Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

grundie · 17-07-2014 06:30PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

The way the LUAS seems to close more stops than necessary every time time there is an "incident". For example, today there was an incident in the Heuston are, so one would assume trams would run from Tallaght/Saggart to James...but no, they are running from Tallaght/Saggart to Blackhorse. What is the thinking behind this? Are there only certain stops they can change tracks at or something? Dont those things go both directions anyway (driver can run to the other end and drive the opposite way lol)

Partly due to where they can change tracks and also the length of the electrical isolation zones.

If they added more electrical isolation zones it would cause the pantograph contact shoe to wear down faster.

shruikan2553 · 17-07-2014 06:31PM

whirlpool wrote: »

Once you step off Shop Street you're out of the city centre :pac:

Ill be generous and give them anything on the east side of the river up to the shopping centre at headford road. Even then, salthill is still as close to being the city centre as tuam is.

Balmed Out · 17-07-2014 06:39PM

So many people, restaurants etc over cook black pudding to the point I'd consider it burned.

MJ23 · 17-07-2014 06:49PM

Constant updates on Rory McBritish on the sports news.

Lads, he's British. When are you going to realise this?

MJ23 · 17-07-2014 07:01PM

Katie Taylor's monotone voice on that ridiculous insurance ad. And her bullsh*t about God helping her win fights.

Pumpkinseeds · 17-07-2014 07:29PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

It'd make you wonder alright, they'll probably have to wait two weeks now for the replacement part to be delivered for the van so they can deliver your fridge! :rolleyes:

Sometimes, much as it annoys me, that little rolleyes bastard is useful!

I'd done an online shop with Tesco that was due to be delivered tomorrow so I had to reschedule that til Saturday as well. Mr P will just have to slum it in Dunnes for his beer:D

Oops69 · 17-07-2014 08:30PM

That Diarmuid Gavin , the gardener fella's accent , half English - half somewhere in Ireland- ish , mostly contrived , he's doing a radio ad now as well so it's pops up at you with no notice .

bobrawn20 · 17-07-2014 09:31PM

"You're so difficult"
Standard reply when what they really mean is "crap I'm wrong here..best make it out to be their issue instead"
Usually middle management, pricks

Ted_YNWA · 17-07-2014 09:32PM

bobrawn20 wrote: »

"You're so difficult"
Standard reply when what they really mean is "crap I'm wrong here..best make it out to be their issue instead"
Usually middle management, pricks

Can I review this issue & come back to you? ..... (hopefully you will have forgotten this later)

Dermighty · 17-07-2014 09:50PM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

People who say "wait until you have kids".

And people that have no kids saying "you're in for some shock when you have kids!". **** off!

This Fat Girl Runs · 17-07-2014 09:52PM

This has bugged me for a while; the voice at the self-checkout machines at Tesco says 'Clubcard EX-cepted' not 'AC-cepted'. Bugs me so much I usually have my earphones in and music playing so I don't have to hear it. :P

Mariasofia · 17-07-2014 10:21PM

When you pour yourself a nice large glass of rose and a fcuking midgie flies into it!!

Frigga_92 · 17-07-2014 10:22PM

bobrawn20 wrote: »

"You're so difficult"
Standard reply when what they really mean is "crap I'm wrong here..best make it out to be their issue instead"
Usually middle management, pricks

Her other standard is that you have an attitude problem when you are merely sticking up for yourself when she is speaking to you like you are stupid.
I typed up a list of clients for her one day, can't remember what it was for, and dropped it into her office. It was just a quick job, something I threw together. Dropped it into her office and she picked it up, glanced at it and said "did you not put it in alphabetical order?", I was in the middle of saying "no, I'll do that now if you want" but she cut me off at "no.." and said "you know, a, b, c, d...?"
OH REALLY???? I DID NOT KNOW UNTIL YOU JUST EXPLAINED TO ME WHAT ALPHABETICAL ORDER MEANS!!!!!

