Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

dartboardio

When the only cooking a grown man can do is throwing an oven pizza into the oven. Or similar, when a man can't turn on a washing machine.

Or when people act like their partner is a legend for 'babysitting' THEIR kids.. Or 'helping' around the house.'oh John is great for helping around the house he does the dishwasher once a day' It's his kids, and his house, it's just as much his responsibility as it is yours, you are living with a ten year old, and praising their chores.

Widdershins

A 39 year old acquaintances of mine was complaining because his friend's wife never makes him any sandwiches when he visits.
I gently pointed out that it's inappropriate and unreasonable to expect her to ("why the f*** should she?"). "She's sixty something!" He said. " The old ones usually do. Shur what else have they to do be doing?"

freshpopcorn

When your crossing the road with somebody and the other person is indecisive and when it's safe to cross they won't go.

freshpopcorn

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Bloggers/Instagrammers discussing sparkly dresses and tops for Christmas and calling them 'sequence'.

It's SEQUINS.

Lost count of how many times I've seen it now.

What's happening to spelling in this country? We all learnt basic spelling in primary school, yet the amount of people who seem unable to spell correctly is astonishing.

There's a problem there allright!

Widdershins

I logged into my Facebook account and just. Logged out again. People going to town on the statement by the father of the male victim of the London Bridge attack. They'd politicize anything, and when they start a post with "I hate to say it but...".

ohnonotgmail

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Bloggers/Instagrammers discussing sparkly dresses and tops for Christmas and calling them 'sequence'.

It's SEQUINS.

Lost count of how many times I've seen it now.

What's happening to spelling in this country? We all learnt basic spelling in primary school, yet the amount of people who seem unable to spell correctly is astonishing.

Keep away from the Facebook thread so. it will make your head explode.

RhubarbCrumble

freshpopcorn wrote: »

There's a problem there allright!

Well it's certainly a trivial annoyance :P

Antares35

Lilly Allen's hammed up English accent. Not the accent that annoys me, but the fact that it is deliberately hammed up. Listen to the line "I'm getting tired and I need someone to rely on" in Somewhere Only We Know. She says, "I'm Geh-ing tired" :mad:

Widdershins

Tye add?

Alecto

my bastard lungs being bastards today. That is all.

Omackeral

dartboardio wrote: »

When the only cooking a grown man can do is throwing an oven pizza into the oven. Or similar, when a man can't turn on a washing machine.

Man here. Cooked every night for my ex for about two years. One particular day I got in from work after a 12 hour shift absolutely shattered. She goes ''what are we having?'' I said I dunno what are you making? ''Me?!'' is what I was greeted with. I just stared at her until she goes ''Fine, sit right there!''. I was actually intrigued. She says ''I'll make you tea while we wait''. I was starting to enjoy this. Feet up. TV on.

She hands me what I could only describe as luke-warm milk water with a sorrowful looking tea bag floating in it. I thought to myself ''if this is what she's giving me to drink, I shudder to think of what's for the dinner''. I went into the kitchen and saw her putting a frozen Goodfellas pizza in to the microwave.... with the clingfilm still on it.




PS- I never once saw her even acknowledge the washing machine.

Omackeral

Antares35 wrote: »

Lilly Allen's hammed up English accent. Not the accent that annoys me, but the fact that it is deliberately hammed up.

I've heard it described as 'Mockney'

SMC92Ian

Ejits that live on social media. Oh hold on don't eat your pizza I wanna take a pic for instagram... hang on don't drink yet I've to post it on FB we're in Costa...

Antares35

SMC92Ian wrote: »

Ejits that live on social media. Oh hold on don't eat your pizza I wanna take a pic for instagram... hang on don't drink yet I've to post it on FB we're in Costa...

Also, the social media snobs - you know the ones who are "too good" for Facebook (and make a point of telling you they don't have an account for xyz reason) but pimp their sad lives all over Instagram. Like, why?:rolleyes:

Antares35

Widdershins wrote: »

My oh can cook well and do home and vehicle maintenance but it's the cooking that fascinates me. I love watching him cooking. My 1st ex thought cooking was beneath him. 2nd ex cooked for himself but was quite pampered, his mum cleans his house. But I can't criticise as I changed my 1st lightbulb at the grand age of 26. I know what a plug fuse looks like but not what to do with it. I've got halfway through changing a tyre before willingly let a local man take over. But isn't there an element of nobody ever teaching us in the 1st place?

