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Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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  • #2702
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Col200sx wrote: »
    Very trivial yes, but it bugs the sh1t out if me:

    People saying Euros.

    It's not Euros, the plural of Euro is Euro.

    Or people who say "pounds" still....tf? Should be taken out and shot. How many years has it been since the switch? Intellectually laziness thats all it is. They know quite well its euro now.


  • #2703
    Oops69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Or people who say "pounds" still....tf? Should be taken out and shot. How many years has it been since the switch? Intellectually laziness thats all it is. They know quite well its euro now.
    Thanks for giving us your sixpence worth


  • #2704
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Oops69 wrote: »
    Thanks for giving us your sixpence worth

    Tuppence worth? :P


  • #2705
    Notdream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭Notdream


    Move to the countryside and buy a car then your trivial annoyances will be little more than potholes, bad drivers, tractors, articulated lorries, caravans, windy roads, crap roads, lorries, pedestrians and the list goes on.......


  • #2706
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Or people who say "pounds" still....tf? Should be taken out and shot. How many years has it been since the switch? Intellectually laziness thats all it is. They know quite well its euro now.

    Just the laziness of the Irish not saying "euros". The same way the Irish often say pound pound for the plural.

    In the same way, the plural of pesata is pesatas, dollar is dollars.

    Collins English Dictionary (online) Definitions
    euro: noun (plural) -os


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  • #2707
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    OldNotWIse wrote: »

    Originally Posted by Oops69 viewpost.gif
    Thanks for giving us your sixpence worth

    Tuppence worth? :P
    You haven't allowed for inflation - it's now sixpence worth (in the UK) in the euro zone "my ten cents worth".


  • #2708
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    odds_on wrote: »
    You haven't allowed for inflation - it's now sixpence worth (in the UK) in the euro zone "my ten cents worth".

    pffffft :rolleyes:


  • #2709
    Jack1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,507 ✭✭✭Jack1985


    Loud eaters do my f**king nut in. To the point where I've had to tell a work colleague to shut the f*ck up one day, he looked at me like I was an absolute nutter, but it drives me up the walls - I avoid having my lunch break with him now.


  • #2710
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    People who say "grinds my gears" or "boils my p1ss" - ANNOY, the word you're looking for is ANNOY! That really grinds my p1ss... :mad:


  • #2711
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Or people who say "pounds" still....tf? Should be taken out and shot. How many years has it been since the switch? Intellectually laziness thats all it is. They know quite well its euro now.

    Sounds like the crowd who will urge you to "get into the 20th century"


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  • #2712
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Or people who say "pounds" still....tf? Should be taken out and shot. How many years has it been since the switch? Intellectually laziness thats all it is. They know quite well its euro now.


    Is it ok to say quid? I still refer to currency as quid, sometimes squids :pac:


  • #2713
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    salacious crumb wrote: »
    Is it ok to say quid? I still refer to currency as quid, sometimes squids :pac:

    Thats not as bad, because you are clearly using a slang tern. The annoyance is when people are actually using a term that they think denotes a currency. F*ckers :(


  • #2714
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    People who intentionally pronouce "than" as "then"


  • #2715
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    Move to the countryside and buy a car then your trivial annoyances will be little more than potholes, bad drivers, tractors, articulated lorries, caravans, windy roads, crap roads, lorries, pedestrians and the list goes on.......
    Notdream wrote: »
    Move to the countryside and buy a car then your trivial annoyances will be little more than potholes, bad drivers, tractors, articulated lorries, caravans, windy roads, crap roads, lorries, pedestrians and the list goes on.......

    Does any one drive a Dejavoo:D


  • #2716
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    odds_on wrote: »
    Just the laziness of the Irish not saying "euros". The same way the Irish often say pound pound for the plural.

    In the same way, the plural of pesata is pesatas, dollar is dollars.

    Collins English Dictionary (online) Definitions
    euro: noun (plural) -os

    "The laziness of the Irish"...............just lump each and everyone us altogether , why don't you?


  • #2717
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Cleaing the oven. I bought one of those oven pride kits and left in on overnight on Saturday. The bloody thing only cleaned one side of the oven:mad: Not so trivial is that despite being a Belling and that we only bought it last year, it's an overpriced piece of sh*t.


  • #2718
    Sadderday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Sadderday


    I got engaged to my OH at Xmas. Hes 30 and i'm 25. He's not grey or anything, he looks late 20s.

    Complete strangers keep telling us that I look to young for him or he looks too old for me... we get it alot.

    Most of the time I smile, shrug and forget it... but ya know I'm a bit sensitive for a few days every month and it really pisse's me off, rude !!


  • #2719
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Sadderday wrote: »
    I got engaged to my OH at Xmas. Hes 30 and i'm 25. He's not grey or anything, he looks late 20s.

    Complete strangers keep telling us that I look to young for him or he looks too old for me... we get it alot.

    Most of the time I smile, shrug and forget it... but ya know I'm a bit sensitive for a few days every month and it really pisse's me off, rude !!


    Meh. Who cares what other people say?


  • #2720
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #2721
    Sadderday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Sadderday


    ah yeah, mad sometimes stuff doesn't bother me at all and for those few days each month- It drives me mad!!

    Poor OH, i'd say hes been on this thread.... I'm sure it annoys him when I'm hoovering under his feet while hes watching tv with a big mad face.... waiting for him to say something to get some agro goin :)


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  • #2722
    yeppydeppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Does any one drive a Dejavoo:D

    Thanks Eisenberg - I was just about to check my post history to be sure. I'm not sure if this is some form of flattery or should I be trivially annoyed?


  • #2723
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Sadderday wrote: »
    I got engaged to my OH at Xmas. Hes 30 and i'm 25. He's not grey or anything, he looks late 20s.

    Complete strangers keep telling us that I look to young for him or he looks too old for me... we get it alot.

    Most of the time I smile, shrug and forget it... but ya know I'm a bit sensitive for a few days every month and it really pisse's me off, rude !!

    I'm 22 and my OH is 31. We got engaged at Christmas, wedding is this May, and we get this all the time! I stopped caring to be honest.

    I'm sure you will too!


  • #2724
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    I win. I'm 40 and my girlfriend is 28 :pac:


  • #2725
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    salacious crumb wrote: »
    I win. I'm 40 and my girlfriend is 28 :pac:

    OH and me are more or less same age, however, she "scrubs up" a lot better than me, she can look quite young for her age.............I, on the other hand look older than I am, so it's a double whammy:D

    If other people are going to uptight about age difference (within reason), tell them where to go...................shallow bastards.


  • #2726
    Sadderday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Sadderday


    yeah mad though, some scruffy aul lad said it to u in a pub a few weeks ago... dya not think hes a bit old for ya....

    Madness


  • #2727
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Sadderday wrote: »
    yeah mad though, some scruffy aul lad said it to u in a pub a few weeks ago... dya not think hes a bit old for ya....

    Madness

    That's jealousy my dear ;)


  • #2728
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Toilet roll getting to a critical low level.

    The never ending wipe.

    The search for alternatives to toilet roll.

    Clogging up a toilet with baby wipes.


    All 4 of the above in the same sitting.


  • #2729
    Crosby Swift Hawk
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Crosby Swift Hawk


    Col200sx wrote: »
    Very trivial yes, but it bugs the sh1t out if me:

    People saying Euros.

    It's not Euros, the plural of Euro is Euro.
    The European Commission Directorate-General for Translation's English Style Guide (a handbook for authors and translators in the European Commission) previously recommended the use of regular plurals for documents intended for the general public but now has no restriction on usage and states:
    Like ‘pound’, ‘dollar’ or any other currency name in English, the word ‘euro’ is written in lower case with no initial capital. Where appropriate, it takes the plural ‘s’ (as does ‘cent’): This book costs ten euros and fifty cents [. . .] The currency abbreviation precedes the amount and is followed by a hard space [. . .] The symbol also precedes the amount, and is followed by a hard space if the following number contains a space.[21]
    Prior to 2006, the inter-institutional style guide recommended use of euro and cent without the plural s, and the translation style guide recommended use of invariant plurals (without s) when amending or referring to original legislation but use of regular plurals in documents intended for the general public.[22]

    http://ec.europa.eu/translation/english/guidelines/documents/styleguide_english_dgt_en.pdf
    page 75


  • #2730
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    you feeling ok bluewolf? it's nearly 4pm and that's the first post i've seen you make all day


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  • #2731
    Crosby Swift Hawk
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Crosby Swift Hawk


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    you feeling ok bluewolf? it's nearly 4pm and that's the first post i've seen you make all day

    I was away for the weekend with no interwebs :p


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