Ways that you beat "the man"

Vito Corleone

I've been reading the thread about the guy who won the TV license case and it has inspired me to start this thread.

In what ways, doesn't matter how petty, do you out fox the forces of power and beat "the man"? In my college they charge for tomato sauce in the canteen so I put the sachets under my plate so they don't see them.

mloc123

Vito Corleone wrote: »

I've been reading the thread about the guy who won the TV license case and it has inspired me to start this thread.

In what ways, doesn't matter how petty, do you out fox the forces of power and beat "the man"? In my college they charge for tomato sauce in the canteen so I put the sachets under my plate so they don't see them.

Sounds a lot like stealing to me?

wazky

Make phone calls and chain smoke at the petrol station.

wazky

Duracell Bunny wrote: »

That's theft

Im telling teacher!!

osarusan

I got my driving license in Japan, and got an automatic license only. It's cheaper and easier to get an automatic only, obviously.

When we moved back to Ireland I got that license converted to an Irish license. The Irish license had a little note indicating that it was automatic only.

When we moved back to Japan again I had to get the Irish license converted into a Japanese one. They didn't spot the little note indicating that it was automatic only, and converted it back into a full automatic and manual license.

WIN!

cloud493

How much are the ketchup sachets in question?

EireGreg

you rob ketchup hahahaha another thread springs to mind

Stavros Murphy

You never beat the man. You think you beat him. But you don't. fcuk, I'm tired.

Vito Corleone

cloud493 wrote: »

How much are the ketchup sachets in question?

I've never paid for them so I'm not entirely sure, but I believe in the 10-20 cent (per sachet) region.

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I ever pay for a tomato ketchup sachet.

GarIT

So is not paying your taxi fare.

tim3000

I have that Hola unblocker extention for chrome allows me to watch stuff on youtube thats region locked, like some BBC documentaries. I was so happy when someone told me about it. I don't know if that counts

Smidge

I thought this was another masturbation thread

antodeco

I go to the jax during office hours and sit there for a good 30 mins. They pay me to poop!

Cucking Funt

Forgot bags in tesco, so took one from the bags display, one of the nice ones too, told the fella in the self service I already brought it with me. And not a single fcuk was given

Vito Corleone

antodeco wrote: »

I go to the jax during office hours and sit there for a good 30 mins. They pay me to poop!

Please tell me you work in the public sector. I think if you did After Hours would explode!

Cucking Funt

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Please tell me you work in the public sector. I think if you did After Hours would explode!

Much like the toilet in his workplace...

frozenfrozen

I smoke tax free hash

fineso.mom

In the canteen where I work , I shortchange people who steal ketchup sachets, they are in such a hurry to get away with the sachets, they never check their change.

Sir Osis of Liver.

I like to beat him until he vomits white stuff.

My name is URL

Cucking Funt wrote: »

Forgot bags in tesco, so took one from the bags display, one of the nice ones too, told the fella in the self service I already brought it with me. And not a single fcuk was given

You're literally Hitler

Fred Swanson

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Cucking Funt

My name is URL wrote: »

You're literally Hitler

Achtung baby

Cucking Funt

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Mah nigga

PizzamanIRL

I converted $10 into € on an online poker site. The next day I converted those Euros back into $ and I had $10.14

Yep! Honestly!

wendell borton

My name is URL wrote: »

You're literally Hitler

He no longer shop at Tesco though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YFR7320Fko

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antodeco

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Please tell me you work in the public sector. I think if you did After Hours would explode!

Haha I actually do haha

Paddy Cow

I was buying a few bits in Supervalu and it came to less than I was expecting. When I checked the receipt, the four back of beer I bought had scanned as a single can. Win!

