Pet Peeves

[hellfire]

Speaking of problems with retail..,my phone went today after owning it for 3 years and taking a fair battering in that time. I went to my local Eir store to buy a new one, I'm not a phone person so I just asked them to recommend a decent affordable phone and they recommended a Huawei, I get home start setting it up and I realise that it won't let me install Instagram, it also didn't come with Messenger/FB on it either, I'm not a big social media user but I do need it for college, I look up online and find out Huawei has been involved in some kind of trade war or some shite and google are blocking their service to Huawei phones, and in the past theyve even taken off the Google store and all Google related apps maybe blocked in the future.

I'm gonna go into the phone shop tomorrow and see if I can swap it for something else but I don't like my chances since it's been opened, I should have done my research but I told them out straight I'm not a phone person and I feel like the issues Huawei are having with google would have been worth mentioning.

It's a Chinese based company that has allegedly been involved in spying. The CFO (the daughter of the founder) is currently under house arrest in Vancouver fighting extradition to the US.

Go into app gallery and you should find WhatsApp and Facebook ready to be installed.

[Blackout]

People who call corona virus, "Rona".

[astfgyl]

The government's "see we really are sound" music that is in the back of the TV Licence "terms and conditions of living in Ireland" ad. Was in lidl earlier and noticed it's also being used behind the "wear a mask" message. Regardless of one's thoughts about TV licences or masks, it's an awful song.

[Eoin McLove]

Ihhhh'llll sssshhhhheeeeeehhhhnnndd ahhhn Eehhhsssshhhhh Ohhh Ehhhhhhhssssshhhhhh tooo the whoooorrrrrhhhllllld....

[Pedrito]

I'll send an SOS to yer hole

[StoutAndAle]

I'm personally more concerned about this Eddie Harrington chap. Does he llay the guitar and smoke boxes of Silk Cut Purple by any chance?

Still alive. 

I told him the story about the text. I'm not sure he knows who EVH is/was.

"What are ye fuckin' textin' abou' me?"

"No, Eddie - Eddie Van Halen died"

"What does this have to do wi' me?"

"Nothing"

He shrugged and went back to his big greasy bag of garage bought sausages and hash browns.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Would ye believe the bookseller sent me the Dune trilogy from the latest edition run, the very one that led me to spend over an hour looking for older editions so I wouldn't have to buy that one? Thankfully I had the good sense when ordering to double and triple check the ISBN, so they've accepted their error (no choice, since the ISBN is in the confirmation order). Who knows how long it'll be before it gets sorted now though; they're in fucking Canada!

[Eoin McLove]

Blame Canada.
With their beady little eyes,
And floppy heads from telling lies.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

You're right! And there was me blaming the Harkonens!

[Pedrito]

I'm personally more concerned about this Eddie Harrington chap. Does he llay the guitar and smoke boxes of Silk Cut Purple by any chance?

Still alive. 

I told him the story about the text. I'm not sure he knows who EVH is/was.

"What are ye fuckin' textin' abou' me?"

"No, Eddie - Eddie Van Halen died"

"What does this have to do wi' me?"

"Nothing"

He shrugged and went back to his big greasy bag of garage bought sausages and hash browns.

He's exactly the way I pictured him then  how could an Eddie Harrington be anyway else. Probably lives on Jambons.

[astfgyl]

Throwing more coal on the fire only to kill it stone dead. looking here at last night's pile of unburnt coal and it's miserable.

[Caomhaoin]

Throwing more coal on the fire only to kill it stone dead. looking here at last night's pile of unburnt coal and it's miserable.

When I was a young lad and just learning to set the fire and made a balls of it a few times, the auld lad looked at me with the contempt you'd reserve for failing the driving test for the third time or injuring myself with my own hurl at training and having to be collected early ( he must be glad I'm out of the house!).

[astfgyl]

I can understand where he was coming from, sure I'm filled with self loathing looking at what I did last night. I must have had that imprinted somewhere along the way!

[Carnage]

Having part of a song stuck in my head since yesterday and being unable to identify it.

Edit: twigged it about 5 mins. after posting that.

[StoutAndAle]

He's exactly the way I pictured him then  how could an Eddie Harrington be anyway else. Probably lives on Jambons.

He wouldn't be what you'd call the most sophisticated of lads, no. But he is a constant source of comedy material.

He gave a guy from here a lift home one Friday a few years back. Halfway up the road he says "Fuck it! I must order me Chinese."

Calls the number on the hands-free.

"Hello Golden Lotus"

"Ting Pei?"

"Mr. Eddie! You want to order?"

"Please, love. Chicken curry, NO VEG, with chips, chicken balls in batter, chicken ball batter, curry sauce, ribs."

"20 minutes Mr. Eddie".

The other lad in the car says to him "You know you ordered chicken balls in batter twice?"

"No, I ordered chicken ball batter, just the batter"

"Is that a thing?"

"They know me"

"Doesn't sound healthy, Eddie"

"Do you wanna fuckin' walk the rest of the way?"