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

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 13-06-2021 5:07pm

Archeron wrote: »

When you're buying a coffee or something small, and paying by card but their card machine has a crappy internet connection. You're standing there waiting for "receiving " to change to the value so you can pay and it takes about 20 seconds to connect as you're staring at it.

0.000013 seconds after the value appears, the cashier says, move the card closer, as if you are some kind of dope who's never done it before.
I wasn't standing here waiting because I'm stupid, it's because you have a crap internet connection.

Hate this!!

I had this happen to me in a shop once and the person behind the till tried to tell me it was my card being declined. She tried rubbing the contact point on the card and even suggested I use a different card. Only for another staff member to point out that their machines have been dodgy all day I would've been standing there arguing with this person trying to convince me it was my problem.

Had to take cash out and come back. "I'm so sorry", yeah, fcuk off :pac:

It also happened when I was in a taxi. The guy would not let me leave the car until the machine connected to my card. I ended up telling him I'd ring up and pay for it over the phone, which he didn't want me to do. 5 minutes later I was late for work and ended up paying over the phone anyway.

Surreptitious · 13-06-2021 5:35pm

Itchy skin

New Home · 13-06-2021 5:52pm

Me
Any day during the week up until 12pm, as nobody is going to be home at that time. Weekends are more flexible.

Buyer
Where abouts are you?

Me
*housing estate mentioned*

Buyer
Where is that?

Me
Just out of the city centre

People sussing out when the house is going to be empty?

HildaOgdenx · 13-06-2021 5:56pm

Antares35 wrote: »

TA at the use of the term "ad hominem" and other such accusations that people would never use in real life, like "disingenuous" and "virtue signalling". Imaging two lads having a row in a pub shouting things like that at each other or demanding links to back up their argument.

And multi quoting at one another!

SimonTemplar · 13-06-2021 6:59pm

Booked Friday off work to spend the day going for nice drives around the country. Couldn't do it over he weekend as I had other plans. I end up having a bout of insomnia on Thursday night and only got about two hours sleep. Had to cancel my day because I wasn't in a fit state to drive all day and I was so tired I wouldn't have enjoyed it anyway.

F*cking insomnia!

Antares35 · 13-06-2021 11:03pm

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

And multi quoting at one another!

And shouting "so what you're saying is (insert what person wasn't saying)"

Mimon · 13-06-2021 11:19pm

Was a couple of days before they reopened more retail a few weeks ago.

Saw in the local Tesco that they removed the wrapping from the toy aisle so had a look. Barrier was still up but there was a small lego set that my three year old would like and at a great price so I grabbed it.

Went to self serve and it scanned but the woman looking after the self scan spot next door shouted across that I can't buy toys yet. The nice woman at the self serve had to tell take it off me!

Seriously, how was I going to spread Covid by completing my transaction. What a miserable yoke.

PsychoPete · 13-06-2021 11:50pm

My WiFi doesn't reach my bed fully, most of the time it's fine but the signal always drops when I'm watching a video or streaming something

Antares35 · 14-06-2021 12:12am

Had my covid vax Friday and was delighted to finally get it of course but it floored me completely and I spent about 80% of the weekend asleep. And now it's Monday again...

Surreptitious · 14-06-2021 12:42am

Big egos especially men who need a league of 'fans' to justify themselves.

sporina · 14-06-2021 1:07am

Surreptitious wrote: »

Big egos especially men who need a league of 'fans' to justify themselves.

with ya.. few things worse than an insecure man.. (from a woman's pov of course)... PS - insecure men, please don't tale offence :eek:

Bredabe · 14-06-2021 11:34am

Meeting a new colleague on a new zoom like platform, I sign in using their link and see the message about waiting for the other party.
We gat passed the meeting time and the message is still there and no changes on screen, after ten mins I downsize the screen and go to work on another doc as the sound is on.

Another ten mins pass and I go back to the meeting and there he is, saying he was just going to call me as I wasn't on screen!

