Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

Travelling stupidly early and trying to stay awake all day so I sleep tonight and am alert for a short course I'm starting tomorrow. I was just on the phone to someone and was told I was speaking gibberish. For a second I thought he was talking about a foreign language.

I.am.so.tired.

Princess Calla

Being small is always an annoyance but right now I'm about 2 inches too short to lower myself out of the attic safely. It would be fine if the floor wasn't laid flush with the opening and I had something to grip.

Now I have to wait for himself to put stuff up in the attic and he inspects every single box.....I'm a hoarder so don't really blame him.

He refuses a stira for same reasons.

Trivially annoyed I can't squirrel stuff away.

Sgt Hartman

Every single time I go into my local Dunnes Stores I end up getting delayed at the checkout by one thing or another.

Yesterday while queuing up at the express checkout where the server was on her own with a long queue of people, a manager comes along and holds up everything by interrupting her to get €150 in €10 notes.

Today is was some bint with a big fistful of money off vouchers causing a big hold up at the checkout. She was adamant that she had €27 worth of vouchers while the checkout girl said she had €22. When the back and forth bickering finally ended and the bint left I shoved all my shopping into my bags in a foul temper and stormed off. This is at least the 5th time something like this has happened in the last month. I wouldn't even bother going to the Dunnes in question anymore if it wasn't only 2 minutes from my house The Lidl is at the other side of town but I'll do most of my shopping there instead from now on. Middle aged/elderly auld wagons and s big pile of money off vouchers are a nightmare combination.

castletownman

Over a week ago I TA'd about an artist letting me down with a piece I got commissioned. Well a week on, and a few texts and emails later, and he seems to have vanished from the face of earth. No idea when/if the portrait will be done before Christmas.

These people may be gifted with paint and brushes but they have no business acumen whatsoever.

dubstarr

castletownman wrote: »

Over a week ago I TA'd about an artist letting me down with a piece I got commissioned. Well a week on, and a few texts and emails later, and he seems to have vanished from the face of earth. No idea when/if the portrait will be done before Christmas.

These people may be gifted with paint and brushes but they have no business acumen whatsoever.

I hope you didnt pay the full amount to them

Widdershins

Artists are notoriously flaky and tbh I struggle to merge art and business. Once you start charging, it feels like you're working on a production line, it hurts the spontaneity and creativity. But charge you he did so he has to have the integrity to fulfil the commission.

Widdershins

Always ta'd me to see people so busy looking for what they could get, they don't see and value and enjoy what they have. People seem very confused about what's really important. In life and love I mean.

Shouldn't care, as I do value, and I am valued, but it niggles me

castletownman

Widdershins wrote: »

Artists are notoriously flaky and tbh I struggle to merge art and business. Once you start charging, it feels like you're working on a production line, it hurts the spontaneity and creativity. But charge you he did so he has to have the integrity to fulfil the commission.

'I refuse to work for the MAN' sort of culture. To answer your previous question, paid the deposit only so thankfully only half as a bad as it could be.

Widdershins

Might be. Sometimes it's just hard to work to someone else's vision and timescale. Doesn't excuse his behaviour one bit though.

Your Face

I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

NewbridgeIR

Echo the comment re flaky artists. It's like as if being organised or having a business sense is "uncool.....maaaaaan"

Widdershins

I think that's more crusty hippy than artists to be fair...we're not all wastes of space. But you can't be good at everything and juggle everything all the time. He does sound like a Messer of course

apieceofcake

People talking (or should I say whispering) the whole way through a film in the cinema. Infuriating and so rude.

HildaOgdenx

'Hear hear' not fecking 'here here' ... think about it!

dubstarr

Widdershins wrote: »

Might be. Sometimes it's just hard to work to someone else's vision and timescale. Doesn't excuse his behaviour one bit though.

Then dont take the money,you cant have it both ways.

ILoveYourVibes

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Echo the comment re flaky artists. It's like as if being organised or having a business sense is "uncool.....maaaaaan"

Being overly commercial isn't cool.

ILoveYourVibes

castletownman wrote: »

Over a week ago I TA'd about an artist letting me down with a piece I got commissioned. Well a week on, and a few texts and emails later, and he seems to have vanished from the face of earth. No idea when/if the portrait will be done before Christmas.

These people may be gifted with paint and brushes but they have no business acumen whatsoever.

I had the opposite issue as an artist with a person with supposedly good business acumen.

He commissioned 8 pieces i guess you would call it a mix of graphic design and art. So i do 8 pieces for an agreed price and its done well ahead of time. I sent them he loves them and wants them all. (which set alarm bells off usually a client would want some small change) it just made it seem unrealistic.

So he sends an email asking for an invoice. I send it out.

Then nothing ..then i notice something odd ....he is using artwork by a REALLY famous illustrator ...whom I am familiar with an know a tiny bit as an acquaintance ..its unlikely he has the funds to use this illustrator as they are well known internationally and award winning and i am not sure they would let him use their work anyway its not the right branding for them.

