Trivial things that annoy you part 479

Menas · 06-10-2015 12:56PM

messrs wrote: »

I often thought that sometimes there is no 'job' , but that rec agencies have to interview X number of people per week and that's why the have these up to reach their quotas - not saying its true , just my opinion

Nah, the recruitment agencies only get paid for each person placed in a company.
ie, when the person starts work.

The individual recruiters working in those agencies get a low basic pay and the rest is commission that they earn per person placed. There is no other way for them to earn.

But they have been known to post false adds to build up their library of active CVs that can help them quickly get candidates for interview when a role comes available.

AndyBoBandy · 06-10-2015 01:00PM

Apple and whatever they did to render the iPod function of an iPhone useless!!

I did a restore last week and spent an hour putting music back onto it, I'm now sitting on a plane waiting to take off and find I have no music on the device!! Not 1 fcuking song!!!

Starting to lose my patience with Apple, they are certainly not the bastion of reliability they once were.

Samsgirl · 06-10-2015 01:57PM

My car trying to kill me!! Pressed brakes, car kept going. Luckily no one coming onto roundabout at the time.

OldNotWIse · 06-10-2015 02:17PM

The afternoon slump. And also, my body clock being completely out of synch with the rest of the world. Waking before 8am is torture. Full consciousness only occurs at approximately midday. By 7pm I'm starting to feel good again. 11pm? Let's get this party started! OH's light out at midnight, I'm still there at 1am, bopping

Hit the sack around 2.... and then it is suddenly 7am

paleoperson · 06-10-2015 03:38PM

"No tailgating" signs for going under barriers. I mean what's the point? If a person is going to tailgate they would do it anyway. It's like putting up a "no stealing" sign in a shop. It's very different to a "no speeding" sign, which is there to remind people and to tell them this is not a good place to speed, and which everyone involved has a plausible interest in taking heed of.

I'm sure all it does in reality is give people the idea of tailgating or say that it's possible.

tonto24 · 06-10-2015 04:13PM

When people have notifications on their phones. Just press the app please you inconsiderate a$$hole!

Also when someone turns up/down the volume on tv/car radio etc and leave it on an odd no.

selous · 06-10-2015 04:23PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

http://www.theonion.com/article/6-day-visit-to-rural-african-village-completely-ch-35083

Oh No, I was in Malawi some years ago, knew I forgot something, to set up a facebook account, and fill it with pic's...darn it...:rolleyes:

lawlolawl · 06-10-2015 04:35PM

tonto24 wrote: »

When people have notifications on their phones. Just press the app please you inconsiderate a$$hole!

Also when someone turns up/down the volume on tv/car radio etc and leave it on an odd no.

People who are having a text conversation on their phones with someone with messages flying back and forth every few seconds and they leave their goddamn message tone on the entire time.

Gwynplaine · 06-10-2015 04:48PM

Just walked in the door and the house is like a sauna, and the house empty.
Herself left the house 3 hours ago, and isn't back til tomorrow. I'm just back for bite to eat, then out to meet family. So why is the heating on? It's not even cold. "Oh it's raining, I better put on the heating"

fussyonion · 06-10-2015 04:52PM

Kids in gym changing rooms.

I was in the gym today and just after my shower, I sat (wrapped in a towel) on the bench and prepared to get dressed.
Two kids came over near me and stood there, just looking at me gormlessly.
Their mother took a seat opposite me and just sat there looking gormlessly too.

I felt very self-conscious as I tried to get dressed and the kids kept running around, then stopping beside me and just gawping at me.

Eventually I had enough, grabbed my bag and moved up to another part of the changing room. I'd had enough of not only the kids looking at me, but their mother aswell.
When I moved, the kids ran up to where I was and I felt like telling them to eff off.

