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Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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  • #1922
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,180 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    Eating cold sweets and your teeth go all sensitive


    Just had a Mr. Freeze there myself, 'twas lovely :p

    (Young lad had one of those €2 one scoop ice-creams, I'm definitely doing something wrong - me with a Mr. Freeze and him with a pricey connoisseur job, how does that happen? :confused: )

    Anyway, TA: The Blood crowd always send me a letter to donate blood in such and such a place, and then on the day I get a text to say I can skip it this time because they already have enough, after I've already made plans to go.

    This morning then I got a text from them saying that I have to call a local number and book an appointment to give blood? :confused:

    Actually now I think of it, might as well call them now :pac:


  • #1923
    messrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Just had a Mr. Freeze there myself, 'twas lovely :p

    (Young lad had one of those €2 one scoop ice-creams, I'm definitely doing something wrong - me with a Mr. Freeze and him with a pricey connoisseur job, how does that happen? :confused: )

    Anyway, TA: The Blood crowd always send me a letter to donate blood in such and such a place, and then on the day I get a text to say I can skip it this time because they already have enough, after I've already made plans to go.

    This morning then I got a text from them saying that I have to call a local number and book an appointment to give blood? :confused:

    Actually now I think of it, might as well call them now :pac:

    why you have to call somewhere? I just go to the place close to my house where they are and donate there


  • #1924
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,180 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    messrs wrote: »
    why you have to call somewhere? I just go to the place close to my house where they are and donate there


    Jaysus I got fierce paranoid there thinking I was after being scammed or something! :D

    I just called the IBTS HQ in Dublin and they transferred me to the Limerick branch, was talking to the same lady I was talking to earlier who told me the appointments system is a pilot scheme they're running down in Limerick.

    I had a feeling alright I hadn't gotten a letter this time (I never look at my post unless it's a cheque :P), but I asked my wife there and she said nope, no letter, which is why I got a bit worried :pac:

    Phew! :o


  • #1925
    messrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Jaysus I got fierce paranoid there thinking I was after being scammed or something! :D

    I just called the IBTS HQ in Dublin and they transferred me to the Limerick branch, was talking to the same lady I was talking to earlier who told me the appointments system is a pilot scheme they're running down in Limerick.

    I had a feeling alright I hadn't gotten a letter this time (I never look at my post unless it's a cheque :P), but I asked my wife there and she said nope, no letter, which is why I got a bit worried :pac:

    Phew! :o

    maybe a good idea - quiet often there is so many people there in the Q for donating (good thing I know) that they may be trying this out to reduce wait time


  • #1926
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    ;)
    messrs wrote: »
    maybe a good idea - quiet often there is so many people there in the Q for donating (good thing I know) that they may be trying this out to reduce wait time

    The last time I went to donate, I overheard a guy being asked, "and have you eaten inthe last three hours"

    "No" says the guy
    "And why not?"
    "Cos I was sitting out there waiting to give blood"
    :D


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  • #1927
    Zanablue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭Zanablue


    On Tuesdays I come home from work collect the kids and I have a half hour to get everyone fed and back out the door again . We were running late the other day and my mother arrived at the door and said "I'm here for a cuppa" I said mam you know the kids have lessons today and we are in a rush. Anyway I let her in for ten minutes and sent her on her way, now according to her I'm the worst daughter in the world. I am also being told that I do too much and seem stressed out. Ofcourse I get ****ing stressed out when I am rushing somewhere and people turn up unannounced.


  • #1928
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    People in the gym who have no concept of personal space or etiquette.

    Don't stare at fellow exercisers, don't try to have a 'race-off' with the person on the treadmill next to you, don't stand up their arse at the water cooler, don't try to engage in conversation when someone is very clearly trying to tune the world out and get in the zone.

    Seriously, what's wrong with people?


  • #1929
    whitewave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭whitewave


    beks101 wrote: »
    People in the gym who have no concept of personal space or etiquette.

