Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

Menas · 11-01-2016 11:53AM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Tried taking the dogs for a walk yesterday and the amount of idiots who see snow on high ground and think, oh I know I'll drive up the mountains really fast and have absolutely no regard for people who might be living there and going about their lives. Beeping as they fly around narrow roads as if to tell you to get out of their way. What's worse is they go up to see the snow/view whatever and don't actually get out of the fúcking cars so they can't actually be seeing that much Then there's the dumping rubbish out their windows too. And I once thought my God-bothering neighbour was a freak when she referred to them as the Sunday whores :P One did get stuck though. Oh well, you wanted to see the mountain, you'll be seeing a lot of it now :pac::pac:

I was up there myself yesterday, kilakee. But in fairness we live close and go up there good weather and bad.
I can promise you that we drove respectfully and did not litter (apart from a few snow balls)!!

OldNotWIse · 11-01-2016 01:24PM

In Ikea (again) on Saturday. Will this f*ckin house ever be ready. Anyway, this woman said to her son (who was probably about 4), "If you catch it, we can buy it" as she threw a giant soft ball at him that he had been pestering her about. He caught it and they all skipped off to the bowels of hell pay area to buy it, but I was TA thinking how would she have dealt with the situation if he hadn't caught it? Would she have forced him to put it back and broken his heart, making him feel like a failure at the tender age of four? Would she have given him another chance and let him mistakenly think that life gives you second chances when you've fúcked up? Would she have bought it anyway and let him think that a deal is only a deal when it suits you, and you can break promises if you don't like the outcome, and also encouraged idleness since he'd learn that whether he caught the ball or not (in a proverbial sense), he'd get what he wanted? It was an innocent act but in my head it just turned into a parenting minefield and I don't know how I would have made a decision if it were my kid and he'd dropped the ball

kfallon · 11-01-2016 01:28PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

In Ikea (again) on Saturday. Will this f*ckin house ever be ready. Anyway, this woman said to her son (who was probably about 4), "If you catch it, we can buy it" as she threw a giant soft ball at him that he had been pestering her about. He caught it and they all skipped off to the bowels of hell pay area to buy it, but I was TA thinking how would she have dealt with the situation if he hadn't caught it? Would she have forced him to put it back and broken his heart, making him feel like a failure at the tender age of four? Would she have given him another chance and let him mistakenly think that life gives you second chances when you've fúcked up? Would she have bought it anyway and let him think that a deal is only a deal when it suits you, and you can break promises if you don't like the outcome, and also encouraged idleness since he'd learn that whether he caught the ball or not (in a proverbial sense), he'd get what he wanted? It was an innocent act but in my head it just turned into a parenting minefield and I don't know how I would have made a decision if it were my kid and he'd dropped the ball

At least you didn't give it much thought anyway....... :pac:

OldNotWIse · 11-01-2016 01:32PM

kfallon wrote: »

At least you didn't give it much thought anyway....... :pac:

Nothing else to occupy my mind in that god forsaken place. Either that or decide on what colour dish brush I wanted :P

Boom_Bap · 11-01-2016 01:39PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Nothing else to occupy my mind in that god forsaken place. Either that or decide on what colour dish brush I wanted :P

You are not focusing on the meatballs. That is the key to Ikea.
Meatballs.

OldNotWIse · 11-01-2016 01:51PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

You are not focusing on the meatballs. That is the key to Ikea.
Meatballs.

I don't eat flesh, but now I'm reminded of the TA that is IKEA veggie balls. The only way I can describe them is its as if someone has gathered up a load of dried packet soup (farmhouse veg) and rolled it all into balls. Eugh.

eisenberg1 · 11-01-2016 02:14PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

In Ikea (again) on Saturday. Will this f*ckin house ever be ready. Anyway, this woman said to her son (who was probably about 4), "If you catch it, we can buy it" as she threw a giant soft ball at him that he had been pestering her about. He caught it and they all skipped off to the bowels of hell pay area to buy it, but I was TA thinking how would she have dealt with the situation if he hadn't caught it? Would she have forced him to put it back and broken his heart, making him feel like a failure at the tender age of four? Would she have given him another chance and let him mistakenly think that life gives you second chances when you've fúcked up? Would she have bought it anyway and let him think that a deal is only a deal when it suits you, and you can break promises if you don't like the outcome, and also encouraged idleness since he'd learn that whether he caught the ball or not (in a proverbial sense), he'd get what he wanted? It was an innocent act but in my head it just turned into a parenting minefield and I don't know how I would have made a decision if it were my kid and he'd dropped the ball

Easy....buy the ball and leave the kid in IKEA.

misstearheus · 11-01-2016 02:15PM

Stoopid ar$e of a phone. When in bed I tend to lie on my hip and the stoopid phone switches between portrait and landscape, and I spend the whole entire time twirling said stoopid phone around in my hands lke a gombeen trying to get it to behave and go the way I want it to go. Ridiculous.

