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Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 Raymond Darcy


    Sugar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,004 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    Movie posters/DVD covers were the names of the actors aren't aligned above the right person.

    It actually drive me nuts, This is how it should be done:
    https://www.google.ie/url?sa=i&source=imgres&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAgQjRxqFQoTCMfXtqiF88cCFQK6FAodQuMMbw&url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcSkuxYKBhyPQq4e_cbYRDfZRjWkUx2GIKlUpUkHiuVeLg2GhN0D&psig=AFQjCNFLQqEM_WZ5olTghO8fZ739yjRymg&ust=1442200406041113

    I cant think of any wrong ones but I've seen plenty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭FallSilently


    Charlie19 wrote: »
    Movie posters/DVD covers were the names of the actors aren't aligned above the right person.

    It actually drive me nuts, This is how it should be done:
    https://www.google.ie/url?sa=i&source=imgres&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAgQjRxqFQoTCMfXtqiF88cCFQK6FAodQuMMbw&url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcSkuxYKBhyPQq4e_cbYRDfZRjWkUx2GIKlUpUkHiuVeLg2GhN0D&psig=AFQjCNFLQqEM_WZ5olTghO8fZ739yjRymg&ust=1442200406041113

    I cant think of any wrong ones but I've seen plenty.

    God that bugs me as well.

    http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/153/pirates2.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,547 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    selous wrote: »
    He is still St James, so an apostrophe after the s' does, not a second s.
    St James'

    Well yes, that is correct, but some people find it easier when talking to say James's - and since it means 'James, his gate' they are not wrong either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Rosie Rant


    Mice and rats are cute! XD


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


    Rosie Rant wrote: »
    Mice and rats are cute! XD

    Post reported!


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


    Damned bottle of cooking oil that falls down from the cupboard and spills all over laminate flooring, jesus it's like death trap central. I thought I'd cleaned it all up last night before going to bed, walking across the floor this morning in my shoes, and lost my footing when I slipped on what felt like a polished floor, managed to keep myself upright though!

    Jack - 1 Greasy floor - 0 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,790 ✭✭✭degsie


    People who speak with their mouths full of food. Wtf is that all about?


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


    The water in the shower wouldn't heat up this morning even though there was hot water in the boiler. My bf fixed it but then my shower was too hot. My skin is still red!!


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


    When people have little or no knowledge of sayings/proverbs. You say " empty cans make the most noise" and you get a blank stare or " you can bring a horse to water..." and they can't finish it, don't understand.

    "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"...what eggs?

    I don't say them often buts it's good when the other person can relate to what you're saying.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭endofrainbow


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    When people have little or no knowledge of sayings/proverbs. You say " empty cans make the most noise" and you get a blank stare or " you can bring a horse to water..." and they can't finish it, don't understand.

    "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"...what eggs?

    I don't say them often buts it's good when the other person can relate to what you're saying.


    as the man says.......what man ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    People in airports piss me off:
    Queuing to enter departures- their turn and it's "Argh can't find my Boarding card"
    Queuing to go through security - their turn and it' "argh can't find my bag of liquids"
    Queuing to board plane - their turn and it's "argh can't find my passport"
    Queuing to go through border control - their turn and it's "argh can't find my passport"

    I mean jesus fecking chrisht, would ye have these things ready while you are getting towards top of the Queue

    And DON'T GET ME STARTED on the people who just stand on the floor escalators rather than walk


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 367 ✭✭justchecked


    wp_rathead wrote: »

    And DON'T GET ME STARTED on the people who just stand on the floor escalators rather than walk

    not taking sides but have you ever walked to the far end of Dublin airport terminal 2, its no wonder people do that.

    some never even make it to the end.


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


    Sunday evenings. There are a few hours of the weekend left...but thoughts of work tomorrow are taking over.


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


    There's going to be a reoccurring critical writing theme to my posts here for the foreseeable future.
    On very strong painkillers for my sinus headache so can't have a cheeky weekend tipple either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 457 ✭✭Serjeant Buzfuz


    People in Supermarket queues who start fumbling for change when it's time to pay and count out what feels like 250 euros in loose coppers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭murph226


    Women that put lipstick around their mouth to make their lips look bigger.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    slow queues!!!


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


    When posters make one liner statements like " You've got the wrong idea" " you're talking nonsense" "you're missing the point" without explaining WHY.

    RED.RAG.BULL.


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


    There's rain dripping outside my bedroom window. There's no way I can sleep with it continuously drip drip dripping.


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


    My sons school sent out a book list over the summer. One of the books we had to get was "Planet Maths 1". So we got it, and we also wrote our sons name inside the cover using marker pen as per the school instructions.

    We and about 3/4 of the rest of the class got the wrong book. We got the activity book, not the study book and both have virtually identical covers.

