Trivial things that annoy you part 479

Schwiiing · 29-06-2015 11:02PM

I'm in my mid 20's and my barber did my ears and eyebrows today.

skafish · 29-06-2015 11:10PM

Schwiiing wrote: »

I'm in my mid 20's and my barber did my ears and eyebrows today.

UM. You know you are getting old when it takes the barber longer to trim your ear/ nose/ eyebrow hair than the hair on your head

:mad::mad:

LynnGrace · 29-06-2015 11:18PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Is the humidity making anyone else's hair a frizzy nightmare? I'd put off having it cut and coloured but I couldn't leave it any longer. I'm getting it done next week but my stylist is on holiday, I hate letting someone I don't know cut it.:( But it's either that or continue to look like a female Side Show Bob, despite washing, blow drying and straightening my hair every day.

Yes, my hair hates humidity.
Got it blow dried today, not with my usual hairdresser, and the guy said to me, it's a bit dry, isn't it. Well, there went his tip

White lies are the way to go, sunshine, white lies.

messrs · 30-06-2015 07:04AM

conorh91 wrote: »

Parents who let their very young children run amok with those odious scooters on the public road and footpath. It's a fatality waiting to happen in my area.

Every evening when I'm walking home or heading out for a jog, I'll see a parent absent-mindedly using their smartphone, or talking to their adult friend, while their kids hurtle around pedestrians, and across private gateways and other busy entrances like supermarkets and builders merchants, with only the occasional, half-arsed calls of "Oh come back Jaydon/ Katelyn/ Lily-Mae"

When you're pulling out of a carpark on a busy road, it's difficult enough to keep an eye on traffic without having to worry about a three-foot child coming from nowhere on a push-scooter. Such exits are designed to allow the driver to see road-traffic approaching, not children whizzing along the path on push-scooters.

Not sure this even qualifies as a trivial annoyance tbh. It's only trivial in the sense that it's so ridiculously commonplace. Parents, control your children on those things.

More than a TA here - was a passenger in a car going through a housing estate while 2 mothers chatted and their front doors and their little darlings were at the gates throwing stones at the passing cars - of course the mothers didn't tell the kids to stop or say anything to them!

Pumpkinseeds · 30-06-2015 11:02AM

Vest tops on men. I think they look awful and I saw a guy wearing one while doing something with a trailer out on the road opposite our house, I thought he was a knacker, then I realised he's actually a neighbour. While he isn't a knacker he is a bit of a wnker.:D

Aglomerado · 30-06-2015 11:37AM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Vest tops on men. I think they look awful and I saw a guy wearing one while doing something with a trailer out on the road opposite our house, I thought he was a knacker, then I realised he's actually a neighbour. While he isn't a knacker he is a bit of a wnker.:D

Also known as "wife beaters". I agree, they look terrible.

Menas · 30-06-2015 11:58AM

I have no TAs to report today. Sorry.

Gwynplaine · 30-06-2015 12:01PM

You text someone and they ring back. My brother is always at it, he is able to text so I don't know why he always does it.
Was organising a stag, sent a blanket text to everyone involved with the details of the stag, date, location, price etc. Everyone replied fairly quickly via text or Viber, but he rings me back, and is on the phone for 10 minutes.
"Where's it on eh?"
"When's it on eh?"
"How much is it eh?"
"Many going eh?"
Then after all that it's "bye, bye, bye-bye" 5 times at the end of the call.

everlast75 · 30-06-2015 12:04PM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

You text someone and they ring back. My brother is always at it, he is able to text so I don't know why he always does it.
Was organising a stag, sent a blanket text to everyone involved with the details of the stag, date, location, price etc. Everyone replied fairly quickly via text or Viber, but he rings me back, and is on the phone for 10 minutes.
"Where's it on eh?"
"When's it on eh?"
"How much is it eh?"
"Many going eh?"
Then after all that it's "bye, bye, bye-bye" 5 times at the end of the call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5RTyPR9YN8

Dramatik · 30-06-2015 12:09PM

People who record something off their tv with their mobile phone and upload it to youtube...

eisenberg1 · 30-06-2015 12:19PM

JanaMay wrote: »

I think it's probably a good idea. Admittedly, I don't know the shopping centre you're talking about but I imagine that a self-contained area for children to play in while their parents do the shopping and go to the bank etc is probably beneficial to all. It saves time for parents, frees the supermarkets up of bored children who can cause a disturbance and creates employment for whoever looks after them. Obviuosly, if the management company has put it in an area which doesn't suit, shoppers should let them know.

On another note: my trivial annoance today is people letting their dogs wee outside my door. I'm fed up pouring bleached water over it! Wee stinks!

It's a waste of time using bleach. Bleach has ammonia in it, which is also in the urine, so the dogs like the smell. Use hot water with a dish washer or washing powder tablet dissolved in it.

Though it would be better if the owners made sure it did not happen in the first place.

TomBtheGoat · 30-06-2015 02:34PM

Schwiiing wrote: »

I'm in my mid 20's and my barber did my ears and eyebrows today.

That's it for you then, might as well head off to the retirement farm.:pac:

redbel05 · 30-06-2015 03:05PM

Potatoes.

Trying to parboil them before roasting in the oven. Foolishly leaving their jackets on (it was in a chefs recipe,OK? Don't look at me like that) Left the room to check the laundry and they weren't on 10 minutes before they had turned to mush.
What made matters worse was that I had put on the whole bag since I was cooking for 8 and was expecting them all home in half an hour so no time to get more. Queue burnt fingers as I rushed to pick the peels out before anyone arrived. First lad through the door says ' Whats with the mash? I thought we were having your special roasties?' Grrrrrrr

So yeah.... Potatoes.

