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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,414 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    Whatever happened to not going against a TA, I was talking about a specific situation. I know the etiquette in London and always stand to the side. I’ve even witnessed a blind man nearly being pushed out of the way because his dog was standing beside him. This wasn’t London. I have an injury and can't climb steps easily, I was in an airport with a suitcase and standing to the side as much as I could. There was a stairs right beside it, if you want to climb, you could have used the stairs, otherwise be patient for a couple of seconds.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,614 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    When you hear the water flowing and you know the bathroom is going to be left like a disaster zone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,614 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Thinking of excuses to avoid the office Christmas party.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,771 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I've always found Diarrhoea is the perfect excuse .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,682 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That Dungarvan one you would die of boredom or old age if you didn't walk on it.



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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    "I don't wanna" is a perfectly valid reason. "I'm washing my hair" also works.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,613 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Not if you are bald though 😜

    My TA… Number of sports teams across Europe now gifting over shirt space previously used for commercial advertising / revenue instead to ‘causes’. Saw it here with Bohemians but elsewhere clubs like Copenhagen FC and others besides. Giving two fingers to parents with families and other supporters who want to go to every home game for a few hour’s entertainment a month and it be affordable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Put on a movie and halfway through it turns to complete shite but I need to stick with it to see how it ends.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,698 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Left the office today to go home, closed the door behind me and started to walk down the long dark spooky staircase to the front door. Let one of those farts that sounds like stepping on a squeaky floorboard in a haunted house.

    Get to the bottom and find there are two people standing in the really tiny alcove at the bottom in complete silence.

    And are these people who will laugh at a misplaced wind episode? Oh no, these are senior management from one of our foreign offices waiting for a taxi to their hotel.

    Why they squished themselves into a ridiculously tiny space and were standing there in total silence is my major TA, the fart entrapment is a secondary TA.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,285 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Yeah that would be the common sense approach. I calculated with likely insurance increase over the 3 years as well probably around 360 Euro overall. Lose over 10 percent each year on the insurance plus the 160 fine.

    More annoyed at myself than anything, as it is a road I regularly travel. Would be less annoyed if it was an area that I wasn’t familiar with. I think I might have been singing, to the radio at the time! It will be easy listening for a while now anyway…..

    I thought about the controversy with the case about the Gardai/quashing speeding fines in Limerick. Probably not the best time to be testing the authorities patience.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Allowing a driver coming out of a side street have right of way and then they can't be bothered to acknowledge the courtesy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,181 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    What's wrong with walking on them? It's not going to collapse now is it?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,243 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    If you fall there is a danger of getting clothing or even fingers stuck. But the risk is low. However on a badly maintained escalator that has damaged guards the risk increases quite a bit because if parts of the interlocking combs between the treads are broken off you could easily put a finger deep between the treads when you fall. I have seen escalators with a several damaged combs which could be quite dangerous.

    Also this is Ireland so "insurance" may be the reason for the requirement for signs not to walk.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    @Strumms

    Not if you are bald though 😜

    It works even better if you're bald, the look of puzzlement on their faces alone will be priceless. Besides, you could add an 's'… if you don't mind a trip to HR.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,243 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Biggest TA of my life. Getting txt codes for online apps like MyGov.ie and Banking. FFS if they would increase the time out by a couple of minutes I'd be grand.

    No coverage at home so need to walk up the road and back. Will eventually change phone provider to one that does txt msgs with WiFi calling.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    When you.re in a foul mood and don.t have a clue why



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,243 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    Another TA ! I'm at the age where I have to take numerous supplements etc



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    It was probably something that happened in a dream - the dream itself evaporates, but the feelings linger on. It's a right pain.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,682 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Or 'we are sending a text to your phone'. Me - where is my phone? Its probably in my bag which is upstairs/downstairs from where I am. Or its in another room, not sure which. (I am not surgically attached to my phone and am mostly on my laptop).



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    I just entered the staff team in work now and it smells like someone had just microwaved a turd in here 😖



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,243 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Well after 5 trips up the road for codes I almost got what I wanted done. Want to give some money to daughter who is moving house in UK. When I have it all set up so I can pay the money web page tells me the amount is outside the limit for internet banking. FFS now it tells me for amounts over £500 I have to download and install the app on my phone.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,525 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Ignorant plane passengers.

    Planes have spaces overhead so that each passenger can have 1 space to put in a piece of luggage.

    So why is it that often when I go to my space, there isnt one?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    When customers KNOW they have dogs that tend to go mental at the ring of the bell or knock on the door, and do nothing at all to contain them.

    Had one dog basically start chewing up a parcel as soon as I was handing it through the door because the owner was juggling a baby at the same time, and very recently another one had a big chunk taken out of a smaller packet in the milisecond it took to go through the letter flap.

    Its not that hard to make sure they aren't near the door, and if that was my hand they bit instead, I'd have to report it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,395 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,395 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I've said this before, but the HuffPost content on Buzzfeed is utterly unhinged.

    Also, I coughed myself into a back spasm this morning and have been walking like my late 95-year-old grandmother since (RIP Nana Bagowan).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    We actually had to train our two Jack Russels to stop doing that because their behaviour was embarrassing. They’re still not quite perfect but they’re much calmer now than they were before when the doorbell rings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,947 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Music radio in Ireland. Who's that crap even aimed at?

    Only thing worse than their choice if music is the inane ramblings of the DJ's.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,120 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    My cat is in full blown bollox mode. I have to cover the TV at night when not watching or else he starts pawing it. The TV downstairs has orange peels around it to keep him away.

    He's trying to get into the xmas presents now and knocking down anything on the window sill. Cats are bolloxes.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭apache


    When you tip and they don't even say Thank You. I'm done with tipping. Happened me twice this week. It was Chinese both times.



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