Trivial things that annoy you

RedFormanFITA · 02-01-2014 12:32PM

kryptonmight wrote: »

Bank "opening" hours. Don't open to 10am at the earliest, close around 4pm, no late opening and no weekends.

Agree 100%. Also Revenue, what are they open for now, is it two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. Four hours a day? Good for some.

Billy86 · 02-01-2014 12:41PM

kryptonmight wrote: »

Bank "opening" hours. Don't open to 10am at the earliest, close around 4pm, no late opening and no weekends.

It's baffling to put it mildly - I don't know how people coped before internet/phone banking to be honest.

A classic one I remember when I was in school was that AIB Templeogue used to close for lunch for at least an hour, think it might have been an hour and a half somewhere between 12-2pm. Don't think they do it any more to be fair, this would have been around 2003-05... but the good old Celtic Tiger days!

I just don't get it though, it wouldn't kill them to open just for 3 hours, 9-12 or 11-2 on Saturdays which would likely make a lot of people very happy and even help them gain additional customers, regardless of which bank did it.

Captain Chaos · 02-01-2014 12:44PM

Or do what my Credit Union does. Closed all Wednesday but stay open till 7 on Thursday and open on Saturday till 1pm. Makes 100% more sense than the bank's hours.

eisenberg1 · 02-01-2014 12:55PM

I just don't get it though, it wouldn't kill them to open just for 3 hours, 9-12 or 11-2 on Saturdays which would likely make a lot of people very happy and even help them gain additional customers, regardless of which bank did it.[/QUOTE]

The bottom line is, IMO, the banks don't give a flyin ****e about customers, or least the customers who need to call to the bank.....the last thing they want is someone one calling to take out/deposit 50 euro. They want everyone to use ATM's or the machines in the bank. My local bank is the only business I know of where customers are waiting outside before they open, ( I think there is one morning per week where they don't open until 10.30...staff training??).

On the other hand, why someone shows up at 09.40 to wait outside in the rain, when they know the opening time is 10am, is something that puzzles me.

Wossack · 02-01-2014 01:09PM

You're walking along and bam, the person ahead just stops dead in front of you - like they've just had an aneurism or something

Typically a tourist, which I get. But increasingly its the 50+ y/o phone operators, who cease all other function while in text message check or reply mode, and become oblivious to all and sundry.

Spotted one the other day who didnt make it all the way across the road, and stopped in front of a parked car which was trying to pull out. After it became apparent that Bridey had sent a chronicle, they eventually had to beep at them

OldNotWIse · 02-01-2014 01:16PM

Wossack wrote: »

You're walking along and bam, the person ahead just stops dead in front of you - like they've just had an aneurism or something

Typically a tourist, which I get. But increasingly its the 50+ y/o phone operators, who cease all other function while in text message check or reply mode, and become oblivious to all and sundry.

Spotted one the other day who didnt make it all the way across the road, and stopped in front of a parked car which was trying to pull out. After it became apparent that Bridey had sent a chronicle, they eventually had to beep at them

Bipolar Joe · 02-01-2014 01:21PM

That people who don't have children are somehow less inclined to dislike things regarding harm to kids, so on. I'm unable to understand because I haven't knocked someone up? Wow. I guess the chicks with fifteen children must be social fucking geniuses, the amount of kids they queefed out.

Just because I don't have kids doesn't make me any less able to understand things about them. Films dealing with child cruelty are especially harrowing to people with children? Bugger off, I still have a heart.

DB83 · 02-01-2014 01:21PM

People who get on a bus and haven't yet even taken the change out of their pocket... and worse again women who haven't even got the purse out of their handbag yet!!

eisenberg1 · 02-01-2014 01:23PM

DB83 wrote: »

People who get on a bus and haven't yet even taken the change out of their pocket... and worse again women who haven't even got the purse out of their handbag yet!!

Or the handbag out of that poxy tartan trolley:pac:

Mint Aero · 02-01-2014 01:25PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Back in the day, the slow set was known as "The erection section"

That's how it should be done. Leave the Sergeant Major General stand to attention and he'll do the talking. Is there a better way to win a ladies heart? I think not.

OldNotWIse · 02-01-2014 01:26PM

Answering the phone and hearing a fuucking automated voice! What, do people just get machines to make their calls for them now. Feck right off.

ButtersSuki · 02-01-2014 01:27PM

DB83 wrote: »

People who get on a bus and haven't yet even taken the change out of their pocket... and worse again women who haven't even got the purse out of their handbag yet!!

Or queue at the tool bridge at peak times to get to the kiosk AND THEN start to look for change. Drives me focking crazy every time. How hard is it to get the coins ready while you're queueing?

DB83 · 02-01-2014 01:28PM

People leaving freezer doors open in supermarkets.... the ice cream could melt people!!!!

Can't pass by without closing them

eisenberg1 · 02-01-2014 01:28PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

That people who don't have children are somehow less inclined to dislike things regarding harm to kids, so on. I'm unable to understand because I haven't knocked someone up? Wow. I guess the chicks with fifteen children must be social fucking geniuses, the amount of kids they queefed out.