    The schools attitude is "Sorry, we should have specified it better, but tough you still need the right book".


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭strelok


    first day of college starts at 11

    i'd murder a coffee but there's not enough time to drink it before class to guarantee the lack of a panic attack at all the humanity around me

    i miss the days when I could just take euphorics and not have to worry about it


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


    DareGod wrote: »
    It is very difficult to wind me up. I only get wound up when I feel like someone who is supposed to care about me is purposely trying to get a rise out of me. This situation almost never happens to me but when it does, it really pisses me off:

    When someone starts an argument with you, and you calmly succeed in pointing out to them clearly and concisely why what they're saying is completely incorrect, and so they've run out of things to come at you with, so then they say something like "You're being argumentative / over-defensive" to try and make you look bad, because they've been proven 100% wrong and have nothing else to say.

    I really hate that passive aggressive sh*t, especially when it's a friend who's doing it.

    e.g. this conversation that happened last week with a friend

    Them: "I think [insert claim about me and how I live my life here]"
    Me: *gives clear evidence as to why this is incorrect*
    Them: "Okay well I think [insert another claim about me and how I live my life here]"
    Me: *gives clear evidence as to why this is incorrect*
    Them: "Well I think no matter what I say you're going to be over-defensive."
    Me: *screams inside, because now there's absolutely nothing I can say without them "winning" that argument*

    So they've knowingly wound me up, I've defended myself, and they've tried to make me look aggressive for defending myself. Am I not meant to? Am I meant to just say "Yeah, you're right" even when what they're saying is completely factually incorrect? Or am I meant to just ignore what they're saying? If I ignored them, they'd say "Why are you ignoring me?"

    Argh. I really hate that.

    Try being Scottish for a day, where everytime I speak more than 5 words in a sentence, people think I'm going mental and tell me to "calm down".

    Friend 1 - "Dave, where abouts is Daybreak around here?"

    Me - "I don't know I only moved here yesterday"

    Friend 1 - "Jesus, relax bah I was only askin'"

    Friend 2 - "What's up with Dave?"

    Friend 1 - "I only asked him where the shop was and he got t'ick"

    That wasn't the best of examples, but essentially, my tone of voice allegedly sounds as if I'm in a fit of rage when, in all reality, I'm completely calm in myself..

    Another TA that can be combined with the one above is when I am having a conversation with someone and they go "shhh" because apparently I'm talking too loud.......... It's 3 oclock in the f**ing day and we're outside in the middle of town. And, for the record I'm not shouting, I'm talking. It kills the tempo of the conversation for me. I just happen to have one of those voices that are of a higher decibel to others.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    grundie wrote: »
    My sons school sent out a book list over the summer. One of the books we had to get was "Planet Maths 1". So we got it, and we also wrote our sons name inside the cover using marker pen as per the school instructions.

    We and about 3/4 of the rest of the class got the wrong book. We got the activity book, not the study book and both have virtually identical covers.

    The schools attitude is "Sorry, we should have specified it better, but tough you still need the right book".

    I'd be trivially annoyed there was even a thing such as the activity book, that's what copybooks are for!

    My TA (or two in fact) are to do with movies:

    1. That fake scream that's inserted to movies as an in-joke/nod to the first movie that's ever used it. It's so jarring when you hear it and think "FFS, another movie that has it".

    2. The fake noise they add in when people are eating in scenes, who drags their cutlery against their teeth when putting food into their mouth or taking the cutlery back out again?

    Damn you Foley people!


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


    as the man says.......what man ?

    "Thats what they say.." Drives me mad


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


    when people dont bring their rubbish to the bin in fast food restaurants and just leave it there as 'thats what theyre paid for'


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


    when people dont bring their rubbish to the bin in fast food restaurants and just leave it there as 'thats what theyre paid for'

    I hate that!! I will never leave my mess behind. I'd feel horrible afterwards. Yeah, they get paid to do it but that doesn't mean one has to be a díck about it.

    The only time I'll be okay with them putting my rubbish in the bin is if I'm already on the way there and they kindly take the tray from me and thank me for bringing it up. Manners cost absolutely f**k all - you've nothing to lose when you do it, so why is it such a tedious problem for some people?

    Ugh!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    That muppet who voices the Bridgestone Tires ad on the radio. "Your tires are the only part of your cars safety system that touches the road." Lose the fake american accent ya fúcktard. You're Irish, we know you're Irish now cop on ya sap. Nothing worse than some turnip-faced muck savage putting on a fake american accent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,172 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    and they're feckin TYRES, TA'ed at American spellings.....

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭Footoo


    It's Sunday night, bedtime and you've just realised that your duvet and bed sheet are in the tumble dryer and your bed's not made.


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