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Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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  • #8072
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    whirlpool wrote: »
    This is where educating yourself on "RAM" and "processors" before ever purchasing any phone will save you a massive headache going forward.

    Sorry Whirlpool, but the phrase going forward ........Aaaaaagh:D


  • #8073
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    whirlpool wrote: »
    This is where educating yourself on "RAM" and "processors" before ever purchasing any phone will save you a massive headache going forward.

    Well that sounds like a massive headache in itself :)


  • #8074
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Well that sounds like a massive headache in itself :)

    It is, yeah, but it's one headache now versus countless headaches...... going forward.

    (And that one, eisenberg, was on purpose! :mad:)


  • #8075
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    whirlpool wrote: »
    It is, yeah, but it's one headache now versus countless headaches...... going forward.

    (And that one, eisenberg, was on purpose! :mad:)

    I dont use a smartphone anymore, and I've never been happier. I dont need to worry about being mugged, I can drop my phone in the toilet, bounce it off the floor, leave it somewhere and know it will be there when I get back - love it :) Although I recently found out its so old its actually started to be worth money again...so now I have to be careful, you know...going forward ;)


  • #8076
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    The way RTE commentators are incapable of pronouncing the names of Brazilian players. Maybe because the OH is Brazilian, I notice it more but seriously guys take a ten minute lesson on Portuguese pronounciation if you know you will be talking about these players on tv.


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  • #8077
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    whirlpool wrote: »
    This is where educating yourself on "RAM" and "processors" before ever purchasing any phone will save you a massive headache going forward.

    Mammy furkan bored!! :D


  • #8078
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    The way RTE commentators are incapable of pronouncing the names of Brazilian players. Maybe because the OH is Brazilian, I notice it more but seriously guys take a ten minute lesson on Portuguese pronounciation if you know you will be talking about these players on tv.

    Any foreign players. I know some names can be serious tongue twisters but for crying out loud it's their job! :mad:


  • #8079
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    The way smartphones will sometimes go on strike and refuse to do anything and you end up tapping the screen in frustration...then they decide to work and do everything you commanded at the same time. Happens with calls. Pressing the green phone and nothing happens - two minutes later you hear mammy's voice like a message from the vortex - helllaw???????
    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I dont use a smartphone anymore, and I've never been happier. I dont need to worry about being mugged, I can drop my phone in the toilet, bounce it off the floor, leave it somewhere and know it will be there when I get back - love it :) Although I recently found out its so old its actually started to be worth money again...so now I have to be careful, you know...going forward ;)


    I'll never understand you kids these days.


  • #8080
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    whirlpool wrote: »
    I'll never understand you kids these days.


    I dont understand you this minute


  • #8081
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    There was a time, when if you had to make a phone call, you had to hunt down a call box, which had a working phone, make sure nobody had just had a p1ss in it, make sure you had the correct coinage.....and then you could make the call.

    Kids these days.............


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  • #8082
    Mr_Spaceman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Mr_Spaceman


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    People who jump up out of their seats while the plane is still coming to a stop. The kn*bs have to then stand for ten minutes with their heads twisted at weird angles because they can't get into the aisle. Hah.

    These people are genuine morons. Neck-twisting tubes in an enclosed tube.


  • #8083
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    The way RTE commentators are incapable of pronouncing the names of Brazilian players. Maybe because the OH is Brazilian, I notice it more but seriously guys take a ten minute lesson on Portuguese pronounciation if you know you will be talking about these players on tv.

    Mine too.

    In fairness though, Brazilians can't pronounce Fred or Hulk...

    Or ESPN in Brazil....Wayney Rooney :pac:


  • #8084
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    ^

    Also, last night Peter Collins was trying to sound all with it and knowing his stuff...trying and failing to say "Seleção".


  • #8085
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    KungPao wrote: »
    Mine too.

    In fairness though, Brazilians can't pronounce Fred or Hulk...

    Or ESPN in Brazil....Wayney Rooney :pac:

    I'll concede Fred - it's more like "frayed" when she says it :P


  • #8086
    CPSW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭CPSW


    What really gets on my nerves are parents who cannot control their misbehaving kids in public. I really despise half ar$ed parenting.

    Was in a shop last week waiting to be served when a mother and child arrived in. From the second the kid entered the shop he proceeded to run amok. Climbing all over the place, screaming and shouting, pulling signs out of the shop window. Even the woman behind the counter told him to stop climbing.

    The mother was like "Oh Zack, stop it" kid didn’t have a bar of it and continued to wreck the place, running away when she told him to stay beside her.

    He must have been about 7 or 8, seemed like a real little spoiled brat, the mother looked respectable enough also, but obviously it didn’t cross her mind that her child was wrecking everyone else’s head running wild in the shop. Maybe it’s a generation thing (I'm in my early 30's), but when I was a kid you didn't go on like that, if you did, a clip around the ear was expected!

    Control your kids people!