Twenty mins late and its MY fault I wasn't waiting on screen for them(in the middle of a work day) apparently!

castletownman · 14-06-2021 11:39am

Since the re-opening of outdoor hospitality, there already seems to be an increase in parents bringing their children to pubs. Because all us other patrons just love it.

Yesterday I was getting a bite to eat and a few drinks in the local with the GF, and it was rampant. One little one was having a temper tantrum the entire time she was there, two others were weaving in and around tables playing chase and another toddler starting freaking out over a dog, which was asleep in the shade minding its own business.

The worst thing is, there doesn't seem to be any parenting anymore. When I was younger, if any of us acted up in public, we'd be swiftly brought home, no questions asked. I remember it happening a few times. Now though, chaps have a full reign of terror to annoy other patrons.

iamwhoiam · 14-06-2021 11:51am

castletownman wrote: »

Since the re-opening of outdoor hospitality, there already seems to be an increase in parents bringing their children to pubs. Because all us other patrons just love it.

Yesterday I was getting a bite to eat and a few drinks in the local with the GF, and it was rampant. One little one was having a temper tantrum the entire time she was there, two others were weaving in and around tables playing chase and another toddler starting freaking out over a dog, which was asleep in the shade minding its own business.

The worst thing is, there doesn't seem to be any parenting anymore. When I was younger, if any of us acted up in public, we'd be swiftly brought home, no questions asked. I remember it happening a few times. Now though, chaps have a full reign of terror to annoy other patrons.

There are plenty of good parents too . Not all parents are like that . I say opposite a couple with two small kids who sat and are and behaved .

14-06-2021 11:57am

Back in my day I tells ya *shakes fist at sky angrily* :pac:

Antares35 · 14-06-2021 12:05pm

castletownman wrote: »

Since the re-opening of outdoor hospitality, there already seems to be an increase in parents bringing their children to pubs. Because all us other patrons just love it.

Yesterday I was getting a bite to eat and a few drinks in the local with the GF, and it was rampant. One little one was having a temper tantrum the entire time she was there, two others were weaving in and around tables playing chase and another toddler starting freaking out over a dog, which was asleep in the shade minding its own business.

The worst thing is, there doesn't seem to be any parenting anymore. When I was younger, if any of us acted up in public, we'd be swiftly brought home, no questions asked. I remember it happening a few times. Now though, chaps have a full reign of terror to annoy other patrons.

You'd wonder why they even bother. Only a few days ago sitting at the dinner table with OH and the little one beside us in her highchair, flinging food onto the floor, down her top, trying to throttle herself with a bib while simultaneously flinging her beaker at the dog (who has learned that under the highchair is the best place for scraps), I told him how I just couldn't be tempted to bring her out in public and try to clean up that kind of mess and shenanigans while out and about

Maybe for older kids it's ok. To me it just seems like too much stress right now! And I don't believe you get used to noise as a parent. Ours is 13 months and my ears still bleed when she starts

TA said 13 month old woke us at 4am and now I'm exhausted trying to work.

Gregor Samsa · 14-06-2021 1:28pm

Had a dream last night that our CEO fired me in front of everyone on our monthly all-employees Teams meeting.

I woke up straight after it, and spent the next 2 hours half asleep trying to rewind the meeting recording in my head, so I could figure out why I was fired.

Finally I woke up fully, very tired and angry at an injustice that had happened entirely in my head.

spookwoman · 14-06-2021 1:33pm

On the subject of children why after a year do I still have to tell parents to keep their kids away from me when queueing. The parent may be at 2m but they seem to think it's ok to let their kids run around and go over to people.
Keep your plague ridden crotch goblin away from me.

14-06-2021 1:48pm

spookwoman wrote: »

On the subject of children why after a year do I still have to tell parents to keep their kids away from me when queueing. The parent may be at 2m but they seem to think it's ok to let their kids run around and go over to people.
Keep your plague ridden crotch goblin away from me.

