Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Bogey Lowenstein · 02-12-2025 07:28PM

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I want to rant about everything in the clearance section being permanently sold out. I am convinced people use bots to instantly buy up everything as soon as it arrives in clearance.

cj maxx · 02-12-2025 07:34PM

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Unfortunately I did

Tork · 02-12-2025 07:41PM

Bad coffee. I don't think I'm a coffee snob but I'm going to sound like one anyway! I stayed in a couple of different hotels for work recently and was served some of the worst coffee I've had in a while. The cup in one of the hotels was cold, ridiculously strong and bitter. The other tasted like it had come straight from a 1990's vending machine.

CrowdedHouse · 02-12-2025 07:41PM

The handle just cracked off a favourite mug as I was drying it (at least it wasn't full of tae as the rest fell to the floor)

looksee · 02-12-2025 07:46PM

My daughter was making herself a mug of tea. She poured in boiling water and was fiddling around with teabag and milk when she said 'whats that high pitched noise'. I couldn't hear anything but she has exceptional hearing and mine is poor. Suddenly she grabbed the mug and put it over the sink, just as the bottom fell off the mug.

castletownman · 02-12-2025 08:03PM

Feck sake.

Have an itch developing on my arm that I can't stop scratching once I start. Seems to be four spots that aren't quite hives or insect bites but something in between in a cluster. Also have one single one that flares up on the other arm.

Last week I got marks on my ankles that started off with an itch very similar to an insect bite that I always get an allergic reaction to. Scabs up overnight. But that would be during the summer and wouldn't really occur this time of year (I assume).

Driven demented with all the itching. Wonder is it brought on by stress?

It wasnt me123 · 02-12-2025 08:10PM

Two TA’s today:

TA1: postman opens gate, walks up the drive, pops letter in postbox and walks way - close the gate you muppet

TA2: In my clinic today, a person (over 65 years old) waiting in reception for the professional in other treatment room, having a full blown conversation on speaker on mobile phone. I had to open my treatment room and ask them to move or turn it off.

Since when did everyone have a complete lack of courtesy when visiting a business or just generally

New Home · 02-12-2025 09:33PM

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That's a very unisex thing to say. I'm offended.

New Home · 02-12-2025 09:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124036980#Comment_124036980

This post had me gasping in shock more and more as I kept reading, then I went "Oh. I see."

One of my arms broke.
One of my arms broke off.
One of the arms broke off my eye (How is that even possible?!?)

I think I may need professional help.

dxhound2005 · 02-12-2025 09:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124037060#Comment_124037060

Super.

odyssey06 · 02-12-2025 09:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124037389#Comment_124037389

I think you mean unsexy.

Strumms · 03-12-2025 03:01AM

a physio called to reschedule an appointment I made for my Dad online on Monday for next week.

I missed the call, didn’t understand a word left on my voicemail, they rang from a mobile and their signal was awful. I get an email informing they moved his appointment time, same day 2.5 hours later, that doesn’t suit.

You are supposed to be a healthcare professional, act like it and use a landline if your coverage is crap.
Don’t reschedule appointments or make decisions regarding clients time before talking to them, crap behaviour.

At €65 a treatment you’d expect better service, communication..and standards. Stop being crap.

New Home · 03-12-2025 02:38PM

I hate having to unleash my inner "Karen", if for no other reason than it's hard work, but when you try to pull the wool over my eyes and try to convince me that a fault in a product we've bought (and paid almost €700 for!) is a "feature", then you can be sure I'll start nit-picking at everything you've said, rebut every single marketing ploy you've thrown at me and you won't know what's hit you.

Lewis_Benson · 03-12-2025 02:45PM

I'd say there are still people who would say "087" or "086" if you asked them who their phone provider was.

CrowdedHouse · 03-12-2025 03:00PM

I have a little Robin friend that hangs around right beside me when I'm in the garden. I leave porridge flakes on the kitchen window sill and s/he picks away. I decided to buy a bag of mealworms as a treat for it. I might as well have left out stones. No interest whatsoever. Even the bag proclaims 'loved by Robins'…not my neighbour 😁

freshpopcorn · 03-12-2025 03:20PM

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I had to Google what it was called.

