Pet Peeves

[Caomhaoin]

In Spain the kids can choose once they reach a certain age if mothers or fathers go first. Fuckin annoying only having one over there sometimes.

[Doctor Crippen]

Yeah i know in spain its culturally common and even here in certain parts of Ireland in the gaelic speaking communities, i just feel the people i know who are doing it are just being bell ends and doing it to be posh if that makes sense, as i say its an old man gripe 😂

[101_North]

I was at the Culloden battlefield yesterday (top of the bucket list for years) and a gang of absolute cunts doing video calls and talking in loud, obnoxious voices standing right on top of where most of the dead are buried. I was absolutely seething, and the only reason I didn't pull the arseholes up was because they had a couple of kids with them.

I visited Auschwitz about 15 years ago and was astounded at some of the cuntery on show! We had a guided tour and at one point, inside a gas chamber, just as the guide said something along the lines of "250,000 people were killed in this chamber alone", I heard the unmistakable sound of a drinks can being opened! Sure enough some lad had sat down in the dark and opened a fucking picnic! He'd a can of Coke in one hand and a fucking sandwich hanging out his mouth! Absolute cunt!

[Caomhaoin]

Ya, hard to understand that level of ballbaggery. Of course I'm not comparing Culloden to Auschwitz, but it's fairly out of the fucking way, and it's extremely atmospheric and eerie if you come early enough. And you come out to the back arse of nowhere to visit a battlefield where the dead were buried in mass graves, each grave site marked by a small cairn, and you stand on it and start doing face time? Unbelievable.

I was in Dachau a few years ago and there were a few peeve merchants there which annoyed me at the time, but it has nothing on either Auschwitz or Culloden for pure sobering stillness when almost empty.

[101_North]

Nothing's sacred anymore! Everything's a live event and must be streamed! Folks living their experiences through a screen. Fucking tragic!

[son of the Morrigan]

I have noticed an increase in the number of double barrel names knocking around the last few years myself and had put it down, perhaps mistakenly, to an increase in the number of people born to unmarried couples and taking both names as a result.

[Kurt Cocaine]

I was at the Culloden battlefield yesterday (top of the bucket list for years) and a gang of absolute cunts doing video calls and talking in loud, obnoxious voices standing right on top of where most of the dead are buried. I was absolutely seething, and the only reason I didn't pull the arseholes up was because they had a couple of kids with them.

Yer in Schotland? Jaysus lad, you never said..

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Scenes from Culloden...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YzyaPgSHZc

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[StoutAndAle]

I have noticed an increase in the number of double barrel names knocking around the last few years myself and had put it down, perhaps mistakenly, to an increase in the number of people born to unmarried couples and taking both names as a result.

Yeah, I think that's it. I think that the most odd thing about it is the combination of pop-culture inspired first names and traditional Irish surnames and being double-barreled.

For example; Laurence Smedley-Smythe is one thing - Shakira O'Sullivan-O'Mahony is another.

[The Heretic]

Yeah, I think that's it. I think that the most odd thing about it is the combination of pop-culture inspired first names and traditional Irish surnames and being double-barreled.

It's awful stuff.....Destiny O'Donnell etc etc

[Doctor Crippen]

Maybe im missing a trick here but ordering cd's and getting cardboard covers with no inlay or booklet, a balls altogether

[Eoin McLove]

I don't mind digi CD covers, but without a booklet?  Nein!

[StoutAndAle]

Why do places do loyalty systems if they feel aggrieved when honouring them?

Place I buy my coffee near work - I comfortably spend €25 - €45 there in a fortnight. They have a 10th coffee is free card. I bought 4 coffees earlier and handed her my full card to cover one of them. She left out an audible huff and then started grumbling under her breath.

I was already having a shite morning. I went to buy the coffees to get out of the office.

"Sorry, is there a problem?"

"It'd be easier if we didn't do this card thing"

"I suppose, yeah"

"OK, bye now"

"Haven't you forgotten something?"

"What?"

"You need to put 3 stamps on my new card"

The look she gave me, even with the mask on! 

[Doctor Crippen]

I don't mind digi CD covers, but without a booklet?  Nein!

I agree, das ist verboten