Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Music programmes on TV that only flash up the artist and song title at the start of the performance very briefly… leave it up all the time or at least flash it up at the end of the song.

Non native English speakers struggling with an English language song trying to sing phonetically - just sing in French or whatever!

People who consistently buy/bring sickly sweet cakes for parties; but they don't eat it and nobody else does either.

I have a variation on that. I have a list and have a couple of items left to get. Look at list and think I'll get the item furthest from the tills and get the other on the way back towards the tills. ~Always forget them :-(

Everytime I go to use them, the lenses on me reading glasses are nearly always covered in greasy fingerprints . . even though I can never remember actually touching them.

Just knock on the outer door and call in that you need to change a baby, or ask a staff member to do it for you. No woman I know would have an issue with a man using the women's jacks to change a nappy. But yes, it is ridiculous in this day and age that they're still almost exclusively in the Ladies. They should be in both.

Today's TA: that my sister's boyfriend is a filth wizard who doesn't wash his hands after using the bathroom 🤢

I've never once seen or heard a woman having an issue about men changing a baby in the ladies or bringing a young girl into the ladies toilets.

The oxford dictionary word of the year is brain rot

wtf thats 2 words standards are slipping even in official sources .

brain rot is caused by reading too much low quality content clickbait or watching bad tik tok videos.

this is like reading george lucas downloads low quality movie rips from piratebay.

why can,t a man bring a baby into the mens toilets ,

i dont think a man should be in womens toilets for any reason unless its a dire emergency .

is a young girl in danger going into a womens toilet ?

This has come in from America ages ago and is becoming quite widespread: basically if there is wrong-doing or a screw-up in some govt dept for example, they will have an enquiry and say 'it was a systemic failure in this dept, we all have learned from it and will do better in future'. In other words, when you blame an entire dept. or entity, nobody needs to be singled out and punished, so everyone gets off scot-free.

I'll happily take a warning for going against the TA here, and also personal abuse:

Would you ever fcuk the fcuk off. All men are not predators and all women are not perpetual victims-in-waiting. Where the fcuk else is a dad out on his own meant to change a child's nappy if the only changing station is in the women's jacks? Or do you think men shouldn't be let parent their own children too???

Dope.

Edited to add: By your (absolutely twisted) logic, would a child not be in more "danger" being brought into a men's toilet if men are such a danger to women and girls of all ages???

Over the last week I have watched Small Things Like These, That They May Face The Rising Sun and An Cailin Ciuin.

All highly acclaimed films.

As I finished watching the 3rd, I thought to myself that since this is the type of film we Irish project on to the world, they must think we are a bunch of backward, manic depressives.

I think we moved past that along time ago one cannot take one film and say that represents the whole country.

There used to be dramas where Ireland was a repressed country ruled by nuns and priests .

I’ve a chipped fingernail which keeps getting caught in everything. Also it’s gonna be a long night tonight while myself and the OH try and keep two Jack Russell terriers calm during a barrage of fireworks.

Oh god, we subjected ourselves to this last night (on my sister's recommendation, the weirdo), and it was so, so bad. Basically the second half of Toy Story 2, only with a bomb. Except Toy Story 2 was good.

Trying to find a birthday card for a brother at this time of year…

Shops still have most of the card shelf space set aside for Christmas and New Years cards.

Lidl had none and Dunnes, SV only had childish ones... yeah will probably need to swing by one of them.