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Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I cannot for the life of me understand why bicycle manufacturers aren't required to fit bells and lighting at the factory.

    And mirrors.

    Not starting a cyclist bashing trend but I think a big difference between cyclists and all other road users is a lack of mirrors, which leads to them manoeuvring on the road without taking proper observations. For example, if I'm driving along and I come to an obstacle on the road, be it another road user stopped for some reason or a pothole or something like that, I don't just swerve out and around the obstacle, I check my mirrors, whack on the indicator (if needs be) and do a life saver. I very rarely see cyclists take proper observations like that and instead, just see them swerve out without any warning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    And mirrors.

    Not starting a cyclist bashing trend but I think a big difference between cyclists and all other road users is a lack of mirrors, which leads to them manoeuvring on the road without taking proper observations. For example, if I'm driving along and I come to an obstacle on the road, be it another road user stopped for some reason or a pothole or something like that, I don't just swerve out and around the obstacle, I check my mirrors, whack on the indicator (if needs be) and do a life saver. I very rarely see cyclists take proper observations like that and instead, just see them swerve out without any warning.

    A lifesaver alone would be just that. Well said. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭BluE-WinG


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Please call ispca or something

    I would like to do this, what are my rights when it comes to this? Do I just ring them up and explain what is happening? I live in Co. Laois and I have a feeling I have to ring the dog warden, who will do nothing unless I go complain to the miserable bastard first.


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


    BluE-WinG wrote: »
    I would like to do this, what are my rights when it comes to this? Do I just ring them up and explain what is happening? I live in Co. Laois and I have a feeling I have to ring the dog warden, who will do nothing unless I go complain to the miserable bastard first.

    The animal welfare laws have changed now. In the past so long as a dog had food shelter and water there was nothing that could be done, unless there was clear evidence of abuse or neglect. Give the dog warden a call and see what happens, you've nothing to lose and at least you'll have tried.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,008 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    People who pronounce "only" as if there's a D in it. What's that about :confused:


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


    And mirrors.

    Not starting a cyclist bashing trend but I think a big difference between cyclists and all other road users is a lack of mirrors, which leads to them manoeuvring on the road without taking proper observations. For example, if I'm driving along and I come to an obstacle on the road, be it another road user stopped for some reason or a pothole or something like that, I don't just swerve out and around the obstacle, I check my mirrors, whack on the indicator (if needs be) and do a life saver. I very rarely see cyclists take proper observations like that and instead, just see them swerve out without any warning.

    Motorists - Expect The Unexpected :)

    When I'm cycling, I alway see gobsh*tes on bikes doing sill silly things.
    The think I hate most about cycling is that other cyclists will get right behind you nearly touching your wheel, it makes thier pedalling easier. Sometimes they just come out of nowhere.
    And it gets worse when they are RLJ's (Red Light Jumpers) and I obey the red light, the guffaw's out of some of them because you stop for a red and they nearly smack into you.


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


    The animal welfare laws have changed now. In the past so long as a dog had food shelter and water there was nothing that could be done, unless there was clear evidence of abuse or neglect. Give the dog warden a call and see what happens, you've nothing to lose and at least you'll have tried.


    How has that changed? I'm not being smart but I was under the impression it was (sadly) still the same?


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


    BluE-WinG wrote: »
    I would like to do this, what are my rights when it comes to this? Do I just ring them up and explain what is happening? I live in Co. Laois and I have a feeling I have to ring the dog warden, who will do nothing unless I go complain to the miserable bastard first.

    Ring the dog warden and see what they say
    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    MotoristsRoad Users - Expect The Unexpected :)

    When I'm cycling, I alway see gobsh*tes on bikes doing sill silly things.
    The think I hate most about cycling is that other cyclists will get right behind you nearly touching your wheel, it makes thier pedalling easier. Sometimes they just come out of nowhere.
    And it gets worse when they are RLJ's (Red Light Jumpers) and I obey the red light, the guffaw's out of some of them because you stop for a red and they nearly smack into you.

    FYP.
    Can't we all just have cop on?
    I didn't post what I posted off the back of me having a "run in" or anything with a cyclist, I very very rarely meet cyclists where I live or on my commute to work as I travel on an N road for 95% of the journey. I do, however, see them a lot in Dublin and this is just something I have observed. If we all have cop on then you don't need to expect somebody else to save your arse.
    For example, if I'm driving along and meet a slow moving vehicle on the road (which I do a lot, loads of farmers around here), I always stay well back from the vehicle (until I can get by) and put my hazards on to warn anybody coming behind me (my last bike didn't have hazards so I used to wave my arm up and down like a loon). It's not my responsibility to ensure that the driver behind me is driving at a safe speed to allow them to stop but if they rear end me it's me who'll be injured. It's all great being able to say the other driver was in the wrong from your hospital bed or worse.
    EDIT to say - obviously there are situations where one party is 100% in the wrong, I'm talking about situations where, with a bit of cop on from all sides, something could've been avoided.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    People who completely overreact and deliberately take things out of context.


