Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) MOD WARNING IN OP

Surreptitious · 07-12-2020 3:58pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Right, sorry. I got pissed off at the idea that the way I ordered might be a factor in what I received.

I know we don’t see how the sausage is made with restaurants and takeaways but for a place to be so blatant is galling. Total contempt for their customers and not even hiding it.

I tried to order a take away one night and they had up on the screen it was on its way, I rang the restaurant and they said yeah he is on the way. Food never arrived, I was afraid I would fall asleep and miss it. Got onto the chat function and got my money back. Yours isn't as bad but they should deal with it accordingly. Sounds like one for the Stinge thread.

Mollyb60 · 07-12-2020 4:30pm

That reminds me of a TA of mine. The local pizza place has 2 branches both fairly nearby to my house. One is clearly closer to me though than the other. If I go to their own website and put in my postcode, it forces me to get delivery from the further away branch whose staff are just bad at making the food. There's always a problem and it takes much longer. I can't select which store I want to get the delivery from.

Which forces me to use JustEat who does let me choose which store it comes from.

And I don't wanna call them to order.

Ugh.

dubstarr · 07-12-2020 5:12pm

Blitzkrieger wrote: »

The Euromillions is capped at €200 million. Why? Because nobody would want more than €200 million? Not that I'm greedy, like.

The extra money goes into the pool for lower tier prizes, which will be nice for somebody.

I'm always TA'd at the people that say : 'It's too much money.' If anybody here wins it and feels it's too much money, I'll be happy to take whatever you think is excessive off your hands.

On a slightly more serious note, I'd give money to family and friends, and donate to charity, but ****'s expensive! I think people who say 'You'd never be able to spend it all', suffer from a lack of imagination and/or a lack of understanding of just how much the super rich spend.

If ii won i would so look after the people who looked after me. And St Vincent De Paul would begetting a good lump sum. They have helped me out so many times.

Antares35 · 07-12-2020 5:53pm

Reminded of a takeaway TA, our "local" pizza place won't deliver to us at the weekends because we are "too far out" even though we are ten minutes away by car, because we aren't in an estate they're just like "computer says no". They don't mind delivering on a non premium night though, like a Monday. Suddenly the house is near enough then. F#ckers.

PsychoPete · 07-12-2020 6:00pm

I can't get food delivered but I'm "too far away" and also don't like my car smelling like take away so a bit of a catch 22

the purple tin · 07-12-2020 6:03pm

Annoying in-laws :mad:

Suppose in fairness you should really blame the family member who marries them and brings the pox upon your house

IAMAMORON · 07-12-2020 8:01pm

Realising that the Dishwasher has been full for almost a day and never turned on.

Textbook error.

I also hate the smell and texture of warm disherwashed ( best verb ever ) plates and other dinnerware. It feels like I cheated on my human existence a little.

I know, I know , a few meticulously washed plates, but it is the minutia that matters.

Robsweezie · 07-12-2020 8:19pm

TA when you're pointing out/explaining something to someone that's obvious, its right in front of them, but then you feel patronising for explaining even though they should know themselves.

Brings me back to my customer service days where I'd tell people ''batteries not included, it says it just here'' because they hadnt bothered to look at the box.

Antares35 · 08-12-2020 12:56am

Spending an hour putting the little one to sleep, then OH insists on walking around the bedroom in his noisy slippers saying goodnight first to me, then around to say goodnight to the baby, then goodnight to the dog.

Need to enforce the "if you wake her, you take her" rule a bit more

madmaggie · 08-12-2020 1:13am

The fecking dog attacked the coal bucket while I was out. Chewed up coal covered in dog spit all over the place. I think the local dog pound saw me coming when I rescued that lad.

On the Beach · 08-12-2020 9:48am

Someone doing what I would call an aggressive poo in the cubicle next to me. Jesus Christ man you're not involved in a wrestling match! Ugh

New Home · 08-12-2020 10:22am

madmaggie wrote: »

The fecking dog attacked the coal bucket while I was out. Chewed up coal covered in dog spit all over the place. I think the local dog pound saw me coming when I rescued that lad.

Well, well, well, Ms. De Ville... didn't you stop and think that maybe the poor dog was trying to hide from you? Your obsession for white spotted fur has gotten out of hand.

