Trivial things that annoy you part 479

OldNotWIse · 28-04-2015 01:13PM

Zanablue wrote: »

I went to a show the other night and the woman who was sitting next to me kept talking at me and making comments, I never met this woman before and I hope I never meet her again.. I was fit to kill her, she ruined my night.

I read this as "I went to shower the other night" lol. My mouth was gaping in disbelief by the end of the post

galljga1 · 28-04-2015 01:18PM

TAed that Curly Wurlys are just not the same as they used to be when I was a kid.

On the other hand, delighted to discover Furstenberg beer in Lidl but TAed that it was too early to buy it. Probably will be TAed to discover that it is nothing like it was 25 years ago.

messrs · 28-04-2015 01:18PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Plastic or paper?

Either - my main ta was going to fridge to get the milk to make tea and the carton been empty

paper in the recycling bin and plastic in the normal bin

everlast75 · 28-04-2015 01:23PM

messrs wrote: »

sorry if this had been said already

but why do ppl put empty milk cartons back in the fridge?!! like seriously, put it in the bin :mad::mad:

everlast75 wrote: »

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Plastic or paper?

messrs wrote: »

Either - my main ta was going to fridge to get the milk to make tea and the carton been empty

paper in the recycling bin and plastic in the normal bin

Both...

". Keep all recyclables clean. Remember to wash and squash before popping them into
your recycle bin
• Wash away any food or liquid residue in glass jars, plastic bottles, food cans,
beverage bottles and glass bottles
• If it squashes – squash it! Materials such as plastic milk bottles, detergent bottles,
shampoo bottles, tetra pak cartons and aluminium cans can all be squashed. This
helps you get more into your recycle bin and helps the contractors to recycle more
• Then pop it into your recycle bin for collection at your house or to be brought to
your nearest recycling facility"

OldNotWIse · 28-04-2015 01:32PM

everlast75 wrote: »

Both...

". Keep all recyclables clean. Remember to wash and squash before popping them into
your recycle bin
• Wash away any food or liquid residue in glass jars, plastic bottles, food cans,
beverage bottles and glass bottles
• If it squashes – squash it! Materials such as plastic milk bottles, detergent bottles,
shampoo bottles, tetra pak cartons and aluminium cans can all be squashed. This
helps you get more into your recycle bin and helps the contractors to recycle more
• Then pop it into your recycle bin for collection at your house or to be brought to
your nearest recycling facility"

I believe some studies have shown that it may be more harmful to recycle plastic. Something to do with the process and the energy demands. Not sure.

eisenberg1 · 28-04-2015 01:44PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I believe some studies have shown that it may be more harmful to recycle plastic. Something to do with the process and the energy demands. Not sure.

I never really thought about that, but I suppose it probably costs more to recycle plastic - collecting, washing, sorting etc taen it does to manufacture it. But (hopefully) recycling stops it ending up in rivers and oceans - I saw some horrible pictures earlier of seals with plastic (the things which keep six cans together) wrapped round their necks slowly choking them....

I try to do my bit when it comes to recycling and I try walk or cycle when I can ( I still use my car way too much) but you get a bit disheartened when you visit the USA and you see people going to collect the kids from school in a car with a five litre petrol engine.:mad:

OldNotWIse · 28-04-2015 01:54PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I never really thought about that, but I suppose it probably costs more to recycle plastic - collecting, washing, sorting etc taen it does to manufacture it. But (hopefully) recycling stops it ending up in rivers and oceans - I saw some horrible pictures earlier of seals with plastic (the things which keep six cans together) wrapped round their necks slowly choking them....

I try to do my bit when it comes to recycling and I try walk or cycle when I can ( I still use my car way too much) but you get a bit disheartened when you visit the USA and you see people going to collect the kids from school in a car with a five litre petrol engine.:mad:

That's terrible

I started cutting those things a few years back. Now I have the family and OH doing it too lol

eisenberg1 · 28-04-2015 02:00PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

That's terrible I started cutting those things a few years back. Now I have the family and OH doing it too lol

Same here, been doing for years, and my kids do it without thinking.

Now if only I could bring myself to use public transport - but having read what is on this thread, that would too much to ask:D

Use the LUAS and save the world, lemme think about it....:)

OldNotWIse · 28-04-2015 02:01PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Same here, been doing for years, and my kids do it without thinking.

Now if only I could bring myself to use public transport - but having read what is on this thread, that would too much to ask:D

Use the LUAS and save the world, lemme think about it....:)

You could always take a bus.... :P

Rubberlegs · 28-04-2015 02:01PM

I may be incorrect on this one, and hope I am as I'm more than a bit obsessed with recycling. Recently I saw our Tesco's bottle banks being emptied into a truck. From what I could see, all the bottles were going into the same place. So what is the point in having green/brown / clear bottle banks ?? It gave me a little rage in my heart

Rakish Paddy · 28-04-2015 02:03PM

People walking stupidly slowly on busy streets (and I mean people who are NOT elderly, disabled etc.).

