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Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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  • #8222
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    I wish they were. Covered. With Shít.


  • #8223
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    In normal circumstances what happened in Dunnes today would have tipped me over the edge.
    Get to the checkout and start to unload my assorted items on the conveyor dolalley, I get to 2 things left in the trolley and the checkout lady says 'Sorry love, the till is frozen, you'll have to go to the other side.'
    That is after walking around the shop aimlessly because they have changed the position of everything (except frozen pizzas) in the shop.

    But you know what....I don't care, as I had just picked up my daughter from hospital earlier today after her being in overnight following an operation. So nothing shall annoy me for a while


  • #8224
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    OldNotWIse wrote: »


    This guy is my worst nightmare.

    A couple of years ago, we had an "occasion" in the house, few drinks and a bite to eat type of thing. Bit of music in the background and all chatting away, it's all grand..........along comes "Pat" who, says to me "things are a bit quite, will I nip home and get the guitar", "ah no, its fine the ways it is" says me.
    Not be put off, Pat persists, "sure I will be back in five, it will liven them up"
    I say "NO Pat, things are fine the way are, its not going to a late one anyway"

    10 Mins later.................Pat and his motherfcuking guitar, murdering "Lisdoonvarna",


  • #8225
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    That 'yuppee see' ad!! Meant to be UPC!! :(


  • #8226
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    "EEC"

    "Pounds" (when did we get the euro??)

    "Me" instead of "my"

    "Buke" instead of "book"

    You need to stop listening to The Joe on Da Loivelahnnnnn :D

    On the subject of radio, i heard an ad for tomorrows Indo spouting about a special careers faeture they'll be running with details of wages paid to people in various different sectors.

    The thing that annoyed me was that they actually said "See what your neighbours are earning! See are you earning enough!". Truly back to the days of the Celtic Tiger.

    Have to make sure you keep up with the Murphys and know what everyone else "has". ****ing horrible nosy society.


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  • #8227
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    mickydoomsux wrote: »

    On the subject of radio, i heard an ad for tomorrows Indo tomorrow spouting about a special careers faeture they'll be running with details of wages paid to people in various different sectors.

    The thing that annoyed me was that they actually said "See what your neighbours are earning! See are you earning enough!". Truly back to the days of the Celtic Tiger.

    Have to make sure you keep up with the Murphys and know what everyone else "has". ****ing horrible nosy society.

    I heard that this morning too. Disgusting. I couldn't give a flying Fúck what everyone else has, as long as my bills are paid and I can have a few pints and a couple of trips away.

    I have an uncle in England who once asked my dad right out how much I was earning and was it the same as {insert published average Irish public sector salary here}...the mind boggles!


  • #8228
    Crosby Swift Hawk
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Crosby Swift Hawk


    gramar wrote: »
    It's no joke, I've had my right ear blocked up since Friday and it's only been getting worse. I'd say I've lost about 80% of my hearing. I'm like an auld lad having to cock my head towards the person who is talking.

    The worst is when there is no ambient noise and all I hear is a horrible hissing/ringing tone inside my head. That and eating or touching my head which sounds incredibly loud for some reason and I keep thinking I'm being very noisy.

    I'll be calling into the pharmacist at lunch time for some industrial strength ear drops. Ear we go, ear we go, ear we go...........
    Sinus nasal spray may also help


  • #8229
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    That passenger in your car who complains that you should have tried to park to closer to the thing/shop/haberdashery.

    When from your experience of that place (Tesco Wilton Cork, or Cork City Centre) means you both know parking is a nightmare

    So you drive up closer and spend 5 minutes (Tesco carpark) to 20 minutes (Cork City doing laps) looking for a spot that eventually/never materialises when if you parked a ****ing 100 second walk away you'd have had a space ages ago.

    I always get this **** from my missus about this whole thing. So once I drove up "closer" and we were looking for 10 minutes.
    Next time i parked where I like to park and timed the 75 feet walk from the car door to the shop entrance. It took less than 2 minutes :D

    And while I'm on subject:
    PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE AIRLIFTED EVERYWHERE (house -> car -> work -> car -> shop -> car -> house)

    Walking 100 feet a day wouldn't ****ing kill you you lazy ****ker


  • #8230
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    Still on the radio topic (sort of).

    They have a "sports psychologist" on Newstalk at the moment. How is his job a real thing?

    I imagine all of his session with athletes boil down to:

    "Think that you are going to win rather than lose............ now go out and do your sport better than your opponent! Please pay me many thousand euro now."

    The fact that there is probably a 4 year degree for it is a saddening example of how we as a species put a whole lot of stock in utterly laughable nonsense.


  • #8231
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    Cormac... wrote: »
    That passenger in your car who complains that you should have tried to park to closer to the thing/shop/haberdashery.

    When from your experience of that place (Tesco Wilton Cork, or Cork City Centre) means you both know parking is a nightmare

    So you drive up closer and spend 5 minutes (Tesco carpark) to 20 minutes (Cork City doing laps) looking for a spot that eventually/never materialises when if you parked a ****ing 100 second walk away you'd have had a space ages ago.

