Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

I know it's a thing with young lads going out but it's the first I've heard of it at a wedding!

The shoe-horning of Irish into various things this time of year. Like the Craig David Just Eat ad now with the 'adapted' gaelic bit.

Last week local radio opened every news bulletin with token primary school Irish- level sentences. Worst of all, there was a news item on RTE radio about the rise in popularity of Sean Nos dancing, and the person being interviewed began every answer with Irish before switching to English, making it twice as long as it needed to be.

Fook off.

couldn’t agree more. Can’t stand this throwing the odd-small bit a Irish into everything. All it does is highlights how nobody really has a clue of it. It’s so obviously forced.

It's a thing I've seen a few people do. Often people who'd be consider themselves cool.

You'd see fellas on a cold wet Irish day in a black tie suit with their pasty pale ankles hanging out.

Dumb/weird ideas: Did school drop off there and 10/11/12 year olds pyjamas day. Did we do this nonsense years ago?

My lad wasn't having any of it……don't blame him.

we had a football jersey day…. I get that but….. a pyjamas day ? Bit weird….

My TA….Forgot to put my phone on silent going to bed, woken up early by notifications, now also phone buzzing non stop all morning….90% of it from pages I like / follow on SM…. Need to get muting these as it is the same when I have my headphones on out walking or in gym, so much annoying BS on social media nowadays. You used to mandate what you saw, now businesses are doing it for you….

online shopping!!!!

Got a taxi home from the airport and the driver wanted to know everything, where I was, what I worked at etc. Don't understand why they can't just shut their mouth and drive. Nosey holes.

Was walking down the path and a big e bike overtook another and came right into my path and nearly hit me. Fuckers the lot of them!

That's my two gripes in the one day.

Queuing in the Costa franchise at the local teaching hospital at 7:30, I'd arrived at the same time as a couple of nurses so I let them go in front of me. About three people in front of them. I get to the top of the queue and I'm waiting for the baristas to finish the orders in progress - half a dozen-or-so medics, nurses, ambulance staff behind me. In walk two police and straight in front of me . . . "Excuse me", I said, "There's a queue", they both looked at me as though I was completely out of place, "We're on duty" said one (well you shouldn't be drinking coffee then, unless its your rest period), "There's still a queue" I replied, there followed an awkward silence . . . broken when one of the ambulance men behind me said "Guys, were all on duty", then a nurse said "I'm due on the ward in ten". They joined the back of the queue. When they'd been served and left, one of the baristas came around to clear the tables said wttet "The police are always doing this, nobody else gets to queue jump". I told him that next time the police tried it on to treat the counter as a barman would his bar - ignore them and serve everybody who came in before them first.

Oh! second trivial annoyance - on the way home I popped into Wetherspoons in the local market town . . . a queue had formed at one point at the bar and was snaking between the tables to the door. When did this queuing at the bar become a thing? Is it since the pandemic? Is it because teenagers who started drinking then don't know anything else? It means that when somebody gets to the front of the queue they've no idea what's on the pumps and then have to start a quick recce mission along the bar, just adding to the time it takes to get served.

For the last while my dog has been hard to bring inside, would previously run back in immediately after being called but now would be reluctant and more content to patrol around the periphery of the garden. Even when I let her out for a pee in the morning, goes racing for the ditches. Unusual behaviour. Put it down to being cooped in a lot during the sustained shite weather.

Well, I have since discovered she is the Jeffrey Dahmer of rabbits. Spotted her a couple of times recently walking around with a rabbit in her mouth but assumed it her discovering dead ones on her adventures. However, caught her this afternoon actively digging one out of its burrow and killing it then. And the fooker is the gentlest soul around humans.