Things That Trivially Annoy You.

New Home · 04-04-2019 12:03pm

It'll probably be a bad case of weekenditis. Have some compassion, Dial Hard.

Dial Hard · 04-04-2019 12:07pm

New Home wrote: »

It'll probably be a bad case of weekenditis. Have some compassion, Dial Hard.

Pfft. I've had that since Tuesday and I soldiered on!

Gwynplaine · 04-04-2019 12:07pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

Rookie mistake. Never put your winter clothes away until the May bank holiday weekend. Easter at an absolute push, but only if it's late, like this year.

TA: The biggest malingerer in the office (has had 12 sick days already this year) has come in with no make-up on today so I can absolutely 100% guarantee she'll ring in sick tomorrow, the logic being that when she does, people will go "Oh yes, she didn't look well at all yesterday."

Haha, I bet she never rings in sick on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
People like that absolutely taking the piss. It annoys me.

Thanks Dial Hard, I learned a new word today. Malingering. I had heard it before, but I had to look it up.
Try learn at least 1 new thing every day.

decky1 · 04-04-2019 12:08pm

the Gaa, [start paying the players] they put their heart and soul into the game.

Widdershins · 04-04-2019 12:39pm

beyond disappointed someone I want to see didn't turn up. ta at the one who did. Or should that be ua. unfairly annoyed .

RMAOK · 04-04-2019 1:45pm

TA for some people's lack of punctuality - if you say you'll be there at a particular time, you be there. (Unless something major got in the way)

Bredabe · 04-04-2019 1:48pm

My last assessment is due tomorrow, meant to spend all day making sure my phrasing is acceptable but so far havnt even started.
Waiting on a response from the class tutor over a citing matter for over a week now(he knows the sub date) so even when ive done my bit, I'll have to wait till the last min to submit.
My old phone is not accepting txt's so I cant reload the class chat to ask anyone who might know.
So no response to a question I cant answer myself, no class chat to help and all kinds of issues that I cant get support for at all.

TA I cant figure out if this is a sign about going back next year or not.

Dial Hard · 04-04-2019 1:52pm

RMAOK wrote: »

TA for some people's lack of punctuality - if you say you'll be there at a particular time, you be there. (Unless something major got in the way)

Especially when they turn up late clutching a takeaway coffee.

Rubberlegs · 04-04-2019 2:24pm

My mother is on a roll today telling me she doubts she will live as long as her mother did. Shoot me now

TG1 · 04-04-2019 3:15pm

Live fire exercise happening near my house... Not only do I have to listen to gunshots all day but my shortcut road is closed off...

partyguinness · 04-04-2019 4:19pm

I'll tell you what irritates Partyguinness...

Cars with the stickers on the back that say 'Little Princess on Board' or 'Little Dude on Board'.

Right. So tell me what is the effing point of that? Are you just a smug cow who wants everyone to revel in the miracle that you managed to procreate despite the echo between your ears.

What am I supposed to do: 'Oh okay. They have a kid in the car I better not rear end now like I was planning a few moments ago.'

Pawwed Rig · 04-04-2019 4:56pm

There is a guy near me with a sticker on the back of his jeep that says
'You can go fast but I can go ANYWHERE'

gimp

Loafing Oaf · 04-04-2019 5:09pm

partyguinness wrote: »

I'll tell you what irritates Partyguinness...

Cars with the stickers on the back that say 'Little Princess on Board' or 'Little Dude on Board'.

Right. So tell me what is the effing point of that? Are you just a smug cow who wants everyone to revel in the miracle that you managed to procreate despite the echo between your ears.

What am I supposed to do: 'Oh okay. They have a kid in the car I better not rear end now like I was planning a few moments ago.'

Ben Elton used to have a routine highlighting the absurdity of these stickers. He suggested that when make drivers put them up, there might be a bit of "no virgins driving this car" signalling going on...

Widdershins · 04-04-2019 5:19pm

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Never done that but it happens fairly regularly with my Kindle.

And on a similar note: when you're eating cereal and a bit of milk overflows the spoon and trickles down your chin.

yes I could easily see how that could happen as I often drift off while reading and have probably had books land on my nose.

When I had a lip ring, tea spurted through the hole and down my chin. Luckily the ring is gone and the hole healed fine.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 04-04-2019 5:22pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

Rookie mistake. Never put your winter clothes away until the May bank holiday weekend. Easter at an absolute push, but only if it's late, like this year.

TA: The biggest malingerer in the office (has had 12 sick days already this year) has come in with no make-up on today so I can absolutely 100% guarantee she'll ring in sick tomorrow, the logic being that when she does, people will go "Oh yes, she didn't look well at all yesterday."