    Don't stare at fellow exercisers, don't try to have a 'race-off' with the person on the treadmill next to you, don't stand up their arse at the water cooler, don't try to engage in conversation when someone is very clearly trying to tune the world out and get in the zone.

    Seriously, what's wrong with people?

    I'm scared I'm one of those annoying people in the gym....I've only just started going recently and not sure about gym etiquette. I won't know where to look now in between sets in case it's seen as staring at people :o

    My TA for today is my squeaky cons...I've worn them loads, they still won't stop squeaking when I walk!


  • #1930
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    whitewave wrote: »
    I'm scared I'm one of those annoying people in the gym....I've only just started going recently and not sure about gym etiquette. I won't know where to look now in between sets in case it's seen as staring at people :o

    It's perfectly simple.

    FINE: Casually glancing at people, perhaps smiling if you clock eyes. Not being within touching distance.

    NOT FINE: Staring at people, following them across the room with your eyes as they walk around. Desperately trying to see their time/speed/mileage and trying to match it. Maintaining eye contact for more than a few seconds. Glancing repeatedly. Being close enough to touch them.


  • #1931
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Flies, specifically bluebottles. The sun has brought loads of the buggers.:mad:


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  • #1932
    KatW4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭KatW4


    eisenberg1 wrote:
    do you not have a nice cardigan


    Yeah yeah lots of teacher cardigans!


  • #1933
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,170 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    TA- Fine evening & Cornetto & tiny bits of chocolate + white shirt = early departure to laundry basket.

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • #1934
    paperclip2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭paperclip2


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    You just reminded me of something. I was ill last week but still went and did the weekly shopping with Mr Pumpkinseeds. I was feeling all arsey and impatient and he said I should have relaxed at home and let him do it. Loosely interpreted as 'ffs, I wish you'd stayed home and stopped bitching at me about trivial crap':D Without thinking I told him that if he'd gone alone he'd be constantly ringing me to ask what brand of stuff we buy. So, thoughtless bitchiness is my trivial annoyance, also lack of tact.

    My husband once rang me from the middle of Aldi to ask what celery looked like.
    :D


  • #1935
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    paperclip2 wrote: »
    My husband once rang me from the middle of Aldi to ask what celery looked like.
    :D

    Jeez... has he never heard of google images? feck sake.


  • #1936
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    paperclip2 wrote: »
    My husband once rang me from the middle of Aldi to ask what celery looked like.
    :D

    And did you tell him?

    The green stalky stuff in the veg section, with the word "celery" overhead:D

    Though to be fair, in Aldi, it could be beside the hammers and flippers.


  • #1937
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    having a petty row with whoever, then you don't see or hear from them for a few hours/days/weeks so its playing on your mind until you see them next.


  • #1938
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    That I try at things. That I give things my best shot as much as I can. But that all this ultimately results in is being let down and hurt.

    That I try to save things, and work at things, when other people aren't willing or able to do the same in reverse for me, and of course that just ends up feeling like they don't care.

    That even when I know something isn't likely to work out, I want to try anyhow, even though I know I just end up getting hurt as a result.


  • #1939
    The Dark Side
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭The Dark Side


    whatismyname wrote: »
    That I try at things. That I give things my best shot as much as I can. But that all this ultimately results in is being let down and hurt.

    "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try"

    H. Simpson.


  • #1940
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    The word 'excuses' being used inappropriately.


  • #1941
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    whatismyname wrote: »
    The word 'excuses' being used inappropriately.

    Do you mean when people use the word 'excuses' instead of 'reasons'? I hate that. Things have reasons - that's not the same as an excuse.


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  • #1942
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Do you mean when people use the word 'excuses' instead of 'reasons'? I hate that. Things have reasons - that's not the same as an excuse.

    Yep, I should've been clearer.

