Trivial things that annoy you part 479

09-10-2015 05:18PM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Losing weight so so slowly, but it seems to go back on instantly, the second I look at a biscuit or crisp. The weekly treat is tonight, snackbox, cheeseburger, jumbo battered sauso, curry dip.

I've lost 11lbs since the beginning of September. It's tough as balls.

Robsweezie · 09-10-2015 05:28PM

#pissforequality

FelineOverLord · 09-10-2015 06:06PM

Colser wrote: »

I know the type youre on about and theyre related to those muppets in the supermarket. Buy about 150e worth of groceries but let it all go through before they start to pack it.Then they pull about 100 neatly folded bags out and start the long hard job of packing everything into a specific bag usually taking stuff out again and moving it to another bag:mad::mad:When thats done they start looking for the purse and the loyalty card AND the vouchers. On and on it goes totally oblivious to the people (me) on the verge of a cardiac arrest due to the boiling rage of having to put up with this unnecessary time consuming self centered carry on from totally selfish moronic fcuking people. I will be dug out of one of them some day I swear:(

Even worse is the supermarket shopper who having rooted for loose change and generally fecked about delaying other shoppers, is when they then ask the checkout operator to get their ciggarettes from the tobacco kiosk. Now that really really really boils my blood and it's a ridiculous practice. They should have to go queue at the kiosk themselves.:mad:

selous · 09-10-2015 06:55PM

Rang Irish Water to see if they can answer my queries about 3 bills 2 with my name 1 without, why I hadn't received any communication after sending an application before 30th June deadline and writing to them 3 weeks ago with same enquiry,

Well,

It seems the bills WITH my name are the default bills, The one WITHOUT is after I applied....???(with my name and address)
I am NOT entitled to the E100, because my application was too late,
I told her I posted it on the Wednesday before the 30th, (which was 24th)
What did she tell me.......you'll love this...

We weren't accepting applications then.....WHAT??
6 days before the closing date you weren't actually accepting application forms.
Well, I wrote her name down the time I rang and the date, the calls are recorded, they say, but i'd say they'll lose this one.
Roll on the next bill, i'm not paying a cent, till they sort this sh1t out.

Strumms · 09-10-2015 07:40PM

People who wanna pay the water charges and engage with Irish Water... I'm kidding : p. A bit

justchecked · 09-10-2015 08:13PM

if you google something - and then get the results page - and use the arrow buttons to move up and down ..... then it moves up the list of results in leaps of two or three.
Instead of one by one - which is what my ocd and laziness demands.

so your search result page might be:

result 1

result 2

result 3

result 4

but if you're on result 4 and press the up arrow the screen/cursor will jump to result 2.
this forces you to use the mouse.

this adds an unnecessary delay to the instant gratification Im owed by the universe.

selous · 09-10-2015 09:07PM

Strumms wrote: »

People who wanna pay the water charges and engage with Irish Water... I'm kidding : p. A bit

Well I got my answer, didn't I?? what a total f**k up.

Charlie19 · 09-10-2015 09:12PM

Out for dinner today and I touched my eye, forgetting that I just had a bowl of hot wings for my starter.
My eye stung for about an hour.

Son Of A Vidic · 10-10-2015 12:18AM

rosie16 wrote: »

I have the misfortune of living on the road between two villages so I'm viewed with a certain amount of suspicion from both sides. :rolleyes:

For a wee country the size of Ireland, there's no country on the planet that experiences the level of tribalism that we do. And that's just going from hedgerow to hedgerow.

Menas · 10-10-2015 07:05AM

Charlie19 wrote: »

Out for dinner today and I touched my eye, forgetting that I just had a bowl of hot wings for my starter.
My eye stung for about an hour.

That can be sore! I was cleaning a chilli out once and a seed popped up and landed in my eye. Absolute agony. My face went numb and I was still sore the next day.
I now wear glasses when cleaning chillies.

Menas · 10-10-2015 07:25AM

Jo Malone advent calendar. A snip at €320. Anyone want one?

KatW4 · 10-10-2015 09:38AM

My wisdom tooth is coming out. It's not too sore but it's so uncomfortable!

