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Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) *MOD WARNING IN OP*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    My last day off was mostly spent checking the status of a parcel I was expecting to arrive today (I even paid the extra for the "express" option) but due to the fact they were getting all confused with my address and post code (not my fault, their own stupid mistake) it looks like it's not arriving tonight, but I still kept checking, as the tracking info says "Time of delivery: End of Day" which according to their FAQ is 7pm.

    I'm back at work tomorrow, and my partner isn't gonna be home, and I know I'm gonna come home to a "sorry we missed you" letter and I'm not gonna have a scrap of time to go and pick it up if it gets taken back to the depot.

    €45 for that delivery. I absolutely ****ing regret it now.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Was peeling the last piece of shell from the soft boiled egg which was to be the crowning glory of the ramen I’d made, only for the egg (obviously sensing it’s imminent consumption) to leap from my hand to the floor to be set upon by my ravenous pug.

    F*ckin raging


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,731 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Was peeling the last piece of shell from the soft boiled egg which was to be the crowning glory of the ramen I’d made, only for the egg (obviously sensing it’s imminent consumption) to leap from my hand to the floor to be set upon by my ravenous pug.

    F*ckin raging

    Gonna be punching out some foul farts this night.

    Take the battery out of the smoke alarm, dude.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Sore back :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,637 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Got a package in the post, 'ooh yay' I think, 'I wasn't expecting anything today'. Open the package to find a single card there with a promise of a £15 Amazon gift voucher if I give their product (which I bought a few weeks ago) a 100% rating on the site. No wonder they've so many good reviews if they're bribing their customers. Considering complaining to Amazon about it. But I'm not sure if I'm quite that petty...........yet.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,764 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Headaches that start yesterday evening and are still there this morning .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    In the 2.5 years Ive been attached to my post, X who is our orical for all things has been unavailable, never picks up the phone during his working hours and rarely responds to my emails and then just to respond vaguely to the content.
    He is much loved as a hero in the organisation, so I dont know if its just me he is 'ignoring' or not. Life experience says he's like this with everyone but ppl on a higher pay grade than his.

    TA today my post grad student accuses me of bias, as I cant predict X's behaviour post lockdown.



    Bet I can.

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    counselling helped me for a time, good to unload on a stranger.

    since lockdown counselling/therapy sessions have of course, like other services, been taken remotely so those in counseling have to to do sessions at home with therapists over skype or whatever.

    i read a piece on the privacy issues now faced by those in counselling, particularly young people, having to blurt out their business where friends/family/roomates can hear them. TA the effect covid has had on mental health services.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 RLF71


    How many faces supposed friends can have.You can call **** off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,545 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    That the drops you get for €7 in olive oil. No special ingredients, just olive oil.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    You unlock your phone, and the layout of your apps looks different. But you can’t put your finger on what’s different. Did you or one of the kids just accidentally move some of them? Or has someone deleted an app? But what app? You can’t see anything missing, but you also can’t say for sure that nothing is.

    Head remains melted until you give in after a few days and just accept that this is your new home screen - but in the back of your mind, you will always wonder: what happened?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    TA trying to unsay what's been said post argument.

    when you, or someone else says something in the heat of the moment that they later say they didnt mean, but when you look at them and vice versa thinking it over, you cant help but think thats how they feel, now its out in the open and cant be taken back in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭Kitty6277


    Tradesmen (specifically plasterers) who are such a temperamental bunch. We had hoped last week that by today we’d have the house nearly finished, but no, plastering hasn’t even started despite having a plasterer in for 3 days this week, even though the builder was slabbing the walls as well.

    Also TA’d at living in a building site


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    TA you make an important phone call and the line is terrible, they can hear you but you can hardly understand a word they say.
    You have to keep stopping them and asking them to repeat themselves, then you worry that they will think you are some kind of moron.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Living Off The Splash


    TA you make an important phone call and the line is terrible, they can hear you but you can hardly understand a word they say.
    You have to keep stopping them and asking them to repeat themselves, then you worry that they will think you are some kind of moron.

    Always happens when I have to ring the Ulster Bank in Norn Iron. Pity I can't get sub titles.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    That my office colleague has decided to take up whistling. Bad enough but its the same fcuking tune over and over!


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    There was an old comedy film on about this perfect village in England. It had 99.9% employment. There was only one unemployed man who was also a beggar, a drunk and a tealeaf. Can you guess what nationality he was? :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,545 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I went to download an app from the Google play store. Read the about this app.
    They get photos,calls everything.
    I know they probably have everything anyway but it's scary seeing it all written down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    There was an old comedy film on about this perfect village in England. It had 99.9% employment. There was only one unemployed man who was also a beggar, a drunk and a tealeaf. Can you guess what nationality he was? :rolleyes:

    Scottish?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Scottish?
    Nope, a bit closer to home Rodders.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Manx, I'll bet. :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Nope, a bit closer to home Rodders.

