Trivial things that annoy you Part 27

Pumpkinseeds · 16-12-2014 06:21PM

Flyer28 wrote: »

Those Rudolph things people are putting on their cars....

Now, don't 'Bah Humbug' me!

I'm not against Christmas decorations, music, ambiance, getting into the spirit and all that. The house is like Santa's grotto at the moment, the lights are up outside and I'm looking forward to my presents and turkey.

Personally, I draw the line at decorating the car but whatever works for you.

But these things are just stupid and they don't even look like what they are supposed to.

They don't make your car look like Rudolph (no not even in an ironic way) and after a few weeks of winter weather a lot of them are already looking dirty, tatty and sorry for themselves.

They just look silly and make their owners look like a mug for paying whatever they paid for them.

I suspect that they're bought by the same people who drive around with as many county flags as possible hanging out of their cars during hurling season. It's just something to have stuck to the car. Maybe they have some sort of defect that makes them need the sound of fluttering on the car. Awful things, the reindeer antlers and car flags.

LynnGrace · 16-12-2014 06:22PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

So that people can overhear her noveau parenting.

Yeah, they would have had no problem hearing her, that is FOR SURE...
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE FOR TEA, OH YES, LETS GET THAT... Etc.

Shut Up!

LynnGrace · 16-12-2014 06:31PM

Flyer28 wrote: »

Those Rudolph things people are putting on their cars....

Now, don't 'Bah Humbug' me!

I'm not against Christmas decorations, music, ambiance, getting into the spirit and all that. The house is like Santa's grotto at the moment, the lights are up outside and I'm looking forward to my presents and turkey.

Personally, I draw the line at decorating the car but whatever works for you.

But these things are just stupid and they don't even look like what they are supposed to.

They don't make your car look like Rudolph (no not even in an ironic way) and after a few weeks of winter weather a lot of them are already looking dirty, tatty and sorry for themselves.

They just look silly and make their owners look like a mug for paying whatever they paid for them.

Agreed.
Only one car on our street has them, but they are idiots, so I'm not surprised. I've never noticed the stupid looking things before this year.

jimgoose · 16-12-2014 06:53PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

..."LOOK FIACRA, LOOK AT THE FAT WOMAN WITH THE BLUE FACE BLOWING BUBBLES, LOOK, AW, THE BUBBLES HAVE STOPPED, LETS GO LOOK AT THE ICKLE BUNNIES"

:):) Ah Cheeses shtop biy...

jimgoose · 16-12-2014 07:08PM

LynnGrace wrote: »

Agreed.
Only one car on our street has them, but they are idiots, so I'm not surprised. I've never noticed the stupid looking things before this year.

They don't really bother me, oddly enough. Now, people going around with the red nose-thing still on the grille in February... Grrr...

Rubberlegs · 16-12-2014 07:36PM

Spuds that were like bullets a couple of minutes ago, disintegrating into a mushy heap:'(

bonzodog2 · 16-12-2014 08:14PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

An electrocuted Barney waving a glitter hard on, most likely wearing flight socks and carrying a Nolans bag, as he coughs and splutters his way onto the luas with a giant bag on his back that he swings around hitting people on the head with

If ever a post needed thanking more than once. This was it.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 16-12-2014 08:18PM

The bug going around at the moment, **** it

LynnGrace · 16-12-2014 08:23PM

jimgoose wrote: »

They don't really bother me, oddly enough. Now, people going around with the red nose-thing still on the grille in February... Grrr...

Thinking about it, it's probably because of who has them on the street here, that they are trivially annoying to me

Pumpkinseeds · 16-12-2014 08:31PM

73Cat wrote: »

Spuds that were like bullets a couple of minutes ago, disintegrating into a mushy heap:'(

I've been chopping them up even smaller than usual to try to avoid them turning to a pot of mush for the past few weeks. Can't move far from the cooker or they disintegrate.:mad:

Frigga_92 · 16-12-2014 09:17PM

Flyer28 wrote: »

Those Rudolph things people are putting on their cars....

Now, don't 'Bah Humbug' me!

I'm not against Christmas decorations, music, ambiance, getting into the spirit and all that. The house is like Santa's grotto at the moment, the lights are up outside and I'm looking forward to my presents and turkey.

Personally, I draw the line at decorating the car but whatever works for you.

But these things are just stupid and they don't even look like what they are supposed to.

They don't make your car look like Rudolph (no not even in an ironic way) and after a few weeks of winter weather a lot of them are already looking dirty, tatty and sorry for themselves.

They just look silly and make their owners look like a mug for paying whatever they paid for them.

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I suspect that they're bought by the same people who drive around with as many county flags as possible hanging out of their cars during hurling season. It's just something to have stuck to the car. Maybe they have some sort of defect that makes them need the sound of fluttering on the car. Awful things, the reindeer antlers and car flags.

I have been hit while driving the bike by stupid antlers falling off cars and stupid GAA flags falling off cars :mad: burn them all!!!

efb · 17-12-2014 01:19AM

Lost in Translation- watched it tonight for the first time, nyeh

Aglomerado · 17-12-2014 09:20AM

Sleeping in this morning and as a consequence meeting the one-mile tailback that I'm usually ahead of. :mad:

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 17-12-2014 09:34AM

Having no cover for work so having to drag my disgusting germy self vomitting into a bag the entire way to dublin only to have to isolate myself from people anyway. Is there a winter vomitting bug going around?

bodhrandude · 17-12-2014 09:50AM

Aglomerado wrote: »

Sleeping in this morning and as a consequence meeting the one-mile tailback that I'm usually ahead of. :mad:

Just say to the traffic you would rather not put up with this.

