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Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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  • #452
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    dubstarr wrote: »
    We used to do this all the tiime where i worked,you wold swop name tags.Or sometimes if you forgot yours they gave you a completely random name tag.Used to be funny.

    Please tell me you adopted different personalities depending on the name tag. If you got Greta you were the ditzy, airhead who loved 1970's boybands. If you got Nicole you were the rock climbing adrenaline joking who power walked around the shop, to the max!


  • #453
    dubstarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Lyaiera wrote: »
    Please tell me you adopted different personalities depending on the name tag. If you got Greta you were the ditzy, airhead who loved 1970's boybands. If you got Nicole you were the rock climbing adrenaline joking who power walked around the shop, to the max!
    Oh i wish haha no never did that :D


  • #454
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    _Redzer_ wrote: »
    Doing a project that's due before 12 tonight and some stupid bitch beside me is blaring the fox through her earphones.

    I'm actually gonna smack the cúnt

    Just an idea, but perhaps a polite request to the young lady and maybe she would turn it down a notch.....


  • #455
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Had to share this. Ad in the paper today.

    Apple corer & peeler 19.99
    Citrus press (manual) 249.00....

    Am I missing something? To squeeze a bleedin lemon??

    Lime/lemon, roll with palm of your hand 3-4 times, pop in microwave for 20 seconds and squeeze............its free.


  • #456
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    When my husband phones me from the supermarket to ask me what brand of something on the shopping list, we buy, especially if it's something we've bought every week for years. This is what happens when you are the person who does most of the grocery shopping.


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  • #457
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    When my husband phones me from the supermarket to ask me what brand of something on the shopping list, we buy, especially if it's something we've bought every week for years. This is what happens when you are the person who does most of the grocery shopping.

    I think I've seen your husband a few times. Is he the bald fella who keeps hitting his head off the glass in the frozen food section while talking on the phone?


  • #458
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #459
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    I can't change the music on my touchscreen when wearing gloves but put the ipod into my pocket and it becomes super sensitive. It's like I have a little leprechaun living in it randomly changing the music.


  • #460
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    I think I've seen your husband a few times. Is he the bald fella who keeps hitting his head off the glass in the frozen food section while talking on the phone?
    Nope, he still has a full head of hair, despite the stress of living with me:D


  • #461
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    I can't change the music on my touchscreen when wearing gloves but put the ipod into my pocket and it becomes super sensitive. It's like I have a little leprechaun living in it randomly changing the music.


    And there I was in Easons the other day looking at a pair of touchscreen gloves for €7 and thinking "Who the fcuk is going to buy those?"...

    Shows how much I know :(


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  • #462
    Quietyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭Quietyou


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Had to share this. Ad in the paper today.

    Apple corer & peeler 19.99
    Citrus press (manual) 249.00....

    Am I missing something? To squeeze a bleedin lemon??

    Lime/lemon, roll with palm of your hand 3-4 times, pop in microwave for 20 seconds and squeeze............its free.

    You'd think they'd have more pressing issues to get to the core of.


  • #463
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Google using YouTube to push Google+

    It's like trying to make Fetch happen. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN so let it go. Facebook have that market sown up.

    Also:

    Stop asking me for my phone number under the guise of security. I was able to remember my password before you brought this helpful extra into fruition and I'll be able to remember it no matter how many times you prompt me for my number.

    I do not want to use my real name on YouTube so stop asking me. No matter how many times I log in, I will not accidently click on the link you want. I keep my personal and professional life separate. YouTube is for fun, Gmail is for work.

    You may think I am being paranoid and argue that you want to cut down on cyber bullying and if I don't post anything bad on YouTube then I have nothing to hide, but I don't trust you Google. You fooled me in the past with your innocuous request that I change from using a hotmail login email to a gmail one. You then went on to try and push Google+ on me. We both know you are doing this to solely increase advertising revenue and not out of some altruistic desire to make the internet easier to use by having one account for everything.

    How long will it be before you try to take over from LinkedIn? The cynic in me sees a future where you will insist that it is in my best interest if I have all my work history in one easy place and it will increase my job prospects.

    I don't know how the CEO's of Google work but here in the real world, people are not caricatures that can be boxed into a one for all black and white personality type that is true for all situations. Who I am at work is not always the same as I am outside work. I put up with a lot of crap from people on a day to day basis because I am paid to do it but if they treated me that way in an equal social standing, I would not tolerate it.

    To try and have one account that represents a person is insane. I can see Google pushing too far and alienating their core users who turn to something a little less controlling. I remember when everyone had a Nokia phone but nowadays Nokia are legends.