  • #8087
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I'll concede Fred - it's more like "frayed" when she says it :P

    :D

    And Fred seems quite easy. I love Ireland, it's hilarious because I only go by my first name here :D

    Delivery fellas: oh it's you, yeah you don't have to bother with your surname luv!...


  • #8088
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    CPSW wrote: »

    ....

    Control your kids people!

    ^this by 1,000,000!!!!!


  • #8089
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I'll concede Fred - it's more like "frayed" when she says it :P

    Mine says "Frrraydgee".

    It's FRED!


  • #8090
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Sky News referring to Rebeca Brooks as "flame haired" . I don't particularly like her, but I think its in really bad taste to refer to someone by their hair colour. They wouldn't do it with anyone who wasn't ginger. Imagine if they did it wrt people's skin colour? There'd be outrage. I'm outraged actually. Her hari colour has nothing to do with the story. Rabble rabble. World's smallest ginger violin...


  • #8091
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    There was a time, when if you had to make a phone call, you had to hunt down a call box, which had a working phone, make sure nobody had just had a p1ss in it, make sure you had the correct coinage.....and then you could make the call.

    Kids these days.............

    Aye. Do you remember buttons "A" and "B", each of which felt like they were connected to a canal lock via some Brunel-esque linkage, and required someone like John "Bull" Hayes to press them home fully? :pac:


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  • #8092
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    KungPao wrote: »
    Mine says "Frrraydgee".

    It's FRED!

    Oh yeah! :)

    I told mine at the weekend that she sounds like she is trying to attack the words sometimes lol. Have you noticed the R/H thing? Shall we book a hestaurant for tonight? I love it - sometimes when we fight she'll shout something at me and pronounce it wrong and I just fall apart laughing and the whole situation gets resolved :)

    Then again, my Portuguese sounds like a constipated duck trying to speak Japanese...


  • #8093
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I'll concede Fred - it's more like "frayed" when she says it :P

    In that vein..when on holidays.

    "Where are you form?"
    "Ireland"
    "Poland?"
    "No, Ireland.."
    "Oh yeah, Iceland"
    "NO, Ireland..
    "What? Say it again.."
    "Ireland...I.R.E.L.A.N.D."
    "Right, and where is that?"


    :mad:


  • #8094
    jimmi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭jimmi


    There, their, they're


  • #8095
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #8096
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    jimmi wrote: »
    There, their, they're

    Their they're. It'll be alright in a minute :P


  • #8097
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    jimmi wrote: »
    There, their, they're

    That is in fact a perfectly cromulent sentence in Limerick City. :D


  • #8098
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Then again, my Portuguese sounds like a constipated duck trying to speak Japanese...

    Tbf, if yours sounds bad and you live with a Brazilian, no wonder the football pundits don't bother their holes…


  • #8099
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    CPSW wrote: »
    What really gets on my nerves are parents who cannot control their misbehaving kids in public. I really despise half ar$ed parenting.

    Was in a shop last week waiting to be served when a mother and child arrived in. From the second the kid entered the shop he proceeded to run amok. Climbing all over the place, screaming and shouting, pulling signs out of the shop window. Even the woman behind the counter told him to stop climbing.

    The mother was like "Oh Zack, stop it" kid didn’t have a bar of it and continued to wreck the place, running away when she told him to stay beside her.

    He must have been about 7 or 8, seemed like a real little spoiled brat, the mother looked respectable enough also, but obviously it didn’t cross her mind that her child was wrecking everyone else’s head running wild in the shop. Maybe it’s a generation thing (I'm in my early 30's), but when I was a kid you didn't go on like that, if you did, a clip around the ear was expected!

    Control your kids people!

    I hate it when i see parents "bargaining" with children to get them to behave.

    You're the one in control. Parent the little **** rather than making everything a compromise so that you can feel all modern and progressive like the books you read told you to be.


  • #8100
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    Tbf, if yours sounds bad and you live with a Brazilian, no wonder the football pundits don't bother their holes…


    To be even fairer, Portuguese spoken in Europe is not the same as Portuguese spoken in Brazil.

    I learned this the hard way when I thought I had taught myself Portuguese, only to meet a guy in college from Brazil who had barely a word of English. I thought "sure fcuk it, I can help him out with the coursework and he can be on my team for group projects"...

    Sweet divine fcuking Jesus (well, Bruno actually! :pac:), but it was probably the best thing I ever did because we're still great mates to this day. Oh, that reminds me -

    "Are you watching the world cup?"...

    "nao" :D


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  • #8101
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Oh yeah! :)

    I told mine at the weekend that she sounds like she is trying to attack the words sometimes lol. Have you noticed the R/H thing? Shall we book a hestaurant for tonight? I love it - sometimes when we fight she'll shout something at me and pronounce it wrong and I just fall apart laughing and the whole situation gets resolved :)

    Then again, my Portuguese sounds like a constipated duck trying to speak Japanese...

    Na, she's boring with her near perfect english :( No funny stories.

    Only thing she can't shake is the "ed" so "asked" is like "ass kid" and not "askt". Which is pretty common.


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