They couldn't be fixed. Earliest appointment they could give me was basically Christmas week.

So had to drive 45 minutes to the nearest town and now I've the expense of new glasses.

Currently waiting and I think my parking is going to run out.

Update, a woman just came in with kids and there all off school with the stomach flu.

Comhrá · 03-12-2025 03:24PM

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I have a similar robin living in my back garden. I tried the mealworms too after Googling what robins like to eat. He come and takes them from my hand now, but he's only luke warm about them.

I think I'll use them to feed the other scavengers (starlings) and try the porridge flakes. Those starlings would eat anything. They're like aerial sharks.

apache · 03-12-2025 03:28PM

I'm surprised the robins are not loving the mealworm. Chickens hens go mad for it.

CrowdedHouse · 03-12-2025 03:36PM

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That's a good description of the Starlings - even the crows are afraid of them 😄

Dial Hard · 03-12-2025 03:52PM

Mealworms absolutely stink too. Vom.

It's magpies and pigeons that clear my feeders out here. I swear to god they have me under surveillance too, about 30 seconds after I put anything out it's like a scene from The Birds. I console myself with the thought that if the big ones are getting fed in my garden then maybe the little 'uns are getting left in peace to feed elsewhere. I do have a pair of enterprising coal tits and a single (I think) bluetit who have figured out how to make stealth runs on the peanut feeder when the magpies get distracted trying to chase eachother off.

The Continental Op · 03-12-2025 03:54PM

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They might not have been mealworms. Occasionally you get soldier fly larvae labelled and mealworms. They look very similar and most birds won't touch soldier fly larvae except when they are starving and there is nothing else around.

Soldier Fly Lava top Mealworms bottom

CrowdedHouse · 03-12-2025 04:03PM

Yes like the bottom one, I think it's a reputable brand.

brokenbad · 03-12-2025 04:08PM

When you read an advertisement where someone is looking for a childminder but also wants them to do "light housekeeping duties" such as washing floors, hoovering, ironing, dusting and cleaning the bathroom in addition to minding and cooking meals for their kids…..get a separate cleaner FFS!!

Comhrá · 03-12-2025 04:11PM

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Same brand as I have here. I'll hold them till the weather gets colder. We've not had hard frost so far and I think there's a good amount of berries worms and insects still available to wild birds.

New Home · 03-12-2025 04:31PM

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I was thinking about this a couple of days ago, remembering my first childminding job. The lady thought that "light housekeeping duties" included washing the inside of her toilets with a scrubbing sponge and no gloves, washing her unmentionables by hand, washing and ironing the curtains and drapes that required a big ladder to take down, and "giving a lick of paint to the sitting room", which was huge. She would add something new every few days. I was 18, but I put my foot down. The child was a complete brat, too, but it was hardly surprising, considering the mother she had.

New Home · 03-12-2025 05:03PM

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Someone heard our prayers.

https://i.imgur.com/RsOXkPI_lq.gif

https://i.imgur.com/RsOXkPI_lq.mp4

My TA is that some, but not all, IMGUR links (and others) sometimes will embed while other times they won't. Go figure.

The Continental Op · 03-12-2025 05:18PM

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"They" say Robins love mealworms and indeed they do but its live mealworms they can't keep away from.

Other birds like sparrows, blackbirds and wagtails seem to love dried mealworms but I've not really notice any of our Robins taking any great interest in them.

Even our chickens who will eat polystyrene foam if given a chance won't touch soldier fly larvea but they will kill for dried mealworms.

New Home · 03-12-2025 05:37PM

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I had a blackbird that would go mad for live black soldier fly larvae, but only the smaller, softer ones. They're great if you have them in your compost heap, they'll break everything down in no time, especially when the weather is very warm.

New Home · 03-12-2025 05:39PM

A while ago I got a tea Advent calendar for a friend. I wasn't able to give it to her when I bought it, so I put it aside, somewhere safe. You know where I'm going with this, don't you?

apache · 03-12-2025 05:43PM

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The hens are very funny. They go mad. It's like they're on drugs.

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