Alienigenis · 11-01-2016 02:17PM

misstearheus wrote: »

Stoopid ar$e of a phone. When in bed I tend to lie on my hip and the stoopid phone switches between portrait and landscape, and I spend the whole entire time twirling said stoopid phone around in my hands lke a gombeen trying to get it to behave and go the way I want it to go. Ridiculous.

Does your phone not have the option to lock the screen as portrait or landscape? （･_･)

OldNotWIse · 11-01-2016 02:23PM

Calling my Dad's phone and my brother answers and says, "he cant talk right now he's up fixing something on the roof and I'm holding the ladder" - what the actual fúck? My dad's 69. He should be holding the ladder and my lazy, chicken shít good for nothing 35 year old brother should be on the roof...

c_man · 11-01-2016 02:24PM

Have a friend who's the first in line to mock people talking about a celebrity death. I mean constantly, it's very irksome and I find the disrespect afforded to those people tiresome. But of course when one of his fav musicians (for example) dies he's wailing and doing furious FB updates of how we should all "pay respect to the legend".

I put a nice first comment into one of his today re David Bowie, "Did he not die last year??" He probably won't speak to me for a month :pac:

Son Of A Vidic · 11-01-2016 03:01PM

After listening to the DJ playing a great set of Bowie on Today FM last night, I'm TA that the genius David Bowie had to then go and die.:(

rosie16 · 11-01-2016 03:15PM

I'm going to have another rant about jobs. It's really pissing me off. There's hardly nothing going at the moment, I've applied for all the latest jobs so I'm waiting for websites to be updated. You know you're desperate when you're considering going travelling and spending whatever you've saved. But it's not going to be any easier to get a job when you get back. I also thought: is there any fruit/veg ripe now that I can go picking in Europe? ha I'm only looking to do something like waitressing or working in a shop or call centres (shudder) so I can save and figure out the rest. Friends have told me I should lie about my experience but I feel bad about lying. ha I have a degree but it's a fairly useless degree, I just randomly ended up in college. And then I thought, use the time to try and figure out what I want to do career wise/rest of my life kind of thing. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. ha

Vel · 11-01-2016 03:26PM

If I am never seen again it is because I am at the bottom of the Liffey clutching a tub of polyfilla. Jesus that stuff has me broken. My walls now look worse than they did before I let loose on them. Splitting up with my partner and having to now be responsible for all diy in my house is a right TA!!

Vel · 11-01-2016 03:28PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

In Ikea (again) on Saturday. (

I knew you were into sado-masochism

I will most likely be heading there next week for my sins. Will be going mid week so hopefully it won't be too busy but that is outweighed by the fact that I will be going with my parents and a three year old who has regressed to 'terrible two' level tantrums.

Menas · 11-01-2016 03:29PM

Vel wrote: »

If I am never seen again it is because I am at the bottom of the Liffey clutching a tub of polyfilla. Jesus that stuff has me broken. My walls now look worse than they did before I let loose on them. Splitting up with my partner and having to now be responsible for all diy in my house is a right TA!!

A wet spatula is your best friend when it comes to applying liberal amounts of polyfilla!

I have an old long list of annoyances that led me to learn that little gem of knowledge.

Whitewinged · 11-01-2016 04:01PM

Seedless grapes with seeds :mad:

OldNotWIse · 11-01-2016 04:59PM

There's someone beside me who keeps going on and on and on about David Bowie. He even posted a photo of his lunch on FB and said "pizza and chips - it's what David would have wanted". Now he's just announced, "its only really sinking in now" :mad:

SAMTALK · 11-01-2016 05:01PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

There's someone beside me who keeps going on and on and on about David Bowie. He even posted a photo of his lunch on FB and said "pizza and chips - it's what David would have wanted". Now he's just announced, "its only really sinking in now" :mad:

:D:D:D

Boom_Bap · 11-01-2016 05:06PM

Vel wrote: »

I knew you were into sado-masochism

I will most likely be heading there next week for my sins. Will be going mid week so hopefully it won't be too busy but that is outweighed by the fact that I will be going with my parents and a three year old who has regressed to 'terrible two' level tantrums.

