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Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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  • #3902
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    Apostrophe misuse drives me mad. Paninis not Panini's. It's Cds not Cd's.


    Do you wanna hug, there , their, they're:D


  • #3903
    Vel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    How am I supposed to feel about those horse and carriage affairs that pull tourists around the city? The horses usually look in good shape but all that trotting on roads can't be good for them surely?


  • #3904
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    aw thanks eisenberg1 .


  • #3905
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    Vel wrote: »
    How am I supposed to feel about those horse and carriage affairs that pull tourists around the city? The horses usually look in good shape but all that trotting on roads can't be good for them surely?

    Why not? Horses used to carry people everywhere.. I doubt a little trot around a city is going to hurt them.. :confused:


  • #3906
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Vel wrote: »
    How am I supposed to feel about those horse and carriage affairs that pull tourists around the city? The horses usually look in good shape but all that trotting on roads can't be good for them surely?

    If they're shod properly they're fine.


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  • #3907
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    When I accidentally flash the man in the toll booth, and being pissed off that he was staring even though it was my own fault. Mortified.


  • #3908
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Vel wrote: »
    How am I supposed to feel about those horse and carriage affairs that pull tourists around the city? The horses usually look in good shape but all that trotting on roads can't be good for them surely?

    As long as they're regularly appropriately shod they should be fine. They're likely to be well cared for being on view in public too.

    I still don't like to see it though.


  • #3909
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    When I accidentally flash the man in the toll booth, and being pissed off that he was staring even though it was my own fault. Mortified.

    Yes! Another classic Euphemism!! :pac::pac::pac:


  • #3910
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Do you know what's getting right up my left nostril these days? Poverty Porn. Ooh, we're clever, we are. We sit in nine days a week in our overcoats, eating nothing but hundredweight bags of tofu from Liddlyaldy and commuting to work on a Space-Hopper. We cancelled the telephones and TV and entertain ourselves with ghost stories.


    Now that brings back memories... of grabbing them out from behind lads when they were in mid-air, with the result that they would flip forward and be left chewing the pavement! :pac:

    Also, I can't wait until someone hacks into the GPS satellite for those electric cars and sends them all off the edge of a cliff, tree hugging occupants optional...

    Not too often you'll hear me wish ill on another human being, but there just isn't enough power in those cars to do any permanent injury, you might as well be throwing a space hopper at them! :(



    (yeah, we did that too :D)


  • #3911
    Vel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    Guy in work who finds sexual innuendo in everything you say.

    I mentioned to someone else that I'd go up the back stairs earlier and big ears hears and has to make a comment. He's all 'huh, huh, do you like it up the back stairs' etc.

    Grow up you man-child. He's mid-40s, still lives with his parents and I would be VERY surprised if he isn't a virgin!!


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  • #3912
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Vel wrote: »
    Guy in work who finds sexual innuendo in everything you say.

    I mentioned to someone else that I'd go up the back stairs earlier and big ears hears and has to make a comment. He's all 'huh, huh, do you like it up the back stairs' etc.

    Grow up you man-child. He's mid-40s, still lives with his parents and I would be VERY surprised if he isn't a virgin!!

    I agree. Everyone over 40 knows that's called the Tradesman's Entrance. :D


  • #3913
    SpaceCowb0y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭SpaceCowb0y


    Vel wrote: »
    Guy in work who finds sexual innuendo in everything you say.

    I mentioned to someone else that I'd go up the back stairs earlier and big ears hears and has to make a comment. He's all 'huh, huh, do you like it up the back stairs' etc.

    Grow up you man-child. He's mid-40s, still lives with his parents and I would be VERY surprised if he isn't a virgin!!

    In your endo!! :p


    ...I'll get me coat!


  • #3914
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I agree. Everyone over 40 knows that's called the Tradesman's Entrance. :D

    My Granny used to have coal delivered in her back passage....:eek:


  • #3915
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,792 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    My Granny used to have coal delivered in her back passage....:eek:

    Black and Hard!

    ....also gets coat...


  • #3916
    Vel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I agree. Everyone over 40 knows that's called the Tradesman's Entrance. :D

    Next time he does it, I'll be going through his Tradesman's Entrance for a shortcut! Although, he'd probably like that a little too much


  • #3917
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Vel wrote: »
    How am I supposed to feel about those horse and carriage affairs that pull tourists around the city? The horses usually look in good shape but all that trotting on roads can't be good for them surely?


    Its really bad for them. Because they are forced to walk with lowered heads they are exposed to a lot of pollution. Walking on roads all the time can cause lameness and there's the obvious risk of them being spooked and causing accidents resulting in injury to themselves and others. In fact, post mortems on such horses have shown lungs equivalent to those of heavy smokers.

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-ugly-truth-about-horse-carriages?bffb

    There doesn't seem to be an Irish equivalent, though the issues are largely transferable anyway. Our campaign against the industry is in early days at the moment.


