Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

16869717374196

Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    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.


  • 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 irish_eyes


    the worst are the people who refuse to buy beer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    DERP
    lol u mad


  • 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    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:


  • 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 irish_eyes


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


  • 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.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭daveyeh


    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:

    i once saw 15 Italian and French and Spanish people sitting over 1 cup of coffee for 13 hours, and it was so cold they had to wear gloves just to be near it. and then when they were asked to leave because the shop was closing they insisted that they could take the table and chairs home to continue their conversation about irish people who think chips fried in lard is italian cuisine. but then they were attacked by english football hooligans chanting something about the queen and stella artois, the italians put feathers in their hair and started gesticulating wildly, the french immediately surrendered, while the spanish feel asleep mumbling something about 'tomorrow'. true story.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    SO I read up to the first 27 pages, before getting tired of some of the generalized incoherent ignorant **** some of you are spilling. I......

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

    yeah people who generalize are cúnts


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    yeah people who generalize are cúnts
    It's hard to argue with the claim she made, Ken! I've seen'em!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    It's hard to argue with the claim she made, Ken! I've seen'em!

    which generalised claim?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Thanks for ruining the thread PurpleVintage. Fcuks sake.


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭PurpleVintage


    sensibleken
    Exactly I said "SOME". You can go read my post and every time I said something about ignorant people or pubs, I said SOME or a LOT. That's NOT generalizing.

    qz
    The thread was ruined for me a long time ago, yet you didn't care before. Now I can't voice my complaints but you can? I stopped posting after my last comment. People posted after that saying stuff, and I didnt bother commenting because they weren't being rude... i'm sorry if I ruined it for you, it wasn't my intentions tho. Just go on with your topic and ignore my comments please.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    which generalised claim?

    This:
    ....A LOT of you socialize at pubs, half drunk and out of your wits..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    I stopped posting after my last comment.

    that worked out really well, didn't it...?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    qz wrote: »
    Thanks for ruining the thread PurpleVintage. Fcuks sake.

    Less complaining, more STINGE!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭PurpleVintage


    @ lollipop
    In my comment I CLEARLY said that the comment was ONLY aimed at those who had been saying the stuff I was complaining about. If you didnt say it, then you shouldn't have been BOTHERED by it because I made it QUITE clear that it wasn't for YOU. If you said it, then well :) hope that at least gave you some insight on other people's cultures.

    PS. It's not my fault some people are still on about it. I stopped posting, topic was done for me. I wanted to express my anger it's that simple, just like a lot of people have expressed their frustrations on the first 27 pages over the subject of saying "The dutch/French/Italian/Spanish/Etc are the worst". Yet I didnt see people having a go at them.


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Incidentally, does anyone know how the 'tags' at the bottom of the page are generated? There are some very revealing ones in there...
    are those my feet?, camels arse in sandstorm, cavan people, cheap, cheap egg loving granny, drink piss, foreigners, israel, moochers, offaly people, rat traps, scabby bastards, scabs, scottish, scrooge, stingy, sweaty bacon, the scots, threads that won't die, thriftiness, tight as a ducks arse, tight as a fishes hole, tight pocket bastard, willy derp


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Rocky_Dennis


    Ah come on people, don't let this thread get ruined by petty arguments, purplevintage, you have had your rant, which you are entitled to have but just let it be now and we get on with the stinge stories :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Ah come on people, don't let this thread get ruined by the petty arguments, purplevintage, you had your rant, which you are entitled to have but just let it be now and we get on with the stinge stories :D
    Yeah get over it and go back to spain :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    sensibleken
    Exactly I said "SOME". You can go read my post and every time I said something about ignorant people or pubs, I said SOME or a LOT. That's NOT generalizing.

    yes it is. its an offensive one at that. do you know anything about the social habits of the people youre addressing? no, your making a general assumption. a generalisation is not universal, its general.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    Yeah, I agree with the post a few back:

    My friend....... its only when you look at how you were raisd you remember how stingy your family was.

