Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Bredabe · 14-03-2025 11:33AM

Got to love new doctors! Having waited, fasting almost an hour for my bloods, a completely new person took them as they did so, asked me if they usually took xyz bloods as well?!

A fair question except that I have no idea, as I'm well on the tests they take and I don't have the brain space for a complicated test name I come across one or twice a year!

Ta the fact that the first thing they thought when they saw me was fat and old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😡

Ta2 given my complicated medical history, I have asked them not to bring up matters like this out of the blue as it's hugely triggering due to the limiting beliefs of the medical world when I had met endlessly till very recently.

SuperBowserWorld · 14-03-2025 11:35AM

When you are enjoying a bar of chocolate and a cup of tea and go to get another square. And it's all gone. You've eaten it all. Just like that. It's over. Gone. And you've got to face the real world again.

Bredabe · 14-03-2025 11:35AM

The sudden loss of height I've experienced now that my ligaments are compressing due to a hormone deficiency, so much at odds with what my brain still believes to be my height!

Also ta, bc my family of origin was all close to 6ft, now Im having problems reaching cupboards etc that I wouldn't have given a thought to before.

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2025 12:31PM

The woman took the wombat off it's mother in Australia and ran off with it. I know she gave it back.

There's just something sad about the wombats mother looking on.

miamee · 14-03-2025 01:23PM

TA that I have spent half the morning preparing for and gearing up to a virtual meeting with our CEO. 15 minutes later, he still hasn't shown so I have logged off and messaged him to let me know when is a better time for him (he chose this time and day himself yesterday when he missed a different meeting ffs).

Second TA is that now I feel like I am 'on-call' for the rest of the day for whenever he is available later today. Or Tuesday. Or whenever. The man badly needs a personal assistant.

Bogey Lowenstein · 14-03-2025 01:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123263770#Comment_123263770

The man badly needs to learn some manners if he just sacks people off with no explanation!

The Continental Op · 14-03-2025 01:30PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123263622#Comment_123263622

TA, anyone that considers themselves or is called by others an "influencer".

New Home · 14-03-2025 01:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123263770#Comment_123263770

The word you're looking for is "manners", not "personal assistant".

EDIT: I see Bogey beat me to it.

miamee · 14-03-2025 01:37PM

TA that you are all correct that it is rude and TA that I need to look for a new job (not based on this, on many many other things, this today is just par for the course).
He rang me at 12.24 from his car, he said he had been stuck in a meeting 🤐

New Home · 14-03-2025 01:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123261554#Comment_123261554

I guess this must have informed Ryanair's choice of airports and whole business culture.

Sacha_N · 14-03-2025 02:00PM

Does there have to be so many manhole covers in the roads.

I see industrial site with a large front green area, a footpath, a piece of roadside greenery. And the they put the manhole in the road.

And not in the middle of the lane where it would pass under the cars body, oh no, always lines up with one of the wheels.

Strumms · 14-03-2025 03:17PM

The attempted dumbing down of life.

Sometimes I get very thirsty after taking a prescribed medication. It’s a known side effect and today is one of those days..So I looked at HSE site to reassure myself. Thirsty is ok…expected. Amusingly another couple of the side effects of that med is having “dark pee” & “light coloured poo”. thankfully I’m affected by neither. 🤪

Look it’s probably pedantic on my part, but on a healthcare website should the attempt not be to professionally communicate, rather than use slang ? Are people so thick now that they can’t understand without silly schoolyard slang…? ‘Pee and poo’ ? Next they’ll be using terms like “if you have an ‘ouch’ or a ‘hurty xx’...go see…”

cj maxx · 14-03-2025 04:59PM

On the phone to a company for an hour . We very busy but if prefer not to wait go to our website . I tried that and it was of no use . Just put a human on the phone to me and I’ll get it sorted in a couple of minutes . Dipsticks .

