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    #4802
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    sullivlo wrote: »
    Possibly, but I know people in RL who would bitch about how much/little someone spent on a present for them because they spent more. I also know people who chance their arm in asking for expensive presents.

    There’s chancing your arm and there’s that!


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    #4803
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users Posts: 38,910 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    mloc123 wrote: »
    I think the problem is... Irish people say "you must come some time" as a throw away remark. If somebody said it to you, you know they don't mean it... maybe if they said it 3-4 times you might think about it. Foreigners on the other hand take it as an actual invite.


    Or invite themselves. On another forum / medium a Belgian blithely assumed that he'd be welcome to stay if he turned up on my doorstep.
    I put him right, pronto. 
    Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin




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    #4804
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 10,018 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    I've tried it with so many good looking women it has never worked.....

    Probably because you came immediately.


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    #4805
    holliehobbie
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭holliehobbie


    NufcNavan wrote: »
    Tell me how wrote: »
    Did he know one of ye in particular? Any chance he had mentioned to them about making some form of gesture as thanks and that person told them "Sure why would ya. You're grand" as can be our style while simultaneously thinking they should.

    Very good mates with one of us as he had lived in Canada for a few years.

    As for your suggestion, that is possible but I doubt it.
    Years ago we had a Canadian staying with us for a week. He was driven all around Dublin and wined and dined by us. He bought fish and chips from the local takeaway for us as a thank you! And he managed to break our electric shower!


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    #4806
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,818 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    I have a friend in costal Portugal who owns a holiday home there too. She told me go use it for a week last summer as it was free. She was tied up with work that week so we would meet up only for an hour a day so I entertained myself and relied on buses or walking to get around and do my own thing.
    I stayed in her rental a whole week and I came laden with gifts (proper stuff not tourist tat) for her, her husband and child. I left 100 euro in an envelope in the house when leaving too even though she insisted no way did she want anything.
    I walked out the door after doing a thorough clean of the place, floors washed, towels washed and on the clothes horse etc.
    I also replaced the things I had used like toilet paper, sunscreen, bottled water etc. and left the place immaculate.
    Perfect little house guest I am!.

    Aren't you just fantastic!
    Perhaps you meant to post in the "look how wonderful I am", thread.


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    #4807
    rawn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭rawn


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    I have a friend in costal Portugal who owns a holiday home there too. She told me go use it for a week last summer as it was free. She was tied up with work that week so we would meet up only for an hour a day so I entertained myself and relied on buses or walking to get around and do my own thing.
    I stayed in her rental a whole week and I came laden with gifts (proper stuff not tourist tat) for her, her husband and child. I left 100 euro in an envelope in the house when leaving too even though she insisted no way did she want anything.
    I walked out the door after doing a thorough clean of the place, floors washed, towels washed and on the clothes horse etc.
    I also replaced the things I had used like toilet paper, sunscreen, bottled water etc. and left the place immaculate.
    Perfect little house guest I am!.

    Aren't you just fantastic!
    Perhaps you meant to post in the "look how wonderful I am", thread.

    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love


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    #4808
    sullivlo
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭sullivlo


    rawn wrote: »
    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love
    rawn wrote: »
    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love
    rawn wrote: »
    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love
    rawn wrote: »
    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love

    Rawn certainly not stingy with the posts.


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    #4809
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    rawn wrote: »
    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love

    Choosing beggars is fücking hilarious
    https://www.reddit.com/r/ChoosingBeggars/


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    #4810
    rawn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭rawn


    sullivlo wrote: »
    rawn wrote: »
    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love
    rawn wrote: »
    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love
    rawn wrote: »
    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love
    rawn wrote: »
    We need a HumbleBrags thread.

    Also, there's a thread on Reddit called Choosing Beggars that people here would love

    Rawn certainly not stingy with the posts.

    Damn phone!


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    #4811
    by8auj6csd3ioq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭by8auj6csd3ioq


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Sounds exactly how things go for my in-laws.

    They have over the years taken in so many random Germans they didn't even know.

    Their sons would agree with someone coming over say nothing and they would tell them oh such and such are coming over to stay. They on different occasions would collect and then have to do everything for them and with them.

