Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Apparently "it's different if they are your own" 🤨 as per the millions of ppl I've had to defend my childless by choice lifestyle too.

Even stranger, when it's months of using a cracked screen protector.

She's in Spain so that would be difficult 😂

Ah no he's not being rude or grumpy or intentionally messy, I think all kids are just like that. My "messy" and his "messy" are just different things. I like that he's comfortable in the house, I want him to have a good time and I wouldn't want him to be scared of us. But it is just a complete lifestyle change. I'm glad it's just for the week.

Do you mean with Irish people? I thought was more of an English pronunciation, as well as going completely the other way with 'drawrer'.

Yeah I had a restless night again.

There is this sort of knocking sound, a bit like a cricket you'd hear at night over in the States but more mechanical, that crops up now and again. If I fall asleep before it, it won't wake me up but if it starts before I nod off, it keeps me preoccupied all night. Cannot predict when its going to start nor can I pinpoint where its coming from. Source seems to change every time I go investigate.

Curse my acute hearing.

I know it's "a thing" but seeing athletes "bite" their medal is really f*cking irritating me!

I just tried this, out of boredom, and got 923 matches for my selection, but nothing appeared. I clicked 'See more' a few times and it suggested that it was showing me stuff, but it wasn't. But when I clicked 'Sort by price', suddenly cars appeared.

Try that…

TA'd that I woke up like a briar this morning for no reason and now TA'd all day that I'm in foul humour!

There is a phrase my father uses as I have the same over sensitive hearing. "Ears like a shithouse rat". It's a pain when you can hear low level noise that others probably can't or just doesn't register.

Decided to go to Limerick this weekend to visit the parents so I got the 5pm train yesterday eve. Unfortunately the train stopped just outside Portarlington for about 15 minutes because of some mechanical issue. The train took off again but the train driver announces that the train would terminate at Portarlington because of the mechanical issue. This meant that we had to switch trains there which caused another 20 minute delay. The train arrives in Thurles with an automatic announcement stating that passengers for Limerick should change there for the connecting train. I was just about to get off the train when the driver announced that Limerick passengers should get off at Limerick Junction. At the junction there was a 15 minute wait for the train to arrive followed by a 20 minute wait inside the train while it waited for the train to Cork to arrive so it would pick up passengers for limerick. On the way to Limerick there was another 5 minute delay while the train waited for another train in the opposite direction to pass. I should have been in Limerick for 7.05pm but instead I was there at 8.40pm. I’m having pretty bad luck with trains lately as there was a similar delay a few weeks ago when travelling from Kilkenny to Dublin.
Also I just got a mocha and a bottle of Ballygowan here in Cafe Nero and it’s after costing €7.50

getting sucked into debating with an obvious troll on the current affair thread

people who dispense amateur healthcare / medical advice.

people who open a door that was closed to enter a room but leave it open.

people who see you busy doing something that requires attention and personal oversight yet request of you to follow them to another area to look at something…

No, it’s not different if they’re your own. They can drive you to distraction and then look at you and say “what did I do’? ‘I didn’t say anything’? How there wasn’t murder committed in my house with a messy 22 year old daughter I don’t know. TA the government, build some fecking houses/apartments so these over indulged adults can feck off and dirty their own spaces.

Was hiking in the wicklow mountains today and came across this sight. Absolute scumbag behavior. If they were able to carry all these water bottles and cans to their camp site, they could have certainly carried the empty ones back with them. Total a**holes.

People on Instagram who show you how to cook a meal, then smugly try it and go Mmmmm.

Yes

Doubly annoying if they

1/ use "Admin Assist" which randomly rejects posts

2/ allow anonymous posters

Usually sorts who'll have posted all manner of shoite to Instagram while 'enjoying' nature

If it's a landline take it off the hook.

Mobiles on silent in the other room.

If it's not agreeable to the rest of your dining party you just have to accept that they give whoever is ringing them a higher priority than the people who are actually in the room with them. If this is the case you need to manage your expectations (my mam would always take the call to the point I just started bringing my food into the sitting room, that way my meal wasn't disturbed by a one sided conversation every single night)

If you've missed calls ,ring person back at time convenient to you and clearly explain 3-5 on Sundays is family dinner time. They'll eventually get the message if no one picks up the phone. (Again unless it's my mother who would then ring you at 14:57....well it's before 3 🙄)

Speaking of dogs, I happened to see on sky news today a bunch of people putting their dogs on little surf boards in the sea having a race or something. I don't like dogs at all, I think their the most irritating pet you could have, but dropping them in the sea is just abuse. The same people would probably be campaigning against animal cruelty etc.

People repeating themselves . . . Someone tells you about some mundane incident that happened at the checkout till in Tesco or lidl (don't know as I wasn't really listening) and they keep repeating said incident to anyone within earshot to try and prove the point that they were right and the other party involved was wrong. Then they ring their sister and spend fifteen minutes explaining the same experience . . five minutes later the sister lands at the house and they spend the next half hour dissecting every detail over and over again.

You think it's finally finished with but no . . . they ring the mother on speaker phone.

I'm kinda intrigued as to what the incident was! 😂

Bank holiday so loads of people are posting on local Facebook groups asking "Is X business open today?"

They're asking because the businesses' websites / Facebook pages don't have this information to hand.

Surely it isn't difficult to put up a bank holiday trading hours notice or a pinned post outlining when exactly they're open?

If in doubt, don't go out and just order what you want online.

The way all adverts show so many different races in the advert, its so unrealistic for Ireland and it makes me dislike the Companies as I see right through it.