FelineOverLord · 10-10-2015 10:03AM

People who tidy my stuff, oh God I'm feeling homicidal. The kitchen sink was blocked the other day and there was a bit of a leak under the sink as a result. Mr FOL had himself a tidy under there, not content to rearrange stuff he threw stuff out:eek:, stuff that I didn't want thrown out and put stuff that I use every day at the back of the cupboard behind stuff that gets used once in a blue moon. To add further insult to injury, I had an old hard-backed note pad that was falling apart but was full of important info, that he transcribed stuff from because I hadn't done it yet:mad: Someone is asking for a paddling, oh yes they are, a serious fricking paddling. :mad:

Medusa22 · 10-10-2015 10:15AM

Menas wrote: »

That can be sore! I was cleaning a chilli out once and a seed popped up and landed in my eye. Absolute agony. My face went numb and I was still sore the next day.
I now wear glasses when cleaning chillies.

Poor you!! Just reading this made my eyes water!!

Diamond Doll · 10-10-2015 12:09PM

FelineOverLord wrote: »

People who tidy my stuff, oh God I'm feeling homicidal. The kitchen sink was blocked the other day and there was a bit of a leak under the sink as a result. Mr FOL had himself a tidy under there, not content to rearrange stuff he threw stuff out:eek:, stuff that I didn't want thrown out and put stuff that I use every day at the back of the cupboard behind stuff that gets used once in a blue moon. To add further insult to injury, I had an old hard-backed note pad that was falling apart but was full of important info, that he transcribed stuff from because I hadn't done it yet:mad: Someone is asking for a paddling, oh yes they are, a serious fricking paddling. :mad:

I moved into a new house with my ex, his mother came around the day we moved in (to examine it), she arrived downstairs with the drain from the bathroom shower and gave out to us that it was full of hairs, then proceeded to wash it in the kitchen sink. I didn't want to see the old tenants pubes going into our kitchen sink.

Obviously I'd have had to deal with that job once I'd checked the bathroom myself, but I don't expect others to ask the use the bathroom in my house, and then go digging through the shower drain.

Another time she dug through our kitchen bin to find things that should've gone in the recycling bin instead. She probably did find a thing or two, not much, but seriously - who visits a person's house and digs through their bins? Messed up.

Another time, when I was pregnant, I remember coming home from work to find she'd been over and taken it upon herself to rearrange all of my kitchen presses. I pretty much lost it that time. My ex (well my boyfriend at the time) knew that I would, but let her do it anyways.

I feel your pain!

onlyrocknroll · 10-10-2015 02:28PM

Kev W wrote: »

The misuse of "decimate" always annoys me.

No offence, but the etymological fallacy is my trivial annoyance. Pedantic nitpicking of people's language is such an obnoxious and unlikable quality, but when the correction is actually wrong it's just plain ridiculous

Spoken today, "decimate" obviously, clearly means to kill all or most of, not to kill one in ten.

Oxford gives "Kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of" as the main meaning of the word.

It gives "Kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group" as an "historical" usage.

Likewise unless we're talking about the reformation, "iconoclasm" definitely means breaking conventions or taboos, not statues.

I have never met anyone so fussy as to insist that "nice" means stupid, ignorant, silly, fastidious etc. despite those words being the source of the modern usage. If I tell someone they look nice, I'm obviously paying them a compliment.

The difference is that "nice" isn't from Greek or Latin, so it doesn't give the usage police the opportunity to feel superior.

jimgoose · 10-10-2015 03:07PM

It turns out that it is impossible, these days, to rent a movie DVD. When did this happen??

Gwynplaine · 10-10-2015 03:36PM

jimgoose wrote: »

It turns out that it is impossible, these days, to rent a movie DVD. When did this happen??

It's not 2006.

jimgoose · 10-10-2015 03:50PM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

It's not 2006.

Hmm. Blu-Ray??

FelineOverLord · 10-10-2015 04:33PM

Diamond Doll wrote: »

I moved into a new house with my ex, his mother came around the day we moved in (to examine it), she arrived downstairs with the drain from the bathroom shower and gave out to us that it was full of hairs, then proceeded to wash it in the kitchen sink. I didn't want to see the old tenants pubes going into our kitchen sink. Obviously I'd have had to deal with that job once I'd checked the bathroom myself, but I don't expect others to ask the use the bathroom in my house, and then go digging through the shower drain.

Another time she dug through our kitchen bin to find things that should've gone in the recycling bin instead. She probably did find a thing or two, not much, but seriously - who visits a person's house and digs through their bins? Messed up.

Another time, when I was pregnant, I remember coming home from work to find she'd been over and taken it upon herself to rearrange all of my kitchen presses. I pretty much lost it that time. My ex (well my boyfriend at the time) knew that I would, but let her do it anyways.

I feel your pain!

I'd have lost the plot if my mother in law did that. You deserve an award for showing such restraint.:)

fussyonion · 10-10-2015 10:43PM

Before I start, see post 8007 for a post about the same neighbour.
We'll call her Lisa. We'll call her fella Harry.