Two people walking side by side towards you on a narrow footpath with only enough width for two, and neither bothering to move ahead or behind of the other.

People cycling on footpaths or pedestrian streets.

Drinks (water, soft drinks, juice) in Spar / Centra / Londis-type shops that aren't properly chilled and aren't far off room temperature.

Deli counter staff who cut your roll with a knife that has a load of mayonnaise or something else nasty left on it from the order before you.

People who use bags to occupy seats on trains / buses - if caught they should be made pay for a ticket for each seat they occupy!

Eating with one's mouth open. This should be a criminal offence with a hefty minimum sentence.

Any sort of ass-hattery on the Luas. On the green line this might consist of unnecessarily blocking a doorway when there is plenty of space elsewhere, or blocking a handrail from use by others by leaning the whole body against it. On the red line it may include things such threatening to set one's fellow passengers on fire or threatening to infect one's fellow passengers with HIV using a syringe.

People who get to an ATM, then decide to plonk their handbag up on to the machine and root around for the bank card, then make numerous different attempts to withdraw cash. ATMs should be equipped with electric shocking devices that would be deployed against any one person hogging thte machine.

Waiting staff who take the order from everyone at the table without writing anything down. Then either the wrong stuff comes out, stuff is missing etc. I can never understand this.

messrs · 28-04-2015 02:11PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I never really thought about that, but I suppose it probably costs more to recycle plastic - collecting, washing, sorting etc taen it does to manufacture it. But (hopefully) recycling stops it ending up in rivers and oceans - I saw some horrible pictures earlier of seals with plastic (the things which keep six cans together) wrapped round their necks slowly choking them....

I try to do my bit when it comes to recycling and I try walk or cycle when I can ( I still use my car way too much) but you get a bit disheartened when you visit the USA and you see people going to collect the kids from school in a car with a five litre petrol engine.:mad:

I always cut them up so there no full circle in them if you know what I mean - so if the do get dumped somewhere (not by me) they wont choke any animals

dub_skav · 28-04-2015 02:14PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I never really thought about that, but I suppose it probably costs more to recycle plastic - collecting, washing, sorting etc taen it does to manufacture it. But (hopefully) recycling stops it ending up in rivers and oceans - I saw some horrible pictures earlier of seals with plastic (the things which keep six cans together) wrapped round their necks slowly choking them....

I try to do my bit when it comes to recycling and I try walk or cycle when I can ( I still use my car way too much) but you get a bit disheartened when you visit the USA and you see people going to collect the kids from school in a car with a five litre petrol engine.:mad:

I call it the Burns omni-net

eisenberg1 · 28-04-2015 02:37PM

dub_skav wrote: »

I call it the Burns omni-net

Is that the actual name for it, or just what you call it?

One eyed Jack · 28-04-2015 02:38PM

73Cat wrote: »

I may be incorrect on this one, and hope I am as I'm more than a bit obsessed with recycling. Recently I saw our Tesco's bottle banks being emptied into a truck. From what I could see, all the bottles were going into the same place. So what is the point in having green/brown / clear bottle banks ?? It gave me a little rage in my heart

I think (always dangerous when I start a sentence like that) the idea behind it is to get people to be conscious or conscientious about what they're doing - separating out waste and ingraining the whole idea of recycling in their heads. I know the processing plants have all sorts of machines with sensors and lasers to differentiate between all the glass of the various colours and deposit it in the proper crushing and cleaning machines.

I actually happened upon the whole recycling thing about 20 years back when I was staying with a friend who alternated between six months in the States and six months in Ireland. I spotted the three bins and couldn't figure out for the life of me why? (I was looking at them a bit like the three shells in Demolition Man).

That's when I was introduced to the whole concept, bizarre at first, but once you get into it, it becomes second nature

Anyway, actual TA I came here to post -

When you flush the toilet and it fills up. I know it wasn't me, and there's no plunger, and I can't leave it like that for the next person...

Bollocks!

I'd love one of those toilets they have on trains that work by suction! No blockage problems then

dub_skav · 28-04-2015 02:43PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Is that the actual name for it, or just what you call it?

Not a Simpsons fan I see.
When Lisa shows Mr Burns how dangerous those plastic rings can be it gives him an idea - he recycles them by sticking them together to make a large net which trawls the ocean clean

eisenberg1 · 28-04-2015 02:49PM

dub_skav wrote: »

Not a Simpsons fan I see.
When Lisa shows Mr Burns how dangerous those plastic rings can be it gives him an idea - he recycles them by sticking them together to make a large net which trawls the ocean clean

Ah, I see now:)

I must have missed that one, I am actually a big fan of The Simpsons.

