Trivial things that annoy you

saltyjack silverblade · 31-10-2013 11:34AM

Dealing with landlords. Mine are as cheap as hell. When going into the place it needed to be painted and the dryer was to be replaced as it wasn't very good. Now they think the dryer is perfect and the rooms are fine without being painted. They are tighter than a duck's arse in water.

eisenberg1 · 31-10-2013 11:35AM

Billy Barry Kids

People who parade the kid out to do a party piece on the new piano ( its not a fuucking piano, its a Casio keyboard!!) and its crap. You meet the parent a couple of weeks later and ask how little Mary is getting on with the "piano", and its "Oh, she gave that up, the teacher was a bitch.............

jimgoose · 31-10-2013 11:38AM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Billy Barry Kids

People who parade the kid out to do a party piece on the new piano ( its not a fuucking piano, its a Casio keyboard!!) and its crap. You meet the parent a couple of weeks later and ask how little Mary is getting on with the "piano", and its "Oh, she gave that up, the teacher was a bitch.............

"Quite so, Mrs. Fotherington-Smythe - it is indeed quite true that sometimes extremely talented children can initially appear to be as dull as ditchwater and about as interested as a bull looking out over a five-bar gate, but it is also the case that occasionally a child who appears to be as dull as ditchwater and about as interested as a bull looking out over a five-bar gate is in actual fact as dull as ditchwater and about as interested as a bull looking out over a five-bar gate!"

RedFormanFITA · 31-10-2013 11:45AM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Billy Barry Kids

People who parade the kid out to do a party piece on the new piano ( its not a fuucking piano, its a Casio keyboard!!) and its crap. You meet the parent a couple of weeks later and ask how little Mary is getting on with the "piano", and its "Oh, she gave that up, the teacher was a bitch.............

Hate them wee fookers with a vengeance. They'll be wheeled out again for the toy sh!te, sorry, toy show on RTE (Rich, Temperamental and Egotistical fooks?). Send them all out to dig ditches or fill in potholes, that would soon wipe the smug grin off their faces.... and as for their parents, 35 years plus hard labour.

eisenberg1 · 31-10-2013 11:47AM

RedFormanFITA wrote: »

Hate them wee fookers with a vengeance. Send them all out to dig ditches or fill in potholes, that would soon wipe the smug grin off their faces.... and as for their parents, 35 years plus hard labour.

Hard labour in a maternity ward;)

Rasheed · 31-10-2013 11:51AM

Do you know, reading all the trivial annoyances about buses, I feel I'm missing out.

I haven't been on public transport since 2010 (live in the middle of the country and drive everywhere) and I think I'm going to go to Dublin and spend the day on the buses soaking up the atmosphere of the aul wans, scumbags, children etc. Might go on December 8th, buy into the real culchie stereotype.

Pity I've missed Spanish student seasons though, hear they really add to the experience.

keano2012 · 31-10-2013 11:55AM

Rasheed wrote: »

Do you know, reading all the trivial annoyances about buses, I feel I'm missing out.

I haven't been on public transport since 2010 (live in the middle of the country and drive everywhere) and I think I'm going to go to Dublin and spend the day on the buses soaking up the atmosphere of the aul wans, scumbags, children etc. Might go on December 8th, buy into the real culchie stereotype.

Pity I've missed Spanish student seasons though, hear they really add to the experience.

go'wan rasheed u'll fecking love it! Hopefully a good rainy day and the dart and luas wont work. You wont want to leave Dublin!
ya spanish student season is probably a highlight- something everyone should experience at least once- sure it will give u a reason to come back in the Summer.

eisenberg1 · 31-10-2013 11:58AM

keano2012 wrote: »

go'wan rasheed u'll fecking love it! Hopefully a good rainy day and the dart and luas wont work. You wont want to leave Dublin!
ya spanish student season is probably a highlight- something everyone should experience at least once- sure it will give u a reason to come back in the Summer.

On a serious note Rashheed..............Howth to Bray on DART, on a sunny day, cant be beaten

OldNotWIse · 31-10-2013 12:03PM

Rasheed wrote: »

Do you know, reading all the trivial annoyances about buses, I feel I'm missing out.

I haven't been on public transport since 2010 (live in the middle of the country and drive everywhere) and I think I'm going to go to Dublin and spend the day on the buses soaking up the atmosphere of the aul wans, scumbags, children etc. Might go on December 8th, buy into the real culchie stereotype.

Pity I've missed Spanish student seasons though, hear they really add to the experience.

I'm organising day tours of Dublin Bus Annoyances now. I meet customers at the bus stop and give them a list of trivial annoyances and then they tick them off the list as they see them. The person with the most ticks wins. After, we all go to the pub and have a bitching session about the trivial annoyances. I even have my bus conductor uniform now

jimgoose · 31-10-2013 12:04PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'm organising day tours of Dublin Bus Annoyances now. I meet customers at the bus stop and give them a list of trivial annoyances and then they tick them off the list as they see them. The person with the most ticks wins. After, we all go to the pub and have a bitching session about the trivial annoyances. I even have my bus conductor uniform now

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Aglomerado · 31-10-2013 12:05PM

I just found out what "twerking" means. I thought it was a new IT-related buzzword.

How wrong I was. :eek:

(I'm glad I'm not one of these people who likes to adopt "fashionable" phrases. I'd end up looking a right tool if I'd used that one.)

KKkitty · 31-10-2013 12:08PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

I just found out what "twerking" means. I thought it was a new IT-related buzzword.

How wrong I was. :eek:

(I'm glad I'm not one of these people who likes to adopt "fashionable" phrases. I'd end up looking a right tool if I'd used that one.)