So i ask the illustrator in question has he given permission for the guy to use his work. He says no and thanks me for telling him and he will contact the guy who owns the site about using his work without permission. A few days later the guy takes the artwork off his site. So i am guessing now I think this guy is a time waster.

I send one more email saying he can pay me within two weeks or the deal is off.

He sends me this CRAZY long email telling me how good his business is ...how much traffic it generates but he has just bought a house recently and is low on cash ..and can i wait until he has his ducks in a row. Bear in mind i think the work only came to about 400 euro...so i mean its quite obvious he was never ever serious and just intended to nick people's work from places online for as long as he didn't get caught.

I politely say no and i regret that he didn't tell me sooner as i had wasted a lot of time on doing the work for him.

1800_Ladladlad

A 2 Litre bottle of coke was in around the €2 mark 2-3 years ago. Now for a 1.75 Litre bottle of Coke is €2.19 roughly. Less for more. What the actual ****.

freshpopcorn

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

A 2 Litre bottle of coke was in around the €2 mark 2-3 years ago. Now for a 1.75 Litre bottle of Coke is €2.19 roughly. Less for more. What the actual ****.

Tell me where your getting these 1.75L bottles. All I see is 1.5L bottles.

NewbridgeIR

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Being overly commercial isn't cool.

There’s no need for the artist to compromise their vision or make their style more appealing to the masses. Just don’t leave people waiting for replies or updates. Try and stick to a deadline and if a delay is likely, let your customer know in advance.

Widdershins

dubstarr wrote: »

Then dont take the money,you cant have it both ways.

That's what I said.

Pawwed Rig

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

A 2 Litre bottle of coke was in around the €2 mark 2-3 years ago. Now for a 1.75 Litre bottle of Coke is €2.19 roughly. Less for more. What the actual ****.

Sugar tax?

Sgt Hartman

Why are songs like You Get What You Give by The New Radicals and Smooth by Santanta still being played to death on radio in 2019??

Widdershins

Speaking of flakes and liabilities. Dont think they dont care about money. They can be quick enough to take the money and have an eye to screw people over.

Apparently a woman I've known for about 6 years *In person* took umbrage because I liked someone else's comment but not hers on my Facebook post. I probably didn't even see hers.
And our mutual friend who I've known much longer *in person*and have more history with than she does was "very chummy" to me. I've been promoting and praising the jumped up clown to everyone with a scintilla of interest in what she does in the hope it might bring good connections her way. Mercenary *****. When I started publicising my own work she made weird comments on a group photo someone shared of my work, assuming I wasnt actually in the group (id just joined)about the environmental impact of the processes involved. I asked directly what was she referring to and laid out the facts and she vanished.

Bloody hippy nutters can fester in their harem pants and paranoia now. They deserve each other

Widdershins

*point out worrying side effects of a common drug
* outraged person storms in and informs you that they've been taking it for years and they're still here

Instant death isn't one of the side effects. ..

GBX

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Why are songs like You Get What You Give by The New Radicals and Smooth by Santanta still being played to death on radio in 2019??

I'd hazard a guess they could be due to play gigs here soon so!

Living Off The Splash

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Middle aged/elderly auld wagons and s big pile of money off vouchers are a nightmare combination.

Behind one in Dunnes Stores last week, not such an auld one. She hands the cashier not just the money off vouchers but the whole of the shopping receipt from her previous shops. Too lazy to tear the voucher off the bottom. Leaves it for the cashier to do.

Then she hands in pages of the 50c off booklets that you get in the post and asks the cashier to scan all of them to see if they are acceptable.

We don't mind waiting behind you.....lazy cow.

Cantona's Collars

People, especially women dressing as if they are going on an Arctic expedition when they are literally walking from the door to the car which is parked as near as possible to said door.
It's Ireland,not Northern Finland and you aren't driving an open top vehicle,so why do you need a giant wooly hat on in a car?

SMC92Ian

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Sugar tax?

Sugar tax is bollocks, why is the sugar free Sauce with NO SUGAR dearer than the one FULL OF SUGAR. :rolleyes:

maudgonner

Finland just elected a 34 year-old Prime Minister.

I feel old. And under-achieving.

Bredabe

I have a musical ear, but no ability to play anything. One side effect of this is that I remember distinctive rifs and the like.

Last night I came across the original version of Elbow's on a day like this, I recognised the opening strings in a second but it took ages and ages to place where I had heard it before. when I did it opened a flood gates of emotion which was very draining and left me really really shaky all evening/night.

This morning still emotionally shakey, my carshare buddy turned his radio up as he 'loved this song', which mentioned christmas shopping on grafton st and meeting ppl off trains for visits, resurrecting my latent homesickness.