I remember being shown how to change a plug as part of the Junior Cert science course. Still can't change one now though, mostly because I always relied on my Dad to do it and he always did it. When I lived away from home, there was always a housemate or partner who could do it. There's usually an element of "couldn't be bothered" to a lot of these things too.:D

CrowdedHouse

Antares35 wrote: »

I remember being shown how to change a plug as part of the Junior Cert science course.

There's a reason why appliances now have to come with (usually moulded) plugs - too many fire and/or electrocution hazards created by wannabe electricians :P

Antares35

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

There's a reason why appliances now have to come with (usually moulded) plugs - too many fire and/or electrocution hazards created by wannabe electricians :P

Trust me, I never wanted to be an electrician! I still have problems remembering which is the earth one - is it brown? :pac:

CrowdedHouse

Antares35 wrote: »

Trust me, I never wanted to be an electrician! I still have problems remembering which is the earth one - is it brown? :pac:

No....green/yellow QED

Widdershins

Having a flat hair day.

Widdershins

There was a young man with his mum or carer in a shop in Limerick earlier. Some woman wanted to get past them and said something but the lad didn't hear or understand. The woman says loudly "Jesus is he a bit slow or something?"
I thought, if you realise there's something up, surely you could give him some slack!

Omackeral

Impatient bastards getting the hump when stuck behind a learner driver. Bad enough if it's toward someone who is displaying an 'N' or 'L' plate but you're a particular level of trog scum if you beep at someone in an actual driving school car.

SMC92Ian

Antares35 wrote: »

Also, the social media snobs - you know the ones who are "too good" for Facebook (and make a point of telling you they don't have an account for xyz reason) but pimp their sad lives all over Instagram. Like, why?:rolleyes:

I don't have a Facebook because they wanted my ID and other forms of identification to prove I was me. **** off.

maudgonner

Dear Aldi,

I would like to purchase one of the below items, but in adult human size.



What do you mean you don't make them, that it would pull the radiator off the wall with the weight of me??! :mad:

Bah humbug to you too Aldi!!!

Antares35

The use of stupid tense when writing about a tragedy that has occurred in some rural part of Ireland. When people are quoted in the lazy article about it, it's all "he would have been very well known here" or "they would have been big GAA supporters" or "the parish would be very shaken up at this point in time"

1. It matters not one f*ck if someone was a GAA supporter or not, or how well known they were - a tragedy is a tragedy and is not diminished because someone is from a big city as opposed to a small town.

2. The word you are looking for is "were". They were well known. They were GAA supporters etc. "Would have been" implies that they would have been but for [insert reason].

And then I find myself wondering, do all people from rural Ireland talk like this when being interviewed about an accident, or is it just lazy journalism?

Pawwed Rig

Antares35 wrote: »

The use of stupid tense when writing about a tragedy that has occurred in some rural part of Ireland. When people are quoted in the lazy article about it, it's all "he would have been very well known here" or "they would have been big GAA supporters" or "the parish would be very shaken up at this point in time"

1. It matters not one f*ck if someone was a GAA supporter or not, or how well known they were - a tragedy is a tragedy and is not diminished because someone is from a big city as opposed to a small town.

2. The word you are looking for is "were". They were well known. They were GAA supporters etc. "Would have been" implies that they would have been but for [insert reason].

And then I find myself wondering, do all people from rural Ireland talk like this when being interviewed about an accident, or is it just lazy journalism?

Or when they quote some priest or moronic local councillor who clearly have no idea who the person is but saw a chance to get their name in the news. Parasites

Princess Calla

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Or when they quote some priest or moronic local councillor who clearly have no idea who the person is but saw a chance to get their name in the news. Parasites

I've already warned my mam if I die a tragic death I don't want 50 fcekin priests on the alter that usually come out of the woodwork on these occasions. One will do!

cj maxx

Why does no-one see my fcuking doorbell.
Delivery, health visitors, etc all tap the door while theres a working doorbell right there.

Loafing Oaf

cjmc wrote: »

Why does no-one see my fcuking doorbell.
Delivery, health visitors, etc all tap the door while theres a working doorbell right there.

Are you Jack White?:p



My TA for the day, people taking ages at ATMs. You'd swear they were designing the next iphone or something.:mad:

Also, pulled a muscle or something in my back tying my shoe this morning:(

Widdershins

People who send lurid memes. Fine if it's to your partner. Not ok to send to a friend. Basic manners. Post it on your FB newsreels by all means but not in a PM or text. That's skating close to thin ice.


I recently had a stressful day and a sort of friend text'd me "how are you?" . "Not bad, but need a hug!"
Cue meme of a couple heavy petting (dressed but still) and kissing. Followed by a meme of an orangutang looking dopey,and it was a sort of full frontal photo iyswim. "When you going to let me put my thang in you" it said. This could be a TA about poor communication skills too.

dubstarr

Widdershins wrote: »

People who send lurid memes. Fine if it's to your partner. Not ok to send to a friend. Basic manners. Post it on your FB newsreels by all means but not in a PM or text. That's skating close to thin ice.


I recently had a stressful day and a sort of friend text'd me "how are you?" . "Not bad, but need a hug!"
Cue meme of a couple heavy petting (dressed but still) and kissing. Followed by a meme of an orangutang looking dopey,and it was a sort of full frontal photo iyswim. "When you going to let me put my thang in you" it said. This could be a TA about poor communication skills too.

Maybe they fancy you.And that was their "way in" so to speak:D

freshpopcorn

George Lee's voice!

Widdershins

dubstarr wrote: »

Maybe they fancy you.And that was their "way in" so to speak:D

Or maybe they try it on with everyone...but Yes he has admitted as much. He's gone quiet now since I mentioned my fiance lol.

I get an worse impression when I see what he posts on his Facebook. 99% of it is about women, fairly backward and chauvinistic sentiments.

He's too old not to be able to express interest in a respectful polite way. He's even been married himself.

whisky_galore

Antares35 wrote: »

The use of stupid tense when writing about a tragedy that has occurred in some rural part of Ireland. When people are quoted in the lazy article about it, it's all "he would have been very well known here" or "they would have been big GAA supporters" or "the parish would be very shaken up at this point in time"

1. It matters not one f*ck if someone was a GAA supporter or not, or how well known they were - a tragedy is a tragedy and is not diminished because someone is from a big city as opposed to a small town.

2. The word you are looking for is "were". They were well known. They were GAA supporters etc. "Would have been" implies that they would have been but for [insert reason].

And then I find myself wondering, do all people from rural Ireland talk like this when being interviewed about an accident, or is it just lazy journalism?

The use of clichés in the above.

I've never heard of any part of rural Ireland that wasn't a "close knit community".

And it's all about "coming to terms" with whatever.

Insert something about GAA and a from well known family and you got rural tragedy bingo.

freshpopcorn

I was in a shop Today trying to buy a Christmas themed item. It was out of stock. I asked when they'd have it back in and I was told.
After Christmas.

Kitty6277

People making plans they have no intention of sticking to! And the worst thing is it isn’t even the first time it’s happened

MuffinTop86

I watched a lot of Ally Mc Beal and thought my dream career was to be a barrister.
But I wonder when I read the “in the courts”,- how they feel about defending people like the local knacker all the way up to child sex offenders.

Was reading a thread where they were asking things like the colour of the curtains in order to put a doubt as to the person’s memory. Would you not feel like a bit of a scumbag yourself?

freshpopcorn

Kitty6277 wrote: »

People making plans they have no intention of sticking to! And the worst thing is it isn’t even the first time it’s happened

I'm totally baffled by this.
If I make a commitment or agreement with somebody I'd generally do my best to stick to it.
If I couldn't I'd tell the person in advance why I may have an issue.
The worst is when somebody says that they'll do something and then back out of without even having the courtesy to tell the person that plans have changed.
My mother has recently being really left down by somebody and even tough she's not saying it. I know she's upset about it.
I actually think this is the most I've being annoyed with a person in a long time.

Widdershins

About the lawyers grilling victims about details a traumatised mind might not remember, personally I think if they can't all be shot then they should be sued for re-activating trauma. It's sick. They did something awful a bit like that in Grace Millanes case but she couldn't defend herself or answer their grubby 'point's.


