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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,664 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Unpaid overtime can get in the fcuking sea. I actually used to do a lot more of it, but the job was a lot more flexible in return. My current role is 8am - 6pm, in the office Monday to Friday, and their idea of "take the time back" is to finish an hour early on some Friday three weeks from now, after putting in a 60-hour week this week and last.

    And before anyone chimes in with the "Just don't do it" advice, that is literally jnot an option in certain sectors, but more power to anyone who doesn't have to.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,579 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I hate saying this but I’m glad I’m not fit to work . I would have retired years ago



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,311 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    Radio DJ's speaking over the end of a song.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,579 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    That used to be torture years ago when you’d tape songs off the radio



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Jim Herring


    I’m a fast walker so most chuggers are too slow to corner me. If they do I just say that I already subscribe, same for door to door, I already subscribe.

    For anything utility related I just say that I don’t have purchasing authority then if they ask to speak to someone else I say they can call back at a day and time that I know I won’t be in.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Jim Herring


    Some of the politician nicknames are useful, for example Ruth ‘nationalise Dell’ Coppinger reminds me she is a lunatic (in case I had forgotten).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,316 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    The second payment of the free electricity credits apparently depends on having used over 150 kWh between Aug-Oct '24. I should have wasted some, I only used 140.

    HMMPH! GRRRR!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,579 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    It’s annoying on both sides of the border . I’m in the north on a uk WiFi and I can’t do the uk lottery as I have to be in the uk ? . If I go across the border to do the Irish lottery they say I’m outside Ireland . Can’t win either way . God it sucks to be from Monaghan 😁😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,579 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    The tv was on itv , a show came on , bbc4 , called Bombay ,Railway Dreams . About how the British did this and that . In 40 years of the British Raj the excess death toll is 193 million people . The Brits are delusional about what they did in the world .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,664 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    The "Would Berty make a good president?" thread title in CA is the visual equivalent of nails on a blackboard to me. His name is Bertie, ffs! Always has been.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭thereiver


    I listened to a podcast.Now you re asking .woman writes in .my husband is awful .sex lasts 5minutes .heres a tip .Don't marry someone before having sex to check does your partner like sex ,is he good at having sex . Is he a Boring idiot . Otherwise do not get married .

    A marriage cert is not magic .it does not turn you into a fantastic lover overnight.

    Some people should never get married they are rude lazy and boring .

    I understand some women might marry a man cos he,s rich and successful and he lives in a mansion.

    Irs 2024 there's loads of information out there about how to have sex.

    Theres a whole genre about people traveling on old railways it's glamorous and luxurious .it's not a history lesson . We all.know the British empire was based on slavery .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,449 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    This to me is probably not trivial, but people binning perfectly fine food and drink because the best before date has passed.. use your taste and smell, idiots!



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


    Some stupid **** killed a female white tailed sea eagle. Imagine been taken from Norway and released here in 2022. And then some ******* **** shoots you 3 years later. The eagle has given more hope, joy and wonder that that ***** **** could ever even dream of.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,628 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Radio DJs, often on local stations, telling us that the weekend starts early with them.

    No it doesn't, it's Thursday. It's NOT the weekend. Get over yourself, it isn't cool.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Got two fillings in the right side of my mouth and I'm home now trying to eat and drink something while the anesthetic hasn't worn off.

    I've spilled more on the table than I've got in my mouth.



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


    Right, work work done, now time for home work.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,248 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    My wife's cars electric windows! The buttons are in the same place on the doors arm rest as mine even same make of car both Ford but they work in completely opposite directions. I go to put the the windows up like I would on my car and they go down.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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



    "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: 5,351 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    ads for film releases in the cinema when the date is given for example as January twenty one rather than January twenty first

    not sure how long its been a thing but I've only noticed it lately



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


    the television director of Eurosport’s live snooker coverage. Post shot, balls in motion on the table and we are cut away to look at the reaction of the supporters in the crowd as opposed to be seeing where the snooker balls are going. Attempting it seems to be all arty and different and suspenseful. Various weird angles of the players backs and arses pre shot too, why ?

    I’ve an idea horse. Just show the action on the table, no need for ‘different’ and don’t worry about what’s happening in the crowd….worry about what’s happening on the table… 🤪👏🏼



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,579 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    That something put an old programme , This Life , into my head . It’s on Amazon Prime which I have but it costs £17+ to download . Thought it was free .

    A great show about 5 solicitors house sharing in London



  • Posts: 4,214 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have Prime Video as well - noticed that before. Very annoying. And it's £17+ per series. There were two plus a reunion special.

    There's a newly packaged DVD set of all episodes for £20 on Amazon UK. Better than renting / streaming.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,233 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Interviewer and guest when they sit facing each other unaturally close. I saw one where the interviewer had to have his legs moved over to one side or he would have been playing footsie with his guest.



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


    When you've been level x in work for 10 years because of life **** and then you're too tired, old and burned out to go to level x+1. Or maybe just in the wrong company doing the wrong job.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,626 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    There's a certain recruitment agency in London I have come to utterly despise. I have a low opinion of such entities but there's a few tech firms in London who insist on using this godawful abomination of a company. Even for a recruitment agency, they're abysmal. They ask me questions but interrupt me mid-answer with "Sure, sure" or "Ok, fine". It couldn't be clearer to me that they just want to use me for their own commission. Anyway, one of them rang me asking if I was interested in one of two jobs they had. I expressed interest in both and he said he'd send me the specs and a questionnaire. This was 10 days ago and I got nothing. Another one just rang me to ask if I was looking for work and I just bluntly said "No". He rang at 11:40 and I asked him to ring in 30 minutes. He rang me again at 4pm.

    Idiots.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,355 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    why is it only Thursday! 😵‍💫



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


    Don't worry Donald, Elon and Mark will be introducing 7 day weeks soon, with 4 hours off on Sunday to fact check posts on Facebook for the church of Zuckerberg. Also, everyone will have to do mandatory ice pool plunges.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,579 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I have several TV’s but only one connected . Of course it’s the one that won’t play my recorded programmes as it’s not UHD or whatever it’s called



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,139 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Something that I was more TAd than I thought I was obviously was running through my mind last night because I couldn't stop thinking about it, even though it has long passed.

    My brother, his partner and the two kids were home for a month through Christmas, first time the whole family were united in a year. Great excitement. The three SILs (my wife and the two brother's partners) had the idea of getting together a few times now that they were all in the one country at the same time. Of course it didn't pan out like that, but through no fault at our end.

    The two SIL's went to some Christmas-themed class literally the first night the visitor arrived, without even mentioning it to my wife. My wife suggested they get a takeaway together and have a girl's night in- oh they did that too, without her. Towards the end of the stay, they went on a day trip neglecting to inform my wife (who recommended it especially for the vegan in the group), with a sister of one of SIL seemingly more included in the plan than her.

    These two are the sort of women that share their whole life on insta and the likes, polar opposites to my more sensible wife. The one that wasn't visiting lives in a new house next door, yet never once has invited my wife down even for a quick cuppa. You feel like you'd need an official invitation. Yet she'd always have her hand-picked, insta-stun friends in and out of the house over the weekend. Not an ugly looking one among them of course. And she's one of those 'be nice' advocates. Two-facedness is off the charts.

    And I'm the one who gets it in the neck then for keeping to myself more than the other two.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,579 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I ordered it , now I just need to find my dvd player :)



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