Frigga_92 · 17-07-2014 10:24PM

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

This has bugged me for a while; the voice at the self-checkout machines at Tesco says 'Clubcard EX-cepted' not 'AC-cepted'. Bugs me so much I usually have my earphones in and music playing so I don't have to hear it. :P

Anyone else just love the Dunnes Stores self-service checkouts because of the accent? It's like your granny is talking to you

Frigga_92 · 17-07-2014 10:36PM

People that shouldn't have pets but have pets

I was driving home this evening and I spotted an older looking black lab on the side of the road. Little grey beard on him and he looked a bit confused. You know when you see a lost dog and they're panting and pacing? It makes me want to burst into tears!
I went a bit further up the road trying to decide whether to stop or not. I drive a motorbike and generally speaking there's not a lot I can do for stray animals. I turned around about 30 seconds later and went back to him. I pulled in and he started wagging his tail and came towards me. He had a collar on with a tag and he was outside a house (not a house directly on the road, a house with a big front garden and long driveway so the house itself is a bit further in from the road) so I walked up to the house with him, knocked on the door and a woman answered. I said to her "hiya, is this your dog by any chance? he was just down on the road there and it's so busy" (it's the main road between Waterford and Clonmel) and the woman said "oh yeah, he's mine" and she stood back to let the dog in the door and said goodbye.
No "thank you", no "oh sorry I'm such a **** dog owner". Grrrrr.

Oops69 · 18-07-2014 12:13AM

Mariasofia wrote: »

When you pour yourself a nice large glass of rose and a fcuking midgie flies into it!!

When you're a midge and you fly into a glass of Rose and think " I only live a day, and my one and only and last alcoholic drink is going to be this ****e!":D

jimgoose · 18-07-2014 12:15AM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

My boss speaking to me like I'm stupid.
I'm classing this as something trivial because there's nothing I can do about it.

Conversation this afternoon:
Her: I'll ring Tom for the keys and you can go out to the well. (This is exactly how the conversation started as I walked into her office).
Me: The well?
Her: (really deadpan you stupid moron tone) The stairwell!
It would've been fine if the conversation ended there but NOOOOO she never knows when to just stop.
Her: you know what a stairwell is, don't you?
Me: yes, I know what a stairwell is but you didn't say "stairwell", you said "the well".
Her: you're so difficult, I can't argue with you in this heat.
Me:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

"The well", is it? I should put the vile, blithering termagant's head through the window.

Shakespeare's Sister · 18-07-2014 12:30AM

mickydoomsux wrote: »

"This is what a REAL woman looks like"

No, no it isn't.

60% of Irish women are obese or overweight. It's this kind of "i'm brilliant anyway" attitude that has us living in a country of fat chicks. I'm sure i'm "body-shaming" or some other twaddle but it's not right that more than half the female population of a country is clinically classified as fat.

Made-up stats.

People only having a go at fat women for their weight rather than either gender.

Although I agree with you on the "real woman" rubbish.

McChubbin · 18-07-2014 05:23AM

Cramping in my left collarbone that has been aching on and off for the last 6 weeks. Got it checked (read: poked once or twice) by the doctor and told "Sure, it's only a muscle sprain. It'll heal up on its' own."
My hole! A month later and it still hurts. I happen to inadvertedly roll over and sleep on my left side and it makes things worse. I can barely lift my arm above my head to put on a damn shirt.
To make matters worse, I also have RSI in my right hand and wrist which comes and goes but is particularly annoying when I'm on a hot streak of free-hand writing with simple pen and paper.
I have two owies and they both suck equally.
I just want to be able to sleep/write in peace without pain but nope- doctor won't take it seriously enough. Boo-urns! :mad:
If you'll excuse me, I'm off to go cry in frustration.

geeksauce · 18-07-2014 09:23AM

Tried to change my postal address on Banking 365, it said I had to activate my mobile phone to do so. I tried to activate my phone, but it said it has to send me a code to do this to my home address.

So to change my address I first have to get a letter sent to my old address, which I wont receive as it is my old address hence the need to change my address.

Well done BOI, well done.

