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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    My Darling Sister, who I love in spite of some of her actions, once bought me a CD single for Xmas, she was a manager in Our Price at the time. Lovely, I really wanted this song in my collection and I was a single parent at the time so Music was a real luxury! I played it once prior to Christmas Dinner and when I was looking for it later in the evening, it was nowhere to be found. Following day I asked the said sister had she seen it and I just knew by her reaction. Turns out she had re-wrapped it and took it to a mates house as a gift Christmas night!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Mollyd90 wrote: »
    my father used to turn off the car and roll down hills to save petrol ..... God the embarrasment! :o


    Heard somewhere that you use the same amount of petrol starting as ya do to drive 10 miles .. not sure on that figure :confused::confused: but reckon it backfired in the long run.

    some right corkers on here.

    Reminds me of college days in waterford. mate came down from dublin for the night,

    we had a few drinks, came to his round ... you guessed it ... came down with no money.

    we all gave a few quid and said get a bus ticket and fcuk off home....

    he ambles off & comes back 1/2 hr later saying last bus had gone & since he has money now he'll get a round in & can stay out for the night


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Heard somewhere that you use the same amount of petrol starting as ya do to drive 10 miles .. not sure on that figure :confused::confused: but reckon it backfired in the long run.

    That's just bollocks. It might take an M1 tank with it's turbine engine 10 miles worth of fuel to start, but a modern petrol or diesel engine won't take more than a few dozen millilitres to get going. The engine is turned over by the electric starter and the fuel injection will ensure that the first few revolutions are in a fuel rich environment, but you're still looking at maybe 200-500 metres worth of fuel. Newer engines with the stop/start ultra responsive starter motors will cut that down to near zero, as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Donny5 wrote: »
    That's just bollocks. It might take an M1 tank with it's turbine engine 10 miles worth of fuel to start, but a modern petrol or diesel engine won't take more than a few dozen millilitres to get going. The engine is turned over by the electric starter and the fuel injection will ensure that the first few revolutions are in a fuel rich environment, but you're still looking at maybe 200-500 metres worth of fuel. Newer engines with the stop/start ultra responsive starter motors will cut that down to near zero, as well.

    this was either many years ago ( early 90's ish) or when I had one too many Donny.

    only a hazy memory of recall on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭tvercetti


    Meow Meow here's what you do. Bring the guy back to that restaurant, order the most expensive meal, tell him your going to the ladies, pick up the gun from the toilet you hid earlier, go back in and finish him off. You might have to leave the country for a bit that's the only thing.

    Unfortunately that would leave her with the bill.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Mollyd90 wrote: »
    my father used to turn off the car and roll down hills to save petrol ..... God the embarrasment! :o

    Couldn't do that now with servo assist brakes and power steering - turned off:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    I was friends with a couple a girls a few years back. We used to go out together every Friday night and my other half ALWAYS drove us into town. Religiously.
    One Friday my OH had to do something(cant remember what) so my friend asked her father to drop us into town. He moaned and groaned a little but said yes.

    When we were getting out of the car he asked us for 3 pounds each. I thought he was kidding until I saw the daughter of said man taking out her purse. I was sickened by this as she had been getting free lifts with my oh and he would never have dreamt(nor would I have ever been happy with) him asking for any money.
    Needless to say I made sure that every Friday thereafter we got a taxi and split it 3 ways


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭supernova84


    tvercetti wrote: »

    Unfortunately that would leave her with the bill.

    Not if Meow Meow can somehow manage to get hold of all her fellows remaining coupons in the melee that followed the hit and avoid being traced had she paid by credit card. Woof Woof.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    mishkalucy wrote: »
    I was friends with a couple a girls a few years back. We used to go out together every Friday night and my other half ALWAYS drove us into town. Religiously.
    One Friday my OH had to do something(cant remember what) so my friend asked her father to drop us into town. He moaned and groaned a little but said yes.

    When we were getting out of the car he asked us for 3 pounds each. I thought he was kidding until I saw the daughter of said man taking out her purse. I was sickened by this as she had been getting free lifts with my oh and he would never have dreamt(nor would I have ever been happy with) him asking for any money.
    Needless to say I made sure that every Friday thereafter we got a taxi and split it 3 ways

    Not that I don't believe you or anything but...
    The absolute stinginess of some people is just shocking to the bounds of disbelief.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Meow_Meow


    Not if Meow Meow can somehow manage to get hold of all her fellows remaining coupons in the melee that followed the hit and avoid being traced had she paid by credit card. Woof Woof.
    Only if I could manage to ply them from his cold dead hands :O


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Eathrin wrote: »
    Not that I don't believe you or anything but...
    The absolute stinginess of some people is just shocking to the bounds of disbelief.

