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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #3482
    mattjack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Martyn1989 wrote: »
    In work earlier (in a pub)
    A bloke has been frequenting the last couple of days I havnt seen before
    Thurs he kept coming through the lounge into the bar from the smoking area for his pint to get it 5c cheaper, he then had the cheek to claim to be an OAP (cheaper pint by 50c), hes clearly only mid 40s, laughed in his face and told him full price.
    This evening I was in the lounge and he tried to pay bar price for his pint in the lounge.
    I told him he was a 5c short and he kicked up a fuss, fcuk u, my till isnt coming up short cause you need to keep ur precious 5c!
    Grumpy wxnker prob got barred from his local!

    A very well known pub near the BEAUMOUNT hospital... charges 60 cents for a ""dash"..i.e. glass of guinness and a dash..


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    #3483
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Martyn1989 wrote: »
    In work earlier (in a pub)
    A bloke has been frequenting the last couple of days I havnt seen before
    Thurs he kept coming through the lounge into the bar from the smoking area for his pint to get it 5c cheaper, he then had the cheek to claim to be an OAP (cheaper pint by 50c), hes clearly only mid 40s, laughed in his face and told him full price.
    This evening I was in the lounge and he tried to pay bar price for his pint in the lounge.
    I told him he was a 5c short and he kicked up a fuss, fcuk u, my till isnt coming up short cause you need to keep ur precious 5c!
    Grumpy wxnker prob got barred from his local!
    He's dead right. Why should he be charged extra to get a drink in a the same pub but just a different part. It's stingey to expect him to pay more tbh.
    Cock tavern in swords charges less in the bar than the lounge. I asked the bar man about it, he says they do it to keep the old todgers out of the way of the food trade. He reckons they only make about a tenner an hour off them but 100 an hour from lounge tables.


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    #3484
    goat2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    i would like to know, do the barperson who work in the lounge part of the premises get more in wages than the fellow who work in the main bar, why the difference in prices,


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    #3485
    bijapos
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    Charging different prices in the bar and lounge was very common up to about 20 years ago, in fact it was the norm in a lot of the country.

    The bar was more spartan and basically furnished than the lounge which tended to have plusher seating. Women were barred or discouraged from entering the bar in many pubs until a few decades ago, and certainly when I started drinking in the late 80's in a few pubs I know they would be made to feel unwelcome in a bar.

    Lounges were commonly added on to the pub over the years as more women went out drinking and socialising on their own and certain places tried to cater for them and the inevitable hordes of young men who would be with them. As they didn't want to lose their regulars in the bar they opened lounges. It also catered for the older couple who might go out for a couple of drinks on a Friday or Saturday night and for whom the bar might be a bit too "rough". I know of a couple of old pubs where the lounge was quite obviously the sitting room of the house back in the day until it was changed from the sitting room to a lounge.

    I've no idea if the extra price was a surcharge on using the lounge or a discount for using the bar. I always presumed it was added on by the publican to try to recoup some of the money they put into renovating the lounge. Its is unusual to see this today though not uncommon, solely because its probably too much hassle to try to keep a tabs on things.


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    #3486
    goat2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    i go into grocery shops and can pick up bargains every day, why can the bars with lounges at least keep the prices the same under the one roof,


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    #3487
    hdowney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    Martyn1989 wrote: »
    In work earlier (in a pub)
    A bloke has been frequenting the last couple of days I havnt seen before
    Thurs he kept coming through the lounge into the bar from the smoking area for his pint to get it 5c cheaper, he then had the cheek to claim to be an OAP (cheaper pint by 50c), hes clearly only mid 40s, laughed in his face and told him full price.
    This evening I was in the lounge and he tried to pay bar price for his pint in the lounge.
    I told him he was a 5c short and he kicked up a fuss, fcuk u, my till isnt coming up short cause you need to keep ur precious 5c!
    Grumpy wxnker prob got barred from his local!

    that is something i have never heard of before - the pint being cheaper in the bar end of a pub than the lounge end? is this common enough practice?