    I remember my mother being in tears if she left the immersion on.

    I really thought just touching the switch gave you the ESB bill of £60 or whatever.

    All the cloths in the kitchen started life as a towel, father's under pants, a baby's nappy (terry towel).

    Every buggy, bath, chair etc we had for me and my 3 siblings came from my cousins house and was used by her siblings first.

    I always got my cousins school uniform / books / communion dress / Christmas coat / shoes.

    We had a piece of cardboard holding the passenger window of my fathers Citron in. If you moved it the window glass fell into the door.

    My mother had packets and packets of the disabled artists cards in the drawer in the kitchen and this was the only card she ever gave to anybody.

    I had no eraser one night in primary school, I made a mistake in my homework and had to fix it so my mother got one of my sisters shoes and used the rubber sole to rub it out.

    My uniform had patches on the knees / elbows, darned holes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    double post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,210 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    wmpdd3 wrote: »

    I had no eraser one night in primary school, I made a mistake in my homework and had to fix it so my mother got one of my sisters shoes and used the rubber sole to rub it out.

    We used to use bread as an eraser. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    Yeah, I agree with the post a few back:

    My friend....... its only when you look at how you were raisd you remember how stingy your family was.

    I remember my mother being in tears if she left the immersion on.

    I really thought just touching the switch gave you the ESB bill of £60 or whatever.

    All the cloths in the kitchen started life as a towel, father's under pants, a baby's nappy (terry towel).

    Every buggy, bath, chair etc we had for me and my 3 siblings came from my cousins house and was used by her siblings first.

    I always got my cousins school uniform / books / communion dress / Christmas coat / shoes.

    We had a piece of cardboard holding the passenger window of my fathers Citron in. If you moved it the window glass fell into the door.

    My mother had packets and packets of the disabled artists cards in the drawer in the kitchen and this was the only card she ever gave to anybody.

    I had no eraser one night in primary school, I made a mistake in my homework and had to fix it so my mother got one of my sisters shoes and used the rubber sole to rub it out.

    My uniform had patches on the knees / elbows, darned holes.
    Again, I'd distinguish between stingy and sensible - there was a lot less money around in those days! (unless of course you guys had a fleet of Ferraris in the garage?)

    I can also remember my dad making wine in vats in the hotpress using kits bought at Eason - my god that stuff must have tasted VILE.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    Yep I remember the year the bear was left in the hotpress too long!

    No Ferraris in the garage but they had a successful business.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    I think that's just common sense and the somewhat lost art of thriftiness wmpdd3.
    Our parents generation knew far far harder times then us, so they value stuff more, we'd do well to learn some of their ways.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We used to use bread as an eraser. :)
    Ye had bread !


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    aujopimur wrote: »
    Ye had bread !


    No joke. We didnt have ANY food some days. The rest of the time a box of semolina would be made to last a week, made with water! Unfortunately those days seem to be coming back again!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭SerialComplaint


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We used to use bread as an eraser. :)

    We used to use an eraser as bread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    wayfarers wrote: »
    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.
    Ha Ha!

    The other day in the city centre, I was waiting to cross the road and saw a beggar (blanket over shoulder type) walking along. Suddenly, he slapped one foot down on the path. He then moved his foot and bent down to pick up a 5c piece. Stingy fucher - I could have used that.

    Seriously though, I don't bend over for less than 50c these days.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Esel wrote: »
    Seriously though, I don't bend over for less than 50c these days.
    You're a cheap date.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭WonderWoman!


    one fella i know
    always goes to the loo when we're doing rounds and its his turn


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    You're a cheap date.
    lol:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    I set that one up well for yez...

