Annoyances & Irritations

[765489]

The answer to all my heat woes Nc The only thing about it is I wouldn't be able to leave which may be the idea as it is rather serial killer like

Never thought of dead bodies D, see? many uses for a cold store not just for cooling down or storing your spuds in.

[marhay70]

An enormous sunhat or a parasol, maybe Diamonds?
I love warm weather but was sitting INSIDE at one point yesterday in a vest and shorts, and sweat was actually dribbling down in trickles all over me and I was a bit WTF... this is a bit much
Don't get too much sun anyway.

Now that's just bordering on porn.

[isha]

Now that's just bordering on porn.

Sorry . I didn't think of it that way. Luckily I've adjusted to the heat and am not sweating buckets anymore.

[765489]

The smart glasses awareness campaign ads by Meta on TV at the moment. I find them disturbing for some reason I can't put my finger on.

[Breezin]

When the gym is almost empty and some bloke moves in two feet from you.

[8760976543]

Annoys me a bit when they say player of the match instead of man of the match in the men's games.

I'm a bit old school I guess...

[DeletedUser]

Annoys me a bit when they say player of the match instead of man of the match in the men's games.

I'm a bit old school I guess...

I'm watching cricket at the moment and the demise of "batsman" is a constant pain in the hole. Leave things be!!!!

[Del.Monte]

@PlaneSpeaking

+100

But cricket isn't really cricket anymore.

[isha]

Today I learned, after being exhausted from painting the whole hall and thinking sure I'll just quickly spruce up that shoe rack, that a five-tier slatted shoe rack has the same surface area as all the tennis courts on earth laid side by side

[marhay70]

Today I learned, after being exhausted from painting the whole hall and thinking sure I'll just quickly spruce up that shoe rack, that a five-tier slatted shoe rack has the same surface area as all the tennis courts on earth laid side by side

Just as well you didn't start with the shoe rack then

[Diamonds of Frost]

Annoys me a bit when they say player of the match instead of man of the match in the men's games.

I'm a bit old school I guess...

I've been looking at articles online for bathroom design ideas. One of them referred to the master bathroom as the 'principal bathroom' and gave it's reason for doing so as inclusivity or something. I mean really. How in the name of Jaysus is it offensive to use the original term.

[JayZeus]

In a similar vein, tried explaining to one of the millenials in work a couple of months back that the terms ‘master’ and ‘slave’ are not intended to make me out to be a middle aged white racist man when I’m trying to tell him how to set up an old PC with an EIDE HDD and CD-ROM drive. Jesus feckin wept. It’s not my fault, FFS. Set the priority jumpers on the drives and get the fruck over your pointlessly offended moment, you faux-white-guilt ridden manchild.

[95438756]

Pupils from the nearby girl's secondary school have reprised the local Centra store as their lunchtime and After School Socializing venue. Hanging around the aisles in their clique groupings and getting in the way of q's for the counter.

[Hairy-Joe]

In a similar vein, tried explaining to one of the millenials in work a couple of months back that the terms ‘master’ and ‘slave’ are not intended to make me out to be a middle aged white racist man when I’m trying to tell him how to set up an old PC with an EIDE HDD and CD-ROM drive. Jesus feckin wept. It’s not my fault, FFS. Set the priority jumpers on the drives and get the fruck over your pointlessly offended moment, you faux-white-guilt ridden manchild.

Ya, there lots of terms used in various industries that could cause some people to foam at the mouth and are just showing their own ignorance. I'm not an IT person but I know that "master" and "slave" are computer terms about drives or something. There's "cis" and "trans" in stereochemistry, "blacklist" is a list of denied computers on a network and don't get me started on "manhours".....

[DeletedUser]

People in an early house pub going “it’s far too early for alcohol”.

Fck off! I’m on holiday!!

[95438756]

This rainy day, Sat on the Go Ahead 75 today towards tallaght downstairs.
Plump millennial girl sits down in the seat in front of me.
...sets out her chocolate bars and crisps and proceeds to gorge on them

The definition of gluttony

[765489]

This rainy day, Sat on the Go Ahead 75 today towards tallaght downstairs.
Plump millennial girl sits down in the seat in front of me.
...sets out her chocolate bars and crisps and proceeds to gorge on them

The definition of gluttony

I'm doing the same thing I've just finished off half a packet of chocolate biscuits, there's a Kinda Bueno bar I'm trying to stay away from but i think it will be gone before the day is out. I haven't even started the fookin housework yet!

