Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) MOD WARNING IN OP

Antares35 · 02-02-2021 2:21pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

The fact that DPD texted me this morning saying my new coat would be delivered between 9 and 10am. Yet here we are, heading for 1pm, and I remain coatless...

Any minute now they will update the status as "delivery attempted" and when you call to say you were in all the time and delivery attempted was thirty seconds ago therefore can they ask the driver to try again since he can't have got that far in half a minute, they will tell you they have "no way to contact their drivers". Don't forget the driver will also "ring" you i.e. literally let the phone ring once and hang up, so you've no time to answer it but if anyone checks, it looks like they called and you didn't answer.

Shower of pr*cks.

ohnonotgmail · 02-02-2021 2:31pm

Antares35 wrote: »

Any minute now they will update the status as "delivery attempted" and when you call to say you were in all the time and delivery attempted was thirty seconds ago therefore can they ask the driver to try again since he can't have got that far in half a minute, they will tell you they have "no way to contact their drivers". Don't forget the driver will also "ring" you i.e. literally let the phone ring once and hang up, so you've no time to answer it but if anyone checks, it looks like they called and you didn't answer.

Shower of pr*cks.

I can't believe they are still trying the "we tried to deliver but nobody was in" nonsense. I avoid any online sites that use couriers.

Antares35 · 02-02-2021 3:18pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I can't believe they are still trying the "we tried to deliver but nobody was in" nonsense. I avoid any online sites that use couriers.

There was a place I used (pre Brexit) that had two choices. You could either get free delivery with DPD or pay for delivery with DHL or Yodel I think. I always opted to pay because I can't deal with DPD.

Mundo7976 · 02-02-2021 4:11pm

On one hand, need to buy a new couch but will take months to arrive.
On the other i could attempt to fix up the old one, am handy but cant find any definitive guides.
TA that i cant make up my mind

Robsweezie · 02-02-2021 4:15pm

TA jobs categorised as work from home that actualy fuucking ARENT upon reading the job description.

TA i want to go for a walk,, but the rain keeps stopping and starting, so i cant tell whether im gonna be caught out if its pissing down and im half way down the walk route where i'll be soaked if i go on and soaked if i come back.

Antares35 · 02-02-2021 4:30pm

People posting on social media and (in case I want to ignore those) also sending me videos of dancing gardaí. Just fúck off. I don't want to see your stupid video.

freshpopcorn · 02-02-2021 4:35pm

People getting offended and put out by the Garda dancing video!

The Wizards Sleeve · 02-02-2021 4:40pm

I'm not offended by the Garda video but I do think they look like a shower of eejits.

AxleAddict · 02-02-2021 6:08pm

I (usually) park my car on the street directly outside my house and I get TA'ed when my next-door neighbour will literally spend 5-10 minutes trying to squeeze their car into the tightest of spaces in front of my car (even when there is enough space to park their car immediately opposite on the other side of the street, or a few cars up on the same side of the street) - and the amount of engine revving as they alternate between forward and reverse and only moving a few centimetres at a time - they would rather spend 10 minutes parking their car and saving themselves a few metres walk to their front door than park more quickly in a much easier location elsewhere on the street. Needless to say, I then have to spend a couple of minutes in the morning trying to inch my car out of its parking space as a result of their inconsiderate parking. Give me strength!

Antares35 · 02-02-2021 6:12pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

People getting offended and put out by the Garda dancing video!

I'm not offended I'm just TAd by it! And I've actually managed to not watch it yet and intend to keep it that way

And it's more the incessant posting and sending it. Like ok we get it.

freshpopcorn · 02-02-2021 6:17pm

Those teachers in the ads for the home school hub thing on RTE 2. It must be painful to be that bubbly.

wildwillow · 02-02-2021 6:49pm

Antares35 wrote: »

Any minute now they will update the status as "delivery attempted" and when you call to say you were in all the time and delivery attempted was thirty seconds ago therefore can they ask the driver to try again since he can't have got that far in half a minute, they will tell you they have "no way to contact their drivers". Don't forget the driver will also "ring" you i.e. literally let the phone ring once and hang up, so you've no time to answer it but if anyone checks, it looks like they called and you didn't answer.

