Pet Peeves

[Eoin McLove]

I'm all for Christmas decorations as long as people wait until after Halloween before putting them up. Ideally they should wait until December but it's not a big problem for me. It brightens up November and December so I don't get the problem. Christmas FM on the other hand... ouch! 

[Carnage]

Up a maximum of a week befire and down a maximum of a week after. There's enough bleating on about it as it is. Humbug!

[Kurt Cocaine]

My idiot housemate has Christmas FM on full blast in her earphones. She is an ignorant, insufferable stupid cunt.  God that felt good to get out.

That's an awful way to talk about your ma.

[StoutAndAle]

Couple of young lads in work - both under 25 - discussing the current COVID situation. One of them pipes up with;

"I read a thing on Reddit about this being like life in wartime for young people today."

"Yeah, it's tough enough. Boring like. Nothing to do or anything."

Life during wartime?! Get to fuck. I'm fairly sure that the Blitz would have been made more tolerable if you could pick any film or song that you wanted to hear/see and watch/listen to it there and then on a device from your pocket.

Imagine going back in time and telling a lad looking longingly at his ration book that with three taps on a phone you could have a burrito and chips delivered to your gaping gob in 30 minutes. If it's not there in 25 minutes you can piss and moan at the entire world from Abyssinia to Ceylon about it. And people from around the world would write back immediately agreeing that "Yeah, Boojum would want to cop the fuck on with their delivery times. I had to wait 33 minutes for a quesadilla meal last week #getinmybelly" 

You'd probably have to explain what a burrito and a quesadilla were, but still - my point is valid.

Imagine telling the same lad that, instead of trying meet young ones outside mass of a Saturday night or going to endless chicken supper dinner-dances, you could look at a photo of a girl on the movie/food device and be getting your end away in an hour without even having to pretend to like Perry Como or whoever.

These two cunts wouldn't last in the 1980s let alone the 1940s. Imagine informing millennials that, from now until the end of lockdown, the only thing they had to watch and/or knock one out to was Thelma Mansfield on RTE and they might want to be quick about it just in case Derek Davis' head floats into shot on the 14"  TV screen and kills the mood.

[blessed1]

I love Xmas decorations!
Couldn't give a fuck if they were up all year round.
My pet peeve is annoying cunts complaining about xmas decorations!
It's not like it  makes much of a difference to your lives.
Miserable bastards!

[Mower Liberation Front]

I like Christmas decorations. I just hate having to put them up and take them down. But they don't need to go up til December.

[Kurt Cocaine]

I love Xmas decorations!
Couldn't give a fuck if they were up all year round.
My pet peeve is annoying cunts complaining about xmas decorations!
It's not like it  makes much of a difference to your lives.
Miserable bastards!

We make our own Pagan decorations but I will admit that I do like putting up a couple of sets of LED lights in December. Nice for getting shitfaced to. 

[Scáthach]

The slaughtered goat on top of the tree can start to stink after a while.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Not if you smother the carcass in garlic & paprika infused seen first it won't.

[Blackout]

My idiot housemate has Christmas FM on full blast in her earphones. She is an ignorant, insufferable stupid cunt.  God that felt good to get out.

That's an awful way to talk about your ma.

A joke so used it would put your Ma's pussy to shame.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Believe me, my ma's pussy is no joke.

[Eoin McLove]

Couple of young lads in work - both under 25 - discussing the current COVID situation. One of them pipes up with;

"I read a thing on Reddit about this being like life in wartime for young people today."

"Yeah, it's tough enough. Boring like. Nothing to do or anything."

Life during wartime?! Get to fuck. I'm fairly sure that the Blitz would have been made more tolerable if you could pick any film or song that you wanted to hear/see and watch/listen to it there and then on a device from your pocket.

Imagine going back in time and telling a lad looking longingly at his ration book that with three taps on a phone you could have a burrito and chips delivered to your gaping gob in 30 minutes. If it's not there in 25 minutes you can piss and moan at the entire world from Abyssinia to Ceylon about it. And people from around the world would write back immediately agreeing that "Yeah, Boojum would want to cop the fuck on with their delivery times. I had to wait 33 minutes for a quesadilla meal last week #getinmybelly" 

You'd probably have to explain what a burrito and a quesadilla were, but still - my point is valid.

Imagine telling the same lad that, instead of trying meet young ones outside mass of a Saturday night or going to endless chicken supper dinner-dances, you could look at a photo of a girl on the movie/food device and be getting your end away in an hour without even having to pretend to like Perry Como or whoever.

These two cunts wouldn't last in the 1980s let alone the 1940s. Imagine informing millennials that, from now until the end of lockdown, the only thing they had to watch and/or knock one out to was Thelma Mansfield on RTE and they might want to be quick about it just in case Derek Davis' head floats into shot on the 14"  TV screen and kills the mood.

There must be a psychological condition that relates to accidentally blowing your muck to Derek Davis. I'd say many a young lad in Ireland in the 80s was caught out. I wonder how that level of trauma has manifested itself in later life.

[Eoin McLove]

I normally don't lend my stuff to people as it's often a formula for making them disappear but I was reading Carmilla in work recently and got chatting to someone about it. I said I'd give her a loan thinking, it's only a hundred pages long, I'll get it back in a few days. Weeks pass, no sign. I'm dropping subtle hints by asking her what she thinks about it etc. This morning she tells me she'll have it for me tomorrow but she has bought me a replacement copy because her lunch spilled on the one I gave her. That's completely sound and inarguable but now I'm in the awkward position of actually wanting the original back as it's one I bought while on honeymoon in Australia, so it has some sentimental attachment. She told me the replacement is a nicer edition with illustrations so how do I say I'd prefer the original inferior copy without making her feel like shit?! The gas thing is that most of my books end up a bit ropey because I end up bringing them into work so a few lunch stains are par for the course along with grubby hand prints and yes,  oh Lord yes,  those sweet sweet broken spines!

[Kurt Cocaine]

Never EVER lend books. People have the best intentions of reading them straight away but that rarely if ever happens.
Recommended the book by all means and let them buy it themselves or join the feckin local library.

[Carnage]

What Kurt said. The few times I've loaned a book out I usually end up telling them to keep it and replace it myself.

Also: just be straight with her re: the sentimental value of the book, unless she's an arsehole she'll understand.