Music is trying to drive me to a breakdown!

gifted

I'm annoyed with......TIME....or more the fact of how quick it goes.
Sitting here inside in work and reminiscing of being younger and me and my siblings playing on my dad's back during the summer, only feels like yesterday. In the blink of an eye it's gone from having a strong dad who played with us to a frail father who we now look after.
My parents are living by themselves now, gone are the days of they having 7 children with them and the home been a hive of energy. It seems to have happened in a blink of an eye.I grew up with 5 sisters and 1 brother in a 3 bedroomed house, laughs...fights...tears...but 9 of us always there, now we very rarely spend time together, our own families have taken us over but it doesn't stop me from thinking of the great family time we had when we were younger and sometimes wishing we could go back to those times.
I'm 48 now and before people tell me I'm still young I know that but that does not stop the time going too fast. I've 3 chicks and when I look at photos from a few years ago I can't stop thinking of how the time is flying. I'm watching my chicks getting older and I'm dreading the time where I can't carry them on my back, hence I'm always messing and playing with them, cos I dread the day when I look at them and realise I'm not able too anymore. It's not right that it's going to fast.

Dam you Time!

Apologies for the rant folks...move along now.

maudgonner

Dear Aldi,

I recently purchased your Owl Mug. I am now blind and bleeding from both eyes, thanks to having impaled myself on its 'ears'.

Happy Christmas,

Maud

(This is my second Aldi TA in a week, but seriously, who thought this was a good idea?!)

RhubarbCrumble

Trapped with two of Mr Crumble's aunts at a family gathering over the weekend. One of them was told by the other that she needed to be 'pacific' about something. She replied with "I AM being pacific" and was told that "Well, you need to more pacific so".

After we left I told Mr Crumble that I was done with his family gatherings, and I was quite SPECIFIC about it.

Bredabe

Couple of week's ago, I was working one on one with a colleague from a uk office, he kept changing what time he wanted to start at, then he demanded a map of how to get to the venue.

At the end of an exhausting morning we head off to the only bus heading back to civilization for the next hour, turns out we were getting off in the same area(it has 3/4 bus stops in a short space), so off he gets with me, as we are headed to much the same place. He complains to me on the way to his venue, that I had gotten off at the wrong stop and this was a much longer way than he usually takes! on this walk he criticized my handwriting(justified, but he knew this ahead of time)

Today I get an email from him asking if I would like to have dinner with him when he is back in the country for his next training!

Ta that such miserable,cranky ppl think I would want to spend anymore time than Im paid for, with them!

mikhail

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Trapped with two of Mr Crumble's aunts at a family gathering over the weekend. One of them was told by the other that she needed to be 'pacific' about something. She replied with "I AM being pacific" and was told that "Well, you need to more pacific so".

After we left I told Mr Crumble that I was done with his family gatherings, and I was quite SPECIFIC about it.

That speech error is associated with a specific minor defect in hearing. They literally can't hear the difference. You're annoyed at a disability.

partyguinness

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Why are songs like You Get What You Give by The New Radicals and Smooth by Santanta still being played to death on radio in 2019??

They were both in the charts in 1999 which may just be a co incidence.

New Home

maudgonner wrote: »

Dear Aldi,

I recently purchased your Owl Mug. I am now blind and bleeding from both eyes, thanks to having impaled myself on its 'ears'.

Happy Christmas,

Maud

(This is my second Aldi TA in a week, but seriously, who thought this was a good idea?!)

Didn't you read the warnings? It says "suitable for right-handed people with no cheeks only - dimples preferred".

1800_Ladladlad

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Tell me where your getting these 1.75L bottles. All I see is 1.5L bottles.

Are you getting the 1.5L for the price I stated I get mine in the local tesco/supervalue.

1800_Ladladlad

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Sugar tax?

That wouldn't explain the reduction of 0.25L and the price going up tho. Thats where my confusion is

Alecto

I really really really want to binge on chocolate. I am also really really really agoraphobic today. Ugggghh. I hate you stupid brain. Just go outside woman, dammit.

Feisar

Packets of ham/cheese with a "peel here" tab, fuppin' never works.

freshpopcorn

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

Are you getting the 1.5L for the price I stated I get mine in the local tesco/supervalue.

As far as I know you must buying old stock.
The 1.75l have being discontinued for a good while now.

https://www.coca-cola.ie/faq/why-have-the-175L-bottles-shrunk

Trigger Happy

I think my body’s temperature regulator is on the blink. Am either roasting or freezing.

Gwynplaine

Poor table manners

Tacitus Kilgore

My own scaldiness.



You know when you think you're surrounded by assholes, but it turns out that it's just you? How the fuck do i get out of this

Widdershins

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I think my body’s temperature regulator is on the blink. Am either roasting or freezing.

Maybe you're on the andropause....

TA my appetite goes on holiday when I'm stressed. Determinedly regained my curves and I don't want to lose them again.

moonage

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Trapped with two of Mr Crumble's aunts at a family gathering over the weekend. One of them was told by the other that she needed to be 'pacific' about something. She replied with "I AM being pacific" and was told that "Well, you need to more pacific so".

After we left I told Mr Crumble that I was done with his family gatherings, and I was quite SPECIFIC about it.

I bet that decision made you feel more pacific.

New Home

moonage wrote: »

I bet that decision made you feel more pacific.

I'm sure Rhubarb could care less. Literally. :pac:

Sgt Hartman

partyguinness wrote: »

They were both in the charts in 1999 which may just be a co incidence.

I know it's the 20th anniversary of these songs this year but these 2 songs have actually been played to death in Irish radio SINCE 1999