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Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

Frigga_92

Hope it's okay to start the new thread (not sure if mods have to do it).

I posted this right at the end of the last thread so just carrying it over as it has me driven demented.

I have a question on this subject.

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(my first thread on boards :cool: )

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RedFormanFITA

kowloon wrote: »

When you pull the trigger and get a click rather than a bang.

Damn Hollywood.

When you are trying to peel a price sticker off an item you just bought and your thumbnail/fingernail bends just a little.... it feels like someone has pulled it off with a pair of old rusty pliers. So price label stickers are a trivial annoyance to me.

kowloon

When you pull the trigger and get a click rather than a bang.

eisenberg1

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Pubic hair stuck under foreskin.

Yours? or belonging to someone else.....

Boom_Bap

Pubic hair stuck under foreskin.

Thargor

When you're on a bus or plane with high backed seats and some auld bitch hangs their jacket off the back of your seat it so it's touching your hair... ARRRRRRRRGH!

iwantmydinner

poundapunnet wrote: »

My poor friend gets that all the time from her family, she's 25 year old single mother who gets €25 a week off the dad, works a couple of days a week even though financially it wouldn't make a difference if she took the full dole to give the wee lad a good example, takes no money off her parents, and then her family start giving her grief for being too "selfish" to have another kid. what the f like?

Jesus facking christ. If she did have another while still single, she'd be getting grief from other quarters. Poor woman!

poundapunnet

Czarcasm wrote: »

The amount of people who say things like "Would you not give your child a brother or a sister? Would he not like to have someone to play with?".

My own mother's the worst -

"Are you having trouble with your little swimmers?"

Jesus fcuking Christ

My poor friend gets that all the time from her family, she's 25 year old single mother who gets €25 a week off the dad, works a couple of days a week even though financially it wouldn't make a difference if she took the full dole to give the wee lad a good example, takes no money off her parents, and then her family start giving her grief for being too "selfish" to have another kid. what the f like?

Czarcasm

poundapunnet wrote: »

Nobody ever asks men :mad:

Every once in a while my ma just says "27 is the optimal age to have a child" for no reason. More and more frequently the nearer I get to 27.

The amount of people who say things like "Would you not give your child a brother or a sister? Would he not like to have someone to play with?".

My own mother's the worst -

"Are you having trouble with your little swimmers?"

Jesus fcuking Christ

reap-a-rat

bobbygrant wrote: »

people using 'was like' or 'went' too much instead of 'said'.

I was in the room when my mother was on the phone last night and was wishing she'd use something else instead of said. What I heard was something like this:

She said they come in sometimes and can't afford to pay and she said they will pay eventually but she said it might be ages and I said well that's not much good to you now is it and she said no it isn't but she said she doesn't want to lose the custom and I said I suppose that's true too.

AGHHHHH!

I suppose it was a trivial thing that quite annoyed me.

iwantmydinner

Price stickers on books, and still worse... Price stickers on books that don't come off in one piece. Swaretagad, I spent 15 minutes picking one off the other day.

Standard Toaster

Sebastian Vettel's finger salute when he wins. :mad:

Aglomerado

Standard Toaster wrote: »

You know that noise styrofoam makes when you rub it together. Yeah, I hate that noise.

Urrgh. That stuff drives me nuts, puts my teeth on edge. Unpacking boxes from Argos is a nightmare. (Shudders)

Standard Toaster

You know that noise styrofoam makes when you rub it together. Yeah, I hate that noise.

Pumpkinseeds

poundapunnet wrote: »

Nobody ever asks men :mad:

Every once in a while my ma just says "27 is the optimal age to have a child" for no reason. More and more frequently the nearer I get to 27.