[nlgbbbblth]

The high-achieving Leaving Cert students who were "surprised" to get 7 or 8 H1s.

How can you not know?

[isha]

The high-achieving Leaving Cert students who were "surprised" to get 7 or 8 H1s.

How can you not know?

Heh. Oddly this brings up an old annoyance I used to have. Because I was that nerdy swot who was always surprised and relieved to get good results. My pals used to be fussing and grizzling with results coming up and if I joined in, they would say Oh shut up you! You know you will do well!
But that is not true. It's almost as if people imagine those who get good results pull it easily out of the bag. But most of us didn't. We literally were swots! Most of us worked insanely hard for good results. For me it was my ticket out of town, out of a really stressful family situation where I was the oldest girl of six and expected to be a full time mother and servant/slave to all the others while still trying to get good enough results to get freedom.
So yeah, shag off, most of us poor addled swots were practically sick from overwork and anxiety by the time exams came round and really did not know if we would do well enough to get what we wanted. So we are allowed both to whinge nervously before results and cheer in honest surprise afterwards.

Rant over, I guess

[nlgbbbblth]

Heh. Oddly this brings up an old annoyance I used to have. Because I was that nerdy swot who was always surprised and relieved to get good results. My pals used to be fussing and grizzling with results coming up and if I joined in, they would say Oh shut up you! You know you will do well!
But that is not true. It's almost as if people imagine those who get good results pull it easily out of the bag. But most of us didn't. We literally were swots! Most of us worked insanely hard for good results. For me it was my ticket out of town, out of a really stressful family situation where I was the oldest girl of six and expected to be a full time mother and servant/slave to all the others while still trying to get good enough results to get freedom.
So yeah, shag off, most of us poor addled swots were practically sick from overwork and anxiety by the time exams came round and really did not know if we would do well enough to get what we wanted. So we are allowed both to whinge nervously before results and cheer in honest surprise afterwards.

Rant over, I guess

What do you think of people who come out of exams and say "I did really well. I think I got at least a B, maybe an A" - but end up getting a D ?

[isha]

What do you think of people who come out of exams and say "I did really well. I think I got at least a B, maybe an A" - but end up getting a D ?

Hahaha losers!

Kidding....
Unfortunate perhaps? Busy? Interesting? Gamers?

[Diamonds of Frost]

Hahaha losers!

Kidding....
Unfortunate perhaps? Busy? Interesting? Gamers?

Hey!

I didn't do as well as I could have in school. I made bad choices with my chosen subjects and I didn't have the aptitude for Irish and Maths. Especially maths. Grinds through Junior and Leaving in the aforementioned helped and I miraculously got a C in ordinary level. To this day I can't manage figures and calculations. It goes beyond just being rubbish with numbers so I think I have dsycalculia.

Education interests me. I don't believe in a one size fits all and if I had kids I'd find it very difficult to source the right school for them.

Was your secondary school experience positive Isha? Did you find it a challenge to pick the right school for your kids?

[isha]

I didn't particularly like school as such, but I liked learning and I was good at it. That attracts it's own problems. I was quiet and found school a bit weird and hectic.

My children were home schooled until 12 and picked their own schools for secondary. All of them very handily picked different ones, just ordinary country secondary schools. Went well enough I suppose with some incidents that needed sorting. But they were all relieved to get off to University where the demographic broadened out considerably and they found good people with similar vibes

There's a lot of bullying in schools, I don't care what anyone says otherwise. I see it still with much younger nieces and nephews having to change schools or etc. Actually I don't think I will talk about education and schools in general as it just gets me going and I feel cross. Let's just say I've seen some amount of shyte, not even mostly with my own kids but more so with kids in our wider family.

[95438756]

Child voiced ads on the radio. We must live in a luvely place.

[Mirabeau]

I was stuck behind a small hedgecutter machine on the way to work.
He couldn't really do anything because a cyclist was on the right hand side of the lane, blocking the road.

Meanwhile a ballbag in white VW decides he is too important to wait; overtakes me at speed only to jam on his brakes and get caught behind the two road duellists.

Add a motorcycle weaving in between traffic and nearly getting sandwiched between a dumptruck and an SUV.

F'n chill lads.