This evening my other half and I were slobbing out in front of Strictly Come Dancing; both in our sweats, drinking wine.
Knock comes to the door.
Other half goes to answer it.

It's Harry (he doesn't live with her even though they've been together donkey's years).

He says Lisa is passed out in bed, drunk as a skunk. He says she's been drinking all day in the house on her own and he doesn't know why.

He asks other half if he could pop in next door in 2 hours to check on her as he has to go.
Other half says "Where is she?". Harry says "In bed."
Other half says "Right, ok."
Harry fecks off.

I says to other half "You're not going next door to check on a drunk woman in her bedroom."
Other half says "Better believe I'm not."

Bloody cheek!
So not only are we now keyholders and have had to let work-men in all day, we now have to check on her like a feckin babysitter?
There's looking out for your neighbours and then there's taking it one step too far.

Imagine my other half going next door, INTO HER BEDROOM, to check on her?

Imagine her waking up and seeing him? What would she think?
There could be accusations and all sorts.
These kind of neighbourly favours are fcuking ridiculous now.

Someone swap houses.

deex · 10-10-2015 11:07PM

Having a mouth ulcer, and regretting all the times I DIDN'T APPRECIATE not having a mouth ulcer.

At the moment, the idea of not having a mouth ulcer is something so heavenly, I can't imagine why I didn't celebrate and make the most of every mouth-ulcer free day!

Diamond Doll · 10-10-2015 11:11PM

deex wrote: »

Having a mouth ulcer, and regretting all the times I DIDN'T APPRECIATE not having a mouth ulcer.

At the moment, the idea of not having a mouth ulcer is something so heavenly, I can't imagine why I didn't celebrate and make the most of every mouth-ulcer free day!

Try having a corneal ulcer. Yes, that's an ulcer on your eye.

It happened me a few years back. I actually wanted to gouge my eye out to be rid of it.

Ever since then, if I'm ever having a rough day, I think back to that time, and things suddenly don't seem so bad.

FallSilently · 11-10-2015 08:23AM

Fecking cut my little finger on the corner of my sh*tty cheap mobile phone cover when I reached into my pocket for some change, turns out it got all cracked and sharp at some point. Hasn't been bleeding but it's all cut and sore just beneath the nail and I can't type with it.

KatW4 · 11-10-2015 08:26AM

Went to sleep with a headache, woke up with the same headache.

strelok · 11-10-2015 10:16AM

onlyrocknroll wrote: »

No offence, but the etymological fallacy is my trivial annoyance. Pedantic nitpicking of people's language is such an obnoxious and unlikable quality, but when the correction is actually wrong it's just plain ridiculous

Spoken today, "decimate" obviously, clearly means to kill all or most of, not to kill one in ten.

Oxford gives "Kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of" as the main meaning of the word.

It gives "Kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group" as an "historical" usage.

Likewise unless we're talking about the reformation, "iconoclasm" definitely means breaking conventions or taboos, not statues.

I have never met anyone so fussy as to insist that "nice" means stupid, ignorant, silly, fastidious etc. despite those words being the source of the modern usage. If I tell someone they look nice, I'm obviously paying them a compliment.

The difference is that "nice" isn't from Greek or Latin, so it doesn't give the usage police the opportunity to feel superior.

yeah, fair enough and whatever but we now live in a time where literally literally no longer means literally

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/according_to_the_dictionary_literally_now_also_means_figuratively_newscred/

**** that.
this decimates me.

whatismyname · 11-10-2015 11:14AM

Trivially annoyed that the world we live in is such an inhumane place.

Not trivial in itself, yet it is as the awareness of this is far from anything new. So more trivially annoyed that it doesn't get any easier to live with.

frozenfrozen · 11-10-2015 11:17AM

trivially annoying when the cat is annoying you for some of the food you're eating and then when you give them some they don't want it at all, and they start to judge you about the disgusting food you're eating

FelineOverLord · 11-10-2015 01:26PM

My mother upgraded her steam cleaner and gave me hers yesterday, I've just tried it out and sweet mother of Jaysus what a bloody pain in the arse the thing is. I'd say it took me 3 times as long to do the kitchen floor, then it ran out of water and I'm so pissed off with it that I'm just going to do the hall and bathroom with our ordinary mop. First and last time a steam mop will be used in this house.

starling · 11-10-2015 01:32PM

fussyonion wrote: »

latest crazy neighbour weirdness

I get that the first time you didn't realise she was going to take ridiculous liberties, but I'm confused as to why you said "yes" instead of "what the fúck, no" this time....

Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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