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Trivial things that annoy you

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  • #9572
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    I used to work in Argos.
    You'd think that picking your item and filling in the slip would be simple enough, that you'd be okay doing it, but you'd be surprised at the amount of people that weren't okay doing it.



    Another trivial annoyance of me is when, people quote a post but delete some of the [QU0TE] [/QU0TE] code and it ends up like the above.
    Sheesh ted! Was paranoid I did it there for a second. Then I checked and realised I'm a master at quoting so panic averted!


  • #9573
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Sheesh ted! Was paranoid I did it there for a second. Then I checked and realised I'm a master at quoting so panic averted!

    So am I :D, was a deliberate mistake above, that was why I had to edit it, as I had done it right the first time.


  • #9574
    Oops69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    _Redzer_ wrote: »
    Whenever someone says 'me' instead of 'my'. You just sound like you've no class

    I used to be of the same opinion but after many years in Dublin I now love the way the dubs go on like " me MA said dis and me DA Said dat" , regional variations in language are the spice of life .

    Ps that includes a strong Wexford accent .... Just about !


  • #9575
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    RainyDay wrote: »
    Sorry, but it's not up to the council to provide bins every few metres, and more importantly, provide the staff to regularly empty the bins, and to provide the landfill space for gits who won't look after their own waste. Our whole waste policy is based around the 'polluter pays' principal. If you want to smoke, or drink from plastic bottles, or eat sweets, put your litter in your OWN bag till you get home.

    As long as we make excuses for those who litter, littering will continue.

    So it is just a trivial annoyance then?:pac:


  • #9576
    Sauve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    People who spend ten minutes answering a simple question without actually answering the question.

    "Would you like something from the shop?"

    -" Eehhhhh.......emmmm....aaahhhh.....I only had breakfast an hour ago, but then it was only small, one sausage roll, I stopped in that lovely new deli that opened, and I won't really have time for lunch.....eeemmmm.....but I'm going for dinner tonight sooooo......"

    *twitch*
    "So you don't want anything then?"


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  • #9577
    mustard_igloo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭mustard_igloo


    When the batteries in the remote are running out and people shake the remote at the television while trying to change the channel :mad:


  • #9578
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    mustard_igloo wrote: »
    When the batteries in the remote are running out and people shake the remote at the television while trying to change the channel :mad:

    Pushing the buttons harder makes them closer to the batteries so the energy doesn't have to work as hard.


  • #9579
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    People between the ages of 16 and 60 who hesitate when stepping onto an escalator. Have you seriously not mastered this skill?


  • #9580
    Oops69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    Took my last one euro coin out of my pocket for the shopping trolley while sitting in the drivers seat of the car , drop it and where does it always go , yes , down between the drivers seat and the central console/ gear stick thingy , impossible to get at unless you have a tiny kid with Oliver Twist tiny hands to get it out , happens every time , there's a small fortune down there !


  • #9581
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    _Redzer_ wrote: »
    Whenever someone says 'me' instead of 'my'. You just sound like you've no class

    That wrecks me head that does.


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  • #9582
    RedFormanFITA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭RedFormanFITA


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    That wrecks me head that does.

    Could be worse though, when we all start sayin fings loike on me 'ead guvnor or ere guvnor, does you want your chimneys cleaned. The day I start talking like Dick Van Dyke, I want to be taken in a straight jacket to a padded room and the key thrown away.


  • #9583
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    RedFormanFITA wrote: »
    Could be worse though, when we all start sayin fings loike on me 'ead guvnor or ere guvnor, does you want your chimneys cleaned. The day I start talking like Dick Van Dyke, I want to be taken in a straight jacket to a padded room and the key thrown away.
    Eve had someone in a London/Essex accent ask you to say 'free' if you met them abroad because Irish people apparently pronounce 'free' funny, like with a 'c, h'?


  • #9584
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    _Redzer_ wrote: »
    Whenever someone says 'me' instead of 'my'. You just sound like you've no class
    shiver me trimbles. I'm a member of the boards underclass. Dang. Hmmm. I'll only lurk in The Gentlemen's club here on boards and keep my vulgar indignant orifice firmly shut.
    ly


  • #9585
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    People between the ages of 16 and 60 who hesitate when stepping onto an escalator. Have you seriously not mastered this skill?

    I do this THE WHOLE TIME :D.


  • #9586
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    RedFormanFITA wrote: »
    Could be worse though, when we all start sayin fings loike on me 'ead guvnor or ere guvnor, does you want your chimneys cleaned. The day I start talking like Dick Van Dyke, I want to be taken in a straight jacket to a padded room and the key thrown away.

