Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

bnt · 24-05-2014 02:45PM

People and lazy stereotypes. For example, in YouTube I just watched the trailer for the next season of Comedians in Cars getting Coffee, and one of his guests will be actress Sarah Jessica Parker. So you can guess what the comments were like: the usual "she looks like a horse" stereotypes were trotted out.

Gee, you think she hasn't heard that by now? It was even a line in the movie Ed Wood (1994):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2lf84TVyFQ

eisenberg1 · 24-05-2014 02:55PM

bnt wrote: »

People and lazy stereotypes. For example, in YouTube I just watched the trailer for the next season of Comedians in Cars getting Coffee, and one of his guests will be actress Sarah Jessica Parker. So you can guess what the comments were like: the usual "she looks like a horse" stereotypes were trotted out.

Gee, you think she hasn't heard that by now? It was even a line in the movie Ed Wood (1994):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2lf84TVyFQ

:eek:

LynnGrace · 24-05-2014 05:10PM

People describing candidates as topping the 'pole', it's poll! I kinda wonder what image they have in their heads though.

LynnGrace · 24-05-2014 05:15PM

gugleguy wrote: »

Colser, I will ride to defence here:

1962: RTÉ Television (there is only the one rte channel) launches a new tv chat show. The show is generally well received having an interesting and engaging host with a good variety of guests, by both the the audience in "Happy Television Land", as termed by the host and the show audience themselves.

2014: The same show is broadcast after the 9 o'clock news:

A guest who is/was a rugby player.

A guest who is lead singer in a currently popular boy/girl pop band. One of their best songs is played.

Another guest with a story about being by somebody who was hard done by a dishonest business associate / has some disagreement with the church.

The show audience cheer and whoop at the appropriate intervals.

Who The Fook are the TV audience? Sure they can text the competition to win some glossy shopping voucher, car etc.

I watch the LLS purely because of the thread on boards, the thread is generally way better than the show, in my opinion.
Tubridy is the guy laughing all the way to the bank though, he is one of the worst interviewers ever, and one of the most highly paid.
He has no empathy with people, a prime example was his interview with Christy Dignam and his wife last night. It didn't matter what they said, he didn't listen, as usual. He has questions on cue cards and is going to ask them, regardless of the answers the guests give.

Pumpkinseeds · 24-05-2014 05:34PM

Sigh, earlier on I was complaining about having to decorate and going to buy paint. Now I'm complaining that the paint shop didn't have what we wanted so we're looking somewhere else on Friday for paint. Someone needs to open an online decorating shop with great choice that has a realistic delivery charge. I found a place that was looking for 29 euro:eek: to deliver paint, why do they even bother? Who would be stupid enough to pay that

Follaton_Wood · 24-05-2014 05:38PM

Women who give other women that 'up and down' look. Caught one of them at it a few weeks ago, and immediately caught her eye and went 'WHAT?!'. The wee crater nearly sh1t herself!

fussyonion · 24-05-2014 05:48PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Sigh, earlier on I was complaining about having to decorate and going to buy paint. Now I'm complaining that the paint shop didn't have what we wanted so we're looking somewhere else on Friday for paint. Someone needs to open an online decorating shop with great choice that has a realistic delivery charge. I found a place that was looking for 29 euro:eek: to deliver paint, why do they even bother? Who would be stupid enough to pay that

The paint shop didn't have what you wanted? What did you want?

ratmouse · 24-05-2014 05:48PM

LynnGrace wrote: »

I watch the LLS purely because of the thread on boards, the thread is generally way better than the show, in my opinion.
Tubridy is the guy laughing all the way to the bank though, he is one of the worst interviewers ever, and one of the most highly paid.
He has no empathy with people, a prime example was his interview with Christy Dignam and his wife last night. It didn't matter what they said, he didn't listen, as usual. He has questions on cue cards and is going to ask them, regardless of the answers the guests give.

That's so true. It's like je is just following a script and doesn't want/isn't able to deviate from it.

ratmouse · 24-05-2014 05:49PM

Follaton_Wood wrote: »

Women who give other women that 'up and down' look. Caught one of them at it a few weeks ago, and immediately caught her eye and went 'WHAT?!'. The wee crater nearly sh1t herself!

