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Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Crumpets


    I ordered a bag online 3 weeks ago and it's still not here :( I've emailed them a few times and keep getting the same vague response: "apologies for the delay, your order will be with you shortly"......will it yeah?? WHEN??! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Crumpets wrote: »
    I ordered a bag online 3 weeks ago and it's still not here :( I've emailed them a few times and keep getting the same vague response: "apologies for the delay, your order will be with you shortly"......will it yeah?? WHEN??! :mad:

    Shortly


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


    honeygirl wrote: »
    So called friends who don't answer texts or return calls and only get in touch when they want to.

    And when they want something. :mad:


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


    The way Lidl never has a full complement of cashiers.

    Slowly remembering silly things you wrote on exams over the couple of weeks that you have to wait for results. You're sitting on a bus (naturally) and you suddenly remember something you wrote that makes no sense :(

    My brother, who has a perfectly good car under his áss, asking me to get him a takeaway on the way home every fúcking day. What makes it really annoying is that he is completely unreachable for the entire day - he'll just turn his phone off and to hell with you if you need to reach him for anything but come 5 30 the phone is on and he's texting asking for a curry. It's hard to be justifiably annoyed because the takeaway is on the way home but its the going in, finding parking, waiting. He always pays me after but sometimes I wont have cash so I will need to find an atm and withdraw money (and a twenty broken is gone forever!). It seems trivial but it really annoys me!

    Waiting for the green man.

    When driving, pedestrians who dont wait fot the green man.

    Realising that I was completely brainwashed as a kid about some stuff - for example my Gran and Mam had me convinced that a certain swimmer who won all the olympic races was set up because people were jealous - never mind the fact that she dissolved in the pool like an effervescent tablet!

    That Bertie was also set up by people who were jealous.

    People who dont hold handrails on buses/luas and fall around like twats when the thing moves :(

    People who say things like "how's she cuttin" or insert "cúpla focal" to be cool and stuff when they haven't a fúckin clue about Irish save to write a paragraph about when they broke their leg or write a postcard to Maire in Bothar Mor telling her about the leg trouble.


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


    ^^

    ONW, not to mention the priest "who was a lovely singer"

    Other trivial annoyance, I wasn't a kid when that swimmer dissolved.


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


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    ^^

    ONW, not to mention the priest "who was a lovely singer"

    Other trivial annoyance, I wasn't a kid when that swimmer dissolved.


    :eek: :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    The way Lidl never has a full complement of cashiers.

    Lidl pisses me off in general. Is it cheaper? In general it's just barely cheaper but the food is much much worse. People go on about the fruit and veg like it's amazing, it's not! there's no use by dates on their produce and it goes off very fast. In tesco I can buy bananas, a pack of oranges and a pack of apples for €3, and it'll last a week! In Lidl it's more expensive and it's done after 2/3 days!

    Then you have to queue up for ages and fire your shopping into the trolly ASAP and pack it elsewhere. I think I'll stick with Tesco.


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


    smash wrote: »
    Lidl pisses me off in general. Is it cheaper? In general it's just barely cheaper but the food is much much worse. People go on about the fruit and veg like it's amazing, it's not! there's no use by dates on their produce and it goes off very fast. In tesco I can buy bananas, a pack of oranges and a pack of apples for €3, and it'll last a week! In Lidl it's more expensive and it's done after 2/3 days!

    Then you have to queue up for ages and fire your shopping into the trolly ASAP and pack it elsewhere. I think I'll stick with Tesco.


    Maybe, but you wont come out of Tesco with a flame thrower, night vision goggles and golf clubs.................just sayin:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Maybe, but you wont come out of Tesco with a flame thrower, night vision goggles and golf clubs.................just sayin:D
    I saved €25 on my shopping in Lidl today!

    Cool. Here, what's that over there?

    Oh it's a spare wheel and puncture repair kit for a 2003 50cc Suzuki moped.

    Do you have one of them?

    No, but it was on special offer... only €50 like!


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


    smash I find Lidl good for store cupboard ingredients but I agree with you about fruit and veg it has a short shelf life.

    I've found the special buys lacklustre lately.


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


    smash wrote: »
    Lidl pisses me off in general. Is it cheaper? In general it's just barely cheaper but the food is much much worse. People go on about the fruit and veg like it's amazing, it's not! there's no use by dates on their produce and it goes off very fast. In tesco I can buy bananas, a pack of oranges and a pack of apples for €3, and it'll last a week! In Lidl it's more expensive and it's done after 2/3 days!

    Then you have to queue up for ages and fire your shopping into the trolly ASAP and pack it elsewhere. I think I'll stick with Tesco.

    I do all my shopping online with Tesco and am constantly met with absolute horror about this.
    I drive a bike so Tesco delivery is ideal for me, they have just introduced a delivery saver deal where you pay €10 per month for all your deliveries once your shopping is over €50, you could have 10 deliveries a month or just the usual average of 4 and it's still only €10 per month. Normally delivery is between €4.50 and €7.50 so €10 is a bargain to me.
    Also, there is no way I could get all my shopping home in my backpack so it would take several trips, again, this makes the €10 delivery service ideal for me. This also eliminates the whole "well you could get some stuff in Aldi/Lidl and the rest in Tesco" but sure then I'm trekking around with my backpack using up my petrol taking several trips to different shops and in the end I probably end up not saving money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    and in the end I probably end up not saving money.

