Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

MuffinTop86

Poochie05 wrote: »

When a sponsored post with an M&S discount code shows up in your feed and you go shopping online for a few things, only for the post to have disappeared when you go to put in the code

Should have written it down

I got an email with 20% off womenswear using code GETSETFORSPRING if that’s any use to you.

Antares35

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Special place in hell for people who treat animals like they do in those backyard puppy farms.

Which reminds me of another TA. The press bleating on about new legislation to protect dogs in puppy farms etc. Ireland is the land of legislation that is never enforced. What good are their animal welfare laws when offenders are rarely punished... they are a fairytale:(

Shady Grady

That some people are so quick to roll over when dealing with scumbags.

Poochie05

MuffinTop86 wrote: »

I got an email with 20% off womenswear using code GETSETFORSPRING if that’s any use to you.

Thanks! It eventually came back up after a while so I got the 20% off a few bits.

Watching Claire Byrne ask questions - with a straight face - beginning with
"How do you justify?", when asking a TD, Minister, Union Leader etc a question referencing salaries/expenses when she's probably on 1/2 mill a year.

Even worse when for added shame she talks about the homeless/people on trolleys.

Sgt Hartman

No air conditioning and Q102 blaring from every speaker on the bus at 6.30am in the morning. This isn't what I paid my annual bus ticket for. A complete lack of cop on from the driver!!

Gamer Bhoy 89

Every rent agency wants me to meet them to view a house at 5pm. I work from 9 - 6.

Antares35

People who give money to chancers who are out begging for their next fix or whatever. You know the type - they usually approach people sitting in beer gardens, with some sob story about how they're short 11 euro for their train to Wexford and their partner threw them out etc. There was one woman who frequented the Bull and Castle beer garden for several years, and every time I saw her, she was telling people she was pregnant. It was biologically impossible for her to be continuously pregnant for the time she said she was!

If people just stopped giving their hard earned money to these chancers, they would eventually stop asking. Also, when I smoked, people leeching cigarettes. Buy your own.

Sephiroth_dude

Antares35 wrote: »

People who give money to chancers who are out begging for their next fix or whatever. You know the type - they usually approach people sitting in beer gardens, with some sob story about how they're short 11 euro for their train to Wexford and their partner threw them out etc. There was one woman who frequented the Bull and Castle beer garden for several years, and every time I saw her, she was telling people she was pregnant. It was biologically impossible for her to be continuously pregnant for the time she said she was!

If people just stopped giving their hard earned money to these chancers, they would eventually stop asking. Also, when I smoked, people leeching cigarettes. Buy your own.

In London there fierce cheeky , they approach you and "any change love?" Insert sob story here , followed by I'll accept cash , cheque or card :eek: ! Who in there right mind is gonna give their card away to one chancers.

SAMTALK

The amount of election leaflets coming through the letterbox . 1 for each member of the family from the same candidate.

Monday saw 28 leaflets . Ridiculous

gormdubhgorm

storker wrote: »

Pat Kenny's insistence on pronouncing Greta Thunberg's surname as "Thunberry". Yes Pat, maybe it is how they pronounce it in Sweden, but you're supposed to be communicating in English, not showing off your knowledge.

TA'd by Pat Kenny in general actually. Not for the first time.

https://forvo.com/word/greta_thunberg/

I dunno I would say fair play to him. On the other side of things it annoys me when the English cannot say Doherty or Keogh or Kinsella correctly.
I would not like an English person to tell an Irish person they are saying Doherty, Keogh, and Kinsella incorrectly.

In soccer the good commentators always try and pronounce the players names the way they are pronounced in thier country.

I know Pat can be annoying and Greta 'Toonberry' can be annoying too - but on this occasion Pat is spot on.

Whestsidestory

Correct pronunciation can sound a bit cringe though for example when George Hamilton pronounces Edin Hazard as 'azar' or when you hear Cairns in Australia pronounced as 'Cains' by some globtrotting Irish gob****e

madmaggie

Upset tummy today. I'm staying near the bathroom! A neighbour gave me a packet of gf biscuits, which was kind. They weren't my usual brand, so I'm paying for it today. Moan over now.