I think it's so rude when females do this. Often signifies jealousy I find.

fussyonion · 24-05-2014 05:51PM

ratmouse wrote: »

I think it's so rude when females do this. Often signifies jealousy I find.

I find myself doing it but it's only to see what the other woman's wearing. I'm actually admiring her shoes or her skirt.
I have never done it in a jealous way.

LynnGrace · 24-05-2014 05:56PM

Follaton_Wood wrote: »

Women who give other women that 'up and down' look. Caught one of them at it a few weeks ago, and immediately caught her eye and went 'WHAT?!'. The wee crater nearly sh1t herself!

Oh God yes. I have been known to give it right back, and watch the realisation dawn. It's such bad manners.
I worked with a woman who did that constantly, drove the rest of us mad. She was also awful for commenting, e.g. you might have just told her something personal (not that I would) and the response would be 'I like your shoes, where did you get them'.

ratmouse · 24-05-2014 05:57PM

fussyonion wrote: »

I find myself doing it but it's only to see what the other woman's wearing. I'm actually admiring her shoes or her skirt.
I have never done it in a jealous way.

Yes, but I'm not talking in a sneak peek kind of way. I hate it when people take a long hard look up and down, almost with a sour look on their faces.

brooke 2 · 24-05-2014 06:21PM

Follaton_Wood wrote: »

Women who give other women that 'up and down' look. Caught one of them at it a few weeks ago, and immediately caught her eye and went 'WHAT?!'. The wee crater nearly sh1t herself!

It's called 'scanning'!

Fifth/sixth class girls do it to one another
as a form of bullying/intimidating. Can
cause problems!

Follaton_Wood · 24-05-2014 06:28PM

brooke 2 wrote: »

It's called 'scanning'!

Fifth/sixth class girls do it to one another
as a form of bullying/intimidating. Can
cause problems!

Ha, well I'm 28 and yer wan was around the same age!

I get it alot. And they're so obvious about it! Sometimes it goes right from the feet up, I'm tall so I reckon they're checking if I'm wearing heels or something and then I get the snobby look when they see my converse!

brooke 2 · 24-05-2014 06:37PM

Follaton_Wood wrote: »

Ha, well I'm 28 and yer wan was around the same age!

I get it alot. And they're so obvious about it! Sometimes it goes right from the feet up, I'm tall so I reckon they're checking if I'm wearing heels or something and then I get the snobby look when they see my converse!

Bottom line - it is very bad manners to stare. That kind of carryon could get you shot in some parts of New York!!

Pumpkinseeds · 24-05-2014 06:45PM

fussyonion wrote: »

The paint shop didn't have what you wanted? What did you want?

They didn't have the colours that we wanted. Things were a lot simpler when we could afford Farrow and Ball paint:(

Johnwayne98 · 24-05-2014 07:00PM

People who, on seeing a skip outside a house, think they have the right to dump all their rubbish into them.

fussyonion · 24-05-2014 07:01PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

They didn't have the colours that we wanted. Things were a lot simpler when we could afford Farrow and Ball paint:(

Any decent paint place will make up whatever colour you want.
If you're in Dublin, head to Fleetwood Paints, beside the Marble Arch. They'll sort you out. Family member is a painter/decorator and only uses Fleetwood.

Johnwayne98 · 24-05-2014 07:07PM

Women who look at another woman and say she's pretty. But when a man does it,causes deep trouble with the other half

Pumpkinseeds · 24-05-2014 07:08PM

fussyonion wrote: »

Any decent paint place will make up whatever colour you want.
If you're in Dublin, head to Fleetwood Paints, beside the Marble Arch. They'll sort you out. Family member is a painter/decorator and only uses Fleetwood.

I'm in Clare, sadly:D

Johnwayne98 · 24-05-2014 07:18PM

Women who leave the seat down after they urinate, and men who leave it down when they defecate-had to balance the argument!

Johnwayne98 · 24-05-2014 07:20PM

Must be a decent paint shop in Ennis ffs!

Johnwayne98 · 24-05-2014 07:25PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

Hanging rasher! :eek:

Meat curtains

Johnwayne98 · 24-05-2014 07:29PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

Ah feck I edited my post but you got there first!

So do you need to empty your sack for them?

Johnwayne98 · 24-05-2014 07:33PM

dub_skav wrote: »

Actually that reminds me. People confusing headaches with migraines is a trivial annoyance to me