    I swear to jebus that it is the absolute truth. I could never look at the man the same again and tbh his daughter. She didn't even bat an eyelid and took the money from us, handed it to her father and got out of the car


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,253 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    mishkalucy wrote: »
    I was friends with a couple a girls a few years back. We used to go out together every Friday night and my other half ALWAYS drove us into town. Religiously.
    One Friday my OH had to do something(cant remember what) so my friend asked her father to drop us into town. He moaned and groaned a little but said yes.

    When we were getting out of the car he asked us for 3 pounds each. I thought he was kidding until I saw the daughter of said man taking out her purse. I was sickened by this as she had been getting free lifts with my oh and he would never have dreamt(nor would I have ever been happy with) him asking for any money.
    Needless to say I made sure that every Friday thereafter we got a taxi and split it 3 ways
    Eathrin wrote: »
    Not that I don't believe you or anything but...
    The absolute stinginess of some people is just shocking to the bounds of disbelief.
    mishkalucy wrote: »
    I swear to jebus that it is the absolute truth. I could never look at the man the same again and tbh his daughter. She didn't even bat an eyelid and took the money from us, handed it to her father and got out of the car

    what's the big deal here as regards your friend, her father probably didn't really want to give yous a lift but did + charged yous while your bf seemed to have no problem leaving yous in town


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    what's the big deal here as regards your friend, her father probably didn't really want to give yous a lift but did + charged yous while your bf seemed to have no problem leaving yous in town

    I think you missed the point of my post. She was quite happy to take the lift every Friday while we spent our petrol money and my oh would never dream of asking either of my friends for money. She insisted that her dad(whom she was still living with and she was late 20's)would drop us in, no probs.
    There is an unwritten "quid pro quo" between friends and she did not adhere to this.
    If it was me in her shoes I would have been mortified. She was not.
    If it were me in her shoes I would have paid my dad out of my own pocket and NEVER have expected my friend to pay it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Merch


    Meow_Meow wrote: »
    Only if I could manage to ply them from his cold dead hands :O

    You're not chinese by any chance? not that i have a problem with them, i think they're a great bunch of lads :D


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    Turns out she had re-wrapped it and took it to a mates house as a gift Christmas night!!
    I hate Indian givers





    [edit]
    actually on second thoughts I'll take that back


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Martyn1989


    axel rose wrote: »
    I think you've been pretty mean to accept that level of effort from your cousins ex. All you had to do is ring a taxi. I don't believe for second that you were planning to pay for petrol. Seeing that all of your car owning mates refused to help makes me suspicious.

    Sorry but this is one occasion that I call YOU the stinge!!

    Have to agree with this, 'People being stingy with their cars annoy me' sounds like he asks his mates with cars alot, he was moving 5 minutes down the road and there was one car load...... I presume he dosnt have legs and arms that he had get someone to leave work to come and help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 437 ✭✭Blikes


    Martyn1989 wrote: »
    Have to agree with this, 'People being stingy with their cars annoy me' sounds like he asks his mates with cars alot, he was moving 5 minutes down the road and there was one car load...... I presume he dosnt have legs and arms that he had get someone to leave work to come and help.

    Read the rest of my replies before taking a swipe at me please.

    I never ask for lifts or favours off of friends unless i'm really stuck, i cycle everywhere no matter what the weather.

    I have arms and legs but carrying duvet, laptop, playstation and all manner of other things is a pain in the arse and dangerous because it was through town at night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Martyn1989


    Blikes wrote: »
    Read the rest of my replies before taking a swipe at me please.

    I never ask for lifts or favours off of friends unless i'm really stuck, i cycle everywhere no matter what the weather.

    I have arms and legs but carrying duvet, laptop, playstation and all manner of other things is a pain in the arse and dangerous because it was through town at night.

    Don't take my comment as a swipe, you posted on a public forum, your comment is up for discussion the same as everyone elses nothing is meant personally.

    My opinion is you wanted to move your duvet, your laptop, your playstation and your personal belongings from your old place to your new place (none of that stuff is heavy). To me thats your responsibility, not your mates. If they can't or won't help you is up to them. I just thought your op was more suited to a 'Things nice people do for me even though its completely out for their way' thread.

