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Trivial things that annoy you

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    #1742
    rain on
    Registered Users Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭rain on


    Traffic splits into two lanes? Don't know which one you want? Sure just plonk yourself straight in the middle of the two, be grand.


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    #1743
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    summerskin wrote: »
    I take my young daughter to the park all the time and never get any funny looks. I often see other fathers there with their children too.

    Yeah, same as. That sounds like a hell of a lot of projecting right there.


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    #1744
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    Yeah, same as. That sounds like a hell of a lot of projecting right there.

    Pfft, I know a guy who was asked to leave the playground because he was 'looking at the children'. When he challenged this the woman who asked him to leave said he was making her uncomfortable. And all because he was watching to make sure his daughter was safe in the playground.

    That's projecting, is it?


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    #1745
    Quandary
    Registered Users Posts: 5,308 ✭✭✭Quandary


    When getting a sandwich in a deli and the onion is lazily chopped.

    I love onion, but chomping down on half-golfball sized lumps is unpleasant :mad:


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    #1746
    Remmy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    inane conversations when getting a haircut


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    #1747
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Mr Benevolent wrote: »
    Pfft, I know a guy who was asked to leave the playground because he was 'looking at the children'. When he challenged this the woman who asked him to leave said he was making her uncomfortable. And all because he was watching to make sure his daughter was safe in the playground.

    That's projecting, is it?

    Jeez some people are insane. As if any paedophile is gonna be looking for kids in a playground in daylight anyway. Sadly they are far more calculating and sneaky. Should have pointed out to her that, statistically at least, her paranoia would have been better served directed at family members.


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    #1748
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Quandary wrote: »
    When getting a sandwich in a deli and the onion is lazily chopped.

    I love onion, but chomping down on half-golfball sized lumps is unpleasant :mad:

    When you're eating an egg sambo and have managed to detach yourself from the fact that its like a chickens well...ovum :( and its quite tasty and then you spot a red fleck on a piece of the white. Bleurgh.... Gag :pac:


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    #1749
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Oh and on the park thing, people who keep their kids locked up indoors all winter with an xbox while dog walkers brave the elements and stand in the local park being lashed and wind beaten so that the dog can exercise...them come summer they all trump in with the little darlings and give you dirty looks cause you are there with a dog, or glare at you while she is doing her business lest you dare not clean it. I always clean up after mine but I swear some people actually want you to try catch it as it falls or something. You can't even get 10 seconds grace before the looks start lol


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    #1750
    Naraka
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭Naraka


    It drives me nuts when people call items by a brand name, like when people call their runners their 'Nikes' etc. I spotted it a lot when I worked in the States.


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    #1751
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    summerskin wrote: »
    I take my young daughter to the park all the time and never get any funny looks. I often see other fathers there with their children too.


    Ah no it wouldn't happen with any regularity or anything, but it's happened a few times alright like when I had dropped my wife off at the airport and the child was bawling his eyes out because he couldn't go with her. We got on the bus and the female driver was asking all sorts of questions before she gave me our tickets. I understood WHY she was doing it, commendable in itself, but fcuk me that was one awkward 25 mile bus trip and she glancing back in the mirror every so often at the inconsolable child! I was surprised she didn't have the Gardai waiting at our stop! :pac:

    Things went from bad to worse when I figured while my wife was away I'd take him down to one of those indoor amusement places with the ballpark and slides... Jaysus, I was lucky I brought a newspaper so I could fend off the glares off some of the women there!

    Actually the park was the only place where nobody seemed to give a shìte! :D

    Couple of years ago in Dunnes Stores alright there were a few raised eyebrows of onlookers when he misbehaved and I picked him up, lobbed him over my shoulder and walked out! I figured I wasn't too concerned what they thought, taking the child out of the situation was the priority!


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    #1752
    Chemical Burn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Chemical Burn


    People using hashtags on #facebook #really annoying

    People using facebook in a crowded college library when exam / assignment time is looming and computer facilities are already scarce. These are usually people doing arts degrees who have nothing better to do.

    People who write on another person's wall "PM chick xoxox" Really annoys me, Christ, the recipient can damn well already see she has a pm :mad:


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    #1753
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    People who don't let you merge into lanes and would rather drag race you down the road shoving you onto the cycle lane/hardshoulder than let you in...


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    #1754
    hollster2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Ah no it wouldn't happen with any regularity or anything, but it's happened a few times alright like when I had dropped my wife off at the airport and the child was bawling his eyes out because he couldn't go with her. We got on the bus and the female driver was asking all sorts of questions before she gave me our tickets. I understood WHY she was doing it, commendable in itself, but fcuk me that was one awkward 25 mile bus trip and she glancing back in the mirror every so often at the inconsolable child! I was surprised she didn't have the Gardai waiting at our stop! :pac:

    Things went from bad to worse when I figured while my wife was away I'd take him down to one of those indoor amusement places with the ballpark and slides... Jaysus, I was lucky I brought a newspaper so I could fend off the glares off some of the women there!

    Actually the park was the only place where nobody seemed to give a shìte! :D

    Couple of years ago in Dunnes Stores alright there were a few raised eyebrows of onlookers when he misbehaved and I picked him up, lobbed him over my shoulder and walked out! I figured I wasn't too concerned what they thought, taking the child out of the situation was the priority!

