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Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    TA when people don't thank my Boards posts :(

    Don't be so Goddamn anonymous and we'll all thank you :p


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


    I slept like a log on Saturday night on a sofa bed in a mobile home by the sea with the wind howling outside.
    Lastnight, on my super deluxe memory foam mattress which cost over two grand, I tossed and turned all bloody night.
    Maybe I need to drink a crate of miller every night: a plan I like.


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


    eternal wrote: »
    Psychologically speaking, you were on 'holidays' safe from the storm with no impending routine to worry about per say. The mind then secured in the trivial of the every day refuses to shut down no matter the conditions.
    (Experience of years of mobile home holidays)

    I am still on holidays, heading to Lanzarote on Thursday.
    I'd say it was the Miller.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    galljga1 wrote: »
    I am still on holidays, heading to Lanzarote on Thursday.
    I'd say it was the Miller.
    Ok, you caught me after I deleted it. :o


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


    Came home after spending 5 days in Paris. I'm absolutely wrecked but I am wide awake and can't get back to sleep. I'm gonna be tired for the week.

    Also, I hate saying goodbye :( had to pretend I wasn't crying when we left my sister at the train station.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,530 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    Flying ants.
    I don't care that they're only flapping around for a day or two I hate the buggers.
    The wall outside my house was heaving with them the other day and we've never had a problem with ants before.
    Even had a nightmare about them infesting my house.
    I'm not usually a squeamish person with bugs no problem with spider or any other creepy crawlies but I would happily take a flame thrower to these winged demons.


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


    Ryan Gosling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,662 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    What's the collective term for a cola drink? "Coke", right? (well it is where I'm from)
    Except go into KFC in Waterford and they ask what drink, you say "large coke" and they say: "We don't have Coke, is Pepsi okay?"
    Oh come on! You know what I meant!


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


    What's the collective term for a cola drink? "Coke", right? (well it is where I'm from)
    Except go into KFC in Waterford and they ask what drink, you say "large coke" and they say: "We don't have Coke, is Pepsi okay?"
    Oh come on! You know what I meant!

    i went into a place before and asked for rashers in my sandwich. ''we dont have rashers, only bacon''.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,662 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    i went into a place before and asked for rashers in my sandwich. ''we dont have rashers, only bacon''.

    Oh good lord ><


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    What's the collective term for a cola drink? "Coke", right? (well it is where I'm from)
    Except go into KFC in Waterford and they ask what drink, you say "large coke" and they say: "We don't have Coke, is Pepsi okay?"
    Oh come on! You know what I meant!

    No it's a very important distinction, pepsi is not coke. It's trivially annoying when you ask for coke and you get pepsi!


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


    TA at my been so easily distracted....just cant get it together today do some work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    What's the collective term for a cola drink?

    A sugar-rush?


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


    A sugar-rush?


    A diabetes attack?


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


    Flying ants.
    I don't care that they're only flapping around for a day or two I hate the buggers.
    The wall outside my house was heaving with them the other day and we've never had a problem with ants before.
    Even had a nightmare about them infesting my house.
    I'm not usually a squeamish person with bugs no problem with spider or any other creepy crawlies but I would happily take a flame thrower to these winged demons.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/flying-ants-2262701-Aug2015/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,127 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    What's the collective term for a cola drink? "Coke", right? (well it is where I'm from)
    Except go into KFC in Waterford and they ask what drink, you say "large coke" and they say: "We don't have Coke, is Pepsi okay?"
    Oh come on! You know what I meant!
    not everyone likes Pepsi. I bet the staff in KFC are pestered constantly about people getting Pepsi when they were expecting Coca Cola.


  • Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭ London Prickly Revolt


    Jaysus that was like my Sunday lunch in a local place with the in-laws.

    Jug of water arrives at table and Little Tommy shouts "ice cubes!" and stick his hands into the jug.
    "Just one ice cube now Tommy" smiles his Mum indulgently as the little sh:tbag continues to swirl his germ-infested hands around the water jug - our fcuking water jug!

    I ordered a beer instead.
    I ordered several.

    Only way I can get through a meal with the little feral brat.

    Jesus christ

    Clip around the ear


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭skittles8710


    greenfrogs wrote: »
    Ridiculous. Also TA by people taking a photo of people taking a selfie. I have seen 2 photos of this happening at weddings.

    Don't look at the front page of today's Irish Examiner ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Jesus christ

    Clip around the ear


    Oh, I've a book-full of anecdotes about 'Little Tommy'.

    Everytime he comes to the house he stomps out to the back garden.
    We've a load of solar lights around the perimeter of the grass on stakes and he walks along and pulls them all out of the ground.
    They're only plastic B&Q ones but still.

    Yesterday we're all lokking at Tommy doing the usual and his mother - the OH's sister - pipes up "Look at Tommy, he's always doing that".

    I'm standing beside her thinking 'Yeah, and you've never fcuking once told him not to'.
    It's not like she puts all the lights back into position afterwards either.

    What is it with some parents and the blind-spot they have with their children? We don't all find Little Tommy as adorable as she does - in fact he's a bit of a spoilt pr:ick.

    But, I have to bite my tongue for the sake of harmonious in-law relations.

    It feels good to write this down - can't say it in real life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    Little Tommy's favourite pastime is;
    1) Hitting stuff with sticks

    He's rarely to be seen without a stick or other form of stick-like implement in his hand, and he'll wander around banging it off things or waving it around his head like a fcuking baton-twirling majorette.

    Earlier in the year we have a party for one of our kids in the house and get a piñata - because sticks and kids, what could possibly go wrong?

