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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    I saw a pr*ck driver of an Audi SUV who was speeding through a supermarket car park today who suddenly had to slam on the breaks because a woman came around the corner with a trolley. There is a reason why car parks have very low speed limits. The worst was the look of annoyance on his face as if she was inconveniencing him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,466 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Yet the same media report "Forever 18" when someone crashes a car and kills themselves, and others.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,854 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    People who put up their Christmas decorations mid November. There's a number of houses around the corner who have them up for at least a week. One of them has a massive in your face Christmas tree in their front window, another couple of houses have outside Christmas lights up.

    Thankfully nobody on our road has done anything yet. We're more sensible than that. 😁

    2 weeks before Christmas is the time to put them up, and then 2 weeks after Christmas to take them down, imo.

    Would the people who put up their decorations in mid November, then by that logic, take them down in February? Probably not. I hope not.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    It is the rise of artificial trees that have made it possible.

    Back when it was all real Christmas trees, anyone who put one up now would be left with a dried brown husk by Christmas day and a floor covered in pine needles.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,466 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I don't think id blame artificial trees for it.

    Id blame the fact that the world is full of narcissists who think the world revolves around them and everyone is really impressed by everything they do.

    For me, if you put your Xmas tree up on November 1st, like some I have seen, you're just a kant.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,873 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    2 of our neighbours had their trees up this weekend. Ridiculous carry on. Usually I'm a 1st weekend in December kinda person but I've had such a bad year and I'm in such a bad mood I'm contemplating not putting one up at all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Olly Murs had a song a few years ago telling his gf that he hated her so much when she was drunk.

    The video for his new song is him out on the town having a piss up with his mates. Big hypocrite.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    What's narcissistic about people putting up decorations in their own home?

    We put up our decorations this weekend as my partner loves Christmas and if she's happier with them up that's fine by me. We've no outside lights, just a wreath on the door.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    Christmas Markets in November



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Charlo30


    The E-Scooter wan*er, tearing down the footpath this morning, who nearly knocked me over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,048 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    And then there's getting them out of those blister packs which nearly requires some Semtex to blow it open.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,120 ✭✭✭jacool


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    I bet you were :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,184 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Just as I opened it I noticed I picked up the wrong flavour of soup when I was shopping. It was fine but not what I wanted just the same.

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Superfluous and pointless box opening methods. Couldn't think of a good name for this but I'll give an example.

    I've just opened a pack of 8 cans of Aldi's Fever Tree rip off Tonic water. There's an area on the cardboard box that is perforated so you can tear it off and take out one can at a time. The problem is that its impossible to tear it that way without ripping the hole side of the box off so I just tear the end of the box off anyway.

    I know that one only to well. Even if the wrong soup was better than expected it was still the wrong soup so its hard to get past a high level of disappointment.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    I've badly cut myself on a bloody (literally) blister pack. I cut one side off down the seam then stupidly slid my finger along the cut seam top to bottom before I realised my critical error.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,466 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    People putting up a Xmas tree on 1st November are, for me anyway, wanting people to say, "look at those with their tree up". They want to be first to have it up.

    I have no doubt in the coming years we will see Xmas tress up in October. Id bet the house on it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,675 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Trying to diagnose myself via Google . I have symptoms of nearly every major disease plus a loads others . I probably should just go to a doctor 😡



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,184 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Ahem. "Tá cosc ​​ar alcól ar aon seirbhís de chuid Iarnród Éireann". 😇 😉

    Actually, there was another trivial annoyance on the trip home the next day. I was on the train 15 minutes before it left, so everything was grand. I was listening to a podcast but wanted to re-listen to something I had just missed but I couldn't find my phone.

    I checked my shirt pocket (the most likely place), the seat beside me, my jacket, and then my bag. I felt around my bag with no luck, so I took everything out. No phone. Then I stood up, checked under my seat and all around but no luck.

    Did I drop it somewhere? No, ya goon! The podcast is still playing, so it's nearby. I remembered I first sat on a seat at the far end of the same carriage so maybe it's there. The train is getting busier at this stage so I walked up the carriage against the flow of people getting on. No sign of the phone there.

    I went back to my seat, wondering what will happen when I step off the train in 40 minutes. Then I looked at the tray on the back of the seat in front of me and lowered it. There was my phone. ☺️😐️ When I sat down, I obviously lowered the tray, put my phone on it, and raised it again.

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    Oh, the inner embarrassment! I'm not even the sort who's obsessed by their phone but I still didn't want to lose it…

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Funny thing is twice I've had doctors use google and then show me the results.

    One was for pictures of a rash and the doctor wanted to compare my rash with some others off google and the other was when the doctor wanted a diagram to show me what my back problem might be.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,602 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Made two nice slices of toast yesterday morning to discover the jar of marmalade was finished.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,184 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Jogs my memory of breakfast yesterday, I put on an extra slice of toast but by the time I finished the one I had, I didn't want another 😁

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,550 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Dublin bus on TikTok, TikTok’s of their managers rallying liveried company fleet cars around the depot for a skit / challenge thinking they are all hilarious… here is the thing…… careless driving and they’ve clearly no seatbelts on…..thought about tagging the Guards, least they’d deserve but jeeez, there isn’t a cure for stupid…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,466 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I had to check the date when I was watching the UK news tonight, to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

    I heard Nigel Farage was being accused of racist language and antisemitic comments.......when he was at school!

    Seriously!

    Now I dont like Farage, but are we Seriously going to punish people for things they said when they wete children now?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    I rang a customer service helpline to request an email to be sent to me. I spelled the email address using the nato phonetic alphabet which included R for Romeo. A few hours later I had not yet received the email so I rang back and spoke to the same person. Turns out she thought I said O for Oreo. FFS.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭Tork


    Having to abandon a particularly nice cup of tea or coffee halfway through.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,873 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Cat brought another mouse into the house last night. This time alive so we were able to release it back outside but now I'm just paranoid that the house is infested with mice and that's why she's finding them so easily. Mice aren't that stupid to take up residence in a house with a cat right?



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,784 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    If they have enough hiding places, like cavity walls, then yes, they would. Safety in numbers and all that. But one mouse doesn't an infestation make (like swallows and springs). If you're not hearing any scratching, gnawing noises and don't find signs of them indoors, then you're fine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,592 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Agree with New Home. Cats tend to introduce more mice into the house (through the door or window) than they get rid of. Its only when you have taken every pan and baking tray out of a press, washed and disinfected everything then put it all back, only to have to repeat the following day that you know you have an invasion. Or indeed when you take a garment from a hanger in a wardrobe and find a hole eaten in the middle of it. Meanwhile, your cat loves you and is bringing you presents. Rolleyes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    people who complain about their neighbours putting up decorations in their own home.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,353 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    *Taps "No going against the TA" sign *

    I'm in work since 7.30 this morning. Feels like it should be lunchtime already. It's going to be a long day.



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