I go further and follow my father’s saying “Don’t shed a clout ‘til May is out”. When my sister was born in mid-May, there was lying snow on the ground. And May days can frequently be low teens. Even on warm May days, the evenings and nights can be chilly. That’s where a lot of people get caught with not wearing enough clothes, leaving work late or whatever.

He also says re: the weather in Ireland “Expect anything except snow in July”. It’s hard to imagine snow in June or August but I take his advice in the spirit in which it was intended. I did the Spencer Tunick thing on Poolbeg Extension on a June early morning in 2008. A quick check says it was around 9 degrees at that time of that day. It was BALTIC due to both the temperature and the breeze. We were huddling together to keep warm. That was during the notoriously bad string of summers from 2007 to 2012 though.

Tacitus Kilgore · 04-04-2019 5:26pm

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

There is a guy near me with a sticker on the back of his jeep that says
'You can go fast but I can go ANYWHERE'

gimp

Hey! I used to have one of those

Widdershins · 04-04-2019 5:28pm

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

Hey! I used to have one of those

what are they for ...?

To be honest I don't get them either

Harleen Quinzel · 04-04-2019 5:39pm

Pears.
I love pears but it’s so difficult to get a nice pear. It’s either rock hard or a squishy mess.

Tacitus Kilgore · 04-04-2019 5:44pm

Widdershins wrote: »

what are they for ...?

To be honest I don't get them either

Nothing really, just a silly sticker - as in - my 4x4 might be painfully slow compared to your (insert any car ever here) but it is excellent at performing off road

Pawwed Rig · 04-04-2019 5:45pm

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

but it is excellent at performing off road

Except it has never been off road :pac:

Speedsie · 04-04-2019 6:30pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I go further and follow my father’s saying “Don’t shed a clout ‘til May is out”. When my sister was born in mid-May, there was lying snow on the ground. And May days can frequently be low teens. Even on warm May days, the evenings and nights can be chilly. That’s where a lot of people get caught with not wearing enough clothes, leaving work late or whatever.

He also says re: the weather in Ireland “Expect anything except snow in July”. It’s hard to imagine snow in June or August but I take his advice in the spirit in which it was intended. I did the Spencer Tunick thing on Poolbeg Extension on a June early morning in 2008. A quick check says it was around 9 degrees at that time of that day. It was BALTIC due to both the temperature and the breeze. We were huddling together to keep warm. That was during the notoriously bad string of summers from 2007 to 2012 though.

'Cast n'er a clout til may be out' refers to the May Bush rather than the month. When the hedges are clothed in fluffy white may flowers, then one Mary safely discard ones vest! Pretty sure I can recall snow in late May early June one year.

I remember doing the Spenser Tunnick as well, thought I'd never thaw.

Trivially annoyed about the length of time is taking the crick in my neck to go. Grrrr.

New Home · 04-04-2019 6:58pm

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

There is a guy near me with a sticker on the back of his jeep that says
'You can go fast but I can go ANYWHERE'

gimp

Customised sticker to be added when dark: "Then please do us all a favour and go. Anywhere. And don't come back."

Prominent_Dawg · 04-04-2019 7:11pm

When the toilet is clearly occupied and someone insists on trying the door again

RMAOK · 04-04-2019 7:21pm

Prominent_Dawg wrote: »

When the toilet is clearly occupied and someone insists on trying the door again

They're telling you to hurry up - they have an emergency.

That's when I take longer than usual.

freshpopcorn · 04-04-2019 7:23pm

When your at a family even and a parent insists on getting there 'talented' children to sing and dance!

Kitty6277 · 04-04-2019 7:32pm

Maybe more than a TA but the state of hospitals here. Absolutely disgraceful

dubstarr · 04-04-2019 7:39pm

Harleen Quinzel wrote: »

Pears.
I love pears but it’s so difficult to get a nice pear. It’s either rock hard or a squishy mess.

Must resist smart remark:D:D

Rubberlegs · 04-04-2019 7:48pm

When you are making a mug of coffee and as you are about to put the spoon of sugar/coffee in your elbow hops off something and it goes all over the counter

Autosport · 04-04-2019 7:58pm

Kitty6277 wrote: »

Maybe more than a TA but the state of hospitals here. Absolutely disgraceful

Hope your mum gets better soon xxxx

Paddy Cow · 04-04-2019 8:25pm

Kitty6277 wrote: »

Maybe more than a TA but the state of hospitals here. Absolutely disgraceful

When my mum was sick and admitted to A&E in Galway, she was on a trolley for two days. She was at the top of the corridor. Less than ten feet away were the toilets. They were only single ones and sometimes when someone had obviously done a number two, the smell that wafted down towards her was absolutely vile.

When she finally got moved to a ward, we bought her a kettle to have on her locker because she drinks a lot of coffee and it was easier to make it herself than be waiting ages for the nurses to do it (I'm not criticising the nurses here, they were fantastic but mum didn't want to be bothering them). She had the kettle for about two weeks when some clipboard carrier was doing a round of the wards and banned the kettle on health and safety grounds.

