Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

New Home · 17-11-2015 11:24PM

Get a second universal remote and regain control of your TV channels. No one else will ever have to know.

One eyed Jack · 17-11-2015 11:27PM

Colser wrote: »

People who are snoring on the couch with the remote grasped tightly in their hands(remote not a euphemism:p)but when you try to take it they claim they are awake watching the TV.
There will be blood...:mad:

Colser I'd swear... if I didn't know better! :pac:

You don't do that thing where you put your hand over their eye(s) to see if they notice?

At least she doesn't do like my mother used do if I ever forgot what happens when I yawned anywhere near her - used jab her finger down my throat! No idea why, freakiest thing though :pac:

whatismyname · 17-11-2015 11:27PM

Rudeness. Can't stand it.

Colser · 17-11-2015 11:30PM

New Home wrote: »

Get a second universal remote and regain control of your TV channels. No one else will ever have to know.

I have one but its upstairs and I havent the energy to go up for it,I dont even want to watch anything really but thats not the point. You cant be snoring and watching Mission Impossible ffs

Muahahaha · 17-11-2015 11:32PM

miezekatze wrote: »

We have an old fridge in work, if you slam the door closed it just bounces back open again, so you have to close it gently. Whenever I pass it, I end up having to close it because some idiot must have tried to slam it closed and it opened again. I know it's not me paying the electricity bill here, but it's just such a waste! I think I close it about 3-4 times a day!

Anytime I'm in Aldi or Lidl I can't pass by freezers at waist level without sliding them closed. It's usually just a few inches but I can't stand the waste either

whatismyname · 17-11-2015 11:32PM

Know that thing where you say something and are trying to make a point, and the point you are trying to make gets ignored and the person comes back with something that is unrelated to the point you were making?

Seems to be happening to me more and more lately. I just don't get it.

Edit: Of course, a TA when the point you're making goes over the other person's head generally, but that's a whole other kettle of fish. Not even nearly as frustrating as the first scenario.

New Home · 17-11-2015 11:36PM

Oh I know what you mean. It's like you're spelling out 'A-P-P-L-E-S' as clearly as you can, and they reply with 'Oranges?'

Frustrating as hell.

whatismyname · 17-11-2015 11:39PM

New Home wrote: »

Oh I know what you mean. It's like you're spelling out 'A-P-P-L-E-S' as clearly as you can, and they reply with 'Oranges?'

Frustrating as hell.

Yes! Or like when you say something and they pick up on a tiny bit of what you're saying, and zone in on that, even though it's one of the more minor parts of what you're saying.

Or another one, in a conversation on a discussion forum online last week, someone got into an argument with me, because I said a sentence and they took the first four words out of it, and quoted me on them, but the first four words used in the context of the full sentence had a completely different meaning.

They kept insisting I said this thing, and I kept explaining that I didn't - that it needed to be taken in the context of the full sentence. I'm still not sure if they were winding me up, but yep communication issues in general with getting a simple point across. Grr.

KatW4 · 17-11-2015 11:42PM

Colser wrote:

Tiredness is killing me,work is driving me around the bend and people in general need a kick up the arse.

We're having the same problems! Work isn't too bad to be fair but I just need a break from snotty kids!

Medusa22 · 18-11-2015 12:09AM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Colser I'd swear... if I didn't know better! :pac:

You don't do that thing where you put your hand over their eye(s) to see if they notice?

At least she doesn't do like my mother used do if I ever forgot what happens when I yawned anywhere near her - used jab her finger down my throat! No idea why, freakiest thing though :pac:

My mother used to do that to me too, it drove me nuts! It was to ruin my yawn and it really did, I used to do the same to her though :pac:

bonzodog2 · 18-11-2015 12:14AM

People who put clothes pegs back on the washing line on the second notch on the peg, so they don't slide along the line.

New Home · 18-11-2015 12:17AM

Medusa22 wrote: »

My mother used to do that to me too, it drove me nuts! It was to ruin my yawn and it really did, I used to do the same to her though :pac:

This might shed some light on the phenomenon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMn6ST0KVDw

whatismyname · 18-11-2015 12:51AM

TA at those A - Z questions lists doing the rounds on facebook, with one question asking 'biggest fear?' and most people are saying things like 'heights' and me knowing that if I was answering my truthful answer would be something like 'that I might never have kids', or that 'I might never get the help to overcome a childhood of trauma and neglect' or that 'I may die by suicide'. Really serious stuff.

I'm not sure if others are genuine in their answers, but I am TA'd that it's not more trivial things that my mind automatically thinks of.

Whitewinged · 18-11-2015 10:03AM

Medusa22 wrote: »

My mother used to do that to me too, it drove me nuts! It was to ruin my yawn and it really did, I used to do the same to her though :pac:

I hate when someone ruins my yawn or when I lose my sneeze. It just disappears and your just left with this empty frustration.

The cash machine in the local mace was out of order yesterday. It's always broken so I have to ask at the counter for cash back but the woman behind the counter makes it known that she hates me asking for cash back.