    Sorry but it was a pain in the arse for you so you rang someone else and it was a pain in the arse for them. Granted (not to bring up an old AH hour topic but I presume by town you mean Dublin) it is dangerous but its a case of getting on with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    what's the big deal here as regards your friend, her father probably didn't really want to give yous a lift but did + charged yous while your bf seemed to have no problem leaving yous in town

    I think the point here is if the friend had any shame, she would of paid the money herself in private and if the her father had at least one kind bone in his body her wouldn't have asked for money.
    If you can't do a quick favour for your family without asking for money then something is wrong.
    I'm sure it was just a quick trip into town, hardly a big deal.
    But my opinion is only based on what we heard, maybe there are other circumstances.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Martyn1989 wrote: »
    Don't take my comment as a swipe, you posted on a public forum, your comment is up for discussion the same as everyone elses nothing is meant personally.

    My opinion is you wanted to move your duvet, your laptop, your playstation and your personal belongings from your old place to your new place (none of that stuff is heavy). To me thats your responsibility, not your mates. If they can't or won't help you is up to them. I just thought your op was more suited to a 'Things nice people do for me even though its completely out for their way' thread.

    Sorry but it was a pain in the arse for you so you rang someone else and it was a pain in the arse for them. Granted (not to bring up an old AH hour topic but I presume by town you mean Dublin) it is dangerous but its a case of getting on with it.


    Would you stop. If a buddy needs a hand you give it to them, end of.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Meow_Meow


    Merch wrote: »
    You're not chinese by any chance? not that i have a problem with them, i think they're a great bunch of lads :D
    Meow_Meow wrote: »
    [...] We arrived at a rundown Asian restaurant, despite the fact that I'd already told him that Asian food tends to make me sick, [...]

    If I'm Chinese, I'm a bad one! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 437 ✭✭Blikes


    Martyn1989 wrote: »
    Don't take my comment as a swipe, you posted on a public forum, your comment is up for discussion the same as everyone elses nothing is meant personally.

    My opinion is you wanted to move your duvet, your laptop, your playstation and your personal belongings from your old place to your new place (none of that stuff is heavy). To me thats your responsibility, not your mates. If they can't or won't help you is up to them. I just thought your op was more suited to a 'Things nice people do for me even though its completely out for their way' thread.

    Sorry but it was a pain in the arse for you so you rang someone else and it was a pain in the arse for them. Granted (not to bring up an old AH hour topic but I presume by town you mean Dublin) it is dangerous but its a case of getting on with it.

    I don't mean Dublin, i mean a town where i've already been stabbed and bottled walking home at night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Blikes wrote: »
    I don't mean Dublin, i mean a town where i've already been stabbed and bottled walking home at night.



    Sure sounds like Dublin


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    Sure sounds like Dublin


    Not a very fair comment - could get bottled and stabbed anywhere, not just Dublin.

    AH wanted his friends to help move his stuff - they didn't, that's not being "stingy" his Friends just aren't helpful.

    The thread is - Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    mishkalucy wrote: »
    I was friends with a couple a girls a few years back. We used to go out together every Friday night and my other half ALWAYS drove us into town. Religiously.
    One Friday my OH had to do something(cant remember what) so my friend asked her father to drop us into town. He moaned and groaned a little but said yes.

    When we were getting out of the car he asked us for 3 pounds each. I thought he was kidding until I saw the daughter of said man taking out her purse. I was sickened by this as she had been getting free lifts with my oh and he would never have dreamt(nor would I have ever been happy with) him asking for any money.
    Needless to say I made sure that every Friday thereafter we got a taxi and split it 3 ways

    My friend's dad used to do this as well but then again he was a taxi driver so I guess it's not the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    My friend's dad used to do this as well but then again he was a taxi driver so I guess it's not the same.

    If he was off duty and he charged youse then it's againist the law...

    Look for your money back or report him :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Does someone who takes out their false teeth BEFORE they eat count as stingy? (As in, afraid to incur wear and tear...)

    I know someone who does this, even when eating something soft, like a jelly sweet.


    Bleargh.:mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    My friend's dad used to do this as well but then again he was a taxi driver so I guess it's not the same.

    My dad is a taxi driver and, when I am home if he sees my friends and I out, he insists on driving us all home.
    The rows we all have with him because he REFUSES to take money from us.

    I usually just give it to my mother, when I am heading back, so that he can not give it back to me.

    My father is the opposite of stingy and I see people take advantage of that too often. Especially as, when he drops us home, he could be making money from the public.