    In all fairness, nobody ever spoke like Dick Van Dyke (In Mary Poppins):)


  • #9587
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    People between the ages of 16 and 60 who hesitate when stepping onto an escalator. Have you seriously not mastered this skill?

    Is that why they have employees standing at the top of escalators in shopping centres now? In case someone buckles themselves. I remember when I was a kid and I got my shoelace stuck in between the steps on an escalator and couldn't get my foot out. That was scary.


  • #9588
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    Is that why they have employees standing at the top of escalators in shopping centres now? In case someone buckles themselves. I remember when I was a kid and I got my shoelace stuck in between the steps on an escalator and couldn't get my foot out. That was scary.
    My guess is it's more to do with the inconsiderate f***s who are forever standing at the top of escalators. As in they get to the top (having stood in the dead centre like a pack of eejits so as to block anyone who might be in a rush)... and just stand there, having a chat, sending a text, checking heir bags/pockets, or whatever. Because to some people, the world only exists in their field of vision and once they look away from something, it just turns to a pitch black nothingness.

    It really does amaze me how people can get to the top of an elevator and just forget/ignore/whatever that there are numerous people right behind them. It's not that hard to take a single step or two to the left or right!


  • #9589
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    Oops69 wrote: »
    I used to be of the same opinion but after many years in Dublin I now love the way the dubs go on like " me MA said dis and me DA Said dat" , regional variations in language are the spice of life .

    Ps that includes a strong Wexford accent .... Just about !

    Nah I just can't stick it. Must be years of seeing fair city in the background and just negatively associating the two. But I still think it sounds rough, just speak proper English.


  • #9590
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    _Redzer_ wrote: »
    Nah I just can't stick it. Must be years of seeing fair city in the background and just negatively associating the two. But I still think it sounds rough, just speak proper English.

    Me arse


  • #9591
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    krudler wrote: »
    Ever think that they're told to do that, and don't in fact actually care if you're alright?

    Ever think I know that? Not just in Argos but in every place that does it. There is someone behind the scenes that thought it would be a great idea for staff to ask


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  • #9592
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Me arse

    ^ point proven


  • #9593
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    _Redzer_ wrote: »
    ^ point proven

    So you are suggesting that a persons accent and/or diction is what gives or takes away "class"?:confused:


  • #9594
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    So you are suggesting that a persons accent and/or diction is what gives or takes away "class"?:confused:
    No, it's just that it sounds rough, not that it means you actually are rough.

    I've met people from both sides of the spectrum who spoke in the same way.

    And tbh, how someone carries themselves in what they say and how they say it determines how they're viewed. The Newcastle accent is another terrible example.


  • #9595
    Aphex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    In argos looking through the book and the assistant asks me am i alright? I understand why they do it in maybe a clothes shop where they can help by getting your size or whatever but in argos?

    Do they want us to tell them what we want so they can go through the book, fill out a slip and queue for us?

    It's to make a sale simply. We are instructed to "assist" customers.


  • #9596
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Annoys me that there's a fine now for putting your feet on the seats on a train. Granted people should keep their feet off the seats, but I hate that it's now so nanny state that it requires a sign saying there's fine.


  • #9597
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Annoys me that this thread will close at 10,000 posts, only 400 to go:(


  • #9598
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Annoys me that this thread will close at 10,000 posts, only 400 to go:(
    Roll on Trivial things that annoy you 2. ;)


  • #9599
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Khannie wrote: »
    Annoys me that there's a fine now for putting your feet on the seats on a train. Granted people should keep their feet off the seats, but I hate that it's now so nanny state that it requires a sign saying there's fine.


    You're absolutely right Khannie, it should never have been necessary to introduce a fine to discourage people from soiling the seats for other passengers with their dirty footwear, but, y'know, if grown adults didn't act like children, there wouldn't be any need for a nanny!


  • #9600
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sitting on the couch, freezing cold.

    Could wait for heating to heat up house, but I'll be this cold for at least an hour.
    Could get up and get a blanket, but then I'll lose my warm spot.
    Arrrgh.


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  • #9601
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    You're absolutely right Khannie, it should never have been necessary to introduce a fine to discourage people from soiling the seats for other passengers with their dirty footwear, but, y'know, if grown adults didn't act like children, there wouldn't be any need for a nanny!

    Ah I think that it's trivial enough that a fine (and the hours spent on associated meetings, bye law writing, sticker ordering and placement, etc. that must have surrounded its introduction) isn't warranted. Every time I see those stickers I just think "Jesus....how many hours went into that and how serious an issue is putting your feet on a seat?"


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