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Trivial things that annoy you Part 27

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  • #242
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Thats a bit stingey, would you not just buy a new pack?:D

    Excellent. I must remember that retort the next time it happens Mrs S. :)

    (Not that she'll see the funny side)


  • #243
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,201 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I have noticed a significant increase in the pronunciation of "Dáil" as "Dial" among speechifying Gummint people within the aforementioned august institute. I believe this is to do with the Donegal dialect of Irish and is thus understandable from people like Pearse Doherty, but I hear the likes of Mary Lou McDonald at it as well, presumably to sound all "Norn Irony" and edgy, and this is getting right up my left nostril. If I go up to her I'll kick her fat arse!! :D


  • #244
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    I'm livid. There's a cafe across from where I work. I go in there every morning for my granola before work. I go there every lunch for my sandwich, and they're lovely. Usually.

    So this morning I was early for work and I really wanted toast and sausage and mushrooms. The one day I wanted something I couldn't just take away. I was even having tea and I drink tea about twice a year. So, 15 minutes waiting for this breakfast. Finally it arrives, and this massive group of people come and look in through the window and see all the seats are taken. The owner (very nice man) went out and said to them to come in, and all these people came in. They were setting up these portable tables and the waitress actually asked me to move from my table. I was so annoyed I said just put it in a take away box. She's like come back later for a free coffee. I said no thanks. She then said she'd bring me a free coffee and I said no thanks and this was even making me more annoyed. Then she tried give me a free packet of crisps, I just put them back. So I left and as I was leaving the owner was like "you're important to us too!" Yeah.

    Then when I got to actually have breakfast everything was freezing and manky.


  • #245
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,201 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    I'm livid. There's a cafe across from where I work...

    Erm, if all the seats were taken then the place was full of customers, right? What kind of avian-brained looderamawn would unsettle and disturb current paying customers that are presumably in the middle of their food, because a group show up at the door?? :confused:


  • #246
    Frigga_92
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    I hate when that happens in the cinema.
    A big group of people arrive late and ask "Could you move over, we all want to sit together?"
    TOUGH ****, you should've arrived on time and had your pick of the seats.


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  • #247
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    Erm, if all the seats were taken then the place was full of customers, right? What kind of avian-brained looderamawn would unsettle and disturb current paying customers that are presumably in the middle of their food, because a group show up at the door?? :confused:

    Probably because there was only one of me, and there was much more of them. There's only like 5 tables in the place anyway and two of the tables were taken up by one group, and the other customers were older men in suits and there's me in my ****ty uniform only from across the road, not in nice clothes.


  • #248
    danrua01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    26sdrawkcab wrote: »
    I hate when that happens in the cinema.
    A big group of people arrive late and ask "Could you move over, we all want to sit together?"
    TOUGH ****, you should've arrived on time and had your pick of the seats.

    Our local cinema have recently applied allocated seating... Most of the time it makes no sense cos there'll be 5 people in the place.

    Nonetheless, went to see The Hunger Games (bleh!) the first night it was out and obviously the place was packed, so a time to put the allocated seating to good use- seeing as you get to pick and they're not at random.

    Not so. Went to our seats, found them taken, and about 10 people standing around. A group of school/college children had been taken out, obviously allocated their seats, but their teacher decided NO, we must ALL sit in this big group, it doesn't matter about the seats.


  • #249
    OldNotWIse
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    danrua01 wrote: »
    Our local cinema have recently applied allocated seating... Most of the time it makes no sense cos there'll be 5 people in the place.

    Nonetheless, went to see The Hunger Games (bleh!) the first night it was out and obviously the place was packed, so a time to put the allocated seating to good use- seeing as you get to pick and they're not at random.

    Not so. Went to our seats, found them taken, and about 10 people standing around. A group of school/college children had been taken out, obviously allocated their seats, but their teacher decided NO, we must ALL sit in this big group, it doesn't matter about the seats.


    Did you move them?


  • #250
    danrua01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Did you move them?

    Well, there were about 40 of them and I've not done weights in the gym in a long time.

