Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Those weird tight blue shirts the Gardai are wearing now. Don't particularly want to see Garda pecs and nipples.

It's infuriating!

I could get a bus to work, it would involve a 10 minute walk at both ends, waiting for a bus that might turn up so I'd have to aim for a much earlier one in the hope of getting there on time, going through rush hour traffic with numerous stops - over an hour each way versus a 15 min drive each way on back roads and I can easily do the weekly grocery shop on the way home one afternoon.

My TA is the constant recommendations of cargo bikes or cycling to work. I'm expected to look reasonably presentable, not sweaty and looking like I've been dragged through a ditch from wind and rain.

After having 2 Discectomys and a Spinal Fusion and being pain free for over 10 years, for the past week I've had bad lower back pain. A throbbing pain. Couldn't go through another operation so really worried. I

Agreed. There’s a particular cohort of non-drivers (all of whom went to TCD late 80s & early 90s) living on northside who are like this. Pretentious, uptight & very anti-car. I use public transport a lot but when I DJed in city centre pre-Covid I used to drive in. Did not want to lug records & CDs in on public transport. When I publicly expressed my opposition to making Dublin city centre car-free, a few of that lot were very critical towards me. Really opened my eyes to their intolerance.

Watching England be the better team in a football match.

What's Dublin bus policy on dogs? If it's a small dog and is carried on most drivers allow it I think.

Small dogs are *technically* allowed, at the driver's discretion, but I have literally never seen a dog on the bus so I'm going to say it’s not really a thing. Also, my dog is not small.

Seen a good few dogs on my bus route 🤷‍♀️

In an attempt at integration, I was asked to recommend a firm wide course in the English language. I couldn't find one in the time frame available(ta1) the course was announced and those of us at a particular section were mandated to attend.

As per I was refused course notes and after a long wrestle(where I had to threaten to sue) they agreed to put up the lecture script YouTube style for me!

I copied the notes from the transcript and used the timestamp tec to remove those, and spent ages and ages reading and rereading the info so I could put the information in the correct sections on an A4 page so it looked like a book page.

Lls some of the people on the course are now complaining that I had an advantage over the rest as I was given notes bc I have a learning label.

Ta3 bc I deal with this kind of crap over and over, I sourced the info, sourced the tec, read and reread and edited the info, running off the info at my own expense so I could interact physically with it, which not only cost me money but showed me down by about 4 days.

But yea, poor you having to sit in a lecture and remember what you hear and take notes you can read(unlike me) and dash it off a few hours ahead of the deadline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😈

How much I wish ppl like this would just check their PRIVILAGE, ahead of pointing fingers.

Missed most of the cricket this morning. Tuned in at lunch to watch highlights and discussion of the mornings play.

But 95% of the lunch broadcast isn’t about cricket but a charitable organisation that’s having a themed day at the ground….

You won’t have thought that there was a game on at all. The charity theme is mentioned about 2859 times over the course of the 5 day broadcast….and it’s seemingly not a gap in play can be found without it being given air time, but is it maybe, possible, the sport might be discussed ? 😵‍💫 literally a 3 minute footnote out of 40

Do you not have a chemist close to home or your doctors?

There is but owned by a group I don't want to do business with and I would still have to take multiple buses and multiple trips to drop off and pick up by bus when weather is bad. It's still quicker by car and more convenient especially if the prescription is missing items and I have to go back. At least where it is at the moment is on the route we take for the weekly shop so I can collect it on run.

we've had road-works near me for the last 2+years…FINALLY theyre done,about 4miles of beautiful,smooth tarmac,perfect! also a new,wide cycle lane,again pefect,smooth,brand new tarmac,this thing is worthy of pampered royalty,theres not so much as even a pebble on its surface!its even seperated from the road and the footpath with a wee kerb,the annoyance is…

why the fuurk do cyclists NOT use the brand new,perfect,beautiful,wide,smooth,probably massively expensive cycle lane?now im in no huge rush going anywhere,live and let live and all that but fuuuuuk!flocks of them at weekends,in a big bunch like a tour d france,same during weekdays except into the mix of the tour d france crowd and electric scooter yokes youve those old time shop/cargo bikes wobbling along and them newer ones with the trailer on the back,both usually topped up with 2 or 3 kids in/on them,all in the middle of the fecking road….why!!!!!!