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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,174 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    the middle of May and temperatures closer to winter temps than summer.

    Went for a walk at 6.15, got to the near pedestrian crossing, had to hot foot it back to get my padded jacket.

    according to my app it’s 3.20 am now and just 5° outside, ok early AM but the middle of MAY ffs, had to put on socks going to bed, again…🥶.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,174 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Also knackered boards and seemingly disappearing and reappearing posts …. 🥊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,144 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Just once, I would like to sleep for 8 hours in a row.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,604 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    It's generally well into May before it warms a bit. Bloody freezing this morning though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,224 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Some bird in its efforts to nest (Sparrows I blame you) has pulled all the fiberglass insulation out from around the chimney flue in the wall.

    Its bloody cold this morning so I want to light a fire BUT firstly I need to check I'm not going to cook a sparrow and secondly go and scrounge some fibre glass from a neighbor. I really don't want to buy a whole roll for a fist size hole.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,224 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    I've started feeling really sleepy after eating (don't panic I will ask my doctor if that means anything) so I might get a wonderful sleep from 7-9pm get up then go to be at midnight or later and hardly sleep at all.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭A Pop Fans Dream


    I had three unused Mach 3 razor blades in their plastic tray. Can't find them anywhere so had to shave with a blunt blade this morning. Did the weekly shop yesterday - if I had known etc….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,234 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    You know what, birds get a free pass for being assholes a LOT of the time. You'd swear they were all endangered species with the amount of pussyfooting that goes on around nesting season.

    Pooing on cars, squaking at the break of dawn to wake you up (goddamn wood pigeons), swooping in on you when eating outside.

    At least mice are more discreet about being pests.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,922 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I loathe the stuff. Like there isn't enough plastic knocking around as it is, let's tear up our garden and replace it with even more 🤬🤬🤬

    I'm convinced a large proportion of Irish people actively hate nature.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,681 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Its really not that cold this morning, I've had the balcony door open since 7am. (much to the cat's frustration, its difficult to play offside when the door is open). Maybe you have a lurgy starting? Anyway, if you put down a fire and there is a bird it will fly away before it gets too warm, then put the new fibreglass in.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,224 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    F ing freezing here, North Wind coming right down the valley at us. Nice in the sun out of the wind.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,922 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    It's "dangerous weather" as my mam calls it. Looks lovely, can be lovely in the sun but it's downright chilly out of it. It was 3 degrees at 7am the other morning when I was getting up. Definitely colder than I'd expect for May, and certainly not what I'd consider "open all the windows and doors in the house" weather!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,922 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Forgot my TA, which is one for the womenfolk of the thread: when you're trying to pull up a tight sleeve and your hand slips and you punch yourself in the boob instead 😖



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,234 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    For nigh on two weeks now my nose has been continuously blocked. Mucus build-up in the morning that I am constantly clearing. From memory, I never had hayfever before but I don't have any other symptoms to suggest its a head cold either. And if it is, it's a stubborn bastard then.

    But I am fed up of it anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,860 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


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    Oh no! 😱 Whatever will I do? 🙄



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,451 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    My mam would often speak of the Cold Sophie . The 15 th of May is St Sophies day and until the Cold Sophie is past it can bring cold winds


    Also known in Europe as the Ice Heiligan or Ice Saints week from 10-15 th of May


    So cast not a clout till May is out is an old proverb



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,224 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Try a month of Cetrine (or other generic). Less than a tenner for a months supply and will help out if it is an allergy. I can't live without the stuff.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,319 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Take your card back, demand they unblock it and use it in another store.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,922 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Fun fact: the May in that proverb is the Mayflower, not the month. I wouldn't know a Mayflower if it hit me in the face, unfortunately, so have no idea if they've blossomed yet or not.

    I definitely put my basil out too early, though, it's not looking great at all.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭A Pop Fans Dream


    Ring them up, string the scammer along & tell him to f*ck off. Bonus points for threatening them.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    The Whitethorn is the May flower I think. It is out in all it's glory at the moment. But the weather is cold and windy and very dry. My garden soil is cracking open already.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,681 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I always thought it was hawthorn? May blossom was the alternative name for it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Archeron


    It seems that it's no longer possible to buy a cold soft drink in a shop.

    Don't know if it's the demise of slidey door fridges in favour of the open face ones but boooooo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,502 ✭✭✭Poochie05




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,174 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I’ve had same TA too. My guess is with energy prices shop’s not having their cooling settings right down to where they should be. One place on way home I’m paying for drinks that are practically room temperature, when you open the fridge door you never get hit with that blast of colder air. And not the only shop.

    TA…Next door having some sort of get together. The loud annoying melt one is entertaining the kids outside. ‘Entertaining’ is apparently just shrieking any old scutter at them in a faux surprised tone with the words ‘gaawwwwwwwwd yeaaaaaaahhhhh’ exclaimed dramatically at the end of each sentence. So much for a peaceful quiet Sunday although as I type they are departing 🤪.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,224 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Chicken Wire! A TA of mine. Had to make some repairs to the chicken run today. What started out at 11am as a patch job has turned into a replace a complete section which at 5pm (Gin O Clock on a Sunday) is still not complete. The big TA with chicken wire is that if you put two lengths side by side the sections never line up and you always get bits that sag.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,681 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh yes, I was thinking of blackthorn. I only heard it called whitethorn in Ireland.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,681 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Lol, I was wrestling with chicken wire too, trying to make a short-term rabbit proof fence for the new shrub bed. What they are not snacking on they are trying to dig up. Likewise not complete.

    I walked up the garden and was standing beside an openish shrub, talking to my daughter. Moved a little way and a great big rabbit lolloped off from where he had been sitting maybe four feet away from me, in the bed I was trying to fence.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Whitethorn, Hawthorn. I should have used it's Latin name, Crataegus. Several varieties including the beautiful Paul's scarlet with the red flowers. Lots of names used in different parts of the country.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,922 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I hope you poured the gin at 5 anyway and took it out to the fence with you.



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