Trivial things that annoy you part 479

messrs

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Cutting my finger. I cut my index finger in the exact spot that wil make it awkward to do anything. Fricking tins.

Avoid eating salt & vinegar crisps so - it will sting so bad

KatW4

Canis Lupus wrote:

Maybe stop posting on facebook every two seconds?

If I posted it on Facebook I would deserve it! I don't!

Menas

"Can I have two minutes?"

The most over abused question ever. It never takes two minutes, always takes longer and always ends with a WTF moment.

Kirby

Menas wrote: »

"Can I have two minutes?"

Do I look like Doc Brown or a timelord to you!??! :P

Alf Veedersane

People using a credit card to buy a coffee.

eisenberg1

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

People using a credit card to buy a coffee.

"Oh, I never carry cash.."

Really, who the fcuk are you, the queen of England?:D

Menas

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

People using a credit card to buy a coffee.

It would be ok if all shops and customers had those 'touch scan' cards...that would make things much quicker.

Boom_Bap

30 second unskippable ad on youtube to watch a 28 second video.

Alf Veedersane

Menas wrote: »

It would be ok if all shops and customers had those 'touch scan' cards...that would make things much quicker.

It waould also be ok if the perpretrators of these hate crimes didn't seem to be surprised by the fact that they would have to pay for their coffee and didn't think to get their card ready until after being told how much it would cost.

Menas

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

It waould also be ok if the perpretrators of these hate crimes didn't seem to be surprised by the fact that they would have to pay for their coffee and didn't think to get their card ready until after being told how much it would cost.

Its like they get surprised when asked for payment!

Canis Lupus

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

It waould also be ok if the perpretrators of these hate crimes didn't seem to be surprised by the fact that they would have to pay for their coffee and didn't think to get their card ready until after being told how much it would cost.

Give up coffee. It's not like it tastes nice.

Pumpkinseeds

Lax parenting. Mr P is sick and I went to the GP with him this morning for moral support. A woman came in with a kid about 3 years old and let her repeatedly slam the door as a game, used her own legs as a slide for the kid and let her do handstands. It's a GPs not a fcuking creche.:mad:

Kev W

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Give up coffee. It's not like it tastes nice.

You obviously just haven't had good coffee.

Son Of A Vidic

Boom_Bap wrote: »

30 second unskippable ad on youtube to watch a 28 second video.

Click the browser page refresh button and repeat it if necessary. It will then skip past the ad and take you straight to the clip.

Canis Lupus

Kev W wrote: »

You obviously just haven't had good coffee.

Cup of tea is good enough for me. I don't need a skinny vente latte mocha frappa bollocks :P

Kev W

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Cup of tea is good enough for me. I don't need a skinny vente latte mocha frappa bollocks :P

Neither do I. I was talking about coffee.

Alf Veedersane

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Cup of tea is good enough for me. I don't need a skinny vente latte mocha frappa bollocks :P

Nor do I.

My order has two words. Either black coffee or regular Americano.

Sometimes I'll throw in a third word - stat - but only on special occasions.

Canis Lupus

Kev W wrote: »

Neither do I. I was talking about coffee.

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Nor do I.

My order has two words. Either black coffee or regular Americano.

Sometimes I'll throw in a third word - stat - but only on special occasions.

Nothing but drug addicts. You'll be robbing your parents before you know it looking for your next hit.

retro:electro

Failing the NCT!

Alf Veedersane

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Nothing but drug addicts. You'll be robbing your parents before you know it looking for your next hit.

Done and done.

Radio5

Menas wrote: »

There has been a high street in Sligo since at least the early 1800's...so it came over here a long long time ago!

Yes I know that, there are plenty of places called High st all over the country!

What I meant was usage of the phrase in the media "you can get these clothes/shoes/handbags at High st prices" , "there has been an rise in footfall on The High St since the recession ended" etc. When I was growing up, that phrase was associated with the UK not Ireland.

It also conveniently ignores the amount of shops that aren't on any street anymore, they're in out of town shopping centres.

Maximus Alexander

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Nothing but drug addicts. You'll be robbing your parents before you know it looking for your next hit.

What's the drug in coffee that isn't in tea? :P

dub_skav

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

What's the drug in coffee that isn't in tea? :P

Smugahol?

Menas

Radio5 wrote: »

Yes I know that, there are plenty of places called High st all over the country!