    Tommy's all over at the stick almost immediately and hardly relinquishes possession for the rest of the party. During the meal, in the course of waving it around, he whacks one of the other kids on the head by accident (I think).
    His mother jumps up, embarrassed for once by his behaviour and takes the stick off him. "No stick until later Tommy".
    Tommy throws back his head and literally roars at the celling.
    His mother does a quick mental calculation as to what's going to be more embarrassing, hands him back the stick and says "OK Tommy, but no more waving it around".

    Tommy was without the stick for perhaps 4 seconds.


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


    noisy, repetitive children's toys shouting catchphrases. ''let's play!!'....'lets play!'....ABCDEFG...ABCDEFG...HIJK...HI...HIJ...HIJK .....HIJKILLSOMEONE


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


    Little Tommy's favourite pastime is;
    1) Hitting stuff with sticks

    He's rarely to be seen without a stick or other form of stick-like implement in his hand, and he'll wander around banging it off things or waving it around his head like a fcuking baton-twirling majorette.

    Earlier in the year we have a party for one of our kids in the house and get a piñata - because sticks and kids, what could possibly go wrong?

    Tommy's all over at the stick almost immediately and hardly relinquishes possession for the rest of the party. During the meal, in the course of waving it around, he whacks one of the other kids on the head by accident (I think).
    His mother jumps up, embarrassed for once by his behaviour and takes the stick off him. "No stick until later Tommy".
    Tommy throws back his head and literally roars at the celling.
    His mother does a quick mental calculation as to what's going to be more embarrassing, hands him back the stick and says "OK Tommy, but no more waving it around".

    Tommy was without the stick for perhaps 4 seconds.

    What an absolute brat. I remember when acting like that meant your stick would be introduced to your posterior in very short order.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    What an absolute brat. I remember when acting like that meant your stick would be introduced to your posterior in very short order.
    The stick should be used on the parents;)
    We had a family party recently,when I arrived my niece was standing beside the cake poking her finger into it..I immediately said "Hey,stop that!" in a genuinely annoyed voice..she then glanced at her mother and smiled..Her mother says"Oh look youve been caught now". This was before most of the guests had even arrived:( Now mine are/were no angels but there is no way they would have done this and if they did I would have stopped them immediately. I swear to god its the damn parents that need to be pulled up about this kind of carry on,Im still fuming about my bloody cake:mad:


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


    spilt milk criers. whinging and moaning about situations they cant change whilst wasting time they could spend trying to move forward.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    jesus lads this is some heavy **** lately.

    trivially annoying when you're trying to feed the cat and she moves her head right under where you're dropping the cat food and keeps getting her head covered in food. stop it I'm trying to help you


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


    Colser wrote: »
    The stick should be used on the parents;)
    We had a family party recently,when I arrived my niece was standing beside the cake poking her finger into it..I immediately said "Hey,stop that!" in a genuinely annoyed voice..she then glanced at her mother and smiled..Her mother says"Oh look youve been caught now". This was before most of the guests had even arrived:( Now mine are/were no angels but there is no way they would have done this and if they did I would have stopped them immediately. I swear to god its the damn parents that need to be pulled up about this kind of carry on,Im still fuming about my bloody cake:mad:

    Lazy parents that let their kids away with murder in order to avoid tantrums and scenes get their just desserts when they realise they've created a monster after a few years. The process is very hard to reverse.

    Your cake story reminds me of one time when I was in the supermarket and saw a little brat poking holes in the fresh baked bread with her finger. Her mother and her friend were chatting away and idly watching her do it. Since then I only buy bread that is out of reach of little snot and germ infested hands ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,662 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    Quazzie wrote: »
    not everyone likes Pepsi. I bet the staff in KFC are pestered constantly about people getting Pepsi when they were expecting Coca Cola.

    I think that's why this is "Trivial Things that Annoy You", might not annoy everyone else but it annoys me ><.

    Not one single person behind a counter has felt the need to correct me when I say "coke" and not "pepsi" until that one KFC. I'm aware it's Pepsi but as I said, I collectively call any cola drink "coke" and so does half the country I come from :P Go into Burger King, be aware of the fact that it's Pepsi they have. Ask for Coke, and I bet not one word will be uttered, they'll pour the Pepsi.

    Now. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    Lazy parents that let their kids away with murder in order to avoid tantrums and scenes get their just desserts when they realise they've created a monster after a few years. The process is very hard to reverse.

    Your cake story reminds me of one time when I was in the supermarket and saw a little brat poking holes in the fresh baked bread with her finger. Her mother and her friend were chatting away and idly watching her do it. Since then I only buy bread that is out of reach of little snot and germ infested hands ;)
    I wont buy anything thats uncovered for that reason and its not just kids that are guilty,Ive seen adults squeezing breads,rolls,fruit,tomatoes the list is endless.Ive seen people sneezing over food,coughing near it,picking it up and putting back down again..It turns my stomach.I hate when Im eating out and someone is coughing or sneezing near me,then I read that the spoons used at salad counters are filthy from people holding them and then lying them back up on the food.
    I KNOW Im ott about it:D but I cant help it,I often wonder about how clean peoples hands are when making sandwiches:eek: I try not to read about what goes on in kitchens when food is being prepared,I worked in a kitchen years ago that was an eye opener. There must be a name for my condition:D:D its a great diet aid all the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭js35


    Neighbours congregating out the front all day...dunno why but annoys the sh!t out of me...if I go to put rubbish in wheelie bin or go out to car or even collect the post and they re always guaranteed to be there!! Feckin porch monkeys :(


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


    The tapes* of 'Reeling in the Years' must be nearly worn out at this stage - it was good at first but....becoming a bit of a TA now.




    (* I realise they may not be actually stored on tape any more)

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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