There is a creche thing there that you can dump leave your child to be restrained entertained for a few hours.

OldNotWIse · 11-01-2016 05:12PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

There is a creche thing there that you can dump leave your child to be restrained entertained for a few hours.

I don't think anyone uses it tbh. They should have one for suffering spouses though. I don't know why I even bother arguing with my OH about this stuff - she always picks what we are buying in the end anyway. If she could dump me somewhere to have a pinot grigio and a nap I'd be delighted.

Hoardes of kids there on Saturday, and then the OH loudly pronounces, "this would be a great place to come and steal a child...look, there's one right there with no mommy or daddy!" - Fúckin morto. I mean, I know she's not going to steal someone else's child, she doesn't even want her own, and I knew that her point was more, "people should be careful, there are kidnappers around. Look at that poor abandoned child. Tut tut" etc, but it came out sounding like she had a van "full of puppies" out the back :P

jimgoose · 11-01-2016 05:14PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

There is a creche thing there that you can dump leave your child to be restrained entertained for a few hours.

I wish my missus would just leave me somewhere with some crayons when we go at this Jaysis Shopping. I mean, compared to most women she's like an IBM 3090 clattering through the payroll, but I still can't seem to apply mysel.. ooh look, chainsaws!! :pac:

Boom_Bap · 11-01-2016 05:20PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I don't think anyone uses it tbh. They should have one for suffering spouses though. I don't know why I even bother arguing with my OH about this stuff - she always picks what we are buying in the end anyway. If she could dump me somewhere to have a pinot grigio and a nap I'd be delighted.

Hoardes of kids there on Saturday, and then the OH loudly pronounces, "this would be a great place to come and steal a child...look, there's one right there with no mommy or daddy!" - Fúckin morto. I mean, I know she's not going to steal someone else's child, she doesn't even want her own, and I knew that her point was more, "people should be careful, there are kidnappers around. Look at that poor abandoned child. Tut tut" etc, but it came out sounding like she had a van "full of puppies" out the back :P

There are sometimes queues at it!
Mrs. Bap used it one day and went and got a coffee with her friend in peace. Bought a spatula or something and then came back to pick up the little savages bundles of joy.
Complete abuse of the service

jimgoose wrote: »

I wish my missus would just leave me somewhere with some crayons when we go at this Jaysis Shopping. I mean, compared to most women she's like an IBM 3090 clattering through the payroll, but I still can't seem to apply mysel.. ooh look, chainsaws!! :pac:

In Ikea is Sweden they have play areas for men.

OldNotWIse · 11-01-2016 05:21PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

There are sometimes queues at it!
Mrs. Bap used it one day and went and got a coffee with her friend in peace. Bought a spatula or something and then came back to pick up the little savages bundles of joy.
Complete abuse of the service

In Ikea is Sweden they have play areas for men.

I thought IKEA itself was a play area for men :pac:

jimgoose · 11-01-2016 05:23PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I thought IKEA itself was a play area for men :pac:

Oh Christ no. A warehouse full of boxes of cheap MDF furniture, each and every piece of which needs to be assembled with an Allen key made from Chinese monkey-metal with instructions translated from Swedish via Malaysian by ten-year-olds? Eleventh circle of Hell, dear lady. :pac:

Menas · 11-01-2016 05:24PM

I love IKEA....except on the weekends....which is the only time we ever visit....I hate IKEA.

(Circle of life)

JohnMagic · 11-01-2016 05:26PM

Shops that make it hard for you to leave if you haven't bought anything.

Hardware shops are the main culprit with the gates up in the aisles that aren't in use.

jimgoose · 11-01-2016 05:27PM

JohnMagic wrote: »

Shops that make it hard for you to leave if you haven't bought anything.

Hardware shops are the main culprit with the gates up in the aisles that aren't in use.

That is annoying. Lidl and Aldi seem to be pretty good at that too.

Brendan97 · 11-01-2016 05:29PM

When people leave the plastic seal/ring (thing that's under the top) on the carton even after it has been opened; I always take it off when I open the carton in the first place and it just annoys me when others leave it on

fussyonion · 11-01-2016 05:45PM

Eating rings around myself. The sooner I come off these steroids the better.
I had a big bowl of Shreddies this morning, some roast chicken leftover from yesterday as a snack, then a bowl of couscous with tuna for lunch.
Then that was followed by three ginger nuts, a bag of Snack a Jacks and an apple.
I actually feel ravenous; as if I haven't eaten at all.
This is not a good thing for someone who's trying to lose weight :mad:

Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

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