    It's not even a question that it's a good idea. If it takes me an hour to go do the shopping, and even if it costs me €7.50 to have them deliver it to me, then that's a win because an hour of my time is worth more than €7.50. At a tenner for the month, it's a steal.


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


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    smash I find Lidl good for store cupboard ingredients but I agree with you about fruit and veg it has a short shelf life.

    I've found the special buys lacklustre lately.


    I find some of their "staples" are better quality - tinned tomatoes, olives, kidney beans etc. Also their cheeses are very good and very reasonable (In fact I think they have a brie that is exactly the same as one in Tesco but for a fraction of the price). Wines are ok too. As for meat and veg, kind of hit and miss. Agree re the dates but I also have a healthy fear of stuff that refuses to go off - I mean, how do they manage that?? I do wish the staff would stop shouting their own language to their buddies across the customer's heads though, and it would be nice if they didn't fling our food at us too :P


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


    OldNotWise I agree with about the cheeses they are delicious.

    I prefer Aldi for wine, I'm a big fan of their €8.99 Sav Blanc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Tesco have a great Cheese sale on at the moment. 3 Cheeses from a select range for a tenner, and they're delicious!

    The way I look at Lidl and Aldi is that if you're going to compare pricing then go to Tesco etc, walk past the leading brand products, past the Tesco etc finest products and then compare with the thrift/yellow pack stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,926 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    When 'Greatest Hits' albums have previously unreleased material on them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    Like most coffee shops, the one I frequent has a small area where you wait for your takeaway coffee. Some woman decided to consume her non-takeaway coffee right in the area where the coffees are left down for us to pick up. There she was blissfully unaware that she was blocking the entire area, happy out using a teaspoon to slurp the foam off her coffee while those of us waiting for our coffees, with nowhere else to wait but RIGHT by her, tried to keep the contents of our stomach in check.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    A guy on the Luas yesterday morning pulled out a small mirror and clear mascara and brush and proceeded to style his eyebrows. He then fusssed around with his eyebrows for the rest of the trip. It was a car carsh of a scene.


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


    I hate women doing their make up on public transport. Get up 5 minutes earlier and do your make up at home. I don't want to be coated with your filthy make up.
    I've hard enough job not spilling my make up all over myself in the morning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 826 ✭✭✭geeksauce


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    I hate women doing their make up on public transport. Get up 5 minutes earlier and do your make up at home. I don't want to be coated with your filthy make up.
    I've hard enough job not spilling my make up all over myself in the morning.

    Nearly had a head on collision driving to work yesterday with a woman doing her make up as she drove.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭CantonasCollar


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Oh fúck. I was eating grapes earlier myself! :o (I try eat quietly though, nothing disgusts me more than noisy eaters!).

    She's doing it again!!!!!!!! So few people in work today so it is deafeningly quiet and her food noises are echoing round the room.

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    If I cut my ears off would it stop the noise or would the echoes in my head taunt me for life ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭CantonasCollar


    osarusan wrote: »
    When 'Greatest Hits' albums have previously unreleased material on them.

    Greatest hits albums in general, for bands you particularly follow you always feel like you have to buy it to complete your collection even though you already own 95% of the material. Also hate how they have started putting 'demo' versions as extras when the demo sounds 95% the same as the released version


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Brego888


    How easy it used to be to round fuel up to the nearest punt/euro when using the petrol pumps. Now with the price of fuel it's a pain in the hole!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Brego888 wrote: »
    How easy it used to be to round fuel up to the nearest punt/euro when using the petrol pumps. Now with the price of fuel it's a pain in the hole!!

    19.97... 19.98.... 19.99.... 20.01

    Son of a bitch!!!!


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


    smash brego888 I thought it was just me and my clumsy fingers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    smash brego888 I thought it was just me and my clumsy fingers

    It's not even a pet hate any more, it wrecks my whole day! :D


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


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    OldNotWise I agree with about the cheeses they are delicious.

    I prefer Aldi for wine, I'm a big fan of their €8.99 Sav Blanc.

    Lidl have a nice rioja that comes in 3 different prices depending on year. Starts at 6.99. The 9.99 one is the best, weirdly I find the middle one the worst - personal preference I guess. Also love their chianti. Let's not forget about the bannoffee, raspberry roulade and strawberry eton mess!

    Damn clothes keep shrinking...


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


    my clumsy fingers wreck your day ? ;)

    OldNotWise Toffee roulade nom nom nom nom.


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


    smash wrote: »
    Tesco have a great Cheese sale on at the moment. 3 Cheeses from a select range for a tenner, and they're delicious!

    The way I look at Lidl and Aldi is that if you're going to compare pricing then go to Tesco etc, walk past the leading brand products, past the Tesco etc finest products and then compare with the thrift/yellow pack stuff.


    Lidl stuff ain't that bad! :P


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


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    my clumsy fingers wreck your day ? ;)

    OldNotWise Toffee roulade nom nom nom nom.

    That one is good too but I find it a little rich. At least with the raspberry one I know I can eat a whole one :pac:


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