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Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,180 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    Was at the doctor earlier & I have tonsillitis. TA that he gave me antibiotics the size of horse tranquilisers that I'm supposed to swallow.


    Be grateful they weren't suppositories, small mercies and all that :eek:



    Oh yeah, I just realised - swallowing will actually be harder given you've tonsillitis! :o

    Awkward :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Mark Feehily's new song. If anyone knows Rob Dougan's Furious Angels (Matrix Reloaded).
    The song is a complete rip off of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Photo-Sniper


    Plug Sockets.

    Those ****ers decide to move their holes when its dark and its annoying as ****.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    A mumbled beginning of a sentence.

    Then you ask what they said and they only repeat the end.





    humpflmdmph martian invasion and 50 euro.

    - What ?

    50 euro.

    - what about it?

    I said 50 euro are ya fukin deaf.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭Trebor176


    A mumbled beginning of a sentence.

    Then you ask what they said and they only repeat the end.





    humpflmdmph martian invasion and 50 euro.

    - What ?

    50 euro.

    - what about it?

    I said 50 euro are ya fukin deaf.

    I usually tend to have to repeat myself to others. I'm obviously quite softly spoken. When I speak and think I am loud enough, some look at me wondering what I said.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Presbia ad on TV3
    "Are your arms getting too short for you to read"

    Is this a new medical condition - shortening of the arms?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭on_my_oe


    Drivers in Ireland *

    Most drive and park like they are the only car in the village... If there is a line of ten cars in one lane, the driver in the second lane will speed up and cut in between driver 1 and 2, so 9 drivers will have to slam on their brakes (when logic would have been slotting in at the end, becoming car eleven.
    There is an amazing amount of cars with invisible taxi signs on their roofs, take your pick from most bus lanes and many car parks where the 'taxi pick up only' zones are usually littered with abandoned taxis.
    Double yellow lines, perfect stopping point - bonus points if it blocks a lane on a main road.
    Car parks, all the spaces near the doors full? Ignore those empty parks 10m away, and double park, making your own space - that's called 'creative problem solving'
    Indicators are optional at any time, and driving with one hand (the other hand engaged texting or calling) is expected


    * note I said 'drivers in Ireland', as behaving like an idiot seems a talent quickly absorbed by newcomers too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭westernfrenzy


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    Was at the doctor earlier & I have tonsillitis. TA that he gave me antibiotics the size of horse tranquilisers that I'm supposed to swallow.

    I had to do that before christmas. It wasn't pleasant at all.


  • Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Trebor176 wrote: »
    I usually tend to have to repeat myself to others. I'm obviously quite softly spoken. When I speak and think I am loud enough, some look at me wondering what I said.

    I was the same. I'm also softly spoken.

    Aged 10, my mother, who couldn't understand a word I was saying, sent me to a speech therapist. The speech therapist taught me to vocalize everything clearly with my lips. I began to speak like I worked for the deaf-news service.

    As a consequence of my hyper-vocalization, a couple of schoolyard bullies, several beatings, and a school-suspension later, I went back to muttering. Now I just see it as part of life. I try to speak clearly in work, but I've come to the realisation that some people, like myself, are just not natural-born speakers.

    It's definitely a drawback, especially in the now-common presentations that feature as part of working life. But I offered my vocal non-clarity as one of my 'professional weaknesses' when I was applying for my last job, and so they were aware of this from the beginning. I can't say it's ever been a major issue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    The general fuss over easter aka Christmas mark 2. Really brings out the consumerist twat in us all. the easter egg aisle was packed with both staff putting new ones in and people scanning the shelves for good deals. A good crowd of trolleys and baskets. Couldn't get in or out. Not to mention the holy Thursday rush for drink, never seen the parking area so busy. it's a bit sad when we can't go one day without the gargle. Combining that with the egg madness and it's like Christmas all over again.

    And another thing, it's a nice gesture but do people still wish each other happy easter? someone said it to me today and I witnessed it a few more times. It's endearing but bizarre. It seems people hold it in the same regard as Christmas and new year.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Robsweezie wrote: »

    And another thing, it's a nice gesture but do people still wish each other happy easter? someone said it to me today and I witnessed it a few more times. It's endearing but bizarre. It seems people hold it in the same regard as Christmas and new year.


    well it is the day Jesus invented the hat.