OldNotWIse · 18-07-2014 09:31AM

Noticed this one yeterday. The way bus lanes say:

Lána
Bus
Lane

I know it saves space not having to paint "bus" twice but it just annoys me the way they are essentially cheating by doubling up on the word bus. They should paint:

Lána
Bus

Bus
Lane

There :P

yeppydeppy · 18-07-2014 09:41AM

Truck's driving at 40mph and not pulling over to let cars pass. In Sweden if you're holding up more than 3 vehicles behind you, you have to pull over to let them past - why do those Scandinavians seem to have it all sorted?

Maximus Alexander · 18-07-2014 09:52AM

geeksauce wrote: »

Tried to change my postal address on Banking 365, it said I had to activate my mobile phone to do so. I tried to activate my phone, but it said it has to send me a code to do this to my home address.

So to change my address I first have to get a letter sent to my old address, which I wont receive as it is my old address hence the need to change my address.

Well done BOI, well done.

This exactly happened to me. As a result, they still think I live at an address I left five years ago.

CPSW · 18-07-2014 09:53AM

Idiots who blatantly ignore the bad weather warnings!

In this day and age where people have information at their finger tips with their smart phones, and especially with the warnings that were issued, there were folk standing at the bus stop this morning looking like a bunch of sad sack drowned rats, soaked to the bone in their t-shirts and shorts.

This is Ireland we live in people! A quick look out the window before you left the house and you would have seen how s*it the weather was!

yeppydeppy · 18-07-2014 09:56AM

People who say "I'm a bit mad" - no you're not, you're just loud and annoying and probably obnoxious.

OldNotWIse · 18-07-2014 10:07AM

People saying fake things about other people who have died.

"He was the life and soul of the party" - I've been to very few parties that were so sh1t that removing one person would take away it's "life and soul". Come on now lads, the life and soul is heading off, drink up now sure there's nothing left for us here after he goes

"He died screaming for a bed" - he was in a vegetative state for two months before that.

"He lived a full life" - he was a complete bum and layabout.

"He is in a better place" - so why aren't we all in a mad rush to be there?

I went to the funeral of a friend's mother a couple of years ago. This woman had made her kids lives (and her husband's) misery and they were all basket cases because of her. The nicest thing anyone could bring themselves to say about her was, "she was always very honest about how she felt about you" :P

The King of Moo · 18-07-2014 10:28AM

People giving powerpoint presentations who don't press F5 to do it as a slideshow, and then, slowly wave the mouse around before they click on each individual slide, slowly scrolling down all the time to get to the next slide.

Bonus annoyance points awarded if they have to keep going back and forth between the spot where they're speaking and the computer.

geeksauce · 18-07-2014 10:39AM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

This exactly happened to me. As a result, they still think I live at an address I left five years ago.

It annoyed me so much while trying to do it that I actually started sweating, which in turn annoyed me even more. Sweating when it is raining outside is not good.

LynnGrace · 18-07-2014 10:39AM

CPSW wrote: »

Idiots who blatantly ignore the bad weather warnings!

In this day and age where people have information at their finger tips with their smart phones, and especially with the warnings that were issued, there were folk standing at the bus stop this morning looking like a bunch of sad sack drowned rats, soaked to the bone in their t-shirts and shorts.

This is Ireland we live in people! A quick look out the window before you left the house and you would have seen how s*it the weather was!

That and people who take no account of weather conditions when driving. I was on the M50 one day last week, in what could only be described as a deluge. Some of the driving was unreal. Visibility was rubbish.
I had one driver on my side of the white line between our lanes, at one point, idiot.

LynnGrace · 18-07-2014 10:42AM

The King of Moo wrote: »

People giving powerpoint presentations who don't press F5 to do it as a slideshow, and then, slowly wave the mouse around before they click on each individual slide, slowly scrolling down all the time to get to the next slide.

Bonus annoyance points awarded if they have to keep going back and forth between the spot where they're speaking and the computer.

And even more bonus points when the audience gets to see the back of the presenter's head the whole time, as the presenter reads from the screen, with their back turned to the audience, and my other favourite, just reads out the words, adding nothing to them. We can do that ourselves, thanks.

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