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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #302
    D-Generate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    Why are people still hanging around with the stingy bastards? Myself and my mates would never stand for someone not paying their own way and they wouldn't be talked to again.


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    #303
    inforfun
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    D-Generate wrote: »
    Why are people still hanging around with the stingy bastards? Myself and my mates would never stand for someone not paying their own way and they wouldn't be talked to again.

    If i see someone repeatedly dodging giving rounds the next round i buy will be 1 drink less. I also tell them to get the drink themselves or GTFO.
    I have no time for those leeches.


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    #304
    TGi666
    Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭TGi666


    D-Generate wrote: »
    Why are people still hanging around with the stingy bastards? Myself and my mates would never stand for someone not paying their own way and they wouldn't be talked to again.

    x2 we stoped doing rounds because of mates bringing mate's expecten free drink


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    #305
    monkeyfudge
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    I was shocked over the xmas when out drinking with a group. I thought it was my round... but it turned out it wasn't as there was a couple who actually didn't consider themselves a single entity in the round system.


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    #306
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Once in a restaurant, 4 people at a table near us, three of them leave a tip at the table on leaving, last person at the table pockets tip without the rest noticing.


    Independent pizza in Drumcondra?


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    #307
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    I saw a publican fishing the used lemons out of glasses once,washing them under the tap and putting them back on the chopping board.


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    #308
    E.L
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭E.L


    My father is so stingy ive caught him do the following

    :confused:when getting cheese from the fridge he cut off the dark orange crusty hard bit once and handed it to my 3 yr old daughter rather than throw it in the bin.

    *has never paid for a haircut cuts his own
    *buys all his toiletries in the euro shop
    *has the smelliest toothbrush about 5 yrs ive thrown it in the bin a number of times but yesterday as i was cleaning out the bathroom cabinet i found it covered in grey mouldy tooth gunge so hed taken it out of the bin and used it
    he actually had no toothbrush for a while and my sister caught him using hers:eek:
    barely feeds his dog he's too stingy he came back from holidays and asked me had i been overfeeding the dog she looked fat, i said just a bowl of dried food morning and evening he siad that was too much that she gets one handful of dried food per day (shes a huge labrador!)


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    #309
    Random
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    What's wrong with cutting your own hair?
    So what if you don't tip?
    Big deal you don't want to put money into the charity envelope that goes around every 20 mins in work?
    What's wrong with getting a 10c tip? So what if you didn't get the 20c .. .at least you got something.
    What's wrong with Dunnes / Tesco bread?
    So what if your deoderant only cost €2?


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    #310
    Sam Vimes
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    Random wrote: »
    What's wrong with cutting your own hair?

    and what if you're too stingy to buy your own shaver and keep borrowing someone elses ;)


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    #311
    Rochie IRL
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    I know someone who collects freebie stuff during the year and then gives it as christmas presents, Christmas just gone I got a 2008 diary that I had given them last year it had my workplace logo on it, other previous presents were a Jameson plastic measuring cup (off the top of a bottle). I was also given a game disc that came free with rice krispies.......there is tight and then there is just taking the wee wee.


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    #312
    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    I've rarely enjoyed a thread this long but this is something of an exception. Some hilarious stuff.
    partyguinness wrote: »
    In Cork I have often seen 4/5 Spanish or Italian students sitting in a bar around one glass of guinness for hours on end...and literally staring at it as if it is going to start doing headstands...:)
    Ah yes, I'm currently working part-time in <nameless college bar>. We're very quiet some Friday nights so some weeks we'll just shut up early. Quiet annoying when a small group (always the same group) comes in late the odd Friday night, buy a pint of black between them and sit around it while playing connect 4 for an hour or two. Small allowance for poor students though.

    Have to say though, that the odd time your actions might be interpreted as stinginess when it might just be weirdness. I was over in the Canaries a few years ago with a big group and between my then-girlfriend and her sister taking ages to get ready, most of the group had gone off somewhere so the three of us decided to go for something to eat. Being male and me, I just wanted ice-cream. Girlfriend just wanted soup. Her sister hadn't eaten so wanted something proper. You can see where this is going. Small run of the mill openair food place, we order what we wanted (one soup, one main course, two desserts for me). They found it funny, especially delivering the three courses at once. Even put sparklers on the ice-cream. We were drinking beer as well though so I can only assume they thought we were just really odd.


