Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

Wagon · 06-01-2009 6:06pm

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...:)

I dunno, me missus was over here for a few days at the new year and I practically had to hold her down on the ground to stop her paying for us. Even though I said dinner was on me! And when i was over to Italy last year I was out on the piss with her and her mates. I decided to buy a giraffe for the table (big fecking tank of lovely beer) and pay for it just cos i felt like being nice. And they all put their share in when i wasn't looking and even tried to pay for me in the process. Maybe it's just the older generation that are stingy ****es. some of these stories are brilliant by the way

Vegeta · 06-01-2009 6:11pm

My Uncle's wife is a c u n t. There is no better way of putting it

One Christmas she rang up a local Radio station and complained that my Unlce beat her and spent all the money on drink so they couldn't afford presents for the kids. This led to a load of charities sending the family gifts.

My Uncle has extremely weak lungs, cant walk up a stairs without losing his breath and is on an oxygen mask for most of the day. In short he wouldn't beat snow off a rope.

She has sent 4 out of their 5 kids to a school for the disabled so that she receives a grant for them, despite the kids being fine. This means they have received **** all of a normal education.

My parents are god parents to their 13 year old son. This Christmas they were asked to get him runners with velcro (sp?) straps because he cant tie his shoe laces. :mad:

Whenever she is at a family do and there is drink there, like bottles of beer or whatever she will try and sneak some into her pockets and into the kids pockets so she can take it home.

My family gave them our old PC about a year ago. They knew we had a newer one and about 6 months later asked could they have that one as well.

She is a pig.

DonkeyPunch · 06-01-2009 6:13pm

I was working in a Trad boozer in Limerick a few years back, Live music from 9 till close. A middle aged German couple came in about 5pm, ordered a pint bottle of cidona and 2 half pint glasses and supped on that between them for the night.

Latchy · 06-01-2009 6:20pm

DonkeyPunch wrote: »

I was working in a Trad boozer in Limerick a few years back, Live music from 9 till close. A middle aged German couple came in about 5pm, ordered a pint bottle of cidona and 2 half pint glasses and supped on that between them for the night.

I think that might be more to do with their drinking habits than anything .Like 'Generally speaking ' continentals dont drink like the Irish / british .It's like the spanish / italian thing were they sit over their coffee for an hr or two .But it's not good buisness for the pub I agree .

A german beer festival ..now that's a different matter

markos79 · 06-01-2009 6:20pm

Biggins wrote: »

My mother is law is so stingy I have barred her from our home.

Among many, many things, when my wife was young, the mother was so stingy, the daughter (and her sisters) had to spend her babysitting money in order to buy food to feed herself weekly.
The mother would NEVER buy toys for the kids, only give them what was donated or shared.
The mother was and still is so stingy that (after I had words with her) for the wifes birthday she actually went and bought a €9.99 doll for her birthday. A cheap plastic doll.
She never buys Christmas cards, Birthday cards (or presents), never buys anything to keep her home clean, never cleans (I refuse to let my kids enter her home), never buys anything of a personal hygiene nature, I could go on...

Where is her husband? For many years he was in the army and was away a lot. When he came home - he saw how things were and stayed away from there too (and who could blame him!).

When the wife moved out of home and moved in with me, the mother turned up at our door a week later and asked the daughter if she would still be handing up part of her weekly wage to the mother!
I won't repeat the words of expression I used to the mother in law, I'll leave that to your imagination.
She tried begging for money too after that - I had just two words for her each time.

You want to meet a stingy person, I'll introduce you to one of the scummiest best (or worst - depending on perspectives).

The day she dies, I'll spit on her grave and sing "Hallelujah".

thats it biggins let it all out:D

IvyTheTerrible · 06-01-2009 6:25pm

My former landlady had two houses in the same estate. She would always rent out the box rooms to foreign students for 2 or 3 months because they were too small for permanent lettings.

Anyway, 2 french students who were friends came to live, one in the house I was in, one in the other one, where a friend of mine was also living. The french student in the other house never bought anything like toilet roll (which everyone normally buys in turn). Anyway my friend got fed up of this, and decided to start keeping the toilet roll in her room. For about three days, no new toilet roll appeared in the bathroom, and my friend started to wonder what was going on. It turned out that the french student living in my house was taking 3 or 4 rolls at a time from my house (rolls which I bought) and bringing them over to her friend.

This is only one instance from their stay, and they weren't poor students either, they were getting paid where they worked, and their parents paid for flights back to Paris every two weeks because they were so homesick!