Hope you're not too bummed out over its meaning. God awful so it is.

eisenberg1 · 31-10-2013 12:08PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'm organising day tours of Dublin Bus Annoyances now. I meet customers at the bus stop and give them a list of trivial annoyances and then they tick them off the list as they see them. The person with the most ticks wins. After, we all go to the pub and have a bitching session about the trivial annoyances. I even have my bus conductor uniform now

I can see you getting your own cosmetic line, out on time for the Xmas market, ads for perfume called "!Ooh de bangovyerwan";)

OldNotWIse · 31-10-2013 12:09PM

jimgoose wrote: »

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You can be my first customer

Your first task for today is to find an overweight, flight stockinged, sandle sporting aul wan with at least two shopping bags, who will heave herself up onto the bus (extra points if she is carrying a crutch instead of actually using it) and announce to the driver, "Now dont pull off until I sit down". Gold star if she fhlumps down onto the seat and disperses a smog of mildewy, damp, depressing vapor too

Aglomerado · 31-10-2013 12:09PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I can see you getting your own cosmetic line, out on time for the Xmas market, ads for perfume called "!Ooh de bangovyerwan";)

That would go nicely with my "State of yerwan" tshirt!

jimgoose · 31-10-2013 12:11PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

You can be my first customer Your first task for today is to find an overweight, flight stockinged, sandle sporting aul wan with at least two shopping bags, who will heave herself up onto the bus (extra points if she is carrying a crutch instead of actually using it) and announce to the driver, "Now dont pull off until I sit down". Gold star if she fhlumps down onto the seat and disperses a smog of nmildewy, damp, depressing vapor too

Oh, the Humanity!! :pac::pac::pac:

eisenberg1 · 31-10-2013 01:11PM

Not trivial or annoying, but thought this might raise a snigger. A few years ago, a bit of office banter kinda got out of hand, and one guy who had a habit of getting a little tongue tied when excited, completely loses the plot, flings **** all over the place, and screams this classic (which we never let him forget)at the most verbal of his opponents.

"I HOPE YOUR MOTHER COOKS SOCKS IN HELL"

Everytime I see "The Exorcist" now, I crack up laughing

beakerjoe · 31-10-2013 01:17PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Not trivial or annoying, but thought this might raise a snigger. A few years ago, a bit of office banter kinda got out of hand, and one guy who had a habit of getting a little tongue tied when excited, completely loses the plot, flings **** all over the place, and screams this classic (which we never let him forget)at the most verbal of his opponents.

"I HOPE YOUR MOTHER COOKS SOCKS IN HELL"

Everytime I see "The Exorcist" now, I crack up laughing

Id pay to see that.

31-10-2013 01:49PM

If I see 'would of' or 'should of' again today, I'll cry.

old hippy · 31-10-2013 01:50PM

Drive by postings. You know the sort, someone you've never heard of or interacted with posts some snipey comment at you and then disappears

canadianwoman · 31-10-2013 02:06PM

old hippy wrote: »

Drive by postings. You know the sort, someone you've never heard of or interacted with posts some snipey comment at you and then disappears

I just had one of those this morning.

jimgoose · 31-10-2013 02:06PM

old hippy wrote: »

Drive by postings. You know the sort, someone you've never heard of or interacted with posts some snipey comment at you and then disappears

Goddam hippies.

DeanAustin · 31-10-2013 02:10PM

Grief tourists. Those insincere f**kers annoy me a lot.

And on a related note, posting "RIP - so sorry to hear of this death" or some such nonsense on a message board when someone famous dies. Yeah cos Whitney Houston's or Michael Jackson's family will be reading boards.ie.

zombiepaw · 31-10-2013 02:11PM

People who say "Beep Beep", instead of "Excuse Me" like a normal human being.
Suitcases with wheels on them, If it's too heavy to carry put it in two bags. The noise of them things, and most of the time it's a small enough looking bag.

Neon_Lights · 31-10-2013 02:18PM

zombiepaw wrote: »

People who say "Beep Beep", instead of "Excuse Me" like a normal human being.
Suitcases with wheels on them, If it's too heavy to carry put it in two bags. The noise of them things, and most of the time it's a small enough looking bag.

BEEP BEEP, Vroom Vroom

canadianwoman · 31-10-2013 02:24PM

DeanAustin wrote: »

Grief tourists. Those insincere f**kers annoy me a lot.

And on a related note, posting "RIP - so sorry to hear of this death" or some such nonsense on a message board when someone famous dies. Yeah cos Whitney Houston's or Michael Jackson's family will be reading boards.ie.

People who leave flowers at the spots where someone had died and they never even knew the person when that person was alive in the first place.

beakerjoe · 31-10-2013 02:25PM

canadianwoman wrote: »

People who leave flowers at the spots where someone had died and they never even knew the person when that person was alive in the first place.

I always assumed they knew the person myself.

canadianwoman · 31-10-2013 02:27PM

beakerjoe wrote: »

I always assumed they knew the person myself.

If they knew the person then fine, I'm okay with that but if they didn't know the person and just heard what happened via the news or Facebook then bug off already.

eisenberg1 · 31-10-2013 02:30PM

canadianwoman wrote: »

People who leave flowers at the spots where someone had died and they never even knew the person when that person was alive in the first place.

So, for example, leaving flowers or whatever at the spot where John Lennon was shot, is a annoying?

canadianwoman · 31-10-2013 02:37PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

So, for example, leaving flowers or whatever at the spot where John Lennon was shot, is a annoying?

A hugely famous celebrity's death is one thing. A random non-famous person is another.

For clarity, I originally meant random non-famous people's deaths.
I probably should have mentioned that.

Haven't had my cuppa yet.

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