    This happened to me in tesco when my daughter was 2 I lived with my mum and dad so she got mixed up calling my mum mama,

    I went down a different ailse with her and she started crying mama looking for my mum so I was like im your mama silly until this women glaring at me she followed me a few aisles until I said that I was her mum has she got a problem she just huffed and walked away


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    #1755
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Also people who spk like tha...


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    #1756
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Mr Benevolent wrote: »
    Pfft, I know a guy who was asked to leave the playground because he was 'looking at the children'. When he challenged this the woman who asked him to leave said he was making her uncomfortable. And all because he was watching to make sure his daughter was safe in the playground.

    That's projecting, is it?

    Never once in my life have I seen anything like that. You must live in a very paranoid neighbourhood.


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    #1757
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Couple of years ago in Dunnes Stores alright there were a few raised eyebrows of onlookers when he misbehaved and I picked him up, lobbed him over my shoulder and walked out! I figured I wasn't too concerned what they thought, taking the child out of the situation was the priority!

    Tbf, that's a pretty regular occurrence and has happened to every parent at some point. People are going to stare at the child and parent, man and woman, no matter what.


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    #1758
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Trivial? When you don't have time for dinner before you've to go to college, my wife asks me do I want some of her chips before I go, so I grabbed a handful running out the door...

    Near choked on it! The girl sure does like vinegar on her chips, whereas me I can't stand vinegar and I'm not allowed salt.

    I'm convinced she's trying to bump me off! :pac:


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    #1759
    aSligoDub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭aSligoDub


    summerskin wrote: »
    That new republic of loose song is an abomination. sounds like some drunk 40 year old who can't sing making it up as he goes along while his halfwit brothers mangle the instruments.

    I genuinely thought it was a gift grub sketch or something the first time i heard it.

    Thought republic of loose was a telly show. Had a quick youtube there.. I recognise most of their shíte as background noise, without ever having noticed i was listening to them over the years...


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    #1760
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    women doing their "power walking" who seem incapable of keeping their arms in a straight line, and instead have to do an impression of a pair of windscreen wipers, making it impossible for you to get past them without walking out onto the road.


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    #1761
    biancab
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭biancab


    People who are too lazy to speak or spell properly.
    Some of the most irritating things I have heard...
    must of ? don`t you mean must have?
    The use of there, their and they`re,
    and the real clincher Am`nt I


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    #1762
    Pessimist
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭Pessimist


    Being asked to enter my "PIN Number"... at the "ATM Machine"!

    Oops see this was posted already. But it is very annoying:-)


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    #1763
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,505 ✭ [Deleted User]


    When people quote a post and write a short, meaningless yet dismissive comment underneath, e.g. "Rubbish", "Nonsense". As though that's actually making a point.

    Regardless of what the quoted post was about, I almost always decide to take that side of the argument just so I can try to annoy the "Rubbish" person.


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    #1764
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,049 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Pessimist wrote: »
    Being asked to enter my "PIN Number"... at the "ATM Machine"!

    Oops see this was posted already. But it is very annoying:-)

    I'm sorry but I just, I just don't get it. How can entering you pin at an atm be annoying?


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    #1765
    stek
    Registered Users Posts: 379 ✭✭stek


    gufc21 wrote: »
    I'm sorry but I just, I just don't get it. How can entering you pin at an atm be annoying?
    PIN is an achronym for 'personal identification number' therefore being asked for a 'personal identification number' number, is for some, annoying.
    Automated Teller Machine machine..


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    #1766
    chickenbutt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭chickenbutt


    gufc21 wrote: »
    I'm sorry but I just, I just don't get it. How can entering you pin at an atm be annoying?

    PIN= personal identification number
    ATM = automatic teller machine

    It's repetitive to say PIN number and ATM machine.


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    #1767
    simon0brien
    Registered Users Posts: 160 ✭✭simon0brien


    chickenbutt wrote: »
    PIN= personal identification number
    ATM = automatic teller machine

    It's repetitive to say PIN number and ATM machine.

    sad


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    #1768
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    the groutch wrote: »
    women doing their "power walking" who seem incapable of keeping their arms in a straight line, and instead have to do an impression of a pair of windscreen wipers, making it impossible for you to get past them without walking out onto the road.


    I don't mind having to step out on the road to get around them tbh. I got too close to a power walker once when I was intending to pass her and she hit me a back slap in the nads by accident.

    She wasn't even aware I was behind her and she apologised for it but luckily it wasn't hard enough to do any damage (the slap I mean, not... :pac:).


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    #1769
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    true-or-false wrote: »
    When people quote a post and write a short, meaningless yet dismissive comment underneath, e.g. "Rubbish", "Nonsense". As though that's actually making a point.

    Regardless of what the quoted post was about, I almost always decide to take that side of the argument just so I can try to annoy the "Rubbish" person.

    Rubbish


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    #1770
    hollster2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    when people ruin your thread thinking there "HILARIOUS" just to get thanks wrecks my head! theres always a smarthole!


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    #1771
    hollster2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    Also when people sneeze and dont cover there nose you can see every little germ flying into the air!:eek:


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