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Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    I know he's being nice, so is my other colleague when she does the same thing ten minutes later. It's not the point. It's fcuking irritating. It's fine if you wouldn't find it irritating, good for you, I do.

    Just give it a few more months. Let's say February. Then, one normal Tuesday, say yes. If the heart attack doesn't kill him it'll stop him asking.


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


    Adults that pick and flick.....dirty ba**ards.
    I work with some, eye level in the jax, nearly barfed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,826 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    I was chewing gum and blew a bubble.
    Now it's all stuck to my nose, my mouth, all around my gob in fact, and there's no sign of it coming off.
    It's comical but frustrating.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    A day of TA here.
    There is a smell of something not quite nice in my car and despite tearing car apart. Taking out child seats, mats and checking the boot I can not find the source or offending item.

    Family member goin on hols to Portugal tomorrow and keeps reminding of this every hour.

    Husband has a cold and is incapacitated by it.

    I have run out of butter.

    Plenty of milk though.


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


    Driving home today through Moate and the car up in front stops dead in the road. I thought they were just having a chat with someone but it turns out that this little girl, so little that she had a soother in her mouth, was cycling on the road, coming towards us. The car in front yelled out at her mum/sister (it was hard to tell) but she was told to f off!!! :O The child could have been killed if someone came flying around the corner! How can a parent/sibling be so irresponsible????


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


    fussyonion wrote: »
    I was chewing gum and blew a bubble.
    Now it's all stuck to my nose, my mouth, all around my gob in fact, and there's no sign of it coming off.
    It's comical but frustrating.

    Go outside for a few minutes and let it freeze then peel it off like a face mask:D
    My TA is that I went for a small walk this evening and Im rewarding:rolleyes:myself with red wine ,I said I wouldnt have too much so only pouring a little into the glass at a time but Ive done that a few times now and the bottle is looking fairly empty:(had to have a packet on Hunky Dorys too..Im going to regret this at 7am but I cant stop myself.:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Why do some people in the media refer to all men as 'gentlemen', as in 'the gentleman who shot the garda was out on bail'?? Really wrecks my head!!

    People who say 'he will be dearly missed'. How can you 'dearly miss' someone? You dearly love but sorely/badly.....miss them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    TA that I'm getting wound up by noise from what sounds like a small party next door - when they pretty much never have parties, and I'm up anyway, and nowhere near bedtime, so they're not really bothering me. Why am I even getting wound up?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,826 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    People calling sportsmen "warriors" or "legends".
    No. They might be great sportsmen or great in their field but they're not warriors and they're not legends.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭XplaygirlX


    That fake 'American' accent that posh youngwans have nowadays. Does me nut


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    Every single day of this job, going to lunch, my boss has asked me if I want something from the shops while he's out. Every single day I have said no thanks I'm going out myself soon.

    Christ that annoys me. Every single day.

    Bet ya the one day he doesn't ask you that you will actually need something!! :D


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


    fussyonion wrote: »
    People calling sportsmen "warriors" or "legends".
    No. They might be great sportsmen or great in their field but they're not warriors and they're not legends.

    Except Paul O'Connell. Legend, Warrior and Sportsman!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭fizzypish


    fussyonion wrote: »
    People calling sportsmen "warriors" or "legends".
    No. They might be great sportsmen or great in their field but they're not warriors and they're not legends.

    In fairness though, if you transported the forwards from the Irish squad back to the middle ages, stopped them dieing of dysentery or starvation and got them onto the field of battle suited and booted, then yes I think they'd make cracking warriors AND due to their size some could unleash such untold destruction that they could become legends. Imagine Sean O'Brien wielding a claymore in full Armour.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    messrs wrote: »
    Bet ya the one day he doesn't ask you that you will actually need something!! :D

    But the point is I can get it myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    Every day I offer to pick up something from the shops for a fella I work with. I never hear 'I'll come along with you' or 'Aye, a bag of sweets to share'. Always, 'No, I'll go myself.'

    Almost like they don't want friends.


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


    fizzypish wrote: »
    In fairness though, if you transported the forwards from the Irish squad back to the middle ages, stopped them dieing of dysentery or starvation and got them onto the field of battle suited and booted, then yes I think they'd make cracking warriors AND due to their size some could unleash such untold destruction that they could become legends. Imagine Sean O'Brien wielding a claymore in full Armour.

    Bit of a TA though that steroids and EPO weren't invented yet

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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


    fussyonion wrote: »
    I was chewing gum and blew a bubble.
    Now it's all stuck to my nose, my mouth, all around my gob in fact, and there's no sign of it coming off.
    It's comical but frustrating.

    I got my tongue pierced years ago and I haven't been able to blow a bubble since :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    KatW4 wrote: »
    Driving home today through Moate and the car up in front stops dead in the road. I thought they were just having a chat with someone but it turns out that this little girl, so little that she had a soother in her mouth, was cycling on the road, coming towards us. The car in front yelled out at her mum/sister (it was hard to tell) but she was told to f off!!! :O The child could have been killed if someone came flying around the corner! How can a parent/sibling be so irresponsible????

