Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Strumms

two cyclist incidents in 15 minutes…

1. Girl about 18 cycling on a path, past a row of shops, staring and smiling into her phone which she’s holding in one hand..lad about 15 comes around the corner with a small dog on a lead… the spa on the bike misses hitting the dog by about a foot, dog and kid are startled…kid picks up dog, continues home. Seriously 🤌🏻.
2. turning right into my place having indicated to do so, different kid that was behind us on their bike on the road, inexplicably mounts the path 🤪 and cycles in front of us as the turn is half complete, we miss hitting each other by probably inches.. and the fella wasn’t going around the corner, he was continuing straight, why he just doesn’t stay on the road.. gimp.

TA : why some cyclists choose to check their cop on at the door these days..

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511045#Comment_122511045

I'm very sorry for your loss, Blade1.

The Continental Op

People that say "erbs" instead of HERBS! Mainly Americans.

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122509738#Comment_122509738

I bailed out after 2014 - couldn't hack the camping anymore.

Would love to stay in a B&B within walking distance. A good night's sleep and a shower the following morning makes a huge difference.

Bredabe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513208#Comment_122513208

A point of contention in my house, I was taught to say erbs as it's the French word for them and it was then considered uneducated to use the silent H. Other family members consider this to be an affectation.

Ta reading the coverage of a crime in one of the cities my sib lives in, while serious enough, the way the local media were covering it ppl would think it was a mass murder! Ta2 media blowing all kinds of things out of proportion.

odyssey06

Stalking the Amazon delivery van … 8 stops away… hasn't moved in 30 minutes… move goddamit.

Archeron

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513635#Comment_122513635

Poo break

kowloonkev

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513473#Comment_122513473

Wouldn't it be just said as 'erb' then?

Strumms

neighbour’s dog again having a barkathon the last 90 minutes …. No audible attempt whatsoever by its owner to influence it to stop… dog is a large working breed, only saving grace is it hasn’t set off the other neighbour’s dog which it usually does. Hopefully it tires itself out by my sleep time.

Never a peep out of the dog in the morning or afternoon, same time or thereabouts every evening.

castletownman

McGregor's nobody sister's wedding get media coverage.

'Coke or yokes for the mains?'

cj maxx

That sitting doing Fcuk all means I’m not hungry. Flip side is my fish and chips will also do for dinner tomorrow

cj maxx

That I’m back out of bed despite taking my ZZZ tablets .

Charlo30

Just back from a walk in the Phoenix Park where I came across a family happily feeding the Deer, 20 paces away from a sign asking people not to feed the deer. Some people clearly don't care about the potential harm they could cause the Deer

suvigirl

Woke up with a headache. Fuming😠

Mollyb60

My sibling cannot pronounce the word 'Supposedly'. Instead, they say "poseably". It is a very very TA for me.

Dial Hard

Ruined my weekend away by falling and splitting my head open.

Strumms

Outdoor DIY job by one of the neighbours commences at 12.55 on a Sunday afternoon. Disassembling a garden storage container.

The man is hammering away with a mallet for 25 minutes and whatever else, non stop and then dragging the bits down the path to his trailer. A nice quiet relaxing Sunday ? Hmmm hasn’t started off in that fashion but as I’m typing it seems to have stopped….

wildwillow

That is awful, Dial Hard. Splitting your head open is not recommended. Hope there is no damage to your spinal column.

Archeron

Asshole shops that continually overcharge at the till versus the diaplayed price, and even worse when they get snotty when called out on it.

Bought something marked 2.15 in a local shop that i know always does this, so got a receipt. Price at the till went in at 2.95.

Went back to the till and raised it to which i got in order of annoyed excuses, we're rotating old stock, the tag isnt updated yet, well there's nothing i can do, that's the till price.

I then asked for my money back and got an eye roll that would win awards and the comment from her, does it really make that much difference as she angrily opened the till.

Yes, a 40% or so difference. Its not your money.

Amazingly these are the shops where the customer facing display on the till showing the scanned pricing is invariably broken, missing or blocked by stock.

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122516415#Comment_122516415

Let me guess. Supervalu?

blade1

Back to work in the morning after having 4 weeks holidays.

Getting a bit tense about it now.

The Continental Op

Watching a Lego video on YouTube. The manufacturers say Lego so why do ^*&% Americans have to say Legos?

L Grey

I woke up late today.

Archeron

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122516519#Comment_122516519

Usually yes, but this case was a circle k. I actually stopped using my local supervalu entirely because of this very reason though.

NewbridgeIR

My local Centra is bad for this too. I always get a receipt & check it on the spot.

mehico

Occasionally you hear people talking about georgian or victorian houses on property programmes but would it not be easier for everyone to just say the actual year or decade or century even?