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    #313
    lee_arama
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    wixfjord wrote: »
    Me Da used to tell me about his former neighbour, an old typical country farmer. He used to soak turf before burning it so it would burn very slowly (not even burn just smoke really) and the worst part of it was they lived beside a bog. Also this guy went to bury a sheep one frosty winter morning. The ground was obviously rock solid so he dug the whole about 3 feet, filled it in, and left the sheep on its back with its legs sticking up out of the soil :P Not really stingy just lazy I suppose

    Well as a man from farming stock I'll tell ya there's no digging much of a hole in frozen earth. You'd want a decent crowbar (proper farm one, not a burglars jimmy) to loosen up the ground before you start belting away with your mattock.


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    #314
    BroomBurner
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    Rochie IRL wrote: »
    I know someone who collects freebie stuff during the year and then gives it as christmas presents, Christmas just gone I got a 2008 diary that I had given them last year it had my workplace logo on it, other previous presents were a Jameson plastic measuring cup (off the top of a bottle). I was also given a game disc that came free with rice krispies.......there is tight and then there is just taking the wee wee.

    Hahahahahaha that's gas

    One of my OH's mates is really stingy. He invited us all over to his for a Christmas dinner but told us all to bring the food. When everyone said no, he just cancelled it.

    When his ex over and they were getting a takeaway, he would order one starter and one main and they'de share (his GF at the time was just as bad)

    If he was out with the work crowd for lunch, he would claim he had no cash on him so everyone would round up their costs - say a set meal for €12, every chucked in €15 - and throw in the cash. He would wait til everyone left then pay for it on his credit card and keep the cash (and tips) for himself


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    #315
    galwayrush
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    My wife just told me about when she was going to college in Galway, she had a part time job at a bakery/cake shop. 4 middle aged American women come in, enquire about the price if a particular piece of cake / bun. 20 minutes of " How much is that one? repeated over and over again, they eventually settle on a Chester Cake which was the size of a small bun for 11p. Wife asks how many, they reply just the one and could they she cut it into 4 pieces for them.


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    #316
    Degsy
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    sceptre wrote: »
    we'll just shut up early. Quiet annoying when a small group (always the same group) comes in late the odd Friday night, buy a pint of black between them and sit around it while playing connect 4 for an hour or two.

    Ha..that'll teach yas!
    A certain nameless college bar of my aquantance used to shut up early whenever it suited them and i couldnt get a drink after work if i'd been working late.


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    #317
    Random
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    One of my OH's mates is really stingy. He invited us all over to his for a Christmas dinner but told us all to bring the food. When everyone said no, he just cancelled it.
    Some people aren't made of money. It's similiar to inviting your mates round for pints and telling them to bring their own beer. It's not a charity people are running.
    When his ex over and they were getting a takeaway, he would order one starter and one main and they'de share (his GF at the time was just as bad)
    What's the problem here exactly?
    If he was out with the work crowd for lunch, he would claim he had no cash on him so everyone would round up their costs - say a set meal for €12, every chucked in €15 - and throw in the cash. He would wait til everyone left then pay for it on his credit card and keep the cash (and tips) for himself
    Don't invite him next time. Was the service really good enough to warranty a 20% tip though?


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    #318
    sceptre
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    I was shocked over the xmas when out drinking with a group. I thought it was my round... but it turned out it wasn't as there was a couple who actually didn't consider themselves a single entity in the round system.
    The what? Some couples regard themselves as a single link where there's a round?


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    #319
    Random
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    sceptre wrote: »
    The what? Some couples regard themselves as a single link where there's a round?
    These sort of people should be made buy the first and last round. :)


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    #320
    NADA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭NADA


    I currently live in student accomodation in Germany and I have seen some stingy ****.

    Sharing a toilet with twelve people its normal to go out to the toilet or kitchen and find that the light bulb has been stolen.