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    #3488
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    I have seen unbelievable stinginess in people with money to burn.Some wealthy people can be like that too...but i don't believe in been frivolous either.Some of it stems from real harsh poverty decades ago and is passed on like an attitude from father to son."Look after yir pinnys and pounds will look after demselves."The poverty was fierce decades ago and a five pound note never got less than ten years in a mattress.The luckier ones got out after 5.


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    #3489
    yeman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭yeman


    i work in a greyhound racing track, on the back door where only dogs n their trainer can get it and the amount of stingy people who come up to me refusing to pay giving me all bull**** excuses to get passed me, guys pull up in big 2010/2011 mercs, audi's and bmw's n try everything possible to not pay 10 euro's to get in to the track! and when i stop them i get an awful lot of abuse before they walk off


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    #3490
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Martyn1989 wrote: »
    In work earlier (in a pub)
    A bloke has been frequenting the last couple of days I havnt seen before
    Thurs he kept coming through the lounge into the bar from the smoking area for his pint to get it 5c cheaper,

    The magician / comedian Tommy Cooper was pretty well known for being tight and he used to do that trick in his local in London (.

    His tightness with money was shown in another occasion during a Royal Variety performance when he had the following exchange with the Queen:

    "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?"
    "No, but I might not be able to give you a full answer."
    "Do you like football?"
    "Well, not really."
    "Can I have your Cup Final tickets?"

    Tight bastard but a complete legend :)


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    #3491
    Martyn1989
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Martyn1989


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    What kind of hole has different prices in the same pub.

    A hole that does very well as it happens!
    It is common practice for pubs with completely seperate bar/lounge areas to charge slightly different prices for drinks!
    You should pay more attention maybe you could get your drink 5c cheaper!


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    #3492
    Martyn1989
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Martyn1989


    goat2 wrote: »
    i would like to know, do the barperson who work in the lounge part of the premises get more in wages than the fellow who work in the main bar, why the difference in prices,

    No we dont get payed more, we do get more tips though.
    The lounge has live music/free quizzes on various nights of the week, along with the big screen for big sporting events, the bar is mainly used for showing racing day in day out! (then again when a regular wins big he'll always buy the staff a drink)


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    #3493
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,114 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    What kind of hole has different prices at different (later) times in the same pub.
    FYP.

    I suppose it is a demographical (sic) effect, but I am surprised at the number of posters who have never encountered the bar / lounge price difference. It still exists, but may not be noticed by people who never drink in the bar. Non-stingy, rich Jungians probably. The collective unconscious at work... but I digress.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #3494
    Martyn1989
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Martyn1989


    bijapos wrote: »
    Charging different prices in the bar and lounge was very common up to about 20 years ago, in fact it was the norm in a lot of the country.

    The bar was more spartan and basically furnished than the lounge which tended to have plusher seating. Women were barred or discouraged from entering the bar in many pubs until a few decades ago, and certainly when I started drinking in the late 80's in a few pubs I know they would be made to feel unwelcome in a bar.

    Lounges were commonly added on to the pub over the years as more women went out drinking and socialising on their own and certain places tried to cater for them and the inevitable hordes of young men who would be with them. As they didn't want to lose their regulars in the bar they opened lounges. It also catered for the older couple who might go out for a couple of drinks on a Friday or Saturday night and for whom the bar might be a bit too "rough". I know of a couple of old pubs where the lounge was quite obviously the sitting room of the house back in the day until it was changed from the sitting room to a lounge.

    I've no idea if the extra price was a surcharge on using the lounge or a discount for using the bar. I always presumed it was added on by the publican to try to recoup some of the money they put into renovating the lounge. Its is unusual to see this today though not uncommon, solely because its probably too much hassle to try to keep a tabs on things.

