Pet Peeves

[Ducky]

Christmas songs (most of them):
Esp:

Fairytale of New York : the most overplayed and overrated one of all. The sound of christmas pudding with a topping of barf. Fck off back to NY.

Mariah Carey: loud brash and irritating, turn it down!

However,  Wham (last Christmas) gets a pass as it is as cheesy and silly as the season is.

Way back when I worked in GameStop, we could (within reason) listen to our own music, but come Christmas we had to have the HO-sanctioned Christmas playlist that would repeat every 50 minutes or so.

Fairytale of NY was like hearing Mozart compared to the aural abomination that is

I Want an Alien for Christmas by Fountains of Wayne.

[Pentagrimes]

Just Christmas in general.

[Giggles]

Having to endure couples arguing/bickering at each other

[Anvil]

People who let fireworks off at 6.20pm.  Just go fuck off.

[Carnage]

This fucking rain. I'm about to head out for a friend's 50th and I'm gonna get soaked.

Edit: The prick is down with the flu so it's off, but I only found this out when I got there. Sake.

[Ducky]

The state of NYE "entertainment" in Sligo.

Went out with a friend on the town because we've both not done anything for NYE in years. How bad can it be? Turns out, it's fucking atrocious.

Granted, we made the mistake of going to a place called "Gracie's" (I hear it's a chain of sorts but haven't seen it outside of Sligo). For those of you who were here years ago, it's the old Journeyman/McHugh's spot. It's easily the biggest live venue in town now.

Problem is, their idea of live music is cookie cutter shite. Music for people who don't really like music. Went in and some young fella was rattling through Nathan Carter style country songs. Fucking hell.

There was a live band upstairs who were more palatable, but they seemed to play every song a few BPM slower than they should. Stage presence of a wet napkin. The lead vocalist crooned his way through Highway to Hell. And because of these cunts the last song I heard in 2024 was Teenage Dirtbag, and the first of 2025 was Don't Look Back in Anger. Ugh.

Bonus "the fucking state of it" points because Gracie's insist on their staff dressing like they're in an episode of Peaky Blinders.

[Sworntothecans]

There's nothing worse than some fuck boy with an acoustic and an iPad belting out pure shite in a pub.

[Bürggermeister]

On a related note, buskers with amplification. You're loud enough hollering with an acoustic guitar, you don't need fucking a fucking mic and an amp too, you cunt.

[Ducky]

There's nothing worse than some fuck boy with an acoustic and an iPad belting out pure shite in a pub.

Yep. And he was one of these cunts that doesn't seem to understand if you neuter/change the hook of a song to your own interpretation of it, the catchy song (no matter how much you may or may not enjoy it to begin with) is rendered no longer catchy (which seems to entirely defeat the purpose of paying some gombeen 150 quid to rattle through some pop songs).

Cunt could barely play four chords as well, yet you just know he tells everyone he meets he's a musician.

[Sworntothecans]

On a related note, buskers with amplification. You're loud enough hollering with an acoustic guitar, you don't need fucking a fucking mic and an amp too, you cunt.

CUNNNNNNTS!

[The Heretic]

Luke Littler - Great player but an annoying cunt at the same time for some reason that I just cant pin down

[Thorn]

Probably because he's just 17 and we'd all kill to be that age again

[Carnage]

No, he's an arrogant little shit. Success went straight to his head.

[Thorn]

And that.

[Ducky]

Littler is a cunt. He also looks like a baddie out of Corrie.