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

I pay for a one way train ticket on Sundays, the ticket office for my return journey isn't open on Sundays, there's no electronic way to purchase my ticket at said station, eat my **** Irish Rail ticket inspector.
I owe the library about 20 odd euro for a few years, whenever I'm getting more books out they say, and would you like to clear your fine, ...no, and I walk out like a boss.
At the self service desk in Dunnes I put my large loaf through as a small loaf. At least there's plausible deniability, it doesn't scan and there's over 20 different bread options. Saving 30 cent on a 70 euro shop is pathetic, but by god, it makes me a feel alive.

Cucking Funt

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I pay for a one way train ticket on Sundays, the ticket office for my return journey isn't open on Sundays, there's no electronic way to purchase my ticket at said station, eat my **** Irish Rail ticket inspector.
I owe the library about 20 odd euro for a few years, whenever I'm getting more books out they say, and would you like to clear your fine, ...no, and I walk out like a boss.
At the self service desk in Dunnes I put my large loaf through as a small loaf. At least there's plausible deniability, it doesn't scan and there's over 20 different bread options. Saving 30 cent on a 70 euro shop is pathetic, but by god, it makes me a feel alive.

You is one bad ass gyppo yo, i applaud you

syklops

Who is 'the man' in these situations?

Cucking Funt

syklops wrote: »

Who is 'the man' in these situations?

Watch "Dont be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood" for the answer

MonkstownHoop

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I pay for a one way train ticket on Sundays, the ticket office for my return journey isn't open on Sundays, there's no electronic way to purchase my ticket at said station, eat my **** Irish Rail ticket inspector.
I owe the library about 20 odd euro for a few years, whenever I'm getting more books out they say, and would you like to clear your fine, ...no, and I walk out like a boss.
At the self service desk in Dunnes I put my large loaf through as a small loaf. At least there's plausible deniability, it doesn't scan and there's over 20 different bread options. Saving 30 cent on a 70 euro shop is pathetic, but by god, it makes me a feel alive.

Who brings a €70 shop through self service?

beano345

I got two aeros and 2 euro from shoving a vending machine after it robbed 50cent on me...I always knew crime would pay!

Cucking Funt

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

Who brings a €70 shop through self service?

I do. I like to pack my bags in my own time instead of being rushed at the normal tills. besides 70 isnt all that much, and you can use your tesco vouchers etc and loose change in peace

Senna

I owe Paypal €800, my account was hacked years ago and someone got a payment of €800 into my account and then transfer to a UK bank account soon afterwards. I informed Paypal that something was wrong, told them it wasn't my money and the whole thing had nothing to do with me.
They then transfer €800 back into my account, it sat there for 6 months and when I heard nothing more, I spent it.

TheFatness

I have f*cked 'the man' on quite a few occasions, but one evening up in Stepaside sticks out in my mind for being particularly cheeky.

Myself and a friend went up for a game of Pitch & Putt - the course that also has the driving range. I don't know if any of you are familiar with it, but it happens to be criminally easy to sneak on to the course instead of paying the €10 - and we did because we were short on money and keen to play.

Anyways, we jump over the little fence and begin playing from hole seven because you risk exposure if you try and play the full-18. However, on this occasion we had to leave early because we had both lost all of our balls. We didn't hit the water hazards, or tee off into particularly big bushes, we lost them in the long grass, far too long for my liking.

I was a little upset that we were forced to call it a day on a bum note, so I decided to complain. I went down into the club house and confronted a man at the desk and complained about how long the grass was and how our session came to an abrupt end. I can feign frustration along with the best of them.

I demanded my €10 back - which I never paid remember - and eventually he gave it to me. The customer is always right.

Vito Corleone

If you have one of the rambler cards for Dublin bus and you scan it through the thing really quickly it doesn't register, however, it makes a different beeping noise and some of the drivers have copped onto it now.

antodeco

antodeco wrote: »

I go to the jax during office hours and sit there for a good 30 mins. They pay me to poop!

I used to work in a place that had a barber arrive one day a week, so we would get our hair cut.

