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Things dat Trivyully Annoy You (part whatever) *MOD WARNING IN OP* NEW

  • 19-04-2021 5:50am
    #1
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,480 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    The hamsters get annoyed when we get to 10,000 posts, that's my TA

    Mod:

    Hi gang,

    Please note it would not be a wise course of action for us to start commenting on others TAs as TA.

    It discourages contribution and makes a very enjoyable thread adversarial.

    As I have said before in a mod note on this thread, each person's TA is their own. I would hate to see posters discussing others for posting in this thread: intentionally or otherwise. It will kill the thread in the long run.


    Old thread - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058069804
    Post edited by HildaOgdenx on


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  • #2
    Surreptitious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    Typo Grem :)


    Woke up too early and am starving.


  • #3
    secondrowgal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    TA that this thread doesn’t have a new name! It’s the new Super League of TAs


  • #4
    Bredabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,170 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    All the typing and editing has brought on a bout of tendonitis in my right wrist and elbow, sore af!
    Ta, I still have about a million words to type and edit before Sunday week.

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



  • #5
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,331 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Got a cracked windscreen while driving my dad to a hospital appointment today, from a truck flicking a stone up.
    While i was sitting there quietly annoyed, he kept saying "its a chip" like in the ad with the Nordy bloke and thinking it was hilarious.


  • #6
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    When I've to open or close the blinds I always pull them the wrong way first


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  • #7
    Gamer Bhoy 89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    Ordered a new phone, and it's due to arrive today.

    Got a text this morning telling me it's on its way. It's nearly 2pm and still hasn't came. I'm leaving for work at about 2.20pm, and I just know for a fact the postie is gonna get to my house, like, 10 minutes after I've gone, just to slip a "you weren't home" notice through the door.

    What I hate is Amazon's preset options when you want to give them alternative delivery instructions. You can't write your own. You HAVE to pick an option;

    None
    Enclosed Front Porch
    Rear Porch
    Garage
    Greenhouse
    Shed
    Building Receptionist / Caretaker
    Mailroom or Property Staff

    What kind of fancy house do you think I live in???


  • #8
    JeffreyEpspeen
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


    Archeron wrote: »
    Got a cracked windscreen while driving my dad to a hospital appointment today, from a truck flicking a stone up.
    While i was sitting there quietly annoyed, he kept saying "its a chip" like in the ad with the Nordy bloke and thinking it was hilarious.


    The daughter in that ad is thicc.


  • #9
    Tauriel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,480 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Regretting not applying for a role I saw advertised after putting up with some more BS from work today


  • #10
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I'm watched the last episodes of Criminal Minds!


  • #11
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,480 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I'm watched the last episodes of Criminal Minds!

    Haven't watched in a good while, was it worth it?.


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  • #12
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Gremlinertia wrote: »
    Haven't watched in a good while, was it worth it?.

    Overall I was happy enough with it.
    Certain character had their annoying quirks tough.


  • #13
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    People who post pictures of their little angles (toddlers) covered in food and thinking it's cute or something. It's not. It's horrible. I don't want to see your food covered smell machine. It's disgusting. Don't understand it at all. Nobody wants to see my with my beard covered in spaghetti and tomato sauce, the same applies to your kids! Up there with people who post naked picture of their angles.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    People can be fierce strange. That's my TA ta.


  • #15
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,796 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I’ve a dental appointment this morning, scheduled, to just check a recent implant but having got the implant in just a few weeks ago I ended up in a car accident over the weekend... my head / face didn’t impact anything but I was jolted forward and there has been minor pain / discomfort around the implant site... all be it slightly getting less painful.. which is hopefully a good sign..

    If I need the dentist to start the surgery again to correct a problem I’ll not be amused.

    The accident was caused by a ‘professional’ driver in the lane adjacent, who was on his way home but on getting a call from a private customer, attempted to do a quick and careless three point turn in the middle of three lanes of traffic and reversed into our one week old brand new car.

    I don’t have patience for people anymore. Too many useless dickheads out there, seriously.


  • #16
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    TA there's a thing on rte news about an Indian train station worker who saved a child who had fallen onto the tracks. Which is great, but no matter how many times I watch the video, it really looks like the adult who was with the child was pretending to try to save him/ her but quite obviously moving further away? Is it just me? :(

    https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0420/1210959-india-rail-rescue/


  • #17
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,149 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Antares35 wrote: »
    TA there's a thing on rte news about an Indian train station worker who saved a child who had fallen onto the tracks. Which is great, but no matter how many times I watch the video, it really looks like the adult who was with the child was pretending to try to save him/ her but quite obviously moving further away? Is it just me? :(

    https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0420/1210959-india-rail-rescue/

    It does look very odd, alright.


  • #18
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,796 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Great start to Tuesday...my girlfriend who lives with her mother and is asthmatic , wakes up to find the mother gone and subsequently finds she is meeting two other households for coffee, the stupid old aghhhhh. seriously, you live with an asthmatic daughter, using a nebulizer and you are up to this shït, selfish fücking dope.


