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Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,136 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I now have back pain in the morning. No idea why. Joy.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    You might need a new mattress.

    My TA is random bruises all over my legs, I've no idea what caused them.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,136 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Is there a way to check? I'd have to ask the landlord so I'd need to be sure.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    A mattress should be changed every 10 years as they lose support.

    Then you have to decide how firm you need it to be, what type - pocket sprung, memory foam etc. Then how much you want to spend. But if you're waking up with back, neck or hip pain it's usually a sign to change your mattress and/or pillows.

    It's a minefield and TA in itself.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,136 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,066 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    You should also be flipping your mattress every couple of months. And don't forget to do it on alternate axes, otherwise you're just sleeping in the same two hollows.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,691 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,136 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Really? I'd no idea that something so basic could be so complicated.

    Alternate axes? How many are there?

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,432 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    TA I took a folded t-shirt off the top shelf of my wardrobe the other day to wear. Hadn't worn it in weeks so it's been up there a while under a load of other t-shirts. I unfold it and a wasp flies out heading directly for the open window 😣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Vote4Squirrels


    Cheers mate, not pleasant at all tbh - had to go for emergency steak McCoy's and a Yorkie… so feeling a little better.



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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,432 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    TA at drivers in a hurry. Driving around a very sharp bend not too far from home on Sunday and there is a car coming at me on my side of the road because he is overtaking a cyclist. On a blind bend! If I'd been going any faster, I was fecked, he was fecked, the cyclist was definitely fecked and the two cars behind him not much better. A potential 4 car, 1 bicycle collision because this fella couldn't wait to get around the cyclist another few seconds.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    That's another TA, mine can't be flipped, just rotated. I won't make that mistake again when I change it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    If you flip it the top surface becomes the bottom, but the area near the headboard should also be alternated so it's near your feet.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,136 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    At the risk of providing more TAs, can I ask one final question. Is there a way to tell single sided from double sided so I can know if I should flip and rotate or just rotate?

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    When a company claims to have tried to contact you, and they blatantly have done no such thing. Anyway, query resolved so it's fine. It is a TA of mine though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I know there either was on mine when I bought it, or I was told in the shop. I'm not sure if it was on the packaging or the mattress itself. I'll look later if no one else can confirm.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,066 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    The vast majority of mattresses are flippable, it's generally only if there's a layer of memory foam that they'd be one-sided.

    Also, if you have anything bigger than a double bed, enlist the help of a friend to flip it, otherwise you'll end up with an even sorer back...



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    If you're not ready to buy a new mattress, yet, try a mattress topper - they're heaven.

    Also, re the axis, put the head part where the feet part was and the other way around, as well as turning it upside down. Back in the day (not sure if that's still the same) mattresses used to have a summer side and a winter side, they were usually marked as such - the winter side would have a warmer filling.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Vote4Squirrels


    TA 1 - it's too sodding warm!!!

    TA 2 - I know I shouldn't complain as I want it to be not cold - but lads am a woman of a certain age and I'm usually warm!!!

    TA 3 - getting cold sales calls from PrePay Power - when I've told them three times not to call!!!!! I get my lecky from them, but I'm good for the broadband and oil lads so kindly do one!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,627 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    Been doing a lot of driving on holiday here. If you go the speed limit on 80kph roads then you're guaranteed to have someone up your arse within a few minutes.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    those ‘just eat’ adds on TV ad nauseam. And all the manky celebs they have in them promoting it….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,357 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Its drivers like this who deserve to have dashcam footage of their drivers shared with the Guards, and actually be followed up on and fined.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,276 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    The turkeys that work for the government at Mygovid.ie.

    They sent me two emails saying I needed to log into mygovid.ie no mention what it was about so thought it might be important - it wasn't and was a total waste of my time.

    To get log into mygovid.ie I need to take my laptop in the car up the road and connect to the internet with my phone otherwise I can't get a txt msg auth code. I log in and they want me to upgrade my security with a new app. ffs its no bloody use to me on my phone anyway I still need to leave the house to get it to work!

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    had to listen to the last six or so minutes of live line, 😵‍💫 whilst waiting in a business….

    It featured 4 people constantly talking over each other, about paying for plastic and paper bags in shops. you have an extremely experienced presenter in Duffy being paid €351,000 of taxpayers cash who has a mouth and a mute button for each caller but makes the most pathetic effort to regain order… “now come on x let y have a say”…when they don’t let y have a say and it all goes tits up, everyone talking he gives up and it’s unintelligible chaos. How or why that man is tolerated on the public airwaves and how or why he is compensated to that degree or any degree with public money is bizarre. There has to be a wind up merchant in RTÉ somewhere giggling to themselves.