Aglomerado · 17-12-2014 09:53AM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Just say to the traffic you would rather not put up with this.

It's an incentive to get up earlier all right. I did a bold thing though by driving down the hard shoulder and cutting in....:o

Woshy · 17-12-2014 10:04AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Having no cover for work so having to drag my disgusting germy self vomitting into a bag the entire way to dublin only to have to isolate myself from people anyway. Is there a winter vomitting bug going around?

There is - it's not fun. I had it last week - lasted for 2 days.

It was awful, I've been sick and vomiting a lot the last 3 months. Just as that was easing and I could eat again I got the winter vomiting bug. Worst luck in the world. I'm thinking I'm due some good luck and need to do the lotto!

NormalBob Ubiquitypants · 17-12-2014 10:11AM

Booking fees. I wanted to go to the hobbit tonight and no matter what I am being charged an extra 50c per person just to book the ticket. Ridiculous.
On a plus note, I seem to have won a competition for Mac makeup. On the downside I am a single male.

OldNotWIse · 17-12-2014 10:34AM

I was arranging presents under the tree last night when I spied one that my OH had ovbiously bought and wrapped for me. I was ithcing with curiosity as there is something I really want and the feel and size of the present really resembled it. I poked a tiny hole in it and tried to ascertain if it was what I thought but needed to dig a little further. Didn't want to make it obvious I'd been mooching so had a look around for some leftover, matching paper - thinking I'd be very clever and open up the present then re-wrap it so OH would be none the wiser. Alas I could find no more of said paper. I found one that was close in colour but had santas instead of snowmen. I thought about re-wrapping all my presents from her in the same paper to make it less obvious, but there wasn't quite enough. I simply had to know if it was what I thought it was! I knew if I opened it up on Christmas morning and it was a copy or a different brand I'd be disappointed, so figured it was actually kinder to my OH for me to know straight away. Mum came into the sitting room and saw me sitting cross-legged on the floor, clutching the parcel. She looked at me like I had two heads and told me to stop being a kid and put it back. After she left, I tore a bigger hole in it so that I was able to pull out the zip to see the brand name. I nearly cried with disappointment - it wasn't the present I'd been hoping for. But maybe it was something better?! I held it to me for a moment or two more before I eventually gave in to temptation and tore the whole thing open in a flash!

It was a present that I had bought for my Mum and wrapped only 48 hours before

eisenberg1 · 17-12-2014 12:13PM

Just turned on the radio and nearly blasted the fuucken ears off myself!!

No, not an ad for AC/DC concerts, just two noisy shouty bastard "cool n hip" DJ's, your man from Westlife and some silly bint, rabbiting on about inane sh1te and acting like everything is just great craic. Getting paid for fcuk all!!!

redfacedbear · 17-12-2014 12:21PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Just turned on the radio and nearly blasted the fuucken ears off myself!!

No, not an ad for AC/DC concerts, just two noisy shouty bastard "cool n hip" DJ's, your man from Westlife and some silly bint, rabbiting on about inane sh1te and acting like everything is just great craic. Getting paid for fcuk all!!!

That's what you get for having 2fm tuned in, grandad

gramar · 17-12-2014 12:23PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

It was a present that I had bought for my Mum and wrapped only 48 hours before

You'd better hope Santa already has you ticked off as being nice for this year or you're fooked at christmas. :pac:

eisenberg1 · 17-12-2014 12:35PM

redfacedbear wrote: »

That's what you get for having 2fm tuned in, grandad

Ha, I will show you, I just tuned in to Lyric FM, so there:D

dubstarr · 17-12-2014 12:44PM

Waititng on my bus home,across the road is a maternity hospital with a parking bay for ambulances.But its full of cars.Why do people park there,are they so miserable they wont pay for parking elsewhere.That really annoys me.

OldNotWIse · 17-12-2014 12:50PM

gramar wrote: »

You'd better hope Santa already has you ticked off as being nice for this year or you're fooked at christmas. :pac:

He doesn't do Garda vetting or ICB checks does he?

OldNotWIse · 17-12-2014 12:58PM

Here's one for the loud, nouveau parenting types.

http://www.prezzybox.com/go-the-f-to-sleep.aspx

Wise Old Elf · 17-12-2014 01:10PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Here's one for the loud, nouveau parenting types.

http://www.prezzybox.com/go-the-f-to-sleep.aspx

It doesn't work!

Check out Samuel L Jackson reading this on you tube, it's brilliant (but audio NSFW)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Px7ZJRDY4

redfacedbear · 17-12-2014 01:14PM

Using the mouse on my desktop pc to try to do things on the laptop open beside me.

jimgoose · 17-12-2014 01:18PM

redfacedbear wrote: »

Using the mouse on my desktop pc to try to do things on the laptop open beside me.

Computer!!

Mal-Adjusted · 17-12-2014 01:19PM

This used to bug the sh!t out of me when i was a child but doesn't really any more (mostly because i barely watch kids films these days). On the poster for the film or the video cover, the main character will almost always look ridiculously smug. Their eyelids will be half closed and/or they have their arms crossed over their chest. You can tell it's what some studio exec in his 80's thinks "This is what a young person thinks is cool". It just makes me want to punch them in their stupid CGI face!

Trivial things that annoy you Part 27

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