Trivial things that annoy you

Chun Li

Texting lying on the couch, then smack. Phone right in the eye.

Thargor

It annoys me the way you cant buffer videos fully before you watch them anymore on any site but especially Youtube, all of a sudden they all started buffering the next 10 seconds and then stopping and its never enough no matter how good the connection its on, its fcuking infuriating. I know there are add ons and plug ins that are supposed to fix it but none of them work.

MurdyWurdy

Something I've noticed recently is people (always older women from what i've seen) just walking out in traffic with their hands help up to stop the cars like a Guard or lollipop lady - not even at a crossing just wherever they feel like. Drives me mad! Cross at a crossing and wait for the lights like everyone else.

You know if one of them got hit by a car they'd be screaming blue murder as well.

Lucena

Mariasofia wrote: »

When you prepare dinner, place in oven and go to sit in lovely evening sun. Then you return 45 minutes later to check on what should be nearly done and find......


you have forgotten to turn the f***ing oven on!

Or when you come back 45 minutes later, look in the oven and realise you've forgotten to put the dinner in!

gramar

OldNotWIse wrote: »

This one is hard to explain but I'll try. It's basically something that middle aged/older women to when nattering among themselves. They are nodding along etc and then they do this thing...it's like...they breathe in loudly and day "yeah" at the same time. I can't describe it any other way. I can't do it myself either. It's fast and easily missed but once you are on the lookout for it you can spot it. Anyone know what this is? Oh and its really annoying (even though its trivial) lol

My mother does this on the phone. A lot.

maguic24

Having to deal with members of the public as part of your employment. People, what a bunch of bast*rds.

Czarcasm

Technophobes.

And worse? Technophopes and bureaucracy -

"But we've aaaalways done it this waaay".

:mad:

BeerWolf

Thargor wrote: »

It annoys me the way you cant buffer videos fully before you watch them anymore on any site but especially Youtube, all of a sudden they all started buffering the next 10 seconds and then stopping and its never enough no matter how good the connection its on, its fcuking infuriating. I know there are add ons and plug ins that are supposed to fix it but none of them work.

If it's a long vid, you can always opt to save it off such sites like savevid.com

Dostoevsky

"you know" - by a long shot, the most overused phrase in the entire spoken English language, and not just in Ireland. It's mind numbing. It's not people using it once in a while that bother me, it's the people who use it thoughtlessly every second or third sentence.

It's so hard to focus on the content of what they're saying when they have to intersperse everything with this "you know" tic. RTÉ Radio management in particular needs to get control on their presenters and reporters, who are using it more than ever now. There are no excuses for it from professional speakers.

kunst nugget

Seeing 'Swit Swoo' on facebook makes me turn misogynist.

Aglomerado

Dostoevsky wrote: »

"you know" - by a long shot, the most overused phrase in the entire spoken English language, and not just in Ireland. It's mind numbing. It's not people using it once in a while that bother me, it's the people who use it thoughtlessly every second or third sentence.

It's so hard to focus on the content of what they're saying when they have to intersperse everything with this "you know" tic. RTÉ Radio management in particular needs to get control on their presenters and reporters, who are using it more than ever now. There are no excuses for it from professional speakers.

One of my work colleagues says this 20 times a day on average, in a nasal drone. :mad:

becost

People that hum along to the music when you're doing your food shopping or even worse when they try to sing along but don't know the words and it just sounds like they're mumbling. Nothing a good crane kick to the face wouldn't fix.

yeppydeppy

Dostoevsky wrote: »

"you know" - by a long shot, the most overused phrase in the entire spoken English language, and not just in Ireland. It's mind numbing. It's not people using it once in a while that bother me, it's the people who use it thoughtlessly every second or third sentence.

It's so hard to focus on the content of what they're saying when they have to intersperse everything with this "you know" tic. RTÉ Radio management in particular needs to get control on their presenters and reporters, who are using it more than ever now. There are no excuses for it from professional speakers.

There is a guy in my town who says this at the end of every sentence, in fact it doesn't have to be the end of the sentence it's the end of every phrase, you know?

Lucena

Dostoevsky wrote: »

"you know" - by a long shot, the most overused phrase in the entire spoken English language, and not just in Ireland. It's mind numbing. It's not people using it once in a while that bother me, it's the people who use it thoughtlessly every second or third sentence.

It's so hard to focus on the content of what they're saying when they have to intersperse everything with this "you know" tic. RTÉ Radio management in particular needs to get control on their presenters and reporters, who are using it more than ever now. There are no excuses for it from professional speakers.

