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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    They are an awful rip off. The Lidl version is just as good but much cheaper.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,797 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    When I get those emails all I’m thinking is what the fcuk did I order !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Dan Steely


    When dust and dog hair embed into the fibres of the floor mats and footwells in the car. A nuclear powered vacuum cleaner wouldn't get it out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    When you're in a shop and the person on the till is having a conversation with the last customer who is obviously their friend whose transaction was probably finished 5 minutes ago and are just chatting away. It's usually a pair of middle aged women. And even though the till person can clearly see me wanting to pay because I'm in their field of vision, they just continue with the chat for another 30 seconds or so.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,345 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    I made a big effort last week to sort out my "workshop" I even bought some new tool storage. My major effort was to clear all the stuff off my bench that had accumulated there, so I could actually use the workbench as a workbench. The new tool storage was to save opening up toolboxes on the bench.

    Anyway a week on and my workbench is again covered in the detritus of tools and materials from small jobs around the place.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Notice how you rarely see this in the two German supermakets. I don't know if it's true but I heard that staff chatting to customers is strictly verboten.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,990 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    When people message you on Done Deal enquiring if an item you have for sale is "still available" - and then no further communication after you confirm that it is. Hate these time wasting cnuts.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,249 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,345 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,345 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    That my newish wellies have a tiny hole in the heel - off to buy some new ones later today.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,682 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Yep, just get the lidl ones. The official ones have terrible advertising too, or at least used to. People pretending to be devious by eating an ice cream or some such shite.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    I remember a thread on Boards about the best way to repair a holey welly 🤔 With the rubbish search function you would be doing well to find it though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Lots of junk food companies have those 'you know it is bad for you but go on, be wicked and treat yourself' type ads now. They have to because people are getting more clued in about food and nutrition.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,345 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,249 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Seven months ago I requested a difficult-to-get item from a service, among whose tasks is the procurement of such products, in order to have it at hand in case of emergency. It's not a fire extinguisher, but let's pretend it is. Such service does house calls once every 4 weeks, unless a call is cancelled in advance or postponed. I also call to their offices once every 6-8 weeks to collect various other supplies.

    I was told it couldn't be ordered in advance but that they could get it directly from another service when needed. When I postponed this week's call to the 28th to save them a trip so that they could do two jobs at the same time, they were very happy about it and told me to ring in case of necessity between now and then.

    I now need my fire extinguisher (by tomorrow). I called them. "Computer sayz no. We have a spare one here, we pass your house 10 times a week but either you come here and get it or you send someone else, we won't drop it off." I told them many times before I can't pop in at the drop of a hat and that was the whole reason why I needed it in advance. If you had one there, why didn't you give it to me all the times I was able to call to your offices or drop it off during one of your house calls?

    Ok, I'll just wait unti the house burns down, then.

    There'll be words. In writing.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,249 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Would a drop of sealant (like the one used for sinks, bathtubs, etc) do the trick? Alternatively, there are tutorials on YT on how to make an adhesive out of petrol or acetone and styrofoam especially for reattaching rubber soles, I'd say that could be useful to repair your welly, too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Or try melting it and covering the hole with melted welly. There is a good chance of that making an even bigger hole though! This reminded me of a terrible joke.

    'Did you know there is a hole in your welly?'

    'Yes, that is how I get my foot into it' 🙈



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 61,606 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Puncture repair kits like for bicycle tubes - involves a process called vulcanizing which I feel I must mention as it for some reason it was the primary thing that shouted itself in my head



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,249 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    OOOOH, look at you, using science and all… 😁



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,972 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    My trivial annoyance is the SAP system that I'm using shutting down after 20 minutes inactivity. Some of that 20 minutes could be looking at information, just not doing anything with it. And anyway, 20 minutes is too short. It used to be an hour in the good old days (less than 3 years ago). And yeah, I've complained about this before.

    "BOO-urns!!" sez I!!

    I just this a search, and this thread was the first result.😀

    This was the second:

    Post edited by Badly Drunk Boy on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    Discussing the situation at home with a local rep, they said this was the first time they have ever heard of neighbours hotboxing next door on a regularly(almost daily) basis.

    Next day a multimedia advertising campaign on the impacts of drug driving, but yea I'm the only one with this issue!!!!

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



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,249 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    See? This is why I stick with Boards, despite all of its glitches, errors, malfunctions and borkings™ (technical term).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,257 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    In this unreal weather, not a breath of wind, said I might as well read the local paper out in the sun.

    Of course, just as I settle down a breeze starts whipping up, causing the newspaper to flutter and making it a pain to read in peace.

    Stillest conditions otherwise. Make it make sense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭New Scottman


    Went to Penney's today and someone had shat in the changing room. Staff member said it was an adult "who did it on purpose".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    I stopped into a centra in Mohill to get a cold drink and seen they sold chocolate Feasts, hadn't seen those in years so grabbed one and a cold drink for my journey . . what a disappointment the Feast was. I can best describe it as a bland bit of jelly ice cream, sandwiched between a soggy chocolate flavoured cardboard centre, surrounded by brown woodchip wallpaper. Not at all as I remembered them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,574 ✭✭✭✭suvigirl




  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,606 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Why is the Guinness served so cold?

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,411 ✭✭✭Princess Calla




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Wary and weary are not the same thing.

    Man I miss the "It's ADVICE!!!!!" thread. And R&R in general, actually.



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