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Trivial things that annoy you

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  • #7772
    Dubl07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Dubl07


    smeedyova wrote: »
    People who choose shop doorways as locations to do their hesitating.

    And the gaggles of elderly women who congregate for a chat at the bottom of the trolley-escalator. Skittles.


  • #7773
    Kewreeuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Kewreeuss


    osarusan wrote: »
    Don't know if it's been pointed out already, but the stressed vowel and consequently the pronunciation will change on whether those words are being used as nouns or verbs.

    I said: the amount of reporters and presenters who MISTAKE........
    I knoooww which syllable to stress for my noun or verb, even the odd adjective, they don't.

    Batchroom - say it quickly -for bathroom:D. A genuine hiberno-thingy word


  • #7774
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Captain Farrell wrote: »
    yeah, and the irish speak it perfectly.....

    "saherday, buhher, chimley, wardrope, drownded, "tree", troath, heighth.....

    Won't somebody think of the childer-den!!


  • #7775
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Coronation Street lingo

    "Am sorrah"
    "You're wrong ga"
    "Ma baybay"
    "Put kettle on"


  • #7776
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Those fcukin Healy-Rae gobsh!ts on TV3.


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  • #7777
    camel jockey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭camel jockey


    Freeloaders who have a TV but no corresponding TV licence.


  • #7778
    smeedyova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭smeedyova


    People who say/write "comprises of" :(


  • #7779
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    keith16 wrote: »
    People who type a space before punctuation. Trivial and annoying.

    Like this !

    Or this .

    Perhaps this ?

    Or ,I don' t know ,this ? !
    But here's the dilemma Keith, on which side of the punctuation do you put your smiley face icon yolkies!?!?!?


  • #7780
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    MJ23 wrote: »
    Those fcukin Healy-Rae gobsh!ts on TV3.
    They typify so many things wrong with Irish politics. Literally copied and pasted from a Father Ted episode, and playing up to it as best they can to boot.


  • #7781
    saltyjack silverblade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 480 ✭✭saltyjack silverblade


    When mods use the word "permabanned".


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  • #7782
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Idiots dragging up old threads.


  • #7783
    RedFormanFITA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭RedFormanFITA


    Days 298 wrote: »
    Just heard the stupidest thing.

    A dog poop reporting hotline for Dublin
    And there are such things as Anti-dog poop campaigners.

    Do people have so much free time to actually actively get involved in such a stupid cause.
    Like its bad to not pick up after your dog but for people to actually start a campaign so people report others to a hotline. The hell is a hotline going to do? CSI Mrs O Reilly's dog's poop.

    If it bothers you so much pick up "non picked up" poop so.

    Trivial thing that annoys me anyway....

    We need one in Donegal for the boyos who run the horses on the main road.


  • #7784
    deseil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭deseil


    People who say "touche" and laugh when your trying to politely tell them to f@ck off


  • #7785
    camel jockey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭camel jockey


    deseil wrote: »
    People who say "touche" and laugh when your trying to politely tell them to f@ck off

    I say 'toupe'. No one has called me on it yet. I am tempted to say Palestinians instead of Philistines when giving out about someone but am pretty sure they'd just think I was stupid.


  • #7786
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    camel jockey wrote: »
    I say 'toupe'. No one has called me on it yet.

    That made me laugh :) I like you.


  • #7787
    Gokei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Gokei


    camel jockey wrote: »
    I say 'toupe'. No one has called me on it yet. I am tempted to say Palestinians instead of Philistines when giving out about someone but am pretty sure they'd just think I was stupid.

    They probably already do, but just couldn't be arsed correcting you.


  • #7788
    mattser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,396 ✭✭✭mattser


    Almost everybody in the world beginning their reply to a question with " Listen "..................I AM LISTENING FFS, otherwise I wouldn't have asked the fcuking question.


  • #7789
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    People, especially on phones, who stop in between every sentence waiting for some verbal affirmation that you are still listening. If you dont, they say things like, "right?" or, "hello?" or "can you hear me?" - yes for fuuck sake I can fuucking hear you. Do you really need a sound effect after every sentence?

    Also, when you're late for work or at that "if I get there in the next ten seconds it will be ok" stage and then some pleb in front of you saunters in, coffee in one hand, bag in the other. Starts foostering for their ID badge...and you just can't pass them out! :(


  • #7790
    Green Giant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Green Giant


    camel jockey wrote: »
    I say 'toupe'. No one has called me on it yet.