  • #3918
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Its really bad for them. Because they are forced to walk with lowered heads they are exposed to a lot of pollution. Walking on roads all the time can cause lameness and there's the obvious risk of them being spooked and causing accidents resulting in injury to themselves and others. In fact, post mortems on such horses have shown lungs equivalent to those of heavy smokers.

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-ugly-truth-about-horse-carriages?bffb

    There doesn't seem to be an Irish equivalent, though the issues are largely transferable anyway. Our campaign against the industry is in early days at the moment.

    Yes, that's a damn shame. I suppose having a good farrier/blacksmith to hand is somewhat rarer in big cities around the world. I was thinking mainly of the Jarveys in Kerry.


  • #3919
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    There doesn't seem to be an Irish equivalent, though the issues are largely transferable anyway. Our campaign against the industry is in early days at the moment.


    The Irish equivalent is easily those fcukers on sulkys travelling on the roads inflicting all manner of cruelty on the horses and causing all manner of traffic mayhem.


  • #3920
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    The Irish equivalent is easily those fcukers on sulkys travelling on the roads inflicting all manner of cruelty on the horses and causing all manner of traffic mayhem.

    Don't get me started on those fcukers!! :mad:


  • #3921
    Vel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Its really bad for them. Because they are forced to walk with lowered heads they are exposed to a lot of pollution. Walking on roads all the time can cause lameness and there's the obvious risk of them being spooked and causing accidents resulting in injury to themselves and others. In fact, post mortems on such horses have shown lungs equivalent to those of heavy smokers.

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-ugly-truth-about-horse-carriages?bffb

    There doesn't seem to be an Irish equivalent, though the issues are largely transferable anyway. Our campaign against the industry is in early days at the moment.

    My instinct was telling me that it just isn't great but I have been trying to make myself feel better by weighing that up with the fact that they look in good condition and thinking that at least they are being used, will sleep well at night and aren't starving to death in a field somewhere. I've taken to looking away whenever I see one coming as it makes me feel sad watching them being forced to negoitate double decker buses and the like :(


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  • #3922
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    Does anyone else here constantly put off making a phone call and then when you finally decide to ring them they decide to leave half an hour before closing time? :o


  • #3923
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Vel wrote: »
    My instinct was telling me that it just isn't great but I have been trying to make myself feel better by weighing that up with the fact that they look in good condition and thinking that at least they are being used, will sleep well at night and aren't starving to death in a field somewhere. I've taken to looking away whenever I see one coming as it makes me feel sad watching them being forced to negoitate double decker buses and the like :(


    It is a good point in fairness. Especially now that so many people are using the recession as an excuse to abandon their horses. And when you hear horror stories about foals being beaten to death by kids and horses being abandoned and set on fire etc then a stable at night and food is not bad in comparison. But there is no need for them to cart around tourists and drunken stag/hen go-ers and their life is pretty miserable and short lived, and there are a lot of things about the industry that peopel dont know. Another bone of contention with me is that animal welfare charities dont consider them part of their remit. So if you do see any cases of abuse/neglect etc it's the Carriage office that are to be notified :( wtf are they going to do?


  • #3924
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    Vel wrote: »
    Guy in work who finds sexual innuendo in everything you say.

    I was telling my boss about my trip up to our Belfast Office last week.

    I mentioned that I had gotten sucked off at one of the junctions on the way into the city - which makes the trip sound far more pleasant that the reality.


  • #3925
    grundie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭grundie


    When you're entering/leaving a bank with those double security doors and the one you have just come through has almost closed, but someone runs up and opens it.


  • #3926
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Hotfail.com wrote: »
    Does anyone else here constantly put off making a phone call and then when you finally decide to ring them they decide to leave half an hour before closing time? :o


    What wrecks my tits is when I get a phone call, don't recognise the number, answer the phone -

    Me: Hello

    Caller: Ahhh shìte... *hangs up*


    Bloody wrong number :(


  • #3927
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Nicki Minaj's arse


  • #3928
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    What wrecks my tits is when I get a phone call, don't recognise the number, answer the phone -

    Me: Hello

    Caller: Ahhh shìte... *hangs up*


    Bloody wrong number :(

    You know what's worse?

    Caller: Hello, is this mr smash?
    Me: yes
    Caller: ok I'll just need to ask you for your DOB, address and phone number for security reasons
    Me: Well you're not getting them, you fcuking phoned me!


  • #3929
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    Phone calls in general annoy me.


  • #3930
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    smash wrote: »
    ...Me: Well you're not getting them, you fcuking phoned me!

    Now that, boys and girls, is security. :cool:


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  • #3931
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Having a song stuck in your head and I keep singing it to myself. It's about a boy with an ugly heart. So when someone serenades me with "let it go!" I can be all like "i wonder does it blow your mind, that im leaving you far behind!" and "okay so you're pretty, your face is a work of art, your smile could probably light up New York after dark, shame about your ugly heart".

    All joking aside, but ahh earworm


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