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Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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  • #1202
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Said the croissant :D

    Fair play. There are none of them looking for me, much to my dismay. :D


  • #1203
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    We get ours from a farm, but I guess the same applies? So it really is just.... an egg?
    Yeah I'd imagine so. Usually they'd only let the rooster in with the hens if they want eggs to be hatched.


  • #1204
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Yeah I'd imagine so. Usually they'd only let the rooster in with the hens if they want eggs to be hatched.


    Poor rooster lol


  • #1205
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Too tired to make lunch last night, so have to endure canteen today...
    Stodgy stodge stodge


  • #1206
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    I didn't reserve a seat. A lady came around saying you're entitled to a refund if you have to stand after reserving a seat.

    Damn. :D


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  • #1207
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭galljga1


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    I didn't reserve a seat. A lady came around saying you're entitled to a refund if you have to stand after reserving a seat.

    Damn. :D

    I did not know that.
    Lots of people TAed when the train is not full.


  • #1208
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    "Tommy O'Gorman, RTE news, Belfast"

    Watch the way he holds the microphone, a big mad fist around it. It looks like they have a problem with the local skobes racing up on BMX's and snatching the mike from his hands.

    The other guy who reports from Belfast does the same thing.....weird.


  • #1209
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    IPhones must come with screens already cracked. unbelievable amount of them around all smashed up.


  • #1210
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    What is the point asking you if you want your roll cut in half if they are only going to half cut it? :(


  • #1211
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Running at lunch....tyrying to eat at desk....constant interruptions.....also reminded of all the people who are TA'd by others eating at their desks.... :P


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  • #1212
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    TA - WH Smith.

    Not sure if there's any in ROI... but in UK they annoy me.

    Have a pile of special offer chocolates etc on the counter. Staff are obliged to ask every single customer if they want any of these special offers for only a pound. Even, of course, if one of your purchases is actually one of the special offers.

    I say no.

    Continue with my purchase. They lump a pile of discount vouchers for things I don't want - usually mcdonalds, or very.co.uk (but only a discount if you open up a credit account) on top of my purchase. I take my purchase, put the discount vouchers back on the counter and walk away.

    It goes like this every time, and it's annoying.

    Staff, I know, are obliged to go through this routine every single time they serve a customer, and it must be so annoying for them... and I know for me I find it so very impersonal, reminds me of getting served by a robot who's churning out the same lines again and again and that it's discouraging staff from seeing customers as actual people...

    Thankfully some of their bigger shops have self-service checkouts.. which I'd always choose over people.

    Before anyone says why go into WH Smith if it annoys you, but often in railway stations they're the only shop available...


  • #1213
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Running at lunch....tyrying to eat at desk....constant interruptions.....also reminded of all the people who are TA'd by others eating at their desks.... :P

    I'm annoyed that my runs (hehe) are getting too long now so I can't do them at lunch time anymore.


  • #1214
    Rosie Rant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Rosie Rant


    That they haven't thought of crunchy nutella yet. If they can make icky peanut butter crunchy they can make nutella crunchy.


  • #1215
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Rosie Rant wrote: »
    That they haven't thought of crunchy nutella yet. If they can make icky peanut butter crunchy they can make nutella crunchy.


    I think I got something like that in Spain a number of years back :P


  • #1216
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Rosie Rant wrote: »
    That they haven't thought of crunchy nutella yet. If they can make icky peanut butter crunchy they can make nutella crunchy.

    Just crush up a few Ferraro Rochas.:D


  • #1217
    dub_skav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭dub_skav


    whatismyname wrote: »
    TA - WH Smith.

    Not sure if there's any in ROI... but in UK they annoy me.

    Have a pile of special offer chocolates etc on the counter. Staff are obliged to ask every single customer if they want any of these special offers for only a pound. Even, of course, if one of your purchases is actually one of the special offers.

    I say no.

    Continue with my purchase. They lump a pile of discount vouchers for things I don't want - usually mcdonalds, or very.co.uk (but only a discount if you open up a credit account) on top of my purchase. I take my purchase, put the discount vouchers back on the counter and walk away.

    It goes like this every time, and it's annoying.

    Staff, I know, are obliged to go through this routine every single time they serve a customer, and it must be so annoying for them... and I know for me I find it so very impersonal, reminds me of getting served by a robot who's churning out the same lines again and again and that it's discouraging staff from seeing customers as actual people...

    Thankfully some of their bigger shops have self-service checkouts.. which I'd always choose over people.

    Before anyone says why go into WH Smith if it annoys you, but often in railway stations they're the only shop available...

    Lotto for you love?


  • #1218
    Rosie Rant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Rosie Rant


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I think I got something like that in Spain a number of years back :P

    *books flights to Spain* :p


  • #1219
    Rosie Rant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Rosie Rant


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Just crush up a few Ferraro Rochas.:D

    That's an idea :) . If they could invent a forrero roche spread, that'd be great! They've turned those coffee biscuits into a spread.


  • #1220
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    http://www.afamilyfeast.com/nutella-crunch-ice-cream-cake/


  • #1221
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Rosie Rant wrote: »
    That's an idea :) . If they could invent a forrero roche spread, that'd be great! They've turned those coffee biscuits into a spread.

    You could try Ovomaltine crunchy cream too.


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  • #1222
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Rosie Rant wrote: »
    That's an idea :) . If they could invent a forrero roche spread, that'd be great! They've turned those coffee biscuits into a spread.

    If there was a Ferrero Rocher spread then it would cost a fortune.
    Mr Ambassador may even squint at that cost!


  • #1223
    Rosie Rant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Rosie Rant


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    http://www.afamilyfeast.com/nutella-crunch-ice-cream-cake/

    :O Eyegasm!!


  • #1224
    miezekatze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭miezekatze


    Rosie Rant wrote: »
    That they haven't thought of crunchy nutella yet. If they can make icky peanut butter crunchy they can make nutella crunchy.

    You can get Malteser spread now, it's basically a chocolate spread with crunchy little malty balls in it. I guess that's the closest thing to crunchy Nutella, just without the nuttiness.


  • #1225
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Chocolate salty balls


  • #1226
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I found some of last years Summer's clothes while I was having a tidy. Trivial annoyance is that they're 'snugger' than last year, even though I promised myself I'd lose weight. Someone break out the chocolate cake.:(


  • #1227
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    When you think of a TA and you accidentally post it in whatever thread you happen to be in at the time. Note to self: I am not always in the TTTAY thread.... My foolishness has been immortalised forever in a serious thread about role models, reproduction and family values - by me complaining that someone just whistled while on the phone and took my ear off :(


  • #1228
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    TA - When I catch a side glance of myself in a mirror and realise I look like a family member I don't want to look like. urgh.


  • #1229
    miezekatze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭miezekatze


    That everything is a fcuking challenge these days. 'The Aldi challenge', yeah it's such a challenge to do your grocery shopping in a different shop!


  • #1230
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    Single beds.

    I know I booked a single room in this hotel to save money, but single beds are so fecking annoying.


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  • #1231
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Getting nice and relaxed in bed then receiving a text message while my phone is charging on the floor on the other side of the room :mad:


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