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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #5072
    Sierra 117
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Sierra 117


    We didn't have any toilet paper in primary school. I remember one of the lads had a poo during break and we heard him shouting from the cubicle to bring him some toilet paper. I can't remember if he got any or not.


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    #5073
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,714 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Dan133269 wrote: »
    In our secondary school, we sometimes didn't have toilet paper!
    Anyone remember the translucent stuff ?
    Like greaseproof paper


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    #5074
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Anyone remember the translucent stuff ?
    Like greaseproof paper

    My lunches were wrapped in that. :) Ah, those were the days before cling film :)


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    #5075
    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Anyone remember the translucent stuff ?
    Like greaseproof paper

    Bad memories of the dart station in Bray for me there.


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    #5076
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Anyone remember the translucent stuff ?
    Like greaseproof paper

    God, do I ever? I went to a rather posh private school on Dublins south side. They more than anyone could afford the expensive stuff. Nope. Old skool grease proof paper style bog roll in the jacks all the way. It was dispensed single sheet by single sheet from a box that sat inside a dispenser on the wall. It had the absorbency qualities of tin foil. :o

    There was one day when parents were gonna be in the school in the evening. A friend and I were were enlisted to go around all the jacks and make sure that they all had hand soap, toilet paper etc. The Mother Superior (who was the poshest, snootiest, most etiquette obsessed broad in the whole place) showed us how to open the boxes of bog roll, and load them in the dispenser. She stopped herself half way thru the demo, and said "but sure you know how to do all this from home"

    I can still remember my friend and I looking at each other and thinking "Jesus lady, you really need to get out into the real world more often if you think that real people actually have this kind of $hit in their homes" No pun intended. :D


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    #5077
    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Anyone remember the translucent stuff ?
    Like greaseproof paper
    Owwowwow:(


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    #5078
    Squ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Squ


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Anyone remember the translucent stuff ?
    Like greaseproof paper
    Thank god that was back in the days before i knew anything about Guinness poo's


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    #5079
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Squ wrote: »
    Thank god that was back in the days before i knew anything about Guinness poo's

    I can imagine the telephone call...

    Hello Boss? Can't come in to work today. Still wiping my arse. May be here a while.


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    #5080
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Anyone remember the translucent stuff ?
    Like greaseproof paper

    In London, in the public toilets, it used to be printed with the local council's name on each sheet.


    dear heavens - why??? :confused:


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    #5081
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    In London, in the public toilets, it used to be printed with the local council's name on each sheet.


    dear heavens - why??? :confused:
    Not her majesty's face?


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    #5082
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,358 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    In London, in the public toilets, it used to be printed with the local council's name on each sheet.


    dear heavens - why??? :confused:


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    #5083
    mummymoo
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭mummymoo


    i got reused christmas cards in secondary school!


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    #5084
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,247 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    In London, in the public toilets, it used to be printed with the local council's name on each sheet.

    dear heavens - why??? :confused:

    Maybe it was being stolen (by staff) en masse and sold to other councils?


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    #5085
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    In London, in the public toilets, it used to be printed with the local council's name on each sheet.


    dear heavens - why??? :confused:

    Wonder if Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch did it, would they print it lengthwise :)


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    #5086
    lubie76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭lubie76


    mummymoo wrote: »
    i got reused christmas cards in secondary school!

    That reminds me of a birthday card I got years ago in Primary School from a well off family. It was handmade from an A4 cardboardy sheet folded from top to bottom then left to right..nothing really wrong with that but this person had obviously made it for someone else as there was a section cut out where my name was and they had Prittsticked the front to the back part of sheet....as if I wouldn't notice. I might have been 7 but I wasn't that dumb. No present either...was raging!


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    #5087
    votecounts
    Registered Users Posts: 2,617 ✭✭✭votecounts


    Heard a guy and his wife would rather live in a tent than pay his morgage for 2 years, anything to get a free house, what a stinge!!!


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    #5088
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    The neighbours used to have toilet paper drying on the washing line.


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    #5089
    Eathrin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    The neighbours used to have toilet paper drying on the washing line.

    You're not actually serious:confused:


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    #5090
    batistuta9
    Registered Users Posts: 8,091 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    Eathrin wrote: »
    You're not actually serious:confused:

    :pac::pac::pac::pac:


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    #5091
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,532 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    votecounts wrote: »
    Heard a guy and his wife would rather live in a tent than pay his morgage for 2 years, anything to get a free house, what a stinge!!!

    Indeed. Can someone post their address. I want to reposess their tent/piss on it. What a pile of scumbags


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    #5092
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    I'm moving jobs and my team (extended) took me for lunch today as a goodbye. Really appreciated it as was glad to have a last chinwag with them over some yummy food.
    40mins after we sat down 2 more ladies showed up (not on my team, not invited) and sat with us, ordered and ate lunch with us. Turns out one of the girls invited (who I don't like, but had to invite) had asked them along as "sure the company is paying anyway".
    We left before them and settled up our bill on the way out. Would have loved to have seen their faces.


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    #5093
    CageWager
    Registered Users Posts: 545 ✭✭✭CageWager


    Saw this one fella refuse to move out of his mansion into one of his 10 other luxury apartments because he felt he wasn't getting celtic tiger prices for his "family home"


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    #5094
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,358 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Post #25


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    #5095
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Kolido wrote: »
    Post #25

    thats not stingy, they're just tossers


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    #5096
    Memory Of 98
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭Memory Of 98


    Not sure as to how stingy this is, but I knew a Polish fella, great guy. He told me that he didn`t pay for heating, he just turned a toaster on it`s side and used it to keep himself warm.


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    #5097
    viztopia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 770 ✭✭✭viztopia


    Memory Of 98 wrote: »
    Not sure as to how stingy this is, but I knew a Polish fella, great guy. He told me that he didn`t pay for heating, he just turned a toaster on it`s side and used it to keep himself warm.

    Was it s,solar powered toaster or something?


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    #5098
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    Memory Of 98 wrote: »
    Not sure as to how stingy this is, but I knew a Polish fella, great guy. He told me that he didn`t pay for heating, he just turned a toaster on it`s side and used it to keep himself warm.

    If he is paying the electricity, I think that would use loads!


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    #5099
    LilyCricket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 232 ✭✭LilyCricket


    Memory Of 98 wrote: »
    Not sure as to how stingy this is, but I knew a Polish fella, great guy. He told me that he didn`t pay for heating, he just turned a toaster on it`s side and used it to keep himself warm.

    :D

    jesus christ, i have heard it all now!


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    #5100
    Memory Of 98
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭Memory Of 98


    phill106 wrote: »
    If he is paying the electricity, I think that would use loads!

    He wasn`t using it all day, seemingly just when he felt like treating himself to some heat for a few minutes.


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    #5101
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Memory Of 98 wrote: »
    He wasn`t using it all day, seemingly just when he felt like treating himself to some heat for a few minutes.

    Can you imagine?
    "Alright, ive been a good boy today, managed to only spend 30c on food, on a bun that was going off in dunnes. Found 50c on the street as well, so im up for the day! Time to celebrate by lying down beside my toaster for 5 minutes for some of its glorious glorious heat"


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