    Not sure if this is stingy or just weird but we live near Aldi. It's walking distance. The chinese guy down the hall from me has got about four shopping trolleys in his room with clothes folded inside them as well as books.

    Not gonna believe this one but my friend was talking to me and asking did I see his t-shirt(with mickey mouse on it) he left it down in the laundry room while waiting for his turn to use the washing machine. Described it and had a look to see did I have it in my pile. Wasnt there. Were sitting drinking a few beers about 2-3 nights later and watching football on tv when the chinese guy from down the hall with all the shopping trolleys in his room walks in wearing it and starts putting his stuff in the fridge.Nothing was said

    The marking on the milf bottles and fanta bottles here is hilarious and annoying. I've had countless bottles of Fanta and Coke and my loads of times ha my canned Jack Daniels and Coke vanish.

    We have free washing machines and the house across the way has to pay 20 cent or something to wash there clothes for some weird reason. The result is that all those people wash their clothes in our machine.

    Also in Germany you get 15c for every bottle you bring back to the shop. I dont do this as I've too many bottles and its a bit heavy to walk all the way to the supermarket. I jsut recyle them free in the bottle back across the road. One time I got home from a party at about 3am on a friday morning and our chinese friend was outside with a putting superglue on a tree branch taking bottles out of the recyling bin. not sure if this is stingy or a good idea?

    We all share a hoover. There are two. One of them has tippex or paint on it saying it is property of some library.

    In Germany they have Cafeterias run by some student body. We dont really have it in Ireland but you go in and you get food on a tray rather than a plate. Somebody has brought four of these home.

    Alot of our glasses are from the bar across the road and I wonder if its a co incidence that the toilet paper we use is exactly like the commercial rolls all over the university I attend.

    We had no tv in the common room because we didnt wanna buy one. There are 24 of us so if we all put in a tenner it would be cheap. But instead someone liberated one from a skip that was here back in December.

    Theres tonnes more of this sort of thing that I cant even think of!


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    #321
    st0ned z0mbie
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    In school I had lost a pair of gloves, in german class we were doing secret santa and guess what present i got, my lost gloves


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    #322
    KTRIC
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    So I'm not the only boardsie in Munich :D


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    #323
    NADA
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    KTRIC wrote: »
    So I'm not the only boardsie in Munich :D

    Nope!!! Here you werent on the U6 yesterday about 8:30 in the direction of garching forshung zentrum? Heard two Irish guys on the train probably from Dublin.


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    #324
    MargeS
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    I used to know someone who bought their granny really good presents at Xmas & birthdays because they knew they would get them back when their granny died!!


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    #325
    KTRIC
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    NADA wrote: »
    Nope!!! Here you werent on the U6 yesterday about 8:30 in the direction of garching forshung zentrum? Heard two Irish guys on the train probably from Dublin.

    I'm working in **** and living in *******, so it wasn't me. I try and avoid the U-Bahn as much as possible.


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    #326
    NADA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭NADA


    KTRIC wrote: »
    I'm working in Maynooth and living in Dunboyne, so it wasn't me. I try and avoid the U-Bahn as much as possible.

    Ah right! Just wondering!


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    #327
    Mont
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 482 ✭✭Mont


    I used to wipe my ass with college note books - i think that this was more to do with my preference for a can of cider than blow a pound on stupid stuff like jacks paper
    btw people used to keep their jacks paper in their rooms all for themselves, i'd wipe my ass with any towels left hanging around the toilet - nice one


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    #328
    Sam Vimes
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    NADA wrote: »
    The marking on the milf bottles and fanta bottles here is hilarious

    tell me of these milf bottles....


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    #329
    Sam Vimes
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    Random wrote: »
    These sort of people should be made buy the first and last round. :)

    and one in between. that'll learn 'em


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    #330
    NADA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭NADA


    Sam Vimes wrote: »
    tell me of these milf bottles....

    Ah thats what I get for being on pornhub and boards simultaneously


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    #331
    Berty
    Registered Users Posts: 26,149 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    I know of a stingy person who piggy backs on other peoples eircom wireless networks instead of buying one of those vodafone/02/meteor roaming internet thingys.


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