Trivial things that annoy you part 479

whatismyname

oh a trivial thing that annoys me a lot is definitely that whenever I invoice clients the invoice clearly states bank transfer only, yet so many of them send cheques.

Happy to get the money, but so annoying having to keep go to the bank unnecessarily, and of course waiting for them to clear, when they could just do an instant bank transfer.

I know there's 'reasons' in some cases but.... grr....

CrowdedHouse

whatismyname wrote: »

it's quite trivially annoying that none of you can go down and get that thing in town for me...

It's a TA that people say town as if we were all living in the one town

whatismyname

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

It's a TA that people say town as if we were all living in the one town

Nope - if I had and you did, I'd have sent you down for it

Colser

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

You're 'busy' in bed and someone knocks at the front door, you have to answer it since you're waiting on a parcel to be delivered. The caller turns out to be a Jehovas witness. FFS, I got out of bed for that:mad:

Hmmm ..on a Monday Pumpkin? Changing the sheets was it...:D

whatismyname

Sending me a cheque with a staple in it. Cheques go into machines. Silly to send with a staple through it.

Pumpkinseeds

Colser wrote: »

Hmmm ..on a Monday Pumpkin? Changing the sheets was it...:D

ratmouse

When you are in a queue in a shop, bank,etc. and somebody in the vicinity smells of that really bad wee smell, like they haven't changed their underwear in months. You end up having to hold your breath to avoid breathing the smell in! It's horrible.

Pumpkinseeds

It really annoys me when people can't see that a proposed business will be a failure. There's been a push to get a specific centre built locally and locals keep ranting about how great it would be and how it would attract people to the town. Eh, no,...it wouldn't be great, it'd be a total failure that would end up derelict. People living within a 15 mile radius can already access better entertainment closer to home than what they'd get at centre that is being proposed. Plus in the other areas they can enjoy a nice meal in a variety of places. They can't do that here.

If it were a viable business then the people behind it wouldn't be struggling for years trying to find investors. For the love of Christ, it'd be great if people would focus on trying to get businesses going that would actually attract people to the town and create sustainable local jobs.

ratmouse

Always TA'd by the creepy tunes that are played from Ice Cream vans. The have such creepy undertones to the melodies. Actually makes me feel more trivially creeped out more than TAd!!

whatismyname

ratmouse wrote: »

Always TA'd by the creepy tunes that are played from Ice Cream vans. The have such creepy undertones to the melodies. Actually makes me feel more trivially creeped out more than TAd!!

Do some of them still play the music to Barney the Dinosaur?

TA: Barney

whatismyname

when my laptop gives a message saying 'Scanner is warming up' and I think jeez I wish I knew its secret.'

ratmouse

whatismyname wrote: »

Do some of them still play the music to Barney the Dinosaur?

TA: Barney

Yes, Barney is one of the tunes. Another is that "If you go down to the woods today...." tune. Find them all a bit disturbing!

conorh91

This morning I bought an umbrella after getting off the Luas on Stephen's Green and by the time I'm at Central Bank Plaza, it has turned into a fcuking rag on a stick.

I wouldn't even mind, but i deliberately didn't buy the cheap one, but went for the middle-range one. AND I corrected the teller when he undercharged me.

This kind of thing wouldn't normally annoy me, but when your sh1tty umbrella is flapping in the wind, your ankles are soaked, everything you're carrying is destroyed and the Luas is full and ignorant, it's infuriating...

ratmouse

TA'd when my labello/chapstick gets kind of warm from being in my pocket or a warm room. I go to apply some and the majority of the balm stick breaks right off as it's lost it's solidity from the heat!

lifeandtimes

People using a cash machine for more than one transaction. ...I had a guy use it 5 times in front me the other day...no joke,5 times in a row...how much god damn cash was he taking out?

ratmouse

lifeandtimes wrote: »

People using a cash machine for more than one transaction. ...I had a guy use it 5 times in front me the other day...no joke,5 times in a row...how much god damn cash was he taking out?

I'm an easy going type overall but I have to say that that kind of rubbish really tries my patience. Five transactions?!

Pumpkinseeds

I hate gale force wind. I was taking the wheelie bins in and they were blowing over. Got soaked for the second time to day. It's buggering up the tv reception, so the stuff I'm recording will be really jumpy when we watch it.

KatW4

Paid 425 euro for a week in the Gaeltacht just for me to sit in a room and study. These Irish exams are a money making buisness, not training teachers in a good standard of Irish.

Also, every time I've been to the Gaeltacht this year, it's been cold, windy and wet. Yuck.