There must be a reason why your advisors are so busy 😡😡

The Continental Op · 14-03-2025 05:06PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123264442#Comment_123264442

Worse ;-) I waited till the appointed hour 2pm as indicated on their website to phone a government funded body. Got a recorded msg saying the phone lines are only open 9am to 1pm. Update your %^$£ website.

suvigirl · 14-03-2025 08:50PM

Getting told today by two different companies that they will ring me back asap.

Obvs that means Tuesday 🙄

Jack Daw · 14-03-2025 11:07PM

That quite often packets of Haribo Tangfastics seem to consist mainly of the cherry flavoured sweets which are my least favourite of the sweets that come in a packet of tangfastics

suvigirl · 14-03-2025 11:22PM

People calling saunas, 'outdoor saunas '

Strumms · 14-03-2025 11:59PM

enjoying a travel guy on YouTube since way back who has great videos, intelligent, funny, informative & engaging but after hooking us all in, he’s started monetising…uploading certain videos as ‘subscriber only’ where you need to pay, if you don’t pay you miss the video so you are missing the continuity of his trips and experiences….

wants to get his time & expenses paid for which is fair but he has merch T-shirts, hats, maps & loads of bonus stuff on Patreon. Plus he has advertising on YouTube. Product placements etc…lad is getting too commercial.

thereiver · 15-03-2025 01:54AM

There had to be a word for someone who makes videos about fashion travel and or gives advice on lifestyle and shows products they receive from company's .They live off income they recieve from ad revenue and Patreon fees .

My ta is I have to use a podcast app to download 3 podcasts that are not avaidable on a basic website where I can just right click download mp3 file .

Bogey Lowenstein · 15-03-2025 09:41AM

People who every time they go for a meal in a group make a pig of themselves with the food and drink and then are the first to pipe up and say 'sure we will split the bill'. I would rather not subsidise your gluttony thanks greedychops 👎

Blitzkrieger · 15-03-2025 10:56AM

If it was me, and I was the RSA, and I put out an ad that featured an accident caused by someone being on the wrong side of the road going around a corner, my central message would not be to 'slow down on rural roads', it would be 'STAY ON YOUR OWN SIDE OF THE ROAD YOU MORON!'

New Home · 15-03-2025 11:03AM

TA that this thread is stuck here as the first unread post, despite my having read this whole page repeatedly.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123264153#Comment_123264153

The Continental Op · 15-03-2025 11:14AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123266223#Comment_123266223

You on a phone? Working fine on PC desktop.

cj maxx · 15-03-2025 11:37AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123266208#Comment_123266208

Dead right . My wing mirror was cleaned off by effers cutting corners on rural roads

New Home · 15-03-2025 12:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123266281#Comment_123266281

There are too many people who think they can drive like they're in GTA and shave bends and corners.

Charlo30 · 15-03-2025 12:54PM

When you get a message from a courier company telling you that your package will be delivered between 11am and 6pm. Any chance lads you could narrow it down a bit.

freshpopcorn · 15-03-2025 01:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123266434#Comment_123266434

Once had a sofa being delivered on a Saturday.

Booked the day and they confirmed it that morning.

No sign of the sofa. Eventually mssaged the company and was told the driver ran out of time.

What made it worse was I had thrown out the old chairs which took ages to pivet them out and had to bring them back in again.

Archeron · 15-03-2025 01:48PM

Unsolicited comments from strangers. Was in a shop this morning trying on a jacket and the lad behind the counter suddenly says, Jaysus I wouldn't want to meet you in a dark alley. I looked at him and said why is that, and he replies, the fooking size of you, I'd say you've murdered people!

I know I'm a big bloke, built like a shipping container as they say, but seriously, fcuk right off with your comments.

cj maxx · 15-03-2025 01:56PM

Just say to him that his ma was happy to get on her knees in a dark alley for him .If you are a colossus he’ll shut up

Bogey Lowenstein · 15-03-2025 02:29PM

Some of the ads on the site are just, what the...😳

What company is that ad for exactly?

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