I think my in laws choose to believe that my husband would love kids and that I'm just some sort of cold bitch, well they're half right, he doesn't want kids either:D

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

poundapunnet wrote: »

Nobody ever asks men :mad:

yeah they do, although I think men find it easier to just say "nope" and end the conversation there

poundapunnet

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

People who say 'don't you have kids yet? Ehm I'm 41 next week and I've successfully avoided pregnancy thus far, not going to be changing my mind. Why do people just not let it go and accept that not everyone wants to have children We have 4 cats and a foster kitten, we're happy with that:D

Nobody ever asks men :mad:

Every once in a while my ma just says "27 is the optimal age to have a child" for no reason. More and more frequently the nearer I get to 27.

marcbrophy

People calling their group photos "selfies", when there's more than one person in the photo, just because they took the pic at arms length.
It's not a selfie when there's more than one person, you knobs :pac:

Pumpkinseeds

People who say 'don't you have kids yet? Ehm I'm 41 next week and I've successfully avoided pregnancy thus far, not going to be changing my mind. Why do people just not let it go and accept that not everyone wants to have children

We have 4 cats and a foster kitten, we're happy with that:D

Frigga_92

poundapunnet wrote: »

I was so cranky and that gave me way more of a giggle than it should have, thanks

Could you not pop in some earphones? Eating sounds drive me insane too, even just normal ones, if I can't leave the room when someone's being a pig I usually just crack the earphones out. You have to come up with a reason you have them in though...although depending on the person sometimes I do just say "I can't be listening to you eat". My family and close friends know it just makes life easier for everybody

Hard to believe but I had earphones in and could still hear them and anyway, I could still see them churning their food like cows in a field.

Aglomerado wrote: »

Misophonia. Found out about it only recently through another Boards poster. I'm delighted to know I'm not alone and that it's a recognised condition!

The funny thing is, I don't mind the sound of someone slurping their tea, but smacking lips is grounds for justifiable homicide!

I was on a packed Luas yesterday and there was a couple near me eating the faces off one another. Headphones not easily to hand, so I nearly puked.

I definitely have this. An extreme case!

Frigga_92

Tasden wrote: »

Like another poster from the previous thread who had their clothes dirtied by a kid with grubby hands- parents who don't control their children!. Coming home from the school and a parent was letting young kids run ahead and they ran into me, I wiped my coat off and rolled my eyes and shook my head in a "control your kids" passive aggressive manner cause I'm a bitch like that, the mam goes "wait til you have kids love, you want be so precious about looking perfect then"- eh I do have a child, she's in school on time and if she wasn't she'd be holding my hand not running around while I lag behind because I'm too lazy to be a parent.

People who say "wait until you have kids".

vintagevrs

So there used to be just the two of us in the house. Breakfast time was simple, 3 Weetabix and some milk. As Weetabix comes in packs of 12, mathematically everything was fine. Fastforward, and we now have a baby who eats Weetabix in the morning too, but he only has one :mad:.

This means that when I get to the end of a packet, more often than not I don't have three "bix" in my bowl, and have to open a new packet!:(

On the plus side, I now have a son.:)

poundapunnet

Aglomerado wrote: »

Misophonia. Found out about it only recently through another Boards poster. I'm delighted to know I'm not alone and that it's a recognised condition!

The funny thing is, I don't mind the sound of someone slurping their tea, but smacking lips is grounds for justifiable homicide!

I was on a packed Luas yesterday and there was a couple near me eating the faces off one another. Headphones not easily to hand, so I nearly puked.

Uuuuugh kissing sounds is another one, blech. Even in films it gets me. At the start of Kids there's an extended and very noisy shifting scene, I nearly had to turn it off. Turned out to be the least of the reasons to turn it off but anyways.

Yeah I was so happy when I found out about that too, turns out I'm not a narky bitch, I have a thing! People can't give me crap about it if I have a thing!

eisenberg1

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

One of the disgusting eaters in work is now doing this. You all might see me on the news this evening if this goes on much longer.

Jesus, take them to task!, Tell them they are noisy and disgusting fuuckers and could they please piss off and eat somewhere else cos they are making you puke!!