06-01-2009 6:28pm

Not "mean" but a cute story.

When my brother was 12, our mother sent him to the shop for sausages. The sausages were £1.35 and she gave him £1.50 and told him to keep the change to buy sweets for himself (this was the early 80s- 15p went a lot further).

He comes home half an hour later muching on a bag of sweets but no sausages. Turns out he got to the shop and the sausages had gone up to £1.37 which wouldn't have left him enough for his 15p bag of sweets so he went home without them.

yabadabado · 06-01-2009 6:29pm

i guy i work with is the stingiest p***k i have ever met.about 400 people in our building and everyone knows about his antics.he got kicked out of the canteen for going up and buying a cup of tea ,standing at the machine drinking half,then topping it up.then he pays,he goes to a table drinks the tea ,goes back up saying it needs more milk,tops up again with milk ,so he ends up witha cup of milk with a tea bag in the bottom. this went on for weeks before the manager ****ed him out.whenever he gets caught out he acts like a retard so people feel sorry for him.
he has done worse,thats only the tip of the iceberg

Latchy · 06-01-2009 6:31pm

Oh the dutch , how did i forget them ? They are even worse than the other nationalities mentioned ( except maybe the germans

)

Oh ....I'll have to come back to this again ......perhaps in 3hrs ......and a bit .......

partyguinness wrote: »

I was on an exchange in Brittany 14 yrs ago and it was like that episode of the Simpsons..they were absolute misery personified even the other French familes felt sorry for me...but I have been racking my brains to remember moments and it is failing me...prob need extensive psychotherapy to get it out at this stage I'm so repressed

Hey this is good Therapy and it's all free .Let it all out ......look at Biggins ?

partyguinness · 06-01-2009 6:31pm

I was on an exchange in Brittany 14 yrs ago and it was like that episode of the Simpsons..they were absolute misery personified even the other French familes felt sorry for me...but I have been racking my brains to remember moments and it is failing me...prob need extensive psychotherapy to get it out at this stage I'm so repressed

BnA · 06-01-2009 6:32pm

Biggins wrote: »

She has been like previously described ALL her life. Over the years she has been to many, many doctors. Nope, depression is not her problem. She is just one mean cow. Sooner she stops breathing, the world will be a better place.

C'mon Biggins.

Get off the freggin fence.

Tell us how you really feel.

partyguinness · 06-01-2009 6:35pm

latchyco wrote: »

Oh the dutch , how did i forget them ? They are even worse than the other nationalities mentioned ( except maybe the germans )

Oh ....I'll have to come back to this again ......perhaps in 3hrs ......and a bit .......

I have heard the Dutch are notorious especially to travel with..no personal experiances though.

consultech · 06-01-2009 6:40pm

00112984 wrote: »

Not "mean" but a cute story.

When my brother was 12, our mother sent him to the shop for sausages. The sausages were £1.35 and she gave him £1.50 and told him to keep the change to buy sweets for himself (this was the early 80s- 15p went a lot further).

He comes home half an hour later muching on a bag of sweets but no sausages. Turns out he got to the shop and the sausages had gone up to £1.37 which wouldn't have left him enough for his 15p bag of sweets so he went home without them.

Reasonable business practice if applied to a service industry. He provided the transportation and query for a set fee!

towel401 · 06-01-2009 6:43pm

partyguinness wrote: »

I have heard the Dutch are notorious especially to travel with..no personal experiances though.

if you ever see dutch people in a shop in England. or Ireland it won't be long before they start saying things like "te duur" and "veel te duur" (too expensive)

Latchy · 06-01-2009 6:44pm

partyguinness wrote: »

I have heard the Dutch are notorious especially to travel with..no personal experiances though.

They seriously are as i discovered whlie living over there for a period .Dutch people imo tend to only want to do things for ya if there is something in it for them .... Generally speaking .They aint good at spending their money but will gladly spend yours if offered .

towel401 · 06-01-2009 6:46pm

ManFromAtlantis wrote: »

whats wrong with that.?
u musnt have been around before the celtic tiger?

the amount of power it uses is tiny compared to the cost of the thing. but people are far more stingy paying for things like petrol, phonecalls, electricity than things like dishwashers

truecrippler · 06-01-2009 6:47pm

yabadabado wrote: »

i guy i work with is the stingiest p***k i have ever met.about 400 people in our building and everyone knows about his antics.he got kicked out of the canteen for going up and buying a cup of tea ,standing at the machine drinking half,then topping it up.then he pays,he goes to a table drinks the tea ,goes back up saying it needs more milk,tops up again with milk ,so he ends up witha cup of milk with a tea bag in the bottom. this went on for weeks before the manager ****ed him out.whenever he gets caught out he acts like a retard so people feel sorry for him.
he has done worse,thats only the tip of the iceberg

I also know someone who is stingy with grammar and punctuation.

Degag · 06-01-2009 6:47pm

stovelid wrote: »

I trust that the next glass of Guinness 'got a seeing to'?

On the statistically remote chance that she got another beer instead of spinning the first one out for 14 hours.

Lol, i think they budget themselves to just one drink for their whole trip...:rolleyes:

truecrippler wrote: »

Sure... I bet you were rubbing your hands with glee when she asked for two 10 cent pieces.

Eh??? 20c would have been just as miserly, just the fact she asked for it to be split... don't really understand your post...

stovelid · 06-01-2009 6:52pm

Vegeta wrote: »

.....

Good lord.

06-01-2009 6:54pm

Degag wrote: »

Eh??? 20c would have been just as miserly, just the fact she asked for it to be split... don't really understand your post...

Sarcasm my friend, sarcasm.

monkeyfudge · 06-01-2009 6:55pm

latchyco wrote: »

Oh the dutch , how did i forget them ? They are even worse than the other nationalities mentioned ( except maybe the germans )

Oh ....I'll have to come back to this again ......perhaps in 3hrs ......and a bit .......

Ha... might have some of them too.

RATM · 07-01-2009 1:45am

Perhaps more thrifty than stingy but...

As a kid of 6 I remember there was a favourable exchange rate on sterling and lots of people went up to Newry for shopping and petrol, just like now. Anyway my mum drove the whole family up and bought 3 new racing bikes for my sisters for Xmas. But because getting caught importing 3 new bikes back into the Republic might involve paying excise taxes my Mum instead asked the bike salesman if he knew of any backroads over the border. He pointed us in the direction of one and my mum drove up it, pulled in, got the bikes outa the boot of the car and then made the three sisters cycle across the border ( dodging army types and the like:pac:) It took 'em a 4 mile cycle before we picked them up where the backroad met with the main Dundalk road again:D

On another note I was recently in Thailand and on my way home bought a fake pair of Diesel jeans for around €15. Well needless to say I put on a few pounds over Xmas and there last week the top button of the cheapo fake jeans popped off. I then had the cheek to bring them into the Diesel shop on Suffolk St. and ask for a replacement button which the kind manageress duly handed over !

Anyone know anyone who still darns the holes in socks ? Now that's stingy=)

carlop · 07-01-2009 3:27am

Does anyone else reckon after reading this thread that its not that the foreigners that are stingy but the Irish who aren't stingy enough?:pac:

Spanish are terrible from my experience. Went to krakow last year with a big group of mates, different mix of nationalities because we were all on an erasmus in Italy at the time.

We got to the hostel where me and a few others are staying at about 8 in the morning. The rest of the group, all Spanish, but not staying in the hostel came up with us. Just as we got inside, breakfast was being served.

All the Spanish, who aren't staying in the hostel, open up their bags and take all the food. Literally everything was gone in a few minutes. They didn't even see it as being in any way strange, they just pointed out they'd need to bring a packed lunch with them later on to Auschwitz.

civis_liberalis · 07-01-2009 4:00am

Carlop,

I don't know about the Spanish, but a lot of French I have met over the years are very sort of socialist minded. For example, I was in a late bar/club type place that was wedged, but people I had only met 5 mins before asked for some of my pint and passed it around to some of their mates.

I was shocked. A Belgian mate that was with me said that it was the way things worked around there...

carlop · 07-01-2009 4:27am

Yeah thats definitely true from my experience in Europe. I haven't spent much time in France, but in Italy and Spain they have a culture of sharing, especially when it comes to drink. It works both ways, but its still a shock to the irishman the first time someone pours themself a glass from your can or takes a smoke from your pack like its the most natural thing in the world.

civis_liberalis · 07-01-2009 4:35am

Ya. It was a strange experience. First I was shocked, then angry and finally... amused, by the explanation that it was the way of things there.

Jesus, I wouldn't begrudge a person a sup of beer, but if it happened in a pub in Ireland, I'm ashamed to say that I'd most likely use a combo of four letter words.