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


    Having to work nearly a full day today is more than a lil Annoying :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Microsoft windows. I need to use it on my work laptop.
    Surely in this day and age Microsoft would be able to get a decent OS released? They must realize that they have competitors that are doing better!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Shop assistant says sorry about the change and dumps a huge pile of coppers in your hand :mad: I only went in for a caramel cod too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,893 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Adult men throwing a frisbee to each other.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,893 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    Mark Feehily's new song. If anyone knows Rob Dougan's Furious Angels (Matrix Reloaded).
    The song is a complete rip off of it.

    The fact that he now wants to be known as Markus (no less!) fits this thread perfectly.

    Notions....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭Vag


    Ordered food in a pub the other day. I watch as the chef puts the food out on the counter for the waiting staff to bring it (I am sitting less than 20 feet away). The food , thankfully only a salad, sits for about a minute, while I can clearly see the waiting staff on the phone. Another waiter eventually picks it up and brings it to a different table, so I think 'Ok it wasn't for me'. I can clearly see the guy who gets it with a confused look on his face, like 'I didn't order this?'. Waiter is called and the salad is brought to me. No acknowledgment of the delay or the mistake.

    Even though the other guy never touched it or anything, it still feels gross to have had your dinner at another table before you get it. I was not impressed. :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    TA that the pubs are closed today. I don't really want to go to the pub, but just annoys me that they are closed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭whattodo1


    Plug Sockets.

    Those ****ers decide to move their holes when its dark and its annoying as ****.

    Brilliant was cursing to myself last night trying to find one lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,180 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    whattodo1 wrote: »
    Brilliant was cursing to myself last night trying to find one lol


    That reminds me actually -

    Bloody annoys me the way my wife insists on everything being plugged out at night rather than simply left on standby. Nope, not even flick the switch at the wall, not good enough, has to be plugged out completely :mad:

    I've a load of computer equipment and the sky boxes and stuff and I've tried to tell her it doesn't need to be plugged out. No dice, and then I have to go and plug it all back in then in the morning :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭whattodo1


    I plug out phone charger and one for my laptop the rest is turned off bye the switch but I wouldn't go that far and take all plugs out haha Id say that a pain in the ass alright lol


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


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    The fact that he now wants to be known as Markus (no less!) fits this thread perfectly.

    Notions....

    "Markus" what is he now, a gladiator? I will bet the career goes in to overdrive now.

    Maybe he should have went with "The Artist Formerly Known as whatisname "


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


    When someone comes along and puts dirty dishes on the clean draining board beside the clean dishes when I'm washing up - and does it again after the next meal, after I told them not to do it the first time. GRR!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Watching Peppa Pig for 10mins. After the kids are gone for their naps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭miezekatze


    Decided to treat myself to a fancy coffee after lunch cos I'm one of the few people working today. It seems like the rest of the population decided to spend their afternoon at Starbucks, it's packed! Also, I'm on my own and everyone else came in groups so they got someone to reserve a table while the rest ordered. I obv couldn't do that so I got the worst table in the place while there are lots of tables with just one person that doesn't have any food or coffee in front of them.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    miezekatze wrote: »
    Also, I'm on my own and everyone else came in groups so they got someone to reserve a table while the rest ordered.
    I hate that, families in McDonald's with dad sitting at an empty table while the kids and wife are queuing at the counter.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Im a fuss ass in the kitchen and I get annoyed by exploding food.
    poppy seed bagels
    Ready Brek, musli, the end of Rice Krispie bags
    Crispy French breads
    Cafetiere grounds
    Grrrrŕrrrrrrr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭miezekatze


    On the luas with a group of young ones that are dressed like Blossom / Clarissa explains it all. Exaggerated 90s looks like that are kind of annoying.


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


    Being in obriens and seeing loads of nice things and being able to have any as I gave them up till at least Easter :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    Missing the awesomeness of O'Brien's since I left Ireland and can no longer avail of its yumminess :D


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