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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #1982
    patakadarragh
    Registered Users Posts: 583 ✭✭✭patakadarragh


    owenc wrote: »
    Ok this will be a laugh but its a year old..


    :confused::confused: Go to the last page....there are posts from today..;):rolleyes:


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    #1983
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    owenc wrote: »
    £100 for doing your hair are you serious!! Thats discracefull it only costs me like £10, now i realise that the people down south really aren't lying, your government are a rip off.

    The government cut our hair? :eek:


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    #1984
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    mickoneill30 wrote: »
    The government cut our hair? :eek:

    No but they sort of set the rates so that people know what to charge.;)


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    #1985
    darragh o meara
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭darragh o meara


    I've me a few stingey people from over the years:

    Myself and a few friends were out in a local bar and noticed one of the lads robbing drink from the tables (same lad was very well off) After a while I was in the jacks and met one of the lads I was with, He had taken his pint with him to save it from being robbed, Drank half and lobbed out his knob and filled it back up :) He left it out for the other fella to see and after a few mins went back to the jacks, cue the other lad to steal the pint. Took about two supps and he puicked his guts up, never stole a pint since :)

    Another fella I used to ive with would go online, copy the text on the page into word and log off to save him being charged for being online.

    A lad I worked with recently would bring home the paper,leftover milk,sugar and butter from the canteen every day. Same fella got an old diesel generator from the pavies and used to syphon a supp of diesel from the company van to power his house for the night!! Fella never had a esb, nor did he have a wife or kids either. His brother told me a while later that he had nearly a million in savings and a car he had bought new 4 years before with only 850 miles on the clock because he didnt want to spend the money on servicing it and putting diesel in it.

    In fairness I was a bit stingey in my day too I remember one time living on very small wages (about 6 pound left after rent for food etc) Stealing the salt and pepper,sugar etc from the canteen to bring home to use later. Used to call to my mothers and take a few cans of food home with me. For a few weeks I survived on bread,water and a pot of jam lost 3 stone in a month... Those were bad days and I never want to relive them again!!!!


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    #1986
    nibtrix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭nibtrix


    owenc wrote: »
    No but they sort of set the rates so that people know what to charge.;)

    We set the rates ourselves - we kept paying so they kept raising the price...


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    #1987
    coffee_cake
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    owenc wrote: »
    -Makes us get up at 10 in the summer and never lets us lie in.

    10 is a lie in :p


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    #1988
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    bluewolf wrote: »
    10 is a lie in :p

    No we have to be up before that like 9.


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    #1989
    patakadarragh
    Registered Users Posts: 583 ✭✭✭patakadarragh


    Wow 10 o clock poor you...:rolleyes:


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    #1990
    pinc
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭pinc


    My sons father wanted some of the 'child benefit allowance' given to him as he has the child 2 weekends a month. 'Therefore the child is costing him so why shouldn't he be given some of it'.:o


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    #1991
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    A guy I went to college was pretty bad.

    After he came back from a trip to the UK he had 30 pounds sterling or something like that left over. There was a girl in our class who had a boyfriend in London who she used visit on a fairly regular basis so he asked her would she swap sterling for euro to do him a favour. She agreed thinking that it'd be a straight swap (think it was about 90c to the pound then) but he then asked 'So, do you you want to go by today's currency exchange rate or will we use the rate when I bring the money in on Monday?)

    After college I was working in a company who offered a 1,000 euro gift to any person who recruited new employees. So , I got this guy a job and after 6 months I got the 1,000 euro finder's fee (which he didn't know about). I decided to give him 100 euro out of it but as a little experiment I just gave him the money and said 'Here's that 100 euro I owe you'. He just said thanks and pocketed it without any questions about when he had given me a loan.

    Last year the two of us were living in different cities in NZ. To keep in touch I signed up for a 'best mates' deal whereby for something small like $3 a month you could make unlimited calls to nominated people. I put him down for it and would ring him fairly regularly. I suggested he sign up for it as well so he could ring me back. Anytime I said it he just changed the subject. In the 3 months or so that we were both in the country he never signed up and subsequently he never rang me once. However when I told him I was leaving he asked me for my SIM card so that he could use the same system for phoning his girlfriend. When I explained that it didn't work like that but he could ring her for free for just $3 a month he wasn't interested.


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    #1992
    trustno1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 493 ✭✭trustno1


    My old boss (a multi millionaire) used to get me to steam off the stamps from his post that hadn't been franked so he could use them again.