Pumpkinseeds · 30-06-2015 03:09PM

redbel05 wrote: »

Potatoes.

Trying to parboil them before roasting in the oven. Foolishly leaving their jackets on (it was in a chefs recipe,OK? Don't look at me like that) Left the room to check the laundry and they weren't on 10 minutes before they had turned to mush.
What made matters worse was that I had put on the whole bag since I was cooking for 8 and was expecting them all home in half an hour so no time to get more. Queue burnt fingers as I rushed to pick the peels out before anyone arrived. First lad through the door says ' Whats with the mash? I thought we were having your special roasties?' Grrrrrrr

So yeah.... Potatoes.

Potatoes are a nightmare at this time of year, unless you just buy the new season ones. If you don't watch them like a hawk you end up with mush or half mush half uncooked.

Huntergonzo · 30-06-2015 03:14PM

I suppose this isn't trivial but the lack of self service checkouts in Aldi and Lidl really p1ss me off, getting stuck behind a big full trolley when you only have a few items is infuriating, I've put the stuff down and left on plenty of occasions.

redbel05 · 30-06-2015 03:23PM

Huntergonzo wrote: »

I suppose this isn't trivial but the lack of self service checkouts in Aldi and Lidl really p1ss me off, getting stuck behind a big full trolley when you only have a few items is infuriating, I've put the stuff down and left on plenty of occasions.

Or when the till next to you opens up and all the people behind you get away while you wait behind the wee old woman counting her change or the stressed mother/father of four who is unsuccessfully trying to keep her kids from putting the sweets in the basket while paying.

I always let the person behind me go ahead if they have few items and I have a big trolley full. Its only being courteous!

somesoldiers · 30-06-2015 03:26PM

TomBtheGoat wrote: »

That's it for you then, might as well head off to the retirement farm.:pac:

wait til you start finding random, freaky 2 inch hairs appearing on your forehead that weren't there yesterday

KatW4 · 30-06-2015 03:47PM

I'm in that mood where I'm all worked up and annoyed but can't put my finger on what exactly is annoying me.

Pumpkinseeds · 30-06-2015 03:47PM

somesoldiers wrote: »

wait til you start finding random, freaky 2 inch hairs appearing on your forehead that weren't there yesterday

Or you start finding grey hairs growing in places you didn't know grey hairs could grow. :eek::(

Huntergonzo · 30-06-2015 04:26PM

redbel05 wrote: »

Or when the till next to you opens up and all the people behind you get away while you wait behind the wee old woman counting her change or the stressed mother/father of four who is unsuccessfully trying to keep her kids from putting the sweets in the basket while paying.

I always let the person behind me go ahead if they have few items and I have a big trolley full. Its only being courteous!

Ye that's annoying as well, the bell rings and suddenly the last person in the queue becomes the first person at the next till. Some people are sound enough to let you go ahead when you only have a few items (good on you for that) but a lot of people don't even look around.

fiachr_a · 30-06-2015 04:35PM

Frozen pizza in Spar is €4.79 but for 2 it's only a fiver. Can't get the logic there.
Surely they're overcharging for the single pizza?

redbel05 · 30-06-2015 05:03PM

fiachr_a wrote: »

Frozen pizza in Spar is €4.79 but for 2 it's only a fiver. Can't get the logic there.
Surely they're overcharging for the single pizza?

I recently discovered Steamers in the local cafe. You get a large glass of frothy steamed milk with a shot of flavouring (chai is my favorite, with chocolate being a close second). Its only €1. Add a shot of coffee and suddenly its €4.50. Surely the little bit of coffee in a latte cant cost that much? Sometimes I just think prices are arbitrary.

Samsgirl · 30-06-2015 05:13PM

Amanda (my best friend is Bono) Brunker is on the radio.. how is that eejet still getting airtime.

zcorpian88 · 30-06-2015 05:30PM

Spanish tourists that take up the entire footpath and refuse to move, I sometimes get the psychotic urge to shove them into traffic. (Except the good looking ones)

That'll learn em!

Robsweezie · 30-06-2015 05:49PM

when two shows are clashing and you have to flick between them (don't have sky+)

Menas · 30-06-2015 06:07PM

Older teenagers in the kiddies playground. Get a life!

dulux99 · 30-06-2015 06:50PM

When you say something to somebody, and because they've a lack of personality and original thought, they try to he witty and respond with "first world problem"

Ie - "ah jaysus I'm after leaving my phone charger in work" and they respond "first world problem much!!'

Jog on.

selous · 30-06-2015 07:09PM

dulux99 wrote: »

When you say something to somebody, and because they've a lack of personality and original thought, they try to he witty and respond with "first world problem"

Ie - "ah jaysus I'm after leaving my phone charger in work" and they respond "first world problem much!!'

Jog on.

Like the heated seats on the Aston Martin either warm or too hot, heard someone on the radio saying that some months ago, (must have been the cheap one, snort) now that's a first world problem, (or an A-hole)

Robsweezie · 30-06-2015 07:14PM

KatW4 wrote: »

I'm in that mood where I'm all worked up and annoyed but can't put my finger on what exactly is annoying me.

its a very hot day in ireland 20 something degrees (presuming you live here)could be making you irritable. I know it bothers me anyway.

KatW4 · 30-06-2015 07:32PM

Robsweezie wrote:

its a very hot day in ireland 20 something degrees (presuming you live here)could be making you irritable. I know it bothers me anyway.

I do live here

It could be the heat!

I've not been myself recently and I really don't like it.

Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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