Strumms

how certain young cohorts of people cannot communicate now unless it involves roaring at each other in a dramatic and overly emotive fashion, especially as witnessed earlier…and they are about 5-7 feet away from each other 😵‍💫. I know im getting old but seriously, when did this become a thing ?… it’s reasonably recently. I’d wager most of us were all reasonably rambunctious at certain ages but this is taking the piss with some of these little human foghorns… SHUT UP ! Jaysus again as I type 🤪

mrpdap

TV on but no one watching

If you go into a pub, tv on in the background, sound off, inevitably on Sky news, no one is watching but its a distraction.
just turn it off

please

Vote4Squirrels

Someone I thought was a mate is having a bit of trouble, money a part of it

Everyone has chipped in a bit, I’ve bought groceries and give them the odd dig out. No biggie, just what anyone should do.

Turns out they’re telling others that no one is doing anything to help - turns out everyone has been helping and yet nothing is good enough.

Had a near 5 hour round trip commute the other day; I’m dealing with pain so on meds and feeling crap and my boss screamed at me for nothing. I texted them and the response was “I wish I had a job”.

Really can’t be bothered reaching out any more tbh.

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122516688#Comment_122516688

I normally point out to them that the extra "few cents" I was charged would have got me either a litre of milk, or two tins of beans, or x bread rolls, or a cucumber, or a pack of pasta, etc. and that it would take them x mins of work to earn that. They usually have the decency of looking like they hadn't thought about it before.

Strumms

having to change browser on my tablet because it’s gone all laggy, freezey, slow and crashing …. There hasn’t been a browser update in months either for this tablet…. Despite regular device software updates, regular updates for every other app…I updated about a third of them last week but the app I use most… browser, nada…

cj maxx

the begging on wikipedia every time i google something

Strumms

• …The amount of absolute rubbish appearing in my Facebook feed over the last 48 hours mostly adds / pages for holidays, hotels, airlines, bars, restaurants and other amenities….More advertising media than social media these days. I suppose when it happened with Instagram, FB was likely to roll out the red carpet and our feeds to the corporates.
  

cj maxx

sites that don’t let you reject all cookies , and instead you have to scroll down them and deselect them

KKkitty

Obvious bots trying to follow me on Twitter and Fire Stick TV gobshites sending friend requests on Facebook. I have a fire stick I bought legitimately from Amazon. I've paid for streaming services I actually want on it. Though even with a VPN I can't get Pluto TV to work on the damn thing so that's another trivial annoyance. I'm not tech savvy so maybe it's something I'm doing wrong I don't know.

whisky_galore

Hope it's not true, the only outlet reporting it is the Sun, so could well be made-up rage bait but the alleged ban on the greeting "pet" at Newcastle Uni.

Bit extreme for offended by everything new-wave puritans.

cj maxx

Yodel driver who leaves my package outside and doesn’t even knock the door

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518108#Comment_122518108

Then object to 'Partners' and "Legitimate Interest" separately.

SuperBowserWorld

People who do a piece of "charity" work while being paid by their companies to do it, and then promote it on LinkedIn to make it look like they care, when all they are doing is marketing themselves and their companies. I find it really creepy.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122519140#Comment_122519140

Doesn't even ahem do any yodelling to let you know?
:)

That's a TA of mine also. Hence my stalking the Amazon van tracking to see how many stops away it is.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518108#Comment_122518108

Yes, so annoying, the default should always be "reject all cookies". I really should just switch to the duck duck go browser. Maybe I enjoy being tracked 😁

Mollyb60

Bloke making my sandwich at lunch cut it square rather than diagonally. The absolute fcuking monster. Then tried to charge me £10 for the thing! Thankfully I was paying attention at the till and went back to them. No sandwich is worth ten quid and definitely not one cut straight rather that diagonally!

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122519354#Comment_122519354

That is definitely the best TA I've read in a while. But then your other sandwich is wasted. I hope they are least reused the contents. But anyway. Reminds me, I need to get lunch.

Mollyb60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122519368#Comment_122519368

Oh they'd just mislabelled it. They printed a new sticker when I questioned it so nothing went to waste. It definitely tasted weird though being cut square. 🤣

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122519197#Comment_122519197

Not all sites allow you to do that, either. Some require you to deselect legitimate interests under the individual partners. Gobshites. That is usually anough to make me go elsewhere. Mind you, clicking on this

usually lets you read the main landing page in a basic layout without the need to accept or reject cookies.

z80CPU

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518098#Comment_122518098

For me the TEMU ads there. Oh wait, they're cliser to home.

cj maxx

That’s there’s a Super blue moon tonight and it’s going to be a cloudy night .

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122520799#Comment_122520799

Oh I thought you said there was a Super Blue Movie tonight

Gremlinertia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122520799#Comment_122520799

Been experiencing the madness of it waxing for six days

Strumms

Public building : “set down only parking” the sign says. But the two geriatric security guards park both vans in the two set down spaces… there before i arrive, still there as I’m leaving so there over two hours…. anybody with a frame, stick, wheelchair, illness / movement disorder has to go to the car park about a third of a km away … and make their way back ….everybody else will undergo a similar but maybe more bare-able inconvenience …

Two of the lads responsible couldn’t catch a bus they are that overweight and one is constantly pulling on a fag despite being in uniform…