On the Beach wrote: »

Someone doing what I would call an aggressive poo in the cubicle next to me. Jesus Christ man you're not involved in a wrestling match! Ugh

Weetabix. Suggest it to them when they're washing their hands. I'm sure it'll go down well. :pac:

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 08-12-2020 10:43am

For some reason, when people tell you they're going to be somewhere at a certain time, you have to multiply that by something to get the real time.

For example;

"I'll be there in 10 minutes" = "I'll be there in 45 minutes"
"I'll be there Friday" = "I'll be there Tuesday"
"I'll ring you back at 3" = "You have to ring me tomorrow"

The reason I'm TA'd at this is because this boiler service guy is due to be here between 10am and 1pm, and I have to leave for work at 2pm, and I swear to Christ, if he comes here at half past 1, I'm telling him to come back another time.

I am not catering for people's procrastination when I have to actually be somewhere on time and actually COMMIT TO BEING THERE on time.

I understand I'm jumping the gun; but this happens (A LOT!!!) and I won't be surprised if he comes late. He has been made aware that I'm leaving at 2, but he better not get here in the nick of time and leave in the nick of time - fúcks up my routine as a result.

Also - and I hate mentioning it because it's tiresome nowadays - but the single-parent, anti-vaccine crowd giving their "expertise" on how they think the vaccine is a rushjob.

IT'S NOT A RUSH-JOB, IT'S JUST TOP PRIORITY! And to all those who say "I won't be a guinea pig for this", you aren't being strapped down against your will, but if you refuse to get a vaccination, and you're vulnerable to getting ill, stay the hell away from me.

I'm actually TA'd that I even came back to edit my original post to mention this - I don't like talking about it.

My bike chain keeps falling off whenever I'm on a certain gear and I'm frustrated that there are about 50 different reasons it happens and I haven't a notion as to what is causing this issue. The teeth on the chain "grabber" (w/e it's called) looks fine, yet it makes a noise as if it's in the middle of trying to change gears when I'm at the highest gear possible. I dunno, a trip to Halfords might solve my issue.........

My wage is inconsistently sent to me - sometimes it's a Wednesday, sometimes it's a Friday, sometimes even Tuesday - I'm TA'd that I kinda need this wage to come in so that I can go get a haircut that I've been desperately needing for about 3 months at this stage, and it won't hurry on and come in.

On the Beach · 08-12-2020 10:44am

New Home wrote:

Weetabix. Suggest it to them when they're washing their hands. I'm sure it'll go down well.

It would want to go down well and come out the other side with ease ugh

the purple tin · 08-12-2020 11:05am

All the new crop of young (and young-ish) RTE news correspondents seem to have had their personalities surgically removed.
They are so grey and boring and uniform, just like replicants from a factory line.

Whenever they have to do a report on Santa and his flight path or something like that, it is cringeworthy because they have no idea how to be fun or frivolous, they come across as being really uncomfortable and pastonising to the kids.
Being light-hearted just does not compute for them.

Gregor Samsa · 08-12-2020 11:39am

the purple tin wrote: »

All the new crop of young (and young-ish) RTE news correspondents seem to have had their personalities surgically removed.
They are so grey and boring and uniform, just like replicants from a factory line.

Whenever they have to do a report on Santa and his flight path or something like that, it is cringeworthy because they have no idea how to be fun or frivolous, they come across as being really uncomfortable and pastonising to the kids.
Being light-hearted just does not compute for them.

This is what happened the last time an RTE newsreader tried to be fun or frivolous about Santa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zaa1In2IFYY

Sardonicat · 08-12-2020 12:07pm

the purple tin wrote: »

All the new crop of young (and young-ish) RTE news correspondents seem to have had their personalities surgically removed.
They are so grey and boring and uniform, just like replicants from a factory line.

Whenever they have to do a report on Santa and his flight path or something like that, it is cringeworthy because they have no idea how to be fun or frivolous, they come across as being really uncomfortable and pastonising to the kids.
Being light-hearted just does not compute for them.

TA having 'stories' about Santa on the News of the state broadcast.

PsychoPete · 08-12-2020 12:15pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

TA having 'stories' about Santa on the News of the state broadcast.

