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Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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  • #6902
    billymitchell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,996 ✭✭✭✭billymitchell


    Pretty much everything my housemate says. Today's latest piece of trivia she shared with me is that she is friends with the president of Samsung!

    It all started when the Samsung tv in the gaff seemed to be on the blink, and I was wondering about getting it fixed. Then she comes out with the doozy that she is mates with the President of Samsung.

    I asked "Oh yeah, how do you know him?" She told me "She used to work for samsung in Cabinteely, and he flew in from Japan one day, and nobody in the place would talk to him, except her. So now we are good friends"


  • #6903
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    A sore tooth. This is my 3rd week with an aching tooth, not massively painful but constantly aching and painful to brush. I booked a dental appointment with the wrong practice last week and the guy said my tooth was fine, just a bit sensitive. Bolloxs it's fine, 'the weather' causing the pain he said, total bolloxs. I'm seeing the other dentist this week and hopefully I'll get sorted out.


  • #6904
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Threw on a wash, taking out some pairs of socks and oh look, not for the first time I now have an odd sock. Like Noah did with his Ark, I checked all pairs going in and yet an odd sock comes out. Have socks mastered the art of space time manipulation? Can they travel at will to a dimension beyond our reach?


  • #6905
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    Threw on a wash, taking out some pairs of socks and oh look, not for the first time I now have an odd sock. Like Noah did with his Ark, I checked all pairs going in and yet an odd sock comes out. Have socks mastered the art of space time manipulation? Can they travel at will to a dimension beyond our reach?

    The question is you are down a sock or up, you only say an odd sock came out.


  • #6906
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    A sore tooth. This is my 3rd week with an aching tooth, not massively painful but constantly aching and painful to brush. I booked a dental appointment with the wrong practice last week and the guy said my tooth was fine, just a bit sensitive. Bolloxs it's fine, 'the weather' causing the pain he said, total bolloxs. I'm seeing the other dentist this week and hopefully I'll get sorted out.

    Someone goes to the dentist and they're told that it won't cost an arm and a leg.....an they're still complaining:pac:


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  • #6907
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Mice getting caught in the trap and not dying, due to my paranoia, I had my dads friend call over yesterday and he put traps all over the house. I went into the living room to get my shoes. There's a trap gone, and something is dragging it around the room. Jesus Christ.

    I am by myself and absolutely terrified. I need to go get my shoes to go to work but I can't go back in there. The OH is at work and I can't get in touch with my dads friend. Sick.


  • #6908
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I lost something... something very expensive! I put it somewhere safe a while ago and can't remember where but I have a sneaking suspicion that I put it in the pocket of a suit which I threw in a clothes bank 2 weeks ago.


  • #6909
    danrua01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    smash wrote: »
    I lost something... something very expensive! I put it somewhere safe a while ago and can't remember where but I have a sneaking suspicion that I put it in the pocket of a suit which I threw in a clothes bank 2 weeks ago.

    At least you put it in a bank, where it will be safe...


  • #6910
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    The Fiat Punto in front of me this morning with a sticker saying "you just got passed by a girl" - just.die. I'm in a Merc, a big, worthless tank belonging to my Dad and I f-in well love it. Big, petrol guzzling sofa - and I am more of a girl than you in your silly my little pony car with pointless bumper stickers and pink furry dice. Feck off.


  • #6911
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Mice getting caught in the trap and not dying, due to my paranoia, I had my dads friend call over yesterday and he put traps all over the house. I went into the living room to get my shoes. There's a trap gone, and something is dragging it around the room. Jesus Christ.

    I am by myself and absolutely terrified. I need to go get my shoes to go to work but I can't go back in there. The OH is at work and I can't get in touch with my dads friend. Sick.


    Call the fire brigade.


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  • #6912
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Mice getting caught in the trap and not dying, due to my paranoia, I had my dads friend call over yesterday and he put traps all over the house. I went into the living room to get my shoes. There's a trap gone, and something is dragging it around the room. Jesus Christ.

    I am by myself and absolutely terrified. I need to go get my shoes to go to work but I can't go back in there. The OH is at work and I can't get in touch with my dads friend. Sick.


    Oh, that makes me sad. Poor mice.


  • #6913
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    The Fiat Punto in front of me this morning with a sticker saying "you just got passed by a girl" - just.die. I'm in a Merc, a big, worthless tank belonging to my Dad and I f-in well love it. Big, petrol guzzling sofa - and I am more of a girl than you in your silly my little pony car with pointless bumper stickers and pink furry dice. Feck off.

    I approve of Big, Wallowy Old Mercedes-Benz Panzerkampfwagenen. However, you should consult the following post to find out which type of BWOMB pilot you are:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90365962&postcount=23

    :D


  • #6914
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Oh, that makes me sad. Poor mice.

    If it makes you feel any better, when my dads friend came to empty the trap, the mouse was still alive and he let him out at the end of the garden. He caught his tail, not the rest of him. So, I'm sure he is fine.