A "chick" with fifteen kids]........what a catch, think of all that chidderens allowance:D

eisenberg1 · 02-01-2014 01:30PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

That's how it should be done. Leave the Sergeant Major General stand to attention and he'll do the talking. Is there a better way to win a ladies heart? I think not.

Or a mans heart............:pac:

OldNotWIse · 02-01-2014 01:37PM

Smalltalk. Fuucking smalltalk! I have a cold, and sinusitis (and a massive hangover) and my eyes are dry and tired and I would like to just function for now and not exert myself with unnecessary niceties and pleasantries. Do you not realise how fuucking difficult it is for me to speak when I am like this? And you want to waste my time wishing me a happy new year and asking about my Christmas("Ah sure a quiet one is what you want"/"ah it was nice to get a break all the same"/"yeah yeah thats the thing")

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck off!!!!!!!!!

edit: the next fuucker who engages in unnecessary small talk will get a full blown, non-shielded sneeeze in the face. Off with ye.

gugleguy · 02-01-2014 01:42PM

People from Templeogue talking with a Stillorgan accent, now that the AIB Bank in Templeogue is closed for good.

salacious crumb · 02-01-2014 02:18PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Answering the phone and hearing a fuucking automated voice! What, do people just get machines to make their calls for them now. Feck right off.

I just had my first one of them ten minutes ago. WTF like? :rolleyes:

krudler · 02-01-2014 02:19PM

Ah the stock "ah quiet now you know yourself" answer to the how was your Christmas question. I've heard it about two dozen times at work today.

whiskeyman · 02-01-2014 02:22PM

krudler wrote: »

Ah the stock "ah quiet now you know yourself" answer to the how was your Christmas question. I've heard it about two dozen times at work today.

Can't exactly say 'it was fookin mad! coke and hookers for a week straight! Santa wasn't the only one to come this Christmas!'

eisenberg1 · 02-01-2014 02:25PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

Can't exactly say 'it was fookin mad! coke and hookers for a week straight! Santa wasn't the only one to come this Christmas!'

That Coke ad drives me mad as well

Conall Cernach · 02-01-2014 03:04PM

krudler wrote: »

Ah the stock "ah quiet now you know yourself" answer to the how was your Christmas question. I've heard it about two dozen times at work today.

It annoys me the amount of people that want to know how my Christmas went.

eisenberg1 · 02-01-2014 03:09PM

"was your turkey very dry?"
"No, I have my butcher marinate it in reindeer piss for three weeks before Xmas, and then just roast it for 30 mins...that's a chef trick"
"really?
"Oh yeah, and the good part is you lose loads of weight if you eat it like this"

salacious crumb · 02-01-2014 03:12PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

"was your turkey very dry?"
"No, I have my butcher marinate it in reindeer piss for three weeks before Xmas, and then just roast it for 30 mins...that's a chef trick"
"really?
"Oh yeah, and the good part is you lose loads of weight if you eat it like this"

Yeah, through dysentery...

bottlebrush · 02-01-2014 03:16PM

Conall Cernach wrote: »

It annoys me the amount of people that want to know how my Christmas went.

Or the amount of people who Dont ask you before Christmas where you are spending Christmas in case they might have to invite you to their place. In fact the amount of people who cut down on contact altogether come December in case they have to. Funny that, good enough to babysit and bend over backwards for them during the year, not good enough to sit at their Christmas table. Ouch.

poundapunnet · 02-01-2014 03:27PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

My OH and her fellow Brazilian friends thought that Penneys was something very different when they arrived here apparently. The way we say "Penneys" is the same way they say "Penís" and for a while there was a little confusion about what the store actually was.

"There's an even bigger penís on Henry Street" :P

My sister works with a Russian girl who thought that "Thanks, Penneys" was just an idiomatic/slang way of saying thank you in Ireland, because she heard so many women responding to compliments that way. It was a while before anyone explained to her I think, the lousy bastards

"I can give you a lift back later if you like, Irina"

"Oh thankspenneys!"

Ihatecuddles · 02-01-2014 03:37PM

poundapunnet wrote: »

My sister works with a Russian girl who thought that "Thanks, Penneys" was just an idiomatic/slang way of saying thank you in Ireland, because she heard so many women responding to compliments that way. It was a while before anyone explained to her I think, the lousy bastards

"I can give you a lift back later if you like, Irina"

"Oh thankspenneys!"

I've heard that so many times, always a friends sister, or a cousins colleague!

OldNotWIse · 02-01-2014 03:38PM

salacious crumb wrote: »

I just had my first one of them ten minutes ago. WTF like? :rolleyes:

Maddening they are!

poundapunnet · 02-01-2014 03:39PM

mauzo! wrote: »

I've heard that so many times, always a friends sister, or a cousins colleague!

Damn! Only time I've heard it, it was from my sister and I know the girl in question and she does speak a bit strangely in general so I believed it, but maybe I got suckered by a feckin urban legend.

Sure maybe everyone just knows Irina!

Birneybau · 02-01-2014 03:41PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Or queue at the tool bridge at peak times to get to the kiosk AND THEN start to look for change. Drives me focking crazy every time. How hard is it to get the coins ready while you're queueing?

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