No I don't think kids are cute and just being kids; I want to get dressed in peace and not having people staring at me.

selous · 06-10-2015 06:28PM

Anyone notice the Dove add playing on tv all the rugby players giving their words of wisdom and have Cian Healy saying the (ironically) "If you can belt out your national anthem"
but they don't play it SO YA CANT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yugkLjmZyHQ (28 seconds in)

Anyone else think the English Captain Chris Robshaw (?) is the spit the guy in the wheelchair in Fair City????

FelineOverLord · 06-10-2015 06:33PM

Had the teenage sister of our ex next door nightmares shouting 'whore, whore, look at the whore' at me when I was at our local shopping centre today

Em, yeah love, I'm a respectable, law abiding married woman, remind me again, how many of your sisters kids share the same daddy?, so that would be none then. Oh the irony.:rolleyes:

Rippington · 06-10-2015 06:38PM

FelineOverLord wrote: »

Had the teenage sister of our ex next door nightmares shouting 'whore, whore, look at the whore' at me when I was at our local shopping centre today Em, yeah love, I'm a respectable, law abiding married woman, remind me again, how many of your sisters kids share the same daddy?, so that would be none then. Oh the irony.:rolleyes:

Some day she might say something similar to another person and get a good pasting .

FelineOverLord · 06-10-2015 06:41PM

Rippington wrote: »

Some day she might say something similar to another person and get a good pasting .

The whole family are utter scumbags, most have criminal records. I just blank her as if I don't even see or hear her, I wouldn't give her the satisfaction. Brawling in the streets is something her mother, aunts, sisters and pretty much most of her relatives, male and female have been known to do, even when pregnant.

chillin117 · 06-10-2015 06:41PM

tonto24 wrote: »

Also when someone turns up/down the volume on tv/car radio etc and leave it on an odd no.

OCD OCD OCD !

JillyQ · 06-10-2015 08:39PM

Cyclists who cycle in the middle of the road preventing traffic from passing them.

tonto24 · 07-10-2015 08:19AM

JillyQ wrote: »

Cyclists who cycle in the middle of the road preventing traffic from passing them.

Or just cyclists?

eisenberg1 · 07-10-2015 10:11AM

The "hilarious" Roy Keane

Rubberlegs · 07-10-2015 11:56AM

I can remember a frozen pizza from the mid nineties, that had peach on it. I'm almost 100% sure it was Goodfellas. Yet anyone I've ever said it to has looked at me like I'm nuts, and I can't find evidence of it online. It was lovely, and I know I didn't make it up

redfacedbear · 07-10-2015 12:00PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

The afternoon slump. And also, my body clock being completely out of synch with the rest of the world. Waking before 8am is torture. Full consciousness only occurs at approximately midday. By 7pm I'm starting to feel good again. 11pm? Let's get this party started! OH's light out at midnight, I'm still there at 1am, bopping Hit the sack around 2.... and then it is suddenly 7am

And the righteousness of morning people who seem to imply that your night-owl ways are a moral failing that you are choosing not to fix.

Whitewinged · 07-10-2015 12:01PM

73Cat wrote: »

I can remember a frozen pizza from the mid nineties, that had peach on it. I'm almost 100% sure it was Goodfellas. Yet anyone I've ever said it to has looked at me like I'm nuts, and I can't find evidence of it online. It was lovely, and I know I didn't make it up

mmm sounds nice. I love pineapple on pizza and one of my friends cant understand it but he doesn't understand why I love banana sandwiches either

TA neighbours evil fat cat is sitting outside on my windowsill looking in at me all morning. She keeps making eye contact with me in a bid to get a staring competition going but I keep looking away first! :mad:

Rubberlegs · 07-10-2015 12:10PM

Whitewinged wrote: »

mmm sounds nice. I love pineapple on pizza and one of my friends cant understand it but he doesn't understand why I love banana sandwiches either

TA neighbours evil fat cat is sitting outside on my windowsill looking in at me all morning. She keeps making eye contact with me in a bid to get a staring competition going but I keep looking away first! :mad:

Fruit on pizza is amazing. I remember being able to get fresh pizza at Super Valu with mandarin orange pieces on them. Divine! Banana sandwiches are lovely too:)

I'm about to lose my mind. There is a wedge of lime stuck in the neck of a Corona bottle here, and I can't get it out. It sounds like I have very little to be worrying about, but if I have to put it to be be recycled like that, I'll be really upset

whiskeyman · 07-10-2015 01:50PM

73Cat wrote: »

There is a wedge of lime stuck in the neck of a Corona bottle here, and I can't get it out.

