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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #5042
    Motorist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    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.


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    #5043
    languagenerd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    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...


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    #5044
    Motorist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    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.


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    #5045
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    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:


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    #5046
    Annamander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭Annamander


    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...


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    #5047
    Truley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    shancoduff wrote: »
    From the Irish Independent today:

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


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    #5048
    Annamander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭Annamander


    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....


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    #5049
    Out Of The Night
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Out Of The Night


    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.


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    #5050
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,814 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    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.


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    #5051
    Out Of The Night
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Out Of The Night


    You can't take it with you.


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    #5052
    bijapos
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    Annamander wrote: »
    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.

    Well if they were trying to overcharge her when she was p1ssed I say far play to her. Which also makes the pizza people thieving cnuts.
    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!


    That's hilarious! :pac:


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    #5053
    Annamander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭Annamander


    That's hilarious! :pac:[/QUOTE]

    They're out there - and they seem normal til the bill comes...


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    #5054
    SunnyDub1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    Annamander wrote: »
    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.

    She wanted tp know why she was paying extra - i'd do the same
    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!....

    what's wrong with that ? why should he had to pay the full bill ?


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    #5055
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    SunnyDub1 wrote: »
    what's wrong with that ? why should he had to pay the full bill ?

    He didnt pay his share.


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    #5056
    Annamander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭Annamander


    what's wrong with that ? why should he had to pay the full bill ?[/QUOTE]

    Don't get me wrong, I was happy to go halves. But instead I ended up paying for him too!


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    #5057
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Annamander wrote: »
    SunnyDub1 wrote:
    what's wrong with that ? why should he had to pay the full bill ?

    Don't get me wrong, I was happy to go halves. But instead I ended up paying for him too!

    That is stingy, so don't read to much into the below yourself

    Now what do people think of women who go on first dates and expect to be paid for? Social norm or stingy (both having jobs etc)


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    #5058
    SunnyDub1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    Genghiz Cohen wrote: »
    He didnt pay his share.
    Annamander wrote: »
    what's wrong with that ? why should he had to pay the full bill ?

    Don't get me wrong, I was happy to go halves. But instead I ended up paying for him too![/QUOTE]


    Ohhhh right apologies .... Read it wrong.
    Maybe he genuinely forgot tho ...


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    #5059
    Newaglish
    Registered Users Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭Newaglish


    Since when did the quote function stop working?!


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    #5060
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    Newaglish wrote: »
    Since when did the quote function stop working?!

    Did it? :P


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    #5061
    tvercetti
    Registered Users Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭tvercetti


    phill106 wrote: »
    Did it? :P

    Not that I know of............


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    #5062
    Newaglish
    Registered Users Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭Newaglish


    Well no, but about four people before me seem to have forgotten how to use it.


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    #5063
    El Inho
    Registered Users Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭El Inho


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    Don't get me wrong, I was happy to go halves. But instead I ended up paying for him too!

    That is stingy, so don't read to much into the below yourself

    Now what do people think of women who go on first dates and expect to be paid for? Social norm or stingy (both having jobs etc)

    if you're a guy...and you're asking...you don't get many second dates.


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    #5064
    El Inho
    Registered Users Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭El Inho


    Newaglish wrote: »
    Well no, but about four people before me seem to have forgotten how to use it.

    there was one of the quotes above thats wrong somehow .... happened to me there too...


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    #5065
    SunnyDub1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    Newaglish wrote: »
    Since when did the quote function stop working?!
    Newaglish wrote: »
    Well no, but about four people before me seem to have forgotten how to use it.


    Stop trying to be funny/smart - it's not happening for you :rolleyes:
    Simply error


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    #5066
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,358 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    That is stingy, so don't read to much into the below yourself

    Now what do people think of women who go on first dates and expect to be paid for? Social norm or stingy (both having jobs etc)

    If you ask someone on a date you should offer to pay the bill, regardless of sex (I mean male/female)
    Its nice however if the other person offers to pay their share.


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    #5067
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    Kolido wrote: »
    If you ask someone on a date you should offer to pay the bill, regardless of sex (I mean male/female)
    Its nice however if the other person offers to pay their share.

    This. The "host" always offers to pay everything, but in most cases they shouldn't be allowed.


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    #5068
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,249 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Newaglish wrote: »
    Since when did the quote function stop working?!

    If one person puts in an unbalanced [noparse]
    [/noparse] and people quote that post, the quoting post will also have an unbalanced [noparse]
    [/noparse]


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    #5069
    Polochlainn
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭Polochlainn


    When I was a student one sunday we were so broke we couldn't afford jacks roll so we ended up finding some imodium in the gaff and popped two pills each and hey presto problem solved!


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    #5070
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Bipolar Joe wrote: »
    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.

    There does be somebody there. You're lucky that she was gone for a fag.


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    #5071
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Dan133269 wrote: »



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

    I'll say nothing :D


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