Random Irritations

On a similar theme, why are we getting so much coverage of the Pope's visit to Ireland? Nothing to do with us. If he crosses to the North it is a different matter but Pope visits Dublin is not a UK story.

I wonder if he will be forced to resign over the alleged cover up of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.



 
On a similar theme, why are we getting so much coverage of the Pope's visit to Ireland? Nothing to do with us. If he crosses to the North it is a different matter but Pope visits Dublin is not a UK story.

Maybe because the Pope is the global leader of the Catholic Church. He might be nothing to you but he is a very important person to Catholics.
 
Maybe because the Pope is the global leader of the Catholic Church. He might be nothing to you but he is a very important person to Catholics.

Yes, but he is not visiting the UK. He is visiting countries on a pretty regular basis, we don't get this level of coverage when he visits France, Poland or any other country. Ireland is not part of the UK, we don't get Irish news normally.
 
I wonder if he will be forced to resign over the alleged cover up of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.




It seems that hardly a day passes without another church cover up story hitting the headlines. I can't believe anyone should have trust in anything that's connected with the church
 
Sky not showing the final T20 Blast QF when they showed all the others and have plenty of channels to show both that QF and the Ladies Semi.
 
Idiots who do not understand how air con, or heating controls work. During the hot weather, some simpleton has turned the air con down to 17 at work. Now, if it could not achieve 21, then it will not be capable of getting any lower. Turning the set point down is stupid, and pointless.

Today, it is colder outside, and so the air con can achieve a lower temperature. It is set to 17, and has got the room down to 19. I am now sat here flipping freezing.

I wish idiots would just leave things they don't understand well alone.
 
Maybe because the Pope is the global leader of the Catholic Church. He might be nothing to you but he is a very important person to Catholics.

It is irritating when at the moment Catholic beliefs and the behaviour of a small number priests of the Catholic Church are portrayed by some - or implied and discussed - as being representative of, and prevalent across, all Christian denominations. There are bad 'uns in every denomination - as there are in every walk of life. But we are not all the same.
 
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People talking on their phones on speaker then holding it 2-3inches from their face (not on Facetime or similar) just do the decent thing turn off the speaker and hold it to your ear like a normal person!

Also keypad sounds on phones what are they even for anyway, "The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers, mutineers and people who leave keypad sounds on" - Jack Sparrow
 
People talking on their phones on speaker then holding it 2-3inches from their face (not on Facetime or similar) just do the decent thing turn off the speaker and hold it to your ear like a normal person!

Funnily enough I noticed this only recently, never seen it before. Why do they do it? Is it back to the days of thinking a mobile would fry your brain?
 
People talking on their phones on speaker then holding it 2-3inches from their face (not on Facetime or similar) just do the decent thing turn off the speaker and hold it to your ear like a normal person!

Also keypad sounds on phones what are they even for anyway, "The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers, mutineers and people who leave keypad sounds on" - Jack Sparrow

My 12yo along with his classmates has been told at school recently to hold a mobile phone away from their heads on speaker obviously, brain radiation thing for younger people or something. Don't expect your random irritation to go away!;)
 
Funnily enough I noticed this only recently, never seen it before. Why do they do it? Is it back to the days of thinking a mobile would fry your brain?
I think people started doing this after they saw it on the Apprentice. They only do it on there so that the camera can hear both ends of the phone call though, I think, and people just copied them because they're idiots.
 
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