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


    At a junction last night waiting to turn right. There's a lane to my left for keeping straight. A number of cars ahead of me got through on the filter arrow. I slowed and stopped as I definitely was not going to make it (as it was the two cars ahead went through on the change from amber to red). The moron behind me got into such a rage over this he flew into the lane for keeping straight, cut across me and turned right as the cars from the other side had already moved off. I sometimes cannot believe we have to share the roads with people like this who have no regard for the safety of others (or themselves) and who are willing to risk serious injury or death to save a minute of their time. The same people are probably quite reasonable outside their cars but once behind the wheel everything changes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    At a junction last night waiting to turn right. There's a lane to my left for keeping straight. A number of cars ahead of me got through on the filter arrow. I slowed and stopped as I definitely was not going to make it (as it was the two cars ahead went through on the change from amber to red). The moron behind me got into such a rage over this he flew into the lane for keeping straight, cut across me and turned right as the cars from the other side had already moved off. I sometimes cannot believe we have to share the roads with people like this who have no regard for the safety of others (or themselves) and who are willing to risk serious injury or death to save a minute of their time. The same people are probably quite reasonable outside their cars but once behind the wheel everything changes.

    Did you get a red for turning right after the filter changed, or was it just a regular "roundy" green? If the latter you just treat the junction as a Yellow-Box.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    ...It's all great being able to say the other driver was in the wrong from your hospital bed or worse.

    This, a thousand times this. I find right-of-way is crap defensive shield! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    The word 'artisan' being used for a bloody coffee shop or cake shop...stretching the definition just a little there...

    I don't think making coffee with some milk and chocolate powder is quite the skilled craft...:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    I can't drive so am oblivious to all these annoyances!!

    Something that annoys me though, we walk to school every day, another little boy walks too, with his au pair. We have to cross 3 roads, and they are a nightmare. One is at the estate and the other 2 are at a roundabout. Sometimes we are there for 5 minutes, but I leave on time and I'll wait for as long as it takes for it to be safe to cross.

    The au pair has the other little boy in a buggy, and just legs it across the road with him and looks at me like I'm mental to be standing there. Then we get to school and have to wait to be called in anyway, and we're always 10 minutes early. Why can't you just wait???


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


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    People who pronounce "only" as if there's a D in it. What's that about :confused:


    Ondly the lonedly, bah bah bah bah dee dee dah.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I cannot for the life of me understand why bicycle manufacturers aren't required to fit bells and lighting at the factory.
    I was told in Halford's that legally they're not allowed let a bike leave the shop unless it has a bell. You would think lights would be standard but not even mudguards are, which drives me daft. "Would you like mudguards on your bike?". Well duh. That's like buying a car without window wipers :rolleyes:


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


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Did you get a red for turning right after the filter changed, or was it just a regular "roundy" green? If the latter you just treat the junction as a Yellow-Box.

    No I got the red (sounds like something you'd take penicillin for!) :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    No I got the red (sounds like something you'd take penicillin for!) :)

    Don't get me wrong - yer mawn is an arsehole regardless. :pac:


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


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    At a junction last night waiting to turn right. There's a lane to my left for keeping straight. A number of cars ahead of me got through on the filter arrow. I slowed and stopped as I definitely was not going to make it (as it was the two cars ahead went through on the change from amber to red). The moron behind me got into such a rage over this he flew into the lane for keeping straight, cut across me and turned right as the cars from the other side had already moved off. I sometimes cannot believe we have to share the roads with people like this who have no regard for the safety of others (or themselves) and who are willing to risk serious injury or death to save a minute of their time. The same people are probably quite reasonable outside their cars but once behind the wheel everything changes.

    Saw a similar stunt being pulled fairly recently at lights. There was a near-miss between a car that had the green light and the gobsh1te who pulled the stunt.

    Also saw while out walking yesterday, a guy using the bus lane to get ahead, then cutting back in front of traffic and racing onwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    I was told in Halford's that legally they're not allowed let a bike leave the shop unless it has a bell. You would think lights would be standard but not even mudguards are, which drives me daft. "Would you like mudguards on your bike?". Well duh. That's like buying a car without window wipers :rolleyes:

    According to John Law, all pedalling bi-cycles are required to have a bell and a rear-facing red reflector. If used during lighting-up hours, they must have a white or yellow lamp to the front, and a red one to the rear. Flashing lamps are allowed under a 2009 S.I. I seem to see much ignoring of this stuff, however! :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    When driving on the motorway at night and the person on the opposite side does not turn down their headlights.


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


    Paparazzi at funerals.
    Do we really need to see photos of Nicole Kidman at her father's funeral?
    Do we really need to see photos of the non-famous people in her family at her father's funeral?
    Yuck.