Bredabe

Health care professionals telling me x substance is the contributory cause of Y condition.
They proceed to up sell me their service to 'cure' my addition to x, by repeating all the info I already learned, from someone better qualified in the area than they are.

the beer revolu

UPS.
Another company inadvertently left some stuff in our work place.
They asked us to pack up the stuff and they would arrange for collection.
UPS duly arrived and took the stuff away.

Then they send us an invoice and take the money by dd.:eek:

We didn't contact them, didn't sign anything or request any service, yet they invoiced and charged us.

I've just spent 20 minutes on the phone with them and the upshot is I have to send a form to the other company who must fill it in and return it.
Just refund the money you had no right to take in the first place and sort your own sh1t out afterwards.

I'm more than trivially annoyed about this!!

randombar

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

In London there fierce cheeky , they approach you and "any change love?" Insert sob story here , followed by I'll accept cash , cheque or card :eek: ! Who in there right mind is gonna give their card away to one chancers.

There's a well kept lad on the Mahon Point junction (coming from the tunnel) with a sign saying "living his car, landlord threw him out etc.". Easily there two years, rain, hail or shine. I've seen plenty of notes handed to him. Before that he was doing the same thing down the end of the airport hill by the south link for a couple of years. Poor guy has been living in his car ages . . . . .

Princess Calla

Walking down the road earlier, path is wide (fits 2 adults very comfortably 3 at a squeeze) grass verge that's about 6 foot wide between path and road.

So anyway pushing the pram down the path, 2 women walking towards me. I keep to the left leaving abit of a gap between me and the wall. I also stop to let them pass.

On no this is not good enough for one of the women who rather than just walk in single file past the pram refuses to give up her trajectory beside the wall and proceeds to squeeze in between the wall and the pram.

As the pram was stopped I had to try manoeuvre it in such a way that gave that dope enough space to get through while not milling into her mate that was on the other side of the pram.

Next time I won't be polite, I'll view them as skittles as I plough through the middle of them.

Ragnar Lothbrok

TA that this thread is being used by one particular poster as a vehicle for spouting anti-Sinn Féin rubbish.

I really like this thread and don't want it to become a place for political mud-slinging, whichever party it's aimed at. There's plenty of other threads to contribute to if you feel the need to show your loathing of SF, Millicently.

Widdershins

Received the wrong item twice this week from different people.

Mam of 4

Occular migraine , and always the same eye/side affected .

madmaggie

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Occular migraine , and always the same eye/side affected .

Horrible, horrible thing. You have my sympathy.

Blitzkrieger

Had a lady stop to allow me to cross the road earlier. Nice gesture and all, but I was already stepping out into the road to cross as she was the last car before it was clear. Because she stopped I had to hesitate to see wtf she was doing, then hurry across. All in all I'd have preferred she kept going!

Shortly after that I came to a roundabout with a car already on it, and though it was coming from the opposite side and had no right indicator on I stopped. Which was a good thing, because she took the third exit without indicating once. As did the four cars behind her. FFS people - the lord moves in mysterious ways but you don't have to....

Mam of 4

madmaggie wrote: »

Horrible, horrible thing. You have my sympathy.

At least the sparkling , shimmering aura has gone now thankfully , just the residual headache left , that I can cope with .
Sorry you and others suffer with them too .

iamwhoiam

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Occular migraine , and always the same eye/side affected .

My sympathy Mam . I get them too and each time I think I am going blind . It’s horrible .

vriesmays

Are these migraines a headache.

Your Face

I did something to my knee today at work.

I had a noticeable limp when leaving to go to the car.
Yet people still walked right up to me as if I was going to somehow get out of the way.

1. I can't
2. Look where you're going
3. I'm 18 stone - you won't move me.

pinkyeye

Blitzkrieger wrote: »

Had a lady stop to allow me to cross the road earlier. Nice gesture and all, but I was already stepping out into the road to cross as she was the last car before it was clear. Because she stopped I had to hesitate to see wtf she was doing, then hurry across. All in all I'd have preferred she kept going!

Shortly after that I came to a roundabout with a car already on it, and though it was coming from the opposite side and had no right indicator on I stopped. Which was a good thing, because she took the third exit without indicating once. As did the four cars behind her. FFS people - the lord moves in mysterious ways but you don't have to....

