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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    You know when you wear a lovely pair of pyjamas, nice and comfy, but then during the night one leg repeatedly rides up your calf and gets stuck just below your knee leaving you with a cold leg and slightly cut off circulation, or both trousers legs are slightly wider at the ankle seam and ride up while you sleep and bunch up way above the knee, leaving you with shorts and slightly cut off circulation? And both instances wake you up? And you fix them, but after a while you're back to square one? Well, both are massive TAs of mine.

    No, it's not a coincidence that I'm typing this at this hour.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,541 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Swipe right on my Google phone reveals the most gutter click bait "journalism" such as Galway Beo predicting weather disasters every day ... but it can be turned off ! What a breath of fresh air.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Dramatik


    Forgetting that I'm a "can only sleep in their own bed" type person.

    Every time I'm away from home, I'm reminded of this. I could be set up with the nicest bed ever made, far better than my own, in some expensive hotel, but do you think I could get any sleep?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    Teenagers . . Moping around with their phones in hand and always moaning that their bored with nothing to do . . You could start by cleaning that pigsty of a bedroom you only emerge from whenever you're hungry.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,457 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,673 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Groups of people having the chats in the kitchen while standing right in front of the coffee machine. Move!



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    On a similar note, a coffee shop I used to go to, which was always mad busy.
    Some people got their takeaway coffees and moved to the small corner where the lids and other bits and pieces were, and practically settled in. 🙄 It used to drive me mad.

    Other people need to get that stuff too, and get out. Moooooooooove!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,392 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    I heard someone pronounce Nokia as No key ah this morning.😣

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,673 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    After a few very pointed "Excuse me's!" they finally moved - and stood right in front of the sink and filtered water tap 🤦‍♀️



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,966 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    I wonder if he's the same guy that puts on the German accent for the Kranzle ads. In Chermany, ve don't bath our children, ve Kranzle zem.

    Current TA, when people will not STFU. Annoying work and systems which do not function correctly are enough of an irritant, thank you.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,541 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    The way people still doff the cap to a wealthy person, regardless of how that money was obtained.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,541 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Well, that could be a life or death question or quality of life situation. 😁

    The reason I mentioned it was because I heard something like a 19th century landlord peasant exchange at lunchtime.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,763 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    TA walking into things when you're not wearing your glasses - I badly skinned a knuckle walking through the bathroom door this morning. Well, almost through it except for my knuckle which walked into it 🙄 It stopped bleeding eventually.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,763 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Another TA - the smell of last night's dinner in the kitchen when you come down in the morning. Even if it was the nicest dinner ever, I don't want to smell it before breakfast



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


    Cat is hungry.

    Cat needs human for food.

    Best way to get human to leave desk - lie across their hand so they can't move the mouse.

    It can't possibly be comfortable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,269 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Sorry to go off topic here but I have to ask just how many people do you know that wear a cap?

    Post edited by The Continental Op on

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,962 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    New car for last few months delighted with it. Upgrade from auld banger. Loads of beeps sensors impossible to hit anything unless you are a clown. I said to meself.

    But I didn’t factor in clowns in car parks. Long thin scratch what looks like trolley against car low down. Whoever it was, a pox on you.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    People who ring the bell, then pound on the door before you have a chance to get near it.
    I had a delivery guy one evening recently, give such a wallop on the door, without even trying the bell. Frightened the living daylights out of me. Ugh.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,392 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    A few ta's from the past two days, I paid 70€ to have two sheets mended, another ta was that I feel I could have done it myself if I could be bothered to read the instruction manual for the machine.

    Two stories I heard from the world this am, one person being told that their partner couldn't have passed their long-threatening kidney stone because they didn't have a GP!!

    In my old area, they miss their local Argos hugely, a European(Argos like) store applied for permission to build in the area. The application was refused on the basis that the area with fewer and fewer shops doesn't need another shop.

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,541 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    It's a metaphorical cap and metaphorical doffing. 😁



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I had a postman who opened the door without knocking, once: "Oh sorry, I was just going to leave this parcel in the hallway". I read him the riot act.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 61,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Wrecked me quads, walking like a cowboy with piles



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,145 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    The amount of Halloween decorations that block access to post boxes is unreal lately (when did the Americanisation of Halloween become a thing here?). People with 'spooky' themed Ring doorbell answers as well- lookit, I only want to deliver your parcel, I'm not trick or treating.

    Sticking to the theme, that voiceover of 'Puca' in the festival ad on the radio. Eff off. Bring back the good ol days when Halloween meant homemade costumes (pumping sweat with black bin liner and plastic masks that dug into the back of your ears) and childer been left to their own devices.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 61,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭mehico


    Certain phrases like "public purse", and "to the tune of" seems to annoy me whenever I hear them, no idea why really though.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 61,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    I think I was sicker hearing the words "an abundance of concern" than the majority of people who got covid.

    Also, "for your information" on emails. Go shyte.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,457 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Emails that start with... as you are probably aware…

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,647 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Usb sockets.

    The lead can go into the socket 1 of 2 ways. So that's a 50/50 chance of the lead being in the correct orientation when I try to plug it in.

    So how come it's the wrong way round about 95% of the time?



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