Think it was on Claire Byrne I heard them talking about how santa doesn't need to isolate or a vaccine because he's immune, ffs

the purple tin · 08-12-2020 12:20pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

This is what happened the last time an RTE newsreader tried to be fun or frivolous about Santa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zaa1In2IFYY

:P Ah he-or! Don was strictly off the clock there.
It was a bit Mike Murphy did for him because he had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian.

Bredabe · 08-12-2020 12:41pm

Madam A from my last year, used to roll her eyes if it even looked like I was going to speak and sighed loudly if I did.

Only now finding out there is an issue with the fee's structure for OTJ training, she is rightly complaining about it, rallying the troops with exactly the same comments I would make in that sit.

This annoys me cause if it was my idea she would be ultra rolleyeyed and signing every nanosecond.

Robsweezie · 08-12-2020 4:03pm

TA i feel like im heavier than ive ever been, i know it and im taking regular exercise to handle it. but i got a shiitty joke/ comment about it last week, when i wasnt in the headspace to laugh about it. feels crap that others are noticing my ''bit of a belly'' as they put it. but i shook it off. im taking it all as motivation to shake the weight off too.

i think sometimes when you have certain negative thought patterns in your head and you hear them vocalised by others i.e my weight, it makes it real and ''confirms'' that you're crap, fat, worthless etc. but now i also feel kinda relieved that its been acknowledged that ive gained a bit of weight. truth setting you free kinda thing, but first it'll piss you off.

also someone brought pringles into the house and we all know how that ends.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 08-12-2020 6:31pm

TA at a note I saw in a staffroom that said "tea/coffee money due please" and then I looked over at the jar of coffee... Bellarom Gold.

Miserable f*cks in here honest to christ....

Antares35 · 08-12-2020 9:53pm

Stupid couple in Aldi earlier doing their Santa shopping in the middle aisle, him without a mask, her with a mask around her neck. In their haste to "ah jaysis would ye lookit the kitchen set" practically knocked me over, leaving mere inches between us. Fúckin neanderthals. People like that should be vaccinated first so they're not a hazard to everyone else.

gormdubhgorm · 08-12-2020 10:25pm

Antares35 wrote: »

Stupid couple in Aldi earlier doing their Santa shopping in the middle aisle, him without a mask, her with a mask around her neck. In their haste to "ah jaysis would ye lookit the kitchen set" practically knocked me over, leaving mere inches between us. Fúckin neanderthals. People like that should be vaccinated first so they're not a hazard to everyone else.

Vaccinated and neutered I think!

gormdubhgorm · 08-12-2020 10:29pm

Crap Christmas Songs.

Was doing my food shopping. They had Christmas music pumped to the speakers. Ok, if is was halfway decent. But it honestly sounded like a song someone would make up on the spot. Words thrown in just because they rhymed. It made me laugh it was so bad. So I suppose you could say I enjoyed it?

I have no idea what the song was. But if I hear it again I will take note of the lyrics.

Porklife · 08-12-2020 11:50pm

The blonde waitress on First Dates Ireland.
I feel like yanking her stupid plait and swinging her round the room by it then slamming her smug face into an unsuspecting couples dinner.

On the topic of dates, people who high five each other make me cringe. I was just watching an episode and the guy said to the girl " gimme some knuckles!' and they first pumped. Double cringe. I would honestly be turned off even the hottest guy if he did that or if he said..gimme some skin! No...just no.

Gregor Samsa · 09-12-2020 12:44am

Porklife wrote: »

The blonde waitress on First Dates Ireland.
I feel like yanking her stupid plait and swinging her round the room by it then slamming her smug face into an unsuspecting couples dinner.

She gorgeous! TAd I'm not that dinner.

Porklife · 09-12-2020 12:48am

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

She gorgeous! TAd I'm not that dinner.

Lol yeah she is but she's so irritating!! There's just something about that stupid loose plait and a certain smugness to her I don't like.

TA pistachio nuts that are sealed so tight you'd need a hammer to open it!

09-12-2020 12:53pm

Trying to spread real butter the last few mornings and ending up with holes in my bread.

eisenberg1 · 09-12-2020 1:03pm

I called my GP surgery earlier to check on my appointment time for tomorrow.
After an age..the phone was answered.