Samsgirl

Took my 3yr old to Crumlin for a problem with her leg & left with a detected heart murmur 😷

Pumpkinseeds

Samsgirl wrote: »

Took my 3yr old to Crumlin for a problem with her leg & left with a detected heart murmur 😷

That's awful. I hope she'll be OK and small consolation but at least you know about th murmur now.

c_man

Hope it's all good Samsgirl. I don't think it's trival but it sure as hell makes mine seem so


For god's sake, some adults need to grow up. My housemate can be grumpy as hell and often is.
"Hey looking forward to Game of Thrones?"
"Fuk that fantasy stuff, distracting people from real life. It's all a bit make believe for grown ups isn't it? People should be focused on more important matters."
He'll be the first to want to see it. Recent sh!te talk contradictions have had him belittling sports documentaries as being something wrong and nothing that would interest him, then a few days later signing the praises of Senna.

LollipopJimmy

Neighbour borrows my garden Hose then just flings it over the fence when she's finished. What a cnut, you could knock in to borrow so you could knock to return it

PandaPoo

Charity collectors calling to the door on Friday, at 7.44am. I couldn't believe it!! My husband had the day off too so we were having a lie in. Absolute madness.

I walked downstairs, looked out the curtain, scowled at him and went back up to bed.

LollipopJimmy

PandaPoo wrote: »

Charity collectors calling to the door on Friday, at 7.44am. I couldn't believe it!! My husband had the day off too so we were having a lie in. Absolute madness.

I walked downstairs, looked out the curtain, scowled at him and went back up to bed.

I had prepay power at 10 am Saturday when nursing a hangover. Yes I am happy paying my bill you cheeky little cnut

PandaPoo

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I had prepay power at 10 am Saturday when nursing a hangover. Yes I am happy paying my bill you cheeky little cnut

Bleedin cowboys!

Gwynplaine

Just watched last episode of Walking Dead, (have to watch it at night time). Raging now that it's over. Thankfully Hannibal is back soon, will have something decent to watch.

Pumpkinseeds

Groups of school kids on the streets collecting for charity. It seems like any time I go to Limerick city on a Friday their are hoardes of them everywhere. O'Connell street is the worst. For those who don't know Limerick city, within shouting distance of each other are the main shopping places, Arthur's Quay, Penney's, Cruises street, Brown Thomas and the Bank of Ireland ATM's. In fact most of the shops are across the road from each other. Their is no fecking need for there to be upwards of a dozen teens on that one small stretch.

The cheekier ones even make their way around to the bus stops harassing people waiting for buses. Schools need to stop this crap of letting them out during school hours to rattle buckets at people, particularly when the collection buckets aren't sealed and are easy for kids to dip their hands into.

OldNotWIse

THe little puff of steam that jumps out unexpectedly when you cut into a toasted pitta.

OldNotWIse

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

That's awful. I hope she'll be OK and small consolation but at least you know about th murmur now.

I had one of those and I was ok. Not to detract from the seriousness but just to try put your mind at ease

Edit: TA replying to the wrong post. Duh

Tesco

OldNotWIse

Seing other people's shopping and thinking it is much healthier than mine. They're loading up the conveyor belt with bananas, low fat milk, wholegrain bread, low fat yoghurts, leaves, tomatoes etc


...I'm there - merlot.... and 12 cans of sardines for the cats.

whisky_galore

People (usually women) holding up the check out counter with multiple credit/debit cards, fecking loyalty cards, tokens/collecting cards for kitchen knifes, luggage or whatever sh*te the supermarket is doing.

OldNotWIse

Staff in Lidl spending ages talking to customers who are from the same place they are from....and yet when it comes to me being served, the stuff is thrown at me and they cant get me out of there fast enough!

whiskeyman

Certain stuff in Aldi 'disappearing' from the shelves and never returning!

redfacedbear

ratmouse wrote: »

TA'd when my labello/chapstick gets kind of warm from being in my pocket or a warm room. I go to apply some and the majority of the balm stick breaks right off as it's lost it's solidity from the heat!

Does anybody else find Labello a really odd brand name for a chapstick? To me it kind of suggests that it's not the lips on your face you should be using it on

jimgoose

redfacedbear wrote: »

Does anybody else find Labello a really odd brand name for a chapstick? To me it kind of suggests that it's not the lips on your face you should be using it on

I don't know about Labello, but the word "chapstick" makes me snort into my Horlicks! :pac::pac::pac:

Boom_Bap

I always think immediately that Labello is the Italian word for Labia.

Wise Old Elf

Deleted User wrote: »

Tesco

Trip to Tesco yesterday evening. Went to self service check outs. One of the six had shopping in the baggage area, nobody at it. Another one was tied up with people doing I don't know what, so the queues were long.
Eventually get to my turn, pay up, about to leave, and I spot a woman coming back to the area with baggage in it. She had gone back to the fúcking deepest part of the shop for something she "forgot". I had queued, scanned, and paid for my shopping while she was gone and taking up one of the scanners. I REALLY felt like having a go, I'm too timid though.

ratmouse

redfacedbear wrote: »

Does anybody else find Labello a really odd brand name for a chapstick? To me it kind of suggests that it's not the lips on your face you should be using it on

Well thanks for making me see my much needed lip balm in a whole other light! A TA!

Gwynplaine

People obsessed with having the latest phone, Galaxy S6, M9, Iphone whatever. Some of them wouldn't have a pot to piss in, the phone is worth more than their car, and they're still living at home. A fella made a derogatory remark about my Galaxy S2 on Sunday night in the pub. This lad is 32, lives at home, and drives a piece of crap car, but he has the newest HTC phone, to look at porn and PaddyPower.com on. I just smiled, and asked him what time mammy would have his dinner ready.

Boom_Bap

My neighbours cat.
It hangs around outside my door when it wants to be let in. Wrong door idiot cat.
After a while of it sitting outside, if I don't open the door to tell it what an idiot it is being, he'll then jump up onto the fromt window sill and sit there like an idiot me-owing and wanting to get in.

LynnGrace

ratmouse wrote: »

I'm an easy going type overall but I have to say that that kind of rubbish really tries my patience. Five transactions?!

Same here.
I was queueing one day, and a guy used numerous cards, and didn't get any money. Wtf was he doing! On second thoughts, maybe I don't want to know. :pac:

Similarly, when I used to get the bus, (I don't know if the prepay cards still exist, or is it all on Leapcard now) but people getting on, trying various cards which were obviously used up, before hitting on the working one. Then replacing the lot carefully in their wallet for a repeat performance the next morning...

OldNotWIse

Boom_Bap wrote: »

My neighbours cat.
It hangs around outside my door when it wants to be let in. Wrong door idiot cat.
After a while of it sitting outside, if I don't open the door to tell it what an idiot it is being, he'll then jump up onto the fromt window sill and sit there like an idiot me-owing and wanting to get in.

whiskeyman

Dirty keyboards...










and being too lazy to clean it...

OldNotWIse

LynnGrace wrote: »

Same here.
I was queueing one day, and a guy used numerous cards, and didn't get any money. Wtf was he doing! On second thoughts, maybe I don't want to know. :pac:

Similarly, when I used to get the bus, (I don't know if the prepay cards still exist, or is it all on Leapcard now) but people getting on, trying various cards which were obviously used up, before hitting on the working one. Then replacing the lot carefully in their wallet for a repeat performance the next morning...

Eugh, I've a friend who does that. We'll be heading to the shops and she'll say, "Oh I've just to nip to the ATM" - "nip" as in "wont take long" I think..... B*llox. Ten minutes later she is still standing there kerfuffling with various cards. She's one of these real sensible sallys. Post office savings, prize bonds, bought a house with her brother to get onto the property ladder. Claims to be down to her last fiver even though she has thousands saved. I don't know what the hell she's doing with all those cards. Maybe having a quick play on the stockmarket while everyone else waits on the ATM?

redfacedbear

Gwynplaine wrote: »

People obsessed with having the latest phone, Galaxy S6, M9, Iphone whatever.

Smashed the screen on my lovely phone this morning €165 to get it fixed!

whiskeyman

I've too many icons on my desktop... and I'm loosing track of what's up there.





Clean them up?
Ain't go no time fo dat!

pauliebdub

Neighbours who don't secure their green bins, so when there is a bit of wind like last night, the roads and gardens are covered in rubbish

Aglomerado

The local scobes were out in force yesterday evening. I was walking down the street and four of these hoodies and tucked in tracksuit bottoms wearing gentlemen walking abreast were coming towards me.

Too much traffic to be able to cross the street, so I put my hands in my pockets to protect my valuables and braced myself... then....

.... one of them sang at me when I was going past!!

ratmouse

People who wear their dressing gowns during the day to the shops/supermarket/post office,etc. Don't get me wrong, wearing your pyjamas is not acceptable either way, but, at least if there's a coat or jacket over the pyjamas, it makes them look slightly less bedroom attire (but not much). The pyjamas teamed with a dressing gown in public is a step too far, too far. It is basically the scenario that they have gotten out of bed and haven't made any attempt to put normal, day time clothes on. These folk are only short of wearing their slippers out to show complete disregard for what is acceptable human behaviour.