    I always get this **** from my missus about this whole thing. So once I drove up "closer" and we were looking for 10 minutes.
    Next time i parked where I like to park and timed the 75 feet walk from the car door to the shop entrance. It took less than 2 minutes :D

    And while I'm on subject:
    PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE AIRLIFTED EVERYWHERE (house -> car -> work -> car -> shop -> car -> house)

    Walking 100 feet a day wouldn't ****ing kill you you lazy ****ker

    60% of Irish women are overweight or obese.

    We live in a country where more than half the women are fat chicks.


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  • #8232
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    I heard that this morning too. Disgusting. I couldn't give a flying Fúck what everyone else has, as long as my bills are paid and I can have a few pints and a couple of trips away.

    I have an uncle in England who once asked my dad right out how much I was earning and was it the same as {insert published average Irish public sector salary here}...the mind boggles!


    That's generally the way people are in the UK though, there wouldn't be any intentional undertones of snobbery or begrudgery in the question, it's asked in the same way as we make small talk about the weather over here. My brother when he went over to London couldn't get over people inquiring about his occupation and his income, etc, they just discuss these things more openly than we do here.

    That's why the Indo is able to say things like that, because they know well these people of a certain mentality that are obsessed with keeping up with the jones' exist. I stopped buying the Indo a long time ago when they went from broadsheet format to tabloid format and started throwing in all manner of supplements like the "lifestyle" supplement :rolleyes:


  • #8233
    daithi7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭daithi7


    This thread is great, it's like Nirvana for grumps :), i luv it!!

    I never actually realised how many pretty hates I have, i can identify with about 90% of the ones listed here and that's after 687 pages of the pet peeves..... yikes I'm even crankier than I thought, world watch out, boards you have created (another) monster!


  • #8234
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    daithi7 wrote: »
    This thread is great, it's like Nirvana for grumps :), i luv it!!

    I never actually realised how many pretty hates I have, i can identify with about 90% of the ones listed here and that's after 687 pages of the pet peeves..... yikes I'm even crankier than I thought, world watch out, boards you have created (another) monster!

    The Ranting and Raving forum is great too.


  • #8235
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    Czarcasm wrote: »

    That's why the Indo is able to say things like that, because they know well these people of a certain mentality that are obsessed with keeping up with the jones' exist. I stopped buying the Indo a long time ago when they went from broadsheet format to tabloid format and started throwing in all manner of supplements like the "lifestyle" supplement :rolleyes:

    Same here. It went for being a slightly biased but decent enough paper to a full on populist, rabble rousing, celeb worshiping, pseudo red-top rag masquerading as a real newspaper.


  • #8236
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    Same here. It went for being a slightly biased but decent enough paper to a full on populist, rabble rousing, celeb worshiping, pseudo red-top rag masquerading as a real newspaper.

    I was meant to create a picture/meme thing to show this, but had software issues and I'm a bit lazy

    After last halloween they ran 2 separate headlines with the same story angled slightly differently

    1st was all fire and brimstone "Fire Fighters Report Terrible, Dangerous, Lethal Halloween Bonfires"

    2nd was like, oh we've done the maths now, calm done all "Fire Fighters report a quieter Halloween then expected"


  • #8237
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    daithi7 wrote: »
    This thread is great, it's like Nirvana for grumps :), i luv it!!

    I never actually realised how many pretty hates I have, i can identify with about 90% of the ones listed here and that's after 687 pages of the pet peeves..... yikes I'm even crankier than I thought, world watch out, boards you have created (another) monster!


    Welcome aboard......but pretty hates wont cut it around here......:D


  • #8238
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    People who say, "that's hilarious" instead of just....you know, laughing - because its hilarious.


  • #8239
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    There, their, and they're.

    Its not that fvcking hard.

    'Would of' just highlights the chimp-people among us.


  • #8240
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    one on the news just there......."Ryanair flights in France have been GRINDED"


  • #8241
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    one on the news just there......."Ryanair flights in France have been GRINDED"

    Didn't you hear the weather, like - there's Clide Abite! :D


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  • #8242
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    ^ which reminds me, people who say "for free" - even marketing companies do it now, it's rampant. It's either FREE or FOR NOTHING! :(

    Guilty as charged! But I'm a foreigner loike! :P

    I won't use it from now on...;)


  • #8243
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #8244
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    The pressure!!!!:eek:


    Ok, here comes the speech:

    My dearest fellow trivially annoyed,

    I decided to dedicate my 1000th post to you.
    First of all I would like to thank you for the welcome I received months back when I decided to set my foot in this thread. It's been an utter pleasure to moan and bitch and give out yards and laugh and talk about all sort of nonsense important things with you so far. Your "misery" very often makes my day and I always look forward to reading the posts! I know you don't like to read such things as we all here are "too cool for school" but let's get sentimental for once - you're a great bunch and I love you am looking forward to type more responses to your life annoyances!

