Trivial things that annoy you part 479

Rosie Rant

I hate it when people write know when they should be writing no.

"Thanks for letting me borrow that book."
"Know probs."

Hamadeusentman

Journalists and news broadcasters who say "Brishish" instead of "British".
Drivers who don't indicate.
Americanisms - 'store' instead of shop; 'movie theatre' instead of cinema; 'movie' instead of film.
Jaywalkers - getting tired of people crossing the road in front of moving cars.
"I seen" and "I done" instead of I saw and I did.
When I look for something in my trousers or coat pockets, it's NEVER in the first pocket I search.
Why does Brian Dobson say "goeen", "meeteen", "talkeen", "sayeen" instead pronouncing "ing" properly?
Noisy eaters.
Poor customer service - "are you okay there?"

One eyed Jack

Hamadeusentman wrote: »

Journalists and news broadcasters who say "Brishish" instead of "British".
Drivers who don't indicate.
Americanisms - 'store' instead of shop; 'movie theatre' instead of cinema; 'movie' instead of film.
Jaywalkers - getting tired of people crossing the road in front of moving cars.
"I seen" and "I done" instead of I saw and I did.
When I look for something in my trousers or coat pockets, it's NEVER in the first pocket I search.
Why does Brian Dobson say "goeen", "meeteen", "talkeen", "sayeen" instead pronouncing "ing" properly?
Noisy eaters.
Poor customer service - "are you okay there?"

Is jaywalking not also an Americanism?

Otherwise, yeah, I'm with you on the whole American influence thing - smoothies, juice bars, brownies, cupcakes... and loads more that if I wasn't trying to think of them they'd occur to me


Hate when that happens! :mad:

kfallon

Mondays......that is all!

One eyed Jack

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

The fact that an Irish company is being prevented by the British competition authority from buying another Irish company,

yet everyone is more than happy to allow a British company to buy the same Irish company.

(I assume you all know the Irish companies I'm speaking of..)

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Lets not make such rash assumptions! Are we talking about airlines?!

When I have no idea what people are talking about (I'll google later, but for now I have no idea ).

I'm reminded of being in company and we're all talking about something, and then someone says something they weren't meant to say and everyone else knows what they're talking about, gives them that look to hush up, and you're left wondering why are you being left out of the loop? :pac:

Gwynplaine

Hamadeusentman wrote: »

Poor customer service - "are you okay there?"

Where I am it's "ye awright dare", followed by "no bodder"

The new Pringles ad, where yer wan snatches the last Pringle and devours it, camera changes angle and she's eating another one from her other hand.
How did the people who made the ad not spot this?

KatW4

Put waffles in the oven and forgot about them. An hour and a half later I have a very smokey kitchen and some very black waffles!

Zanablue

One of my neighbours is really pushy and thinks she can get in my face and ask me any personal question she wants. I try and avoid her as much as I can but sometimes I get hijacked and find myself answering things that are none of her business and it really annoys me. I feel like saying just mind your own business and feck off, but I cant because other then the pushiness she is a nice woman.

Pumpkinseeds

The bitch next door really gets on my proverbials. Our cats like to sit on the dividing wall in the front garden, emphasis being on DIVIDING wall, it's a shared fcuking wall, but without fail the bint will come out and chase them off the wall every fcuking time she sees them. Every fcuking time. They've a concrete garden for fcuks sake, the cats can do no harm. Sometimes I actually think it'd be worth an assault charge. Instead I'll have to content myself with daydreams of me, her, a shovel, some bin bags and a deep bog.

Egginacup

**** with umbrellas who stand under a bus shelter or awning/canopy when it's pissing down forcing someone without a brolly to stand in the rain. Stand out in the damn rain under your umbrella and let someone who needs shelter in. Alternatively stay where you are but give the brolly to some oul dear who's getting drenched, you berk.

KatW4

Pumpkinseeds wrote:

The bitch next door really gets on my proverbials. Our cats like to sit on the dividing wall in the front garden, emphasis being on DIVIDING wall, it's a shared fcuking wall, but without fail the bint will come out and chase them off the wall every fcuking time she sees them. Every fcuking time. They've a concrete garden for fcuks sake, the cats can do no harm. Sometimes I actually think it'd be worth an assault charge. Instead I'll have to content myself with daydreams of me, her, a shovel, some bin bags and a deep bog.

My next door neighbour was the same except it was me she pushed off the wall and I had a massive cut down my arm. I was only about 8!

deise08

Losing 20 euro credit when doing a good deed.

Karma me arse!

Mickey H

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

The bitch next door really gets on my proverbials. Sometimes I actually think it'd be worth an assault charge. Instead I'll have to content myself with daydreams of me, her, a shovel, some bin bags and a deep bog.

Bin bags are no good. What you want is a bag of lime...

Samsgirl

My Mam insisting that dinner isn't 'proper' dinner without spuds & veg. Made curry & rice for dinner and she added turnip and spuds to make it 'proper' Who the heck adds turnip to a curry?? Apart from my Mam.