What I meant was usage of the phrase in the media "you can get these clothes/shoes/handbags at High st prices" , "there has been an rise in footfall on The High St since the recession ended" etc. When I was growing up, that phrase was associated with the UK not Ireland.

It also conveniently ignores the amount of shops that aren't on any street anymore, they're in out of town shopping centres.

Ah, right- and of course you are right!

inforfun

That this is not standard in all shops that have trolleys.

Contessa Raven

I work in a very busy betting shop and the amount of times this happens to me on a weekly basis is staggering.

Customer hands over several betting slips.
I process them through the till.

Me: "That will be €22.40c, please."
Customer: "Oh! Eh... Could I get prices on all of those, please?"
Me: "Sure."

Meaning I now have to go back through each bet, scan it, find the price, write the price, circle the price and re-scan the bet (for every single one) and then finish the transaction. All the while there are people lining up behind the person at my till tutting and sighing and rolling their eyes.

In some instances they run up to the counter and SLAP their bet down and go "Throw that in for us, will ya?!" completely ignoring the 6 or 7 other people waiting in line.

It's not trivially annoying anymore. It drives me bats**t crazy!

stephenl15

Contessa Raven wrote: »

I work in a very busy betting shop and the amount of times this happens to me on a weekly basis is staggering.

Customer hands over several betting slips.
I process them through the till.

Me: "That will be €22.40c, please."
Customer: "Oh! Eh... Could I get prices on all of those, please?"
Me: "Sure."

Meaning I now have to go back through each bet, scan it, find the price, write the price, circle the price and re-scan the bet (for every single one) and then finish the transaction. All the while there are people lining up behind the person at my till tutting and sighing and rolling their eyes.

In some instances they run up to the counter and SLAP their bet down and go "Throw that in for us, will ya?!" completely ignoring the 6 or 7 other people waiting in line.

It's not trivially annoying anymore. It drives me bats**t crazy!

Any tips?

Contessa Raven

stephenl15 wrote: »

Any tips?

Keep your money in your pocket. :P

redfacedbear

messrs wrote: »

TA that I felt the need to get out my calculator and work out how many days old I am just after reading your post :P

Here's a way to mess with your head

http://you.regettingold.com/

messrs

redfacedbear wrote: »

Here's a way to mess with your head

http://you.regettingold.com/

Ye thanks a mill for that, im even older than I first calculated when I was working it out I just did basic maths, my age in years X 365 days plus the amount of days so far this year since my bday, I forgot to allow for leap years Ive now discovered that I'm actually 9 days older that I thought I was this morning :eek:

PandaPoo

I'm annoyed at myself. I can't stop buying stupid stuff lately, and promised myself that I'd put a stop to it, the amount of clutter I have to get rid of in the next few weeks is scary.

Now I'm wondering if I should buy 100 cute kids plastic spoons for €10. I really want them, but I know they'll just be in the way and end up getting thrown out, and it's a massive waste of €10.

Yet I still want them.

Pumpkinseeds

So fcuking tired of listening to my neighbour hammer stuff. Every fcuking day there's something he's tinkering with. On Saturday he not only power hosed his own car, he did the 5 cars that belong to other neighbours. I'm not sure he even asked. Ordinarily it wouldn't bug me so much but Mr P was signed off sick for the rest of the week, he was on nights last night and is trying to get a bit of sleep. My Dad says yer man has worms and can't sit still, the neighbour, not Mr P.

redfacedbear

messrs wrote: »

Ye thanks a mill for that, im even older than I first calculated when I was working it out I just did basic maths, my age in years X 365 days plus the amount of days so far this year since my bday, I forgot to allow for leap years Ive now discovered that I'm actually 9 days older that I thought I was this morning :eek:

Hey, try discovering that your birth date is closer to a (pre-war) Nazi outrage than today for a genuine TA.

eisenberg1

stephenl15 wrote: »

Any tips?

Don't smoke in bed and never park on a double yellow:D

Maximus Alexander

redfacedbear wrote: »

Hey, try discovering that your birth date is closer to a (pre-war) Nazi outrage than today for a genuine TA.

I just realised I'm now older than my dad was when I was born. :eek:

redfacedbear

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I just realised I'm now older than my dad was when I was born. :eek:

My elder daughter is 9. I have clear memories of being 9 - I really can't believe my parents were winging it the same way we seem to be.

fussyonion

My new neighbours (parents with three kids) are very nice and all, but my Jesus they're noisy.

