Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

In harvey Norman today, looking to buy a cheap tablet. Find one at the right price, ask for one to buy, but no, that's just sold out on Thursday last, sorry. Okay, what about this one, next price up, sales dude laughs, a haha sure that's been sold out since black Friday.

Well then why the f*ck do you have these things on display when you've no stock and you know you've no stock?

New Home wrote: »

That's to your hearing what Lush is to your sense of smell.

I think that's the place with the most overly pushy sales assistants! I don't thinknid ever go back.

LUSH shops are crazy pungent and when I went into the Dublin store recently people were packed in like a tin of sardines while the skylight or ceiling tiles or something leaked all over them

LUSH products have SLS in them as well which is a TA. Used to love their Potion and Ghost body milk.

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

But the word baby is gender neutral???

I just try to tune out when this kind of nonsense arises

Why the **** are people going by they? You're either a male or female... Have aliens suddenly landed?

Widdershins wrote: »

A trans m2f friend advocates for the use of "it" in place of a 'gender pronoun'. I think they have a blog post about it, blogs called transwaffle. They explain the reasoning for using "it" but personally I find the idea horrible.

Stupid. I thought switching sex would mean your now called the opposite noun or whatever. So used to be a male is now female but no it's IT. As in IT the clown like.

Every single time I go into my local Dunnes Stores I end up getting delayed at the checkout by one thing or another.

Yesterday while queuing up at the express checkout where the server was on her own with a long queue of people, a manager comes along and holds up everything by interrupting her to get €150 in €10 notes.

Today is was some bint with a big fistful of money off vouchers causing a big hold up at the checkout. She was adamant that she had €27 worth of vouchers while the checkout girl said she had €22. When the back and forth bickering finally ended and the bint left I shoved all my shopping into my bags in a foul temper and stormed off. This is at least the 5th time something like this has happened in the last month. I wouldn't even bother going to the Dunnes in question anymore if it wasn't only 2 minutes from my house The Lidl is at the other side of town but I'll do most of my shopping there instead from now on. Middle aged/elderly auld wagons and s big pile of money off vouchers are a nightmare combination.

castletownman wrote: »

Over a week ago I TA'd about an artist letting me down with a piece I got commissioned. Well a week on, and a few texts and emails later, and he seems to have vanished from the face of earth. No idea when/if the portrait will be done before Christmas.

These people may be gifted with paint and brushes but they have no business acumen whatsoever.

I hope you didnt pay the full amount to them

Always ta'd me to see people so busy looking for what they could get, they don't see and value and enjoy what they have. People seem very confused about what's really important. In life and love I mean.

Shouldn't care, as I do value, and I am valued, but it niggles me

Might be. Sometimes it's just hard to work to someone else's vision and timescale. Doesn't excuse his behaviour one bit though.

Echo the comment re flaky artists. It's like as if being organised or having a business sense is "uncool.....maaaaaan"

People talking (or should I say whispering) the whole way through a film in the cinema. Infuriating and so rude.

Widdershins wrote: »

Might be. Sometimes it's just hard to work to someone else's vision and timescale. Doesn't excuse his behaviour one bit though.

Then dont take the money,you cant have it both ways.

castletownman wrote: »

Over a week ago I TA'd about an artist letting me down with a piece I got commissioned. Well a week on, and a few texts and emails later, and he seems to have vanished from the face of earth. No idea when/if the portrait will be done before Christmas.

These people may be gifted with paint and brushes but they have no business acumen whatsoever.

I had the opposite issue as an artist with a person with supposedly good business acumen.

He commissioned 8 pieces i guess you would call it a mix of graphic design and art. So i do 8 pieces for an agreed price and its done well ahead of time. I sent them he loves them and wants them all. (which set alarm bells off usually a client would want some small change) it just made it seem unrealistic.

So he sends an email asking for an invoice. I send it out.

Then nothing ..then i notice something odd ....he is using artwork by a REALLY famous illustrator ...whom I am familiar with an know a tiny bit as an acquaintance ..its unlikely he has the funds to use this illustrator as they are well known internationally and award winning and i am not sure they would let him use their work anyway its not the right branding for them.

So i ask the illustrator in question has he given permission for the guy to use his work. He says no and thanks me for telling him and he will contact the guy who owns the site about using his work without permission. A few days later the guy takes the artwork off his site. So i am guessing now I think this guy is a time waster.

I send one more email saying he can pay me within two weeks or the deal is off.

He sends me this CRAZY long email telling me how good his business is ...how much traffic it generates but he has just bought a house recently and is low on cash ..and can i wait until he has his ducks in a row. Bear in mind i think the work only came to about 400 euro...so i mean its quite obvious he was never ever serious and just intended to nick people's work from places online for as long as he didn't get caught.

I politely say no and i regret that he didn't tell me sooner as i had wasted a lot of time on doing the work for him.

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

A 2 Litre bottle of coke was in around the €2 mark 2-3 years ago. Now for a 1.75 Litre bottle of Coke is €2.19 roughly. Less for more. What the actual ****.

Tell me where your getting these 1.75L bottles. All I see is 1.5L bottles.