Ardscoil Ris · 07-01-2009 5:17am

I have come across some stingy people in my life. One of my friends wouldn't give you the steam off his piss. We have so many jokes about him:

"I heard Kevin was arrested for breaking into a fiver" and my favourite;

"I heard Kevin rang a premium rate chatline and your one asked him what could she do for him? He replied: Could you ring me back?"

pebbles21 · 07-01-2009 5:42am

A multi-millionaire ex boss of mine was reduced to tears one day !when i asked what was wrong

He told me he bought bread in tescos which claims to stay fresh for seven days and after five days its was stale but after a long and hard battle with a tesco manager they wouldnt reimburse him

The sad fcuker coudnt sleep for a week after it !!!!!!!!!

Some cnuts dont deserve money!

Amalgam · 07-01-2009 7:06am

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

is it true a stingy person wipes there gary glitter with there hand to save on arse papper?

In certain countries you might see blokes with that 'one fingernail'..

Turd Ferguson · 07-01-2009 10:23am

carlop wrote: »

They didn't even see it as being in any way strange, they just pointed out they'd need to bring a packed lunch with them later on to Auschwitz.

Bringing all that food with them was just smart. And the best thing is that there are plenty of ovens in Auschwitz for them to re-heat.

nice1franko · 07-01-2009 10:50am

iguana wrote: »

Well if you're happy to keep getting ripped off you will be constantly. You have to compare like for like when talking about different economies. And seeing as how the average wage in the UK is comparable, if not higher in most cases, then prices of goods should also be similar. A similar mobile phone contract costs over €1000 more over 18 months in Ireland than it does in the UK, although the UK package has a better text package.

You are getting ripped off left right and centre in Ireland, and while many of the people described on this thread are being ridiculous quite a few people who sound financially sensible are being ridiculed too. And it's that attitude which allows companies to rip people off.

I think some people are getting stinginess mixed up with "we're not getting value for money here in Ireland as consumers".

I don't like being ripped off one bit and what's more, I'm a fairly thrifty chap, even if I say so myself... but that's a different story, and aworld away from a mad Frenchman walking into a bar and demanding alcohol for €2.25 isn't it? The prices are up on the wall ffs. Would he go into McDonalds and ask for €2.25 worth of a Big Mac?

If he wants €2.25 of drink then get 2 cans of dutch gold and a packet of crisps. Champagne tastes and lemonade pockets... that's his problem.

Turd Ferguson · 07-01-2009 10:54am

nice1franko wrote: »

If he wants €2.25 of drink then get 2 cans of dutch gold and a packet of crisps.

For €2.25? Where do you shop?

Vegeta · 07-01-2009 10:56am

stovelid wrote: »

Good lord.

Tell me about it

Not quite the rage of Biggins but she does get my goat.

dioltas · 07-01-2009 11:01am

One of my friends' father used to split the matches in a box with a razor blade, thus doubling the amount of matches.

Naos · 07-01-2009 11:14am

Degag wrote: »

Eh??? 20c would have been just as miserly, just the fact she asked for it to be split... don't really understand your post...

I would assume that the lady handed him over one of the 10c pieces.

Jane Doh! · 07-01-2009 11:27am

I think stingy kids are the funiest, they don't hide it.....

My nephew was round at mine yesterday, on the way home I bought him a choc muffin and ice cream (supermacs, yummy).

He got a brain freeze from eating the ice-cream as quickly as he could just in case his little sister at home wanted a taste...

He hides chocolate and stuff in his pockets, he would rather leave it to melt than share it.

He still has his communion money stashed.....sure sign that he will be a sting when he gets older?? :rolleyes:

ThunderCat · 07-01-2009 11:33am

RATM wrote: »

Perhaps more thrifty than stingy but...

As a kid of 6 I remember there was a favourable exchange rate on sterling and lots of people went up to Newry for shopping and petrol, just like now. Anyway my mum drove the whole family up and bought 3 new racing bikes for my sisters for Xmas. But because getting caught importing 3 new bikes back into the Republic might involve paying excise taxes my Mum instead asked the bike salesman if he knew of any backroads over the border. He pointed us in the direction of one and my mum drove up it, pulled in, got the bikes outa the boot of the car and then made the three sisters cycle across the border ( dodging army types and the like:pac:) It took 'em a 4 mile cycle before we picked them up where the backroad met with the main Dundalk road again:D

On another note I was recently in Thailand and on my way home bought a fake pair of Diesel jeans for around €15. Well needless to say I put on a few pounds over Xmas and there last week the top button of the cheapo fake jeans popped off. I then had the cheek to bring them into the Diesel shop on Suffolk St. and ask for a replacement button which the kind manageress duly handed over !