OldNotWIse · 28-04-2015 02:53PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I think (always dangerous when I start a sentence like that) the idea behind it is to get people to be conscious or conscientious about what they're doing - separating out waste and ingraining the whole idea of recycling in their heads. I know the processing plants have all sorts of machines with sensors and lasers to differentiate between all the glass of the various colours and deposit it in the proper crushing and cleaning machines.

I actually happened upon the whole recycling thing about 20 years back when I was staying with a friend who alternated between six months in the States and six months in Ireland. I spotted the three bins and couldn't figure out for the life of me why? (I was looking at them a bit like the three shells in Demolition Man).

That's when I was introduced to the whole concept, bizarre at first, but once you get into it, it becomes second nature

Anyway, actual TA I came here to post -

When you flush the toilet and it fills up. I know it wasn't me, and there's no plunger, and I can't leave it like that for the next person...

Bollocks!

I'd love one of those toilets they have on trains that work by suction! No blockage problems then

Those things?

Last time I was on a train the toilet actually spoke to me

That normally only happens after a heavy session. Then there's the inevitable wetting of one's feet with other people's waste as the train goes around a bend and the toilet spills over

One eyed Jack · 28-04-2015 03:17PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Those things? Last time I was on a train the toilet actually spoke to me That normally only happens after a heavy session. Then there's the inevitable wetting of one's feet with other people's waste as the train goes around a bend and the toilet spills over

Reminds me of those pulse taking weight machines you see in shopping centres. I think I like to torment myself because I cab never resist wasting the €2 trying them out and half expecting it to say "One at a time please" :pac:

Don't get me started on the self-service check-outs and ATM's - I always imagine they're going to say something like "Don't you think you have enough sugar in your diet? Leave back the biscuits!", "Are you sure you want to take out more money? Maybe you should go home and sleep it off"...

There's a reason I wear earphones practically 24/7, and it ain't just to drown out the noise from outside my head :pac:

OldNotWIse · 28-04-2015 04:02PM

The following phenomenon baffles and annoys me in equal measures.

After + verb in present tense instead of simple past tense.

So, instead of "I forgot", we have, "I'm after forgetting"

I walked

> I'm after walking

I bought

> I'm after buying

etc.

After? After what? After denotes something coming behind something else in time. What the actual fúck is the point of this exercise?

Maximus Alexander · 28-04-2015 04:14PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

The following phenomenon baffles and annoys me in equal measures.

After + verb in present tense instead of simple past tense.

So, instead of "I forgot", we have, "I'm after forgetting"

I walked
> I'm after walking

I bought
> I'm after buying

etc.

After? After what? After denotes something coming behind something else in time. What the actual fúck is the point of this exercise?

Like many things in Hiberno-English, it's a borrowing, or direct translation from Irish. Don't be hating our shared heritage, sure amn't I after explaining it to you?

CrowdedHouse · 28-04-2015 04:18PM

ONW - have a read of Hiberno-English in Wikipedia particularly the bit about 'Recent Past Constuction'

edit:beaten to it !

Robsweezie · 28-04-2015 04:20PM

people making cringeworthy ''50 shades'' jokes and references at the mere mention of anything remotely sexual.

rgmmg · 28-04-2015 04:20PM

People who pay for a round of drinks with a card at the bar. There should be a separate till for card only transactions

OldNotWIse · 28-04-2015 04:22PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Like many things in Hiberno-English, it's a borrowing, or direct translation from Irish. Don't be hating our shared heritage, sure amn't I after explaining it to you?

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

ONW - have a read of Hiberno-English in Wikipedia particularly the bit about 'Recent Past Constuction'

edit:beaten to it !

TA: mongrel language :P

I'm after getting more trivially annoyed now

One eyed Jack · 28-04-2015 04:35PM

Women who's bootae were never made for tight leggings! It's almost like her bum cheeks had an independent mind of their own, doing that concentric circular motion... :eek:

So bizarre, yet so distracting I'd to cross the street to get out from behind her!

Pumpkinseeds · 28-04-2015 05:32PM

10 minutes after I hung the washing out there's been a torrential downpour, now the washing is wetter than when it went out. :rolleyes:

DareGod · 28-04-2015 05:46PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

The following phenomenon baffles and annoys me in equal measures.

After + verb in present tense instead of simple past tense.

So, instead of "I forgot", we have, "I'm after forgetting"

I walked
> I'm after walking

I bought
> I'm after buying

etc.

After? After what? After denotes something coming behind something else in time. What the actual fúck is the point of this exercise?

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Like many things in Hiberno-English, it's a borrowing, or from Irish. Don't be hating our shared heritage, sure amn't I after explaining it to you?

Don't be too hard on him - he's old, not wise.

endofrainbow · 28-04-2015 05:50PM

People who let their dogs out at midnight and leave them out til 1.30am barking and barking and barking and barking and....

deise08 · 28-04-2015 06:29PM

Cows with half a tail.

How is it allowed?

Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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