  • #6915
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    If it makes you feel any better, when my dads friend came to empty the trap, the mouse was still alive and he let him out at the end of the garden. He caught his tail, not the rest of him. So, I'm sure he is fine.

    Good. Mices are harmless critters. They only come in for a bit of cheese and a warm-up, like the rest of us. :D


  • #6916
    SpaceCowb0y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭SpaceCowb0y


    I've started in a new office, a big one! And its really annoying when people hold doors from you when you're so far away you have to run just to be polite and not leave them holding the door for you. I know they are also only being polite but if i'm not within 2 or 3 steps of the door please don't bother holding it open, I'm well capable of opening it for myself in my won time!


  • #6917
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Good. Mices are harmless critters. They only come in for a bit of cheese and a warm-up, like the rest of us. :D

    I have an irrational rodent phobia. Last year one got into my bedroom when I lived with all those boys. I used to sleep with my bedroom door locked, (cause you could wake up with one of them in bed beside you). So, my door is locked anyway and this mouse runs out from under the wardrobe and I was so scared I couldn't get out of bed, across the room and get one of them to set a trap. I could hear it all night scurrying around the place.


    I think it's the tail. Even photos online or on paper freak me out.


  • #6918
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    When you hold the door open for people behind you, and they ignore you and don't hold the door themselves but just leave you standing there holding the door. I let the door slam into some woman's face on Saturday. We were leaving the shopping centre in athlone and there was 3 women behind me, looked like a mother and daughters. I held the door, the mother ignored me and walked out, as did the other girl without holding the door themselves, so I just let the door go and walked on, just as the other one was coming out.


  • #6919
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    If it makes you feel any better, when my dads friend came to empty the trap, the mouse was still alive and he let him out at the end of the garden. He caught his tail, not the rest of him. So, I'm sure he is fine.


    Certainly does make me feel better :)


  • #6920
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Good. Mices are harmless critters. They only come in for a bit of cheese and a warm-up, like the rest of us. :D

    Mine are demanding little whores - insisting on thimbles of a good port to accompany the trap cheese :P

    I wouldn't be too gone about them scuttling around my room either, but I couldn't bring myself to set a trap. We have a trap and release policy for pretty much everything in our house, including my older brother...but the bástard keeps coming back in the window.


  • #6921
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Mine are demanding little whores - insisting on thimbles of a good port to accompany the trap cheese :P

    I wouldn't be too gone about them scuttling around my room either, but I couldn't bring myself to set a trap. We have a trap and release policy for pretty much everything in our house, including my older brother...but the bástard keeps coming back in the window.

    Genuinely curious -- how would you get rid of them humanely? I'm no fan of them but wouldn't wish them dead. Basically as long as they're not terrifying me, I don't care if they're still alive. I have those sensor things that's supposed to repel them (they don't work) and I've sprayed peppermint oil around the house (hasn't worked).


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  • #6922
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Mine are demanding little whores - insisting on thimbles of a good port to accompany the trap cheese :P

    I wouldn't be too gone about them scuttling around my room either, but I couldn't bring myself to set a trap. We have a trap and release policy for pretty much everything in our house, including my older brother...but the bástard keeps coming back in the window.

    A mouse in the house means a trap. Snap and it's over in a second.
    I don't mind hearing them scuttling round but I'd be worried that cables would be chewed and that could cost serious cash. Happened to the mothers' oven and cost 300 notes to fix.

    I had one trap that I set and used chocolate to bait the wee lad. Somehow it was eating it but not setting the trap off. This went on for days. I thought it was going to die of diabetes before the trap would get him until finally he succumbed with his chops full of twix!


  • #6923
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Oh, that makes me sad. Poor mice.

    The phrase 'quiet as a mouse' is a massive misnomer, as anyone will tell you if they had a mouse in their house.

    We had one last year - kept me awake all night gnawing away on a bit of wood (ooh er!).

    If it's between cute little mouse and my sleep, sleep wins every time.


  • #6924
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    They actually sound like baby elephants


  • #6925
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Lexie, just get a cat. :D


  • #6926
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    smash wrote: »
    Lexie, just get a cat. :D

    Or a ferret ;)


  • #6927
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Allyall wrote: »
    Or a ferret ;)
    Or a big snake!


  • #6928
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    smash wrote: »
    Lexie, just get a cat. :D

    We had a rake of cats on my dads farm and this one fella would actually line up anything he caught on the window sill. Couldn't be dealing with that! What's a ferret?


  • #6929
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    Lexie I'll give you a lend of my cat that will soon get rid of your mices


  • #6930
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Since our new neighbours moved in with thier cat, it's been great. A lot less scratching from mice in my walls this year!


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  • #6931
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    We had a rake of cats on my dads farm and this one fella would actually line up anything he caught on the window sill. Couldn't be dealing with that! What's a ferret?
    Our cat used to sneak in the window in the middle of the night and come into the bed for cuddles. One night he woke me up at 3am to the sound of him chewing on his latest kill :eek:

    Cats are not always the answer!


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