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Can I borrow 75 cent?

  • 10-06-2010 4:16pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭


    So it's happened to me maybe about 6 or 7 times in the past few months... Some scumbag comes up to me "Alright man, can I borrow 75 cent"?

    First off, why 75 cent and not a euro?
    Second, what the hell do you mean borrow, I'm never going to see you again
    Thirdly, fúck off you're not getting anything off me

    Ever happen to you?

    /trollvanish


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Deja Vu anyone?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    potato cakes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭carefulnow100


    I seen that in a film once, the wont ask for a euro just cause it sounds worse than 75 cents. obviously most people will just give them the euro anyway,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Because it's almost a euro but doesn't sound as much? And 'borrow' because it sounds nicer than 'can I take money off you and never see you again?'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Was asked by a girl awhile back, she said she needed it for bus fair. Seemed genuine to me, as there wouldn't be alot you can do with 75cent and she was only around 15.

    So i gave it to her.. on the bonnet of a nearby car :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    the wont ask for a euro just cause it sounds worse than 75 cents. obviously most people will just give them the euro anyway,


    I won't. Not even the 75 cents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    They must be selling heroin by some small amounts to drum up business. You have to adapt to these troubling times you know.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Same reason things are priced 9.99. Sounds like less.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    Man, I remember back in the 70s when some old knacker would ask you "Could ye lend us 2p?"


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Sykk wrote: »
    So it's happened to me maybe about 6 or 7 times in the past few months... Some scumbag comes up to me "Alright man, can I borrow 75 cent"?

    First off, why 75 cent and not a euro?
    Second, what the hell do you mean borrow, I'm never going to see you again
    Thirdly, fúck off you're not getting anything off me

    Ever happen to you?

    /trollvanish

    ^ Which comedian is Sykk biting off? John Lynn?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,460 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Just walk away and ignore them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Was asked by a girl awhile back, she said she needed it for bus fair. Seemed genuine to me, as there wouldn't be alot you can do with 75cent and she was only around 15.

    So i gave it to her.. on the bonnet of a nearby car :pac:

    Georgi Burgess is back....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Essien


    Georgi Burgess is back....

    To be fair to Georgie, at least he didn't have to pay for it

    Edit: Or did he? I can't remember


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'm totally guilty of that. :rolleyes:
    But yeah, ask for 75 cause it sounds much less then a euro, and people are more willing to give it.
    I'm not a scumbag though. . and generally people are very giving. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Mick Daly


    Yes. We use it because people are more likely to give us a bit of cash that way. I've used the tactic many times, especially on Lennox Street.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    I had to ask randomers for money on one occasion I drank all mine in Whelans. I literally don't know what I was thinking. I was left with 2 euro, and needed 2 more for the nitelink.

    I started walking from Whelan's with my two Euro in hand, stopped someone and said "This is so embarrassing, but you don't have 2 euro you can give me do you? Ive lost all my money and need it to get a nitelink". I reckon I looked/sounded fairly respectable so they just gave it to me. First person!!!

    Sooooo.... At that moment I decided to push it a bit with this formula. I asked the next person, and sure as shit they gave me 2 euro too!

    By the time I reached the nitelink I had 22 euro. I promptly jumped into a taxi that was stopped on Pearse st and away I went. The taxi stops further up and there's the guy who gave me the first 2 euro mouthing "What the f..." when he sees me chatting away to the driver. I still chuckle about it today :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    Essien wrote: »
    To be fair to Georgie, at least he didn't have to pay for it

    Edit: Or did he? I can't remember

    Of course he did, you always end up paying for sex, in some shape or form.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    consultech wrote: »
    Sooooo.... At that moment I decided to push it a bit with this formula. I asked the next person, and sure as shit they gave me 2 euro too!

    By the time I reached the nitelink I had 22 euro.

    Where I used to live, was right in the city and we used to walk home after nights out. . . used to use the "taxi card", "Sorry but do ya have like, 2euro so I can get a taxi home" over & over & over again.

    It was just to be able to afford food after the night out. awwww.
    Good times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Essien wrote: »
    To be fair to Georgie, at least he didn't have to pay for it

    Edit: Or did he? I can't remember
    I think he paid in kind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭animaal


    Essien wrote: »
    To be fair to Georgie, at least he didn't have to pay for it

    Edit: Or did he? I can't remember

    Ah, the best line of the movie -

    "Here ya go luv, buy yourself a few sweets".


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    I once got asked 38 cent, I think the guy expected that I would just give him a euro or 2.... But I counted out exactly 38 cent, serves the bastard right for asking such idiotic requests...:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Naw, the best line was "get out of da way ya dozy bollix"....:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭myflipflops


    Essien wrote: »
    To be fair to Georgie, at least he didn't have to pay for it

    Edit: Or did he? I can't remember

    He gave her 10 pounds "for sweets".

    She took it.

    Prostitute.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Numina


    Essien wrote: »
    To be fair to Georgie, at least he didn't have to pay for it

    Edit: Or did he? I can't remember

    He did. Remember he tried to give her a fiver.

