Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Dial Hard · 15-05-2026 10:40AM

People who feel the need to reply all to company-wide emails with "Will do" or "Thanks".

Hold My Hand · 15-05-2026 06:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124468516#Comment_124468516

I think he has a tick … “bougie” used again and now saying “sick”

Floppybits · 15-05-2026 07:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124466065#Comment_124466065

One thing I can't do is using grocery shopping online. Yep I know it's convenient but I can't trust anyone else to pick my food out for me for the reason you outlined above. Those picking your shopping won't be checking dates and I wouldn't be surprised if the manager of the store tells the staff to put food close to their sell by date in there. Good way to get rid of it.

My Mrs goes mad when I am taking cartons of milk from the back of the fridge and then I show her the difference in the dates.

Bredabe · 16-05-2026 03:17PM

Watching a small child at the self scans in local supermarket, mum was frazzled and dad was being useless in this sit, the child wanted to scan the milk out at the top scanner when it came free and was very loud and upset that his mum didn't scan the milk in that scanner.

She started to panic a bit and waved the milk over the platen of the child's preferred scanner but he wasn't happy it and went even further into meltdown. Ta Dad dragged boy out by the hand asking the child why he was always such a brat!!!

No judgement towards either parent in this sit(have been in versions of this myself) what annoys me is that parents and other customers assume its the child being a brat instead of him having a diagnosis( and the lack of knowledge generally and the unavailability of testing in cases like this)

Bredabe · 16-05-2026 03:21PM

I'm a mature female and while I battle with various educational and social issues once I make up my mind , I know its the correct decision in that time.

Ta the amount of times I had my decisions questions this past fortnight! if I ask or say something then that is what I want done or answered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

😡😡

It wasnt me123 · 16-05-2026 10:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124473322#Comment_124473322

Here’s a thought, one patient stay home with the child, and one parent does the shopping at their pace.

Bredabe · 17-05-2026 10:27AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124474731#Comment_124474731

Yes indeed, that situation was traumatising for mum and god knows the kind of damage it did the child!

Dial Hard · 17-05-2026 10:33AM

As a former child, I can attest that sometimes kids are just brats. Not everything is a diagnosis.

Bredabe · 17-05-2026 10:36AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124475547#Comment_124475547

Yes, absolutely, same here, but it’s so easy for people to label a child as a brat without looking deeper into the causes or reasons.

apache · 17-05-2026 11:26AM

I impulse bought a dog bed on Amazon that I don't need. I have two perfectly good ones here already.

The Continental Op · 17-05-2026 12:58PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124475557#Comment_124475557

The traditional Irish diagnosis is "Bold".

Strumms · 17-05-2026 05:07PM

contemplating a walk, looking out the window evaluating the weather, about 4.10 my neighbour and son pass mine walking with the two small dogs. Sky was darkest grey with low cloud and you didn’t need to be Evelyn Cusack to know that it was about to rain substantially…

10 minutes later they hurriedly return, soaked. Neither had an umbrella, hat, or raincoat. They were heading uphill into the weather. Did the mother expect ? Walk towards low black clouds…maybe… rain ? or get sunburned ? Weird. 🤪

The Continental Op · 17-05-2026 05:48PM

Out strimming the verge this afternoon. About a 3 hour job, two fills of the strimmer petrol tank. Always get caught out running out of strimmer line half a mile from home. So this time took spare with me and sure enough almost as far away as I go from the drive entrance I ran out. Great problem solved with spare line and off we go again. Get back on the second tank full to just outside the gate and after 3 hours strimming run out of petrol with less than a square yard left to do :-(

odyssey06 · 17-05-2026 06:12PM

JFC Cloudflare is gone way OTT lately. I've been using the sites for ages. I've accessed them already today and did not carry out anything out of the ordinary. Why does it still need to re-validate.

