Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

When "traditional " arrangements are proposed to be changed with the tagline "it will probably be easier on you this way"

Eh no, if it was a hassle I would have suggested a change.

Now I'm left wondering if they have been p1ssed off about the "traditional " arrangement, which incidentally wasn't of my making, and are now being passive aggressive. Or if they genuinely feel like they are doing me a favour.

Either way no biggy, pros and cons to both arrangements but still left wondering what the "truth" is.

Was soooooooooooooooo happy last weekend, I bought my fav in the world 'lady toy' for about 10e cheaper than usual cause of that horrible capitalist notion of black friday.

TA, the moter isnt strong enough so its not worth the money I did pay for it.

I've two rants today so I'll roll them into one post.

The TL;DR for the first one is if there's a motorcycle behind you, please keep moving (if possible)

I had just started my bike for the first time in weeks today when the van in front of me stopped to leave someone out of a car park. I had to drop down to first, stop with the clutch held in my hand, and try and balance the choke so it's not revving too high but won't stall on me either. All while the lady in the car park looked around gormlessly for an eternity before kangarooing off. I know we're in a small town and it's nice to be nice to your neighbours, but we were the only two vehicles there - it would have been quicker to keep going and let her move off when the street was empty.

And 90% of the time in the city I'm changing lanes and filtering though traffic it's because my superbike isn't really designed for the city and overheats quickly, so I'm trying to keep moving and limit my time in traffic. It's very nice that you stopped to wave that pedestrian across, but he'd already pressed the button for the crossing and wouldn't have been waiting long...

Rant number 2's TL;DR is there's some shockingly bad drivers out there.

I was behind a car at a roundabout in Nexttownover while they waited for a gap. I thought there was a gap big enough before I even got there, but she waited for ages until the roundabout was clear, then another 8-10 seconds for reasons that are a mystery to me. Crossing a bridge she went over the solid white line in the centre, even though there was traffic coming the other way. At the next roundabout, she barrelled out onto it while braking, and yielded to traffic on her left. If anything had been coming from the right, she wouldn't have stopped in time. At the next left turn she drifted over into the right turn only lane before swinging around, because we all know an Avensis needs more turning space than a bus. When we reached the dual carriageway, there's a short enough slip road before you have to merge, and by Christ was she going to merge at the end of that slip road no matter what - much to the surprise of the approaching Avensis that had to swerve to avoid her. Now, the road was clear, and the approaching Avensis should have already moved out to allow her to merge, but I doubt if she so much as checked her mirror before moving out.

Would she have totted up enough offences in those few minutes to accumulate enough penalty points to put her off the road? She's a danger to herself and others and it's only a matter of time until she kills someone, if she hasn't already....

LirW wrote: »

ATMs not giving out 10 euro notes. That together with various school payments that always have really specific amounts. Wrecks my head. Nobody wants a 50 euro note for God's sake.

Ulster Bank still do €10s afaik

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Bloggers/Instagrammers discussing sparkly dresses and tops for Christmas and calling them 'sequence'.

It's SEQUINS.

Lost count of how many times I've seen it now.

What's happening to spelling in this country? We all learnt basic spelling in primary school, yet the amount of people who seem unable to spell correctly is astonishing.

I bet you checked every single word of your post twice, to make sure there was no spelling mistakes

Feeling guilty about finding someone's trivially annoying behaviour annoying. It's TA in itself.

My chesticles are sore

How come there is 2 pages for the Fairytale In New York thread but its an invalid thread, is that possible :eek:.

There was a little job I had to do, which I thought would be annoying because it meant dealing with bureaucracy etc. I took care of it on Monday, and it wasn't as bad as I'd thought. Because I'd built it up as this big thing in my head, however, I'm now left with this nagging feeling that there's something I need to do ... even though I've already done it.