She's all chirpy when she serves me usually if i don't ask for cash back but when i do, she gives me this cold shoulder look and silent treatment that you might see a nagging wife give her husband thinking that no one else would notice.

Aglomerado · 18-11-2015 10:05AM

Muahahaha wrote: »

Anytime I'm in Aldi or Lidl I can't pass by freezers at waist level without sliding them closed. It's usually just a few inches but I can't stand the waste either

I'm the same! That drives me crazy!

My TA this morning is Driving into a pothole - the noise from it nearly made me poo myself in fright!

:mad:

KatW4 · 18-11-2015 10:20AM

I left for work 5 minutes after I usually do (because I couldn't get out of bed) but then the radio show I listened to was all out of sync with the places I drive past. So the half past 8 News should have been on a certain stretch of road but it was actually on while I was driving through a town. It annoyed me more than it should have.

OldNotWIse · 18-11-2015 10:26AM

I hate (I mean, I am trivially annoyed by) the new phenomenon of "shaming" - everything is something-shaming but I am also going to use this to highlight another TA that just dawned on me last night and that is vegan shaming. Recently I cut meat from my diet completely. Going vegan however is more difficult and is a learning process and not something one transitions to overnight. So I'm limited to eggs from the hens across the road, no milk or cheese and I am trying to source vegan wine. When I get my winter boots they will be vegan and I am slowly researching vegan beauty products. Very much doing it in my own time and feeling not too bad about my decisions. Anyway, found some non-meat sausages and mince in Aldi yesterday and was feeling proud so I posted a photo of the products on a vegan FB page. Well.... the fúckin torrent of verbal abuse I got from the militant, hysterical vegans. If they were nearby they'd have had me lynched for being "vegetarian not vegan". The abuse was so insane that the page owner had to take it down! WTF is wrong with these people. Rather than saying, "look, a like minded individual who still has a little to learn, let's encourage and educate her" they were like, "imposter! How DARE you not be 110% vegan! The world is gonna end because of you!". Fúcking weirdos. No wonder meat eaters thing they are hippy freaks. Not doing their cause any good with that kind of attitude

And so the end result is that where I am sure they have lots of information to impart to a "new" vegan, and I am sure they have campaigns that I would previously have supported, now I will just avoid them like the fúcking plague because they're so militant and self-righteous.

sebcity · 18-11-2015 10:37AM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I hate (I mean, I am trivially annoyed by) the new phenomenon of "shaming" - everything is something-shaming but I am also going to use this to highlight another TA that just dawned on me last night and that is vegan shaming. Recently I cut meat from my diet completely. Going vegan however is more difficult and is a learning process and not something one transitions to overnight. So I'm limited to eggs from the hens across the road, no milk or cheese and I am trying to source vegan wine. When I get my winter boots they will be vegan and I am slowly researching vegan beauty products. Very much doing it in my own time and feeling not too bad about my decisions. Anyway, found some non-meat sausages and mince in Aldi yesterday and was feeling proud so I posted a photo of the products on a vegan FB page. Well.... the fúckin torrent of verbal abuse I got from the militant, hysterical vegans. If they were nearby they'd have had me lynched for being "vegetarian not vegan". The abuse was so insane that the page owner had to take it down! WTF is wrong with these people. Rather than saying, "look, a like minded individual who still has a little to learn, let's encourage and educate her" they were like, "imposter! How DARE you not be 110% vegan! The world is gonna end because of you!". Fúcking weirdos. No wonder meat eaters thing they are hippy freaks. Not doing their cause any good with that kind of attitude

And so the end result is that where I am sure they have lots of information to impart to a "new" vegan, and I am sure they have campaigns that I would previously have supported, now I will just avoid them like the fúcking plague because they're so militant and self-righteous.

People just get on their high horse.

Can vegans eat eggs? (Genuine question)

everlast75 · 18-11-2015 10:40AM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I hate (I mean, I am trivially annoyed by) the new phenomenon of "shaming" - everything is something-shaming but I am also going to use this to highlight another TA that just dawned on me last night and that is vegan shaming. Recently I cut meat from my diet completely. Going vegan however is more difficult and is a learning process and not something one transitions to overnight. So I'm limited to eggs from the hens across the road, no milk or cheese and I am trying to source vegan wine. When I get my winter boots they will be vegan and I am slowly researching vegan beauty products. Very much doing it in my own time and feeling not too bad about my decisions. Anyway, found some non-meat sausages and mince in Aldi yesterday and was feeling proud so I posted a photo of the products on a vegan FB page. Well.... the fúckin torrent of verbal abuse I got from the militant, hysterical vegans. If they were nearby they'd have had me lynched for being "vegetarian not vegan". The abuse was so insane that the page owner had to take it down! WTF is wrong with these people. Rather than saying, "look, a like minded individual who still has a little to learn, let's encourage and educate her" they were like, "imposter! How DARE you not be 110% vegan! The world is gonna end because of you!". Fúcking weirdos. No wonder meat eaters thing they are hippy freaks. Not doing their cause any good with that kind of attitude

And so the end result is that where I am sure they have lots of information to impart to a "new" vegan, and I am sure they have campaigns that I would previously have supported, now I will just avoid them like the fúcking plague because they're so militant and self-righteous.