    I have one aunt that thinks that he will not mind being the designated driver to all family occasions, just because he drives for a living.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    Just to clarify people -

    stin-gy definition :

    <LI style="LIST-STYLE-TYPE: decimal">Unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous: "his employer is stingy and idle".


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    SunnyDub1 wrote: »
    Just to clarify people -

    stin-gy definition :

    <LI style="LIST-STYLE-TYPE: decimal">Unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous: "his employer is stingy and idle".

    Would that be financial or a braoder term relating to effort, time, experience, money and/or facilities?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭ronan45


    Mate of mine years ago used to have the odd Gulp of anyones beer who was at the table. His number was up when he was seen on numerous occasions over a 2 week period doing this and he was confronted by us all
    lol Scab


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Mollyd90 wrote: »
    my father used to turn off the car and roll down hills to save petrol ..... God the embarrasment! :o

    I know a few that used to do this years ago. Don't quite see the point of doing it.


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



    My father is the opposite of stingy and I see people take advantage of that too often. Especially as, when he drops us home, he could be making money from the public.

    I have one aunt that thinks that he will not mind being the designated driver to all family occasions, just because he drives for a living.

    Yep. I know the type. A good friend of mine is a taxi driver with a HUGE family. He had to stop taking his lovely BMW taxi to family events, and take his wife's Mini Cooper instead. It has two child car seats in the back, so they can not give lifts to people. Relations would be invited to family events and would winge that that couldn't come because their car was in the garage & they couldn't afford a taxi. His mammy and sisters would say "no problem, Jimmy will come and get you and drop you home." This would happen several times per event. He'd spend more time in his car ferrying people around than he would actually at the wedding/birthday party/christening etc etc. Never offered a penny for his trouble or for petrol.

    Eventually he said "screw it" and he hatched the Mini Cooper plan. People would then come up to him at family events and tell him in accusatory tones that they had to drive there themselves, or how much they had to pay for a taxi to get there, as if was his fault. The car in the garage stories were rubbish. They just didn't want to take their own cars so that they could drink at the events, without having to pay for a taxi. Stingy fcukers ! :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Yep. I know the type. A good friend of mine is a taxi driver with a HUGE family. He had to stop taking his lovely BMW taxi to family events, and take his wife's Mini Cooper instead. It has two child car seats in the back, so they can not give lifts to people. Relations would be invited to family events and would winge that that couldn't come because their car was in the garage & they couldn't afford a taxi. His mammy and sisters would say "no problem, Jimmy will come and get you and drop you home." This would happen several times per event. He'd spend more time in his car ferrying people around than he would actually at the wedding/birthday party/christening etc etc. Never offered a penny for his trouble or for petrol.

    Eventually he said "screw it" and he hatched the Mini Cooper plan. People would then come up to him at family events and tell him in accusatory tones that they had to drive there themselves, or how much they had to pay for a taxi to get there, as if was his fault. The car in the garage stories were rubbish. They just didn't want to take their own cars so that they could drink at the events, without having to pay for a taxi. Stingy fcukers ! :mad:

    when I posted my post about my oh and giving the lift thing I was surprised that another poster on here couldnt see why i was annoyed about what my former friends dad did. What I didnt mention in my other post was that my oh was also a taxi driver at the time and had stoppped work to give us a lift!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 38 birdlake


    Working in a bar last year I was asked for a pint of Smithwicks by an American tourist. He then asked for five whisky glasses and thinking he was going to sample some Irish whisky, I lined them up for him. He proceeded to split the pint 5 ways amongst himself and 4 pals. Small country pub, the locals spat beer everywhere trying not to laugh in their faces!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    birdlake wrote: »
    Working in a bar last year I was asked for a pint of Smithwicks by an American tourist. He then asked for five whisky glasses and thinking he was going to sample some Irish whisky, I lined them up for him. He proceeded to split the pint 5 ways amongst himself and 4 pals. Small country pub, the locals spat beer everywhere trying not to laugh in their faces!!

    Strange for an American of my acquaintance but they are a diverse bunch. My cousins from Boston always tip the bartenders like money was going out of fashion (and make Irish bar tenders happy). I guess that's what they are used to doing in the USA.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    Got a lift to the airport with a mate a few years back. He was going there anyway and my house was on his route. He loaded up the car with 5 people and took a tenner off each of us. The parking for two nights was 15 euro so covered that and made 15 euro for himself (he didn't charge his girlfriend). We could have just as easily got a taxi between us for cheaper than that. I ended up getting the bus back from the airport.

