Things That Trivially Annoy You.

New Home wrote: »

Just one word for you - "Lush". Good grief, that place...

I start sneezing down the road from Lush

TA with my self imposed night time tea ban. I'm gagging for a mug of tea now but am sick of getting up to wee 2/3 times a night

When you ask for salt and vinegar on your chips and you get quarter way down the bag and there’s none on the chips anymore I don’t expect them to get every chip but come on, tilt the bag and get it down there!

Dial Hard wrote: »

I don't know about Lidl but in Aldi the staff are timed and rated on their scanning speed. They're expected to scan 1,500 items an hour (pro-rata, obvs) and if you fall under that, it's a bollocking from the manager.

I worked in one for a grand total of a month a few years back when a whopper commute and the rat race finally got to me. Four weeks there sent me running back to the corporate world. Aldi work their staff incredibly hard so I'm happy to play the game to make life that little bit easier on them.

As I said, if you've an issue with the model, shop in SuperValu.

Yeah, I get all that, I just don’t like that they start before the other customer has left or before acknowledging me. My issue is with the shop’s policy but I don’t think I’ve ever had a build up or delay when shopping there.

Does everyone not bring three large “bags for life”, open them out in the trolley and just pack the shopping directly into the different bags accordingly? I’d have my items on the belt in bag order.

Just put on Newstalk radio to hear Mary Lou McDonalds voice...switched it off straight away...

The following are NOT synonyms
There - Their - They're
Per se - Per say - Percy
Thought - Taught
Were - Where
Moot - Mute
Robbed - Stolen

"Yay or nay".

It's fcuking "yea".

partyguinness wrote: »

I remember my typist a few years ago coming back to me with 'visa' in a few of my letters and then it clicked. I had dictated 'vis a vis'. This lady was a BSc graduate.

The lexicon of graduates from certain fields can be quite limited. Engineers as well though I don't know if that's a function of the reporting they are required to do. Sat in on a Technical Report Writing course done through Engineers Ireland and they really do have to pare back everything. The likes of vis-à-vis would probably wind up wit ha red line through it upon review.

Still though, cop on and all that.

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

The lexicon of graduates from certain fields can be quite limited. Engineers as well though I don't know if that's a function of the reporting they are required to do. Sat in on a Technical Report Writing course done through Engineers Ireland and they really do have to pare back everything. The likes of vis-à-vis would probably wind up wit ha red line through it upon review.

Still though, cop on and all that.

I do understand that certain phrases and words in my line of work are not used in others and I am sure I would scratch my head writing up a science paper.

What I found peculiar was that on reading the paragraph or sentence the word 'Visa' randomly appearing made absolutely no sense whatsoever so that really should have been a trigger to ask. But anyway...

I find this in shops especially young girls- basically they couldn't be arsed to tell you the actual total at the end.

They just stand there in silence assuming that you will read the small screen over the till and just hand it over.

I will now stand there in silence also until they tell me. One day in a bad mood I just said "Am I supposed to guess the total or what?"

When you're looking on the internet for a recipe for something but the websites are just too much hassle to scroll through...

* googles recipe. clicks on 1st link called maryskitchenrecipeblog.com *

"Hi, I'm Mary and this is the best XYZ recipe you will ever see!"

* scrolls past 3 giant hi-res picture of food *

"This recipe is so easy to use. You only need 7 ingredients"

* scrolls past 2 giant hi-res pictures of food and one hi-res picture of food with child standing out of focus *

"I make this for my family all the time and they always devour it!"

* scrolls past hi-res picture of barbecue on a sunny day despite recipe requiring a slow cooker *

"As well as being tasty, this recipe is also healthy and nutritious"

* scrolls past obvious stock photo of instagram model eating something but food is out of shot *

* eventually reach the ingredients list and recipe but suddenly a wild 'Subscribe To My Newsletter' popup appears and blocks fcukin everything*



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Ilovethe bonesofyou wrote: »

Christ I'm so ****ing hot. If I took off my boxers now and threw them against the wall they'd be stuck to it!

Yes thanks for that lovely image:D:D

I put my One4all voucher in my bag last night, delighted with myself for remembering it. When I parked up in town this morning there was no sign of it. I figured I must have taken it out by mistake when I took out my book and magazine to make more room before I left. I was raging but had to buy something to wear for a Communion at the weekend. When I got home there was no sign of the voucher anywhere. I went out to clean rubbish out of the car and there was the voucher under my seat. That's what I get for throwing my bag into the back of the car without zipping it up