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

the purple tin · 10-05-2020 9:15am

Panda Killa wrote: »

I've got a weird TA.

I used love the Hardy Boys mystery books as a kid....and would love getting them from the library,
there's nearly 200 in total written by Franklin W Dixon... only....there was no Franklin Dixon...it was a pseudonym used by a collective of over 20 writers....
I only found this out last year ffs

I loved them too, used to laugh at Chet the greedy git. Their father in the books was called Franklin as well wasn't he.
I started to read Nancy Drew books as well until the teacher said to me in front of the entire class 'you know those books are for girls, don't you?' cue riotous laughing. I was mortified and stuck to the HBs after that. Stupid teacher

edit Da Hardy might have been Fenton, now I think of it.

Panda Killa · 10-05-2020 9:23am

the purple tin wrote: »

I loved them too, used to laugh at Chet the greedy git. Their father in the books was called Franklin as well wasn't he.
I started to read Nancy Drew books as well until the teacher said to me in front of the entire class 'you know those books are for girls, don't you?' cue riotous laughing. I was mortified and stuck to the HBs after that. Stupid teacher

I used read the books too, non-issue here

Used love to watch the both TV series on a Saturday morning too.. think Nancy Drew & Frank Hardy got married in real life...will have to look that up, Parker Stevenson & Pamela Sue Martin... haven't seen the tv series repeated anywhere in over 25 years

cj maxx · 10-05-2020 10:13am

That I want to show my son , ( 1st confession and communion in a few years ) Monty python's the life of Brian. I think he'd piss himself laughing at it.
I can't find it on the sky store to buy. It's the only R.E. he needs.
Where can I get it

Potential-Monke · 10-05-2020 10:24am

cj maxx wrote: »

That I want to show my son , ( 1st confession and communion in a few years ) Monty python's the life of Brian. I think he'd piss himself laughing at it.
I can't find it on the sky store to buy. It's the only R.E. he needs.
Where can I get it

It's on Netflix

Panda Killa · 10-05-2020 10:39am

Snoop Dogg doing an advert for Justeat...and cornrows when he's bald on top...nah man..give it up!

the purple tin · 10-05-2020 12:15pm

cj maxx wrote: »

That I want to show my son , ( 1st confession and communion in a few years ) Monty python's the life of Brian. I think he'd piss himself laughing at it.
I can't find it on the sky store to buy. It's the only R.E. he needs.
Where can I get it

Great film, I wish you were my ma/da.

My favourite scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToYt5SgGDgI

Bredabe · 10-05-2020 12:28pm

The person who diagnosed my dyslexia, giving out to me for showing the traits of being dyslexic!

10-05-2020 5:02pm

The word 'whilst'. Yes, not only is this trivial it's completely non sensical but whilst just winds me up and I refuse to use it. It's not because I think it's improper, it's very proper. I don't know what it is. I just hate that word.

Feels good to get that off my chest actually!

Deja Boo · 10-05-2020 5:27pm

unsubscribing to good threads - sock puppetry ruins them.

castletownman · 10-05-2020 6:06pm

News outlets running the story that Bono turns 60 today, and that he is celebrating it quietly at home.

Whoop de doo. Why is it newsworthy?

Panda Killa · 10-05-2020 6:10pm

castletownman wrote: »

News outlets running the story that Bono turns 60 today, and that he is celebrating it quietly at home.

Whoop de doo. Why is it newsworthy?

It's better than death and economic doom that we've had for the past 2 months.
It's alright once in a while to have a fluff piece

Potential-Monke · 10-05-2020 6:29pm

I'd take death, doom and misery over Bono any day.

Panda Killa · 10-05-2020 6:34pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I'd take death, doom and misery over Bono any day.

Tbf, himself and the band have laid out €10 million for PPE for Irish health workers, so I'd cut him a little slack

Antares35 · 10-05-2020 7:09pm

Deleted User wrote: »

The word 'whilst'. Yes, not only is this trivial it's completely non sensical but whilst just winds me up and I refuse to use it. It's not because I think it's improper, it's very proper. I don't know what it is. I just hate that word.