I was just thinking earlier does anyone else get annoyed when someone else stops to let them cross the road because then you feel like you have to hurry and they'll see your stupid run and your belly wobbling. :D:D

Leg End Reject

pinkyeye wrote: »

I was just thinking earlier does anyone else get annoyed when someone else stops to let them cross the road because then you feel like you have to hurry and they'll see your stupid run and your belly wobbling. :D:D

And the fear of tripping and face-planting yourself to the ground.

Harleen Quinzel

Mind yourself mam, I hope you’re feeling better x

I’m annoyed that I’m tired, but also too comfortable to move to go to bed.

purple hands

In the checkout queue in Aldi. Person behind keeps bumping into me. Won't make the people ahead of me go faster love!

Ol' Donie

achmairt wrote: »

Dermot Bannon is everywhere. I don't watch his boring programmes but then he pops up on adverts about anything and everything. Can't stand him...

I've no problem with him, but he is Everywhere!

The last day before the broadcast moratorium on the election, and we have Prime Time & Prime Time Extra separated for an hour by Dermot Bannon's Deadly Gafs or whatever it's called.

Widdershins

People trying to define, label and neatly box me as quickly as possible.

An example: I laughed at something and the other person immediately concluded "slapstick is your humour, so".

Actually I like a wide variety of comedy, especially jokes that make you think.

I drank my tea weak and milky years ago during a bout of nausea, and someone keeps informing me I like weak, milky tea. I did once, am I now stuck with it forever? What is wrong with some peoples brains that they automatically seek to reduce and limit me to a few narrow labels...the worst being, because I was quiet for a little while mainly because the person was behaving oddly and I was unnerved, they slapped the label.'shy' on me. I'm anything but. I pointed out that was early on and for a brief time. They conceded "you opened up a lot but at the start". So....the entirety of my dealings with you are ignored because of fifteen minutes of being uneasily subdued around you, you great hairy weirdo ape?

Oh another one. I went to a party ONCE so now any time I mention I'm going out they assume I'm going to a party.

SusieBlue

Had my most recent colposcopy & laser treatment to remove pre-cancerous cervical cells at the start of September and still haven’t gotten my results back.
In my 3 years attending this clinic, this is the longest that I’ve had to wait.
I’ve rang a few times for updates but apparently there’s a huge backlog and they can’t even tell me if my biopsies have been assessed yet, let alone when I’ll have an answer.

TA that I’m now worried the sample will have gone out of date before testing and the result won’t be accurate, and I have no way of knowing.
Why can’t these serious matters be dealt with in a timely manner. A person could become terminally ill in the 5 months I’ve been waiting.
I pity the next election campaigner that calls to my door because they’ll be hearing all about this. I can’t even sleep for worrying about it.

cj maxx

TA is Liverpool have played 25 games and have 73 points.
Almost a perfect season so far apart from that blip

Better Than Christ

Euronet ATM machines that have replaced the Ulster Bank and Bank of Ireland ones in most shops. Between choosing a language, entering your PIN number and then manually entering the sum of money you want to withdraw (€20 isn't one of the default options, for some reason) and accepting/declining a receipt, you have to press a total of thirteen buttons to make a single withdrawal. And then it tells you to take your money a whole ten seconds before dispensing it.

Sick of it, tbh. Whoever said life was easy, they haven't got a clue.

Deja Boo

Mam of 4 wrote: »

At least the sparkling , shimmering aura has gone now thankfully , just the residual headache left , that I can cope with .
Sorry you and others suffer with them too .

am so sorry you are affected by them mam the waves and blindspots are scary

Ruby Ring

TA at having to attend meetings about meetings

Antares35

Every time there's a vote, RTE dust off the same old article they use to tell us that "Islanders are the first to vote". Who cares? This is not news. It happens every time. We get it. They live remotely, the ballot box is sent over a day early etc. Go away with your stupid non news story.

