic bag tax?

snowflaker · 09-08-2017 09:14PM

annoying bit across from me on the train today decides to spray herself with deodorant- use the loo!

SecretsOfEarth · 09-08-2017 09:16PM

Having nothing to do and refreshing boards only to find little to no activity on my followed threads!

erica74 · 09-08-2017 09:18PM

northgirl wrote: »

Anything that says "Live. Laugh. Love".

73Cat wrote: »

I'll add to that anything that says "Keep calm and.....". Fcuk off!

The usual TA of not having a shopping bag with me today, and having to buy a new one, nothing new there. But to add insult to injury I put so much into it the handles are all stretched, and there are are a few holes in the bottom of it.

And I'll add to the above, shite like "dance like nobody's watching" and all of those bollox quotes that are attributed to Marilyn Monroe "if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" and all that codology.
It'd make your eye twitch.

Rumpy Pumpy · 09-08-2017 09:28PM

The way every washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher etc now beeps incessantly once they've finished their cycle.

Telling a white goods appliance to 'shut the fùck up' as you march towards it menacingly is slightly demeaning.

Ol' Donie · 09-08-2017 09:33PM

New Home wrote: »

On that note - bags for life. Misleading advertising of the highest order (in a trivial way, of course). Before the plastic bag charge was introduced, you could bring your old bag for life to the shop and they'd change it for a new one for you for free. That all stopped when the charge was introduced. Now, I'm all for that charge, it stopped lots of waste, but why couldn't they keep the bag swapping going, and instead of not charging you at all, why couldn't they just charge you the amount of the plastic bag tax?

I'm all in favour of not giving plastic bags away free, but wasn't the reason for bringing the charge in the very fact that plastic bags last forever and don't biodegrade at all?

So they were, in a very literal sense, bags for life already?

TL;DR: Bag charge good, marketing w*nkers go f*ck yourselves.

Ol' Donie · 09-08-2017 09:34PM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

The way every washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher etc now beeps incessantly once they've finished their cycle.

Telling a white goods appliance to 'shut the fùck up' as you march towards it menacingly is slightly demeaning.

In the list of things I hate, the washing machine beep noise is below nuclear war, but comfortably above snakebites and electric shocks.

New Home · 09-08-2017 10:02PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I'm all in favour of not giving plastic bags away free, but wasn't the reason for bringing the charge in the very fact that plastic bags last forever and don't biodegrade at all?

So they were, in a very literal sense, bags for life already?

TL;DR: Bag charge good, marketing w*nkers go f*ck yourselves.

When they brought them out at first it was to try and encourage people to reuse them, instead of going home with a bootful of those flimsy ones (remember the Dunnes Stores ones from the early '90s, long and narrow, and with no handles? They looked a bit like bin bags - they would easily give you one bag for each item you had purchased, it was ridiculous) they would break if you attempted to reuse them. The flimsy ones weren't bags for life 'cause they would lose their bag status in no time, getting torn by the littlest thing.

What they should really do is to keep the bag charge, but bring in those biodegradable or biodegradable and compostable bags they have in other countries in Europe. They already make bin bags out of that vegetable plastic, why not make plastic bags, too?

TA that we're very slow in catching up.

Muahahaha · 09-08-2017 10:10PM

And just while we are on the subject on shopping bags Im TAed that it was revealed earlier that the 70c bags in Tesco are available in all their UK branches for the sum of 10p. Just sick of us always getting gouged in Ireland

Iseedeadpixels · 09-08-2017 10:45PM

Driving in Crumlin seen a guy passed out everyone walking by not bothered! I got out to check if he was ok but wasnt responding, Ambulance called where there in a flash....but the worst part some scumbag watching tuts and walks off when it turns out he passed out from drink! Like what do you want him to be dead? People these days.

Marje · 09-08-2017 11:37PM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

The way every washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher etc now beeps incessantly once they've finished their cycle.

Telling a white goods appliance to 'shut the fùck up' as you march towards it menacingly is slightly demeaning.

You just reminded me that I forgot about the wash I put on earlier... It can stay there for the night beeping away. I ain't leaving my bed for a stupid washing machine.

Tell me how · 09-08-2017 11:47PM

Marje wrote:

You just reminded me that I forgot about the wash I put on earlier... It can stay there for the night beeping away. I ain't leaving my bed for a stupid washing machine.

Forgot to turn on the goddamn dishwasher. Life is so tough!

Frigating · 10-08-2017 12:37AM

TA'd at people who leave reviews and say things like "I haven't tried this yet but it looks ok... 5 stars". Not have you wasted everyone's time but you've skewed the rating. Just because it 'looks ok' doesn't mean it won't blow up or fall apart the first time you try to use it!

Widdershins · 10-08-2017 01:15AM

erica74 wrote: »

And I'll add to the above, shite like "dance like nobody's watching" and all of those bollox quotes that are attributed to Marilyn Monroe "if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" and all that codology.
It'd make your eye twitch.

I saw one earlier. ''You jump off cliffs even though you cant swim.'' Way to go! It was meant to be praise!

TA Men writing Amazon reviews on behalf of their wife. Tell the wagon to write her own reviews, you tame ninny.

TA I have a headache and I got a splinter from a boiled sweet stuck in my throat. I've never had a sore throat like it.

FanadMan · 10-08-2017 01:26AM

snowflaker wrote: »

annoying bit across from me on the train today decides to spray herself with deodorant- use the loo!

Try being on a plane and someone trying out three different perfumes she bought

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

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