Even worse when you hear non-native speakers of Irish do this when they speak Irish.

"Agus nuair a bhiomar i lar na cathrach, y'know, bhi a lan daoine ag feitheamh in aice leis stad an mbus, y'know".

Pumpkinseeds

My own stupidity annoyed me today. I went grocery shopping and had some cash on me, so it wasn't until I'd gone to the 3rd cash point in the shopping centre, to get some extra cash(the first 2 were out of order), that I realised I didn't have my card in my purse. I'd taken it out to order something online this morning and forgot to put it back:o

I blaming the lack of sleep due to humidity and the fact that I'm limping along with a knackered ankle still.

OldNotWIse

Lucena wrote: »

Even worse when you hear non-native speakers of Irish do this when they speak Irish.

"Agus nuair a bhiomar i lar na cathrach, y'know, bhi a lan daoine ag feitheamh in aice leis stad an mbus, y'know".

People speaking English in the middle of an Irish sentence! :mad:

runawaybishop

Shop staff that will not put my change in my hand despite me standing there holding it out and just throw it on the counter. Pricks.

kunst nugget

OldNotWIse wrote: »

People speaking English in the middle of an Irish sentence! :mad:

Is there not instances where that's unavoidable?

BeerWolf

Another one;

People that seemingly judge you after you exit a public toilet stall, that was already in a state before you entered, as though you were the one that did it!

the purple tin

It really annoys me when a radio host has a guest on and doesn't say hello to them. For eg. 'and now we have on the show X who is leader of the Y party, so how do you think this new deal will affect the Irish public?'
Would it kill you to say hello and welcome them before throwing a question at them.
It's even worse when the guest says hello before answering the question because then it highlights what a rude arse the host is.

veryangryman

The facilities ladies at work who clean the loo or the coffee machine. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't sooner get rid of them.

Just they always seem to turn up to do their work at the same time i need said facilities. Conspiracy theories but.... Is it possible that they wait for me?

December2012

veryangryman wrote: »

The facilities ladies at work who clean the loo or the coffee machine. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't sooner get rid of them.

Just they always seem to turn up to do their work at the same time i need said facilities. Conspiracy theories but.... Is it possible that they wait for me?

Be thankful they don't get the two areas mixed up.

Ihatecuddles-old

I was getting an eye test for new glasses yesterday, the woman doing it annoyed me so much.

Which lens is clearer, lens one or twooooo?
One or twooooo?
Such a monotonous drone.
She said it so many times. Just say two!!

9959

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I was getting an eye test for new glasses yesterday, the woman doing it annoyed me so much.

Which lens is clearer, lens one or twooooo?
One or twooooo?
Such a monotonous drone.
She said it so many times. Just say two!!

I bet you're hoping that she doesn't do your hearing test tooooooooooo!!!

veryangryman

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I was getting an eye test for new glasses yesterday, the woman doing it annoyed me so much.

Which lens is clearer, lens one or twooooo?
One or twooooo?
Such a monotonous drone.
She said it so many times. Just say two!!

Reminds me of one...

Munster folks inability to pronounce the word 'to' or 'you'.

Example 'im going tuh the shops.. what will I get yuh'.

Dear reader: If you do this sordid practice, its just wrong. Help spread the word for the good of your declining province. God bless you.

anamara86

I HATE when people stand really close behind you in a queue - breathing down your neck! Grr - move!!

Hococop

one think that has been annoying me lately is the adds where the children act like adults and the adults act like children, mainly the add when the kid is the teacher "you've all got mortgages etc.." god I hate them so much

dashiell hammett

Toilet seats that don't stay up on their own!

Fine when your sitting down but very irritating if you have to hold the seat up when your standing.

Teyla Emmagan

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

He's basically just wandering around spraying the bottoms of peoples walls etc. I'm wary of whatever it is because he's got the face mask on, makes me wonder how safe it can be if he doesn't want to inhale it himself. None of us have ever asked him to do this. He's bored and takes it upon himself to do the councils job for them. There's a lot of young kids that play out in those areas, not to mention neighbourhood pets.

The council don't come out and do that type of thing anymore, due to the complete lack of money in the country!!! If the rest of ye cleaned up your own weeds he wouldn't be out there.

Good for the auld lad.

Rubberlegs

Why the hell does everyone look at me when the doorbell rings, and ask who's at the door? Am I psychic? Can I see through walls now? GRRRR:mad: