Pet Hates

Hill Billy wrote:

Able-bodied drivers who park in diabled spaces.

What I'm noticing a lot of now is able-bodied drivers WITH the blue disabled parking permits using them to park up on pavements, double yellow lines, etc,.

I swear they must be giving the disabled parking permits out free when you collect 10 tokens from packets of corn flakes over here.

xzanti wrote:

They don't need to be disabled themselves, My brother in law has a neice with spinabipheda (sp) and he has a disabled parking permit... But he only uses it when he has her with him...

Absolutely no problem with parents/carers using disabled parking permits in those situations but when somebody uses it to save walking an extra 100 yrds when picking up a packet of fags and heat magazine (yes I've seen this) from the shops....ffs:mad:

Froot wrote:

I would have to say people with poor perception:

Walking out of a shop/doorway and just straight into me.
People who dont stop to let people pass in front of them.
People who just stop in the middle of the street and block everyone from passing.
Just general awareness of your surroundings and who is standing around you.
I dont bump into people or get in peoples ways because I look where I am going and I wait my turn to enter/exit somewhere.

Absolutely spot on here - I feel the same way. People are always walking around like sheep here in Dublin... another poster mentioned pedestrians that stop abruptly to gawk at stuff such as shop displays.
A fulfilling solution to this problem is to just continue walking and barrel straight into them without saying anything

Also previously mentioned and that I truly despise are people who walk in front of traffic without even looking - handing the responsibility for their personal safety to random strangers.
I was cycling in traffic once on O'Connell St., and, having built up healthy instincts after a few years' experience, slowed down as I started to pass two waiting buses close together.
As I approached the gap between the two buses just on my left, a woman pushed her baby's pram ahead of her onto the road, with no way to see any of the oncoming traffic since her vision was blocked by the bus.
Since I was already wary of the buses, knowing how sheeplike people can be in Dublin, I was able to swerve a little bit without hitting a car, but my real wheel went over the front wheel of her pram and as I passed, I heard the typical scanger response "ooh!", issued with a tone that seemed to imply that I was the careless one.
This kind of thing happens ALL the time.

Also, drivers (especially of taxis or buses) who overtake a cyclist and cut him off immediately, forcing him to stop, swerve or go up on the path.

Also.. aggressive scangers who think they deserve more rights than anyone else (eg. skipping people in queues and the like), or accuse immigrants of stealing jobs and getting free healthcare/housing/dole etc while they themselves queue up for drug treatments on their medical cards wearing Nike trainers purchased with their dole money, and never intend/need to get a job.

People who rant at length about pet hates. *raises hand hypocritically*

And Ohmygods, possessive territorial guys in pubs/clubs, women with entirely shallow tastes (tall men with good hair only, whether or not they're smart or nice), bouncers that see someone getting hit in a club and tell them to "take it outside" where the 3 knackers are waiting for him.

People who TALK to each other or on their MOBILES in the CINEMA. I spent a weekend in Sligo with me girlfriend a month ago and had to tell a group of girls to shut up, since their constant chatter was providing background noise to "The Wind that Shakes the Barley". They kind of went "ooh!" again, then talked less quietly until they finally left about 2/3 through the film. Probably had a monthly pass or something.

Cyclists cycling the wrong way down a cycle lane, inexplicably.

Knackers talking loudly on the bus, then telling people nearby to "stop listening" to them, ridiculously.

People pushing and skipping while queueing to get on a bus, even though everyone will get on.

[edit]
Oh yeah, and inconsiderate smokers, especially if they're all clustered outside a pub, choking people trying to pass by.
Still, it's better than the old days when you'd go into a pub just to use the jacks and come out 2 minutes later stinking of smoke, with your eyes burning.

And people who key cars. Worse than that, people who wreck bikes - you know, stamping on the wheels to bend them. That should be a capital offense.

... I guess that'll do for NOW

Litterbugs.

Low standards (or is that none at all?) in Irish politicans.

People who believe football (and Gah and rugby) shirts are fashionwear. Seeing people wearing Gah tops in nightclubs makes you just wanna get up and leave. You defo make a note never to go back to the place.

Fat/obese people who take up more than their seat and infringe on others. Get up off your hole and excerise.

People who don't know the difference between "they're" and "there" and "your" and "you're". Ffs!"!!!!

Gimps that take half an hour to get a score out of an atm on a Friday night. :mad:

And it's only 6:50 in the morning!!!

Muzzy wrote:

Charity Collectors, I see you, I have seen you before you've seen me, so don't come near me looking or money, if I wanna give money, I'll come to you

They don't normally annoy me, but the bloody well did yesterday evening. I was going to get a bus yesterday evening and there was two of them about 5 feet apart. Both for the same organisation. I told the first girl I'm going to get a bus and was in a hurry, the second guy seen this and still tried it on. Told him the same, starts going on about what hes there for. I said "Look I already give money to another charity which isn't your's. If I want to give you money I will. I'm going to get my bus". Grrrrrrrrrrr.

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

People who:
:rolleyes: occupy the washers and dryers then go off and forget about them
:rolleyes: expect others to pick up after them

Good point! More generally, how about anybody who reserves or locks some resource, then abandons it "temporarily" and not just to go to the jacks or something? A lot of people in the DCU Hub bar have a habit of paying for and setting up a game of pool when all the tables are in high demand, then going outside for a smoke/drink with all the balls on the table within the triangle, knowing that people won't be rude enough to just walk over and start playing. This is lame!

Let's not forget guys going on the toilet seat. I found people in work who all knew each other doing it (out of a team of maybe 8). Also, someone had a strange habit of spitting chewing gum into the toilet bowl, where it would sit until someone took it out...

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

:rolleyes: continuously stare at you through their binoculars when you are sunbathing

Can't say I've encountered this one...

Zebra3 wrote:

People who believe football (and Gah and rugby) shirts are fashionwear. Seeing people wearing Gah tops in nightclubs makes you just wanna get up and leave. You defo make a note never to go back to the place.

Agreed! Totally weak.

nlgbbbblth wrote:

- People who stand downstairs on buses when there are plenty seats upstairs thereby giving other passengers the impression that upstairs is full.

Hear hear