“Good morning, Doctor Frankenstein’s Surgery, how can I help?”
“Hi, Fred Eisenberg here, I need to check my appointment time for tomorrow please”
“Of course, and what’s the name, and date of birth?”
“Fred Eisenberg, June 4th, 1922”
“And what time is the appointment for?

PsychoPete · 09-12-2020 2:04pm

When you go into a shop and you've to pick up the bottle of sanitizer to use it, just install a dispenser

New Home · 09-12-2020 2:15pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Trying to spread real butter the last few mornings and ending up with holes in my bread.

Grate the butter onto it.

spookwoman · 09-12-2020 2:18pm

PsychoPete wrote: »

When you go into a shop and you've to pick up the bottle of sanitizer to use it, just install a dispenser

1 sanitizing station for trolley and hands :mad: Always get someone with OCD or someone just taking their time wiping everything down and usually holding a conversation with the other person with them, completely oblivious to the world around them.

893bet · 09-12-2020 2:18pm

Deli that’s don’t have an ineffective method of toasting a wrap/sandwich or roll.

**** sake

Yeah here is your “toasted sandwich” with the cheese unmelted, the meat cold and the bread not even warm.

**** off.

Dial Hard · 09-12-2020 3:33pm

Annual reviews. Have mine this afternoon.

Dial Hard · 09-12-2020 3:37pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

Green bin just blew over. I've spent the last 15 minutes chasing empty Nespresso pods around the back garden in my dressing gown and dog walking boots in the freezing cold and pissings of rain.

It's not even that windy and the bin is almost full. No idea how it blew over.

The most annoying part is that I don't even drink coffee.

Found four more pods while I was out filling my bird feeders earlier.

the purple tin · 09-12-2020 3:44pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

Annual reviews. Have mine this afternoon.

That made me remember this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lsZiRRKpvQ

Porklife · 09-12-2020 5:42pm

Bag of Tesco high fibre nuts...delightful.
Tear here..... well alright then....que me reefing at the plastic furiously before calming down and trying again.....tear here...what am I Hulk Hogan!
**** you nuts, you've stood in my way long enough, I'm ordering a takeaway!

Surreptitious · 09-12-2020 6:01pm

There's no sense nor meaning to the driving antics going on. One guy broke a red light that was red for ages onto oncoming traffic then another idiot drove down a one way street towards me the wrong way without slowing down and then drove onto another street the wrong way. All this in torrential rain? It's worse now than it ever was.

Dramatik · 09-12-2020 6:03pm

Them: pass me that yoke over there

*waves hand in a general direction where several different items are located

Me: this?

Them: no! That yoke

*still not pointing at anything specific

Me: oh that

Them: no, FFS I'll just get it myself

Padre_Pio · 09-12-2020 8:18pm

There's a website called Irishify.
You can pay to get Irish "celebrities" to give shout outs, which is cringe worthy enough, but the actors who played Eoin McLove, Father Damo and Father Stone are there, in full costume, trying to drum up business.

I get that Fr. Ted is a cultural icon, but come on lads, ye were one off characters in a TV show nearly 25 years ago. Have ye not done anything else of note in the last two decades??

Antares35 · 09-12-2020 8:37pm

There's a friend of my parents, well more of an acquaintance that they never see, who insists on sending a Christmas card every year with an update on all their family tragedies. It would appear to literally be the only communication she sends within a year.

Happy Christmas, hope you and the family are well (I don't even remember your husband and kids names). Well my sister died in April and then my husband was diagnosed with a horrible disease in August and I'm not too good myself and also our neighbour died screaming and I've a purple elbow anyway happy new year.

And that's it. Like an annual fúcking dose of misery. Parents are away and I've managed to intercept the annual obituary this year. Very, very tempted to return a STFU card to this misery merchant on their behalf.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 10-12-2020 10:24am

In one of the schools I'm currently cleaning, some of the kids have put up Santa letters detailing that they've been good, why they've been good, and what Christmas presents they want to get this year. Some were cute and innocent enough (a new jumper, a scooter, a nintendo switch) but some of them are outrageous, and this is where my TA comes in.