Anyone know anyone who still darns the holes in socks ? Now that's stingy=)

Eleanor Rigby does!

Latchy · 07-01-2009 11:58am

carlop wrote: »

Does anyone else reckon after reading this thread that its not that the foreigners that are stingy but the Irish who aren't stingy enough?:pac:

Spanish are terrible from my experience. Went to krakow last year with a big group of mates, different mix of nationalities because we were all on an erasmus in Italy at the time.

We got to the hostel where me and a few others are staying at about 8 in the morning. The rest of the group, all Spanish, but not staying in the hostel came up with us. Just as we got inside, breakfast was being served.

All the Spanish, who aren't staying in the hostel, open up their bags and take all the food. Literally everything was gone in a few minutes. They didn't even see it as being in any way strange, they just pointed out they'd need to bring a packed lunch with them later on to Auschwitz.

They dont understand irony and would probably be the first to call british/irish people rude.Of course if they were really poor spaniards they wouldnt give a toss either way .

Originally Posted by nevaeh-2die-4
is it true a stingy person wipes there gary glitter with there hand to save on arse papper?

What if the stingy person has no hands ?

Degag · 07-01-2009 12:08pm

Naos wrote: »

I would assume that the lady handed him over one of the 10c pieces.

Um yeah i know, concidering i was the one it happened to:D

nice1franko · 07-01-2009 12:12pm

We were in Italy last year and were getting a train from Rome to the coast. It was one of those trains with 6-man compartments. A couple of hours into the journey this Italian girl breaks out a sandwich and proceeds to ask everyone did they want some (a smoking hot girl takes some from her :pac: :pac:). Then someone else has a chewing gum and asks everyone did they want some. It was a bit weird... maybe we're the ones who are stingy

S.I.R · 07-01-2009 12:31pm

mate of mine, his dad drives a new beemer Every year ( c***

)

this kids get new cars and so does the misses, they live the high life...

but he lives on oxo and tesco value bread.

last time i was out with him he kept all the bottles we drank

( bally gown and the likes, which I paid for ! )

and still uses them to this day...

i make in a month what he makes in a day...

Stingy muppet...

but i suppose he's only rich like all rich people because he doesnt spend all his money.

he's still a burke though.

Zangetsu · 07-01-2009 12:37pm

Oh no! He recycles?!?!? Off with his head!

Berty · 07-01-2009 12:54pm

My old local in Limerick was soooo tight they used to watch the match on TG4 and listen to it on the radio with the sound on the TV off.

The TV was in Irish and the radio was in English. They would not spend the money for Setanta or Sky.

Miserable gits!! :mad:

Quazzie · 07-01-2009 12:56pm

Most matches on TG4 wouldn't be on Setanta or Sky. They probably done that to get the English commentary and avoid the Irish commentary on TG4

Berty · 07-01-2009 12:57pm

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Most matches on TG4 wouldn't be on Setanta or Sky. They probably done that to get the English commentary and avoid the Irish commentary on TG4

This was a few years back when the games were on both.

John Mason · 07-01-2009 12:58pm

My company have just got rid of all the plants because they are too expensive

No more greenry for us

Berty · 07-01-2009 1:01pm

My boss told me yesterday I was not allowed to go to the Ice Cream exhibition in Italy again this year. Git :mad: He is going anyway........but of course, why would he cancel his little junket??

Where does he send me instead?

3 days in Birmingham and 2 days in Brussels. As*hole! :mad: Making me learn stuff. Im not going to learn anything just to spite him

S.I.R · 07-01-2009 1:07pm

Berty wrote: »

My boss told me yesterday I was not allowed to go to the Ice Cream exhibition in Italy again this year. Git :mad: He is going anyway........but of course, why would he cancel his little junket??

Where does he send me instead?

3 days in Birmingham and 2 days in Brussels. As*hole! :mad: Making me learn stuff. Im not going to learn anything just to spite him

lol @ the Brussels...

i can see it now

In Brussels - Staring berty off Boards.ie and samuel jackson.

What a movie that would be...

maybe chris rock in their too
??

Mimikyu · 07-01-2009 1:12pm

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Turd Ferguson · 07-01-2009 1:13pm

Berty wrote: »

My boss told me yesterday I was not allowed to go to the Ice Cream exhibition in Italy again this year. Git :mad:

Ice cream exhibition? Whut?

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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