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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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


    According to AI there is some evidence it can affect those with bipolar.



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


    There is a full bork out tonight

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,137 ✭✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    When you have two buses to get home and you just want to go to bed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,467 ✭✭✭mrslancaster


    People on a supermarket queue who stand right behind you and when you take a step forward to put some space between you, they follow. When you take another step forward they follow again. When it happens a third time, I want to say something but grit my teeth instead. HTG it’s creepy standing so close to a stranger in a queue.

    Have people no idea about personal space any more or is it just they have no cop-on? Do they think standing closer will make the queue move faster or what?



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


    The only possible solution is to release a "silent but deadly".



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,302 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    We were standing in a cafe queue yesterday and there was a small, elderly woman behind my adult daughter who was literally leaning on her, and moving with her.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭maebee


    This happened to me yesterday in Lidl. Most people see my headscarf and mask and they give me the space I need. However I had a man in the till queue practically breathing in my face, despite my attempts to move away from him. Eventually I had to exit the till queue and stand at the packing area until it was my turn to checkout, when I said to the customer behind me, "Sorry, I'm a cancer patient and I need space from people. Some people don't realise that picking up an infection can be very serious for me." He just grunted and waved his hand. Hopefully, the message got through to him.



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


    I find taking a step back usually works better with those people.



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


    As someone who has been around people all my life ive noticed this and I feel very comfortable saying so, Ive heard it from Jnr dr's working in emergency/psychiatric departments most of my career! Just because science cant prove it completely doesn't mean its not true.

    Ta I think this kicked off 2nd next door give the amount of substance smoke and noise in the garden last pm, I'll be dragging all week now.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,676 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    Litter on the streets and the people responsible.



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


    One of those little squeezy fart-makers in your pocket or bag would be very handy. That would certainly get you some space whereas with the SBD they might not realise who dealt it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,733 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Not quite the same but after a walk this morning I thought I'd post about the empty one ton bags that the builders working down the road have left to blow all over the hillside. I counted three that have blow off where no one could get to recover them.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    That saint brigids day means Sunday licenseing hours I.e 12.30



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


    I've found a few supermarket chains have setup all Monday bank holidays at 12:30, but that only applies to St Patrick's Day… I don't see it called out in legislation that the other Monday holidays should have Sunday hours.

    The legislation even allows for sales from 10:30 on December 23rd & 24th if it falls on a Sunday.

    Some stores operate Sunday staff schedule and so there's no one in the off licence area so it is closed.

    There are nine public holidays in the year:

    New Year's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter Monday, the first Monday in May, the first Monday in June, the first Monday in August, the first Monday in October, Christmas day and Stephen's day.

    Trading hours on:

    • St. Patrick's day are between 12:30pm and 12:30am the following day.
    • The eve of any public holiday (except Christmas Eve) which falls on a Sunday are between 12:30pm and 12:30am the following day.
    • The eve of any public holiday (except Christmas Eve) which falls on a weekday are between 10:30am and 12:30am the following day.
    • Christmas Eve are 10:30am and 11:30pm (even if it falls on a Sunday). If December 23 falls on a Sunday, same hours apply.
    • Alcohol is not allowed to be served on Christmas day (unless in the case of a club authorisation).

    https://www.courts.ie/guides/licences-and-opening-hours

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



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


    Yep, that's just poor interpretation of/ misunderstanding the law by the retailer in question. As Odyssey says, St. Patrick's Day is the only public holiday where that applies. Happened me before in the Spar in Havover Quay and the guy behind the till was not for moving, despite me pulling up and showing him the relevant legislation on my phone. Very annoying. The Sunday hours themselves are a nonsense. I see so many people doing their weekly shop on Sunday morning having to leave a bottle of wine at the till.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭jacool


    Litter on the streets in my estate, with about 100 dogs being walked every day through the area.

    They struggle to pick up dog sh*t so maybe I was hoping for too much.

    I know its not their rubbish, but it is their estate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,115 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Expensive burgers.

    I never get the fuss over burgers when the cost over €20 for one and a few chips.

    Yes I know there better quality than McDonalds. However they are drastically over priced.

    There's also smash burgers which generally just tasted burnt to me.



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


    Unannounced visitors. Especially ones who you don't really care for.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,733 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Online Chat Agents. I know they are dealing with more than one chat at a time but they could at least bother to read what I write before asking another stupid question which I have already answered.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Tesco rathfarnham were admanant that it was Sunday hours today



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,115 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Adults who who use the word 'sick' when describing something good.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,302 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Some of them are pretty hopeless - I asked a simple, general question of one a few days ago and it replied 'before I can answer your question I need your phone number and email address'. I replied that it was a simple product query that did not need my information to get an answer, I did eventually get a reply of sorts, though it was not really a complete answer.



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


    adds, absolutely everywhere. Wanted to use flight radar FR24 to track my cousins flight.. and every about 8th or whatever time I just press something on the screen it goes into an add taking up the entirety of the screen, that I can’t ‘X’ out of , I need to wait for the countdown in the corner. 🤦🏻‍♂️ app also has become majorly laggy. Never was like that though until it became totally swamped with adds ! 🙈



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


    Not true the person who told you that isn't trained properly or is an idiot. Bank holiday trading times for alcohol are the same any other bank holiday bar St. Patricks day where it's 12.30. I'd sent Tesco an e mail to remind them the staff there don't understand the laws around alcohol.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,302 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The Dyson website (communication with which is pathetic) is insisting that my address is not valid. Its the PayPal address that is accepted by everyone else (with maybe one exception a few years ago) but its not good enough for Dyson. I've tried rewriting it and juggling it round but it will not accept it. Possibly because I live very near a border with another county and my legit address is a slight combination of my actual address and my official postal address. An Post are happy with it and deliver to me. Their bot is thick and useless. I will sort it tomorrow, but in the meantime its a TA.



  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude




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


    my Dad gives an unopened bottle of engine coolant to a neighbour who broke down outside theirs. Dad asks..” how long has the light been on ? “…..” ohhh since early last week sometime, or before, dunno “…

    I know the fella, just to see, and you could write your name in the dirt it’s that thick on his silver car. So never spends time or money cleaning it and doesn’t even spend time or money keeping it properly roadworthy….

    I don’t expect he’ll replace the coolant or offer any gesture of thanks… not that the value of it will be missed but would save my auld lad the inconvenience of traipsing off getting a new bottle and would be the right thing to do.



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


    Yesterday I managed to nick the tip of my left ring finger, nail and all, with a potato peeler. It's not deep but it's deeper than a paper cut, it's painful and goes under the nail. And I've been hitting it against everything today, drew blood again and the plasters won't stick.

    Now, is that trivially annoying enough?



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


    I’ve been thinking about a new denim jacket that I 10000% don’t need, have a nice and some Levi’s one but this is gorgeous, it’s a Nudie the same label I lost a denim jacket of theirs about 15 years ago and 20% off in the sale…Two minutes ago..’fûck it Strumms you’ll be a long time dead, order it…’…

    Go on their site, the one size that’s sold out ? Yep, large, my size. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤪. And the day before yesterday, every size was in stock… as the old saying, ‘he who procrastinates is lost…’. No big deal but still a TA…. 😵



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,712 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    I hate the who haw on this every year.

    I've noticed it now on radio/TV/online there is almost a formal schedule of yearly debates that will run like clockwork.

    The Paddy's day junket fills an awful lot of content hours.

    "Has Trick or Treating become too American". "The World Cup games are a 07:00. Do we need to open the pubs?". "There were only X amount of women elected". etc. etc. etc.



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