    *makes cow eyes at Monty :eek:

    Not your ornery onager



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Mooo.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    sensibleken
    Exactly I said "SOME". You can go read my post and every time I said something about ignorant people or pubs, I said SOME or a LOT. That's NOT generalizing.

    qz
    The thread was ruined for me a long time ago, yet you didn't care before. Now I can't voice my complaints but you can? I stopped posting after my last comment. People posted after that saying stuff, and I didnt bother commenting because they weren't being rude... i'm sorry if I ruined it for you, it wasn't my intentions tho. Just go on with your topic and ignore my comments please.
    i have traveled parts of europe and as you say people socialise with a coffee, i found this to be true, and i love the athmosphere in italy, france, spain, i enjoyed having a coffee on these beautiful outdoor cafes while having a browse through papers, while here if you finish your coffee, you get the feeling that you should have to move on, i have worked in cafes in the past,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    Just to point out coffee shops here generally are much the same for socialising, it's just the american chains that aim to get you out the door ASAP.

    There is also a difference between socialising at a coffee shop and abusing their hospitality, the latter being what I have heard described here. When I worked in one we used to get a few groups a day of teens or students where one would buy the cheapest coffee they could find so the lot could sit in the corner and avail of free wifi/shelter for hours on end.
    You can spot these groups a mile away. The genuine groups socialising are different, sure some will sit over a coffee for bloody ages but they'll get at least one a piece and they'll be enjoying themselves, the stinges are obvious in that you can see the strain in trying to stay as long as possible whilst spending as little as possible, you wonder why they bother.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    CD. wrote: »
    they also do it with drinks. we had maybe 100mls and were asked if we wanted a take away cup for it.
    the portions are ridiculous. was in burger king there, had a small meal and the small drink was 500 mls and the small fries were the size of our medium. really, you'd have to take it away with you. also, its a regular thing there for people to get one meal and split it because portions are so large

    I was in New York last year and I went into a Burger King in Manhattan. I didn't know of the differences in meal sizes, I ordered a large whopper meal with Fanta. The drink was almost the size of a 2 litre!! I mean literally, it was practically the same height as one but obviously there was some ice in it and they didn't fill it up to the brim, but still! I was shocked.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    2 and a half years and still going :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    Yep I remember the year the bear was left in the hotpress too long!

    Jesus, he must have been pissed when ye finally let him out!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭nicechick!


    CorkMan wrote: »
    I was in New York last year and I went into a Burger King in Manhattan. I didn't know of the differences in meal sizes, I ordered a large whopper meal with Fanta. The drink was almost the size of a 2 litre!! I mean literally, it was practically the same height as one but obviously there was some ice in it and they didn't fill it up to the brim, but still! I was shocked.

    lol same here!! I learnt fast I spent time in the states with family when I was younger they called home and told my mother that I was starving myself!! My mother laughed saying ehh this is my ''name'' we're talking about she never stops eating....

    I just couldn't force the huge and I mean huge portions of food these people eat it was beyond belief including this stuff with so called ''doggy bags'' or whatever there called and the portions of food in restaurants I was nearly more put off about the huge mountains of food placed in front of me

    They used to call me sooo skinny I was an average size 10 with curves! perfectly healthy normal weight I might add I was getting an effin complex with the comments of your so ''skinny'' and dare to suggest they had eh a ''problem'' I had the misfortune of mentioning this! oh ehhh


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    nicechick! wrote: »
    average size 10 with curves!
    pics or gtfo:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Had a spot of lunch at a restaurant on Jones Rd beside Croke Park last month. T'was about an hour before the Leinster semi final & the place was jammers. There are 6 tables outside, push 2 together and 6-8 people could sit there comfortably. When we arrived a man and woman were sitting at 2 of the tables pushed together. They ordered one cup of coffee the entire time we were there. Over the course of the hour, various friends & family would pop by, say hello, pic up tickets etc. They seemed to be using it as a base for an entire community to touch base. No one ever ordered food or drink. One of the blows bys parks herself there for about 30 mins, opens up a big bag full of sambos and offers them around. Then another one opens up a tin full of home made scones and starts offering them around, and get this, giving people her recipies. Not a bother on her. My jaw was on the floor. Talk about a hard neck ! One of their "guests" decides he wants some water and he goes inside to get some. Comes out bitching that they made him buy a bottle for a euro, as opposed to giving him a glass for free. After he and his party had been hogging seating for 8 people for over an hour, and not buying a thing. How mean of them !

