Pet Peeves

[Blackout]

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! 

I really hate that shit. I would be inclined to say, "don't worry it's not coming out of your minimum wage".

[Thorn]

The latest Memorial cd doesn't have either band name or album title on either spine., That's a fuckin balls rights there.

[Eoin McLove]

Went for a cunt of a run and if it wasn't bad enough that the legs are like lead on the hill climbs and the lungs are fit to burst, my brain, rather than jumping to my aid and helping me up the hills joins in the sedition, urging me to stop and walk.
'Ah relax, you had a shit night's sleep last night. It's grand sure, you went for a walk earlier, just stop and take it easy..'
Fuck you, brain!

[Carnage]

Cunting customs charges. A CD I bought for ~€7, customs/VAT fee is 95c but An Post's fee is €3.50. Cunts. And it won't go through online so I have to go into town in the morning to pay the cunts. Who are cunts.

Another fucking customs charge. The last one hasn't even arrived yet.

[Doctor Crippen]

Cunting customs charges. A CD I bought for ~€7, customs/VAT fee is 95c but An Post's fee is €3.50. Cunts. And it won't go through online so I have to go into town in the morning to pay the cunts. Who are cunts.

Another fucking customs charge. The last one hasn't even arrived yet.

Is that from american websites?

[Carnage]

One from Amazon, one from Ebay. Both EU vendors. Fucking annoying.

[Eoin McLove]

A newsreader earlier while taking about the Afghanistan situation said "this crises". If your job is to impart information, particularly about a crisis situation, then surely you should know the difference between crisis and crises.

Another irritating thing I've noticed in recent times (I may have given it about this before) is when TV presenters, rather than saying "the first of September" or "September first", have started saying "September one". That's the type of editorial decision that should be punishable by boot to bollix!

[Carnage]

Worse again, when you have arseholes like Michael Noonan phrasing years as "two fourteen" or "two sixteen". You're 1,800 years out, you prick.

[Eoin McLove]

Haha, yeah. Real blue sky thinking there 

[Born of Fire]

A newsreader earlier while taking about the Afghanistan situation said "this crises". If your job is to impart information, particularly about a crisis situation, then surely you should know the difference between crisis and crises.

Another irritating thing I've noticed in recent times (I may have given it about this before) is when TV presenters, rather than saying "the first of September" or "September first", have started saying "September one". That's the type of editorial decision that should be punishable by boot to bollix!

My memories of news in Australia is that it was always sensationalised as fuck and irritating. And then Aussie slang used casually in what should be a formal setting like talking about a car crash and saying that the "ambos and fieries are currently on the scene". Oh and on the radio when they'd put in an ad for something at the very end of the news segment but have the presenter read it out as if it was part of the news, same tone of voice etc..... I enjoyed my time out there but the media over there is fuckin awful.

[Eoin McLove]

I never listen to the radio here so I haven't noticed that one, thankfully.

[Snare]

Young fellas in Cork city centre (possibly the rest of Ireland) walking around in socks and pool slides (or flip flops).

I saw a lad this morning as I walked to work. The fucking cut of him. Acid washed jean shorts, vest and the socks n' slides combo.

This isn't sandy Venice Beach. This is Barrack St. which is strewn with syringes and dog shit.

And yer man carrying on like he's meeting Zack, Slater and Screech down in Bayside.

Metalwarfare users don't take too kindly to their kind! 😆

[Blackout]

Men should be banned from wearing sandals or flip-flops full stop. Get your crusty feet away from me you goons.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Politicians who decide to spend a total of €132,000 on a memorial garden and an App for Bug Tom.

[ldj]

The town where Phil Lynott was born in England announced a plan to put up a statue of him and just unveiled this monstrosity...