About people making an offer or promise of their own volition, I won't put it on Boards as too identifying to the person, but I suspect it's a facet of mental illness. Walter nutty personalities type thing. Delusions of grandeur/largesse/big ideas.

Feisar

Politicians who mispronounce words on the radio, saying pacific instead of specific for example.

Purgative

ATMs that ask how much you want.
- 120
- This machine only has 50s your transaction has been cancelled
- You b4stard why not let me change the amount. Alright I'll take my card out and try again. There's a queue of people behind me and they all think I'm an idiot for forgetting the PIN

LirW

Purgative wrote: »

ATMs that ask how much you want.
- 120
- This machine only has 50s your transaction has been cancelled
- You b4stard why not let me change the amount. Alright I'll take my card out and try again. There's a queue of people behind me and they all think I'm an idiot for forgetting the PIN

ATMs not giving out 10 euro notes. That together with various school payments that always have really specific amounts. Wrecks my head. Nobody wants a 50 euro note for God's sake.

LirW

Feisar wrote: »

Politicians who mispronounce words on the radio, saying pacific instead of specific for example.

I read that in Paschal Donohue's voice and now I'm annoyed.

ohnonotgmail

I have not been warm all day. My feet in particular are like blocks of ice.

Feisar

LirW wrote: »

ATMs not giving out 10 euro notes. That together with various school payments that always have really specific amounts. Wrecks my head. Nobody wants a 50 euro note for God's sake.

I remember that from school, £3.45 plus a half eaten scone for some silly outing or other.

LirW

Feisar wrote: »

I remember that from school, £3.45 plus a half eaten scone for some silly outing or other.

Just to paint a picture of the inconvenience:
Kid needs to pay 13 euros for a school trip. I have a tenner on me but rarely bigger coins than 20 cents. He needs the exact amount in an envelope.
So in order to get 3 Euro I have to go to the ATM, get 20 Euros out. My village has exactly one ATM. Then go to the shop and ask them to break it down into a tenner, a fiver and coins. Now comes the societal pressure, you can't be a bad person not supporting the local economy so you buy something sweet you don't want and then still have to ask if they could give some of the change in coins. Followed by an annoyed stare because about every shop in this country doesn't have enough change as is.
Now you have the money together and hope your kid doesn't lose it.
It's 2019, we send robots to the Mars but schools still operate an envelope cash policy.

Tacitus Kilgore

LirW wrote: »

Just to paint a picture of the inconvenience:
Kid needs to pay 13 euros for a school trip. I have a tenner on me but rarely bigger coins than 20 cents. He needs the exact amount in an envelope.
So in order to get 3 Euro I have to go to the ATM, get 20 Euros out. My village has exactly one ATM. Then go to the shop and ask them to break it down into a tenner, a fiver and coins. Now comes the societal pressure, you can't be a bad person not supporting the local economy so you buy something sweet you don't want and then still have to ask if they could give some of the change in coins. Followed by an annoyed stare because about every shop in this country doesn't have enough change as is.
Now you have the money together and hope your kid doesn't lose it.
It's 2019, we send robots to the Mars but schools still operate an envelope cash policy.

Local school here uses revolut, might be worth suggesting

Widdershins

People who feel the need to inform you of their impending bowel movement, it's anticipated size and consistency.

"I'm going to make a dirty great big s***", for example.

It has to be an illness! Like a fixation with your own bum!

the beer revolu

Car parks and "per hour or part thereof" pricing.
How can they get away with charging €5 an hour but also charging €5 for five minutes??? We've had per second billing on phones for decades, now. Why can't car parks be forced to charge per minute??

Maybe I should contact Conor Pope:rolleyes:

dubstarr

I didnt think it was possible.But i have found another type of gob****e to annoy me.

Went to the loo in Blanch,and some woman was basically dancingat teh door of the loo.Like she couldnt decide whether she wanted in or out.

She moves,i go in.And the lock is broken.Why wouldnt you tell someone that.Like seriously.

Bredabe

Last year I lent one of my girls a not much used microwave as she had to stop breastfeeding, baby is weaned now and she sent the microwave back.

TA, she sent it back by a courier, which was more expensive than the microwave and unnecessary, now its back, I cant remember how to use it anymore.