Shower of pr*cks.

DPD must have designated drivers on different routes. Our driver is excellent, is always within the two hour time frame and always very pleasant.

Goes out of his way to ensure delivery to a nearby family member if delivery address doesn't answer.

Rural area, so often family live close together. I think he is probably Polish but he surely understands our ways.

Several people gave him a token of thanks at Christmas.

Antares35 · 02-02-2021 6:49pm

When people post those "predictors" about who is going on a foreign holiday this year, who is going to get engaged etc. Usually a list of about thirty girls names and they'll start tagging their friends and giving their partners hints.

Antares35 · 02-02-2021 7:09pm

wildwillow wrote: »

DPD must have designated drivers on different routes. Our driver is excellent, is always within the two hour time frame and always very pleasant.

Goes out of his way to ensure delivery to a nearby family member if delivery address doesn't answer.

Rural area, so often family live close together. I think he is probably Polish but he surely understands our ways.

Several people gave him a token of thanks at Christmas.

That's great.

We are rural too and still have an abysmal service so I don't think it turns on that unfortunately.

Speedsie · 02-02-2021 7:29pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

The scrutiny that female presenters are under for their physical appearance is unreal. No one seems to care how male presenters dress but will actually start threads here to slag off Miriam O Callahan over how she dresses!

This really TAs me as well. People critique what a female presenter wears, but not a male.

An Australian presenter wore the same suit for a year as an experiment and no one noticed!

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/karl-stefanovics-sexism-experiment-today-presenter-wears-same-suit-for-a-year-20141115-11ncdz.html

PsychoPete · 02-02-2021 7:36pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Those teachers in the ads for the home school hub thing on RTE 2. It must be painful to be that bubbly.

In fairness muinteoir Cliona is looking well

Antares35 · 02-02-2021 7:41pm

Speedsie wrote: »

This really TAs me as well. People critique what a female presenter wears, but not a male.

An Australian presenter wore the same suit for a year as an experiment and no one noticed!

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/karl-stefanovics-sexism-experiment-today-presenter-wears-same-suit-for-a-year-20141115-11ncdz.html

That's hilarious but also quite worrying! I find females in the spotlight in general are subject to so much scrutiny from the media for every choice they make. So many click bait headlines about what so and so eats in a day. Or have you seen your one sporting a cute bump. Or worse, speculation that she might be pregnant without any confirmation from the female in question. And god forbid any celeb decides to have a baby over 35.

I wouldn't be one to follow or have huge sympathy for the Royals in the spotlight but I do think it's ridiculous how the media goes on about what Kate Middleton wears all the time, how her hair looks and what she eats, and their treatment of Meghan Markle was nothing short of reprehensible IMO.

Brendan Bendar · 02-02-2021 7:46pm

PsychoPete wrote: »

In fairness muinteoir Cliona is looking well

Give her a clip of the ‘foot ruler’ me.

spookwoman · 02-02-2021 8:11pm

Antares35 wrote: »

That's hilarious but also quite worrying! I find females in the spotlight in general are subject to so much scrutiny from the media for every choice they make. So many click bait headlines about what so and so eats in a day. Or have you seen your one sporting a cute bump. Or worse, speculation that she might be pregnant without any confirmation from the female in question. And god forbid any celeb decides to have a baby over 35.

I wouldn't be one to follow or have huge sympathy for the Royals in the spotlight but I do think it's ridiculous how the media goes on about what Kate Middleton wears all the time, how her hair looks and what she eats, and their treatment of Meghan Markle was nothing short of reprehensible IMO.

The thing is many women want to know (excluding me), that's way there are so many of those brain dead womens mags and daytime tv gossip shows. Can't blame the media if the demand is there and lets be honest we have all heard our mothers, sisters and their friends talk about very person in the neighbourhood and what they are wearing.

cj maxx · 02-02-2021 10:26pm

It used to be a TA but now it really bugging me , for some reason. The DeNiro ad for the Nero car. I’ve lost all respect for Robert DeNiro.

