Pet Peeves

[Caomhaoin]

Lads who don't use or know how to use a toilet brush in the jacks at work. Manky cunts.

Every attack on Israelis (not condoning what happened in Amsterdam) automatically labelled as anti-Semitic.

The carry-on in work jacks generally would scar you.

From what I've read about the incidents in Amsterdam, it seems like those Israeli fans were the textbook definition of "cruising for a bruising".

Considering Ajax are the 'Jewish' club in Holland, and they display giant Star of David tifos, you don't need to be a genius to guess who was up to what. Of course the BBC etc have to point out the anniversary of Nazi inspired pogroms to throw you off the scent.

Wearing an Israeli jersey and pulling a Palestinian flag off a window anywhere outside Israel is absolutely retarded.

Why can't they just call it anti-Israeli though? Quite a sizeable number of Israelis are not Jews at all.

The wife is revolted whenever Palestine being annihilated comes on the news and because of imperfect English says 'I hate joooish'. I let her off for comedy value but these news boys have no such excuse.

[Hellyeah]

As mentioned before the deposit return scam for cans and plastics. Doing my bit for humanity yesterday, massive bag of stinking cans out of shed into car going for the lidl shop.
Halfway there the biggest wasp I've ever seen appeared in the car, must have been hibernating in said cans. Pulled over and freed the fecker.
Continued on, got to lidl.
Phone in pocket, coin for trolley, bag for shopping, massive bag of empty cans all check. Heading for the trolley bay on a mission.
Halfway there, one of the handles off my massive bag of cans decided to shit the bed, cue approx 60 cans hitting the deck of the car park on a busy Saturday afternoon. Going everywhere, rolling under cars, with me looking like some mental case trying to frantically pick them up.
All this happening while some fake homeless person(I've seen her dropped by car to said carpark) pissing herself laughing at me. Really wanted to kick here in the c#nt.
Retrieved most of the cans and done my shop with my hands stinking of stale beer, and my recycling bin remaining largely empty at home.

"Decided to buy a bottle of vodka instead of my usual beers"

[Thorn]

 

I think it's a load of bollox  too. Daughter had me gathering up plastic bottles at work for months all to get her six poxy quid in the end up, AND had to start taking all lids off all bottles in car park AND the bloody machine spat out anything that still had juice in...wouldn't be arsed with it at all

[astfgyl]

I see the idea as a good thing tbh but it's a pain in the hole to participate.

There's no point in going down until one has a big enough stinking bag to bring and also then returning the stuff while people are waiting behind is annoying because they're looking at what I've been drinking. But, whenever I have a bag I bring the young lads and give them the few pence so there's not a plastic bottle or can to be found anywhere within 500 yards of the gaff, which is good. Painful experience overall but I see it as doing more good than harm.


Then again, I've been paying for a recycle bin all along so like fuck the whole thing from a great height actually

[Trev]

Don't think it's that bad, I've a box out back for glass bottles, so just put another in for plastics, and generally drop off the two about once every six weeks. Throw the cash back into a jar at home and there's probably about €100 now which will sort out a few gigs for next year

I can imagine it must be a pain in the hole if you're in a small apartment though

[Mr Barlow]

That poxy Amazon advert !

[Thorn]

Haven't seen it yet but the Boots one is killing me with their over the top pandering to inclusivity. Tv ads in general are insufferable to me. Usually have a book or mag to hand and the mute button employed. Or fuck off out for a fag.

[Giggles]

Throw the cash back into a jar at home and there's probably about €100 now which will sort out a few gigs for next year

The machine gives you a voucher which you can only spend at their store, and you're not "saving" money, you're redeeming what they've overcharged you.

Cash... gigs?? What the hell are you talking about!!

[mickO)))]

The deposit return scam is a load of bollox just another stealth tax. If the Government really cared the return fee would not have been added onto the current price all they want is that extra money from those that don't or can't return the cans while making things even more difficult for everyone else be it dragging bottles to the shop then the machine is broken down or the queue is huge then after it you have to queue again to cash the receipt. Not to mention we are already paying for the green bin.

[Carnage]

The machine gives you a voucher which you can only spend at their store

You can also get cash back for it.

[astfgyl]

Not watching telly used to have the benefits of no ads but now I'm still subjected to them in the background through the young lads watching YouTube so there's no escape

[John Kimble]

Yeah, there's definitely a marked increase in the amount of YouTube ads. Obviously a big push to get you to fork out for the premium service.