    I saw a man this morning trying to cross a road (where there was no crossing or lights) on his bike, holding two dogs on two separate leads (one on each side) and being followed by a girl that was (I would guess) only barely school going age, on her bike. Talk about a travelling circus. What happens if any of the three beings he has in his control decide to do something unpredictable (as kids and animals are bound to do)? Dogs see a cat or another dog, and decide to run different directions, child sees I don't know...a frozen themed ball in the drain or something.... Recipe for disaster. And then he shoots us a dirty look for stopping the car because the car in front of us stopped, and you know...he couldn't cross the road with his travelling circus....at the point in the road where traffic was filtering off left and there was no crossing or lights.... :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    A day of TA here.
    There is a smell of something not quite nice in my car and despite tearing car apart. Taking out child seats, mats and checking the boot I can not find the source or offending item.

    Family member goin on hols to Portugal tomorrow and keeps reminding of this every hour.

    Husband has a cold and is incapacitated by it.

    I have run out of butter.

    Plenty of milk though.

    Can you churn it? :P


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


    Medusa22 wrote: »
    I got my tongue pierced years ago and I haven't been able to blow a bubble since :(

    So many jokes I could insert here....but wont!


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


    Menas wrote: »
    So many jokes I could insert here....but wont!

    Well, it hasn't stopped me from being able to blow anything else! :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    ch750536 wrote: »
    Every day I offer to pick up something from the shops for a fella I work with. I never hear 'I'll come along with you' or 'Aye, a bag of sweets to share'. Always, 'No, I'll go myself.'

    Almost like they don't want friends.

    I'm female. He's not looking for me to go with him.


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


    There is a man near me, roaring down his phone, all in "foreign",
    Which makes it a double TA, because I don't even know wtf he is on about!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,214 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    There is a man near me, roaring down his phone, all in "foreign",
    Which makes it a double TA, because I don't even know wtf he is on about!

    That reminds me of Spike Milligan recalling a Tamil priest in India saying the Christian mass in his own language, and it sounding to an eight-year-old Spike like "Iggery-buggery, Iggery-buggery, Iggery-buggery-buggery-buggery Iggery-buggery..." :pac:


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


    jimgoose wrote: »
    That reminds me of Spike Milligan recalling a Tamil priest in India saying the Christian mass in his own language, and it sounding to an eight-year-old Spike like "Iggery-buggery, Iggery-buggery, Iggery-buggery-buggery-buggery Iggery-buggery..." :pac:

    When I was about 8/9 I was moved to a class mid year where the "Christian" butcher insisted you ask to go to the jacks in Irish....which nobody bothered teach me. So for several weeks I got away with something like " yabbada yabbada yabbada muck on shay Hurley".......then I got rumbled.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭nicki11


    That fake 'American' accent that posh youngwans have nowadays. Does me nut

    Everyone says I have an American accent and asks where in America I'm from, never been there and the only explantion I can come up with is I moved around alot as a kid and loved American tv shows so maybe it came from that but once you get to know me you hear how I say certain words and I sound Irish. It happened to me again recently and they asked me in an interview about visa's and stuff and I was confused until they said where in America are you from and I was like no I'm Irish and they said oh right but didn't look like they beleived me. I think I know were I'm from :mad: does my head in after years of this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,214 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    When I was about 8/9 I was moved to a class mid year where the "Christian" butcher insisted you ask to go to the jacks in Irish....which nobody bothered teach me. So for several weeks I got away with something like " yabbada yabbada yabbada muck on shay Hurley".......then I got rumbled.

    Mmm. I'd have thought that was quite good, that's something like my approach to French and German. :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    On a bus that has neither wifi nor sockets working.

    Feck sake.

    Usually it's one or the other.

    I have a lot of data so can use my phone as a hotspot for laptop to get some work done, but not having a socket to accompany it is annoying.

    Although on the plus side, usually sockets are working, so shouldn't really complain too much.


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


    People that run with the generic apple earphones in. I could be still as anything and those feckers won't stay in, yet some folk pound the pavements in them not a bother.


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


    razorblunt wrote: »
    People that run with the generic apple earphones in. I could be still as anything and those feckers won't stay in, yet some folk pound the pavements in them not a bother.


    That reminds me, my earphones broke on me the other day (low sound in the left one), had to get another pair, and I have to get a very specific pair because while I don't think my ears are that unusual, the generic ear buds just never stay in. These ones I get, I get the sound quality, and they stay in, though it's a rare time you'd ever see me running :D

    Also TA that I had to buy new sunglasses yesterday (I have a habit of either breaking stuff or forgetting stuff and leaving it behind me), and I only noticed just now that I'd forgotten to take the UV sticker off the lens - walking around all day yesterday and this morning with the UV sticker on the lens... :mad: :rolleyes:


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