I'm not a morning person and will usually not talk to anyone except my dog until I hit work which suits me fine. I need time to emerge from myself in the morning. When my parents are here they feckin bounce around the place being nice but actually just annoying me. They'll make my breakfast and I have to eat with them. They'll touch my toast by taking it out of the toaster (and I've already a TA about people who dont wash their hands and face upon rising) and all the questions and chat is like an onslaught. I can feel myself physically reconciling from the effort of interaction and it exhausts me.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

Antares35 wrote: »

I'm not a morning person and will usually not talk to anyone except my dog until I hit work which suits me fine. I need time to emerge from myself in the morning. When my parents are here they feckin bounce around the place being nice but actually just annoying me. They'll make my breakfast and I have to eat with them. They'll touch my toast by taking it out of the toaster (and I've already a TA about people who dont wash their hands and face upon rising) and all the questions and chat is like an onslaught. I can feel myself physically reconciling from the effort of interaction and it exhausts me.

That's okay buddy... you're just an a$$hat!!

Plenty of them around in this life. Don't beat yourself up about it too much!

There is no such thing as a "morning person". Everybody is tired first thing in the morning. Some people just make zero effort to be nice to anyone!

Rubberlegs

TA that election flyers have my address on them. I never put anything with an address on in the bin so I have to tear it off of each of them and throw it on the fire.

TA, Srameen is gone. I enjoyed his posts and maybe am gullible but I took him at his word.. I think he was genuine. :(

Ragnar Lothbrok

TA that I have to resist the urge to get involved in a pointless argument, when the person you question deliberately misunderstands what point you are trying to make, just so they can spout off again.

Must ignore..........must ignore.........resist the urge.........be the better person......

Tacitus Kilgore

Rubberlegs wrote: »

TA, Srameen is gone. I enjoyed his posts and maybe am gullible but I took him at his word.. I think he was genuine. :(

Could you point me towards further info?

Sephiroth_dude

Mod

Just deleted some posts discussing politics, keep that out of here thanks.

Princess Calla

On my epic return journey to collect my car.

Will be over 1k lighter by the end of it.

Just looked at my coat and looks like a bird pooped while I was waiting to board the bus... At least I feckin hope it's bird poop "vomit"

Antares35

Princess Calla wrote: »

On my epic return journey to collect my car.

Will be over 1k lighter by the end of it.

Just looked at my coat and looks like a bird pooped while I was waiting to board the bus... At least I feckin hope it's bird poop "vomit"

TA took me far too long to realise this was 1k in euro as opposed to a kilo. Wake up wake up wake up!

Ragnar Lothbrok

Two months ago I realised that €165 was taken out of my bank account in error by eir.

After speaking to four or five "customer service" agents I was eventually told that they accepted it was an error on their part due to the fact that they'd taken another customer's bill out of my bank account! (Some of the agents were very polite and helpful, others made me feel as though I was a dick for wasting their time!)

Obviously, I expected the €165 to be refunded as quickly as possible, but I'm still waiting so I gave them a call again today. I've always been friendly and polite with anyone I've ever had to deal with - they are doing a job and don't deserve abuse for doing it, although at times this has left me feeling very frustrated.

So today I spoke with a really lovely agent. I had to go through the whole story from start to finish, then wait on hold for 10 minutes, and then she told me that there appears to have been some kind of fraudulent activity on my account :eek:

Now, and only now, has this been reported to their Fraud Team. I've been promised a phone call or an email back later today or Monday to let me know what's happening (I won't hold my breath).

Why oh why did it take eir so long to do this when it was first reported two months ago?

My TA is not specifically aimed at eir, it's all these type of companies who are happy to take your money, but when it comes to dealing with your problems start to give you the runaround in the hope that you'll eventually give up.

Antares35

[QUOTE=Ragnar Lothbrok;112471400

My TA is not specifically aimed at eir, it's all these type of companies who are happy to take your money, but when it comes to dealing with your problems start to give you the runaround in the hope that you'll eventually give up.[/QUOTE]

This. And TA just in general how money can be debited from your account straight away but if a refund is due it takes forever.:(

stoneill

The elastic in the waist band of my boxers has loosened somewhat, and now my underwear is falling down inside my trousers as I walk about.
Every now and then I have to find a quiet spot and put my hand down inside to pull them back up again.

New Home

When you're simultaneusly giddy and grumpy. Must be the weather.

Rubberlegs

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

Could you point me towards further info?

I saw it on the "what boardsies would you bring back thread"