[Snare]

Parents of kids that you're volunteering to help. You give your time gladly to help the kids, but feck me far too many of the "grown up's" are painful, mindless idiots that seem to think you have nothing better to do that babysit them to follow simple directions and needlessly give up more of your own time.

After 6 years of volunteering with Scouts I stepped back to let someone else lead this year as I was fit to kill parents plainly ignoring messages and asking questions for information you literally spent an age compiling for them to avoid such questions, but they couldn't be bothered reading it. You'd have a good mind to be blunt and tell them get lost and "read the fucking manual" so to speak. "Is Beavers on tonight?" (no, we were waiting until the last moment to tell you we were forgetting all about the timetable we put together for every Wednesday of the term and weren't actually going ahead as planned).

It's my 3rd year involved in kids' basketball and I've only got involved in the Admin side this season. I thought with basketball things might be easier as there's a lot less involved - register, train here, play there. Nope, without fail there's idiots across the board all the time. 3 examples in the past 3 days:

1. Kid joined us late in the season so I ensured his mother got all the organising messages directly outside the whatsapp group. 3 messages - timetable for training twice a week in 2 different locations, google map to one of those locations as it's not our home court, and information on the flex rotation the other guys had worked on for the previous month.
Kid turned up for the first game where the google map was for. He went to no more training until Sunday where he went to the wrong location which was the home court. The mother posted to the group wondering where we were (god forbid she'd get the right location after literally giving her breadcrumbs to get there via a google map).
The mother forced another club member to drive ahead of her from our home court to where we were training. She had a face like a rottweiler chewing wasps as she was so put out that we were hiding on her. She asked the other coach at the end for the address that she was literally standing in, had just driven into, and would be driving out and away home (a straight forward trip across the northside for 15min, not in the middle of the countryside or anything). This despite the fact she had the google address I gave her, the address another parent put up after her query (I wasn't answering the idiot), and she was already there 2 weeks beforehand for a game. The other week she asked was there training tomorrow, despite the message directly above saying no training on Halloween and we moved forward a night instead. She needs a good cup of shut the hell up.

2. Kept sending reminders that if kids aren't registered and membership paid then kids can no longer participate due to insurance, etc. Ended up having to contact one set of parents directly and they swore they paid already. They proceeded to give me a screen grab of a different amount paid to someone else. The payment had nothing to do with our club membership as they ignored all plain directions on how to pay through the club app via Clubforce. Cue them tying up more people in the club as they wouldn't accept they made a right mess of things before eventually holding their hands up.

3. A new kid is joining us, so I sent the mother a screen grab of the app, told her which button to press on the app to bring up the membership options and follow the 5 simple steps (step 3 - use the club app). She did one part via a link given for a small payment to Basketball Ireland (also on the app). She said she couldn't progress with the club membership then. I asked for screen grabs, and reminded about following the very brief 5 steps, including reference to the club app.
Her screen grabs showed her trying to repeat the previous step which was outside the app. I highlighted that wasn't the app, so use the fecking app. She came back to say the app wouldn't work...
Turns out the complete idiot was trying to click on the screen grab from the app that I went to the trouble of providing for ease of reference, and told me it didn't work. No shit, clicking on a picture of an app didn't work?? We better get on to the developers.... So back to her again - look at point 3, you need to download the app. All fixed now after needlessly wasting more fricking time.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?? The walking braindead are everywhere it seems.

[Ollkiller]

Yeah, there's definitely a marked increase in the amount of YouTube ads. Obviously a big push to get you to fork out for the premium service.

Every time an ad comes on I throw the finger at the screen. Fuck you you tube/Google. I'll never pay for premium.

[astfgyl]

Parents of kids that you're volunteering to help. You give your time gladly to help the kids, but feck me far too many of the "grown up's" are painful, mindless idiots that seem to think you have nothing better to do that babysit them to follow simple directions and needlessly give up more of your own time.

I helped out with the soccer before for the u10s and fuck that for a game of soldiers. You'd want the parents nowhere near it.

None of them can read the big sign that says

LET THE COACHES COACH.

THIS IS NOT THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.

The kids can't get onto the pitch without passing that, but it's not enough to get the idea into the parent's heads.

Look, God bless your patience lad and fair play.