Feels good to get that off my chest actually!

Probably because it tends to be used by pompous idiots who like to do the Irish Times crossword and complain to ombudsmen and knit kettles and the like.

TA daytrippers out even on a manky day like this. Fair enough if you're going for a walk but most of these just drive to a viewing point, sit looking out and then drive home again.

Potential-Monke · 10-05-2020 7:36pm

Panda Killa wrote: »

Tbf, himself and the band have laid out €10 million for PPE for Irish health workers, so itd cut him a little slack

Me thinks people get caught up in the figure.

Bono's current net worth is $700 million. He donated a part of $10 million, or 1.4% of his net worth.

My current net worth* is $23200. If I donate 1.4% of that, it's $330ish. So even worse I'd only pay a part of that. Think there's 4 lads in U2? So I'd pay $83ish.

I can't afford to donate that, and he can more than afford to donate his. $10 million is a lot to me, but is not that much to him. And I pay all my taxes fairly. And yes, I'm aware I calculated in $ not €, but it's much of a muchness and proves a point either way.

So fuk U2 and Bono. "Rich person donates a minute fraction of worth" - €10 million is but a drop in the ocean of the projected €1 billion PPE will cost per year.

* According to some online calculator.

Panda Killa · 10-05-2020 7:38pm

Begrudgery would be a minor TA

Potential-Monke · 10-05-2020 7:41pm

Panda Killa wrote: »

Begrudgery would be a minor TA

I wouldn't begrudge someone something they deserve. I will begrudge a millionaire avoiding tax in his home country which he "loves", donating a fraction of his wealth and telling me how I should be giving away all my money to the poor. He's a knob on top of it.

Pawwed Rig · 10-05-2020 7:48pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I wouldn't begrudge someone something they deserve. I will begrudge a millionaire avoiding tax in his home country which he "loves", donating a fraction of his wealth and telling me how I should be giving away all my money to the poor. He's a knob on top of it.

Ireland is a country that has allowed a trillion $ of tax to be avoided via the IFSC.

U2 took advantage of legal tax reliefs in countries with whom Ireland have double tax agreements. Thereby any avoidance on the part of U2 was with the 'blessing' of the Irish govt.

Potential-Monke · 10-05-2020 7:49pm

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Ireland is a country that has allowed a trillion $ of tax to be avoided via the IFSC.

U2 took advantage of legal tax reliefs in countries with whom Ireland have double tax agreements. Thereby any avoidance on the part of U2 was with the 'blessing' of the Irish govt.

Nobody forced them to change from Ireland to the Netherlands when Ireland capped the tax-free earnings of artists at €250k.

Anyway, TA'd i'm letting myself get drawn into a back and forth about Ufukin2. I'm out!

dubstarr · 10-05-2020 8:11pm

Panda Killa wrote: »

Snoop Dogg doing an advert for Justeat...and cornrows when he's bald on top...nah man..give it up!

I agree,the other ad with Harvey Keitel is another one i cant stand.Its not even funny.

Rubberlegs · 10-05-2020 8:22pm

I put my wooden wind chimes out yesterday and it was so breezy last night the noise of them drove me nuts.
I'd another TA today and I can't remember it.

Purple Mountain · 10-05-2020 9:15pm

I painted my toe nails last night expecting to get them out today

Antares35 · 10-05-2020 9:21pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I wouldn't begrudge someone something they deserve. I will begrudge a millionaire avoiding tax in his home country which he "loves", donating a fraction of his wealth and telling me how I should be giving away all my money to the poor. He's a knob on top of it.

Like why did we all have to be told about it. Why not donate but without turning it into a PR exercise. I don't care how much money he has, but I just get TA'd in general when celebs think they have some kind of qualified opinion on things. ****eing on about poverty and altruism like we didnt know these things existed already.