    ^^^or a tenner, whatever it was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Dardania


    The other technique is to ask for a cigarette for 50cent... friend of mine always did that and it worked surprisingly well


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    Dardania wrote: »
    The other technique is to ask for a cigarette for 50cent... friend of mine always did that and it worked surprisingly well

    I dont get ya? A single cigarette costs about 40c (€8/20), no? (Im also not aware of how much smokes are).

    Or do you mean the gesture of offering 50c is usually enough to get a free smoke when they tell you not to be silly etc?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    I seen that in a film once, the wont ask for a euro just cause it sounds worse than 75 cents. obviously most people will just give them the euro anyway,

    LOL like stuff being 4.99 cause it doesn't sound as bad as a fiver! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭mr kr0nik


    Was asked by a girl awhile back, she said she needed it for bus fair. Seemed genuine to me, as there wouldn't be alot you can do with 75cent and she was only around 15.

    So i gave it to her.. on the bonnet of a nearby car :pac:

    A1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Same reason things are priced 9.99. Sounds like less.
    Actually that's to advoid tax.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Actually that's to advoid tax.

    ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    A chap came up to me in Liverpool one time saying he was just out of the joint and wanted 75p for a taxi. "Eh, keep the change, driver!" :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    It used to be a euro, but due to deflation its only 75c reqired now . . . :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Benny Lava


    Maybe the person was planning on buying a medium Supermacs meal, but then saw the sign that says it's only 75c more for a large.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    I don't give money to people in the street bar one homeless fella who sits outside RCSI carpark and guilt trips me into it every 5 visits or so by not saying a word and just looking so helpless and pathetic.

    If someone asks for cash off me they'll get told to **** off, ten times louder if theyre a junkie. I'm not an ATM.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭derra_121


    sdonn wrote: »
    I don't give money to people in the street bar one homeless fella who sits outside RCSI carpark and guilt trips me into it every 5 visits or so by not saying a word and just looking so helpless and pathetic.

    If someone asks for cash off me they'll get told to **** off, ten times louder if they're a junkie. I'm not an ATM.


    You sound like a stuck up cnut to me, whats 75cent to someone parking in the RCSI. Weather if its for a hostel or food or even drugs or drink, the majority of homeless of ireland (Irish homeless people not the romanian gangs) get no funding, dole etc and have no means of securing an address to get a job or get straight.

    Homeless people asking for 75c have done (and will do) an awful lot less to this country than the high class bankers and government have. The extra 10s you pay in taxes each week/month is much worse than giving a homeless person change. So think twice nest time they ask for the tiny amount of change you may have sitting in your pocket that you will not miss.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    derra_121 wrote: »
    You sound like a stuck up cnut to me, whats 75cent to someone parking in the RCSI. Weather if its for a hostel or food or even drugs or drink, the majority of homeless of ireland (Irish homeless people not the romanian gangs) get no funding, dole etc and have no means of securing an address to get a job or get straight.

    Homeless people asking for 75c have done (and will do) an awful lot less to this country than the high class bankers and government have. The extra 10s you pay in taxes each week/month is much worse than giving a homeless person change. So think twice nest time they ask for the tiny amount of change you may have sitting in your pocket that you will not miss.

    NO,actually how about give your change and stop with the guilt trip bull s hit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    derra_121 wrote: »
    You sound like a stuck up cnut to me, whats 75cent to someone parking in the RCSI. Weather if its for a hostel or food or even drugs or drink, the majority of homeless of ireland (Irish homeless people not the romanian gangs) get no funding, dole etc and have no means of securing an address to get a job or get straight.

    Homeless people asking for 75c have done (and will do) an awful lot less to this country than the high class bankers and government have. The extra 10s you pay in taxes each week/month is much worse than giving a homeless person change. So think twice nest time they ask for the tiny amount of change you may have sitting in your pocket that you will not miss.

    Just to get this straight - homeless guy never asks for a penny and that's why I;d throw him a few quid. Junkies asking me for money in the street don't get it, not because I can't afford it or don't have it, but because they have the cheek to come and ask and because they're scumbags.

    If someone came up and seemed really genuinely stuck, well that'd be different, but I;m not gonna give my money to a scummer who probably has no intention of getting on the ****ing bus.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Sykk wrote: »
    First off, why 75 cent and not a euro?


    Because they have no sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    One time a fellow blatantly high on heroin asked me for 30 euros of taxi fair to save his girlfriend who was in an accident or something. He even told me that there might be polish people around there who would steal his and her passports, that was what convinced me he was genuine.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Actually that's to advoid tax.

    I'm going to call shenanigans on this post.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Sykk wrote: »
    So it's happened to me maybe about 6 or 7 times in the past few months... Some scumbag comes up to me "Alright man, can I borrow 75 cent"?

    First off, why 75 cent and not a euro?
    Second, what the hell do you mean borrow, I'm never going to see you again
    Thirdly, fúck off you're not getting anything off me

    Ever happen to you?

    /trollvanish

    every day.

    I'm unemployed and have no money myself.

    Even if I was a millionaire I wouldnt give them any money.


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