By the by, I hope you are not a teacher on lunchroom duty, looking after 6 year olds:D

Mariasofia

Forgot my lunch and Im starving.....

Aglomerado

poundapunnet wrote: »

:eek:

I've always had a problem with certain noises and been sensitive to noise in general since I was a kid (I think there is actually some kind of neurological condition that causes it, can't be bothered looking it up though), and when you're a kid you can get away with bursting into tears or kicking people to get your point across so the issue doesn't really come up that much with my family any more.

Misophonia. Found out about it only recently through another Boards poster. I'm delighted to know I'm not alone and that it's a recognised condition!

The funny thing is, I don't mind the sound of someone slurping their tea, but smacking lips is grounds for justifiable homicide!

I was on a packed Luas yesterday and there was a couple near me eating the faces off one another. Headphones not easily to hand, so I nearly puked.

Arrow.

People who read a f*king blog on how great paleo is and then begins immediately condemning grains and all things carbs.

Med diet - well studied and proven to reduce mortality. Includes grains.

Also the advice in the nutrition forum - 'one size fits all' paleoesque diets for all! :rolleyes:

Just eat in moderation and eat plenty of vegetables and some fruit daily. Jesus! A sandwich every couple of days isn't going to kill you!

/rant

poundapunnet

Aglomerado wrote: »

At least your family understand. My mother makes a point of standing opposite me when eating something crunchy just to watch my face. :mad:

:eek:

I've always had a problem with certain noises and been sensitive to noise in general since I was a kid (I think there is actually some kind of neurological condition that causes it, can't be bothered looking it up though), and when you're a kid you can get away with bursting into tears or kicking people to get your point across

so the issue doesn't really come up that much with my family any more.

Aglomerado

poundapunnet wrote: »

Could you not pop in some earphones? Eating sounds drive me insane too, even just normal ones, if I can't leave the room when someone's being a pig I usually just crack the earphones out. You have to come up with a reason you have them in though...although depending on the person sometimes I do just say "I can't be listening to you eat". My family and close friends know it just makes life easier for everybody

I wear them all the time in work, open plan workplace is full of stupid sounds (A light comes up on my phone when it rings so I don't miss calls). I don't work with any disgusting eaters currently, but I don't like to hear my colleagues eating apples in work. I don't even like the sounds I make when eating apples!

At least your family understand. My mother makes a point of standing opposite me when eating something crunchy just to watch my face. :mad:

NIMAN

People who blame everything that ever happens on the Government.

The recent storms are a perfect example. The Gov have, like many communities, taken a bashing with a lot of folk in the media complaining that the Gov needs to do this, do that, provide defences etc.

No Gov in the world, especially not a bust country like Ireland, will ever be able to defend its land and population against the force of nature, no matter how much is spent. Look at the way the US has ground to a standstill.

One piece on TV news stood out for me, when a house was near the edge of a cliff that had eroded back rapidly over recent years. There was someone complaining that something would need to be done about it! Here's something to remember, Gov's can't stop erosion, so DON'T BUILD HOUSES NEAR THE EDGE OF LAND MASSES !!

poundapunnet

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Not really my problem, but a trivial annoyance ....

My OH has appointment to see the "downstairs" doctor, so that morning, extra long shower, a bit of a tidy up "below", nice fresh undies and off to the doc. All that effort, and what does the doc do? PUTS ON A PAIR OF RUBBER GLOVES!!!

The nerve of some people.....................

I was so cranky and that gave me way more of a giggle than it should have, thanks

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

One of the disgusting eaters in work is now doing this. You all might see me on the news this evening if this goes on much longer.

Could you not pop in some earphones? Eating sounds drive me insane too, even just normal ones, if I can't leave the room when someone's being a pig I usually just crack the earphones out. You have to come up with a reason you have them in though...although depending on the person sometimes I do just say "I can't be listening to you eat". My family and close friends know it just makes life easier for everybody