  • #19
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Strumms wrote: »
    Great start to Tuesday...my girlfriend who lives with her mother and is asthmatic , wakes up to find the mother gone and subsequently finds she is meeting two other households for coffee, the stupid old aghhhhh. seriously, you live with an asthmatic daughter, using a nebulizer and you are up to this shït, selfish fücking dope.

    Unbelievable. :( I'd to tell mine last week that if they went ahead with plans to meet relatives then me, OH and their grandchild would be isolating from them for two weeks..OH also asthmatic and I'd explained my concerns about the covid / stillbirth risk. Still resulted in a row. They just thought ah sure we're alright Jack we got our vaccines :(


  • #20
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    There seems to be a lot of requests lately from charities.
    My social media seems to bombarded lately with pleas.
    Sorry, but I'm all donated out.

    To thine own self be true



  • #21
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Currently doing a course for work, and all the slides have Americanised spellings, all z's instead of s's! . The presenter and company are English. Grrr....


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  • #22
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    When people misuse the word decimated


  • #23
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Antares35 wrote: »
    TA there's a thing on rte news about an Indian train station worker who saved a child who had fallen onto the tracks. Which is great, but no matter how many times I watch the video, it really looks like the adult who was with the child was pretending to try to save him/ her but quite obviously moving further away? Is it just me? :(

    https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0420/1210959-india-rail-rescue/

    The mother is partially sighted .


  • #24
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    The mother is partially sighted .

    Ah. I feel really bad now, didn't realise :( although, it's been updated since I read it so that's probably why. Happy ending at least.


  • #25
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    I got a taxi to my doctor this morning because I was running behind schedule and didn't want to be late for my appointment. I arrived on time but the doctor didn't see me until 40 minutes after my appointment time. I should have known better. Why are so many doctor's offices so poor at time management.


  • #26
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Getting dog **** on a buggy wheel.

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



  • #27
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Currently doing a course for work, and all the slides have Americanised spellings, all z's instead of s's! . The presenter and company are English. Grrr....

    That is the Oxford spelling and is used in English english

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling


  • #28
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,911 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Good fcuking god I miss eating out. Particularly lunch. I'd step over my own mother to be able to go out for lunch tomorrow.


  • #29
    Porklife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Good fcuking god I miss eating out. Particularly lunch. I'd step over my own mother to be able to go out for lunch tomorrow.

    For some reason there's a cafe near my apartment that's fully open. You can sit down at
    a table like normal times. I was there last weekend. The food was disgusting but i can give you the name if you fancy an overpriced horrible lunch :p

    TA i forgot to turn the water on for my bedtime shower. It takes 30 minutes heat up and i was aiming for an early night.


  • #30
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    When the airbag warning light comes on!


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  • #31
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    That the ignore feature doesn't work on the touch site. I have only 1 person on the site on ignore and had the misfortune to have him posting in a thread that I am currently interested in.
    The reasons why I have him on ignore are still fairly clear 5 years on


  • #32
    Gamer Bhoy 89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    At the moment I am a part time cleaner for two primary schools. I cycle 20 mins to one, work there for 2 hours, then cycle 15 mins to the next one, work there for 3 hours, then cycle 5 mins home.

    Yesterday my boss gave me a new schedule, to do the latter school for the full 5 hours as the coworker I worked with in there was being relocated, leaving the extra two hours open, and it would be handy for me as it's only a 5 minute cycle to and from.

    I was delighted, knowing I wouldn't be half dead by the time I arrived and could actually pick up more pace much quicker (I'm not very fit), I had an extra 20 minutes of free time before I'd leave, and I could start doing the new times that same day.

    Wellll sh*t. TA incoming. No more than an hour into my new shift, my boss dropped by to tell me the plan has been cancelled and I'm back on the two schools. She was very apologetic so I can't fault her as it was out of her control, but man, I got a taste of it last night and I loved it. I hope it gets sorted out sooner than later.

    TA that I had a better work schedule for one day before getting switched back to my original schedule.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Sinusitis. It's such a pain in the nostrich. Ugh


  • #34
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,494 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Celebs on social media junping aboard the George Floyd bandwagon again after the guilty verdict last night.

    Oh please. Most of them couldn't care less, and if they were there at the scene on the day in question (they wouldn't have because it was in a predominatedly black neighbourhood), they wouldn't have batted an eyelid.

    Although I think Irish people celebrating the verdict may actually be worse.


  • #35
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    People who don't see the issue with a police officer kneeling on the neck of a man already restrained are part of the problem.


  • #36
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    People who don't see the issue with a police officer kneeling on the neck of a man already restrained are part of the problem.

    I'd prefer ignorance over jumping on a bandwagon and showing faux empathy.


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  • #37
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    I'd prefer ignorance over jumping on a bandwagon and showing faux empathy.

    Why is the empathy fake?


  • #38
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    I'd prefer ignorance over jumping on a bandwagon and showing faux empathy.

    maybe some of us are capable of actual empathy?


