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Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35



    Probably more than trivial but it makes me mad when men think it is acceptable to knock on my car window! It has happened several times over say the past year – few examples I can remember, one where there was a van blocking a car park entrance so I waited behind him for him to move – he came over to bang on my window with the usual “you’ve loads of room there love, what’s your problem? Etc.”. Even though he was the one illegally parked and it would have been me in trouble had I squeezed by and scraped his van. Another where I was sitting in my parked car after work, sending a text before I started the car, and a guy banging on the window to tell me he “wanted to park there”. Like, you f*cking wouldn’t bang on my window if I was another man!


    edit also TA the random size of this post :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    There's an add campaign for cleaning dog poop on the radio. Some woman whose shoes have been destroyed etc. The ad starts with a couple of piano notes and for some reason that part really annoys me. It's just 8 notes but it is maddening.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,036 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Me.
    Specifically as a motorist.
    I know that every time I go out in the car that, most likely, I will encounter someone being selfish, reckless, hesitant, unobservant or downright nasty.
    I know that this is highly probable.
    Why can't I just let it go? Why do I always get angry?
    I wish I could be that easy going, patient, doesn't give a fcuk motorist.


  • Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Guy Person wrote: »
    Listening to In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins in the car this morning and not being able to do air drums when the drum bit comes in because I was driving.....:(

    TA is Phil Collins releasing a 3CD Singles Collection which includes ALBUM versions of every song. No radio edits, no 7” mixes, no single versions. Pointless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Me.
    Specifically as a motorist.
    I know that every time I go out in the car that, most likely, I will encounter someone being selfish, reckless, hesitant, unobservant or downright nasty.
    I know that this is highly probable.
    Why can't I just let it go? Why do I always get angry?
    I wish I could be that easy going, patient, doesn't give a fcuk motorist.

    Same! One minute I will let someone out and enjoy that warm fuzzy altruism high when they acknowledge - those flashing thank you hazards really get me! And then a mile down the road, I'll be losing time off my lifespan silently (or perhaps not silently) cursing the slow driver in front. I make no sense :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Thread titles that stop and then you have to read post 1 to get all the info

    Tesco accused me of.........shoplifting
    Local thief convicted and sentenced to.......
    New RTE presenter is......

    Happens a bit on boards. Hanging thread titles I call them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Thread titles that stop and then you have to read post 1 to get all the info

    Tesco accused me of.........shoplifting
    Local thief convicted and sentenced to.......
    New RTE presenter is......

    Happens a bit on boards. Hanging thread titles I call them.
    Hover over the title :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    :eek:

    How am I only finding this out now

    Thanks for the tip!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,681 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    The way they pronounce 'Kiev' at the impeachment hearings. Most annoying Americanisation of a word since saying 'niche' as 'nitch':mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Lazy clichés in report writing. And use of stupid phrases like "chow down" instead of eat. Also, pretentious wánkery food in restaurants - "cut fruit"- I hardly expected you to bring me a whole pineapple... "deconstructed" anything. "Smashed eggs" or "smashed avodao". And as for wilted - well that's just feckin out of date isn't it?

    Also, the way something flies off high street shelves when a royal is seen wearing it. Even more sad (and weird) is people dressing their babies the same as royal ones - is your own flesh and blood not cute and perfect enough already without you treating it like some kind of Tesco value royal doll? Just obsession with royalty and celebrities in general is pathetic.

    The stalls on Henry street selling wind up, light up, yapping dogs, Mrs Browne's t-shirts, fake perfume sets and Christmas stockings from the 80's.

    Dunnes Stores getting above itself with it's overpriced "Edit" and Paul Costello stuff. No I will not pay sixty quid for a manky man-sized "blouse" that ties at the neck.

    When the person in front of you overtakes a cyclist really slowly, staying on the wrong side of the road for far too long, and also ensuring that you cannot overtake it until they pull in again because they are blocking your view also.

    People driving too close behind me. I WILL slow down until you get the message. I do not fancy being rear ended if I need to slow down for something unexpected! I'm not even a slow driver!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭Ghosteen


    mikemac2 wrote:
    Happens a bit on boards. Hanging thread titles I call them.


    It's the boards version of clickbait.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,432 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I heard of somebody buying a religious book and they complained it was religious!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Vodafone (yes, again). There's an order on my account, it has a reference number, a date, and it says status closed. I know I didn't place any order. I contacted VF via chat (miraculously, I got through at the third attempt), and the conversation went approximately like this: "What's this ref/date/status for? I didn't do anything to my account" "Uh? There's nothing there, and anyway you haven't been charged" "I can see this ref/date/status under "my order". Surely someone can find out what it is?" "Did you buy an add-on?" "No. The closest I got was a text re: fantastic freebies the day before, it was automatic, I didn't have to do anything to opt in, and it was supposed to last for 28 days" "It's not a fantastic freebies, did you order anything? It was probably ordered the day before and processed that day" "I did not make any changes or bought anything on my account. If there's been unrecognised activity with a reference number surely someone there must be able to find out what it was" "Computers says no, but we'll log it with the technical team, might take up to 72 hours" "Fine, can I have a ref. number for that ticket, please?" "There's no ref number. Goodbye".
    If they have the cheek to ask me for feedback, they'll get a :mad:.


  • Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pulled over last night as I could see an ambulance several cars back. Once it passed I pulled out again only to be beeped by the woman in the car behind me who was right behind me for the last mile.

    Just this week I pulled in to let an Ambulance pass me as I saw the flashers in the rear view and the junction ahead was chock-a-block. Cue every single one of the knuckle-draggers between me and the ambulance pulling out and around me to then block it even further and prevent them from passing. One even had the cheek to beep me as if to say "some people don't have a clue".
    Ghosteen wrote: »
    People will let you down more often than not I find. There's plenty of great decent people in this world but unfortunately in day to day life you're going to run into or have to deal with some untrustworthy ones.

    Hell is other people. The amount of experiences, events and venues that have been ruined by inconsiderate sh1tebags. It only takes a few poison apples to ruin the whole thing. I remember during the scorching summer 2 years ago I stopped the bike in Fairview on the way home and bought a couple of beers to sit on the hill in the park and enjoy the dun. There was a rake of people around, some doing the same and others doing their own thing.

    Someone had cleaned up after themselves and left a box of empty heineken bottles beside the bin. A couple of kids saw it, then dragged it into the middle of the football pitch and dumped everything into one big pile. They were picking up bottles and lashing them into the pile trying to smash as many as they could. When I told them to give it a rest, their big fat baldy sunburned auldfella came storming over saying they could do what they want. "Other kids play football there at the weekend".........."so, bleedin' whaaa?" and he lashed the bottle in his hands into the pile as if to emphasise his point.
    Antares35 wrote: »
    There's an add campaign for cleaning dog poop on the radio. Some woman whose shoes have been destroyed etc. The ad starts with a couple of piano notes and for some reason that part really annoys me. It's just 8 notes but it is maddening.

    When the LUAS first came online there was an ad that started with someone talking about random crap then the "dong dong dong" of the LUAS came on in the background. I nearly crashed my bike when I heard it over the headphones, despite there being a distinct lack of tracks and/or trains on Griffith Avenue :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    "Influences" calling puffa jackets 'puffer' jackets.
    When did this become a thing?


  • Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "Influences" calling puffa jackets 'puffer' jackets.
    When did this become a thing?

    I had a cardi on during the week in work,it has big wide sleeves, someone came over to me and said "Omg Duvet Day your cardi is fab,2 influencers had ones just like that up last night ",such ****e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    That appalling Dance Monkey song by Tones and I. The singer has a voice like a cat being strangled, it does my head in when it comes on the radio.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    More than trivial but being made fun of because I'm quiet .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,504 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    More than trivial but being made fun of because I'm quiet .

    It's always the quiet ones you have to watch out for :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,425 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    An introverts "no thanks" being brushed off repeatedly - other people think they know what's best for you.

    Being manipulated into doing things socially - hate it.


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  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Fools always late to meetings.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Black Swan wrote: »
    Fools always late to meetings.
    Don't get me started.

    The one time I went to a meeting on time we had to wait for an inconsiderate basket to show up.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Don't get me started.

    The one time I went to a meeting on time we had to wait for an inconsiderate basket to show up.

    Give them a start time of 20 mins before the actual time, so they'll only be 10 mins late. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    More than trivial but being made fun of because I'm quiet .

    Seph, my sister says very little but when she speaks EVERYONE listens ... quality not quantity!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Blaizes


    When you are awoken from an amazing dream by the kids bursting into the room or the alarm clock going off ... then can’t remember it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Facebook's 'people you may know' Dozens pf people I've never seen before in my life. :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    People who talk incessantly but say very little of substance, have several in my work place, three of them were blathering on about something or other this morning but none were listening to what the others were saying, one of them, a guy in his 30's married with kids reminds me of a teenage girl with the mindless sh*the he spouts, another older woman takes the biscuit though the woman NEVER shuts up, sticks her snout into everyone's conversations, has an "opinion" on everything, talks over people while they are trying to talk to her and has lot's of irritating mispronunciations "ratically" wrong and so and so has the "ump" ….....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,468 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    It’s a style choice and perfectly valid. I do it in formal written communications.

    Annoying


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    When I say everything went wrong today, I mean everything went wrong. Sweet baby Jesus pass me the wine


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭Ghosteen


    When I say everything went wrong today, I mean everything went wrong. Sweet baby Jesus pass me the wine


    May your cup overfloweth.


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