CrowdedHouse · 02-02-2021 10:33pm

On a related note there's a car ad, Nissan I think, that randomly activates my Google yokie and she says 'sorry I don't understand'.:D

Thought the place was haunted when I first heard it from another room :eek:

New Home · 02-02-2021 11:12pm

Perhaps the second time only since I joined months and months ago, GoMo is having problems with the mobile internet. But with the Eir network still having problems, it's hardly surprising.

At least I got a full day's work done on it... hopefully it'll be back up and running tomorrow, or else I'm in trouble.

https://downdetector.ie/status/gomo/
https://downdetector.ie/status/eircom/map/

Antares35 · 03-02-2021 12:33am

spookwoman wrote: »

The thing is many women want to know (excluding me), that's way there are so many of those brain dead womens mags and daytime tv gossip shows. Can't blame the media if the demand is there and lets be honest we have all heard our mothers, sisters and their friends talk about very person in the neighbourhood and what they are wearing.

Agree. I was actually going to put that in an another paragraph but figured I had shíted on long enough and didn't want to TA anyone

Aglomerado · 03-02-2021 12:55am

lucalux wrote: »

I just found my first actual grey hair, a big glinty silvery thing in my otherwise boring brown hair

Not even sure is it a TA, maybe I'll go full Storm with it, who knows.

Or Cruella.. probably more Cruella in fairness

I've a feeling I'm going to take on a Cruella look. At the moment I'm dark from a distance but up close there's some nice grey starting to fill in.
Going to embrace it, I can't be arsed with hair dye. The poodle perms my mother thought were nice in the 80s put me off hair chemicals for life.

New Home · 03-02-2021 1:05am

lucalux wrote: »

I just found my first actual grey hair, a big glinty silvery thing in my otherwise boring brown hair

Not even sure is it a TA, maybe I'll go full Storm with it, who knows.

Or Cruella.. probably more Cruella in fairness

Aglomerado wrote: »

I've a feeling I'm going to take on a Cruella look. At the moment I'm dark from a distance but up close there's some nice grey starting to fill in.
Going to embrace it, I can't be arsed with hair dye. The poodle perms my mother thought were nice in the 80s put me off hair chemicals for life.

Ladies, if silver foxes are foxy, I can't see why silver vixens can't be foxy, too.

03-02-2021 1:16am

New Home wrote: »

Ladies, if silver foxes are foxy, I can't see why silver vixens can't be foxy, too.

True but the badger look is horrific. I wonder if Mary Lou was Taoiseach would she allow the hairdressers to open under humanitarian grounds, there's only so much the L'oreal spray can do..ðŸ˜‚

New Home · 03-02-2021 1:31am

Then you need to review your eye makeup, more than anything else. :pac:

dubstarr · 03-02-2021 7:30am

spookwoman wrote: »

The thing is many women want to know (excluding me), that's way there are so many of those brain dead womens mags and daytime tv gossip shows. Can't blame the media if the demand is there and lets be honest we have all heard our mothers, sisters and their friends talk about very person in the neighbourhood and what they are wearing.

Its not only presenters. You look at any female singer and what they wear.
Dolled up and in killer heels. And then you get Ed Sheeran just turning up in a hoody.And nothing is said.
If it was a female singer they would be torn to shreds. Hypocrisy still alive and well.

AxleAddict · 03-02-2021 12:06pm

When you ring a company and the person on the other end of the line answers it like they're either an Air Traffic Controller or an auctioneer at a livestock market and they just rattle off their greeting message at 100mph and you've no idea what they've just said - a bit like those radio adverts where they speak the 'small print' really really REALLY fast at the end - I know they're probably tired of saying the same old greeting over and over again all day, but its no good to me if I can't figure out if I've got the right number and who I'm talking to.

eisenberg1 · 03-02-2021 3:23pm

Listening to the radio earlier...Niall Boylan who I normally wouldn’t listen to, was having a discussion ( I use the term loosely) about assisted dying...which I am very interested in . One of his opening lines was something like “and is it just a case of someone saying, here just put a pillow over my face” and if that’s not bad enough he adds “ and I don’t mean that in a bad way”

The man is a clown!

Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) *MOD WARNING IN OP*

Comments

Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) MOD WARNING IN OP