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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    The word "cohort", for some unknown reason annoys me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,819 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Talking with my parents about a neighbour who has gone on holiday to some beach resort in Lanzarote.

    My mother said to me "Isn't it amazing you never had a holiday?"

    I don't know what she thinks a few weeks on the Camino and 4-5 city breaks most years are….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Can I quote my own post and turn into a double TH?


    Applied for a job and two months later they wanted me do an interview like the same day or the next day. I respectfully asked can we delay and I’m available every day next week. I left my last post at that.


    3 weeks later radio silence and I’m second guessing myself did I do something wrong 🤷‍♂️


    If you don’t want to give me an interview now why were ye so desperately eager to meet me immediately last month?

    Shambles of a company



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


    got a storage warning for my email account.

    Spent about 35 minutes deleting colossal amounts of spam, notifications, advertising and other shîte.

    One clothing retailer in particular I bought off twice in ten years are sending me dozens of emails a month, a professional networking app sends me multiple ones daily.. I unsubscribed from both.

    If I was to send a neighbour multiple messages every week id be up for stalking or harassment, yet when businesses do it it’s just down to ‘marketing’…the volume now is ridiculous.



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


    Was wearing gloves on the bike. When's this El Nino fecker arriving?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,362 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Chuggers. Especially when they knock on my door at 5.30 on a Saturday evening just as I am sitting down to watch the rugby.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,722 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    I'm not taking away from the girl, I think she has done so much for her sport etc

    However if I'm honestly going to lose the plot if we're subjected to her croke park match promotional segments for the next 3 months.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Hold My Hand


    My local Tesco no longer provide a paper bag for clothes purchased. Bought a sundress on the spur of the moment and it’s in a carrier bag with condiments.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,722 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    I don't shop in Tesco all that often but the last couple of times (over a year ago) they hadn't bags , they said it was an order issue or something..... obviously it was a strategic plan....I was raging as I'd spent over €100 on kids clothes and they landed in on top of the groceries.

    I don't mind bringing your own grocery bags as you usually have a fair idea of what you're buying. However clothes are a more impulse buy and a higher monetary value. Providing a paper bag should be standard.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,728 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    If you do bring your own bag you get the evils from security and times when I'm not dressed up standard I get followed around (this is how I know if their camera system is on/working) ta my own bag+jogpants+hoody+comfortable shoes=shoplifter it seems.

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,859 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    People who walk around shops with their phones on loudspeaker, and roaring like the person they're talking to is in the next county. #####! 🤬



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


    Kid bouncing a tennis ball all the way around the supermarket



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,722 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Well my local Tesco looks like a side set from the "Walking Dead" . So just having a complexion that's not a death pallor would have you stand out like a million dollars 🙈



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,892 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Always park well away from the front door of my local Tesco. This morning before I headed in this big SUV pulled up right beside me, so close he had to squeeze out his door. In an almost deserted car park



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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,633 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


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



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


    This crap. Google, how much do I hate you… let me count the ways. Unfortunately there's no free, independent alternative. Bloody monopoly.

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    I was logged in fine (in fact, I've been logged in for a good few days, now) with my account and my parents', which I'm keeping an eye on because they're not tech savvy. Same devices, same Wi-Fi. Stupid, Not Trivially Annoying But Very Annoying Indeed Google (aka SNTABVTAIG) decides to log me out and won't let me log in again. I'm raging. I'm also logged in on my phone, but do you think I got an alert about an attempted log in? Not on your nelly. When they do send them, it's to yourself after you've managed to log in. "Was it you, trying to log in from this device?" I wish I could tell it "Do you really think that some hacker would answer "No" to that? Google, you're an idiot."

    I'll give it a few more minutes, then report them to themselves for an attempted phishing (their "security"/recovery account prompts are just that).

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


    I needed to do some shopping this evening so I put my bike out into the front garden. I needed to finish doing something first, but when I was ready 20 minutes later it had already started to rain. "It's only weather" sez I, so I set off.

    50 metres from my house, still in the estate, the rain really started coming down. I was wondering if I should turn back but just thought "It's only weather.".

    It got worse and worse but I continued. I was completely soaked at this stage. When I got to Aldi, I shook meself like a wet dog and went in, passing about eight people standing at the door who had finished their shopping but weren't going to risk the rain.

    I did my shopping, probably leaving a wet trail behind me, and as I left, the 8 people waiting outside had increased to about 20. After a brief chat to a lad who was getting shelter at the bike rack, I headed home, with the torrential rain still falling. The roads were starting to flood at this stage, all the way across so I hopped up onto the footpath, with no apologies (although there were no pedestrians around to be annoyed by me).

    The entrance of my estate was completely flooded (and that never happens!) but I got home. I was completely saturated, even the insides of my boots, which I didn't appreciate. To be honest, I found that to be trivially annoying.

    But it's only weather…



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




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


    Was going to watch the BBC's Antiques Roadshow but gave up when I discovered it was all about sports memorabilia.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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


    No, but I'm sure that bag of sugar I bought was originally full. 🤔



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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,272 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Upgrading windows/doors is a nightmare.

    Theres loads of companies out there.

    People either say they are great or terrible.

    They don't get back to you with a quote.

    When they do they measure the windows wrong.

    In the end we just picked the one with the style door we liked.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Hold My Hand


    Looking in the mirror and beginning to question whether you actually did put make up on … damn aging



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,728 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    After a blissful 7 days of no stomping or banging or multiple "strange" spells flowing into the house, neighbours are back.

    So now the house has random buzzing or fan type noises 15/24, new random smells from 5:30pm-6:45 am and…….. more mice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Ta that in a dark humour way I'm stuck in the dentist trying to figure out which is worse, the random smells which induce horrible allergy symptoms or nervous system up to 1,00000000000000000000000000000 expecing rodents to shoot at higher than high speed from somewhere unexpected, + the overwhelming odour of peppermint oil as he'll not put down traps.

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,728 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    Dentists who well meaningly say bless you multiple times, when I'm choking bc they have their fingers resting in my lower mouth for too long and I start to wretch.

    Duh, just move your freaking fingers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Ta that now I'm questioning if I'm just in a bad mood and everything is going to annoy me today!

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



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


    Interesting comment on the mood. My doctor put me on SSRI's (Serimel) about two years back. The need for them is long gone but my wife says "you need to stay on those" 🙄

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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


    waking up to a weird strong burning smell in my bedroom. Odour like when people burn leaves, or other vegetation…Not pleasant. At least nothing on my property is on fire but I had to get out of my comfy bed earlier than scheduled to check it was that strong. Hippie dose neighbour having let everything grow skywards for years..over the weekend were cutting, trimming and pruning like there was gonna be no tomorrow so I’m thinking perhaps decided to burn the stuff… 😵‍💫



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


    A well know shop aimed at older women have no chairs in the changing room

    All very fine till you need to try on trousers . Not very easy for an older person so I took the trousers home to try on

    They dont suit so was back within two hours with said trousers folded neatly , all tags in place , receipt in hand . But No they dont give money back or back on bank card only can give a voucher for amount



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 63,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia




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