Mollyb60 · 11-05-2020 8:57am

There's an ad on Classic FM (humblebrag about how cultured I am. Lol) at the moment about raising awareness of arthritis and "taking a stand against arthritis". WTF does that even mean? People know arthritis exists. And where are those people who are pro-arthritis? You don't need to stand against it. It's not climate change. No one denies that it exists.

the purple tin · 11-05-2020 10:43am

Mollyb60 wrote: »

There's an ad on Classic FM (humblebrag about how cultured I am. Lol) at the moment about raising awareness of arthritis and "taking a stand against arthritis". WTF does that even mean? People know arthritis exists. And where are those people who are pro-arthritis? You don't need to stand against it. It's not climate change. No one denies that it exists.

You're right Everything has to be a 'war' against something now. Since the war on drugs, terror, fúck cancer etc.
It's not a very healthy mindset to have in the long term.
There are loads of ads on telly about arthritis this last year or so. Where is all the new funding coming from? nobody seemed to care about it for years.

A Consonant Please Carol · 11-05-2020 11:34am

I've just eaten five sausage rolls and I feel like I have eaten nothing and could still eat a horse. TA of having an enormous appetite. Jeans wept.

cj maxx · 11-05-2020 11:37am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I painted my toe nails last night expecting to get them out today

I did some 'personal' trimming for the same reason

Alas alas

Badly Drunk Boy · 11-05-2020 11:42am

I was going to finish work today at either 11.30 or noon. Since I decided on noon, time has started to go backwards. The last 10 minutes have been 5 hours long! :mad:

Gwynplaine · 11-05-2020 12:01pm

Restriction breakers. Idiots.

New Home · 11-05-2020 12:02pm

the purple tin wrote: »

You're right Everything has to be a 'war' against something now. Since the war on drugs, terror, fúck cancer etc.
It's not a very healthy mindset to have in the long term.
There are loads of ads on telly about arthritis this last year or so. Where is all the new funding coming from? nobody seemed to care about it for years.

I remember years ago there was a lady in Henry Street that was collecting for charity. She kept shouting "Please support cancer! Please support cancer!".

Ehrrr...

madmaggie · 11-05-2020 12:10pm

Next door's cat was in the greenhouse this morning. When I went in he went flying past me, spitting and howling. Frightened the bejasus out of me.

Antares35 · 11-05-2020 12:44pm

So many things outstanding at the moment. Waiting for deliveries from all sorts of different companies using various carriers. Cannot get through to a single company or carrier on any platform - phone/ email/ social media etc. A wall of silence from Amazon, other sellers, DPD, An Post. Literally... nothing. Cannot get a delivery slot for food shopping until 2.5 weeks from now. Waiting for maternity benefit payment which is overdue - nothing on that either. Can't get through to anyone and can't listen to the welfare Irish/ English recordings interspersed with rap music any more.

Boots sending me marketing emails "hurry you need to buy all this stuff for your baby" - except f*cking none of it is in stock.

Woodies emailing me saying "hey you left this item in your basket, don't you want it?" - and now I am the crazy person responding to a bot telling it "you refused to deliver it so you can f*cking keep it"

I get that there are delays, but a complete wall of silence, from everyone? And all hiding behind the Covid-19 crisis even though some of them were clearly just sh*t before anyway.

Why do they take money straight away then just renage on their contractual obligations? Why not just say "sorry we couldn't b ars*d taking this order"?

Does nothing work in this country anymore?

New Home · 11-05-2020 12:49pm

madmaggie wrote: »

Next door's cat was in the greenhouse this morning. When I went in he went flying past me, spitting and howling. Frightened the bejasus out of me.

"I was sitting in my neighbour's greenhouse this morning, enjoying the warmth, looking for mice, but minding my own business. Suddenly that woman came in and scared the bejasus out of me I couldn't help but start spitting and howling! Bloody humans!! She didn't even apologise!!"