YES!!
I need a 'double thank' button for this - keep those 'germ-carriers' away from me

New Home · 14-06-2021 1:51pm

I had to tell two teenagers could they please take a step back, their shopping basket was literally hitting my back. In fairness to them, they apologised and were very obliging but, come on!

whisky_galore · 14-06-2021 1:52pm

spookwoman wrote: »

On the subject of children why after a year do I still have to tell parents to keep their kids away from me when queueing. The parent may be at 2m but they seem to think it's ok to let their kids run around and go over to people.
Keep your plague ridden crotch goblin away from me.

Ah he only wants to "make friends".

Or is that dogs? No matter, they're all filthy things that need to keep away.

sprucemoose · 14-06-2021 3:49pm

superiors/colleagues refusing to acknowledge that remote working is a viable option

'ah its more of a think that we need to go through in person sure'
no its not, its literally more efficient for me to produce a draft, you mark it up and i revise

i can have some sympathy for people close to retiring age but anyone sub 50 years old needs to suck it up and get with the times

sporina · 14-06-2021 6:04pm

broke a nail opening the boot of the car.. :mad: and they wer fab... long and filed and all the same lenght.. now I gonna have a shortie grrr..

Strumms · 14-06-2021 6:11pm

spookwoman wrote: »

On the subject of children why after a year do I still have to tell parents to keep their kids away from me when queueing. The parent may be at 2m but they seem to think it's ok to let their kids run around and go over to people.
Keep your plague ridden crotch goblin away from me.

Because proper and responsible parenting in 2021 in Ireland is about as fashionable as catching rabies from a demented mongoose ....

NIMAN · 14-06-2021 7:45pm

It's time we got back to 18+ only in pubs.

When I was young, pubs were off limits. When did we start letting kids sit in pubs, watching drunk people?

14-06-2021 8:20pm

Parents and children are bad mmkay

spookwoman · 14-06-2021 9:07pm

NIMAN wrote: »

It's time we got back to 18+ only in pubs.

When I was young, pubs were off limits. When did we start letting kids sit in pubs, watching drunk people?

I know when I was younger if there was a kid in a pub it was usually during the day or early evening and the parents would only be in for a quick pint or drink of pop. And the kid(s) would sit quietly and not a peep out of them.
It was not acceptable to have your kid in for the day while mum and dad got p*ssed.

Pawwed Rig · 14-06-2021 9:21pm

spookwoman wrote: »

It was not acceptable to have your kid in for the day while mum and dad got p*ssed.

That is just degenerate parenting

SpitfireIV · 14-06-2021 10:47pm

Words such as 'crew' and or 'squad', generally used in reference to a bunch of ar$eholes on a night out 'for the bantz'...

Strumms · 14-06-2021 11:21pm

sprucemoose wrote: »

superiors/colleagues refusing to acknowledge that remote working is a viable option

'ah its more of a think that we need to go through in person sure'
no its not, its literally more efficient for me to produce a draft, you mark it up and i revise

i can have some sympathy for people close to retiring age but anyone sub 50 years old needs to suck it up and get with the times

Suck it up ? Employees need to do no such thing... the concern is, people who don’t want to work from home / can’t work from home will be faced with working from home not as an option ie. “you can if you ‘want’..”. . it will be... you are having the expectation placed on you, the demand if you will... home is a barrier between work and your life, personal life.. the two shouldn’t be mixed..

Employer saves on office space, rent, light heat, cleaning..etc , therefore saves loads of $$$.... employees will see Jack **** of that saving.

New Home · 14-06-2021 11:29pm

Not true, you can claim some money back from revenue, plus you don't have to deal with the commute (which costs both time and money), no wear and tear on the car and lower insurance (if you're driving), less danger in case of very bad weather, fewer chances of catching whatever lurgy is doing the rounds, etc.

I agree that it might not suit everyone, e.g. people who are house sharing, but surely there's a happy medium somewhere. I'd sign up for it immediately, if given the option, but I'm sure lots of my colleagues prefer to be in a couple of days a week at least, while others would like to be in all the time.

Antares35 · 14-06-2021 11:41pm

Strumms wrote: »

Employer saves on office space, rent, light heat, cleaning..etc , therefore saves loads of $$$.... employees will see Jack **** of that saving.

