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Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

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    #1682
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Jesus this is the stingy thread !!

    can we just agree that the guy was a miserable stingey bastard and be done with it :D:D


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    #1683
    davyboy1975
    Registered Users Posts: 781 ✭✭✭davyboy1975


    Once saw a guy going in to post office to get one for all vouchers as present, he wanted to pay for them with other one for all vouchers that had been given to him


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    #1684
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,769 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    davyboy1975 wrote: »
    Once saw a guy going in to post office to get one for all vouchers as present, he wanted to pay for them with other one for all vouchers that had been given to him

    He's a fcukin' genius!:pac:
    Sure isn't his voucher the same as handing over money. Bit unusual but don't think it's too stingy.


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    #1685
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    bluewolf wrote: »
    2,000 in 6 months on lunch is a lot

    words there are none.. Cannot believe anyone spending even E5 a day on lunch...Most of my meals are under a euro and they are good. sound meals


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    #1686
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,062 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Graces7 wrote: »
    words there are none.. Cannot believe anyone spending even E5 a day on lunch...Most of my meals are under a euro and they are good. sound meals

    try getting sub €1 meals in the back arse of nowhere in Qatar that are adequate as a lunch.


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    #1687
    Lady is a tramp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Lady is a tramp


    davyboy1975 wrote: »
    Once saw a guy going in to post office to get one for all vouchers as present, he wanted to pay for them with other one for all vouchers that had been given to him

    That actually makes sense, otherwise they'd have started to lose value if they were getting close to expiry date!


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    #1688
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Graces7 wrote: »
    words there are none.. Cannot believe anyone spending even E5 a day on lunch...Most of my meals are under a euro and they are good. sound meals

    And imagine how sick you'd be eating in KFC every day.


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    #1689
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,725 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    Graces7 wrote: »
    words there are none.. Cannot believe anyone spending even E5 a day on lunch...Most of my meals are under a euro and they are good. sound meals

    I very much doubt that.


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    #1690
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,252 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Graces7 wrote: »
    They were probably on the breadline and fighting to meet contracts. On a lighter note I knew a chicken farmer whose kids refused to eat eggs.. probably given so many they were sick of them...

    Or were aware that eggs come out of chickens bums!

    :pac:


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    #1691
    CyrilFiggis
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭CyrilFiggis


    Graces7 wrote: »
    words there are none.. Cannot believe anyone spending even E5 a day on lunch...Most of my meals are under a euro and they are good. sound meals

    True. If he really wanted to save money he'd have been bringing in packed lunches. Sounds like he just didn't want to hang out with the others at lunch :D


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    #1692
    colossus-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Was in Mayo a couple of weeks ago. Stopped to get petrol in Kiltimagh. While queuing up to pay, an aul lad comes in and asks where there stationary is, coz he needs a note pad to write up some shopping lists. The sales assistant points him towards a shelf at the back, where the school supplies are. I get on with paying for my petrol and buying a Wispa.

    As I'm walking out, I can see yer man holding up two new A4 note pads, as if he is judging which one to buy. Nope, he tears a couple of pages out of each one, stuffs them in his pocket and heads out the door right sharpish.

    My jaw was ON. THE. FLOOR !!!!

    :eek: :eek: :eek:

    Also in a convenience store at a petrol station in Co.Mayo as I was standing in the queue the 2 chavy girls asked if they had any straws. The assistant behind the counter beckoned her colleague to get the straws so she went scuttling down the store to get them as we all waited. She brought back a pack of 20 party pack straws when the customer gasped "oh no , I just wanted one" and stormed off in a huffy manner. I was buying a pack of spearmint gum , left it down on the counter , €1.05 she said and I said 'oh no I just wan't one, not the whole pack'. She gasped over at the exit door and only laughed when she was sure the last customer was out of earshot.

    Not that much of a stingy story really but it was funny at the time so don't be coming to me with your straw man arguments about how the chavy girls were just being sensible.


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    #1693
    wandatowell
    Registered Users Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Out for dinner one night with 2 other couples.

    After the meal ended one lady suggested that she would pay for the meal using her card and we'd total up who owe's her what and we'd give her the cash.

    Sorted out who owed her and when it came to a tip for the staff she suggested that it should be 20 euro cash a couple.

    Everybody was ok with that only that she never tipped the staff and pocketed the money for herself.

    The other couple suspected it and went back to the restaurant the day after to enquire and the restaurant confirmed that no tip was payed.

    Fcuking sneaky bitch.


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    #1694
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    try getting sub €1 meals in the back arse of nowhere in Qatar that are adequate as a lunch.

    .. I'm sure you could ..... but the real price would be the 3 days on the toilet with what sounds like a high powered hose out of your arse.
    :p:D


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    #1695
    illdoit2morrow
    Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭illdoit2morrow


    davyboy1975 wrote: »
    Once saw a guy going in to post office to get one for all vouchers as present, he wanted to pay for them with other one for all vouchers that had been given to him

    I wonder would that be a way to bypass one4all taking their annual charge after a year...


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    #1696
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,490 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Aenaes wrote: »
    Might be time to unfollow this thread, with all the debates about what's stingy or frugal and people coming on to defend their frugalness. It's getting pretty annoying.

    Agreed. The constant "When I were a lass I had to walk barefoot to school and it was uphill both ways" posts are ruining the thread.

    Less whinge, more stinge needed.


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    #1697
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Got invited to a party tonight (I ain't going), but was asked by the host to bring drinks for the party. Now normally I bring beer for myself and would never expect to be provided with beer, but this douchebag, who I detest, asked us to bring a bottle of Gin and Tonic water... we don't drink Gin and Tonic. He's a grade A knob head.


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    #1698
    Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,206 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Brody Warm Pecan wrote: »
    Got invited to a party tonight (I ain't going), but was asked by the host to bring drinks for the party. Now normally I bring beer for myself and would never expect to be provided with beer, but this douchebag, who I detest, asked us to bring a bottle of Gin and Tonic water... we don't drink Gin and Tonic. He's a grade A knob head.

    That's a cracker. The real stingey folks are those who bring home more drink from a party than they bring to it in the first place

    And yes I've seen it happen


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    #1699
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Agreed. The constant "When I were a lass I had to walk barefoot to school and it was uphill both ways" posts are ruining the thread.

    Less whinge, more stinge needed.

    Absolutely. Being stingey is nothing to do with being poor or not being able to afford something. I think many people just don't read what threads are about before jumping in.

    A truly stingey person can afford to act otherwise but is too mean to do so. So all this 'I couldn't afford to eat lunch out every day' is immaterial. There is no defence for stingeness and no need for a defence of being unable to actually afford something.


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    #1700
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Don't know how stingy this is, but I was ordering pizza with my mate the other night, it was 20 quid, so a tenner each plus 1 each for delivery, so I gave him 11. When the pizza came, turned out it was free cos he'd had a bad pizza from the place before and when he complained they gave him a free order. So he got 11 quid from me for nowt.


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    #1701
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    Don't know how stingy this is, but I was ordering pizza with my mate the other night, it was 20 quid, so a tenner each plus 1 each for delivery, so I gave him 11. When the pizza came, turned out it was free cos he'd had a bad pizza from the place before and when he complained they gave him a free order. So he got 11 quid from me for nowt.

    No, he got €11 from you for eating half of his pizza.


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    #1702
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Kaiya Putrid Fool wrote: »
    No, he got €11 from you for eating half of his pizza.

    But it didn't cost him nothing.


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    #1703
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    But it didn't cost him nothing.

    It cost him the previous 'bad' pizza that he had paid fully for.

    It's moot anyway as you don't seem to have taken him to task on it.


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    #1704
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 20,050 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Dial Hard wrote:
    Less whinge, more stinge needed.

    What about using this thread for the stingy stories and a separate thread for discussing the stingyness of the last story.

    That way, I can follow this thread and never follow the other thread.


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    #1705
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    What about using this thread for the stingy stories and a separate thread for discussing the stingyness of the last story.
    That way, I can follow this thread and never follow the other thread.
    I do believe we have exhausted all stingy tales.


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    #1706
    colossus-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    Kaiya Putrid Fool wrote: »
    It cost him the previous 'bad' pizza that he had paid fully for.

    It's moot anyway as you don't seem to have taken him to task on it.

    That only works if it was a €20 double pizza the stinge bloke had as a bad pizza. If it was a single pizza as I suspect it was then stinge bloke profited as his single pizza would have been cheaper. And I bet he complains about his bad pizza all the time when he's gets to the last slice.

    Also I don't get your 'moot point' argument. Whether or not OP complained to his mate after the stinge event occurred hardly exempts Mr Stinge from his actions.


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    #1707
    OhHiMark
    Registered Users Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭OhHiMark


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    But it didn't cost him nothing.

    I thought you said it did cost him nothing.


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    #1708
    Preset No.3
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭Preset No.3


    Jaysus! Could you not take this argument to a PM and more stinge stories here!!


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    #1709
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 10,055 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Agreed. The constant "When I were a lass I had to walk barefoot to school and it was uphill both ways" posts are ruining the thread.

    Less whinge, more stinge needed.


    Huh! When I was young I didn't even have feet to walk barefoot with.
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    *runs*
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    *thinks* Ooh shìt 😕


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    #1710
    D Trent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭D Trent


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Huh! When I was young I didn't even have feet to walk barefoot with.
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    *runs*
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    *thinks* Ooh shìt 😕

    You need to go to bed man it's half 5


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    #1711
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 10,055 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    D Trent wrote: »
    You need to go to bed man it's half 5

    Thanks for the offer but I'll take a raincheck.
    Sorry for being stingy about it.


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