    Embarrassing…😵 he’s on around 29,250 a month gross and he can’t even moderate a discussion, on bags. 🤌🏻🤪



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,691 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    You may have the conversation set to RCS instead of SMS. RCS requires Internet. SMS only requires the mobile network. For some bizarre reason phones are defaulting to RCS (at least Android phones) which means both the sender and the receiver need Internet access. Also weird and dangerous if you are in an emergency and have mobile network but not Internet.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    TA 1. Wanted to sit a while and watch the world go by in a coffee shop earlier. Some tiny little fly yoke would not leave me in peace. I had to sit with my hand over my coffee, and trying to swat him away.

    TA 2. A customer giving out to a staff member about the price of a hot chocolate. She didn't buy it in the end but seriously... As if the guy behind the counter in a chain coffee shop sets the prices. 🙄



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,691 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    When you are trying to enjoy your dinner but are getting the puppy dog sad begging eyes from the dog AND the cat.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    On a certain pharmacy / beauty chain website, I see…..“Use code REWARDS16 for double Advantage Card points for Over 60s reward members - online only”


    you can imagine the outrage if any pharmacy / beauty chain was to just reward say people in their 40’s, for no other reason than they are between say 40 & 49 years old.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭Stephen_Maturin


    Grown adult men (usually 40-75) traipsing around the changing room of a gym or pool like Donald Duck bollock naked apart from a T-shirt (bonus point for a button down shirt)

    It’s not the nudity that bothers me, it’s a changing room - it’s to be expected.

    But ffs lads can ye not put a pair of jocks or something on first before ye go swanning around the place looking like a weird giant baby



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    Could be something, could be nothing . . But I'd get the ol bloods done, Justin casey.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    And ones who do call you but let it ring once and then hang up before you can answer, even though your phone is tight beside you, and then email saying we tried to contact you but couldn't 😡

    My TA is a member of staff in doctors surgery filling a shop bought water bottle at the dispenser with the rim that has probably been drunk out of already pressed right up on the dispenser nozzle and contaminating it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,641 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Camper van w*nkers with huge campers on winding narrow roads.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Facebook hackers impersonating a friend so they can hack my account too. I asked them questions only that friend would know... No response strangely enough!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,627 ✭✭✭kowloonkev




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    The number of junk mails on Hotmail has increased massively in recent weeks. Getting about 40 a day with a few genuine mails getting marked as junk no matter how many times I say "Never send mails from… to junk folder"

    Have had my account since 1996 so not inclined to change it….yet



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,953 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    That I started watching the passion of the Christ and googled it during a break . There really is a passion of the Christ 2 in the offing . Wtf ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,953 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    wait till silage time and 16yo’s flying in tractors they can’t control at that weight edit I just saw it’s August so most Kamakezi tractor eejets are back to school next month



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,136 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Slept at the edge of the mattress. Pain not so bad. Asked landlord how old it was. He said a few years but heavily implied that I'd have to pay for a new one.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭suvigirl


    Stansted airport.

    The worst ran, dirtiest, cramped sh1tty airport ever.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    Check that out, the mattress is part of the bed you rent as part of the property and imo once you didn't vandalise it, it's wear and tear and should be replaced by LL. There is a tax deduction for them if they do.

    Ta, Ll trying to pull tricks like this still and esp in this housing environment.

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    I got an email message from one of the students(forward all type thing) in it was a complaint from the group smart alec with a scan of a handwritten message I had to leave for him at the time. As my handwriting is illegible, I write in block to make it as clear as I can make it.

    Asking the group if "they" like he thought I was too illiterate as I could write properly. we normally have a typed messaging system but it didn't work for this situation.

    Ta'ed that of all the ppl who I had to leave this message for it was the uneducated(in this area) know it all.

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Vote4Squirrels


    Dad dancing (or the female equivalent thereof!) to the Clash's "Rock the Casbah" while singing to to the dog - and noticed that someone was walking past ……



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    If you bought one could the landlord store the one you currently have and you take the new one with you? Landlords won't spend enough to get a decent mattress.

    I'm TA that I'm starting to sound like a mattress salesperson. 🤣🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,078 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I'm at a point in my life now where I'm a bit excited about giving the fridge a good clean!



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,136 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    True but I'm not 100% that it's the problem and I'd have to both pay for and move the thing.

    TA that something which sits inert can be both horrifyingly expensive and complicated.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,691 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    A creaking door.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,691 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Rare sunny day outside, birds singing and your caught up inside in some man made complicated piece of boring **** and trying to fix it. AKA work.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,691 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Not really trivial, but people who waste food. Half eaten meals. Food left to go off in the fridge.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    Not a huge fan but took a fancy to a cone this lunchtime, went into my fav ice cream place, €2.75 up appox 0.50c since early July. Ire up, I had a look at the other shops that sell cones and those prices vary from € 2.75 to €3.00. The owners of these businesses will be whinging in sept bc ppl not holidaying at home anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Ta my occasional treat ruined by price gouging.

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    In fairness, that's so satisfying when it's done. Especially when you've taken all the glass shelves out and given them a good wash and buff.

    Equally satisfying is getting sheets dried on the line on a warm day.

    Yes I'm dull and middle aged. When did that happen?



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