    There were free seats a few rows away anyway so that was all ok, but I just don't like that sort of person. Get organised, do what you're told, and don't piss off other people.


  • #251
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I have noticed a significant increase in the pronunciation of "Dáil" as "Dial" among speechifying Gummint people within the aforementioned august institute. I believe this is to do with the Donegal dialect of Irish and is thus understandable from people like Pearse Doherty, but I hear the likes of Mary Lou McDonald at it as well, presumably to sound all "Norn Irony" and edgy, and this is getting right up my left nostril. If I go up to her I'll kick her fat arse!! :D

    I thought a threesome for you with her and Caddill would be right your street:D


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  • #252
    OldNotWIse
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    danrua01 wrote: »
    Well, there were about 40 of them and I've not done weights in the gym in a long time.

    There were free seats a few rows away anyway so that was all ok, but I just don't like that sort of person. Get organised, do what you're told, and don't piss off other people.

    Ah. Sensible choice. I'd be livid too.


  • #253
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,201 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    I thought a threesome for you with her and Caddill would be right your street:D

    Hell yeah. That'd definitely be the end of that bed in Portlaoise, hi!! :D


  • #254
    OldNotWIse
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    I can't decide on a name for my new fur baby, and she is 8 weeks and 1 day - the girl needs a name! I was calling her Five 'cause she was the fifth born, but you can't have a number for a name.

    Another TA is when people impose their morals on me. Told my mum I was going to cook a leg of lamb for the neighbours dog for Christmas and she looked at me like I had two heads and said, "that's an out and out sin OldNotWIse" - said who? I'll tell her what's an "out and out sin" and it's people - the level of gluttony that will pervade this festive season is sinful. Tonnes of meat, desserts, slabs of beer, cream, trifle, mince pie, puddings, ham sandwiches, turkey sandwiches, mulled wine, pringles, miniature heroes, quality street, roses, baileys, jameson, bacardi, pints, takeaways, Irish breakfasts, champagne breakfasts, cheese boards, nibbles, patés, christmas cakes with gag-worthy layers of marzipan and sugary icing, selection boxes, walnut whips, chocolate fingers, canapés and drink drink drink drink. The annual binge is what's sinful, not a once off treat for a dog who sits in a cold kennel 23 hours a day.

    "Why can't you give the money to a hungry family instead ONW?" - how much are you giving to hungry families? Does this negate it? It's not like I am stealing the lamb bone from a hungry family to give to a dog - it's coming out of my own money anyway. I don't get the logic of having a go at me over it - if I didn't do it, the rest of the world would be no better or worse off anyway :( Rumble rumble...

    An out and out TA is what it is :D


  • #255
    One eyed Jack
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    Just explain to your mum that lamb of dog takes away the sins of the world... :p


  • #256
    danrua01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I can't decide on a name for my new fur baby, and she is 8 weeks and 1 day - the girl needs a name! I was calling her Five 'cause she was the fifth born, but you can't have a number for a name.

    Another TA is when people impose their morals on me. Told my mum I was going to cook a leg of lamb for the neighbours dog for Christmas and she looked at me like I had two heads and said, "that's an out and out sin OldNotWIse" - said who? I'll tell her what's an "out and out sin" and it's people - the level of gluttony that will pervade this festive season is sinful. Tonnes of meat, desserts, slabs of beer, cream, trifle, mince pie, puddings, ham sandwiches, turkey sandwiches, mulled wine, pringles, miniature heroes, quality street, roses, baileys, jameson, bacardi, pints, takeaways, Irish breakfasts, champagne breakfasts, cheese boards, nibbles, patés, christmas cakes with gag-worthy layers of marzipan and sugary icing, selection boxes, walnut whips, chocolate fingers, canapés and drink drink drink drink. The annual binge is what's sinful, not a once off treat for a dog who sits in a cold kennel 23 hours a day.

