Pet Peeves

[Mooncat]

Pet peeve: the whole 420 thing. It's fucking 20/4, yanks.

This one gets me. Been living in Canada a decade now and I still can't get my head around the back to front dates. Partially from 30 years of doing it the other way while living at home, and partially because it just doesn't make logical sense. I still have to stop and think about it every time I write a date.

Still wasn't as dangerous as the transition time learning to drive on the other side of the road though. Multiple scary occasions of turning a corner into the oncoming traffic lane. Twice as scary if there was a median...

[Caomhaoin]

The driving on the other side of the road never bothered me, but a left hand drive car on Irish roads, that's a pain in hole.

[Mooncat]

The driving on the other side of the road never bothered me, but a left hand drive car on Irish roads, that's a pain in hole.

Never done that but I can imagine it'd feel like you're practically in the bushes on country roads!

[Sworntothecans]

I'll 50/50 a night out with Guinness Zero (if the pub does a good job with it), but have definitely given up on the whiskey at the end of the night as that's adding days on to The Fear.

[astfgyl]

The driving on the other side of the road never bothered me, but a left hand drive car on Irish roads, that's a pain in hole.

Thumbed a lift off a lad in a left hand drive one day and I was in constant terror of the traffic coming against it

[Eoin McLove]

I do sometimes miss a glass of wine with a meal but I can also live without it.

[Anvil]

Blinds closed at 5.30 in the evening.  I fucking hate the clocks going back.   

[astfgyl]

Yeah it takes a bit of adjusting to. My least favourite is when I head into work in the morning when it's dark and leave in the evening when it's dark for about 2 months.

[Ducky]

Singer/songwriter types who only play popular shite (like Oasis), and decide to completely mess the hook of the song up.

Was just walking past a pub earlier and the lad rattling through "Wonderwall" completely destroy the chorus hook. Love it or hate it, it's got a big hook. That's why millions of people love it.

Meanwhile these gowls seem to miss the entire point of a hook, mess them up and make the song distinctly less catchy. And they can barely stumble through four chords and tell everyone that'll listen that they're musicians.

Cunts.

[astfgyl]

Is that not just those folks putting their own very artistic slant on the compositions and we are just not artistic enough to understand the brilliance?

I always thought I despised them all because I wasn't clever enough

[Carnage]

The dilemma: to buy shite for trick or treaters or not? We normally buy a couple of bags of crap for them but for the last couple of years nobody came to the house at all and we were stuck with a big bowl of tooth rot for weeks.

First world problems, eh?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Keep the receipts! 

[Anvil]

I'm going to sound like a miserable cunt (because I am one), but trick or treaters can fuck right off and so can fireworks.  And don't get me started on the tat that people decorate their houses with...   

[Carnage]

Oh I hate all that crap myself but the trick or treating is a bit of fun for the kids. It's the 15 year old travellers chancing their arm that fucks me off.

[mickO)))]

The fireworks just annoy me because they scare the shit out of one of the dogs. Every evening she will just go under the table and sit at someone's feet shaking. I even went to the lengths of getting her tables which don't seem to have helped much.

If something goes off then she is being walked she immediately starts trying to run in the opposite direction.