    My understanding is, the first area of pubs women where allowed to enter were 'snugs', small out of the way areas were they could have a drink, and allow the pub to remain a male hangout.

    Naturally, as more woman frequented pubs they demanded more then sparce seating and sawdust on the floor, so snugs became lounges (but snug remained as a private area).
    The lounge was decorated and looked well, attracting the ladies/couples, but the bar was preserved as a male hangout.


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    #3495
    PurpleVintage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭PurpleVintage


    SO I read up to the first 27 pages, before getting tired of some of the generalized incoherent ignorant **** some of you are spilling. It's almost like ANYTHING some of you see that doesn't fit the Irish lifestyle is automatically stingy.

    I keep hearing some of you go on about how the Italian and French and Spanish and all are stingy because lol... they sit over a cup of coffee for hours just talking? Well if you weren't so narrow minded and limited you would have REALIZED that lifestyle is different in some damn countries. While some (a lot, here where i'm living) of the Irish like to get wasted during plain week days on a pub, and hang around there for hours doing **** knows what, WE hang out at coffee shops, talking to people and socializing.

    Now let me explain something to some of you, and I sincerely hope it ends all this crap about "Spanish/Italian are the worst cuz they sit over a mug of tea!!"
    I'm from Portugal and it's PART of our tradition/culture/whatever to hang out at coffee shops. It's part of our daily life. I grew up there, and am from there... we went to coffee shops at least once a day, for breakfast or lunch or whatever. My mom used to go for coffee an average of 4 times per day.. sometimes more. Mind you that doesnt mean she only drank 4 coffees, it meant she WENT there around 4 times per day. That's what Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian people do. It's not about stinginess, we're not sitting around the goddamn coffee trying to make it last for an hour cuz we don't wanna waste money. If that was the case, having breakfast and lunch in a coffee shop wouldn't traditional as you waste 4x what you normally would waste eating at home, that's common knowledge. We ask for more if we want more, if not, we just sit and chat, it has NOTHING to with stinginess. If you're antisocial that's your problem. A LOT of you socialize at pubs, half drunk and out of your wits... we socialize in coffee shops.
    We spend hours there because we're TALKING to people, or thinking about life or whatever... not because we're trying to make some coffee last for a day or what. Likewise you spend hours in a pub, not because you wanna make 1 pint last for hours...

    So, next time some of you limited people wanna comment on that, at least go do some research because you're just coming off as completely ignorant to those who 1) are from those countries 2) Irish people who actually KNOW better. That also goes for all those people "liking". This thread is simply purely insulting because of some IGNORANT individuals, as it's using someone's culture and tradition which is COMPLETELY normal (if you have a brain that is) to use it as some sort of comedy or "OH! I have the funniest story out of the thread" and as a way to bash everyone over every damn thing.

    Absolutely no offense to anyone who hasnt said what I described above. This comment is purely aimed at the stupid ****s who have. And I wont apologize for coming off as aggressive cuz after reading 27 pages of a LOT of bashing and ridiculing my tradition, I HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE PISSED. Not to mention there's more than 100 pages on this, so plenty of more similar posts aimed at us that I didnt get to read. :mad:


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    #3496
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,028 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I hate people who just sit in a cafe for hours over one cup of tea or coffee, talking. They could at least buy a sandwich or something.


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    #3497
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Ficheall wrote: »
    I hate people who just sit in a cafe for hours over one cup of tea or coffee, talking. They could at least buy a sandwich or something.

    i see what you did there :D


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    #3498
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    SO I read up to the first 27 pages, before getting tired of some of the generalized incoherent ignorant **** some of you are spilling. It's almost like ANYTHING some of you see that doesn't fit the Irish lifestyle is automatically stingy.

    I keep hearing some of you go on about how the Italian and French and Spanish and all are stingy because lol... they sit over a cup of coffee for hours just talking? Well if you weren't so narrow minded and limited you would have REALIZED that lifestyle is different in some damn countries. While some (a lot, here where i'm living) of the Irish like to get wasted during plain week days on a pub, and hang around there for hours doing **** knows what, WE hang out at coffee shops, talking to people and socializing.