    TL:DR I went on a bit of a rant about how unfair it is for Google to use YouTube to push Google+ and got a bit side tracked!


  • #464
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    Google using YouTube to push Google+

    It's like trying to make Fetch happen. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN so let it go. Facebook have that market sown up.

    ...

    TL:DR I went on a bit of a rant about how unfair it is for Google to use YouTube to push Google+ and got a bit side tracked!


    Well Paddy if the social networking side of things doesn't work out for them (as many of their pet projects don't, but what's more important is what they learn from the experiment), they might not need you to sign in anywhere, you can just sign in by looking at the screen -

    http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25771907

    They say the contact lens are designed to detect diabetes (nothing like feeding into growing fears about obesity to market a product when you want to overcome growing fears about privacy!), but they'll probably have the helpful facility built in to send data about everything you view, back to Google servers!


    Just remember to take them out before you view your bank account online! :D


  • #465
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,180 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Those ads on the TV for "Elite Singles". They're clearly aimed at those who have delusions of being "elite", beyond that I'm struggling to imagine who would sign up for such a service. I believe it's actually a German company.

    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



  • #466
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭deise08


    The phrase 'ah the poor ....'
    my mother and sister are terrible for it. You'd be driving along and next thing, 'ah the poor girl on the bike'
    'ah the poor dog'
    'ah the poor little fella'
    There's nothing poor about them.


  • #467
    Oops69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    The opening page on boards , top threads nine times out of ten are soccer ,motor and soccer2 and soccer 3 , all of which I've no interest in !


  • #468
    sirbob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭sirbob


    when some one else drives my van and leaves the arm rest up


  • #469
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,889 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    People who say "Oh hi" when you answer the phone to them. Why? Are they surprised that you answered? "Oh..hiiiii-iiiiiiy". Usually in a fake, drawn out D4 accent too. Feck off would ye.

    The worst is people who go "Hello, Hi" when you answer the phone:mad:


  • #470
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Electrical gadgets that use 3 batteries (AA/AAA) I have a couple of these. Batteries are usually sold in 4's. By the time I need them again the spare one is probably lost/misplaced

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • #471
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Breaking a 50 euro note. Once you've done it the money seems to vanish at a rate of knots. I hate January, roll on February:(


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  • #472
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    When people are having an argument and they try to drag me into it- "you always do this, ask Tasden, she'll tell you how annoying it is", eh nope I'm not getting into this argument its between you two. If I had an issue with something I'd bring it up myself, not when railroaded into it by someone during a heated argument and ganging up on the person.


  • #473
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Denis Taylor's commentary on the snooker. The way he says brown and blue really grinds my gears. "Brine and Baloo"


  • #474
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    MJ23 wrote: »
    Denis Taylor's commentary on the snooker. The way he says brown and blue really grinds my gears. "Brine and Baloo"
    your first mistake was watching snooker


  • #475
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭deise08


    That I can't do anything in my back garden without my neighbour having to come out into theirs. pretending to do something just so that they can see what I'm doing.
    eh, gardening?


  • #476
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    MJ23 wrote: »
    Denis Taylor's commentary on the snooker. The way he says brown and blue really grinds my gears. "Brine and Baloo"

    I can live with anything that's not John Virgo's endless waffling.


  • #477
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    vitani wrote: »
    I can live with anything that's not John Virgo's endless waffling.

    Where's the que ball goin?


  • #478
    bohsboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭bohsboy


    People booking cheap holidays and their glee while telling you it cost 39 euro to get to Turkey for 2 weeks. I know they are being smart but they just annoy me.


  • #479
    bohsboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭bohsboy


    Tasden wrote: »
    When people are having an argument and they try to drag me into it- "you always do this, ask Tasden, she'll tell you how annoying it is", eh nope I'm not getting into this argument its between you two. If I had an issue with something I'd bring it up myself, not when railroaded into it by someone during a heated argument and ganging up on the person.

    Oh yeah, the "even John thought you were out of order last night". Crazy stuff.


  • #480
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Was in Xtravision earlier having a look a dvds, saw one there for €19.99 , there was a second sticker on it ....

    2 for €20 ,

    dunno why this pricing annoys me, maybe lack of common sense by the employees


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  • #481
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Was in Xtravision earlier having a look a dvds, saw one there for €19.99 , there was a second sticker on it ....

    2 for €20 ,

    dunno why this pricing annoys me, maybe lack of common sense by the employees

    Who the fcuk still buys dvd's?


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