Archeron · 17-05-2026 06:27PM

I've got such a bad dose of the Glenroes tonight that I think Mileys ghost might actually appear and steal my dinner :(

littlevillage · 18-05-2026 09:47AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124463305#Comment_124463305

They were probably TA'd at giving their best sales sthick to some jack rabbit who it turned out wasn't the bill payer/decision maker.... Soo before unleashing their best Al Pacino style sales pitch they want to make sure who they are talking to.

The Continental Op · 18-05-2026 10:48AM

When you read an old post thank it and the thanks count goes down because you had read it an thanked it previously. Well at least it shows some consistency.

looksee · 18-05-2026 12:12PM

I have very occasionally read a post and thought, yes I agree with that , then realised it was an old one of my own 😀

odyssey06 · 18-05-2026 01:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124478762#Comment_124478762

It would also be a TA if you disagreed with yourself!

Dial Hard · 18-05-2026 02:02PM

People who never stop fiddling with/fixing their hair. There's a young lad (like, secondary school age) who gets my bus who fixes his fringe every 5 minutes. And then there was a woman on my bus this morning who, no word of a lie, ran her hand down the length of her ponytail every 30 seconds or so. I found it equal parts annoying and fascinating.

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell me it's clearly OCD and who am I to judge, etc.

Floppybits · 18-05-2026 02:03PM

Why do the folks at the deli counter plaster the butter on rolls or sandwiches? The amount nearly made me vomit. Now I ask for no butter and the look you get from the person at the deli counter, ye swear you just got released from a mental institution. Now I know people like butter but the amount they put on is ridiculous.

The Continental Op · 18-05-2026 02:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124479082#Comment_124479082

My TA is that its never actually butter they use, its normally the cheapest margarine.

Dial Hard · 18-05-2026 03:37PM

People who write "tele" instead of "telly". My brain is incapable of not reading it in a Yorkshire accent.

Bredabe · 18-05-2026 06:20PM

Roaming the supermarket like a zombie, I saw a box that said WELLNESS MOUSE. A wholesome mouse? mouse that meditates? smoothie mouse?

Picked it up. looks exactly like my HP mouse. I go back to the shelf to double‑check. Still says wellness. At this point, I’m blaming sleep deprivation and the lingering cloud of second‑hand party fumes around me.

After a full internal debate and at least two laps of the aisle, it finally hits me.

It didn’t say wellness. It said WIRELESS.

Ta I, a person who loves words, took so long to see its wireless NOT wellness Breda, wireless!!!!!!!!!!!!!🙄

blackbox · 18-05-2026 06:46PM

As I was reading this I thought it was going to turn out to be Wellness Mousse.

bodhrandude · 18-05-2026 06:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124479818#Comment_124479818

You might need a trip to Specsavers Breda 😀

sligeach · 18-05-2026 07:00PM

The National Lottery/Scammery making a big hoopla of this.

Historic First: Ireland’s First-Ever €1 Million Scratch Card Prize Won in Wexford

https://www.lottery.ie/news/winners-stories/historic-first-irelands-first-ever-1-million-scratch-card-prize-won-in-wexford

This isn't like the Lotto or the EuroMillions say, where anyone, anywhere can win the jackpot. This solitary ticket was sitting in a specific shop, waiting until enough people bought these scratch cards, that it eventually was won.

It says on their website that there will be 3 top €1 million prizes, well 2 now.

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Are the other €1 million tickets even printed and out there yet?

Edit: Also, I bought an All Cash Tripler scratch card, but the shop assistant badly ripped it, so he had to give me a different one. Of course, I didn't win. Now I'm wondering if the other one was a winner.

cj maxx · 19-05-2026 07:29AM

That I didn't buy more cheese slices

Dial Hard · 19-05-2026 08:42AM

I just saw someone driving while wearing over-ear noise cancelling headphones. What the actual fcuk is wrong with people???

Gremlinertia · 19-05-2026 04:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124481127#Comment_124481127

That reminds me - people (ok generally younger lads) driving with the hoods of their hoodies up.. You've lost huge peripheral vision and you don't look "hard" if that's what you're going for.

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