    One even destroyed the indestructible front door that cost a fortune as they couldn't understand how to turn a key if the door was locked.

    Bent out of shape big time. Not the key.., the whole door and never closed properly after.

    These people would pay for nothing, not even shampoo or toothpaste....

    They would use what was in the house.

    If there was drink it was not safe.

    They would be chauffeured around, pay nothing in or towards anything, breakfast, lunch or dinner and then look for to come back.

    They would text and tell the son oh we loved been over and are looking to come again.


    Eh no Yee can fook right off.
    i know someone who met some guy on holiday. My friend is very sociable and he enjoys meeting different nationalities. I cannot recall if my friend stayed with him but he gave him his home address. this european guy was "if i am in your country i visit you".

    He turned up one friday night at ten pm expecting to stay but the father, a cantankerous crank if ever there was one, put him going in no uncertain way. It is a true story


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    #4812
    Mozzeltoff
    Registered Users Posts: 8,614 ✭✭✭Mozzeltoff


    Thargor wrote: »
    Glendalough AND the Titanic Center ffs?

    That reminds me of when I had a house in Galway years ago, the landlord let a couple of French girls stay there for a month in Summer, they were alright apart from running the shower 50 times a day. On the last day they came into the living room on a Saturday afternoon to say goodbye, they asked us for a lift to the airport, we said we didnt even know you could fly to France from Galways little airfield, then we looked at their boarding passes and they were flying from T2 in Dublin in 2 hours time! They weren't happy when we explained the distances involved or that we wouldnt be making a 6 hour round trip as a favour, foreigners must really think Ireland is just a little island.

    My friends mother runs a BnB down in West Cork.

    During the summer she had some middle aged Italians staying. They were renting a car and touring around the place. Anyway one evening they came back to the BnB pretty late. They were very irate and cranky and woke up my friends mom.

    Turns out they had driven from Ballydehob in West Cork all the way across to Glendalough in ****ing Wicklow. They didn't realize the distance and the amount of petrol this journey would consume. They were bawling that they would have no petrol left in the car for the rest of their stay and demanded my friends mother to fill the tank for them. She pretty much told them to **** off.


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    #4813
    Mongfinder General
    Registered Users Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    Mozzeltoff wrote: »
    My friends mother runs a BnB down in West Cork.

    During the summer she had some middle aged Italians staying. They were renting a car and touring around the place. Anyway one evening they came back to the BnB pretty late. They were very irate and cranky and woke up my friends mom.

    Turns out they had driven from Ballydehob in West Cork all the way across to Glendalough in ****ing Wicklow. They didn't realize the distance and the amount of petrol this journey would consume. They were bawling that they would have no petrol left in the car for the rest of their stay and demanded my friends mother to fill the tank for them. She pretty much told them to **** off.

    Morons. Driving through a mountain range is going to burn serious juice


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    #4814
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mongfinder General wrote: »
    Morons. Driving through a mountain range is going to burn serious juice

    Never mind driving halfway across the country before driving through said mountain range :-D


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    #4815
    handlemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    Mozzeltoff wrote: »
    My friends mother runs a BnB down in West Cork.

    During the summer she had some middle aged Italians staying. They were renting a car and touring around the place. Anyway one evening they came back to the BnB pretty late. They were very irate and cranky and woke up my friends mom.

    Turns out they had driven from Ballydehob in West Cork all the way across to Glendalough in ****ing Wicklow. They didn't realize the distance and the amount of petrol this journey would consume. They were bawling that they would have no petrol left in the car for the rest of their stay and demanded my friends mother to fill the tank for them. She pretty much told them to **** off.


    remember we have lots of idiot's going on foreign holidays to.


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    #4816
    SuperS54
    Registered Users Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭SuperS54


    Mozzeltoff wrote: »
    They were bawling that they would have no petrol left in the car for the rest of their stay and demanded my friends mother to fill the tank for them. She pretty much told them to **** off.

    What argument did they put up for her having to pay for their petrol?! Her B&B was in the wrong place?!


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    #4817
    johndaman66
    Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    handlemaster wrote: »
    remember we have lots of idiot's going on foreign holidays to.