Well it grew in the firms time, so we'll get it cut in the firms time as well.

syklops

Vito Corleone wrote: »

If you have one of the rambler cards for Dublin bus and you scan it through the thing really quickly it doesn't register, however, it makes a different beeping noise and some of the drivers have copped onto it now.

Dublin Bus's fare system seems to be designed around an honour system and is therefore very vulnerable to beating the system, man. Most people don't say where they are going, they say how much they are putting in, he glances at the amount and gives a ticket for that amount. I regularly get the bus to kildare street which is 2.35 but I could say 1.40, and just stay on for the extra stops, and still get there. A 95 cent of a saving. Not much but over 5 days thats 4.25 which will nearly pay for my friday evening night pint.

I don't do this. I still say 2.35 or recently I have been buying the 7 day combi ticket, even though I only use it for 5 days.

There was a pub I frequented in Swords and they had a vulnerability in how they tracked peoples bills. If you ordered a pint at the bar and told them you would be having food, then moved to a table and ordered another pint and food, then having eaten, ordered the bill, there would always only be one pint on the bill. I informed them everytime, and they never thought to look at the system. I tried telling them a few times but the staff i talked to didnt care.

MonaPizza

mloc123 wrote: »

Sounds a lot like stealing to me?

There was a time when you went to a cafe and there was salt, pepper, sugar, vinegar and ketchup on the table. Why does one have to pay for ketchup now but salt is still free?

syklops

Vito Corleone wrote: »

If you have one of the rambler cards for Dublin bus and you scan it through the thing really quickly it doesn't register, however, it makes a different beeping noise and some of the drivers have copped onto it now.

In the 80s hackers(well technically speaking, phreaks), discovered that if you put the money for a long distance call into a phonebox, and recorded the tones, you could hang up and get the money back, then replay the tones and make your call. You could do the same in that scenario. Put in a valid ticket and record the tone. Then next time you use the bus, slide an old bus ticket into the slot and play the tone. Most drivers would be unaware.

RikkFlair

You're looking at "the man"

Joan Burtons Sexy Knickers

RikkFlair wrote: »

You're looking at "the man"

Hello Mr. Flair!

Wurly

tim3000 wrote: »

I have that Hola unblocker extention for chrome allows me to watch stuff on youtube thats region locked, like some BBC documentaries. I was so happy when someone told me about it. I don't know if that counts

You have changed my life. Thank you!!

pragmatic1

I'm very liberal with my lunch breaks if I'm not busy.

tim3000

Wurly wrote: »

You have changed my life. Thank you!!

Enjoy stickin it to the man

WilyCoyote

I do the fruit and veg shopping in our house. Always putting the grapes in the basket first as I saunter around doing the rest of the weekly shop I enjoy stuffing my mouth with said fruit of the vine and presenting partially denuded bunch to the teller. I know, I know ........ please don't try and make me feel guilty. 'Cause utter failure will await you.
Having done this in, maybe, nine countries and in four continents I think I can contend Portugal, Ireland, Italy Greece and Spain as PIIGS Pilfering Irish International Grape Sucker.
Coat already on etc.

kjl

Sometimes when using the self scan aisle at tesco, I buy thorntons donuts which are normally 1.50ish and I scan the as a plan old 30c Jam donut.

About 10 years ago, I had a palm pilot. I downloaded a program that allowed you to region unlock DVD players, I would to go into electronic shops and unlock all the floor models so they would be region free.

Lapin

Back in the pre Euro days vending machines on the continent didn't know the difference between the old Irish 5p coin and French Franks and Deutchmarks.

I spent a glorious couple of Summers inter-railing my way around France and Germany smoking Marlboros for about 20p a pack and eating lovely the lovely junk food you get in vending machines over there for 5p.

i chop your dollar

I've beaten the man on more than one occasion but I'm too conscious of the fact that what I say hear might be used as evidence against me in a court of law

sawdoubters

stick it to the man


intransitive verb: to perform an act of vandalism or general civil disobedience in order to oppose the power of the man