KatW4

I actually think something is wrong with me. I'm watching The Fox and The Hound for the first time ever and it's making me so sad. I actually feel awful watching it!

Samsgirl

Apart from the turnip and curry incident Im very ta that I dropped my.phone down the toilet today. It's not charging now and I have a funny feeling it won't live to see another day.

Rosie Rant

Samsgirl wrote: »

Apart from the turnip and curry incident Im very ta that I dropped my.phone down the toilet today. It's not charging now and I have a funny feeling it won't live to see another day.

Mine survived a toilet dunk, just give it a chance to dry out. My phone is pretty great actually, it was even chewed up by a puppy and it survived.

I'm currently TA'd by tipsy hiccups!

Pumpkinseeds

Trivially annoyed at the Irish instance on trotting out every stereotypical fcukwit gob****e whenever there's a high profile visiting dignitary. Other countries take such visits as an opportunity to showcase their country in a positive light, what do we do? We bring out the fcukwit 'King of Claddagh' and parade him and his ilk as representative of our country. No doubt there'll be a string of these fricking gombeen gobsh*tes all week. Sweet suffering Jaysus on a burning bike, I feel like I'm living in a fricking cliche.

Vel

I took the kids to a book reading on Saturday with a little workshop after where they could make a book. The kids all sat around a table with the parents/grandparents sitting nearby.

All of the kids and the parents were having a great time as the author was really engaging and thankfully no one felt the need to get out their phone and document proceedings, apart from one absolute head melter of a granny who spent a good 30 minutes out off the 45 taking photos and video of her grand daughter. She moved around the room, blocking people's view, so she could get various shots of the child from different angles. At one stage she knelt down and physically positioned herself on the back of a chair of a young kid to get her shot.

How many fcuking pictures of a child sat around a table listening to a man talking do you actually need? Are you ever going to look at them again? Oh look there is young Sinead sat a table. And luckily I have the same shot from numerous different angles to look at too should I get bored of this particular one.

The child in question was one of those who was shouting out things/talking loudly/interrupting the author a couple of times, and every time she said something 'funny' the granny would leap up and look around the room with a big proud grin on her face making sure we all thought her grand daughter was a special as she obviously thought she was.

She was definitely 'special'!!!!!

PandaPoo

Asked our next door neighbour to consider lowering the wall between our houses, because we used to have a lovely view and now we don't. She was a complete c*nt about it, now we have one 4ft wall and one 6ft wall and no lovely view they're landlords so it doesn't even affect them. Dicks.

Vel

My kids are really well behaved when we eat out. We've brought them to restaurants since they were young so they are well used to it and know how we expect them to behave. I brought the eldest two for lunch at the weekend and once seated I gathered from the dirty looks, eye rolling and muttering from the couple beside us that they weren't too impressed with the prospect of my spawn sitting beside them!

Fair enough as I've seen some terrible behaviour from kids in restaurants go unreprimanded by parents but we had only just sat down and they had pre-judged the kids and weren't shy about making it obvious they didn't want us there.

And, OH YEAH, don't get arsey about children in restaurants if you choose to go to one that welcomes children, provides a kid's menu, crayons for colouring etc. and be careful with that eye rolling or one day they may get stuck in the back of that ugly head of yours, and wouldn't that be a tragedy!

whiskeyman

Samsgirl wrote: »

Apart from the turnip and curry incident Im very ta that I dropped my.phone down the toilet today. It's not charging now and I have a funny feeling it won't live to see another day.

Apparently putting it in rice helps...

whisky_galore

Vel wrote: »

And, OH YEAH, don't get arsey about children in restaurants if you choose to go to one that welcomes children, provides a kid's menu, crayons for colouring etc. and be careful with that eye rolling or one day they may get stuck in the back of that ugly head of yours, and wouldn't that be a tragedy!

'Normal' food for the adults and highy nutritious chicken nuggets and chips for the kids.:rolleyes:

OhHiMark

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

"Awww, but their so cute when their that age!!!!!!!" :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Did you have to drop out of 2nd class to work down the mines or something?

AndyBoBandy

The fact that sarcasm just doesn't come across in text to most people..

OhHiMark

rosb wrote: »

When someone says 'to make a long story short'.. and they don't.
Just listening to radio and the woman has said it twice, and not a sign of the end of her boring story.

Nobody who uses that phrase has ever made a long story short in their life.

whisky_galore

KatW4 wrote: »

I actually think something is wrong with me. I'm watching The Fox and The Hound for the first time ever and it's making me so sad. I actually feel awful watching it!

Go and sabotage a fox-hunt.

rainbow kirby

If my brain could get back out of holiday mode and back into work mode for the rest of today that would be great...

scdublin

When you've just hung out the washing because it's lovely and sunny....and it starts raining within 5 minutes!

kfallon

scdublin wrote: »

When you've just hung out the washing because it's lovely and sunny....and it starts raining within 5 minutes!

