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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,734 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    I'd recommend going for a big a filter as you can get. Far better to have a huge one running at tick over than a small one making a right racket running at full wack.

    Also check availability and cost of replacement filters. If you think you need a carbon filter then they need replacing more often. The main filter can often have its life extended by hoovering it off regularly.

    I'd also avoid bells and whistles you don't want a filter unit that senses when it needs to speed up, because it will have a mind of its own. One we had was a pain in the neck, every time a dog walk past it it would have a fit.

    I have a huge filter unit in the bedroom. I run it at night at a low setting and I hardly know its on. Full speed its far to noisy.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Walking in the middle of a forest, tralalala, when suddenly your body shouts "YOU HAVE THE SCUTTERS"

    Made it home safe but still boooo



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,303 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I'll check them out, but I am a bit of a Dyson fan (I know that is not a fashionable thing to say), I have had a 'vacuum' cleaner that is now 18 years old and still going strong, and a stick cleaner that I would not be without - its practically put the big machine out of service.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,303 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Good points, will do. Agree about the bells and whistles, I feel that way about most machinery, keep it simple. Any way its way off topic, but thanks for the thoughts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,137 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


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



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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,815 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! 😂😂😂

    Well played, Odyssey, well played.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,985 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Tried the new Coke…ZERO ZERO ZERO that comes in the black can, it tastes like one of those old mouldy sodastream drinks, except even worse….

    Yep..advertised…’Zero caffeine’, ‘zero calories’, ‘zero sugar’… absolutely ZERO flavour.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,381 ✭✭✭✭kneemos




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,734 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,144 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    People who stand next to the crossing who don't hit the button. Either hit the button or get out of the way so I can press the button and the green man will pop up quicker.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,900 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    People who hit the button even though there's only one car approaching and if they had the cop-on to just wait for five or eight seconds, they could then cross without delaying anyone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,303 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    People - generally kids - who hit the button as they pass by.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,144 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Funny you mention that I don't even drive and that annoys me. Just cross there's no car coming in either direction ffs. It suits drivers and us pedestrians to keep the lights green so it all flows quickly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭It wasnt me123




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,167 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    A lot more than TA'd about this.

    The powers that be should be held accountable for their part in the death of that poor girl by those clowns on a scrambler.

    Any fool could see a disaster was only a matter of time.

    There should have been a stop to this carry on years ago.

    If any good can come from this it's that an end to allowing people to use these scramblers and robbed motorcycles to freely ride around the streets as they please.

    I won't hold my breath.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,138 ✭✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Yeah, it's especially ridiculous in a tiny country with a tiny population how cowboy and immature a lot of people here are.

    I tell you, no one cares until it happens to their child.

    And that's what social media has done ... converted everything that's important into nothing or a please fund me, ...

    basically a cop out for government and big business.

    It's "funny" when trillion dollar international companies and billions dollar public broadcasting and HSE here defer to the Samaritans or Aware when there is a suicide issue raised.

    Or we can't help you, did you try a&e or the Samaritan's !!

    Cop outs and dereliction of duty.

    not ta, but it's Monday morning, grr



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,244 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    People who hit the button repeatedly thinking the lights will change faster.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,303 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    And the (apocryphal?) story that a lot of those lights don't react to the button at all, they are on a system that goes ahead regardless, the button is just to make you feel better. Simple crossing lights are controlled by a button, but complicated junction lights are more than likely just placebos.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,373 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Had to run an errand over Friday and Saturday that involved travelling by bus. Friday was grand but Saturday was awful. Bus was full which was alright but every second there was some cretin with their phone out blasting either music, games or weird Hindi nonsense with graphics of human organs for some reason.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,303 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    And a TA heading towards a SA (serious annoyance) - the way (most people's) brains gradually pack up as they get older. Starting with the 'forgetting why you came into a room' that starts maybe around the 40s and 50s to the increasingly exasperating black holes that happen once you get into your 70s. I have just watched an excellent, informative video which I entirely understood as it was playing, but I know most of it will vanish as though it never happened once it has finished. Nothing (I think) to do with alzheimers and the like, just getting old. I could probably write down most of the salient points, but if I try to express them verbally I feel as though I am skidding on black ice trying to pin them down. Its very exasperating.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,373 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    40s? I'm in my late thirties and I'm getting that now! I'm trying to think of a statistical term and for the life of me I can't. It's something like deviation from the norm or something.

    Another TA. There's a lot of people who just don't pay for the tube. I spend thousands a year on it to get to and from work and other things. They just push through the barriers and nobody says a word in case they get violent. I'm out over £10,000 over the years just on commuting which almost makes me want to cry.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,709 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    When you don't even have to click on an article in the Irish Times to know it's Breda O'Brien blaming feminism for all the world's ills 🙄



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭galwayguy85


    Having to disable JavaScript on my browser (or copy and paste the URL of into another browser) to read articles from a certain Irish newspaper of record.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,815 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I hear you - it's like the "arms muscles" of your brains have grown too weak to carry anything and everything you try to hold on to slips off your arms and onto the ground. Maybe that's what they mean with "Your brain had gone soft". It is in my own case, anyway.

    The other big problem I have is repeating myself - I have a vague memory of having mentioned something to someone, but I have no recollection of who that someone is, so person A gets told the same piece of news 5 times and persons B to E none.

    One more: time has lost all of its meaning, there's very little to distinguish each day/week/month/year, so time slips by. How did we get to the 26th of January 2026?!?

    Recommendations for a good neurologist by PM gratefully accepted. 😔



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,815 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    @ancapailldorcha

    Outlier?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,373 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I think it's regression to the mean? There was a post in another thread about petrol prices and that's what got me started with this nonsense.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    A collection of ta's, I'm really shaky all weekend, which amounts to things like, constantly bashing myself into things eg elbow on a door I just opened etc.

    I asked for an experienced colleague for help and he told me the item I was looking for was clearly seen in the file I just spent ages looking at(this convo happens a lot with men of a certain background and age and who in this case, in the 5 years since he was told hasn't looked up the word dyslexia to see why I would need their help in this context) this has made me ridiculously teary.

    I need to get a form to payroll to complete my work pack for y/e, I had one outstanding but its arrived today, this means when the other one arrives Ill have to post it to HQ and then check on the whole mess, all while waiting for my money to arrive 😤

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    The whistler


    If we were roofers up on a scaffold ye sure, whistle to your hearts content but we are office drones and stuck at our desks


    There is a guy in the office whistling during the day and the sharp, shrill noise gets on my nerves 😡



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,641 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    I can only hope it comes back to bite the wasters on the arse. For instance if they are after a raise/promotion the boss says 'that incompetent dope doesn't deserve it anyway'.

    Or if there are people being layed off, the boss cans them first for being a buffoon.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    oh man, I feel you. I am in my mid-50s and get this every day. I often wonder if its the beginning of something I should worry about (but cant do anything about….) or …. well, I saw a short vid on YT about this very thing and the guy was maintaining that its what used to be called 'just getting old', but he backed it up by saying that when you are young you have 'x' life experience & memories and the older you get the more experience & memories you accumulate. Trying to remember a million things plus where you put the remote control is hard! I liked this explanation as it means there is nothing medically wrong with me :-) Also, I do remember as a kid telling my dad a joke "how many letters in the alphabet a Christmas - 25 'cause there is No-L " …. but the joke stalled at the question as he couldnt remember how many letters were in the alphabet in the first place - i remember thinking "how could you not actually know this????" , and then a few years it came up in conversation and I couldnt remember how many letters there were ! Knowing this sort of stuff when you are 8 is more important than when you are 50, I guess !!!



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