Pet Peeves

[hellfire]

Some hard hitting analysis/commentary from RTE. As per usual - always asking the right questions 

Aye, really sticking it to the government as usual. With a bailout pending I'm surprised they didn't do a North Korea style dear leaders bit.

[son of the Morrigan]

How double dare you!
RTE is a totally independent and non-biased reporter of news. Their reporters act only to serve the public interest.
I for one trust them completely.
I would totally deny any suggestion that they are, in any way, a nest of bought and over-paid for liars and propagandist cunts who are de facto agents of an inherently corrupt state.
Shame on you sir/madam/them/zur/(insert relevant pronoun here)/etc.

[hellfire]

Lads, social media... leave it behind. Step out of the bubble and remember what reality tasted like. It's good 

I'm actually taking your advice on that. Getting alternative contacts for a few lads abroad and then giving all of them the chop. That naked corpse thing sobered me up a bit. Why did I need to see that and what good came out of me seeing that?

I'll find ways around missing out on some band news. A small price to pay for some peace of mind.

[Bürggermeister]

Good on ye. Gave all that stuff up 6 or 7 years ago, am frequently baffled at the utterly demented way some lads, who live in their phones, see the world.

Today's peeve, the limp attempts at stirring up controversy over a fucking Madonna show being all dancers, costumes and backing tracks.

[astfgyl]

Lads, social media... leave it behind. Step out of the bubble and remember what reality tasted like. It's good 

I'm actually taking your advice on that. Getting alternative contacts for a few lads abroad and then giving all of them the chop. That naked corpse thing sobered me up a bit. Why did I need to see that and what good came out of me seeing that?

I'll find ways around missing out on some band news. A small price to pay for some peace of mind.

Yeah I saw that too and started to get riled up about the world in general for a day but then I just stayed out of that stuff again and stuck to the likes of album shootouts and whatnot maybe some people falling and a few cats.

I think writing that paragraph there has actually laid out the futility of the whole thing in such a way that now I'm thinking of joining ye

[Eoin McLove]

Lads, social media... leave it behind. Step out of the bubble and remember what reality tasted like. It's good 

I'm actually taking your advice on that. Getting alternative contacts for a few lads abroad and then giving all of them the chop. That naked corpse thing sobered me up a bit. Why did I need to see that and what good came out of me seeing that?

I'll find ways around missing out on some band news. A small price to pay for some peace of mind.

Good stuff. You'll find out band news on forums.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

On that, it is great to have this forum all the same 

[Carnage]

That cunt Vogue Williams and her stupid made up accent. The latest one is dropping the R at the end of 'weather'. Is she that desperate to be a Brit that she thinks she's fooling anyone with that carry on?

[hellfire]

Airport bogroll. I currently feel like I've been at a pool party with Michael Barrymore.

[Maggot Colony]

Airport bogroll. I currently feel like I've been at a pool party with Michael Barrymore.

The bogroll in my workplace is the same, like wiping your hole with sandpaper.

[Born of Fire]

Littering.

Especially apparent on the road verges around here. We've a beautiful little country but it's populated by filthy fuckin animals with no regard for anything.

[mickO)))]

Littering.

Especially apparent on the road verges around here. We've a beautiful little country but it's populated by filthy fuckin animals with no regard for anything.

I saw a broken bottle in a grassed area last week. I don't know if it was purposely put there or someone moved it off the path either way a very stupid thing to do as a dog could very easily walk on it or even worse child playing on the grass could fall on it.

[open face surgery]

Ya, littering is a fuckin disgrace. I can't get my head around someone doing it.

[Giggles]

It's not your head that you need to get around them, it's the back of your hand 👊

[ochoill]

My local post office moved building lately and seems to have mostly changed staff too.  The old staff are grand, but every experience with anyone else there since has been bewildering.

Posting out both pedals and TI orders recently, and my printer at home died, so I just wrote the address on and had them weighed & posted in the office.  3 quid extra for a pedal, and 10 quid extra for an international CD (even though I was charged the normal rate for Irish CDs and they all weighed the same).  When I questioned it I was met with "it is what it is, that's the weight, they are parcels".

...Fair enough but what about the CDs?  They are all the very same.  "No this one is a parcel," the international one, "but these ones are envelopes," the identical Irish ones.

Fuck it I'm not arguing, I thought, said cheers and left.  I'll print the rest.  Two pedals the next day so I ended up doing the labels in work for them - if any of you know you can enter the weight and dimensions manually online and it will decide if it is a parcel / packet / envelope for the rates.  They came back with packet rates, about 3 quid cheaper than the parcel.  Grand.

Dropped them to the post office only to be interrogated by the lad on the desk.  "Where did you get these labels?" off the site.  "How did you get this price?" I entered the weight and dims.  "Where are these going?" ahh Ireland it says it on them.

"Is this a sale?"
What?  It is yeah.
"Are you registered as a business?"
What the fuck, I thought, and my face probably said it but I just said No.  Why?
"What are you selling?  Online sales?"
Jesus, Guitar pedals, wherever, adverts.  Why?
"But you're not a business?"
What difference does it make to you?  I said to him.  He stopped, he had been actually rapid firing the questions beforehand.
"Oh. No, ahh, no I was just wondering.  You could buy the bulk stamps and they would be cheaper-"
Do I need to be a business to buy them?
"Ahh no, no."
Right.  Can I get my receipt?
"I'll just weigh these again" and off he goes to check the price I got them for online, coming back to tell me "yes, yes you picked the right one".

I am a patient man but by fuckin christ that was a test if I ever met one.  What fuckin business is it of his what I am doing with myself?  Anything that goes tracked gets put in as pedals, anything going internationally goes with a tariff, he has some sort of issue with me getting a cheaper price online than he would have given me in there, clearly.

Bewildering, anyway.  Have been back several times since to the other staff who know me and they just say "well! thanks" and scan the boxes.  Job done.  A grand rant there but I needed it