Some of us aren't bothered if that saving is passed to us though. We aren't entitled to more remuneration simply because the employer is saving money. Your pay is usually based on skill, merit, responsibility etc. You can't just demand more money because the company is making/ saving more. You have to be giving more in return - it's a business contract at the end of the day.

TA we'd to do a dash to Tesco for calpol before they closed at 10. I remember when it used to be a dash for wine before the drink sales cutoff. Now it's calpol and nappies. It doesn't get much better than this

Antares35 · 14-06-2021 11:43pm

spookwoman wrote: »

I know when I was younger if there was a kid in a pub it was usually during the day or early evening and the parents would only be in for a quick pint or drink of pop. And the kid(s) would sit quietly and not a peep out of them.
It was not acceptable to have your kid in for the day while mum and dad got p*ssed.

Pint of raspberry cordial and you'd sit quietly, delighted with yourself

Strumms · 14-06-2021 11:47pm

Antares35 wrote: »

Some of us aren't bothered if that saving is passed to us though. We aren't entitled to more remuneration simply because the employer is saving money. Your pay is usually based on skill, merit, responsibility etc. You can't just demand more money because the company is making/ saving more. You have to be giving more in return - it's a business contract at the end of the day.

TA we'd to do a dash to Tesco for calpol before they closed at 10. I remember when it used to be a dash for wine before the drink sales cutoff. Now it's calpol and nappies. It doesn't get much better than this

Why can’t you demand more money ? You are using your light, heat, electricity, proving the company with a workspace... if I want to rent a workspace tomorrow say to meet a client I need pay ... an employer wants you to use your front room... they should compensate you for the privilege.

Surreptitious · 14-06-2021 11:47pm

Antares35 wrote: »

Pint of raspberry cordial and you'd sit quietly, delighted with yourself

Fizzy orange like Tommy in Love Hate

Antares35 · 15-06-2021 12:06am

Strumms wrote: »

Why can’t you demand more money ? You are using your light, heat, electricity, proving the company with a workspace... if I want to rent a workspace tomorrow say to meet a client I need pay ... an employer wants you to use your front room... they should compensate you for the privilege.

Well you can, I'm just saying that not everyone would feel they want to I suppose. I already feel privileged to have the option to WFH. And for me not everything can be distilled down to a monetary value. Less time sitting in traffic, more time with my daughter etc. It's hard to put a price on it. My employer has given me the option to do anything from 0-5 days at home, so if I feel that strongly about my utility bills, I can just head to the office. But, that's the ideal scenario - where there's a choice, whether people want to WFH or in the office. There should be room for both.

Antares35 · 15-06-2021 12:07am

Surreptitious wrote: »

Fizzy orange like Tommy in Love Hate

Very posh

Strumms · 15-06-2021 1:48am

Antares35 wrote: »

Well you can, I'm just saying that not everyone would feel they want to I suppose. I already feel privileged to have the option to WFH. And for me not everything can be distilled down to a monetary value. Less time sitting in traffic, more time with my daughter etc. It's hard to put a price on it. My employer has given me the option to do anything from 0-5 days at home, so if I feel that strongly about my utility bills, I can just head to the office. But, that's the ideal scenario - where there's a choice, whether people want to WFH or in the office. There should be room for both.

Agreed, my thing is, my worry is, in x years that choice might be a demand on behalf of your employer.

If your OH and 3 kids end up competing for your time with your work, hmmmm might not be solvable if there is no office to fall back to.

Antares35 · 15-06-2021 7:21am

Completely stolen from thinkbusiness.ie but this describes one of my biggest TAs:

"It’s on my radar"

It appears many people working in corporate offices are hauling around expensive object-detection systems that use radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. They’re not. This just means ‘I’m aware of this’.