    Now let me explain something to some of you, and I sincerely hope it ends all this crap about "Spanish/Italian are the worst cuz they sit over a mug of tea!!"
    I'm from Portugal and it's PART of our tradition/culture/whatever to hang out at coffee shops. It's part of our daily life. I grew up there, and am from there... we went to coffee shops at least once a day, for breakfast or lunch or whatever. My mom used to go for coffee an average of 4 times per day.. sometimes more. Mind you that doesnt mean she only drank 4 coffees, it meant she WENT there around 4 times per day. That's what Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian people do. It's not about stinginess, we're not sitting around the goddamn coffee trying to make it last for an hour cuz we don't wanna waste money. If that was the case, having breakfast and lunch in a coffee shop wouldn't traditional as you waste 4x what you normally would waste eating at home, that's common knowledge. We ask for more if we want more, if not, we just sit and chat, it has NOTHING to with stinginess. If you're antisocial that's your problem. A LOT of you socialize at pubs, half drunk and out of your wits... we socialize in coffee shops.
    We spend hours there because we're TALKING to people, or thinking about life or whatever... not because we're trying to make some coffee last for a day or what. Likewise you spend hours in a pub, not because you wanna make 1 pint last for hours...

    So, next time some of you limited people wanna comment on that, at least go do some research because you're just coming off as completely ignorant to those who 1) are from those countries 2) Irish people who actually KNOW better. That also goes for all those people "liking". This thread is simply purely insulting because of some IGNORANT individuals, as it's using someone's culture and tradition which is COMPLETELY normal (if you have a brain that is) to use it as some sort of comedy or "OH! I have the funniest story out of the thread" and as a way to bash everyone over every damn thing.

    Absolutely no offense to anyone who hasnt said what I described above. This comment is purely aimed at the stupid ****s who have. And I wont apologize for coming off as aggressive cuz after reading 27 pages of a LOT of bashing and ridiculing my tradition, I HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE PISSED. Not to mention there's more than 100 pages on this, so plenty of more similar posts aimed at us that I didnt get to read. :mad:

    But it is it part of the 'culture' to make the one coffee last for hours and go cold?


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    #3499
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    I keep hearing some of you go on about how the Italian and French and Spanish and all are stingy because lol... they sit over a cup of coffee for hours just talking? Well if you weren't so narrow minded and limited you would have REALIZED that lifestyle is different in some damn countries. While some (a lot, here where i'm living) of the Irish like to get wasted during plain week days on a pub, and hang around there for hours doing **** knows what, WE hang out at coffee shops, talking to people and socializing.


    I'm from Portugal and it's PART of our tradition/culture/whatever to hang out at coffee shops. It's part of our daily life. I grew up there, and am from there... we went to coffee shops at least once a day, for breakfast or lunch or whatever. My mom used to go for coffee an average of 4 times per day.. sometimes more. Mind you that doesnt mean she only drank 4 coffees, it meant she WENT there around 4 times per day. That's what Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian people do. It's not about stinginess, we're not sitting around the goddamn coffee trying to make it last for an hour cuz we don't wanna waste money. If that was the case, having breakfast and lunch in a coffee shop wouldn't traditional as you waste 4x what you normally would waste eating at home, that's common knowledge. We ask for more if we want more, if not, we just sit and chat, it has NOTHING to with stinginess. If you're antisocial that's your problem. A LOT of you socialize at pubs, half drunk and out of your wits... we socialize in coffee shops.
    We spend hours there because we're TALKING to people, or thinking about life or whatever... not because we're trying to make some coffee last for a day or what.


    And when the businesses' rent comes due, they can just sit in their landlord's office shooting the breeze; they could pay their staff with chit-chat and the drink company will accept some gossip as payment for the booze...