The walls here are not that thick, so every time someone closes a cupboard, it sounds like someone slamming a wrecking ball against the wall.
Plus two of the kids have taken to playing football out the back and the sound of the ball smacking the wall is driving me mental.

Their baby seems to cry ALL. THE. TIME.
I'm not even joking; it does nothing else.

Then I can hear the kids whining all the time that they're hungry, they want to go out and play, they want this and that and the parents are pandering to their every whim.

I feel like telling them that when I was a kid, we wouldn't dream of making demands of our parents like that.

The mother has said to me outside "I hope we're not too noisy for you", but what can you say?
"Yeah you're actually really noisy, actually"? Can't say that.

Just gotta get over it, I suppose.

Another TA is that while it's really warm outside, my house is freezing.

seagull

Menas wrote: »

"Can I have two minutes?"

The most over abused question ever. It never takes two minutes, always takes longer and always ends with a WTF moment.

Take out stopwatch. Two minutes later - Time's up. Get up and walk away.

fiachr_a

That Damien guy who stands in for Joe Duffy is the WORST presenter I've ever heard. He can't string a sentence together without an em or a pause. Every single person he talks to is a more natural speaker than he. Who is that tool related to in RTÉ to get him that job?

rosie16

When people (strangers) call to the house and ask 'is my mother'. I'm a f**** adult treat me like one. I'm clearly not capable of handing adult responsibility .

When the ring-pull breaks, I'm inept at using can openers.

Medusa22

Woke up this morning to find that the cat had dragged a dead bird into the hallway, feathers everywhere. The poor bird My wife brought the poor thing outside and then we went back to sleep. Woke up again to find the now decapitated bird was back in the hallway. This time the bird and the cat were sent out, and the window was closed.

Menas

Drunk people in the playground ..smoking...having their own wee party. WTF?!

fussyonion

Had a guy call to my door earlier and the first thing he said was "Is this your house or your Mam and Dad's?"

And then he tried selling me a CCTV system.
I politely told him I'd have to consult my other half, but he was adamant on putting me down "provisionally" for it to be done.

I told him "No, don't put me down", to which he replied: "Ah sure I'll put you down and you can change your mind afterwards."
NO.

I won't change my mind AFTERWARDS. If I want it done, I'll tell you.
He tried getting me to sign this booking and I promptly told him "No, I'm not signing anything."
Bugger off.

kfallon

Menas wrote: »

Drunk people in the playground ..smoking...having their own wee party. WTF?!

:eek:

Flutes out? Pissing away???

lizzyman

fiachr_a wrote: »

That Damien guy who stands in for Joe Duffy is the WORST presenter I've ever heard. He can't string a sentence together without an em or a pause. Every single person he talks to is a more natural speaker than he. Who is that tool related to in RTÉ to get him that job?

To be fair, it is Joe Duffy. How could it get any worse?

retro:electro

For cold callers I always find saying "this isn't a good time to call" with a really sad face makes them apologise and back peddle as quick as they came!

sam34

inforfun wrote: »

That this is not standard in all shops that have trolleys.

What is that?

Boom_Bap

sam34 wrote: »

What is that?

Magnifying Glass attached to the trolley so you can read the finer text on packaging. Pretty clever idea.

failinis

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

So fcuking tired of listening to my neighbour hammer stuff. Every fcuking day there's something he's tinkering with. On Saturday he not only power hosed his own car, he did the 5 cars that belong to other neighbours. I'm not sure he even asked. Ordinarily it wouldn't bug me so much but Mr P was signed off sick for the rest of the week, he was on nights last night and is trying to get a bit of sleep. My Dad says yer man has worms and can't sit still, the neighbour, not Mr P.

My neighbour uses a chainsaw late at night and early in the morning almost every day a week. He has wood in big chunks which is makes smaller to sell as fire wood and it grates on me so much.

There is building works going on about 10metres from my house and on a saturday last week I was trying to have a lie in and got woke by some gob ****e singing "Oh danny boy" so loudly. What builder belts that out at 8am on a Saturday! Why that song! Argh

kfallon

Last night and tonight I come in from football and my eyes are itchy as fúck :mad: