Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

Quazzie · 13-04-2012 10:38am

Birneybau wrote: »

Give it a rest.

Frank Black · 13-04-2012 11:03am

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.

Disgraceful behaviour by the barman, doesn't he realise that a strong tourist sector is important to our economic recovery, one can only imagine the damage to our...

What's that?

They were French?

Oh well, **** them so - carry on.

Paddy Cow · 13-04-2012 1:42pm

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

Just to even up the score. Myself and a friend were in France a few years ago. We were starving and I was dying for the bathroom so we decided to kill two birds with one stone and found a cafe. The first thing I did was use the bathroom. When I came out, what I presume was the owner came over ranting and raving about how I shouldn't be using their bathroom and it wasn't a public toilet. Tried to explain that we were going to order something but he was having none of it and kicked us out. Was mortifying being yelled at with everyone in the restaurant watching.

purcela · 13-04-2012 1:43pm

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.

The night Ireland played France in the World Cup play off and Thierry handled the ball etc I was watching the game in Messrs, and there were 4 French people sitting around of table sharing a large bottle of Evian water they had brought in themselves. They left quite quickly after the handball and the abuse that was directed at them!

dyawannagoonme · 13-04-2012 9:42pm

Errrmm, For Halloween one year my uncle gave my neighbour half a digestive biscuit....

Ciaran_B · 13-04-2012 9:51pm

That story a few pages back about the American lad with the massive jug of water is one of the funniest things I've ever read on here. It's beautifully written and told with total integrity. Awesome stuff.

batistuta9 · 13-04-2012 10:33pm

Ciaran_B wrote: »

That story a few pages back about the American lad with the massive jug of water is one of the funniest things I've ever read on here. It's beautifully written and told with total integrity. Awesome stuff.

probably a 500ml bottle, typical american's over exaggerating things.

joke

Frank Black · 13-04-2012 10:47pm

batistuta9 wrote: »

probably a 500ml bottle, typical american's over exaggerating things.

joke

Naw, they haven't gone metric yet.

bijapos · 13-04-2012 11:36pm

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.

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.

Ahhhhhhhh.......Mates!

Where would you be without them? Your mouth smells of p1ss but at least your not lonely.

:(

superstoner90 · 13-04-2012 11:50pm

Merch wrote: »

Sounds like she is onto them, cards are a total rip off, (although I feel obligated to get certain ones myself) even if she isn't stuck for a few quid, you should probably think yourself lucky she is thinking of you at all and sending you one, why do you need two cards for?? If your birthday coincides with easter?
Best card I ever got was one someone made for me, out of stuff they had at hand.

Why does someone even feel obligated to get a card at easter??

No sorry, I ment to say that she got me an easter egg and a happy birthday card for my birthday this year. The easter egg to cover for easter and a birthday card to try and bring the two occasions together.

Dan133269 · 14-04-2012 12:00am

Motorist wrote: »

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.

One of the funniest sentences on boards.
Putting his frozen food into a black sack and leaving it outside is genius as well as stingey I think.
Also never heard a ****e referred to as a barry white.

Ded_Zebra · 14-04-2012 10:55pm

I am currently in a bar on amsterdam. In the bar they are charging 50c to go to the jacks if you buy a drink or not. Because the guy who works here is so scabby he followed me and a friend to the turnstile to the bathroom so we don't go through together !! This is the worst I have ever seen.

hypermuse · 14-04-2012 11:44pm

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

I am currently in a bar on amsterdam. In the bar they are charging 50c to go to the jacks if you buy a drink or not. Because the guy who works here is so scabby he followed me and a friend to the turnstile to the bathroom so we don't go through together !! This is the worst I have ever seen.

Illegal in Ireland is to do that thinks me!

illegal not on Amsterdam??

Dan133269 · 15-04-2012 12:36am

hypermuse wrote: »

Illegal in Ireland is to do that thinks me!

illegal not on Amsterdam??

It's common practice in Belgium too. In bars and some restaurants, it's not uncommon to have to pay "Madame Peepe" 50 cent to use the jacks even though you're a customer.

Went to 1 nightclub and it was 10 euro entry, plus 50 cent every time you needed to piss. Read my thread in ranting and raving entitled "Silly, Silly Belgians". In short, Belgians are *****.

inlikeflynn86 · 15-04-2012 2:25am

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.

This reminds of the time we were on a family holiday in Kilarney, well over 15 years ago. We were in the pub one night and 3 Americans walked in and ordered a pint of guinness between them, my dad had gone to the bar twice and they were still sipping on the same one.

Dad was getting fairly annoyed watching them at this stage so he got up, ordered 3 pints and slammed them on the table in front of them and says "couldnt watch ye any longer ye tight f*****rs" to which one replies"oh wow i just love the rish hospitality, thank you evvvvverrr sooo muuuuuuuch"

Squ · 15-04-2012 9:01am

hypermuse wrote: »

Illegal in Ireland is to do that thinks me

there was a charge to use the jacks in stevens grn sc last time i was in there.. (years ago)

hypermuse · 15-04-2012 9:29am

Squ wrote: »

there was a charge to use the jacks in stevens grn sc last time i was in there.. (years ago)

yea they still do that I'm pretty sure! that's just being stingy n an attempt to curb drug use there I'd imagine!

But in Ireland I'm pretty sure there is a legal requirement to provide toilet facilities if you are providing a sitting-in service(?? cant think of the word). eg a restaurant has to provide toilets!!

Charging for use of the service just sounds absurd! Maybe we should just stop talking bout it in case publicans in Ireland get word of it!

Bipolar Joe · 15-04-2012 9:56am

There's a coin slot in Arthur's Quay in Limerick for the lavatories. Never seen someone sitting behind the desk, but if they really expect people to pay, that is lousy.

15-04-2012 11:07am

Squ wrote: »

there was a charge to use the jacks in stevens grn sc last time i was in there.. (years ago)

I actually quite like it though, you only pay 20c and the facilities are quite nice, really clean, plenty of cubicles, never out of toilet paper. If paying bothers you, just pop down the road to MacDonalds, that's what I do when I don't have 20c, but if I have the money I'd always choose the shopping centre, it's pretty nice.

Canard · 15-04-2012 11:28am

hypermuse wrote: »

yea they still do that I'm pretty sure! that's just being stingy n an attempt to curb drug use there I'd imagine!

But in Ireland I'm pretty sure there is a legal requirement to provide toilet facilities if you are providing a sitting-in service(?? cant think of the word). eg a restaurant has to provide toilets!!

Charging for use of the service just sounds absurd! Maybe we should just stop talking bout it in case publicans in Ireland get word of it!

If you show a receipt you get in free

Yes, I'm stingy enough to have found that out, and what

(theyre not always clean either...)

ladycam · 15-04-2012 12:31pm

I worked with a girl yrs ago who would bring a batch of her Mammys bread down from Donegal. She would be eating it all week long, cutting off the mould by the end of the week. She would only buy the food that was about to go off in Tescos, didnt matter how green & shiny it was!

One girl came in on her day off, to find this scabby cow wearing her shoes!
We also caught her one day smelling a pair of tights that she had found on the floor, (feet & crotch:eek:) to see if she could get a wear out of them.
Thing is, they weren't even her tights, bleuggh

sunflower27 · 15-04-2012 12:34pm

ladycam wrote: »

One girl came in on her day off, to find this scabby cow wearing her shoes!
We also caught her one day smelling a pair of tights that she had found on the floor, (feet & crotch:eek:) to see if she could get a wear out of them.
Thing is, they weren't even her tights, bleuggh

Yeuch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

snubbleste · 15-04-2012 12:40pm

ladycam wrote: »

I worked with a girl yrs ago who would bring a batch of her Mammys bread down from Donegal. She would be eating it all week long, cutting off the mould by the end of the week. She would only buy the food that was about to go off in Tescos, didnt matter how green & shiny it was!

Mammys bread is the nicest in the world. I'd bring a supply with me as well :cool:

languagenerd · 15-04-2012 8:41pm

Dan133269 wrote: »

It's common practice in Belgium too. In bars and some restaurants, it's not uncommon to have to pay "Madame Peepe" 50 cent to use the jacks even though you're a customer.

Went to 1 nightclub and it was 10 euro entry, plus 50 cent every time you needed to piss. Read my thread in ranting and raving entitled "Silly, Silly Belgians". In short, Belgians are *****.

Yeah, I was in a club in Brussels a few weeks back where you paid €5 in and then 40c to use the toilets, or get unlimited use of them (for the night) for €1. You basically had to decide whether or not you thought you'd need to go twice more in the next few hours :P Membership of the toilets! Made me laugh anyway. You also got given a sweet wrapped in plastic once you'd paid up... I didn't eat it...

But I still love the Belgians though :P

Motorist · 15-04-2012 11:39pm

Dan133269 wrote: »

It's common practice in Belgium too. In bars and some restaurants, it's not uncommon to have to pay "Madame Peepe" 50 cent to use the jacks even though you're a customer.

Went to 1 nightclub and it was 10 euro entry, plus 50 cent every time you needed to piss. Read my thread in ranting and raving entitled "Silly, Silly Belgians". In short, Belgians are *****.

Joseph Fritzl sums up the Belgian culture and people for me perfectly.

Paddy Cow · 15-04-2012 11:42pm

Motorist wrote: »

Joseph Fritzl sums up the Belgian culture and people for me perfectly.

:rolleyes:

fasttalkerchat · 15-04-2012 11:43pm

Motorist wrote: »

Joseph Fritzl sums up the Belgian culture and people for me perfectly.

Wasn't that Austria? Free entry to their toilets... not free to leave.

Paparazzo · 15-04-2012 11:50pm

Motorist wrote: »

Joseph Fritzl sums up the Belgian culture and people for me perfectly.

You mean the Austrian guy from that Austrian family from that famous imprisonment/incest/rape case that happened entirely in Austria?
Fail

Motorist · 16-04-2012 12:57am

Paparazzo wrote: »

You mean the Austrian guy from that Austrian family from that famous imprisonment/incest/rape case that happened entirely in Austria?
Fail

Thanks for the correction, seems my otherwise cogent statement falls down on that slight inaccuracy :rolleyes:

Mickey H · 16-04-2012 1:17am

Motorist wrote: »

Thanks for the correction, seems my otherwise cogent statement falls down on that slight inaccuracy :rolleyes:

We'll let you off on that one. You were only 500 miles away.

psychward · 16-04-2012 1:21am

Motorist wrote: »

Thanks for the correction, seems my otherwise cogent statement falls down on that slight inaccuracy :rolleyes:

The Belgians had a pedo scandal too I think which was all over the news. I won't google it as it will do nothing for my positive mental attitude tonight and tomorrow.

ArtyC · 16-04-2012 4:27am

An ex friend of mine would give up cigs and take up rollies to save money- she'd complain about them none stop, unable to roll them. I'd offer to roll them for her of put or whatever and she'd snipe back oh just give me a cig. She'd make you feel like the tight wan and always get a cig. One of the many many stories I have off this wan!! Eat all our food in the gaff while we were working and again if you left your cigarettes at home they're be gone..... Unless I took an early lunch and was home at twelve or one to get them before she woke. Friendship lasted way longer than it should have but eventually I copped on

Paparazzo · 16-04-2012 9:48am

Motorist wrote: »

Thanks for the correction, seems my otherwise cogent statement falls down on that slight inaccuracy :rolleyes:

Slight inaccuracy? Suppose you hate Belgians because Hitler was from there too. :pac:

Motorist · 16-04-2012 1:08pm

Paparazzo wrote: »

Slight inaccuracy? Suppose you hate Belgians because Hitler was from there too. :pac:

I said so jokingly, I mixed the countries up and mixed him up with Marc Dutroux. I accept Belgium is a different country to Austria. I find both countries odd. In relation to Fritzl, it was more the result of individuals and symptomatic of society looking the other way, which is not a problem unique to them.