Dramatik · 15-06-2021 9:17am

There's a house a couple of doors up getting major construction work done, now a second house a couple of door downs in the other direction has also started major work. ...Jackhammers to the left of me, Sledgehammers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle... boo hoo

sprucemoose · 15-06-2021 9:22am

Strumms wrote: »

Suck it up ? Employees need to do no such thing... the concern is, people who don’t want to work from home / can’t work from home will be faced with working from home not as an option ie. “you can if you ‘want’..”. . it will be... you are having the expectation placed on you, the demand if you will... home is a barrier between work and your life, personal life.. the two shouldn’t be mixed.

wasnt my point though (i may have not been clear in what i was saying i suppose). i was trying to say i find it ridiculous that certain businesses are not allowing remote working during the pandemic due to not understanding it/'preferring' office based working (i understand this is a minority situation but unfortunately my former partner and i were both left like this)

wildwillow · 15-06-2021 12:04pm

Treated myself to a new book yesterday. Yes, I prefer the actual book.

Settled down to a lazy evening, enjoying the read. The next page didn't make sense after reading for a while and it took a while to realise there were thirty pages missing. Searched to see if they had been inserted incorrectly but no trace.

Binding perfect and that many pages don't change the weight or size of a big paperback.
Got a replacement this morning, no bother.

It was a relief to find my brain wasn't in shutdown.

Porklife · 15-06-2021 12:15pm

wildwillow wrote: »

Treated myself to a new book yesterday. Yes, I prefer the actual book.

Settled down to a lazy evening, enjoying the read. The next page didn't make sense after reading for a while and it took a while to realise there were thirty pages missing. Searched to see if they had been inserted incorrectly but no trace.

Binding perfect and that many pages don't change the weight or size of a big paperback.
Got a replacement this morning, no bother.

It was a relief to find my brain wasn't in shutdown.

That's really strange. You would imagine a manuscript goes through editing and a quality assurance process prior to publishing.
Someone clearly dropped the ball there!
When i was a kid, my older sister told me if you found a spelling mistake in a book you won a prize and became famous. I used to scour every page searching for errors hoping id be revered in the literary world as a 'mistake finder'

To this day despite knowing that's not true, i still find myself secretly hoping to find a mistake.
TA my sister ruined reading books for me!

wildwillow · 15-06-2021 12:21pm

It was probably a one off error in the binding process where some pages were missed. The shop assistant checked a few books this morning and all were perfect.

Would have been very difficult to pick up on the error in quality control unless each book was actually checked.

One benefit on using the local book shop was that it was easy and quick to sort out.

Porklife · 15-06-2021 1:33pm

wildwillow wrote: »

It was probably a one off error in the binding process where some pages were missed. The shop assistant checked a few books this morning and all were perfect.

Would have been very difficult to pick up on the error in quality control unless each book was actually checked.

One benefit on using the local book shop was that it was easy and quick to sort out.

Might have been easier to pick up on if they were gullible idiots like me believing they'd be famous if they found one ðŸ˜€

eisenberg1 · 15-06-2021 2:47pm

Porklife wrote: »

Might have been easier to pick up on if they were gullible idiots like me believing they'd be famous if they found one ��

And you know the word “ gullible” is not listed in correct alphabetical order
In the dictionary...it’s four places out.

Antares35 · 15-06-2021 3:39pm

Playing musical chairs in the kitchen all day because of the sun beating in.

15-06-2021 3:46pm

Porklife wrote: »

To this day despite knowing that's not true, i still find myself secretly hoping to find a mistake.
TA my sister ruined reading books for me!

That's a TA of mine. I'm always spotting mistakes in books. Really bothers me.

Terry.. · 15-06-2021 4:16pm

Mostly driving stuff and things people say and short interactions with people

Pawwed Rig · 15-06-2021 4:27pm

I am reading a book on my kindle. I got to about 60% through in a week or so as to was a decent story. At this stage I think the author must have had a stroke or something as the last 20% has been extremely tedious and has taken a further 2 weeks. I am debating whether to bother finishing the rest of it or not but I hate leaving a book partially read.

Another TA is that some of the story lines do not seem to have progressed much so I am fearing that it is the first part in a series.

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