Well fair play to you for branching down that route - it is tough I've heard. TBH I've encountered it a lot on the internet. I've even posted things on here on threads about certain things I'm new too and keyboard warriors wail on me as if I'm the anti-christ. Your response to those that gave you abuse should have been "well if being vegan makes you that f*cking miserable then I'm off for a quarter pounder"

I love the exchange between Lisa Simpson and her new crush, where he says he does not eat meat or animal products. Lisa is delighted and says she is vegan too. He says that he is a Level 5 vegan.. he doesn't eat anything that casts a shadow

OldNotWIse · 18-11-2015 10:44AM

sebcity wrote: »

People just get on their high horse.

Can vegans eat eggs? (Genuine question)

Technically no. Strict veganism would prohibit the use of any products that are derived from animals or that are produced using animals or animal by-products. I get the egg thing if you consider the industry. Battery hens who never see the light of day and male chicks f*cked into grinders because they're never going to lay, but the eggs I eat are from hens on the farm across the road who are really free range and have freedom to roam and peck and are allowed to live out their natural lives. They don't have a male hen so fertilisation doesn't occur. I don't see a problem with that but the militant vegan shamers think I'm going to hell

Edit: no such thing as a "male hen" - I just didn't want to type cock lol

OldNotWIse · 18-11-2015 10:46AM

everlast75 wrote: »

Well fair play to you for branching down that route - it is tough I've heard. TBH I've encountered it a lot on the internet. I've even posted things on here on threads about certain things I'm new too and keyboard warriors wail on me as if I'm the anti-christ. Your response to those that gave you abuse should have been "well if being vegan makes you that f*cking miserable then I'm off for a quarter pounder"

I love the exchange between Lisa Simpson and her new crush, where he says he does not eat meat or animal products. Lisa is delighted and says she is vegan too. He says that he is a Level 5 vegan.. he doesn't eat anything that casts a shadow

I'm going to tell my (long-suffering) father this just to see his reaction :P

Rosie Rant · 18-11-2015 10:58AM

I decided not to go somewhere because it was raining madly this morning and I didn't want to get soaked AGAIN because I'm already sick. I cancelled my plans and the rain stopped instantly.

New Home · 18-11-2015 11:02AM

sebcity wrote: »

People just get on their high horse.

Can vegans eat eggs? (Genuine question)

No, vegans don't eat/wear/use anything which is of animal origin, including honey, royal jelly, eggs, shellac, wool, and make up that contains animal by-product. Some alcoholic beverages and even refined sugar also contain animal by-products.

OldNotWise, *Rooster*

OldNotWIse · 18-11-2015 11:12AM

New Home wrote: »

No, vegans don't eat/wear/use anything which is of animal origin, including honey, royal jelly, eggs, shellac, wool, and make up that contains animal by-product. Some alcoholic beverages and even refined sugar also contain animal by-products.

OldNotWise, *Rooster*

Thanks

eisenberg1 · 18-11-2015 11:34AM

TA'd that in Fair City last night, your man in the pub with the gun (Don Baker) didn't shoot the fcuken lot of them!

Badly Drunk Boy · 18-11-2015 11:40AM

sebcity wrote: »

People just get on their high horse.

True vegans shouldn't be getting on any sort of horse, never mind a high horse! (Do Quorn make horses?)

My main annoyance at the moment is the slowness of my work computer, and the server, and anything else computer related that slows everything down (even though I work for a huge multi-national). Try to open an e-mail? I have to wait 10 seconds. Open an excel file? 'Not responding'. Do a transaction on SAP? Hour-glass hanging there for a minute!

And even though there are over 400 working here, I'm in the smallest (but tallest) department. There are 3 of us; me, here in work at the moment, my manager, who is out sick for the last 2 months, and my other colleague, who is in Thailand on holidays.

Why won't the computer help me!!!

rosie16 · 18-11-2015 12:24PM

Can I be trivially annoyed that I haven't posted in this new thread yet ? :P

More annoying is tonsil stones. I've had recurring tonsil stones the last two months. I can feel it scratching the back of my mouth but it can't get it out without drooling and dry heaving. They're stubborn b*****ds.

OldNotWIse · 18-11-2015 12:58PM

The distraction of a Donegal accent. Can't even listen to what the person is saying because the knees are knocking. Recite me the phonebook with your dulcet tones please :P

jimgoose · 18-11-2015 01:07PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

The distraction of a Donegal accent. Can't even listen to what the person is saying because the knees are knocking. Recite me the phonebook with your dulcet tones please :P

Hmm. No can do, chief. But if it's any good to you I sound more-or-less exactly like this fella:

Medusa22 · 18-11-2015 01:12PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Hmm. No can do, chief. But if it's any good to you I sound more-or-less exactly like this fella:

Lots of people on the TA thread seem to be from Cork, we have a lot of annoyances

We should definitely have a TA beers in Cork :pac:

Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

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