Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

selous wrote: »

When pundits pluralise players names as in "The Paul O'Connells, the David Beckhams" etc why?
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That bugs me too. There's only one of them!

jojofizzio wrote: »

People calling their children “Smallies”....grinds my gears irrationally....

I do this...oops

Articles like this one
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/revealed-irelands-favourite-prayer-has-landslide-victory-at-ploughing-championships-38515553.html

Just when Ireland looks like a modern, progressive country, they drag us back with nonsense like this.

I know if I had been 'at the ploughing' and someone had asked me "what's your favourite prayer" I'd have told them to feck off.

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

TA at the anti-smoking generalisations going on here!

Believe it or not, not every smoker is a selfish, disgusting creature. I often carry around cigarette ends in my jeans pockets when there isn't an ashtray available. I never throw cigarette ends out of my car window. I would never be so thoughtless as to stand in a doorway to a public building and smoke.

Obviously, some smokers do. But why tar us all with the same brush (pun intended)?

I wouldn't tar every smoker with the same brush at all, but there are certain scenarios when the habit stands out as gross.

Earlier, I was in a waiting room in one of the suites in St.Vincent's and two sisters sat down beside me after been out for a fag, and in that confined space, the smell was vile. The irony is, they were waiting on word from their mother who was in getting a mammogram-I wonder is she a smoker too!

One of them then had to show the other a video of some fella cursing, and of course didn't have the decorum to turn the volume down a notch. A lad ****ing and ****ing out of him echoing across the entire room. They could be described as "howiyas" though so maybe their lack of manners was understandable.

Hate complaining about colloquialisms and expressions as there's bound to be at least one lovely person I know who says the particular phrase but flipping hell I hate when people say "whilst".


Also "I turned around and I..."

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Also "I turned around and I..."

castletownman wrote: »

I wouldn't tar every smoker with the same brush at all, but there are certain scenarios when the habit stands out as gross.

Earlier, I was in a waiting room in one of the suites in St.Vincent's and two sisters sat down beside me after been out for a fag, and in that confined space, the smell was vile. The irony is, they were waiting on word from their mother who was in getting a mammogram-I wonder is she a smoker too!

One of them then had to show the other a video of some fella cursing, and of course didn't have the decorum to turn the volume down a notch. A lad ****ing and ****ing out of him echoing across the entire room. They could be described as "howiyas" though so maybe their lack of manners was understandable.

Smokers tend not to notice our own stench. I once gave up for a couple of months and was totally amazed by how strong and disgusting the smell of cigarette smoke was on people who had recently smoked.

As for these two creatures you had the misfortune to share a confined space with, I strongly suspect they would be just as vile whether they smoked or not (although admittedly they may have smelled sweeter )

Have a fag and calm down lads

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

Smokers tend not to notice our own stench. I once gave up for a couple of months and was totally amazed by how strong and disgusting the smell of cigarette smoke was on people who had recently smoked.

As for these two creatures you had the misfortune to share a confined space with, I strongly suspect they would be just as vile whether they smoked or not (although admittedly they may have smelled sweeter )

It's like smokers who chew on mints after a fag. Newsflash....it makes no difference and just makes you smell cheap and nasty. Who are they kidding....that's a TA.

I'm looking at my mother in law. No shame about smoking, leaving fag butts in our garden bin.

Depressingly, she has had a cancerous growth removed already, has an aortic aneurysm which could burst any day (when and if it does she is dead before she hits the floor) but does she give up smoking? Does she care about her loyal husband, children and grandchildren? Like **** she does as long as she gets her 'stinky sticks' (g/children's name for it) and not to mention the burden on the health service.

Selfish despicable women.

Widdershins wrote: »

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Also "I turned around and I..."

Ya must be dizzy at this stage !

Also people who say veh-ee-kills for vehicles

I know the smoking posts are probably annoying everyone at this stage, but just one more gripe:

I buy a pack of 29 cigarettes every day (a pack of 20 just isn't enough). The pack costs me €15.50 and of this, the government receive €12.245 apparently (79%).

I've bought a hell of a lot of cigarettes over the past 40 years, and have therefore contributed an absolute fortune to the government coffers. This is on top of the PAYE I've paid all my working life (I've never been unemployed apart from a two month spell when I first came to live in Ireland 30 years ago).

So when non-smokers moan about the amount of health costs caused by smoking, they should sit back in their sweet-smelling cocoon of smugness and consider that as smokers have paid far, far much more additional tax, we have actually paid much more for our health care than they have done!

Also, we tend to die a lot sooner, so aren't as much of a drain on health budgets and resources as clean living, health conscious people.

Vodafone called me yesterday with a great new offer on my pay as you go deal.

Eh- I am with 3 mobile this past 2 months, no longer with Vodafone, and my phone bills get paid by my employer.

It would be a good sales person to get me to switch from there...