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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #3512
    daveyeh
    Registered Users Posts: 774 ✭✭✭daveyeh


    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:

    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.


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    #3513
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    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. 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


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    #3514
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


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


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    #3515
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    It's hard to argue with the claim she made, Ken! I've seen'em!

    which generalised claim?


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    #3516
    qz
    Registered Users Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Thanks for ruining the thread PurpleVintage. Fcuks sake.


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    #3517
    PurpleVintage
    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.


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    #3518
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    sensibleken wrote: »
    which generalised claim?

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


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    #3519
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    I stopped posting after my last comment.

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


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    #3520
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


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

    Less complaining, more STINGE!


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    #3521
    PurpleVintage
    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.


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    #3522
    Monty Burnz
    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


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    #3523
    Rocky_Dennis
    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


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    #3524
    animan
    Registered Users Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Andrewh1984 wrote: »
    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


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    #3525
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    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.


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    #3526
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭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.


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    #3527
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    double post.


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    #3528
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,865 ✭✭✭✭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. :)


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    #3529
    Monty Burnz
    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.


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    #3530
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭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.


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    #3531
    snubbleste
    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.


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    #3532
    aujopimur
    Registered Users Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


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


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    #3533
    newmug
    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!


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    #3534
    SerialComplaint
    Registered Users Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭SerialComplaint


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

    We used to use an eraser as bread.


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    #3535
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,035 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    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



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    #3536
    Monty Burnz
    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.


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    #3537
    WonderWoman!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭WonderWoman!


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


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    #3538
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    You're a cheap date.
    lol:D


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    #3539
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,035 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    I set that one up well for yez...

    *makes cow eyes at Monty :eek:

    Not your ornery onager



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    #3540
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Mooo.


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    #3541
    goat2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    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,


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