I'm TA'd I cant join your afternoon boozey session!!

EDIT - just realised you're recycling!!
Ah well, just crack open a few more now to do more 'recycling!)

My real TA is that you really can't have a discussion with 'I think it used to be / was' because the internet means you really should check whether it is the case or not!!

It seems better when someone made an educated guess, and you could discuss, instead of just laying down the facts.... *whumph* there you go...

It's just made everything so booorrinnggg

nicki11 · 07-10-2015 03:39PM

Doctor made me get blood tests done for a check up this morning and I've had a headache since

Oh and they taped the cottonball to my arm and used so much tape I only have about an inch of skin not covered. Seriously why if I move it pulls my skin and I want to rip it off but the amunt is daunting and water did nothing

FelineOverLord · 07-10-2015 05:20PM

nicki11 wrote: »

Doctor made me get blood tests done for a check up this morning and I've had a headache since Oh and they taped the cottonball to my arm and used so much tape I only have about an inch of skin not covered. Seriously why if I move it pulls my skin and I want to rip it off but the amunt is daunting and water did nothing

That's a bugger. Don't rip it off though, that tape goes on like glue. It's much less painful if you peel a corner back gently, and using the other hand hold the tape while gently peeling it back with the other hand. Actually that sounds quite rude, but trust me.:D

FelineOverLord · 07-10-2015 05:21PM

I've had a nasty headache since yesterday and nothing will shift it, nothing. It eases off a bit if I through enough painkillers at it but it won't go, I think it's tension and teeth grinding.

FelineOverLord · 07-10-2015 05:53PM

Jasus H, the latest fcukwit looking for sponsorship via facebook, 'I need to raise 3 grand so I can spend a month nursing in Vietnam. Fcuk me, but how about just giving that money to hospital you're gonna 'volunteer' in instead of expecting people to pay for a months holiday in Vietnam. Fcuking tool.:mad:

nicki11 · 07-10-2015 06:30PM

FelineOverLord wrote: »

That's a bugger. Don't rip it off though, that tape goes on like glue. It's much less painful if you peel a corner back gently, and using the other hand hold the tape while gently peeling it back with the other hand. Actually that sounds quite rude, but trust me.:D

Thanks that worked and I just put a normal small plaster over it

castletownman · 07-10-2015 06:46PM

Militant and myopic sports fans (usually those of the egg-chasing persuasion) who look at you as if you have two heads should you voice an opinion they don't agree with. I made the point earlier that since South Africa topped the group in the world cup, that their defeat to Japan seems less a shock, and used examples from other sports as comparative shocks that outweigh it.

Now, I work in the sports journalism industry, and would never articulate anything without any logical and clear evidence to back me up, and also have a thick-skin when it comes to people maybe not agreeing with what I write. But it seems to me that should I say anything about rugby, that they come down off the bandwagon they've been travelling on just to berate me. And they are incidentally the first ones to jump down the throat of the manager as soon as Ireland inevitably let us down, and indeed have their Leinster jerseys in storage now that they aren't competing as well.

So I suppose what I am trying to convey is that I have encountered many sports fans in numerous guises from various sports down through the years, but it's the rugby-centric variety that are the most insufferable (from personal experience of course). God forbid trying to have a logical arguement with them without them pulling out the "bigot" card.

eviltwin · 07-10-2015 06:49PM

Alan Kelly's voice, just cuts right through me

Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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