Sure tis wet anyway!!!

grundie

I'm with a new company and I seem to have attracted a shadow. A co-worker who desperately wants to be my friend to the point that he stands up when I do and follows me everywhere.

I'm even winding him up by standing up and sitting down a few seconds later, he copies me exactly. He asked what I was doing for lunch and I said I was meeting my wife for lunch date, he said "Ok, I'll come too".

He's bloody creepy.

eisenberg1

grundie wrote: »

I'm with a new company and I seem to have attracted a shadow. A co-worker who desperately wants to be my friend to the point that he stands up when I do and follows me everywhere.

I'm even winding him up by standing up and sitting down a few seconds later, he copies me exactly. He asked what I was doing for lunch and I said I was meeting my wife for lunch date, he said "Ok, I'll come too".

He's bloody creepy.

Ask your wife if you can keep. You will probably have to promise to walk it and feed it every day....and clean up after it.:D

razorblunt

PandaPoo wrote: »

Asked our next door neighbour to consider lowering the wall between our houses, because we used to have a lovely view and now we don't. She was a complete c*nt about it, now we have one 4ft wall and one 6ft wall and no lovely view they're landlords so it doesn't even affect them. Dicks.

Did you offer to pay for it?
I'd have to be honest, if it was my wall and there were no objections to it being built in the first place, I wouldn't reach into my pocket to knock two feet off so the crowd next door can have something to look at.

grundie

grundie wrote: »

I'm with a new company and I seem to have attracted a shadow. A co-worker who desperately wants to be my friend to the point that he stands up when I do and follows me everywhere.

I'm even winding him up by standing up and sitting down a few seconds later, he copies me exactly. He asked what I was doing for lunch and I said I was meeting my wife for lunch date, he said "Ok, I'll come too".

He's bloody creepy.

He's been hired to spy on you by your managers.

whiskeyman

bags of crisps that just don't have enough crisps in them to go with lunch.
Nothing worse than being left short when you still have some sandwich left and need some crisps to go with it!

Vel

That moment when you send a bitchy text about someone to someone else and for a split second think that you have sent it to the person you were bitching about.

AndyBoBandy

Vel wrote: »

That moment when you send a bitchy text about someone to someone else and for a split second think that you have sent it to the person you were bitching about.

I've actually done it, although not by text, but rather our Webex messenger service!!

redbel05

Zanablue wrote: »

One of my neighbours is really pushy and thinks she can get in my face and ask me any personal question she wants. I try and avoid her as much as I can but sometimes I get hijacked and find myself answering things that are none of her business and it really annoys me. I feel like saying just mind your own business and feck off, but I cant because other then the pushiness she is a nice woman.

Know how you feel. Try living in a rural town land surrounded by 4 families of these type of people, all of who are related to one another. I swear I can't even walk the dog but one of them has to drive up to me and stop to ask me 40 questions. And sure don't you know you'd be the worst in the world if you told poor wee Mary to shove off and keep her nose to herself.

Rosie Rant

I hate waiting for something important to happen. I just run through a bunch of worst case scenarios in my head.

Menas

Tiredness. I seem to be perma tired this week. But have had 8 hours sleep this past two nights.

kfallon

Getting pins & needles in me foot :rolleyes:

Aglomerado

The wind. :mad:

eisenberg1

Aglomerado wrote: »

The wind. :mad:

Were you eating beans again?

Aglomerado

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Were you eating beans again?

Those giant Greek butter beans in Lidl are irresistible....


*PHARRRP*

Pumpkinseeds

kfallon wrote: »

Getting pins & needles in me foot :rolleyes:

I hate that. I got them once when I'd been sitting on the sofa with one leg tucked under me. When I stood up my leg had gone numb and I slumped as soon as I took a step and tore a ligament. I'll never forget the sound of that crunch. My husband came running down the stairs when he heard my screams.

Menas

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

My husband came running down the stairs when he heard my screams.

When I read that I thought there was a punchline coming!

Pumpkinseeds

I just had some primary school kid knocking at the front door selling tickets for something. I didn't answer the door, I never do. I don't know how people can let kids go knocking on strangers doors on their own. It had stopped for ages and is a pain in the ass to see them back again. It's Communion/Confirmation season here and I've seen parents spending ridiculous amounts of money on their kids for the day. How about not sending your kid to my door begging for money for the school and instead putting some of the money you would have spent on the Communion/Confirmation towards whatever the school is collecting for.:mad:

whatismyname

Printer cartridges. So many things about printer cartridges do my fecking head in.

Pumpkinseeds

whatismyname wrote: »

Printer cartridges. So many things about printer cartridges do my fecking head in.

The cost is what bugs me the most. I need a new black ink cartridge to print one sheet and it'll set me back over 20 euro.:mad:

Zanablue

I probably sound really mean but a big trivial annoyance is my feckin mother coming over whenever she likes with no thought about weather or not we are rushing to go somewhere. If I rush her back out I'm the worst in the world. Then if I do invite her over she never comes at the proper time and is always at least an hour late. rant over:(