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

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  • #4052
    snowflaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭snowflaker


    Those stupid Hungry House ads on E4


  • #4053
    caniask86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭caniask86


    The filter on my fish tank is driving me mad but not mad enough to turn off. I like my fishes.


  • #4054
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    Not feeling too good and it has me worried :(


  • #4055
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    Not feeling too good and it has me worried :(

    What way are you feeling? Hope you'll be ok.


  • #4056
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    Not feeling too good and it has me worried :(
    KKkitty wrote: »
    What way are you feeling? Hope you'll be ok.

    Positive thoughts and mental hugs from here too.


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  • #4057
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    73Cat wrote: »
    It reminds me of something out of a Terry Pratchett book !

    It sounds like something russell brand would say.


  • #4058
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Warning in post #356
    It'll say that in the first post. Will there be a link to said warning? Or maybe a copy of the warning there in the first post? Oh hell no! You gotta search through the thread to find said post :mad:


  • #4059
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    TA'd at Cloudflare


  • #4060
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    DunnoKidz wrote: »
    Why do I wake up more exhausted than when I went to sleep?
    Ugh. This is me a year ago.

    Don't really know why I didn't do a sleep study 10 years ago. Actually, I do; no-one told me about it. Wish the doctor had. Would've made my life a lot better. But meh.

    I suppose what irritated me was the doctor had me try different methods to sleep better (they all failed), but never a sleep study which would show the reason behind my bad sleeping :mad:


  • #4061
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    I really need to start checking the weather forecasts before forking out on big sunday plans.


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  • #4062
    Colser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    I've only just realised what thread this ,didn't click into yesterday because I thought it was some ****e I must have followed ages ago.TA'd that I'm 24 hours late getting pleasure from other people's pain.ðŸ˜


  • #4063
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,553 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    TA'd that the summer appears to be over. All downhill from here, I'm not a winter, darkness person at all.


  • #4064
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not-so-Super-Valu. The. Worst. Shop. In. Irish. History. Robbing. Bastards. Every. Last. One. Of. Them. Look at where they're overwhelmingly located: small rural towns or areas where there's little to no competition and they can price gouge to their heart's content. Anybody who thinks they are good value is simply not aware of what competitors are offering (I wouldn't be surprised if there's evidence that much more older people than younger people shop there).

    Under duress (there's no alternative where I am now), I went to the local Not-so-Super-Valu. On the way out I saw the 500ml Pepsi Max for €1 and 50% free so picked it up. When I got to the till I was charged full price and I asked why. She said that the €1 price only applies to the 500ml bottle, and not the 500ml + 50% free. I gently explained the meaning of the word 'free' to her but she said the system doesn't include it. At the very, very least selling the 500ml with 50% free for 50% more than the 500ml product is blatant false advertising and in breach of Irish law.

    And right now, across Ireland, local Not-so-Super-Valus are making planning objections to applications by Lidl and Aldi to move into areas and Musgraves, who own Super Valu and Centra (and loads more), are helping these objections by introducing Centras to give a false sense of competition and thus win their objections against competition - and they are succeeding and we are continuing to be fleeced. Well done, local councillors!

    Can't wait to get back to Dublin and some retail competition.


  • #4065
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    TA'd in retrospect having read the last few pages and noted that "clique" is probably pronounced "cleek", when I was told I was wrong for pronouncing it that way and have carefully corrected my pronunciation! Now I'll never be sure which it is if taken by surprise by the word. :(


  • #4066
    Bredabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    TA, someone on Th implying that I post mean things, means Im going to be self conscious about what I post from now on,
    TA, so many Leo lovers online yes, dont get warm and snuggly Leo vibe at all.

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



  • #4067
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Samaris wrote: »
    TA'd in retrospect having read the last few pages and noted that "clique" is probably pronounced "cleek", when I was told I was wrong for pronouncing it that way and have carefully corrected my pronunciation! Now I'll never be sure which it is if taken by surprise by the word. :(

    It's pronounced click


  • #4068
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    It's pronounced click

    Nope, it's clique - 'cleek', from an old French word meaning to latch, from where it morphed into it's English use meaning to keep out others.


  • #4069
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,066 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    It's pronounced click
    Rhymes with unique
    - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/clique
    - http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/clique


  • #4070
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Bredabe wrote: »
    TA, someone on Th implying that I post mean things, means Im going to be self conscious about what I post from now on,
    TA, so many Leo lovers online yes, dont get warm and snuggly Leo vibe at all.

    I wasn't implying. You do it, it's there in black and white.

    I couldn't give a fiddlers about Leo, it was a general observation.


  • #4071
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    TA when english speaking news stations refer to foreign politicians etc as Mr/Mrs. It should be Frau Merkel/Signor Berlusconi etc


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  • #4072
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,164 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    Ok, so this one is REALLY trivial.
    My car stereo only recognises 1 phone at a time via Bluetooth. I have asked/told my wife many times till I'm blue in the face, not to let the kids or herself connect to it as it unpairs my phone from the car.... 2 or 3 times a week I'll go to the car and at some point in my journey I'll realise I'm not paired. She says I'm being silly and it only takes a minute to reconnect. I'm of the opinion that she is removing an entire feature of the stereo from me, that I can sit in and start the car and automatically be connected. It's not like she has long journeys in the car anyway. 10/15 minutes to the shops or to the school at most.... Am I being too petty?


  • #4073
    vampyre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 341 ✭✭vampyre


    Bredabe wrote: »
    TA, someone on Th implying that I post mean things, means Im going to be self conscious about what I post from now on,
    TA, so many Leo lovers online yes, dont get warm and snuggly Leo vibe at all.

    I'm not bothered by your alleged meanness but if it saves you feeling self conscious you could post on the R&R thread.

    Leo is a terrible disappointment given that his father's integrity is 11/10. Explained away by the word politician I suppose, same everywhere.


  • #4074
    vampyre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 341 ✭✭vampyre


    Savage Tyrant wrote: »
    Ok, so this one is REALLY trivial.
    My car stereo only recognises 1 phone at a time via Bluetooth. I have asked/told my wife many times till I'm blue in the face, not to let the kids or herself connect to it as it unpairs my phone from the car.... 2 or 3 times a week I'll go to the car and at some point in my journey I'll realise I'm not paired. She says I'm being silly and it only takes a minute to reconnect. I'm of the opinion that she is removing an entire feature of the stereo from me, that I can sit in and start the car and automatically be connected. It's not like she has long journeys in the car anyway. 10/15 minutes to the shops or to the school at most.... Am I being too petty?

    I'm not parent or wife but I know that would really annoy me. Just get in the habit of checking first, it's your only option.


  • #4075
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Samaris wrote: »
    TA'd in retrospect having read the last few pages and noted that "clique" is probably pronounced "cleek", when I was told I was wrong for pronouncing it that way and have carefully corrected my pronunciation! Now I'll never be sure which it is if taken by surprise by the word. :(

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE6_RI8GSNc


  • #4076
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Savage Tyrant wrote: »
    Am I being too petty?

    No, you are not. Divorce fodder for sure.

    My TA is similar. My car has seat profiles, mine is profile A - seat jacked up to the max, right on top of the steering wheel close to the pedals, because I'm a short-ar*e and that's literally how I roll. The beloved is tall, pushes the seat way back and the seat at it's lowest - profile B.

    Every damn time he takes my car (basically we take whichever car is boxing in the other in the driveway) he forgets to flick it back to profile A and when I sit in it's like I'm falling into another dimension because the seat isn't where I expect it to be and my butt takes that extra millisecond to make contact.

    Every time I use his car I put it back the way it suits him. I'm obviously a much nicer person than he is.

    It'll be the end of us, mark my words.


  • #4077
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    FanadMan wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE6_RI8GSNc

    Sure what do Americans know, its a French word. I bet they don't say click in Quebec.


  • #4078
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Americans (at least the ones I know) also pronounce niche as 'nitch'. Let's not be doing that either.


  • #4079
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Since we're at it, "route" should be pronounced in a similar way to "root", not "rowt" (row as in fight, not as in line of seats). Ditto for "router".


  • #4080
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    New Home wrote: »
    Since we're at it, "route" should be pronounced in a similar way to "root", not "rowt" (row as in fight, not as in line of seats). Ditto for "router".

    But, ... your DSL/cable modem/wifi thing includes a router ("rooter"), and my woodwork machine is a router("rowter"), and the opposing enemy were routed("rowted")

    English eh?


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  • #4081
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    TA at the weather today. Had planned to do some work in the garden and trim back some bushes and trees. Constant rain and electric hedge trimmers does not mix happily :(


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