Switzerland's conduct in WW2 was reprehensible and it has spent its entire history looking the other way. Even today, the survival of many dictators today is dependent on the fact the country takes money from them with no questions asked. France allowed Duvalier "Baby Doc" on to its territory, also Jean-Bedel Bokassa. The USSR never recognised the Katyn Forest massacre, Japan is still in denial about it's barbaric behaviour towards Korean women and is unwilling to confront it's role in WW2. China's behaviour in Zimbabwe, Burma, Angola, Zambia, North Korea has been appalling. The US has kept the Argentinian Junta, Stroessner, and Somoza in power post war, etc.

I think Fritzl and Marc Detroux could have happened in alot of countries. Im not sure if it's valid ascribing some underlying national malaise to individual cases, even if the systematic failures involved in both have striking similarities.

Big Nasty · 16-04-2012 1:32pm

Motorist wrote: »

I said so jokingly, I mixed the countries up and mixed him up with Marc Dutroux. I accept Belgium is a different country to Austria. I find both countries odd. In relation to Fritzl, it was more the result of individuals and symptomatic of society looking the other way, which is not a problem unique to them.

Switzerland's conduct in WW2 was reprehensible and it has spent its entire history looking the other way. Even today, the survival of many dictators today is dependent on the fact the country takes money from them with no questions asked. France allowed Duvalier "Baby Doc" on to its territory, also Jean-Bedel Bokassa. The USSR never recognised the Katyn Forest massacre, Japan is still in denial about it's barbaric behaviour towards Korean women and is unwilling to confront it's role in WW2. China's behaviour in Zimbabwe, Burma, Angola, Zambia, North Korea has been appalling. The US has kept the Argentinian Junta, Stroessner, and Somoza in power post war, etc.

I think Fritzl and Marc Detroux could have happened in alot of countries. Im not sure if it's valid ascribing some underlying national malaise to individual cases, even if the systematic failures involved in both have striking similarities.

I'm not sure how this is valid to the thread?

16-04-2012 1:34pm

you're all being stingy with your stories now

kylith · 16-04-2012 2:37pm

My boss won't get towels or hand dryers, we have to dry our hands with loo roll. When that runs out she puts a little pile of Kleenex in there.

I can't really decide if she's too stingy to buy a towel or just scummy. Probably both.

Dan133269 · 16-04-2012 3:32pm

psychward wrote: »

The Belgians had a pedo scandal too I think which was all over the news. I won't google it as it will do nothing for my positive mental attitude tonight and tomorrow.

Yes, Marc Dutroux as Motorist pointed out. For anyone that's interested, do some research on this case and you will see that lots of people at the highest level in Belgium i.e. police, politicians, businessmen, all helped to cover up this case of one of the most brutal child rapists of all time. This was within the last 20 years.

kylith wrote: »

My boss won't get towels or hand dryers, we have to dry our hands with loo roll. When that runs out she puts a little pile of Kleenex in there.

I can't really decide if she's too stingy to buy a towel or just scummy. Probably both.

In our secondary school, we sometimes didn't have toilet paper!

Sykk · 16-04-2012 3:37pm

Motorist wrote: »

Joseph Fritzl sums up the Belgian culture and people for me perfectly.

Don't try to defend it... Don't even come back here... They will devour you! :pac:

shancoduff · 16-04-2012 3:47pm

From the Irish Independent today:

A GP has revealed how a patient who had missed the last bus claimed he had chest pain in order to get an ambulance to bring him home.

Dr Ken Egan, a family doctor in Ballindine, Co Mayo, said the case was among a growing number he was encountering where people were abusing the health service.

The man missed the bus from Mayo to Roscommon and hoped to get there in an ambulance.