    Welsh?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I bey it was a Brit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    There was an old comedy film on about this perfect village in England. It had 99.9% employment. There was only one unemployed man who was also a beggar, a drunk and a tealeaf. Can you guess what nationality he was? :rolleyes:

    Irish:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,023 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    dubstarr wrote: »
    Irish:eek:

    But from outside Dublin, right?

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    That my office colleague has decided to take up whistling. Bad enough but its the same fcuking tune over and over!

    My dad did that for 45 years (probably more). He used to whistle the melody of that song “Please release me, let me go” over and over and over. which was probably a not-so-subtle message to us all.

    I remember one day his brother-in-law came to visit. He was telling my dad some long, drawn out story. My dad was sitting in the sofa in front of him, with his eyes closed, pinching the bridge of his nose whistling “Please release me, let me go“ as loud as he could. Yer man didn’t get the message and just kept telling the story.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    dubstarr wrote: »
    Irish:eek:
    Maithú Dubstarr. Come up to the desk and take a sweet :)
    The rest of you messers can stay behind and see me after class :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    That my office colleague has decided to take up whistling. Bad enough but its the same fcuking tune over and over!

    Professionally? is there much money in that?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    But from outside Dublin, right?
    No an auld Dub homeless alco bum he was. Begob and Saints preserve us all the way :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    I saw a boy racer mobile earler with a black curtain on the driver's side window :eek: WTF
    Even with it pulled back it was totally obscuring his blind spot.
    How do twats go round with idiotic stuff like this on their cars and not get stopped by the guards?
    Especially with all the checkpoints lately.

    The people who have L and N plates outside their car in the wrong places have left them out so long that they have faded away completely, so they must have passed through checkpoints in the last few months :confused:


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Professionally? is there much money in that?
    No, you usually have to sing for your supper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    Still waiting on this package that I ordered on the 23rd. They had it on hold for days because they thought my address and postcode were invalid. They wanted 5 digits, and my postcode has 7, and they kept telling me to check and make sure the address is correct.

    Then they shipped it on Monday and they still got my postcode wrong.

    Now it has been given two false delivery dates, Wednesday and Friday, obviously it still hasn't showed up as it's the end of Friday and I'm still without said package.

    It's been in Germany since yesterday evening.

    I've sent an email asking them what the issue is and I'm going to flip my lid if they even dare have the gall to come back to me and blame it on COVID-f*cking-19


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Still waiting on this package that I ordered on the 23rd. They had it on hold for days because they thought my address and postcode were invalid. They wanted 5 digits, and my postcode has 7, and they kept telling me to check and make sure the address is correct.

    Then they shipped it on Monday and they still got my postcode wrong.

    Now it has been given two false delivery dates, Wednesday and Friday, obviously it still hasn't showed up as it's the end of Friday and I'm still without said package.

    It's been in Germany since yesterday evening.

    I've sent an email asking them what the issue is and I'm going to flip my lid if they even dare have the gall to come back to me and blame it on COVID-f*cking-19


    If I were you I'd ask for a refund on the express delivery, 'cause it's anything but. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    New Home wrote: »
    If I were you I'd ask for a refund on the express delivery, 'cause it's anything but. :mad:

    I checked their policy regarding it, unfortunately this is what it says:

    5.3.
    Any dates quoted by Seller for the delivery of Product(s) are estimates only and shall not form part of the contract. Seller aims to deliver promptly, however, delays are occasionally inevitable due to unforeseen factors. Seller shall be under no liability for any delay or failure to deliver the Product(s) within the estimated delivery time.


    They'll use COVID19 as their excuse, and there will be nothing I can do about it.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    "Hey, we charge you extra for the fast delivery, but we'll deliver it whevever and you can do f#ck all about it", basically?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Some manky fecker leaving their mask in a trolley.

    I was visiting family graves today and something small and handmade by my youngest is gone from one of the graves :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Facemask makes my glasses steam up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Facemask makes my glasses steam up.

    Me too :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    New Home wrote: »
    "Hey, we charge you extra for the fast delivery, but we'll deliver it whevever and you can do f#ck all about it", basically?

    Yeah. I'm not one for slandering but sure they have their own share of negative reviews on TrustPilot so I don't care.

    PlayAsia are the store. They specialise in selling imported DVDs, video games, gaming accessories etc. They're usually very affordable and they make importing media very easy. They're based in Hong Kong, and usually they take 2-3 months if you select the cheapest delivery option.