One of them wrote;
"For Christmas this year, I would like a PS5, a Nintendo Switch, an iPad, a stunt scooter, and for my teacher to have a healthy Christmas"

I understand they're kids and all that but I would be fierce pissed off if that child unwrapped a switch and a scooter but moaned he didn't get a PS5 or an iPad as well. TA at spoilt brats.

HUMBUG. :pac:

whisky_galore · 10-12-2020 10:35am

Sardonicat wrote: »

TA having 'stories' about Santa on the News of the state broadcast.

Coverage of a murder court case followed by Elf News or some shyte.

Mollyb60 · 10-12-2020 11:19am

On the christmas presents TA: my mother is desperately trying to get a PS5 for my brother this christmas. 'How sweet' you might think, 'what a lovely dedicated mother'.
But no no, let me rephrase that, my 62 year old mother is desperately trying to get a PS5 for my 35 year old brother for christmas. The brother who sits in his room all day like a hermit, no job, no lovelife, no aspirations, no social life, no motivation for anything at all. I haven't asked her whether he's contributing to the PS5 at all because I actually think I would lose the plot with her if she said no. I've refused to help her look for one because I think it's beyond a joke.

Gregor Samsa · 10-12-2020 12:00pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Coverage of a murder court case followed by Elf News or some shyte.

They had to stop combining those stories:

"Eight-year-old children are left traumatised after primary school staged ‘elf murder’ crime scene for writing exercise"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6463737/Children-8-traumatised-school-stages-elf-murder.html

ancapailldorcha · 10-12-2020 12:03pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

Annual reviews. Have mine this afternoon.

Think I'm due one in January.

Boss: "What's your self-improvement plan for this year?"
Me: "Well, I don't know how much longer I can legally live in this country and the charity funding us is making deep cuts so thinking beyond that seems pointless".

freshpopcorn · 10-12-2020 12:12pm

Mollyb60 wrote: »

On the christmas presents TA: my mother is desperately trying to get a PS5 for my brother this christmas. 'How sweet' you might think, 'what a lovely dedicated mother'.
But no no, let me rephrase that, my 62 year old mother is desperately trying to get a PS5 for my 35 year old brother for christmas. The brother who sits in his room all day like a hermit, no job, no lovelife, no aspirations, no social life, no motivation for anything at all. I haven't asked her whether he's contributing to the PS5 at all because I actually think I would lose the plot with her if she said no. I've refused to help her look for one because I think it's beyond a joke.

Is he her favorite child?

the purple tin · 10-12-2020 12:16pm

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Think I'm due one in January.

Boss: "What's your self-improvement plan for this year?"
Me: "Well, I don't know how much longer I can legally live in this country and the charity funding us is making deep cuts so thinking beyond that seems pointless".

'Where do you see yourself in 10 years?'
'Running the joint and asking you the same question

'

Porklife · 10-12-2020 12:23pm

Antares35 wrote: »

There's a friend of my parents, well more of an acquaintance that they never see, who insists on sending a Christmas card every year with an update on all their family tragedies. It would appear to literally be the only communication she sends within a year.

Happy Christmas, hope you and the family are well (I don't even remember your husband and kids names). Well my sister died in April and then my husband was diagnosed with a horrible disease in August and I'm not too good myself and also our neighbour died screaming and I've a purple elbow anyway happy new year.

And that's it. Like an annual fúcking dose of misery. Parents are away and I've managed to intercept the annual obituary this year. Very, very tempted to return a STFU card to this misery merchant on their behalf.

Haha...I have an auntie who is exactly like this. She lives in a small rural town and stands at the window peeping through the curtains commenting on every passerby. There goes Paddy McManus..drunk again no doubt, you know his wife ran off to England and he hasn't left the pub since. Oh look at Bridy there with a new coat, it's a wonder she has time to go clothes shopping with all her gentleman callers, you know her husband was a gambler who ran off with her sister. It's never good news either like there goes Mary and her husband, what a lovely couple, must send them a nice Christmas card! You can't swing a cat for all the misery in her house. Worst part is she's first to mass every Sunday smiling and waving to all and sundry....oh hello Bridy, love the coat, is it new?

TA hypocrites and double ta if they're religious hypocrites who think they're going straight to the pearly gates beaming like sacred virgins.

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