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Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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  • #6992
    Poochie05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    TA'd when watching the programme about Shannon airport on RTE earlier and the guy was proudly showing his manager around the newly designed duty free shop. The new layout was inspired by the original guy who developed the World's first Duty Free shop in Shannon, Dr. Brendan O'Reagan and they named it in his honour.
    Said employee proudly pointed to the sign displaying the new name, with no apostrophe - O'Reagans!!


  • #6993
    FelineOverLord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭FelineOverLord


    Poochie05 wrote: »
    TA'd when watching the programme about Shannon airport on RTE earlier and the guy was proudly showing his manager around the newly designed duty free shop. The new layout was inspired by the original guy who developed the World's first Duty Free shop in Shannon, Dr. Brendan O'Reagan and they named it in his honour.
    Said employee proudly pointed to the sign displaying the new name, with no apostrophe - O'Reagans!!

    The Duty Free was magnificent in it's day and I was horrified at how shoddy and cheap looking it had been made over the years, hopefully they'll get it back to what it should be now that it's under new management.


  • #6994
    grundie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭grundie


    Generation X'ers who criticise millenials for not having the wealth they did.

    They don't get that we are paying for their easy life.


  • #6995
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭galljga1


    grundie wrote: »
    Generation X'ers who criticise millenials for not having the wealth they did.

    They don't get that we are paying for their easy life.

    Thanks for that, much appreciated.


  • #6996
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    When you can't figure out what your precise address is due to slight variances between different sources...

    Eircode says it's one thing. Google Maps says it's another thing. Your electricity company says another. Your phone company says something slightly different.... etc etc

    I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHERE I LIVE! :(


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  • #6997
    arayess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭arayess


    grundie wrote: »
    Generation X'ers who criticise millenials for not having the wealth they did.

    They don't get that we are paying for their easy life.

    can you elaborate?
    I've a feeling generation x is paying a lot more than millenials for the run of things....


  • #6998
    What are those?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭What are those?


    People cycling that tuck one trouser leg into their sock so as not to get it caught in the chain,would you not just tuck both legs in ,it really annoys me.Maybe ive some mild OCD but it just looks so wrong


  • #6999
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    arayess wrote: »
    can you elaborate?
    I've a feeling generation x is paying a lot more than millenials for the run of things....

    And lets not mention how Generation x was around during that really big boom time in the 70s and 80s...there was a fella on our street had a phone. In his house!
    Lap of luxury it was.


  • #7000
    arayess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭arayess


    Menas wrote: »
    And lets not mention how Generation x was around during that really big boom time in the 70s and 80s...there was a fella on our street had a phone. In his house!
    Lap of luxury it was.

    i thought generation x was those born in the 70's who became angry teenagers in the 90s now in their 30s/40s saddled with USC and excessive mortgages to pay for the golfing trips abroad for the over 50's and retired who tell them "recession , you lads don't know recession!! "


  • #7001
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    arayess wrote: »
    i thought generation x was those born in the 70's who became angry teenagers in the 90s now in their 30s/40s saddled with USC and excessive mortgages to pay for the golfing trips abroad for the over 50's and retired who tell them "recession , you lads don't know recession!! "

    Generation x can be anyone born between the 60 and the 80s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X


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  • #7002
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Menas wrote: »
    And lets not mention how Generation x was around during that really big boom time in the 70s and 80s...there was a fella on our street had a phone. In his house!
    Lap of luxury it was.

    Don't be talking, there was a man on our street used to to Spain for holidays every two years. Everyone would come out to wave him off.


  • #7003
    grundie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭grundie


    arayess wrote: »
    can you elaborate?
    I've a feeling generation x is paying a lot more than millenials for the run of things....

    I should have said Generation X and the baby boomer generation.

    Basically cheaper housing, lower cost of living, decent pension schemes and more jobs for life.

    I posted this because my American father in law said I was living extravagantly for travelling abroad to be a best man. He paid $25,000 for a five bedroom house in 1975. He recently sold it for nearly half a million and now lives six months in Arizona and six months in Canada and has a brilliant pension.


  • #7004
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    What are those? wrote: »
    People cycling

    You could just stopped there.


  • #7005
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    Trivially annoyed that I've absolutely no idea what this Generation X conversation is about.


  • #7006
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    DareGod wrote: »
    Trivially annoyed that I've absolutely no idea what this Generation X conversation is about.


  • #7007
    selous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭selous


    DareGod wrote: »
    When you can't figure out what your precise address is due to slight variances between different sources...

    Eircode says it's one thing. Google Maps says it's another thing. Your electricity company says another. Your phone company says something slightly different.... etc etc

    I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHERE I LIVE! :(

    Don't check it on the An Post "search for an address" website either Its wrong too, I know of two estates in Sandyford one doesn't exist by estate name (Ticknock Hill) only by internal road name,
    The new one down the road, Grange hill was a lovely big old house in Sandyford D18 it was knocked down and the new estate built on it is now Rathfarnam D14, how does that happen?


  • #7008
    selous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭selous


    DareGod wrote: »
    In fairness it takes half of a second to take a photo, so it could have just been one person who simply went "click" and that was that.