    Their express delivery option with UPS takes 3-5 days from dispatch-date, and they are pretty f*cking proud of this as well. UPS even says on their own website that an Express Saver Option is 3-5 working days, so they both gave that promise.

    I ordered a pretty rare-ish game console that's rather difficult to get locally. And despite the one I ordered being the European iteration it's still hard to get. Right now, since I ordered it, it's no longer available to buy, so I found myself pretty fortunate in that regard.

    I paid out the hole for this thing, and I really wanted it. I'm a collector at heart. So I went for the express delivery option, thinking it would be here within 7 days at the latest.

    The rest is what you know now.

    I have a pretty expensive hobby, so this is very much a huge frustration for me.

    I have two concerns. One being it getting stolen on its way to me, and the other it being damaged when it arrives. The longer it takes, the more concerned I get.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,764 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Yeah. I'm not one for slandering but sure they have their own share of negative reviews on TrustPilot so I don't care.

    PlayAsia are the store. They specialise in selling imported DVDs, video games, gaming accessories etc. They're usually very affordable and they make importing media very easy. They're based in Hong Kong, and usually they take 2-3 months if you select the cheapest delivery option.

    Their express delivery option with UPS takes 3-5 days from dispatch-date, and they are pretty f*cking proud of this as well. UPS even says on their own website that an Express Saver Option is 3-5 working days, so they both gave that promise.

    I ordered a pretty rare-ish game console that's rather difficult to get locally. And despite the one I ordered being the European iteration it's still hard to get. Right now, since I ordered it, it's no longer available to buy, so I found myself pretty fortunate in that regard.

    I paid out the hole for this thing, and I really wanted it. I'm a collector at heart. So I went for the express delivery option, thinking it would be here within 7 days at the latest.

    The rest is what you know now.

    I have a pretty expensive hobby, so this is very much a huge frustration for me.

    I have two concerns. One being it getting stolen on its way to me, and the other it being damaged when it arrives. The longer it takes, the more concerned I get.

    Ps vita ?

    Bitter coffee :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Facemask makes my glasses steam up.

    I’m seriously considering getting a custom 3D printed mask for that very reason. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53432848


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    Ps vita ?

    Bitter coffee :(

    coregrafx mini.

    i didn't wanna buy it off ebay because i didn't trust half the sellers.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Facemask makes my glasses steam up.
    Rubberlegs wrote: »
    Me too :(
    I’m seriously considering getting a custom 3D printed mask for that very reason. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53432848

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=114119958&postcount=3933


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,952 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Facemask makes my glasses steam up.

    It's as annoying as feck isn't it ?
    I fold up a tissue into a rectangular shape , and place it up near the top of the mask when putting it on , (underneath it) then put glasses on top . Usually works if I've positioned it right tbh , or if I remember to bring tissues!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    It's as annoying as feck isn't it ?
    I fold up a tissue into a rectangular shape , and place it up near the top of the mask when putting it on , (underneath it) then put glasses on top . Usually works if I've positioned it right tbh , or if I remember to bring tissues!

    +1 for that Mam. Can’t remember where I saw a video of someone doing it but it really does work... the tissue does need to be in a certain spot though :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,952 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    twirlagig wrote: »
    +1 for that Mam. Can’t remember where I saw a video of someone doing it but it really does work... the tissue does need to be in a certain spot though :)

    Very true , nothing as bad as thinking you have it right and then you can feel the tissue start to slide and the glasses start to fog up... nope, didn't happen to me :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Rang a local physio twice, left a message, no reply.
    Rang a Physio in Ennis, got an appointment, great, hiw much 45 Euro. Great...
    45 euro for half an hour !!
    Pinpointed cause of my pain, fair enough, gave me afew exercises...call back...will I F##k....


  • Registered Users Posts: 323 ✭✭Phoenix32


    The people in the flat above me. I wake at 1am to hear them walk around like they're Irish dancing, the same at 3am and 8am. Do these people ever sleep and why are they always stomping?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Living Off The Splash


    Phoenix32 wrote: »
    The people in the flat above me. I wake at 1am to hear them walk around like they're Irish dancing, the same at 3am and 8am. Do these people ever sleep and why are they always stomping?

    Are they very small people who dress in green and wear funny hats.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    My glasses fogged up too wearing face masks so I bought one of these https://www.pharmhealth.com/product/resusable-adult-face-mask-kn95-with-replacement-filters/

    They are out of stock there now but you'd get them elsewhere too. They have a filter on them and my glasses do fog up a tiny bit now occasionally but mostly it doesn't happen at all and it is a reusable mask too. Give your glasses a clean as well before you wear a mask too, that should help.


    My TA is that I really want to wear my favourite comfy jumper today but it's still wet from being washed so I have to slum it with my second favourite comfy jumper.


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