    I'm sure in many cases 'reasons' and 'excuses' apply equally, but more and more I seem to be seeing the word 'excuses' used where 'reasons' would be more apt.

    You may be giving factual reasons behind something, but that doesn't mean you're giving 'excuses' for it, which is surely a different thing.


  • #1943
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Just now (cos Ive encountered it three times before my second cuppa tea!) my TA is " Well I was going to vote Yes in the referendum but all the Yes campaigning is making me vote No"
    Are you twelve!!!!!?


  • #1944
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    whatismyname wrote: »
    Yep, I should've been clearer.

    I'm sure in many cases 'reasons' and 'excuses' apply equally, but more and more I seem to be seeing the word 'excuses' used where 'reasons' would be more apt.

    You may be giving factual reasons behind something, but that doesn't mean you're giving 'excuses' for it, which is surely a different thing.

    "Sorry I couldn't make it last night, I was hit by an articulated truck and broke both my arms and legs, so I spent the night in hospital getting surgery."

    "Excuses."


  • #1945
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,214 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    whatismyname wrote: »
    ...

    There is a very old Japanese painting, of a Samurai in battle with his traditional weapons against the (then) new-fangled muskets. In the words of Eric van Lustbader, it portrays the dismayed warrior, the great Katana flung from his grasp by the force of gunpowder. He's not afraid, not horrified, just disappointed, a little sad at the realisation that a way of life is coming to an end.

    The point, Grasshopper, is that you should dance to your own fiddle, speak your truth quietly but firmly. If people want to be assholes about it and let you down, it's their own lookout. :cool:


  • #1946
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    jimgoose wrote: »
    There is a very old Japanese painting, of a Samurai in battle with his traditional weapons against the (then) new-fangled muskets. In the words of Eric van Lustbader, it portrays the dismayed warrior, the great Katana flung from his grasp by the force of gunpowder. He's not afraid, not horrified, just disappointed, a little sad at the realisation that a way of life is coming to an end.

    The point, Grasshopper, is that you should dance to your own fiddle, speak your truth quietly but firmly. If people want to be assholes about it and let you down, it's their own lookout. :cool:

    You quoted a post of mine, yet didn't, as deleted it out to '.....' which trivial annoyance of mine are you referring to exactly?


  • #1947
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,214 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    whatismyname wrote: »
    You quoted a post of mine, yet didn't, as deleted it out to '.....' which trivial annoyance of mine are you referring to exactly?

    I do apologise, it was this one: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95191132&postcount=1938


  • #1948
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    When people complain about a situation whilst not proactively trying to help the situation.

    When making the bed and the bedsheets don't stretch to all four sides of the mattress.


  • #1949
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    why on 'discussion' forums, so many people have to resort to being a smart cnut, in order to 'discuss'.

    NOT a personal dig at anyone here.


  • #1950
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    When you say something and the other person clearly isn't tailoring their response based on what you actually said.

    An example from just there now.

    I make a phone call, receptionist answers, and I say 'Hi, I'm whatismyname, and I was wondering if it might be possible to speak to X at some stage'.

    Answer dished out immediately is 'I'm afraid they're in a meeting right now so it wouldn't be possible to speak to them at the moment, I'd have to see if they could give you a phone back. Would that be ok?'.

    Em, yeah, of course they're going to be a meeting, and of course it's ok since its' basically what I asked for! The nature of their job means that they spend their whole day in meetings. That's why I asked could I speak to them 'at some point'. I didn't ask to speak to them right now. Yes, I'm picky and narky, but that's the way it is, and I don't like you, Miss Receptionist, you've messed up too many times in the past, and you're annoying and you have really bad listening skills.

    Oops, I'll shut up now. This is turning into a rant rather than a TA.


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  • #1951
    The Dark Side
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭The Dark Side


    When someone decides to bring in fish for lunch and heats it up in the microwave and the foul, noxious, putrid stench of fish permeates throughout the office.


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