how broke is broke?

Beruthiel

sceptre wrote: »

"Stephen" is the new name for what used to be the r-word.

When did that happen?
Jeez, I can't keep up.

dr.bollocko

Eric Cartman wrote: »

broke is not eating for 4 days, being in a good job and putting every 10/20 cent you find into a jar until you can put 4-5 euro of diesel in your car to get to work the next day because your owed 2 grand by three absoloute prícks who are eating food and living comfortably and claiming they cant pay you , while your hungry, and incurring intrest on the 300 euro over your overdraft you are and having the esb/bord gais sending 'failure to pay' notices to your gaf.

i cant wait till may 1st when its over and as soon as i can afford a tank of diesel im visiting two of those pricks, the third is my housemate who has dissapeared off the face of the earth for the last 6 days, but ill deal with him later

Dude that's not broke. Thats just needing a credit card.

dr.bollocko

Beruthiel wrote: »

When did that happen?
Jeez, I can't keep up.

You kinda had to be there. People were talking too much about the recession.
It started out "The recession sucks."
"you suck"
"threads about the recession suck."
Now Stephen just sucks and everyone's happy.
So a rose by any other name would probably not smell as sweet is the bulletpoint of this particular lesson.

PCPhoto

Eric Cartman wrote: »

broke is not eating for 4 days, being in a good job and putting every 10/20 cent you find into a jar until you can put 4-5 euro of diesel in your car to get to work the next day because your owed 2 grand by three absoloute prícks who are eating food and living comfortably and claiming they cant pay you , while your hungry, and incurring intrest on the 300 euro over your overdraft you are and having the esb/bord gais sending 'failure to pay' notices to your gaf.

i cant wait till may 1st when its over and as soon as i can afford a tank of diesel im visiting two of those pricks, the third is my housemate who has dissapeared off the face of the earth for the last 6 days, but ill deal with him later

cant you phone the guys and tell them you need the money ? I think the flatmate may be avoiding you and you'll come home someday and he'll have cleared out.

AckwelFoley

Being broke is relative.



A celtic tiger middleclass snob thats just lost everything will look at €204 as being broke

A homeless dude that has just discovered a freshly disposed of nappy with a nice warm meal in it will think hes hit the lotto.

PCPhoto

snyper wrote: »

Being broke is relative.



A celtic tiger middleclass snob thats just lost everything will look at €204 as being broke

A homeless dude that has just discovered a freshly disposed of nappy with a nice warm meal in it will think hes hit the lotto.

eeeewww .... durty nappy !!!

seriously could you have found a better example - like a mouldy piece of food in a bin....or an apple core.

PCPhoto

snyper wrote: »

Being broke is relative.



A celtic tiger middleclass snob thats just lost everything will look at €204 as being broke

A homeless dude that has just discovered a freshly disposed of nappy with a nice warm meal in it will think hes hit the lotto.

why does the middleclass person have to be a "Snob"

phantom_lord

don't mind him, he's just a working class type with an inferiority complex!

irisheddie

being broke is when u fight that homless bloke for that nappy....

waraf

When you've been on the dole since January getting 204.30 per week and your mortgage is 172 euro per week.

Eric Cartman

PCPhoto wrote: »

cant you phone the guys and tell them you need the money ? I think the flatmate may be avoiding you and you'll come home someday and he'll have cleared out.

youd be surprised how 'busy' they are whenever they find out its someone they owe money to on the phone, and yeah thats what im thinking may happen, i go home every day and look just incase stuffs missing

Fizman

This is pretty broke....

http://www.rugbylebanon.com/images/cool/Rugby%20bone%20Breaker.jpg

Alter-Ego

Eric Cartman wrote: »

youd be surprised how 'busy' they are whenever they find out its someone they owe money to on the phone, and yeah thats what im thinking may happen, i go home every day and look just incase stuffs missing

Can you not just pawn his stuff? Or at least keep it "safe" as collateral?

galwayrush

One of my clients went bust and did me out of 12K but his company closed owing 21 Million:eek:, now that's seriously broke.:rolleyes:

friendface

Being broke isn't bad. Right now I'd be happy to be broke. I'm just crippled with debt. Bank overdraft and credit card bill that I'll be lucky to be ably to pay off in the next 2 years :rolleyes:

I'm just waiting for the call from this new National Asset Management Agency to sort me out :pac:

Gummy Panda

Eric Cartman wrote: »

youd be surprised how 'busy' they are whenever they find out its someone they owe money to on the phone, and yeah thats what im thinking may happen, i go home every day and look just incase stuffs missing

Seriously man, you need to get 1 x snooker ball and 1 x sock.

Then show them who's the daddy!!

NSFW example :pac:

regob

how broke is broke is when you quite literally have no money to spare

xOxSinéadxOx

when I have less than a tenner in my bank account, which would be right now, I have about a euro in there. and about a euro in my purse. broke!

irlirishkev

If it's more than a week till payday, and I don't have enough money for a few pints on either Friday or Saturday night, then I consider myself broke.

Doesn't happen though. I'm lucky enough to still have a job in these times, and I'm very good at budgeting.

regob

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

when I have less than a tenner in my bank account, which would be right now, I have about a euro in there. and about a euro in my purse. broke!

that is broke

vibe666

when i was a teenager and it was just me and my mum, i used to have to sneak out into nearby fields and steal spuds so we'd have something to eat for dinner.

a couple of times in my past i've had to scour the place for spare change, inc. digging around in sofa's etc. and have gone shopping for 3 days worth of food for 2 people (was waiting for payday) with less than £2 in my pocket.

we went "blue and white stripy" in tesco on everything and only the cheapest of the cheap at that.

another time we were dead broke with not a bit of food in the cupboards and we had a cabbage stir fry for dinner, with nothing but half a cabbage and some seasoning in it.

payday always seems to be that tiny bit far away. not had anything like that for a long time now though, got myself a much better missus now that's good with money.

constitutionus

i was going to say "broke" is having nowt at all.

but then i rememberd my mate from work who owes about 12k on his credit card so thats a whole new world of fecking nothing.

Red Hand

My broke point was when I had 1.56 euros in my bank account, and wasn't payed until four days later.

D.Q

ha at least you all have the "until payday"....

thats not an option for myself. Not one penny to my name.

easyeason3

Broke means you can't go to the doctor or dentist without careful financial planning. Not that anyone would want to visit either

Piste

ncmc wrote: »

You're down to your last €1.86 and you spent it on kitchen paper? Prioritise!!!

Unless you are using it as toilet paper, in which case that's ok.:eek:

Oooh laaa-di-daahh Mr. I-can-use-kitchen-paper-as-toilet-paper.


You're only really broke when you end up using take-away menus and those stickers you put on bags of clothes outside your house for "charities" as toilet paper.


Bet you have a solid gold toilet too.

It's ridiculous, broke used to mean having 0 money, but now we've gone all 21st century and broke is actually having minus moneys.

taram

Broke is sleeping on a friend's couch, and walking two hours to work because the bus money is your food money

Black Swan

You know things are broke when Jay Leno drives himself to ER skipping the paramedics.

scarymoon1

I know this is pathetic at my age but im never broke, when i spend my wages i have a backup - my parents. Duno what id do if i had to actaully live on my crappy wages. so broke 4 me is when the folks say no!

Iang87

my broke was when i had -€3.48 in my bank account the day i got payed, gonna do something do it right thats what i say. ah sure could be worse lads bein broke isn't the end of the world. Dying now thats much worse