    Another night we ordered in a 16 inch pizza between a few of us - it was only 3 euro each but he said it was too expensive. When the pizza arrived he scoffed about twice as many slices as any one else. I wouldnt mind but the guy saves every penny he has, has plenty of cash and his family are minted too. It's one thing being stingy to yourself which is kinda funny, but it's another thing actively trying to rip off your own mates.

    Another mate of mine turned off his freezer during the freeze two years ago. He put his frozen food in a black bin bag and left it outside the back door of his house. That same mate never buys toilet roll either - he just jumps in the shower and rinses himself down after taking a barry white.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Motorist wrote: »
    That same mate never buys toilet roll either - he just jumps in the shower and rinses himself down after taking a barry white.
    That turned my stomach!
    And he told you this?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Martyn1989


    That turned my stomach!
    And he told you this?

    Surely hes cleaner though. Just saying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Motorist wrote: »
    Yeah but he also told me he pissed on my toothbrush 3 months after doing it. Hes a bit out there to say the least.
    Does he stick pins in your condoms too?
    I would ditch this disgusting weirdo!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭daddydick


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Try tax, insure and test a car, whilst constantly being raped by the Government for putting petrol into it, before you call others stingey to be fair.

    That is the stingiest thing I've heard a stingy person say


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Motorist wrote: »
    That same mate never buys toilet roll either - he just jumps in the shower and rinses himself down after taking a barry white.


    If you don't mind me asking, what were this guys living arrangements, alone, sharing?
    If he is living alone, do his guests(if any) have to do the same if they have a crap at his place?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Kolido wrote: »
    If you don't mind me asking, what were this guys living arrangements, alone, sharing?
    If he is living alone, do his guests(if any) have to do the same if they have a crap at his place?

    :D

    I can see it now... 'going around to Joe's place - wallet... check, beers.... check, loo roll... check....'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    birdlake wrote: »
    Working in a bar last year I was asked for a pint of Smithwicks by an American tourist. He then asked for five whisky glasses and thinking he was going to sample some Irish whisky, I lined them up for him. He proceeded to split the pint 5 ways amongst himself and 4 pals. Small country pub, the locals spat beer everywhere trying not to laugh in their faces!!

    Saw 3 French Tourists do this once in the local. Took up a prime seat near the fire and beside musicians one night. Spent about half an hour taking coats off, arranging seats general noise making whilst musicians were playing then one comes to the bar, orders a pint of Guinness and brings it back to table. They each took turns taking a sip out of it. What annoyed me more was they took out books and started reading ignoring the musicians who the majority were there to see. Took them a hour to drink the Guinness which I can only assume was by then warm and half made up of backwash.

    Thankfully the barman basically told them to fúck off when they tried to order another pint. Bord Failte be damned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,059 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Plazaman wrote: »

    Thankfully the barman basically told them to fúck off when they tried to order another pint. Bord Failte be damned.

    Ah, good old Irish hospitality. If we can't money off you then you're not welcome here. :rolleyes:

    Pretty stingey if you ask me ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Ah, good old Irish hospitality. If we can't money off you then you're not welcome here. :rolleyes:

    Pretty stingey if you ask me ;)

    I suppose it comes down to the argument that a pub is a business and they are more than welcome to sit in the park


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,059 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I suppose it comes down to the argument that a pub is a business and they are more than welcome to sit in the park

    Pub is short for public house. I know its a business too, but we used to be a nation that welcomed guests with open arms.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Pub is short for public house. I know its a business too, but we used to be a nation that welcomed guests with open arms.

    Public house does not mean free house. It differentiates the premises from a private members club


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Ah, good old Irish hospitality. If we can't money off you then you're not welcome here. :rolleyes:

    Pretty stingey if you ask me ;)
    Quazzie wrote: »
    Pub is short for public house. I know its a business too, but we used to be a nation that welcomed guests with open arms.

    Give it a rest.


  • Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭Cokeistan


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Saw 3 French Tourists do this once in the local. Took up a prime seat near the fire and beside musicians one night. Spent about half an hour taking coats off, arranging seats general noise making whilst musicians were playing then one comes to the bar, orders a pint of Guinness and brings it back to table. They each took turns taking a sip out of it. What annoyed me more was they took out books and started reading ignoring the musicians who the majority were there to see. Took them a hour to drink the Guinness which I can only assume was by then warm and half made up of backwash.

    Thankfully the barman basically told them to fúck off when they tried to order another pint. Bord Failte be damned.

    If I was that barman I'd have done the exact same I'd say!


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