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


    Getting given out to like a schoolchild for something that wasn't your fault.
    We're short-staffed today so I had to cover reception while the receptionist was on break. A lady came into the office for one of the other solicitors so I called him up to tell him and he proceeds to eat the face off me because he "wasn't supposed to be in the office".
    I explained to him that I was just covering the break and knew nothing about this.
    He still proceeded to chew the head off me :confused: and say "What am I supposed to do now? I wasn't supposed to be here!" 3 times.
    As I said, nothing to do with me :rolleyes:


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


    Getting given out to like a schoolchild for something that wasn't your fault.
    We're short-staffed today so I had to cover reception while the receptionist was on break. A lady came into the office for one of the other solicitors so I called him up to tell him and he proceeds to eat the face off me because he "wasn't supposed to be in the office".
    I explained to him that I was just covering the break and knew nothing about this.
    He still proceeded to chew the head off me :confused: and say "What am I supposed to do now? I wasn't supposed to be here!" 3 times.
    As I said, nothing to do with me :rolleyes:

    Try parroting it back to him. ;) ' I don't know. I wasn't supposed to be here either'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,369 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Getting given out to like a schoolchild for something that wasn't your fault.
    We're short-staffed today so I had to cover reception while the receptionist was on break. A lady came into the office for one of the other solicitors so I called him up to tell him and he proceeds to eat the face off me because he "wasn't supposed to be in the office".
    I explained to him that I was just covering the break and knew nothing about this.
    He still proceeded to chew the head off me :confused: and say "What am I supposed to do now? I wasn't supposed to be here!" 3 times.
    As I said, nothing to do with me :rolleyes:

    Well he is there, so he should just take the f'n Client.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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


    LynnGrace wrote: »
    Try parroting it back to him. ;) ' I don't know. I wasn't supposed to be here either'.

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    everlast75 wrote: »
    Well he is there, so he should just take the f'n Client.

    Seeing that none of us is here, I'll just pop back out and tell the client he's not fcukan here either, the whole episode is clearly a figment of someone's deranged imagination. Then I'm going to lunch. Ask me hoop. :D


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


    1. Banks.
    2. Idiots that go into banks at lunchtime to do anything more than a 3 minute transaction.
    3. Those new meet and greet people that help you use the self service machines.
    I was standing in the bank at lunchtime (I had to cancel my card yesterday so I had to withdraw money at the counter). The meet and greet lady comes over
    Her: Hi, do you need any help with anything?
    Me: No thanks.
    Her: Do you want to use one of the self service machines?
    Me: No, I have to go to the counter, thanks.
    Her: What kind of transaction is it? (At this point I was thinking WOULD YOU FOOK OFF!)
    Me: I have to withdraw money...
    She cut me off: You know you can do that at the ATM or at the self service machines.
    Me: Yes, I'm not standing in the queue at lunchtime for one teller, behind 3 people, one of whom seems to be lodging his life savings from underneath his mattress in €1 coins for the craic. I don't have a card, I had to cancel it yesterday.
    And she walked off and stood at the customer service desk down the other end of the bank chatting with another member of staff. About a minute later a woman was trying to get in through the door with a buggy and the meet and greet person and her customer service buddy just continued talking, the meet and greet person kept looking over at the woman with the buggy, completely ignoring the fact that she was struggling with the door, and continued chatting.

    Then, when I got to the counter and was trying to get my money out I got the mother of all grillings from the woman behind the counter.
    Her: You don't look like your passport photo.
    (She hadn't even asked me for ID at this point)
    Me: I have my driver's licence here if you need ID.
    Her: You don't look like your passport photo.
    Me: Yeah that's probably because it's from 2006, when I was still a teenager.
    Her: Yeah, it's very different. Was your hair brown then?
    Me: No, it was tied up in a ponytail and the photo is black and white...
    (At this stage I had become the bastard holding up the queue!)
    Her: Mmmm, okay, I'll just use your licence so.
    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    ...3. Those new meet and greet people that help you use the self service machines...

    I'd love to do that part-time. I think the right person could do a lot with a role like that. I'm thinking dressing like Sgt. Major Sixta from "Generation Kill", and stalking up-and-down the line of customers, picking out particularly gormless-looking ones and roaring "On deck, devil dog! On the fuckin' deck!! Drop and gimme 20! Move move MOOOVE!!" :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I'd love to do that part-time. I think the right person could do a lot with a role like that. I'm thinking dressing like Sgt. Major Sixta from "Generation Kill", and stalking up-and-down the line of customers, picking out particularly gormless-looking ones and roaring "On deck, devil dog! On the fuckin' deck!! Drop and gimme 20! Move move MOOOVE!!" :D
    Will you stop ffs:pac: I come here to be trivially annoyed not to get a pain in my sides from laughing...:D:D:D


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