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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,894 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    How early are we talking? My alarm goes off at 6.30 on weekdays, generally drag myself out of bed around 10 to 7. Bit later if I've managed to nab a parking space in work.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Borky Pig.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,295 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Thread stuck, mustn't have had its <insert name of midday meal here depending on your class or dialect>

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,241 ✭✭✭✭kneemos




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,894 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I can't fathom having my lunch at 11am. The afternoon would be endless. Most people in my job go at 12 and even then I don't know how they stare down the barrel of a 4.5 hour afternoon stretch every day.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,487 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,295 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Are they grabbing a coffee and a biscuit at 230/3ish maybe?

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,894 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Possibly, but a 5/10 minute break to grab a coffee would do absolutely zero to take the sting out of that long of an afternoon for me. It wouldn't be a hunger thing at all, as I said, I generally only eat twice a day anyway. But if I was back at my desk by 1pm and watching the clock til 5.30 every day, I'd crack up.

    (We're in the office 8.30 - 5.30 five days, it's a killer.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,439 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    So here’s me, someone who already finds it tricky getting the right words out when the pressure’s on—and now it feels like even the meaning of words is shifting under my feet, thanks to the ever-evolving lingo of the generations I deal with.

    In the ongoing drama of that form from the other day, I was told to submit the original of a document. Which sounds simple… except I’d received said document as an email attachment. I asked three different staff members, hoping for a glimmer of clarity (because I wasn’t about to waste ink and paper printing off fancy copies just to have them rejected for not screaming “ORIGINAL”). But did they respond? Nope. Not a whisper. And of course, my trusty 15-year-old tech-whiz sidekick is MIA at the worst possible time.

    I was woken up at 5 am by yet another awful smell wafting through my bedroom window. So, I turned to my “personally trained” AI for wisdom. And would you believe, it explained that in this scenario, an original means... a printout of a download.

    Isn’t that just a copy?

    If I didn’t already have a headache, that kind of logic would gift me one.

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,928 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Social media pricks online craving likes and adulation because they’re no longer piss heads or junkies..overrun with the attention seeking nonsense.

    6 months sober today… aren’t I great…. Fook off. They rarely mention the absolute dickheads they were while on the gargle, or the Sh1t they got up to..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,323 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    The term "dodgy box".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭Duvet Day


    I know this ta has been mentioned numerous times but ffs…couple in front of me after work in Dunnes, 2e short to use another voucher, plenty of stuff to choose from beside the till but nah, she headed off for at least 5mins and came back with at least 10e of lady products. Couldn't just pick up chewing gum, paracetamol, crisps or chocolate like a normal person, then when she's apologised I'm telling her it's no problem…is it me or them thats the problem?

    .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,295 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Nah. Totally agree.

    You pick something to hand or

    Rush back for one thing or

    Pro tip, bring something ambient with you eg coffee, tea bags and leave it near counter in reserve.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,085 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Bartender saying, "youse gettin'". Train your staff how to talk to customers .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,027 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    €13.95 delivery on a small €18.50 item in Ireland (or at least pretending to be)

    I don't need it that badly 😀

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,439 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    My ta with this is the use of the phrase in professional media situations, it was all over local media yesterday!

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    Often have the dinner at 8.30am so i can get a good run at the day!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    My TA is Dunne's vouchers in general and the people who swear by them "save a fortune".

    Just stop increasing the prices every month instead.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    For some reason got that term "dodgy box" stuck in my memory and rattled around for a bit. While my brain was trying to work out a better term it came up with a different association involving a sexual transmitted disease :-(

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,894 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Got a big drop of foundation on my clean white top there - right on the boob. Off to Dunnes with me at lunchtime to buy something to change into.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,487 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Pity it's not Christmas, or you could've pulled a Phoebe.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭New Scottman


    Try and keep a running total in your head

    And also mentally decide what to grab if you're a few euro short. Note its location. Also note the checkout number you're at as it can be hard to find when dashing back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    My 80 year old father prides himself in keeping a total in his head as he goes around Dunnes and get annoyed if he goes over it by more than a euro. According to him, the cashiers are regularly impressed by his accuracy 😜

    My TA everyone today!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭Archeron


    A van passed me on the m50 today with a Rothweiller hanging out the window, don't blame him, twas warm. Beautiful dog.

    TA that as he (or whoever was actually driving) drove past me he slobbered and the wind caught it and blew it in my fully open window all over my face.

    I must admit, I wasn't expecting a face full of dog snot as I approached the Lucan off ramp.

    I laughed then went ewwwww



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Hold My Hand


    Queue Skippers

    Today, two “ladies” pushed ahead of me at the deli counter :(



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,928 ✭✭✭✭walshb




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