    I have a friend who does this too. Worse still, it's at the stage where I've started it and, as a consequence, have received some very confused glances!! :)


  • #7791
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    People, especially on phones, who stop in between every sentence waiting for some verbal affirmation that you are still listening. If you dont, they say things like, "right?" or, "hello?" or "can you hear me?" - yes for fuuck sake I can fuucking hear you. Do you really need a sound effect after every sentence?
    Beats the people who insist on going "mhm, mhm, mhm, mhm, yeah, mhm, mhm, mhm, mhm, ok yeah, mhm, mhm, mhm" non-stop when you are trying to tell them something, as i they are trying to match you word for word (or "mhm" for wor, even).

    Possibly the most annoying speech mannerism in the world.


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  • #7792
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Beats the people who insist on going "mhm, mhm, mhm, mhm, yeah, mhm, mhm, mhm, mhm, ok yeah, mhm, mhm, mhm" non-stop when you are trying to tell them something, as i they are trying to match you word for word (or "mhm" for wor, even).

    Possibly the most annoying speech mannerism in the world.

    One of each would be a match made in lingustic heaven! :D


  • #7793
    DavyD_83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    People who can't read upside down;
    or even more annoyingly, can't read at an angle.
    When you're reading something and somebody on other side of table or to the side decides to try read it as well, but because they can't cope with anything other than dead straight typing think they have the right to turn the page/paper/magazine.

    I know I've implied that I can read upside down, and I can, but if they can't why would they assume I can...


  • #7794
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    DavyD_83 wrote: »
    People who can't read upside down;
    or even more annoyingly, can't read at an angle.
    When you're reading something and somebody on other side of table or to the side decides to try read it as well, but because they can't cope with anything other than dead straight typing think they have the right to turn the page/paper/magazine.

    I know I've implied that I can read upside down, and I can, but if they can't why would they assume I can...
    Had a flashback to school just there, where the kid beside you would forget their book so you had to share and basically wound up doing some weird variation of arm wrestling for 45 minutes. :p


  • #7795
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    MJ23 wrote: »
    Those fcukin Healy-Rae gobsh!ts on TV3.

    Jesus, they are something else, like something g from Killnascully, and only delighted to sound like a pack of morons, speaking in fuucking riddles.
    "well I cant, but then nobody can so if anyone cant do it let me know and I will shee if I can do it"

    Eating ham and cheese (easi singles no less) from the wrapper like a savage, at the very least he could have grabbed a roll/sandwich from his MACE.
    "I love ****tin in front of the fire to warm my toesh"
    "its ash clear asha sheet of paper".......words of wisdom indeed


  • #7796
    azul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭azul


    when pubs, hotels, cafes, restaurants etc charge top dolla for a cuppa and then use ****ty bulk catering tea bags. Feckin cheap skates. The petrol stations seem to be one of the few place that get this one right. ie: quality brand tea individually packaged. argggggggg!!


  • #7797
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,200 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    A trend I've noticed in threads here is that people are mixing up "rob" and "steal". It's easy, folks: people are robbed, and the property is stolen.

    "My bike was robbed" = wrong. You were robbed, your bike was stolen. :rolleyes:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #7798
    saltyjack silverblade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 480 ✭✭saltyjack silverblade


    I am in uni doing a phd and so tend to meet a lot of people who are up their own asses. Today it was the turn of the gender studies people who told me that I was oppressing all women with my masculinity and that we need gender quotas in politics to represent both masculinity and femininity.
    Wondering if I should start phoning every female I know and apologise for oppressing with my masculinity or give the gender studies people the beatings they so richly deserve.


  • #7799
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    saltyjack silverblade wrote: »
    I am in uni doing a phd and so tend to meet a lot of people who are up their own asses. Today it was the turn of the gender studies people who told me that I was oppressing all women with my masculinity and that we need gender quotas in politics to represent both masculinity and femininity.
    Wondering if I should start phoning every female I know and apologise for oppressing with my masculinity or give the gender studies people the beatings they so richly deserve.


    Gender studies lol. These people should be laughed at.


  • #7800
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    The Nikon aaaaaah music


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  • #7801
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    camel jockey wrote: »
    I say 'toupe'. No one has called me on it yet. I am tempted to say Palestinians instead of Philistines when giving out about someone but am pretty sure they'd just think I was stupid.

    I remember years ago a guy telling me about some East German who had defecated to the West..............


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