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Trivial things that annoy you Part 27

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  • #2432
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    Soup is a great way to eat vegetables and it's so easy to make. I'm making more tonight I'll send some over


  • #2433
    ratmouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    selous wrote: »
    someone that's telling you something but then half the story is filled in with "Bla bla bla" use real words please, Bla Bla Bla is not informative.

    Amd don't forget, yada, yada, yada. Does my head right in


  • #2434
    Vel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    Parents who overshare about their offspring. Just because I have kids myself doesn't mean I want to hear every last toe-curlingly boring detail about little Sinead, especially not when it includes hearing about the consistency of the contents of her nappy.


  • #2435
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    People who take forever to relate a tale. They go off on tangents. They tell you the ancestry of each character. You're told what they were wearing and what kind of car they drive. But it is summed up as "I met X today and he has the flu" - 20 minutes later.


  • #2436
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    My best friend, I love her dearly but she wrecks my head. Sometimes I wonder if she's all there or if maybe she might be a lesbian not that there's anything wrong with that, except for the fact she has a boyfriend and a child.

    Examples.

    She sends me about 40 photos of herself pouting asking me to choose my favourite. I send her back my favourite and then she asks me to send her some pics of me. She saw me on monday for practically the entire evening. Why does she forget what I look like.

    Or a conversation that goes something like
    Her: Lex, do you love me?
    Me: No.
    Her: ah no, seriously, do you?
    Me: No.
    Her: really? Ah you do, don't you?
    Me: not right now I don't youre doing my head in.
    Her: but what about usually?
    Me: yeah okay I do
    Her: thanks lex I love you as well

    Wtf????


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  • #2437
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Being in absolute terrible form....pissed off with everything (been mad to go drinking since Tuesday morning)...and every single person just seems to be going out of there way to piss me off/ask the most bullsh1t question/ tell most bullsh1t stories....I swear to god...im sick to the back teeth of there lies/ made up stories :(:(


  • #2438
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    TA with Met Eireann I realise there's a bad storm but talk about going overboard. According their forecasts we'll be in Oz this afternoon


  • #2439
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Like, really angry :eek:

    Me too...


  • #2440
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    We still have the little one :( / :)


  • #2441
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,580 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    TA with Met Eireann I realise there's a bad storm but talk about going overboard. According their forecasts we'll be in Oz this afternoon


    Red warning in Limerick, all the schools are closed, place is like a ghost town this morning, there's not even so much as a breeze, never mind a gale! :confused:


    (it made me happy to be able to walk through town without feeling like a human pinball for once, but I'd feel odd posting in the happy thread :o)


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  • #2442
    Rosie Rant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Rosie Rant


    The phrase "If you don't mind me asking" when used unnecessarily, as if the question being asked is personal in nature, when it isn't. If the question was " And just how many bowel movements do you have a day, if you don't mind me asking?" - that is a personal question. The phrase is ok to use there.

    But the question I was asked was " And just how far away is the cinema from here? If you don't mind me asking.."
    Why would I mind being asked where the cinema is?


  • #2443
    Wise Old Elf
    Moderators Posts: 3,554 ✭✭✭Wise Old Elf


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Red warning in Limerick, all the schools are closed, place is like a ghost town this morning, there's not even so much as a breeze, never mind a gale! :confused:


    (it made me happy to be able to walk through town without feeling like a human pinball for once, but I'd feel odd posting in the happy thread :o)

    I'm kind of trivially annoyed by this as well, but then I remember getting a call to collect my kids in the middle of the storm in February last year, and I think they were right to go cautious. Also annoyed that my workplace is open!!


  • #2444
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Rosie Rant wrote: »
    The phrase "If you don't mind me asking" when used unnecessarily, as if the question being asked is personal in nature, when it isn't. If the question was " And just how many bowel movements do you have a day, if you don't mind me asking?" - that is a personal question. The phrase is ok to use there.

    But the question I was asked was " And just how far away is the cinema from here? If you don't mind me asking.."
    Why would I mind being asked where the cinema is?


    It's a cousin of "I'm not being bad but..." or "I'm not a racist/homophobe but..." :( Usually followed with a bad/racist/homophobic comment. Stupid, meaningless disclaimers that don't actually negate the shítiness of what you're about to say :(


  • #2445
    Daith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,248 ✭✭✭Daith


    People leaning over your food to get something. Ask me to move then you can grab your fork!


  • #2446
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    It's a cousin of "I'm not being bad but..." or "I'm not a racist/homophobe but..." :( Usually followed with a bad/racist/homophobic comment. Stupid, meaningless disclaimers that don't actually negate the shítiness of what you're about to say :(

    I used to work with a guy who would say things like 'don't take this the wrong way but...' And he thought that gave him free rein to tear someone apart.


  • #2447
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    LynnGrace wrote: »
    I used to work with a guy who would say things like 'don't take this the wrong way but...' And he thought that gave him free rein to tear someone apart.

    "Can I speak freely?"

    .....braces self :D


  • #2448
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    "Can I speak freely?"

    .....braces self :D

    He was fired, eventually, so I'm guessing someone did take something he said 'the wrong way'!


  • #2449
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    Ta I'm bored. Work is very quiet.


  • #2450
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    "With all due respect...." means the exact opposite.


  • #2451
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Jaxen Curved Shaver wrote: »
    "With all due respect...." means the exact opposite.

    "In fairness..."


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  • #2452
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    "Can I speak freely?"

    .....braces self :D
    Jaxen Curved Shaver wrote: »
    "With all due respect...." means the exact opposite.
    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    "In fairness..."


    "Far be it from me to say, but..."


  • #2453
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    "Far be it from me to say, but..."

    lol


  • #2454
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Sleepy time now.....



    :)

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


  • #2455
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    "In fairness..."
    Jaxen Curved Shaver wrote: »
    "With all due respect...." means the exact opposite.
    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    "Can I speak freely?"

    .....braces self :D



    "No offence, but...."



    :pac:


  • #2456
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Wake up Eisenberg! :)

    Now that we've moved onto phrases:

    "You're having a laugh" when they simply don't want to accept the truth of your statement :(

    "At the end of the day"

    Also "literally" and "practically" and "ironically" used out of context.


  • #2457
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    I worked with a guy who would say

    "I think we should put that on the back boiler for now"


  • #2458
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    I worked with a guy who would say

    "I think we should put that on the back boiler for now"

    That's used an awful lot around here too!

    I'm tempting to say 'we should put that in the hotpress for now' and see if anyone notices...


  • #2459
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    That's used an awful lot around here too!

    I'm tempting to say 'we should put that in the hotpress for now' and see if anyone notices...


    They'll all assume it's a phrase they haven't heard yet and will be too ashamed to question it.


  • #2460
    danrua01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    couple of TAs from today, mostly to do with my car- was in the mechanics in november, new gears box in, past week or so had to stop a few times cos it wouldnt go into any gear. jesus!

    anyway, this here cheers me up anyway


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  • #2461
    Frigga_92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    I am raging!!
    The one good thing about working in the town I work in is that they have one really good shoe shop. They have a sale on at the moment so I went in yesterday and saw a lovely pair of black wedge ankle boots. I need them in my life. I don't have enough money for them until Friday so I went home last night and my husband said he'd give me the money. I went back into the shop today, the boots have been reduced by another €15 but my size is gone :mad:


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