    "Why can't you give the money to a hungry family instead ONW?" - how much are you giving to hungry families? Does this negate it? It's not like I am stealing the lamb bone from a hungry family to give to a dog - it's coming out of my own money anyway. I don't get the logic of having a go at me over it - if I didn't do it, the rest of the world would be no better or worse off anyway :( Rumble rumble...

    An out and out TA is what it is :D

    What! How's that a sin?! You said it right, poor little fella gets a leg of lamb ONCE a year and we stuff ourselves with the biggest turkey we can find, plus a load more ****e we don't need!

    But seriously, why aren't you travelling to west Africa to cure ebola instead?! You deserve crucifixion.


  • #257
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    I cooked my dogs dinner last night. My boyfriend had to make himself a sandwich for his dinner. He thinks it's idiotic to make a warm meal for our dogs. I think he's just jealous I love them more.


  • #258
    eisenberg1
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    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Just explain to your mum that lamb of dog takes away the sins of the world... :p

    Brilliant, love it:D


  • #259
    OldNotWIse
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    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Just explain to your mum that lamb of dog takes away the sins of the world... :p

    :D


  • #260
    OldNotWIse
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    danrua01 wrote: »
    What! How's that a sin?! You said it right, poor little fella gets a leg of lamb ONCE a year and we stuff ourselves with the biggest turkey we can find, plus a load more ****e we don't need!

    But seriously, why aren't you travelling to west Africa to cure ebola instead?! You deserve crucifixion.

    I know :( I should hang my head in shame. After all human and animal welfare is mutually exclusive - do one, undo the other :rolleyes: It's a common reaction though.

    Reminds me of another TA, when there was an ebola case in a US hospital a while ago and Obama sent armed guards down to the hospital in case it got out. Like, what are they going to do? Shoot the virus particles as they fly out the door? America this is one time when your right to bear arms will not stnad you in good stead! :P

    Edit:Stnad, she said and then made a dyslexic joke :P


  • #261
    OldNotWIse
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    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Brilliant, love it:D


    Did you hear the one about the dyslexic agnostic?









































    He used to lie awake at night wondering if there really was a dog.


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  • #262
    danrua01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Like, what are they going to do? Shoot the virus particles as they fly out the door? America this is one time when your right to bear arms will not stnad you in good stead! :P

    They'll only shoot if they see the particles reaching into their coat pockets!


  • #263
    eisenberg1
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    If life gives you melons, make lemonade


  • #264
    OldNotWIse
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    danrua01 wrote: »
    They'll only shoot if they see the particles reaching into their coat pockets!


    Or if the particles are (muffled sound) - ah ffs I'm burstin' to make a joke but I don't want another infraction! :(


  • #265
    OldNotWIse
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    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    If life gives you melons, make lemonade

    I read that as melonade :( Is this a one step diagnostic kit?


  • #266
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,733 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    :mad: When boards logs you out when you take too long to type a long post.


  • #267
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,524 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Schwiiing wrote: »
    :mad: When boards logs you out when you take too long to type a long post.


    The size ot the advertisements in between posts on the touch site, must have only been introduced this morning, but they're about two inches in height, and on a six inch screen, that's a lot of real estate taken up! :(


  • #268
    nicki11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭nicki11


    Parents and granny trying to guilt me into going home, the tried last week when I had to study for exams and they're over today so they want me to go home tomorrow even though I'm going home for Christmas next week and its expensive for me to go home


  • #269
    seagull
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    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Did you hear the one about the dyslexic agnostic?


    He used to lie awake at night wondering if there really was a dog.

    It's the insomniac, dyslexic agnostic - hence the lying awake.


  • #270
    OldNotWIse
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    seagull wrote: »
    It's the insomniac, dyslexic agnostic - hence the lying awake.


    I think wondering if there really is a dog is sufficient to come between him and his sleep. He doesn't have to be an insomniac to be lying awake :)


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  • #271
    eisenberg1
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    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I think wondering if there really is a dog is sufficient to come between him and his sleep. He doesn't have to be an insomniac to be lying awake :)

    Anyone can make a mistake, as the hedgehog said when he got down off the scrubbing brush:D


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