Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

BnA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vegeta wrote: »

.....

Good lord.

Degag

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

stovelid wrote: »

Good lord.

Tell me about it

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

dioltas

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

Naos

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!

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

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

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

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

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