Pet Peeves

[astfgyl]

Ah the memes. Can't bate em

[Mower Liberation Front]

Not a minor peeve, an absolute fucking hate.

The Castleblayney bypass. The 2+1 layout that was hailed as a brilliant idea. Five minutes after the road opened, the government realised it was actually a utterly retarded idea, and quietly cancelled every single planned road upgrade that utilised that layout. Overtaking lanes that are too short, and that's without throwing in the fucking cunts in their tractors or Sunday drivers out doing 20mph, when there's a perfectly good road (The original N2) for them to trundle along on right alongside, instead of fucking over everyone else.

[hellfire]

Not a fan of the Royal Family or the British Empire but christ the amount of people who think 'hating the brits' is a personality is nauseating.

The Irish Twitter thing trending on Twitter made me recoil in disgust. I love how most Irish people using that hashtag tried to get a foot on the oppression ladder. Combine that with trying to be edgy and it makes for a fine public display of muppetry.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

You may well have a point but nothing, absolutely nothing they do will ever be as cringeworthy as all the people sincerely mourning a dead fucking monarch, so let the muppetry continue I say

[Eoin McLove]

Got my rear end smashed in outside Sexyland this morning. Bit of a dream come true! Maybe I should clarify... I was on the way to work and was rear-ended at a junction which is famous for having a Sexyland retail outlet on the corner. So the car is a write off and I'm heading to the doc for the all clear. No injuries or anything but just to be on the safe side.

Hence sitting at home on a Friday morning revisiting Redemption at the Puritan's Hand. I'm nothing if not a glutton for punishment 

[hellfire]

Jaysus, glad you're alright.

[Eoin McLove]

Ah yeah cheers dude. It wasn't too dramatic but the car is fairly dinged up!

[Caomhaoin]

His insurance premiums will be up and you're off work so happy days

[Eoin McLove]

And if the jammed is written off I'll pick up something bigger, better, bolder!

[Mower Liberation Front]

Airlines that oversell flights meaning you get kicked off your flight, despite having bought your ticket and chosen your seat four months ago.

[Carnage]

Vet bills. Has to be done but fucking hell.

[mickO)))]

Airlines that oversell flights meaning you get kicked off your flight, despite having bought your ticket and chosen your seat four months ago.

From what I have read about this before it apparently goes on with 95% of flights especially transatlantic / or trips over 2 hours. A lot of the time the airline will need to get staff to another destination to work on a different flight so they will first ask passengers if they will give up seats and everyone refuses then they will force people off the flight

It got a lot of media coverage just before pandemic. I remember one case in particular in the US of a guy who was already sitting on the plane in his seat and then was asked to leave as the flight was over booked, he refused and was dragged off the plane by security kicking and screaming. He ended getting a nice settlement out of the airline over it. After this case a number of other similar ones surfaced.

When I lived abroad I was asked at the checkin desk a number of times about giving up my seat when leaving Dublin I just told them no it's not even up for discussion. Had already said my goodbyes to family, friends etc. and they wanted to go through that all over again, fuck that unless you are offering me a few thousand I am not interested. Plus I almost always had been due back into the work the following day.

Thankfully I have never been forced off a flight which is a good thing because I definitely would not respond well to being treated like that. I already can't stand airports and airlines in general because of the way you are treated.

[Caomhaoin]

The sad decline of the quality of commentary and punditry on RTÉ for the soccer. Peter Collins sitting in Bill O'Herlihy's chair is just depressing. Darragh Maloney and whatever spoofer they have doing co-commentary tonight, absolute pish and bollocks.

[astfgyl]

The sad decline of the quality of commentary and punditry on RTÉ for the soccer. Peter Collins sitting in Bill O'Herlihy's chair is just depressing. Darragh Maloney and whatever spoofer they have doing co-commentary tonight, absolute pish and bollocks.

Off to the soccer thread with you, it's dying a death over there

[Carnage]

Soccer: not an actual sport, merely a game.