New Home · 11-05-2020 2:26pm

Hmmm. I've just realised that sweetmaggie and madmaggie aren't the same person (in my head, the two names overlapped)... or do we have a case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? :eek:

Princess Calla · 11-05-2020 2:34pm

New Home wrote: »

Hmmm. I've just realised that sweetmaggie and madmaggie aren't the same person (in my head, the two names overlapped)... or do we have a case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? :eek:

People with similar user names or users with the same avatar really confuse me, sometimes annoy me (but that's not their fault

)

New Home · 11-05-2020 3:50pm

Princess Calla wrote: »

People with similar user names or users with the same avatar really confuse me, sometimes annoy me (but that's not their fault )

I know, The Princess Bride... oh, wait, you've a different avatar! (and I know Buttercup, so...)

madmaggie · 11-05-2020 3:59pm

Only madmaggie when provoked!

playonplayette · 11-05-2020 3:59pm

Almost finished painting and decorating downstairs in my house and landing/stairs.

I'm quite good at it. Could probably start up my own business at this stage if I didn't hate painting so ****ing much.

New Home · 11-05-2020 4:02pm

madmaggie wrote: »

Only madmaggie when provoked!

In that case, they have it coming!

Bredabe · 11-05-2020 4:57pm

Business's and services who dont mark themselves temporarily closed for no good reason.

I heard a lady on radio this am giving out about how her business is crashing because of the pandemic, no doubt, but it would help if they answered their phone/email/sm messages.

I have money to spend on services/products but I cant get a response from them. Afreakingan.

Bredabe · 11-05-2020 5:06pm

I got an email titled something like 'Saving the Planet',
A bank I deal with want me to sign up for online statements for almost a year now, got this email from them today.

I scanned through it, it gives me two options, do or dont sign up to the online option and they will set me up on their system and all that(tho I expect they will not remember my password for me)

Further down and in tiny print, if you dont sign up for the online version we MAY in the future be forced to charge for a paper statment and this may be raised at the discretion of the bank.

Ignoring the aspect of discriminating against ppl who aren't computer literate, but I get the feeling that this is NOT about saving the planet at all at all.

Antares35 · 11-05-2020 6:11pm

I have to do an exam in a few minutes and my bump has a serious case of the hiccups.

Princess Calla · 11-05-2020 6:43pm

New Home wrote: »

I know, The Princess Bride... oh, wait, you've a different avatar! (and I know Buttercup, so...)

Haha I know (new wave

) ... As I said in a different thread, she robbed my favourite movie so I went with favourite cartoon (gummi bears)

11-05-2020 10:13pm

New Home wrote: »

Hmmm. I've just realised that sweetmaggie and madmaggie aren't the same person (in my head, the two names overlapped)... or do we have a case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? :eek:

OMG that's mad! I've just noticed both myself and Madmaggie joined in 2009 and almost have the same post count! Some other poster mentioned Jekyll and Hyde a few months ago too, they suspected we were the same person!
We're not. I was going to say I was here first but now I don't know

cj maxx · 11-05-2020 10:26pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

OMG that's mad! I've just noticed both myself and Madmaggie joined in 2009 and almost have the same post count! Some other poster mentioned Jekyll and Hyde a few months ago too, they suspected we were the same person!
We're not. I was going to say I was here first but now I don't know

I'm thinking Tyler/ The Narrator in Fight Club.
Asleep you're Madmaggie and awake your sweetmaggie..
Scary

the purple tin · 11-05-2020 10:29pm

Why is / the primary symbol and ? the secondary?
I use ? much more often than /.

Widdershins · 11-05-2020 10:50pm

Spent days trying to decipher a misunderstanding.
Someone put 2 +2 together and came up with something a bit far fetched and insulting about me because I have slightly unusual but relatively tame interests.

Would prefer to have varied tastes than be narrow minded and presumptuous.

the purple tin · 11-05-2020 10:53pm

An unusually large amount of very weird users seem to have joined Boards.ie in April 2020

the purple tin · 12-05-2020 8:02am

There's also a good number of doses who signed up in May 2019.

Ta that Captain Tom never became a major before he retired. How cool would that be? They should promote him for all the great work he has done lately.

whisky_galore · 12-05-2020 9:16am

Deja Boo wrote: »

On a similar note, my landlord has used Covid as a convenient excuse/justification for anything and everything that benefits them (and only them)... the latest being: "for your safety, we request rental payments be made through autopay with your bank." :rolleyes:

Good excuse not to have anything fixed.

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