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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


    lost my only baseball cap, one I got on holiday in NY way back. Must have left it in the train or taxi on my recent trip. I liked that hat, was dead stylish and comfy, ohh well,searched everywhere.. 😾

    Also… bought four new pairs of Adidas tracksuit bottoms in the same shop… all four pairs size ‘L’. The black ones fit 👌, the blue are huge as in way too long…despite being labeled the same size… The actual fûck is it with businesses these days…? a minefield…. A little quality control ? fûckwits grrr



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


    Looks like Bork for a late Sunday lunch?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭Duvet Day


    At about 3.30pm I eventually made an effort to sort out my bedroom, it was like a scene from that TV show hoarders. This is after months of procrastination. I hung a load of jackets up on one of those rail thingies with the little wheels and the whole thing is after breaking and collapsing. The room is now in a worse state if that's possible so I've come down stairs and I'm on the couch with a glass of wine contemplating my life in general. Bearing in mind that I tried to log into my work laptop earlier to try and make a start at tomorrow's workload but it's not letting me log in ...honestly I'm ready to throw in the towel and fcuk off to an island.…on my own.

    TLDR ...fml.



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




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


    RTE have outsourced "their" coverage to, I don't know who, for the Ecuador v Ivory Coast match. I did think how are they going to cover every single match in this World Cup, well especially at the group stages? But they might be picking and choosing the matches they want. This is the first match I've noticed where this has happened.

    I didn't get to watch Australia v Turkey at an ungodly hour. Maybe they did that there too. I noticed things are bad when I heard… Keith Treacy… commentating the other...day. Bad enough to hear him on Newstalk, now RTE are stretched that thin, that he's a viable option.

    Post edited by sligeach on


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


    It's the FIFA feed. For Olympics coverage they would sometimes do similar in the past eg pickup the 'global feed'.

    I would cut some slack to RTE, due to the amount of games on at this World Cup and there's likely small audiences for overnight games involving non favoured teams.

    If the commentators were UK even, it would be less noticeable. The TA is that the FIFA feed commentators are very North American in their lingo.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,462 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    2 TA's today and its only Monday

    Retail shop I was in at the weekend round up payment even when paying by card. Seriously !! 35.98 rounded to 36.00

    I thought this was only when paying with cash

    People in work who let their work sit for months and months and then try to throw it over to you to sort

    Well feck off cause today is not a good day so I have just thrown it back to you again ! i can do this all day today

    Post edited by SAMTALK on


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


    What time do your mice like to be woken up? My lads would sleep in all the time, if given half a chance.



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


    Mine are up and running in double click time. :pac:



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


    Would have thought only with cash. Sure it makes no odds with a card.

    Wonder so they round down.



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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,023 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    When rounding first came in, one shop I am in regularly, was rounding up with card payments. Now it's only a couple of cents I know but I pointed it out to them. I notice they still say the rounded amount but have the correct amount showing for a card payment.



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


    Passengers bursting to get off the plane



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


    "We're making some changes to our PayPal legal agreements"

    You have been making some changes to our PayPal legal agreements every 6 months for at least the last 20 years - why haven't you managed to get it right yet?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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


    I would only ever be bursting to get off the plane if I was, well, "bursting"!

    Makes you look very suspicious at the passport check.



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


    That you can’t rely on the journey times on google maps. Yesterday afternoon I checked from my place to Swords Pavilions…knew from experience that the journey time quoted was not accurate…. Took exactly double the time the app said and that was with traffic being majorly light given it was a Sunday probably because of because of all the sport…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Believing a family member and going to Cala Bona.…feck me I wont be back.

    Weather is good last few days.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭Duvet Day


    Ta..when I do a food shop and momentarily lapse into a healthy living zone, then I come home with a load of leaves and berries but I'm back to my more unhealthy zone and realise that I'm starving but I want absolutely nothing that I bought in the shop.



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


    People who get up from having sat at a table who don't push their chair back in under the table annoy me, even though it's trivial.



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


    Amazon US packaging

    Durable item that doesn't need protection - comes in a cardboard box with extra padding.

    Fragile item that needs protection - comes in a brown envelope and ends up with dents and scuffs



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


    Lad late 20’s recently here has taken to walking his dog on my street, dog is always off lead, its never muzzled and it’s a German Shepherd…. Even if it’s docile and sufficiently trained and even tempered that can be an intimidating proposition for people … also obviously illegal on two fronts…



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


    I'm just after emptying the washing machine. I checked inside the seal to see if there was any debris caught in it, and I found a long-dead slug. I'm far from being squeamish, but that was really, really gross. And I also felt sorry for the slug. I should call it a slugh, really.



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


    Sorry, it was Keith Treacy on co-commentary. I can't stand his simple broken speech. Or maybe it's both Keith and Vinny, I try to zone out when they speak. 🥱

    And I understand it's difficult for RTE covering the 104 games at this tournament.



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


    When people say there going to X on holidays and I've zero idea where it is but they just assume I know.



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


    When you don't have .ie Amazon Prime and the item you want is 24.99 :-(

    Then there's the added TA wasting ages trying to find something you want get it over €25

    Edit>So I will soon be the proud owner of another 13mm socket - you can never have too many 13mm sockets or spanners :-)

    Post edited by The Continental Op on

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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


    You're going to have to explain this one to me. Why would passport control care who gets to them first off a given flight? Someone has to be first off the plane.



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


    It's the hopping from one leg to the other with your knees crossed because you're bursting to go to the loo that makes you look suspicious. 😂



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


    Can be an issue at smaller airports no toilets at the landing gate.

    I assume it is more about how someone looks when they are 'holding it in' :_)

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



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


    Ah!!! I thought they meant that being the first person to passport control makes you look suspicious 🤣

    My TA is feeling like a thick now 😆



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


    My TA is that I saw the word "Bona" sandwiched between "member" and "feck" and thought this was some kind of an "adult" holiday in California!



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


    The on off rain forecasted this evening. Fancied a walk to the far shop for some exercise and fresh air but trying to pick a gap in the forecasted showers. May not be worthwhile…



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