    And they may have already reported it to police and been told not to touch the body and were awaiting their arrival.

    Or there could have been police already in the vicinity who were keeping people back.

    Either way, if I saw a child's dead body I certainly wouldn't immediately know how to react.

    Impossible to tell from the photos what was actually going on around the body.

    I didn't think anything of it first till I seen the news and the heap of camera people and photographers on the beach, would they not go and see if he was still alive even if barely, Maybe they were told to stay away, still a shocking image,


  • #7009
    NOS3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭NOS3


    Being a people pleaser. I had planned to spend the night at my dad's house(first time since he got a new place), but I got a call for a person I babysit for. He sounded like he really needed a babysitter, and when he asked 'are you busy?', I replied 'oh no I can babysit no bother'. :o I know it's my own fault, but I just can't say no.


  • #7010
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I found a selection box on a high up shelf in a wardrobe, that I hid last December to have as a spare. It's best before April, so I'm wondering should I chance it.
    I ate 2 spicy tomato pasta Mugshots for dinner because I was a total lazy cow. I'm going to be crippled tomorrow, I never learn :(


  • #7011
    Medusa22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Medusa22


    73Cat wrote: »
    I found a selection box on a high up shelf in a wardrobe, that I hid last December to have as a spare. It's best before April, so I'm wondering should I chance it.
    I ate 2 spicy tomato pasta Mugshots for dinner because I was a total lazy cow. I'm going to be crippled tomorrow, I never learn :(

    Ah eat it, definitely! I'd chance anything for a bit of chocolate! :pac:


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  • #7012
    xLisaBx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭xLisaBx


    Medusa22 wrote: »
    Ah eat it, definitely! I'd chance anything for a bit of chocolate! :pac:

    Chocolate actually keeps pretty well.. chance it :D


  • #7013
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,180 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    73Cat wrote: »
    I found a selection box on a high up shelf in a wardrobe, that I hid last December to have as a spare. It's best before April, so I'm wondering should I chance it.
    I ate 2 spicy tomato pasta Mugshots for dinner because I was a total lazy cow. I'm going to be crippled tomorrow, I never learn :(


    TA that these weren't nearly as interesting as they sounded before I googled. I was expecting something huge, I got cup-a-soups :(

    Actually just finished dinner myself there, the brother-in-law is home from London, and decides to make Guinness stew. I love Guinness, I love stew, but those two should never be combined, ever again. Rotten, but TA now that I can't really say it to him or I'll feel like a right prick :o


  • #7014
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    xLisaBx wrote: »
    Chocolate actually keeps pretty well.. chance it :D

    Those dates are only there because of some regulation or other. If it looks all right (no sweating on the sweet) then just eat them. Report back here when done! :D


  • #7015
    Hugo Stiglitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Hugo Stiglitz


    xLisaBx wrote: »
    Chocolate actually keeps pretty well.. chance it :D

    If it's brown, eat it down. If it's white, it might be shite.


  • #7016
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    TA that these weren't nearly as interesting as they sounded before I googled. I was expecting something huge, I got cup-a-soups :(

    Actually just finished dinner myself there, the brother-in-law is home from London, and decides to make Guinness stew. I love Guinness, I love stew, but those two should never be combined, ever again. Rotten, but TA now that I can't really say it to him or I'll feel like a right prick :o

    My wife made a stew with a can of John Smiths bitter in it. Absolutely fcking gorgeous. It was slow cooked so the meat was really tender. Sorry that you could not have some!


  • #7017
    xLisaBx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭xLisaBx


    Menas wrote: »
    Those dates are only there because of some regulation or other. If it looks all right (no sweating on the sweet) then just eat them. Report back here when done! :D

    With all this talk of chocolate, I need some now :pac:
    Guaranteed with my parents trying to eat healthy there will be none in the kitchen.. TA!


  • #7018
    Medusa22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Medusa22


    Ye are all killing me, I'm a total chocolate addict but I'm trying to be good and do weight watchers again after pigging out on holiday last week! If I fall off the wagon I am blaming ye :D


  • #7019
    Colser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    Medusa22 wrote: »
    Ye are all killing me, I'm a total chocolate addict but I'm trying to be good and do weight watchers again after pigging out on holiday last week! If I fall off the wagon I am blaming ye :D
    Speaking of blaming people...I was in Dunnes last night and the lovely lady ahead of me gave me a voucher for 10e off if you spend 50e(had to be used yesterday) anyway my shopping came to 44e so I ran and grabbed another bottle of wine as it was the quickest thing to grab tbh;) so its her fault that I will be over indulging tonight:D


  • #7020
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Colser wrote: »
    Speaking of blaming people...I was in Dunnes last night and the lovely lady ahead of me gave me a voucher for 10e off if you spend 50e(had to be used yesterday) anyway my shopping came to 44e so I ran and grabbed another bottle of wine as it was the quickest thing to grab tbh;) so its her fault that I will be over indulging tonight:D

    We shall look forward to some drunken ramblings from you tonight!
    Have some chocolate too Colser...push the boat out.


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  • #7021
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    People who run ultra marathons....are normal marathons not challenging enough for ya?



    Deep down I think they are amazing and I am in awe of them and their achievements.


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