Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

Candie wrote: »

He's now on the floor with something that smells like me. It's me. :P

We're just too soft with him, he's had a rough ride in life and he's terrified of loud voices or even just strict commands so finding the happy medium is taking a while. It's early days still

Aw the poor little pet. You did a lovely thing in taking him, it makes me so happy to hear of these mistreated dogs now being spoiled.

Eleysian wrote: »

Where do all the teaspoons in my house go to? I will have to do a tour around to gather them up (hopefully)
TA - people who can’t put their teaspoons in the sink

They hide in the missing socks .

Shop cashiers who snap the money out of your hands when you're paying. :mad:

Radio presenters who sign off on their show, saying 'see you tomorrow'. No, you won't!

An ad for Dove Microbiome bodywash asking is your bodywash gentle on your "microbiome". WT actual F? They spout any old sh1te nowadays to sell stuff.

This one could be long and a tad irrational so I'll start with a summary :

TL;DR - I got a parking ticket in Cork city that I thought was unfair, so I'm (mostly) avoiding the city until it costs the council way, way more than I paid for the ticket.

So I'll admit that I was parked illegally, and if I had taken more time, I'd have realised it. But I don't think the spaces were clearly enough marked. There was no sign at the start of the parking bay; just one small grey sign down at the end of the bay that looks like every other parking sign from that distance. The road markings were either obliterated by street repair after street repair, or covered by cars already parked there, so I honestly thought it was regular parking.

So I got a ticket issued by Cork city council. If you want to appeal the ticket, the appeal is decided by Cork city council. And if you want to appeal their decision, the appeal goes to... Cork city council. And who decides on the signage in the first place? Cork city council. Bit of a handy number there and no scope at all for abuse....

I thought about going to court over the ticket, but I thought the best case scenario could be that the judge would agree with me, but still have no power to overturn the fine, so it'd end up costing me more in the long term. Instead, I decided to boycott Cork city for ten years.... mostly.

I'm not going to cut my nose off to spite my face, so if I absolutely need something from the city, I'll go and avoid paying for council parking, or I'll still go to town to drink and socialise, but if I can at all I'll avoid going to the city. Cinema trips would be a good example. Maybe once a month I used to go to town, park in a council car park and go to the cinema. I haven't been in eight months since I got the ticket. That's already a long way towards the cost of the fine in lost revenue. Of course I could park in non-council car park and still go to the cinema, but the cinema is paying rates to the council and I don't want any of my money going to them if I can help it, so I'll go to a cinema outside the city, or just stay home and wait for it to be available at home.

Study after study has shown that people will act irrationally, even to their own detriment if they feel wronged or are seeking revenge. So this is my weird hill - give me an unfair parking ticket and it'll cost you a lot more in the long term.

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Fairytale of New York is on the bleeding radio already! It's too fecking early!

One of the music channels on Sky switched to a Christmas music channel in......








....September! :mad:

I don’t know what’s worse, the playing of Fairytale New York or the complaints about the playing of Fairytale of New York because of that word. I’ll just stick to my usual complaining about the complaining about the playing of Fairytale of New York.

I think I've found the ikea product that has finally broken me.

My love affair with flat pack is over.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I think today's winner is the person who now insists upon calling what we used to term, in our evidently less politically sensitive days, "single" people as "self-partnered" people.

I mean, well, I just give up.

‘Self-partnered’ Emma Watson: the sudden rise of the single positivity movement

I thought Gwyneth and her 'uncoupling' was bad enough..