    Cheers to another thousand, have a beverage to celebrate!:D
    (I ain't paying btw....)

    Sincerely yours,
    czechlin


    P.S.
    So there's been a development (sadly for me) in the bus buddy situation. I was cornered this morning and had to have a 5 minute chat!!!! Feckin' bus buddies, hate them :mad:


  • #8245
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Czarcasm wrote: »

    On the upside, the expression on her face is priceless every time I'm talking to her and I'm moving my lips as if I'm talking, but she thinks it's because of her hearing being gone that she can't hear anything...

    I know, I know - I'm going to hell :pac:
    My stepdad does that just to wind me up. Infuriating it is!

    Also, on the subject of deafness: When the tubes from my hearing aids get clogged up with either wax or sweat and no amount of cleaning with a toothpick can help, needing a dash to the NRB. Thankfully, it's a free service but this happens way too often-at least every 6 weeks. Damn my sweat ears.


  • #8246
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    czechlin wrote: »
    The pressure!!!!:eek:


    Ok, here comes the speech:

    My dearest fellow trivially annoyed,

    I decided to dedicate my 1000th post to you.
    First of all I would like to thank you for the welcome I received months back when I decided to set my foot in this thread. It's been an utter pleasure to moan and bitch and give out yards and laugh and talk about all sort of nonsense important things with you so far. Your "misery" very often makes my day and I always look forward to reading the posts! I know you don't like to read such things as we all here are "too cool for school" but let's get sentimental for once - you're a great bunch and I love you am looking forward to type more responses to your life annoyances!

    Cheers to another thousand, have a beverage to celebrate!:D
    (I ain't paying btw....)

    Sincerely yours,
    czechlin


    P.S.
    So there's been a development (sadly for me) in the bus buddy situation. I was cornered this morning and had to have a 5 minute chat!!!! Feckin' bus buddies, hate them :mad:

    You damn near destroyed the thread with your fluffy sentiment Czechlin! Haha only joking :)


  • #8247
    Ice Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ice Storm


    McChubbin wrote: »
    My stepdad does that just to wind me up. Infuriating it is!

    Also, on the subject of deafness: When the tubes from my hearing aids get clogged up with either wax or sweat and no amount of cleaning with a toothpick can help, needing a dash to the NRB. Thankfully, it's a free service but this happens way too often-at least every 6 weeks. Damn my sweat ears.
    :eek:


  • #8248
    Crosby Swift Hawk
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Crosby Swift Hawk


    Ice Storm wrote: »
    :eek:

    I think she means the hearing aids and doesn't poke them in her ear... I hope


  • #8249
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    czechlin wrote: »
    The pressure!!!!:eek:


    Ok, here comes the speech:

    My dearest fellow trivially annoyed,

    I decided to dedicate my 1000th post to you.
    First of all I would like to thank you for the welcome I received months back when I decided to set my foot in this thread. It's been an utter pleasure to moan and bitch and give out yards and laugh and talk about all sort of nonsense important things with you so far. Your "misery" very often makes my day and I always look forward to reading the posts! I know you don't like to read such things as we all here are "too cool for school" but let's get sentimental for once - you're a great bunch and I love you am looking forward to type more responses to your life annoyances!

    Cheers to another thousand, have a beverage to celebrate!:D
    (I ain't paying btw....)

    Sincerely yours,
    czechlin


    P.S.
    So there's been a development (sadly for me) in the bus buddy situation. I was cornered this morning and had to have a 5 minute chat!!!! Feckin' bus buddies, hate them :mad:

    Enough of that soppy gushing and back to the misery....now has anyone been on one of them feckin' travelators lately....? have ye seen those gob****e zombies just standing there like ....gob****es...rabble rabble...


  • #8250
    Ice Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ice Storm


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I think she means the hearing aids and doesn't poke them in her ear... I hope
    I misread it... thank fcuk! :)


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  • #8251
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    czechlin wrote: »
    The pressure!!!!:eek:


    Ok, here comes the speech:

    My dearest fellow trivially annoyed,

    I decided to dedicate my 1000th post to you.
    First of all I would like to thank you for the welcome I received months back when I decided to set my foot in this thread. It's been an utter pleasure to moan and bitch and give out yards and laugh and talk about all sort of nonsense important things with you so far. Your "misery" very often makes my day and I always look forward to reading the posts! I know you don't like to read such things as we all here are "too cool for school" but let's get sentimental for once - you're a great bunch and I love you am looking forward to type more responses to your life annoyances!

    Cheers to another thousand, have a beverage to celebrate!:D
    (I ain't paying btw....)

    Sincerely yours,
    czechlin


    P.S.
    So there's been a development (sadly for me) in the bus buddy situation. I was cornered this morning and had to have a 5 minute chat!!!! Feckin' bus buddies, hate them :mad:
    Sniff, sniff, sob, feeling blessed just reading that...;)


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