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    #3500
    daniels.ducks
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭daniels.ducks


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    A LOT of you socialize at pubs, half drunk and out of your wits... we socialize in coffee shops.

    :rolleyes:


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    #3501
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    11 page rant on boards.ie by gamers. topic?

    GAMESTOP IS NOT GIVING 1 Cent CHANGE AND MAKING MILLIONS ON THAT!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056333607

    enjoy.


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    #3502
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    But it is it part of the 'culture' to make the one coffee last for hours and go cold?
    I can back up what Purple is saying - it's that way in other parts of continental Europe, not just the Mediterranean bits.

    Personally, I like not being rushed out of a quiet cafe and being allowed to take my time. And as a culture, I prefer it massively to our brainless notions of socialising which usually involve getting out of your mind on drink and/or drugs for some reason.


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    PurpleVintage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭PurpleVintage


    @ Ficheall
    I see you're trying to be smart.. but you got that wrong :) back home, we don't really have sandwiches with it. We have our cakes. I limited my comment to talking about coffee cuz that's all people talk about here. So your comment just flopped.

    @ sunflower
    As I said already, we don't do that. If you didn't read my comment that's your problem. If you've seen someone do that then that's also your problem for generalizing. What 1 or 2 people isn't equivalent to what the whole nation (nations in this case) do.

    @ latenia
    I dont get where you're going with that, but it's perfectly normal for people to do that so you can stop trying to be smart. There's more than 1 table and chair in portuguese cafes, as a matter of fact, inside the actual cafe there's usually a minimum of 10 tables with a minimum of 3 chairs per table (MINIMUM) AND there's tables outside as well. Maybe here it'd be a problem but like I said, ITS TRADITIONAL so we're past that point. People really dont seem to get the "traditional" part of it.


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    #3504
    irish_eyes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭irish_eyes


    the worst are the people who refuse to buy beer


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    #3505
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    DERP
    lol u mad


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    #3506
    wayfarers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭wayfarers


    Can someone please buy Purplevintage a frickin' cup of coffee or whatever it is she wants. I'm more dumbfounded by the anecdotes that begin "my mate is so stingy that....". If I knew anyone as stingy as the fcukers described in these stories they wouldn't be a mate. May the lord have mercy on their tight, miserly, perished, stingy asses.


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    #3507
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    Maybe here it'd be a problem but like I said, ITS TRADITIONAL so we're past that point. People really dont seem to get the "traditional" part of it.
    Shame on you for bringing your traditions here. It's not as if Irish people go abroad and drink and wear GAA jerseys and behave much like they do in Ireland. The Irish abroad blend in completely with the culture of wherever they go and quickly become indistinguishable from the locals...:pac:


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    #3508
    Aishae
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭Aishae


    i think what people are (mostly) saying that its different here. its traditional elsewhere but here cafes are different. most work for a high turnover.

    that said - its easy to get carried away chatting and not realise the time or even the coffee going cold.

    anyroad - i wouldnt call that stingy even so. letting time run away is streatching the definition of stingy too far.


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    irish_eyes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭irish_eyes


    they say the scots are real stingy anyone know if thats true lol


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    #3510
    wayfarers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭wayfarers


    irish_eyes wrote: »
    they say the scots are real stingy anyone know if thats true lol

    Oooh yeah. Once on a stag weekend in Scotland, walking down a street we spotted a 5p on the street, some old woman crippled with arthritis and well into her 80s spots it also and despite barely been able to walk has bent over and picked it up and pocketed it. We weren't in any rush to pick it up and she wanders off muttering something about finders keepers. I'm assuming she spent her find on Parma Violets or whatever those sweets are that the oldies enjoy.


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    #3511
    TPD
    Registered Users Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    wayfarers wrote: »
    I'm assuming she spent her find on Parma Violets or whatever those sweets are that the oldies enjoy.

    Clove drops, blergh


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