    This place has bills to pay, rent to pay, taxes to pay and the waiters an income to earn from tips and service charges. They can't do that with free loaders like that. While we were there, we saw lot of people stop, look at the restaurant but keep on moving when they saw that all the tables were full.

    Am not making this a rant about our country cousins or mocking them for their flasks of tea and hang sanggers in tin foil. I can be pretty cheap myself. I always bring my own drink and snacks to the cinema instead of paying inflated prices for the cinemas watery Coke and rancid popcorn. But c'mon now, fair is fair. This lot cost the restaurant a good chunk of change on that day, one of the few days of the year that they probably bank on to bring in a fair amount of money. I used to be in the restaurant biz. If I was the manager there, I'd be out there quick as a flash to tell them to either eff off, or that only food bought on the premises can be consumed there. If they don't like it, too damm bad !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Had a spot of lunch at a restaurant on Jones Rd beside Croke Park last month. T'was about an hour before the Leinster semi final & the place was jammers. There are 6 tables outside, push 2 together and 6-8 people could sit there comfortably. When we arrived a man and woman were sitting at 2 of the tables pushed together. They ordered one cup of coffee the entire time we were there. Over the course of the hour, various friends & family would pop by, say hello, pic up tickets etc. They seemed to be using it as a base for an entire community to touch base. No one ever ordered food or drink. One of the blows bys parks herself there for about 30 mins, opens up a big bag full of sambos and offers them around. Then another one opens up a tin full of home made scones and starts offering them around, and get this, giving people her recipies. Not a bother on her. My jaw was on the floor. Talk about a hard neck ! One of their "guests" decides he wants some water and he goes inside to get some. Comes out bitching that they made him buy a bottle for a euro, as opposed to giving him a glass for free. After he and his party had been hogging seating for 8 people for over an hour, and not buying a thing. How mean of them !

    This place has bills to pay, rent to pay, taxes to pay and the waiters an income to earn from tips and service charges. They can't do that with free loaders like that. While we were there, we saw lot of people stop, look at the restaurant but keep on moving when they saw that all the tables were full.

    Am not making this a rant about our country cousins or mocking them for their flasks of tea and hang sanggers in tin foil. I can be pretty cheap myself. I always bring my own drink and snacks to the cinema instead of paying inflated prices for the cinemas watery Coke and rancid popcorn. But c'mon now, fair is fair. This lot cost the restaurant a good chunk of change on that day, one of the few days of the year that they probably bank on to bring in a fair amount of money. I used to be in the restaurant biz. If I was the manager there, I'd be out there quick as a flash to tell them to either eff off, or that only food bought on the premises can be consumed there. If they don't like it, too damm bad !

    Nothing to do with 'country cousins' really...just a pack of arseholes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭pencilsharp


    Work in a hospital on the northside of Dublin. In the canteen tea and coffee used to be free but then they started charging around 1.50euro a cup, so people started bringing their own teabags/coffee! Now the scabby sh!ts charge 50cent for a cup of hot water!!

    It was my little sisters 18th birthday a few weeks ago. She got loads of lovely gifts and lots of money from all the extended family-ahes the youngest in the family so everyone made a huge effort to spoil her! Yesterday my cousin who wasn't at the party arrived with a present for my sister-a lovely, expensive handbag......which my mam had bought my cousin for Christmas!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    True. Just wanted to make it clear that I am aware that in these recessionary times a day in Croker is far more expensive for some one traveling up from the country, than it is for us who are just down the road from it. They have to make economies in areas that we don't re food, petrol, accommodation etc etc. But that is still no excuse to shaft the locals, or stopping them from making a buck, even if it probably unintentional.


  • Advertisement
This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement