Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

Elmo · 06-04-2014 01:24PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Courtesy of Sesame Street, which I'm pretty sure isn't in Ireland -

Sounds like an AR to me, though we you have an irish accent is comes across like a priate! You have to tell me how to get to Sesame Street cause its not in Ireland!

Sulla Felix · 06-04-2014 01:31PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Courtesy of Sesame Street, which I'm pretty sure isn't in Ireland -

Fscker sounds like gaybo. "there it is now, lovely letter"

LynnGrace · 06-04-2014 01:34PM

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Fscker sounds like gaybo. "there it is now, lovely letter"

He really does!
Oh I loved Sesame Street!

Czarcasm · 06-04-2014 01:42PM

Elmo wrote: »

You'll miss me. I never noticed that you could have a problem with the letter R until I was on the phone to a cust care place in England. I was spelling out some serial number with the letter R, they replied, OR?? what do you mean OR, as in O.R we don't have serial numbers beginning in O!

The customer care guy was being an arse, (or "orse", if you prefer

). They would've known well to use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet (Never knew it was called that myself until just now!), but they also knew if their serial numbers don't use "O", then they should've known you meant "zero", rather than being pedantic about it.

Minimum wage script monkeys, deviating from the script and then wondering why they'll always be a script monkey. Because nobody likes a smart arsed script monkey when they are calling a customer care line and they get the customer "couldn't give a shìt" line instead.

MJ23 · 06-04-2014 01:47PM

That ad for mobile network where the old fella is looking at the horse racing on the phone. It's on non stop. Fcuking annoying ad.

Fred Swanson · 06-04-2014 01:50PM

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Pumpkinseeds · 06-04-2014 01:51PM

Elmo wrote: »

The letter is AR not OR, though we live in Ireland so it is OR TEE EE.

I've always pronounced it OR, my husband is English and thinks it's hillarious. Every now and then when we're having a few drinks he'll wind me up trying to get me to say OR:D It does confuse the English though, even Americans in my experience. I was speaking to an American tourist when I lived in the UK and he commented on my accent and asked if I was from the West country. Idiot clearly had not been to Devon or Cornwall. There's no comparison.

Czarcasm · 06-04-2014 02:02PM

Fred Swanson wrote: »

Smug bastard has 4G as well.

I don't know the advertisement, but I will admit that since having got a 4G capable phone, I'm struggling to disguise my smugness as my wife tuts and splutters about the constant buffering when she's trying to watch a crappy quality youtube video on her 3G phone!

It was weird at first to have pages load so fast on a mobile, but you get used to it

Pumpkinseeds · 06-04-2014 03:50PM

Housework. I'm trying to summon the will to clean the bathroom.

FullblownRose · 06-04-2014 04:12PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I've always pronounced it OR, my husband is English and thinks it's hillarious. Every now and then when we're having a few drinks he'll wind me up trying to get me to say OR:D It does confuse the English though, even Americans in my experience. I was speaking to an American tourist when I lived in the UK and he commented on my accent and asked if I was from the West country. Idiot clearly had not been to Devon or Cornwall. There's no comparison.

My husand is from East Anglia but he is often mistaken for an Australian. The occassional bogger tells him he has an ''ooh arr!'' accent though. I have been asked by Clare people, if I am English or from Dublin because I do not have much of an accent at all. There are many English accents and more than one Dublin accent, though :O

Another item high up on my Shovel List is Mayonnaise. And people who put it on my food when I did not ask for it. It's so diabolical. I have to fake an egg allergy to impress upon people the importance of not giving me mayonnaise.

Fred Swanson · 06-04-2014 04:14PM

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riclad · 06-04-2014 04:16PM

I Went to cex yesterday, to buy a monitor.
CEX sells tvs, games,phones etc.
SO i,m waiting in the queue ,for 15 minutes,
wtf is up with this music,
there,s constant rock music played at a high volume ,like in a nightclub.
very annoying.

IF i,m looking to buy games ,dvds ,ill go elsewhere ,some shop that does,nt play loud music.
I,M going to your shop to buy something,
if i wanna listen to loud music i,ll go to a nightclub,or music venue.

Maybe they want to stop anyone over 20 coming in to the shop.
most of the customers ,are over 20 ,they are not coming here for sample rock music.
And i went round the corner ,its ironic,
the golden discs shop thats sells music ,dvds is closed , was there for 10 years.

ITS like going to a pub that has 3 tvs, on , and no one is watching them,
its just presumed by the boss,
we all want noise all the time ,
silence is to be avoided.
Even if its 2 o.clock, theres nothing on of any interest to anyone.

Un Croissant · 06-04-2014 04:23PM

riclad wrote: »

I Went to cex yesterday, to buy a monitor.
CEX sells tvs, games,phones etc.
SO i,m waiting in the queue ,for 15 minutes,
wtf is up with this music,
there,s constant rock music played at a high volume ,like in a nightclub.
very annoying.

IF i,m looking to buy games ,dvds ,ill go elsewhere ,some shop that does,nt play loud music.
I,M going to your shop to buy something,
if i wanna listen to loud music i,ll go to a nightclub,or music venue.

Maybe they want to stop anyone over 20 coming in to the shop.
most of the customers ,are over 20 ,they are not coming here for sample rock music.
And i went round the corner ,its ironic,
the golden discs shop thats sells music ,dvds is closed , was there for 10 years.

ITS like going to a pub that has 3 tvs, on , and no one is watching them,
its just presumed by the boss,
we all want noise all the time ,
silence is to be avoided.
Even if its 2 o.clock, theres nothing on of any interest to anyone.

Agreed. The music in the limerick branch is pure shîte. A woman left yesterday because at 2pm they had a song blaring about doing a lady up the back passage. With the place full of kids.

riclad · 06-04-2014 04:37PM

I was in the dublin branch,
i would,nt mind if the music was played at a normal, lower volume.
People over 20 tend to have more money to spend,
not a good idea to annoy them , with blaring music.
MY idea of torture is to work in a place that has loud music on all the time.

Pumpkinseeds · 06-04-2014 04:40PM

FullblownRose wrote: »

My husand is from East Anglia but he is often mistaken for an Australian. The occassional bogger tells him he has an ''ooh arr!'' accent though. I have been asked by Clare people, if I am English or from Dublin because I do not have much of an accent at all. There are many English accents and more than one Dublin accent, though :O

Another item high up on my Shovel List is Mayonnaise. And people who put it on my food when I did not ask for it. It's so diabolical. I have to fake an egg allergy to impress upon people the importance of not giving me mayonnaise.

Snap, I get my revenge for the OR business by teasing him about being an Essex boy. He's from Essex but doesn't have the bad Essex boy traits or the truly dreadful accent some Essex boys have:D

riclad · 06-04-2014 05:12PM

Some people in south dublin have an accent thats like bbc english.
its like a generic upper class accent .
Some irish people sound as if they were born in england.

czechlin · 06-04-2014 05:23PM

Dreaming about someone you don't even think about, stupid subconscious :mad:

Also people, who have the need to comment on how much jam/butter/honey etc. I put on MY toast.

bnt · 06-04-2014 05:30PM

I'm getting annoyed at the weedy, plinky-plunky music around these days. I can usually avoid, but it's popping up in TV ads now, selling maxi pads or insurance. Kodaline, Mumford & Sons, Biffy Clyro, etc.

Enough of the whistling and strumming on ukuleles already: how about doing something original, or at least turn it up to 11 and try to ROCK? :cool:

Elmo · 06-04-2014 07:36PM

Having unread emails, voicemail and missed calls, not seeing why I have unread mail, voicemail and missed calls, when I have read everything!

Colser · 06-04-2014 07:44PM

Elmo wrote: »

Having unread emails, voicemail and missed calls, not seeing why I have unread mail, voicemail and missed calls, when I have read everything!

This bugs me too..The messages will clear when I click into them individually but when I do it on the calls it rings the caller back:mad: The mails have a mind of their own but I dont mind them as much.

MJ23 · 06-04-2014 07:52PM

The Voice of Ireland. How do people watch it? The cringe factor is off the charts.

Fred Swanson · 06-04-2014 07:58PM

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Meelah · 06-04-2014 09:40PM

When people carry things in their mouth when they have a free hand.

Mickey Dolenez · 06-04-2014 10:49PM

People hogging the overtaking and middle lane
People interrupting me
People who don't indicate in their cars
Slow drivers
Feminists and manginas

Colser · 06-04-2014 10:53PM

Meelah wrote: »

When people carry things in their mouth when they have a free hand.

I witnessed the opposite to this yesterday...I got caught behind a car going very slow and couldnt get into the fast lane to overtake (very annoying:)) anyway eventually went to pass and had a look over to see who was driving so fecking slow..It was an elderly woman with her full top set of false teeth in her hand in front of her like she was examining them

My son was with me and we couldnt believe it( he didnt even know what they were).Disgusting really but I had to laugh.

Czarcasm · 06-04-2014 10:56PM

Meelah wrote: »

When people carry things in their mouth when they have a free hand.

I will admit, I'm terrible for doing this. I hold the barrel of the pen sideways between my teeth while I'm typing. Only once has it ever snapped when I bit down, but that was a shìtty bic pen. The parker pens can take much more resistance

The upside? Nobody ever asks can they borrow my pen!

Elmo · 06-04-2014 10:58PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

I will admit, I'm terrible for doing this. I hold the barrel of the pen sideways between my teeth while I'm typing. Only once has it ever snapped when I bit down, but that was a shìtty bic pen. The parker pens can take much more resistance

The upside? Nobody ever asks can they borrow my pen!

If you touch type then its okay, or you might be typing with your left hand and fiddling with your Mangina.

Feminists and manginas

Thing Feminists Hate, new after hours thread.

FullblownRose · 06-04-2014 11:04PM

People who poke their tongue out for no apparent reason. It is like a cheeky miscievous look but more grotesque with the tongue in overdrive like they are trying to lick their own ear. Waggling around the place. The estate agent we bought our house from/through/with used to do it and I saw a middle-aged woman crossing the road with her tongue sticking out as she trotted out in a gap in traffic.

Czarcasm · 06-04-2014 11:13PM

Elmo wrote: »

Thing Feminists Hate, new after hours thread.

Jaysus Elmo, Micky opened the can of worms, but you just kicked them everywhere!

Czarcasm · 06-04-2014 11:19PM

FullblownRose wrote: »

People who poke their tongue out for no apparent reason. It is like a cheeky miscievous look but more grotesque with the tongue in overdrive like they are trying to lick their own ear. Waggling around the place. The estate agent we bought our house from/through/with used to do it and I saw a middle-aged woman crossing the road with her tongue sticking out as she trotted out in a gap in traffic.

I used work with a guy like that, tongue like a basset hound, even as he was doing his "firm grip" handshake when he'd meet you (yeah, he'd be trying to crush your hand in his shovel hands to see would you react, one of those), the tongue would be stuck to the side of his face like he was attempting to clean out his own ears!

Even picturing it now, *shudders*

Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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