Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Bogey Lowenstein · 02-03-2026 08:35PM

Having something dry with a cuppa. But the tea is too hot so you can't dampen down the dryness for fear of burning your mouth.

New Home · 02-03-2026 10:01PM

Bzzzz-ork.

Badly Drunk Boy · 03-03-2026 12:12AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124279105#Comment_124279105

Indeed! But she seemed to be the exception.

In relation to working from home, I barely did it during Covid. I had the worst of situations; working 4 hours in work and 4 hours at home. The commute lessened from 7 minutes to 5 minutes, but why did I have to go in at all?

The Continental Op · 03-03-2026 10:32AM

Good new everyone; we have otters on the river bank beside the house.

Bad news we have a Jack Russell in the house barking about it all night.

castletownman · 03-03-2026 02:17PM

EVERYTIME the missus picks up a headcold (the same dose I had last week), it is accompanied by a cough that is so loud a howler monkey would be ashamed.

Her own siblings apparently slagged her about it for years growing up, but now I'm the one that is kept up half the night with it.

Strumms · 03-03-2026 05:25PM

On hold to speak to a customer service rep at a business ….holding for 27 minutes before hanging up.

It’s midweek, it’s mid afternoon, a massive fûck off multinational that has offices in dozens of countries… but won’t sufficiently staff their phones in Ireland … sweet. I’m trying to negotiate a new contract but I can’t do that without conversing with another human. All through the hold process a repeated message saying that online chat will help. It won’t as I’ve been down that particular road before, it’s an AI bot that will misinterpret everything.

brokenbad · 03-03-2026 06:19PM

Why is today's society so rude and ignorant? Between hospitality and retail staff and people working in the public sector - they give you a death stare when asked anything. Also, people you may know from passing when meeting them randomly on the street or in the workplace - being met with a blank expression when you say hello? People's addiction to Smartphones must be one of the reasons they have lost their social skills…..next time i'm met with a blank expression from someone i say hello to i'm going to roar "you ignorant FCUK" at them😖

looksee · 03-03-2026 06:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124281767#Comment_124281767

Honestly can't say I have had the same experience - are you in Dublin? I think you are more likely to get the off-hand treatment in the bigger cities.

Badly Drunk Boy · 03-03-2026 07:23PM

This is a very particular work thing, and e-mail as well…but one of our Purchasing team in India regularly sends an e-mail to a vendor saying "Send a quote for an X30T4502 flux capacitor", copies me on the e-mail, and in that e-mail says "Badly Drunk Boy, can you also ask this person for a reply?".

You've just asked them…and asked me to ask them…and they can see you asked me to ask them.

If it's really urgent (against my better judgment) I might ask too. I usually get a response from an angry German (usually) asking "Why so many e-mails about the same thing?". There have been other e-mails that I wasn't copied on. 🙄

But yeah, at least we don't have missiles flying over our heads…

But I still want my flux capacitor!!! 😠😉

cj maxx · 03-03-2026 07:39PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124279105#Comment_124279105

That's because the Blair government ditched Tha thatchers policy of an apartheid state

CrowdedHouse · 04-03-2026 11:15AM

I don't believe that the motor/heating fuel we're using this week was made from oil gone up in price. We're being totally ripped off.

Dial Hard · 04-03-2026 01:15PM

The building on one side of our office has a guy out pressure washing the footpath and the apartments on the other side have a guy with a leaf-blower in the courtyard all morning. None of this would be half as annoying if my colleagues didn't inexplicably insist on opening the windows in our air-conditioned building 🙄

The Continental Op · 04-03-2026 01:19PM

I lost my car keys AGAIN this morning. Went to get the spare and guess what was there hung up next to them ;-(

brokenbad · 04-03-2026 03:34PM

Another ridiculous headline from the Indo. Not everyone cares about women's boxing…..

Comhrá · 04-03-2026 04:00PM

"Another ridiculous headline from the Indo. Not everyone cares about women's boxing….."

I'd go so far as to say the vast majority of the population couldn't care less about it.

looksee · 04-03-2026 04:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124284618#Comment_124284618

Or boxing of any gender.

kneemos · 04-03-2026 05:23PM

Met Eireann. The last three or four days they've been forecasting rain around here,not a drop.

Dial Hard · 04-03-2026 05:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124284861#Comment_124284861

I'd much rather they were wrong about that than right, in fairness!

NIMAN · 04-03-2026 05:44PM

Katie and her promoter have been banging this Croke Park gig for years now.

She wont sell out Croke Park, there is no need to stage a fight there. Id say she'd struggle to fill the Aviva.

castletownman · 04-03-2026 06:50PM

Brother coming home from abroad for a fleeting visit over the next few days.

Of course, he is well able to immediately organise a round of golf with the other brother (knowing full well that I don't play), but they'd never think of arranging something that involves all three of us though.

Yay.

gormdubhgorm · 04-03-2026 06:52PM

I was eating one of those biscuit bars yesterday. It got a bit crushed from carrying it around. But ate it anyway. Put plastic wrapper back in jacket pocket.

Today put on same jacket . Put hand in pocket . Sensation of something in it … what’s that …. lots of crumbs.

Added difficulty was pockets cannot be turned inside out easily.

jacool · 04-03-2026 07:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124281961#Comment_124281961

"But I still want my flux capacitor!!! "

Use the one I gave you in 2028!

Archeron · 04-03-2026 08:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124281961#Comment_124281961

Last of the flux capacitors there love, two for a euro.

TA I miss when you could buy five bars of chocolate for a pound off a nice old Dublin woman with a pram from the seventeenth century on Henry Street.

They would migrate as one in a massive wave of olde worlde wheeled sugary madness like something from NatGeo when a cop appeared at one end of the street.

Good times!

whisky_galore · 04-03-2026 08:32PM

New vending machines with all over touchscreens, you can't see the products inside if they're half in/half out, you can't give it a shoulder anymore to get a freebie.