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Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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  • #9692
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    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.

    Reminds me of this a little :pac:

    "We run the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas and we save two hundred pounds a year"


  • #9693
    Frigga_92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    26sdrawkcab wrote: »
    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.

    Saw this dog on the road again this morning, this time about 5 miles from his house slipping in through a gap in the hedge into a field. Not much I could do for him on the bike so I just rang the local SPCA when I got to work. Poor fella out in the lashings of rain, hopefully they've managed to find him. Of course he'll have to go back to his really top notch owners :rolleyes:


  • #9694
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    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 :confused:

    "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

    I've said it before, we as a nation are so insincere when it comes to death.

    Even the biggest bastard in the word transforms into a saint once they kick the bucket and being absent from a funeral of someone you sort-of-know is noted and held against you by a surprisingly high percentage of people.

    That's before we even get into the frankly bizarre 2 day corpse-parade that constitutes a funeral in this country.

    When i die, take the body away from wherever i drop and burn it ASAP. Then you can flush the ashes down the jax or chuck them in the wheelie bin for all i care. I'll be ****ed if i'm going to inconvenience the people who are still alive by having a viewing party for my dead body before i take up valuable land and other resources so i can be planted like a daffodil bulb.


  • #9695
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


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


    "oh ME, I'm great craic with a few vinos in me, mad as a brush, that's me all over, ask anyone"

    Usually a boring sh1te of the highest order, could even have a guitar and sing Simon & Garfunkel songs.


  • #9696
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    I've said it before, we as a nation are so insincere when it comes to death.

    Even the biggest bastard in the word transforms into a saint once they kick the bucket and being absent from a funeral of someone you sort-of-know is noted and held against you by a surprisingly high percentage of people.

    That's before we even get into the frankly bizarre 2 day corpse-parade that constitutes a funeral in this country.

    When i die, take the body away from wherever i drop and burn it ASAP. Then you can flush the ashes down the jax or chuck them in the wheelie bin for all i care. I'll be ****ed if i'm going to inconvenience the people who are still alive by having a viewing party for my dead body before i take up valuable land and other resources so i can be planted like a daffodil bulb.

    Ah yes, the Klingon Philosophy - "It is but an empty shell - do as you will with it!". However, I shall be laid to rest in a 400-meter-square pyramid on the green opposite my house, accompanied by numerous serving-wenches, livestock and magnificent treasures. Before the final tomb-sealing there shall be a week-long official lying-in-state in the middle of the local pub, where my idjit mates can spend some time getting seriously pissed and saying things like "Jaysis, look at the furkan eejit there, lah. He never looked as well!" :cool:

    Hail to the Chef. Or I'll kick yo' bitch-azz.



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  • #9697
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


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

    That's code for: I become extremely unpleasant to be around when i'm having "the craic".

    The entire concept of "craic" annoys me as well. It's basically used as an excuse to be an utter arsehole around other people.


  • #9698
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    26sdrawkcab wrote: »
    Saw this dog on the road again this morning, this time about 5 miles from his house slipping in through a gap in the hedge into a field. Not much I could do for him on the bike so I just rang the local SPCA when I got to work. Poor fella out in the lashings of rain, hopefully they've managed to find him. Of course he'll have to go back to his really top notch owners :rolleyes:

    I feel worse when I see a lost or abandoned dog than I do if I see a homeless person. In fact I don't feel for them very much at all. I remember when I was in Bangladesh where people were beyond poor, they had nothing but my heart went out to the scraggy boney dogs wandering around.


  • #9699
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    gramar wrote: »
    I feel worse when I see a lost or abandoned dog than I do if I see a homeless person. In fact I don't feel for them very much at all. I remember when I was in Bangladesh where people were beyond poor, they had nothing but my heart went out to the scraggy boney dogs wandering around.

    Am I weird in not giving a rattling, scuttery fcuk about dags?? :confused:


  • #9700
    Frigga_92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    gramar wrote: »
    I feel worse when I see a lost or abandoned dog than I do if I see a homeless person. In fact I don't feel for them very much at all. I remember when I was in Bangladesh where people were beyond poor, they had nothing but my heart went out to the scraggy boney dogs wandering around.

    My reason for feeling more for animals in those situations is that a human can tell you what's wrong, a human can tell you they're hungry, a human can tell you someone hit them with a sweeping brush but an animal can't tell you anything and you just have to guess at the problem and solution.


  • #9701
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    "oh ME, I'm great craic with a few vinos in me, mad as a brush, that's me all over, ask anyone"

    Usually a boring sh1te of the highest order, could even have a guitar and sing Simon & Garfunkel songs.

    Love this.
    Another one that annoys me, someone describing themselves as sensitive. Usually said in such a way that suggests the rest of us have the hide of a rhinoceros and can take all the digs the 'sensitive one' gives. :mad:


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  • #9702
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Am I weird in not giving a rattling, scuttery fcuk about dags?? :confused:

    Jim, say it aint so:mad:

    Cats on the other hand.................:eek:


  • #9703
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    LynnGrace wrote: »
    Love this.
    Another one that annoys me, someone describing themselves as sensitive. Usually said in such a way that suggests the rest of us have the hide of a rhinoceros and can take all the digs the 'sensitive one' gives. :mad:

    "Sensitive" here usually just means maladjusted and neurotic almost to the point of clinically insane.


  • #9704
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Am I weird in not giving a rattling, scuttery fcuk about dags?? :confused:

    No Jim, you're not weird. Just not a dog lover.

    By the way I have a bitch in heat at home with a kebab on her the size of a small parish. Even the missus came home the other day and said 'well hal (dogs name) hows the kebab!' All Jim Goose's doing!