What a fcuking joke. A&E is so over crowed it's an absolute death trap. If it was inspected by a fire marshal it would be shut down on the spot. It's madness that they get away with such blatant H&S violations but lets tick some boxes by taking away someones kettle :rolleyes:

madmaggie · 04-04-2019 11:40pm

Harleen Quinzel wrote: »

Pears.
I love pears but it’s so difficult to get a nice pear. It’s either rock hard or a squishy mess.

Conference pears on cardboard pack in Supervalu, I think they are 1.79 a pack, but edible straight away.

debs95 · 04-04-2019 11:47pm

When you ask for a gin and 7-up at a bar and they give you gin with a dash of white.......and charge full whack!

DareGod · 05-04-2019 12:37am

Cravings for junk food and my constantly giving in to them and feeling like **** afterwards. Yet another week of eating like a kid at a 9 year old's birthday party.

Tacitus Kilgore · 05-04-2019 8:27am

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Except it has never been off road :pac:

Mine was off road pretty much every day

It was also slow as feck

*shrug*

TA = windscreen freezing back over before I got the wipers on.

Harleen Quinzel · 05-04-2019 9:04am

madmaggie wrote: »

Conference pears on cardboard pack in Supervalu, I think they are 1.79 a pack, but edible straight away.

Thanks. I’ll keep an eye out next time I’m in

My current annoyance is that the school bake sale is coming up and my son is expecting something spectacular to be made.
Pressure :eek:

Rosie Rant · 05-04-2019 9:05am

Everything is a "mood" or a "vibe" or a "flex" these days. I miss normal English.

dubstarr · 05-04-2019 9:17am

Getting aggressive sounding texts off people that you are not expecting.No hello or anything.Just straight in.
And the thing they are texting me about i cant do anything about till my son comes in from school.

Widdershins · 05-04-2019 9:36am

Kettle on the locker is an act of genius. Shame about the Health and Safety gestapo .

ta that they have a nice garden / courtyard outside the inner waiting room of limk. a&e but nobody goes into it. As far as I know .

And TA cigarette ends in the rose beds out the front of same hospital .

Widdershins · 05-04-2019 9:44am

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

Nothing really, just a silly sticker - as in - my 4x4 might be painfully slow compared to your (insert any car ever here) but it is excellent at performing off road

ah yes of course ...sorry, was miles away when i was reading the thread yesterday and I thought you meant you had a baby on board sticker ...tbf the ones you mean are kind of funny

Gwynplaine · 05-04-2019 9:48am

freshpopcorn wrote: »

When your at a family even and a parent insists on getting there 'talented' children to sing and dance!

My eyes hurt reading this.

Sephiroth_dude · 05-04-2019 9:58am

Ta'd at going to bed with a headache, waking at 4am with said headache, waking up this morning still with said headache 😔

ohnonotgmail · 05-04-2019 10:00am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Ta'd at going to bed with a headache, waking at 4am with said headache, waking up this morning still with said headache 😔

I get the same thing. I find this really useful. It doesnt completely get rid of it on its own but it does take the edge off.

https://www.inishpharmacy.com/p/arkopharma-migrastick-3ml/10045220

Sephiroth_dude · 05-04-2019 10:28am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I get the same thing. I find this really useful. It doesnt completely get rid of it on its own but it does take the edge off.

https://www.inishpharmacy.com/p/arkopharma-migrastick-3ml/10045220

I had no idea something like that existed, cheers!

ohnonotgmail · 05-04-2019 10:31am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I had no idea something like that existed, cheers!

Rub it on your temples for a migraine and rub some on the back of your neck, it will relieve any tension you have there.

CrowdedHouse · 05-04-2019 10:56am

CD's in the post with cracked cases. That said the cases are crap anyway.

js35 · 05-04-2019 11:35am

Cabin fever is well and truly setting in

have two sick kids home from school all week

Kitty6277 · 05-04-2019 12:06pm

Period pains

you’d think I’d be used to them by now

Harleen Quinzel · 05-04-2019 12:33pm

So tired

Struggling to keep my eyes open.

New Home · 05-04-2019 12:35pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

Rookie mistake. Never put your winter clothes away until the May bank holiday weekend. Easter at an absolute push, but only if it's late, like this year.

TA: The biggest malingerer in the office (has had 12 sick days already this year) has come in with no make-up on today so I can absolutely 100% guarantee she'll ring in sick tomorrow, the logic being that when she does, people will go "Oh yes, she didn't look well at all yesterday."

I REALLY want to know if she called in sick.

GBX · 05-04-2019 12:46pm

Going to the bathroom and the automated flush system decides to kick in midway through having a crap ... more than once. Even the slightest movement sets it off

Things That Trivially Annoy You.

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