    Maybe but it takes a special kind of idiot to demand money of the owner of the b&b/ hotel/ guesthouse they are staying at because a journey they made cost them more than they expected. Being on a on a foreign holiday can never be justified as an excuse for the likes of that idiotic behaviour, its just basic common sense. For some reason the story reminds me of this tune though...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tIIo4VH4Ow


    Ah few thick Italian fukwits run out of gasolina and now they are demanding money for it.


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    #4818
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,964 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Is this dry January ****e just a posh way of saying "I'm ****ing broke and can't afford too buy a drink" ???


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    #4819
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,131 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Is this dry January ****e just a posh way of saying "I'm ****ing broke and can't afford too buy a drink" ???

    Perhaps, however I notice the "I'm pretentious and look how I'm doing" side of it much more visible.


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    #4820
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    handlemaster wrote: »
    remember we have lots of idiot's going on foreign holidays to.

    This one I came across on Youtube

    https://youtu.be/PKq7Bof_6gw

    (first few minutes) The 'Irish police' tagline is just click bait tbh

    Cheapskate tourist looks and gets cup of hot water for free from small local shop - then gloats that she didn't have to buy a coffee

    Apparently the person in the shop didn't charge because there was no set charge for a cup of boiling water.

    Your one seems to have little regard for the costs of a small shop just that she scored something for nothing

    Everyone did the same ****e there wouldn't be many small shops in the country.

    Most likley has a book titled "Ireland on $5.00 a day" or similar ...


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    #4821
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    On boards ...

    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057946662/1/#post109149975


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    #4822
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,194 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Witnessed a fella in work filling a coke bottle from one of the soap dispensers in the jacks


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    #4823
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Hard to get clean Coke these days


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    #4824
    Mongfinder General
    Registered Users Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Witnessed a fella in work filling a coke bottle from one of the soap dispensers in the jacks

    Sweet Jesus.


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    #4825
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Witnessed a fella in work filling a coke bottle from one of the soap dispensers in the jacks

    taking wages "in kind"? lol


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    #4826
    Dakotabigone
    Site Banned Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Dakotabigone


    Rented a room years back Lady landlord live in. She used her old panties for drying the dishes and cleaning kitchen.


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    #4827
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Witnessed a fella in work filling a coke bottle from one of the soap dispensers in the jacks

    The coat hanger was robbed off the back of the door in the bathroom in work- as were the lightbulbs (which had recently been changed to LED units. Quite think its time for someone to enquire who is doing home renovations......... They left one lightbulb in the gents on each floor over the course of a day- good planners whoever the hell they are. Feckers.


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    #4828
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,075 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    The_Conductor wrote: »
    The coat hanger was robbed off the back of the door in the bathroom in work- as were the lightbulbs (which had recently been changed to LED units. Quite think its time for someone to enquire who is doing home renovations......... They left one lightbulb in the gents on each floor over the course of a day- good planners whoever the hell they are. Feckers.
    Sure don't students all rob the college toilet roll?!
    This is just a step further!

    To thine own self be true



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    #4829
    dieselbug
    Registered Users Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭dieselbug


    Dakotabigone wrote: »
    Rented a room years back Lady landlord live in. She used her old panties for drying the dishes and cleaning kitchen.

    Must have been fine big ones, can't see how some of the "modern" one's could be useful in this way. Forward thinking lady, recycling and all that.


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    #4830
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Dakotabigone wrote: »
    Rented a room years back Lady landlord live in. She used her old panties for drying the dishes and cleaning kitchen.
    That reminds me of the time I found myself on the weird side of YouTube watching videos of people who use "family cloth". It's where they cut up old tea towels, sheets, clothes etc and use them as toilet roll. They keep the soiled peaces of cloth in a bucket and wash and re-use them.


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    #4831
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,813 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    That reminds me of the time I found myself on the weird side of YouTube watching videos of people who use "family cloth". It's where they cut up old tea towels, sheets, clothes etc and use them as toilet roll. They keep the soiled peaces of cloth in a bucket and wash and re-use them.

    useful tip there for after Brexit.


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