  • #39
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,541 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Trying to connect a mouse over Bluetooth. Its not going too well:(


  • #40
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    cj maxx wrote: »
    Trying to connect a mouse over Bluetooth. Its not going too well:(

    Don't forget, the poor mouse has feelings.

    To thine own self be true



  • #41
    Bredabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,170 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    In an effort to see if the suicide awareness training we all did had stuck, we all got a communication from a challenged colleague who used the phrases which we were told to look out for in communications with at-risk or stressed clients.

    Not a single response to the messages.

    So much for help is out there and just talk to someone!

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



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  • #42
    MuffinTop86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 957 ✭✭✭MuffinTop86


    People who ring into radio stations raging over something. What do they expect to achieve only high blood pressure?


  • #43
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Why is the empathy fake?
    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    maybe some of us are capable of actual empathy?

    I don't believe people when they say they have empathy for someone who they don't know, usually in a different country, and have nothing to do with them. Sympathy, yeah, I can see how people would have that, but empathy is thrown around willy nilly these days and not a hope everyone who says it can genuinely feel empathy for people they don't know.

    "The ability to understand and share the feelings of others". I don't think anyone here has been held on the ground, arrested, with a cops knee on their neck for 9 minutes, so I find it hard to believe people can really understand and share that feeling.

    It's another thing that TA's me, people believing they feel empathy when it's in fact sympathy and they completely forget about it as soon as they scroll past the article or find something better to be doing. Just an opinion!


  • #44
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    I don't believe people when they say they have empathy for someone who they don't know, usually in a different country, and have nothing to do with them. Sympathy, yeah, I can see how people would have that, but empathy is thrown around willy nilly these days and not a hope everyone who says it can genuinely feel empathy for people they don't know.

    Of course you can feel empathy for someone you don't know. Why wouldn't you be able to??


  • #45
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Of course you can feel empathy for someone you don't know. Why wouldn't you be able to??

    It's more the definition. I can't genuinely feel empathy for a lot of people because I can't understand how they feel due to not experiencing the same event. I could possibly feel empathy for people who say they suffer from anxiety (because I have anxiety myself), but I usually don't because I have a very low view of humanity in general and I don't expect anyone else to understand or care about my personal issues. And I've even less chance of feeling empathy if I don't know them, because I don't know them so how can I feel empathy for them?

    Similarly, I feel very little to no empathy for anyone who is rich. They have the best opportunity to get genuine help for their problems, something a lot of us don't/can't afford.

    Edited to add: I've no doubt people believe they feel empathy, but I don't believe it's genuine.


  • #46
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    I'm like a f*cking briar today and can't get rid of it. I'm worn out from my own crankiness and rage.


  • #47
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    It's more the definition. I can't genuinely feel empathy for a lot of people because I can't understand how they feel due to not experiencing the same event. I could possibly feel empathy for people who say they suffer from anxiety (because I have anxiety myself), but I usually don't because I have a very low view of humanity in general and I don't expect anyone else to understand or care about my personal issues. And I've even less chance of feeling empathy if I don't know them, because I don't know them so how can I feel empathy for them?

    Similarly, I feel very little to no empathy for anyone who is rich. They have the best opportunity to get genuine help for their problems, something a lot of us don't/can't afford.

    Edited to add: I've no doubt people believe they feel empathy, but I don't believe it's genuine.

    A somewhat related TA I have is when voyeurism is masqueraded as sympathy. You see it when people discuss horrible tragedies. All this "tut, terrible for the family" etc. But secretly they are probably lapping up the salacious or sordid details.


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The length of time an mandm direct return is taking. I mean jaysus.


  • #49
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Exactly. It all ties back to the same for me, faux empathy, bandwagonning and complete nosiness. The vast majority of these people, especially those on social media, actually don't care, but want to be seen to care.


  • #50
    Porklife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    I'm not sure if there's a word for this but it drives me crrrRAZY!!

    I'll say something arbitrary or mudane in passing to my sister and she will then take 10 minutes explaining to me why it's not a good idea or why it wouldn't work which is exactly my point to begin with.

    I was saying this morning how much I miss travelling and how I'd love to go to Bali or Fiji for a holiday soon but being pregnant, that obviously can't happen but it's nice to daydream.
    She then left me a 9 minute voicemail on whatsapp saying how everybody hates babies on airplanes and how I'd need to breastfeed and change nappies and how much of a logistical nightmare it would be. She went on to regale me with stories of friends bringing babies on holidays and how it ruins it for the entire group and that I should just forget about it for the next few years.
    🀬😡🀬
    I know all of that, hence why i wont be doing it. The clue was in the word daydreaming.

    She does it about food too or movies or anything. I'll say I'm not a fan of Tarantino these days but he made some crackers back in the day and she'll list all the reasons how nowadays he's lost his touch and i should really appreciate his earlier work more yada yada yada.

    God give me strenght, it makes me wanna rip my ear off and post it to her in Germany with a note saying listen to yourself woman!!


  • #51
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    No offence, but your sister sounds like a neckbeard geek.

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



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