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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭Sandz066


    I do this all the time and gently say "wakey wakey" when they come out of their phone coma, or occasionally hello there phone zombie.

    It's shocking how little attention people pay to their surroundings these days



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


    went for a walk earlier and based on the rainy hourly weather forecast for my area that I saw about 4.30pm, I brought my rain jacket and curtailed it to a couple of laps around the nearby green as opposed to up to the far shops and back..

    Some forecast that turned out to be there hasn’t been so much as a drop of rain here all evening. I could have gone for my usual nice hour brisk walk with my headphones, got a paper and restocked my drinks, but, nope. 🫵🏼. I know forecasting weather isn’t an exact science and it’s changeable but jeeeeez. 👀



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


    I have discovered the best app for weather ! Its my eyes , i look out the window and make a pretty good prediction for the next hour ! Way better than RTE weather charts for sure .



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


    I'm getting seriously sick of the bus. Stopped for a record 11-minute "short delay to get the bus back on schedule" on Parnell Square this morning. During the entirety of which the driver left both sets of doors open. Was blown out of it and freezing by the time we got moving again.

    Also, is ever going to warm up a bit? 8 degrees, feels like 4 when I was getting ready this morning. Deloitte had an ice-cream van outside when I was walking past there a while ago - it's flippin hot chocolates they should have got 😡



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,037 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Our poxy weather….we're just a big eff off cloud!!!

    I love only two types days….a really dark dark gray day and a proper clear clear sunny day!! The in-between days are so depressing. Sadly, Ireland seems to be exceptional at the in-between days!



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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,084 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I love big, dark, rolling clouds, too.

    I had friends visiting from abroad a few weeks ago and I kept telling them the clouds were "wrong", the sky was "wrong", the whole weather was "wrong" and we only had one rainbow during the two weeks they were here.



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


    Have it up to here with narky dogs *points to forehead*

    Had one customer have their baby lying by itself on the couch and as soon as the dog sensed me approaching, it proceeded to scramble over the poor baby to start barking. Definitely left a scratch or two and nipped at the owner too trying to grab the child.

    Later on, another fooker was waiting for me below the letter flap and so out of my eyeline and very nearly snapped my fingers when I put a notice for a parcel through. Left a postit note on said parcel telling them about it, not that they'll give a fook.

    That's to add to two near misses over the last two days as well and laissez-faire owners.

    Love dogs and I am a dog person but by jeesis they really are a hazard in my work.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,691 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I thought I had it sorted with Tesco delivery , except when I checked the use by dates they're just inside the delivery date which means I have to chuck the food in my fridge . I feel an email coming

    .



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


    drone geeks, to the point that sports organisations need to take to their social media now imploring these idiots not to bring drones to upcoming sports fixtures… how did a specific cross section of people become so dumb that now sports organisations need to take it on themselves to remind them, not to do dumb stuff ?

    They don’t remind me to bring money to buy food and drinks, don’t remind me that I needed a ticket to get in…or any other common sense stuff…..but they do need seemingly to remind eejits not to fly drones over thousands of other people sat watching or actively participating in a competitive international sports event.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,360 ✭✭✭FishOnABike




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,421 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I was cycling home from doing some shopping at 8-ish yesterday evening when the rain started to pour down at an angle into my face, blinding me. After ten seconds, as the rain continues, the road veered to the right so that the low-lying sun was also blinding me. Mad weather!

    (And when I read your post, I thought of The Cure too.) 😄



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    100% this - people are like zombies walking around while glued to their phones. They don't even take calls the traditional way (phone up to the ear) anymore….now they have the phone on loudspeaker and up to their chin 🤬



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,024 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    I'm with you. Drives me mad.
    I was walking yesterday and met a guy glued to his phone. To add to this, he had a hurl sticking out of a bag, with the handle facing forward as he lurched around the path, he was so engrossed in his stupid phone. 🙄



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


    I see them hurtling towards me head down looking at phone . I put my right hand in a tight fist in front of me and if they come any nearer they are walking into my fist



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    When you go to the tip and get back and find a bag you forgot.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,634 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Hailstones in mid May ffs.

    Think will have to put heat on later and hot soup for dinner!

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Who does the bread I bought have holes in every slice.



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


    Is it Brennans? I've encountered this,not every slice though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Ordinarily, I like travel programmes. But Michael Portaloo's booming voice and blinding wardrobe puts me right off great railway journeys.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,424 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    People who say ‘sat’ instead of of ‘sitting’ poisons my hole, so it does.

    Give it over,bro.



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


    Yet another big shower of them here now. met.ie forecasting no precipitation and in fact dry sunny spells from 5pm till late for this area of Dublin…. But not quite working out like that…gutters outside so clogged solid with ice.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Ya Brennans. Your right it's not every slice it was just the two I happened to grab from the loaf. Every slice might have been an exageration on my part.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Wake me up when it's all over.



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


    The fact that every time I watch live sport on Now TV, that when it returns from a break, the channel goes back to the home page for whatever reason, so I have to scroll down for the channel all over again. Its really annoying



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Hold My Hand


    One of the presenters on the 6 o’clock Show keeps using the word “bougie”



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


    I hit play button on a playlist on my iPhone. Plays fine through the car stereo via Bluetooth.

    I reach my destination, do my shopping or whatever and get back into the car. 50% of the time, the playlist won't restart so I have to manually intervene by getting out of phone and hitting the play button again. Obviously this is unsafe and impractical so I end up having to wait and see if the music restarts before driving off. CDs are much easier to deal with.



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


    someone gifting me the wrong fragrance. Two versions, the ‘for her’ version is the one I got gifted..🤪

    either a genuine error and they picked up the wrong one or were gifted it and passed it off, thinking I’d not notice. They are an eccentric chick so I’m ruling out neither scenario……

    It’s not a majorly feminine / sweet fragrance but it was definitely just feminine enough for me to question it and come back home and google it, just didn’t smell anywhere masculine enough….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Hold My Hand


    Similar ta

    Got a present recently of a gift the giver really loved … a book about menopause … I could write my own book on that topic at this stage ffs!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,037 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    ,,,

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,634 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Maybe you can use it as a room freshener or something.

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



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