Things that drive you nuts!!

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Impatient idiot drivers behind who beep you because you didn't go on to the roundabout quick enough for them . . . .I'm no slouch at driving but won't drive on to a roundabout in front of someone .. . .
 
If the film is to start at a certain time then do it
Not have lots and lots of ads and trailers
And I know you could say well show up ten minutes after the start time
But that's dodgy too as you don't know will they skip these
Just pick a time and stick to it

While I'm here:

Loud mouth skangers acting the hard men down the back. Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry. get the ref?

Amorous couples, go get a room.

Smokers, if you can't go two hours without a smoke, just stay outside tbh instead of squeezing past me all the time

Texters distracting everyone with the light. I've confronted a few, they don't seem to even realise what they're doing.
"Oh I had it on silent, I made no noise".

People in the row behind me tap, tap, tappping my row of seats. This is a tricky one as it's hard to tell who it is, they don't have to be behind you

Tis a quiet day, I head to the cinema on my day off. Nice and quiet. So why in a cinema of a few hundred seats do you decide directly in front of me? Don't you know the unwritten rule?

Our local cinema does not allow you bring in bags. I'd come home from college for the weekend, head to the cinema and they'd say leave your laptop and bag here in the cloakroom. Oh and we don't accept liability if lost or stolen. Cowboys

I could keep going, enough for now
 
On the same note, people gorging themselves through out a film, accompanied by loud rustling noises, paper wrappers being removed, digging right down into the bottom of the bag to find that bar of chocolate, noisy chewing and slurping..........
Pair of eejits in Blanchardstown last Thursday evening were unbelievable and blissfully oblivious to dirty looks and annoyed sighs.
 
Why oh why do companies put up websites and in the Contact Us page put an email address - and then never respond to any emails sent to that address? If you can't be arsed checking the Inbox regularly then don't put a bloody email address on the website!
 
Neighbour in apartment upstairs skipping and banging on my ceiling

Why I'll go up and hang ya with that rope

Skipping is not for wooden floors. Can't you go outside to the green? That's what the children do
 
People go into an organisation's website because they have some kind of general query the want to make and need an email address. There is an 'info@' type email address which is clearly for such general queries. There is also someone named on the website with an email address, but for a very specific type of request. But idiots think 'oh I will send it to the person with the name and it will get dealt with much quicker even though they deal with legal affairs only and my query is with regard to opening times of the warehouse at the weekend'.
NO it won't get dealt with quicker. You are just wasting the time of someone who is busy with their own work and has to forward a load of annoying people's flipping emails everyday to the flipping email address they were supposed to send it to in the first place.

Yes, I'm speaking from personal experience and I wish people would STOP IT!
 
Tradesmen of Ireland

Is there a module in your FÁS course that you must always be no shows and never ever phone your customer? I think so


Had to take a day off work to meet one at the flat and I've been stood up
Do you want the work? You phoned last night to confirm today and the time.
Now I'm sitting here waiting, you've made a fool out of me

Ye may head off to Australia so, clearly you've no interest in working here despite the crying and whinging I hear on Joe Duffy show about there being no work for tradesmen
 
stuff that drives me nuts...

ah yes, tradesmen...I remeber when myself and the missus bought our house and being told by a fireplace installer that "oh I'll be here at 9.30 sharp, I'm not one of those <expletive deleted> muppets that will say he'll show up and not appear" It transpired that he was exactly one of those <expletive deleted> muppets....

rant over. for now...


daithi
 

Agree, do they have a website just for show? Use it or lose it
 
"Headline readers" readers I call them. Radio announcers reading out the daily newspapers who quote only the headlines but never reading the full story and frightening people with the results. The late Gerry Ryan was a prime example of this and also certain late night phone in radio shows seem to specialise in this too.
 
Attitude of some parents

Any debate can be started with "as a parent"

You talk to the neighbour about the local school in your parish.

"Oh do you have children micmclo?"

Answer no and the reply is " well now, as a parent"

Seems you can't hold an opinion on a lot of topics if you're not a parent
Having children makes you a world expert on every topic...

I need to stop listening to Joe Duffy show, it's getting me stressed
 
As a parent I agree with you; having children doesn't make you an expert on them.

micmclo said:
I need to stop listening to Joe Duffy show, it's getting me stressed
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It's really bad radio, always has been.
 
Ive no issue with drivers pulling up outside the main door of shopping centres when its raining down to keep the baby dry or what not. But while its a dry bright day - and stopping on the ROAD - parallel to another car - IS VERY ANNOYING.

Not only did the driver hold me up and those behind me.. he wasn't impressed when I beeped him to highlight the inconvenience he had presented the rest of us.

I didn't know why he had stopped initially and waited patiently - but when I seen him get out and wave up to the doors of the Shopping Centre - it became apparent that his partner and their child and shopping - was the reason the rest of us were waiting. After both him and her - had given me the finger and some choice words - he proceeded to drive off slowly... and wait for it.. just 1 m up the way - he stopped again - and this time - had a chat with another car that had pulled in... at this stage everyone behind me were beeping...

....IDIOTs....
 
People taking their items out of the tray at security one by one, putting back on their belt etc instead of doing everyone a favour and taking the whole tray over to the table at the end specifically designed to allow people to do it there!

I had words with two numpties last week doing this and was told yeah will be out of your way now, I pointed to the queue of people being delayed by them and they just laughed.

There's no sense of community in this country any more, it's all about my rights never about my responsibilities.
 

The only excuse for this would be if when you send a mail to info@ or queries@ etc. and get zero response, then you have to go through to personal mail accounts.
 
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The only excuse for this would be if when you send a mail to info@ or queries@ etc. and get zero response, then you have to go through to personal mail accounts.
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True. But they send them to me in the first instance. In any event, if you send queries to any random name on a website they're just going to be forwarded to the general correspondence area anyway. Just because you work in an organisation doesn't mean you're an expert on everything from legal affairs to event management to technical queries. And you're certainly not going to spend your time chasing up answers to such emails to the detriment of your own work. People need to understand that and stop randomly sending stuff to anyone named on a website. It can be really annoying if you're busy and also puts you at risk of being blamed if a query gets overlooked even if you did send it on to the appropriate area.
 
Not a great sales pitch for your company Liaconn. People trawl websites for any contact information. Great if somebody's name appears on the website with an email address. Being on the website automatically makes you a point-of-contact and even appears human. When you get the email all you have to do is forward the email to whatever department is warranted.

I know for you it is causing some frustration. But, look at it another way; no contact - no business. Which is the lesser of two evils? I know two of my friends working in the insurance sector who were informed last Friday that their jobs are being transferred to a call centre and by mid 2012 a redundancy package (no details provided) will have to be accepted.

You have given me a good idea for contact in my business. I'll just set up a fictitious name (something friendly, of course) like BJolly@xxxxxxx.com as it takes the impersonal touch from info@xxxxxx.com.

Be careful for what you may wish, Liaconn - you might get it.
 
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7) Decreasing availability of local organic produce as people can't afford it but same people find the cash for holidays, computer games, satellite tv, glossy magazines etc
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Nosey people with nothing better to do then to pass judgment on how I spend my hard earned money, seemingly not understanding that what they deem to be important is not in the slightest bit important to me or my family!
 
People who begin statements with "So".
eg "So I went to the shops today and blah blah blah".

Those who try to make themselves sound/appear oh-so-clever by using words like 'egregous'. (I now hate that word!)
 
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