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    #1993
    pinkfloyd34
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭pinkfloyd34


    trustno1 wrote: »
    My old boss (a multi millionaire) used to get me to steam off the stamps from his post that hadn't been franked so he could use them again.

    would that not be defeating the purpose, paying you to do this and probably paying you more for the time it took


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    #1994
    skywalker_208
    Registered Users Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭skywalker_208


    Went into a shop near the parents house (small enough country shop) one day to get flour and the sell by date was scribbled out with a biro and a new date written in biro beside it! :)


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    #1995
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    pinc wrote: »
    My sons father wanted some of the 'child benefit allowance' given to him as he has the child 2 weekends a month. 'Therefore the child is costing him so why shouldn't he be given some of it'.:o


    whats stingy about that? should be given a bit in fairness


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    #1996
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,980 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    owenc wrote: »
    Naw but he is tight and theres no doubt about it full stop, i've been in other peoples houses and they get everything and get away with everything and nearly everyone that has been to my house has said that he is annoying, so its true! Come now your parents never did that crap.

    Your dad does sound stingy but he also sounds like a good parent.


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    #1997
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    Sharing a room with a certain friend on holidays. We went shopping the 1st day and he made us buy cheese for me cheese for him, ham for me ham for him, butter for me butter for him....and so on instead of just buying one item of each and splitting the cost down the middle. Ended up with loads of spare food at the end of the week as you can imagine...:mad:


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    #1998
    Dublin4Life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Dublin4Life


    Last year i got a car and the old man would not pay my tax and insurance the stingy ****er....

    haha....so I startd using his new BMW , lets just say guys I'm driving my own car know !!


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    #1999
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    Dublin4Life wrote: »
    Last year i got a car and the old man would not pay my tax and insurance the stingy ****er....

    haha....so I startd using his new BMW , lets just say guys I'm driving my own car know !!

    I consider drowning my children on a daily basis over things like this.


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    #2000
    Penisland
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Penisland


    Dublin4Life wrote: »
    Last year i got a car and the old man would not pay my tax and insurance the stingy ****er....

    haha....so I startd using his new BMW , lets just say guys I'm driving my own car know !!


    Ross O'Carrol Kelly??? is that you :P


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    #2001
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Dublin4Life wrote: »
    Last year i got a car and the old man would not pay my tax and insurance the stingy ****er....
    haha....so I startd using his new BMW , lets just say guys I'm driving my own car know !!

    You want someone else to pay your bills for you?
    That's stingy


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    #2002
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    snubbleste wrote: »
    You want someone else to pay your bills for you?
    That's stingy

    No the person that gives you the car usually has a months/years insurance on it when they give it to you so you get time to insure it and get home.


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    #2003
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    owenc wrote: »
    No the person that gives you the car usually has a months/years insurance on it when they give it to you so you get time to insure it and get home.

    Where the hell do you buy your cars?


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    #2004
    Penisland
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Penisland


    owenc wrote: »
    No the person that gives you the car usually has a months/years insurance on it when they give it to you so you get time to insure it and get home.

    You know when I was 14 I played football and tried to score a few birds! Definitely didn't have like 2300 posts on an internet forum!


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    #2005
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Penisland wrote: »
    You know when I was 14 I played football and tried to score a few birds! Definitely didn't have like 2300 posts on an internet forum!

    Not with a name like that you didn't.


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    #2006
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    super-rush wrote: »
    Where the hell do you buy your cars?

    A shop.. thats they work in Northern Ireland, i dinno about down south and how do you expect to drive your car home if its not taxed?


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    #2007
    Penisland
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Penisland


    owenc wrote: »
    Not with a name like that you didn't.


    Whats wrong with Pen Island? I like pens :P


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    #2008
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Penisland wrote: »
    Whats wrong with Pen Island? I like pens :P

    Its a bad site apparently.


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    #2009
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Penisland wrote: »
    You know when I was 14 I played football and tried to score a few birds! Definitely didn't have like 2300 posts on an internet forum!
    Keep on topic please.
    owenc wrote: »
    A shop.. thats they work in Northern Ireland, i dinno about down south and how do you expect to drive your car home if its not taxed?

    You didn't say tax you said insurance. Some cars still have tax on them when you buy them some don't. You can still drive it home if there is no tax on it. Technically its against the law but you're given time to sort out the paperwork.


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    #2010
    VinnyTGM
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭VinnyTGM


    owenc wrote: »
    No the person that gives you the car usually has a months/years insurance on it when they give it to you so you get time to insure it and get home.

    Just becauase their insured on a car, dosen't mean you are. Insurance applies to a person not a car.


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    #2011
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    VinnyTGM wrote: »
    Just becauase their insured on a car, dosen't mean you are. Insurance applies to a person not a car.

    No my mother was in an accident and used her insurance to get her car fixed.


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