"I got the call from the man complaining of chest pain. I said he should go to the hospital in Castlebar but he said he wanted to be taken to Roscommon. I said that is not possible, you are in Mayo," Dr Egan told the annual meeting of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

"It turned out he had missed the last bus to Roscommon and was going to get home by ambulance. He went to the hospital in Castlebar and was discharged at 2am, when he demanded a taxi to return to Roscommon."

Motorist · 16-04-2012 7:31pm

Sykk wrote: »

Don't try to defend it... Don't even come back here... They will devour you! :pac:

Yeah I mixed it up with Austria. I accept he was Austrian.

languagenerd · 16-04-2012 7:36pm

Dan133269 wrote: »

In our secondary school, we sometimes didn't have toilet paper!

We had to bring our own toilet-roll in primary school! And this was pre-recession (1999-2003). I don't know if it was stinginess or ensuring that people didn't TP the bathrooms... but I have no idea how they got away with it...

Motorist · 16-04-2012 11:07pm

languagenerd wrote: »

We had to bring our own toilet-roll in primary school! And this was pre-recession (1999-2003). I don't know if it was stinginess or ensuring that people didn't TP the bathrooms... but I have no idea how they got away with it...

Probably because people like my mate robbed toilet roll from schools, universities, public offices for years. He's the reason you get one sheet of paper at a time.

Paddy Cow · 16-04-2012 11:12pm

shancoduff wrote: »

From the Irish Independent today:

The doctor was on the radio today talking about it. The guy actually got his taxi paid for him :eek:

Annamander · 17-04-2012 10:11am

My friend's brother-in-law used to have to come up to Dublin for work (he lives in Galway and has a well-paid job) and he'd always stay with her and his brother. He never brought anything even though they were putting them up, not even a bottle of wine.

One time he came, he had a new girlfriend so he brought her to stay too and brought a bottle of dessert wine and some chocolates. It was a Tuesday night so they didn't get around to having the wine etc but my mate was gobsmacked that he'd brought a present at all. She thought this was evidence that he was getting a life and not being a massive stinge..

Next day, they leave while my mate and her husband are at work. She gets home to find that the wine and the chocolates are gone (they were put away in two separate presses) and the box they came in is gone from the cardboard recycling.

She watches him like a hawk now...

Truley · 17-04-2012 10:20am

shancoduff wrote: »

From the Irish Independent today:

Jesus! They should have named and shamed that man :mad:

Annamander · 17-04-2012 12:01pm

Keep thinking of more examples of stinginess:

Girl I worked with from Cavan once went into a takeaway up there at four am, hammered, and ordered a pizza. Even in her sozzled state, she noticed that they were charging her 20 cent extra for cheese, and called them on it.

Guy I went on a blind date with once had no money to pay for his share of the bill - muggins here paid it. He then rang me up a few days later and asked me out again - I said this time bring your wallet. He hung up, the fecker!

My grandad would eat gone-off food or even stuff burned to a crisp rather than throw it out. He wouldn't give you 20 cent, yet he'd give you 2 grand if you badly needed it. So he was cheap, but only with the little things.

Lastly, a friend whose dad is loaded used to try every trick in the book to pay only 5 quid for a taxi home, even insisting everyone else get dropped off first so she'd end up with all the rounded-up money....

Out Of The Night · 17-04-2012 12:34pm

A friend of mine is the queen of stinge! Two jobs even though one of them is a well paid public sector position. She drinks water on a night out if she doesn't feel like alcohol. Would rather walk for miles in a thunderstorm than pay for parking. This girl drives me crackers.

Quazzie · 17-04-2012 12:38pm

Out Of The Night wrote: »

A friend of mine is the queen of stinge! Two jobs even though one of them is a well paid public sector position. She drinks water on a night out if she doesn't feel like alcohol. Would rather walk for miles in a thunderstorm than pay for parking. This girl drives me crackers.

Nothing wrong with that tbh.

Out Of The Night · 17-04-2012 12:47pm

You can't take it with you.

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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