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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,060 ✭✭✭blackbox


    My windows are filthy after yesterday's storm. It's cold and I don't feel in the mood to wash them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    May I add waterfall showers to this TA? They're a massive pain in the arse when you dont want to get your hair wet. But they're all the rage in hotels recently.

    My personal TA for the day is I've tried the powder dip nail polish stuff for the first time. The kit I got said to do the dip bit 4 times but this has just resulted in nails that are ridiculously thick (even after me spending ages filing them to try thin them out). I don't usually do fake nails or gel nails so it just feels like I've massive claws on my fingers and everything is so awkward to do. I dunno how anyone gets on with massive nails. My nails are also a bit sore coz these feel so heavy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,593 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Especially if they are one of those who stick crisp and fingers into their mouth then go for a second helping 😡😡😡



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Got eaten alive by mosquitoes in Milan the past few days and all the bites are trying to go fully volcanic on me. The bite I got in Spain in August (that the doctor thought was from a spider) still hasn't fully healed, ffs. It would appear I'm just violently allergic to mosquito bites.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,153 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    That would annoy me too. 😡 Keep your mitts out of my crisps! I'd shove the bag into a drawer next time. (I have no shame.)



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 61,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    The travelling part of going anywhere, no wonder it's hard to get me to go on holiday



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,101 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    From experience, you'll need a cortisone-based cream, but ask your GP or chemist just to be sure. It's the type of reaction that instead of just leaving you with a small, itchy bump it gives you red patches the size of a hand, broken capillaries and a huge welt that simultaneously hurts, itches and burns like hell, right?

    On the plus side, if you go back every year for a few years your body will get used to it and you'll barely get a reaction anymore.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,426 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I remember staying in a hotel in Croatia with a tour group.
    If you had a sea view, you were awoken at dawn by a flock of seagulls screeching for no reason.
    If you had a view of the trees and gardens, you were plagued by mosquitos.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 838 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    same as that every time i go to Italy (mrs is from there) i have a feeling the wee stingy fcuks are sitting around saying "we-a wait-a for-a the paddy and we have-a the good-a feed,molto bene" i cant think of the name but i found a good repellent,its in a yellow spray bottle with a red top,smells sort of petrolish and warns not to breathe it in or smoke when you put it on but it seems to work…the annoyance is i accidently gave a spray to me bollix one time…oh sweet baby jebus,i was sobbing for ten minutes after!


    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    "You are him…the one they call the "Baba Yaga"…

    yo! donnie vonshitzinpants..you sir are the skidmark on the jocks of humanity!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,593 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    You have put the thought of mozzies at the airport waiting on a Ryanair plane with gleeful faces 😝😝



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    That's the reaction but sadly hydro-cortisone does very little for it, nor do any OTC antihistamines. I ended up in the care of the Mater wound clinic and on a whopper dose of antibiotics the last time, and that was only for one bite. I have six this time 😭😭😭 Including one on the knuckle of my index finger, which is quite possibly the worst place to be bitten when you react like I do.

    Going to have to see a specialist, I think. My own doctor is useless and the web docs just keep prescribing antibiotics after the fact. Was chatting to a woman with a severe mossie allergy at a barbecue a few weeks ago when I was still dealing with the first bite and she said she had to get special anaphylaxis drugs for when she goes away. It's not a life-threatening allergy at all but she said she gets bites like mine otherwise and it's definitely enough to ruin a holiday.

    Sure I ended up signed off work for over a week the last time because I couldn't walk on the ankle. Couldn't actually take that time off, mind, but that's a rant for another day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,593 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Jesus , reading above I’m delighted I don’t seem to have severe reactions to insect bites. That’s an awful reaction @Dial Hard



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,153 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    I sent an email, asking 3 straightforward questions. Got a reply with one answer 'and if you need anything else, contact me.'

    Er, how about an answer to my other questions or if you don't know, point me in the direction of someone who does. 🙄



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,531 ✭✭✭Archeron


    The local food place who managed to wrangle in a nice way of saying "clean up your own dog sh*t" on the actual menu board.

    Hmmm, fluffy pancakes, steak sambo, or a steaming pile of Labradoodle sh*te, i just can't decide.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    Feeding the pets . . our cats will only eat the dogs' food and the dog prefers the cats' food . . does me head in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,776 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    why online shopping retailers require more and more of your personal information when you attempt to do business with them. A crowd I was in the process of setting up an account with was only short of requiring to know my blood type and asking for a finger print. Forget it. Name, address, email and card details ‘should’ be enough to make a simple online clothing purchase…im not giving them my age / dob, mobile number or anything else.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭L Grey


    I wanted to get an armchair delivered.

    80 euros.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,593 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I clicked on an ad for some prostrate cure so something . Everytime I open chrome to read bards it’s playing in the background .

    TA it’s made me want to wee



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,631 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    When walking barefoot in the house, and you open a door and try to walk through before it's fully open, and you hit your toes on the corner of the approaching door.

    Awful pain.

    More I think about it, this is not a trivial annoyance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,593 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    That I’ve got a tooth ache and of course it’s a weekend .



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    The last page missing from threads on here!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,593 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I think if you go back a page that’s the last post . Mine shows a blank page on the last page . If that makes sense .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,631 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    There's some thread on here that the last 3 or 4 pages have no posts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,534 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    The Bank of Ireland app (on android anyway) that strips out the decimal point when you paste in a figure. So instead of paying 1500.45 you could potentially be paying 150045. A fundamental part of the entire decimal money system is ignored. How can that happen ? I know the app is probably protecting against malicious input, but a decimal point, come on !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,534 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Excluding the units on a measurement. Do you mean miles or kilometers ? Farenheit or celsius ? Centimetres or millimetres ...

    Road signs do this, news sites do this. It is so strange.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,534 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    People parking their huge Chelsea Tractors on the footpath when they attend religious ceremonies. You can't even squeeze past walking.

    Good luck with buggies and wheelchairs.

    And it can be so bad that not even an ambulance or fire truck can get past.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Why do pensioners insist on doing their shopping on a weekend? There's literally an entire week of relatively quiet time to potter around and take your time and slowly go around. Leave the weekends to the working folk who have no other choice.

    I had to pop up to the supermarket for coffee for guests coming to the house and the local shopping centre was carnage. I expected busy but I was shocked at the amount of pensioners causing holdups.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,101 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Old road signs (with the old script) were always in miles, the newer signs (well, I say new... they've been aroynd dince the early 90s...) are always in kilometres - km is written in smaller script above the number, too.

    These would be miles, for instance.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,776 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    people obsessed with phones. If I’m walking out the door to meet someone for lunch at an appointed time and a phone rings or a WhatsApp notification… if it’s not the person/people I’m meeting that phone will be ignored….and I’ll catch up with whoever, later……

    As of now, should have been at the pub 32 minutes ago but some Sunday afternoon enquiry from their family about god know what. 🕝



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Went out to walk the dog in a mild drizzle. Heavens fcuking opened while we were out and stayed open the whole time. Had to change my clothes and towel dry the dog when we got home. Back to mild drizzle 15 seconds afterwards.

    Fcuk you, universe. I'm not moving off the couch for the rest of the day.



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