  • #9705
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Jim, say it aint so:mad:

    Cats on the other hand.................:eek:

    I quite like cats. They mind their own business, and can be surprisingly intelligent and even affectionate. My assertion about dags came out a little harsh, I guess. Maybe it has something to do with my robust rural upbringing, where the Dag was usually a sheepdog of some sort, and you'd no more bring it into the house or "pamper" it than you would the bull, or the tractor. And if you did, the same Dag would look at you like you'd sprouted a second head! :pac:


  • #9706
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    gramar wrote: »
    No Jim, you're not weird. Just not a dog lover.

    By the way I have a bitch in heat at home with a kebab on her the size of a small parish. Even the missus came home the other day and said 'well hal (dogs name) hows the kebab!' All Jim Goose's doing!

    You have no idea how gratifying that is. :D


  • #9707
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    LynnGrace wrote: »
    Love this.
    Another one that annoys me, someone describing themselves as sensitive. Usually said in such a way that suggests the rest of us have the hide of a rhinoceros and can take all the digs the 'sensitive one' gives. :mad:

    I just realised, the Simon & Garfunkel reference probably went over the heads of most of you kids:D


  • #9708
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    26sdrawkcab wrote: »
    Saw this dog on the road again this morning, this time about 5 miles from his house slipping in through a gap in the hedge into a field. Not much I could do for him on the bike so I just rang the local SPCA when I got to work. Poor fella out in the lashings of rain, hopefully they've managed to find him. Of course he'll have to go back to his really top notch owners :rolleyes:

    SPCA wont do anything unless the media are involved :(


  • #9709
    geeksauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 826 ✭✭✭geeksauce


    26sdrawkcab wrote: »
    My reason for feeling more for animals in those situations is that a human can tell you what's wrong, a human can tell you they're hungry, a human can tell you someone hit them with a sweeping brush but an animal can't tell you anything and you just have to guess at the problem and solution.

    Plus humans are far better equipped for getting themselves out of the situation.


  • #9710
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    gramar wrote: »
    I feel worse when I see a lost or abandoned dog than I do if I see a homeless person. In fact I don't feel for them very much at all. I remember when I was in Bangladesh where people were beyond poor, they had nothing but my heart went out to the scraggy boney dogs wandering around.

    Me too :( I try to figure it out but can't. Is it because we see so much human suffering on the news etc and just become de-sensitised to it? Then again, I've always been like that. I told the story before about getting upset as a child when I heard that 20 gorillas had been decapitated, and was visibly relieved when mam explained they were, in fact, guerillas :pac: Maybe because I believe that humans are inherently bad and animals are not, or maybe because animals are just cuter :D


  • #9711
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    geeksauce wrote: »
    Plus humans are far better equipped for getting themselves out of the situation.


    And a human will fight back. An animal will be loyal between blows. I saw a d1ckhead with a van once straying his dog. The dog kept running after the van in a panic. The saddest thing I ever saw, and I couldnt rescue him because he was too afraid to let me come close :(


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  • #9712
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Dr Who. My husband is catching up on about a gazillion episodes of the ancient series that he recorded during the week. I'm not a Dr Who fan at the best of times but if I have to listen to this American bint in her pink spandex with that whiney nasal tone I may just beat him to death(Mr P), with the remote control:mad:


  • #9713
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Dr Who. My husband is catching up on about a gazillion episodes of the ancient series that he recorded during the week. I'm not a Dr Who fan at the best of times but if I have to listen to this American bint in her pink spandex with that whiney nasal tone I may just beat him to death(Mr P), with the remote control:mad:

    Just be glad he isn't working his way through The Beverly Hillbillies like I am at the moment. :D


  • #9714
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    People who cross the road without looking. It drives me crazy. It happened again yesterday luckily for the pedestrian I (car driver) was paying attention.


  • #9715
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    People who cross the road without looking. It drives me crazy. It happened again yesterday luckily for the pedestrian I (car driver) was paying attention.

    Tell me about it. Just an hour ago lights were green and the cars were filtering through and a fella just walks across the zebra in between cars. I stopped and let him cross as it was either that or knock him down. Conveniently the window was down so I called him a stupid fcuking knob as he went past seemingly oblivious to what he was at.


  • #9716
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    I find Irish People are the worst for Jay walking. If you see someone waiting for a green man it's usually a tourist


  • #9717
    dubstarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    People who cross the road without looking. It drives me crazy. It happened again yesterday luckily for the pedestrian I (car driver) was paying attention.

    The ones who cross at an angle really get my goat.I dont drive but i see it all the time when the oh is driving.


  • #9718
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    The garda and RSA warning people to "take care" on the roads after rain.

    If you don't know to do that anyway then you shouldn't be driving.


  • #9719
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ok, the garth Brooks thread.
    Its annoying. people still going round and fkcuing round about the same shooite over and over. Even those who have been proven wrong over and over, keep picking at the scab...


    :(


  • #9720
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    Jake1 wrote: »
    Ok, the garth Brooks thread.
    Its annoying. people still going round and fkcuing round about the same shooite over and over. Even those who have been proven wrong over and over, keep picking at the scab...


    :(

    There are some threads which I wish I could completely block from sight.
    That would be one of them.


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  • #9721
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Jake1 wrote: »
    Ok, the garth Brooks thread.
    Its annoying. people still going round and fkcuing round about the same shooite over and over. Even those who have been proven wrong over and over, keep picking at the scab...
    :(

    Exactly. Scab is exactly what it is at this stage. Some people are way over-invested in these things. Perspective, people, I say. 
    LizzieJones wrote: »
    There are some threads which I wish I could completely block from sight.
    That would be one of them.

    Agreed. I'm on another website where you can hide threads, it's great. I know people say, don't open etc, but I just love having the option of hiding them, especially ones that go around and around in circles, or are obvious trolls.


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