What's the scabbiest thing you've seen scabby people do?

Demonique

I've seen my mother add water to a chicken dish made with chicken tonight sauce "to make it go further"

At the time we could afford to trade in my parents cars for brand new cars every 4 years and go on holiday to france every year

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058316240/whats-the-scabbiest-thing-youve-seen-scabby-people-do

That's not scabby.

I add extra, extra veg to a beef and veg casserole to fill it out for 4 men (I love slow cooked veg though).

bassy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058316240/whats-the-scabbiest-thing-youve-seen-scabby-people-do

Your hard up for attention

Demonique

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121179595#Comment_121179595

Only adding water IS scabby, it doesnt make it go further it just dilutes the flavour

Demonique

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121179687#Comment_121179687

In what way am I hard up for attention?

barneygumble99

If I make a lasagne I’ll usually use a jar of sauce for the mince and then rinse out the leftover sauce from the jar with water and pour it into the pan.

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121179720#Comment_121179720

O M G, diluting de flavour of the sauce. The madness of it all

windowcills

I feel that here is no such thing as meaness (scabbyness)

Meaness is the opposite of generosity, not the opposite of wasting

So if a wealthy person has an old car and turns off his lights, thats not mean, thats being shrewd and also reducing waste which is a very good thing

So meaness really is refusing to help someone in need, but as we all know a lot of people in need are actually chancers, and a lot of charities are collecting for their secretarys wages, someone who borrows something regularily just keeps or break it.

So meaness is the opposite of generosity and generosity is not something i recommend

barneygumble99

Scabby is when it’s the same person asking for a cigarette all the time. With no intention of ever opening their own packet with other smokers around.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058316240/whats-the-scabbiest-thing-youve-seen-scabby-people-do

Get up the yard you ungrateful pup.

Your poor sainted mother used her thriftiness to save enough money to take you on annual holidays to France and now in the heel of the hunt you denounce her as scabby.

corcaigh07

DJ

Demonique

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121180047#Comment_121180047

This was meant to be a light hearted thread so people could share stories

You want to know how how scabby my parents really were? When I injured my arm when I was 15 they refused to take me to the doctor because "that costs money", I have permanent nerve damage in my arm due to it being untreated

magicbastarder

a friend of mine, on his 21st birthday, received the aer lingus pack you were given if you flew first class transatlantic with them, from his aunt and uncle.

IIRC it had slippers, a face mask for sleeping, that sort of thing.

Dial Hard

We already have an entire megathread devoted to this exact subject. With pretty much the exact same name.

Sam Russell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121180211#Comment_121180211

That is really scabby to start a new thread when there is already one in existence.

Would you believe anyone could e that scabby?

loyatemu

the OG thread is here - all stinge, all the time!

(ps - I always rinse out the jar when using pasta sauce)

Demonique

https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/B2Hqm54bNQ

If anyone is interested there's a reddit thread asking what children of cheapskates what the most ridiculous thing their parents did to save money

Things like driving 60 miles to a casino to get a free meal in its restaurant because meals in regular restaurants were too expensive

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121180201#Comment_121180201

And there was I thinking you were serious 🙂

Not to worry better luck next time, it may not be too late to put yourself up for adoption.

Count Dracula

I prefer to use my own saliva as an anal penetration lubricant, it is more natural I find. I justify this with the knowledge that other manufactured lube is extremely dangerous to the environment. I like to do my bit to curb the onset of potential Armageddon.

Being a mean chunt is a natural occurring phenom, scabby people are innately scabby and even release endorphins with their putrid malign. If the Nazi's win it is feasible that they will arrange for such degenerate parasites to be arrested and reassigned tasks for the rest of their parasitic existence? Hopefully they are forced into slave labour and directed to build a large public arena where all other yet to be arrested mean chunts can congregate, to involve themselves in daily rigmaroles of public stoning and other advanced punishment techniques.

dxhound2005

Does the Bride of Dracula like it?

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121181475#Comment_121181475

Maybe I'm being scabby with my sense of humour, but that definitely sounded better in your head.

kerryjack

Guilty of cutting a fire log in half for starting a fire in the stove hope my kids will recover from seeing this kind of behaviour.

My mother, at one stage, would reuse teabags. A middle class Rathgar woman born 1920’, she was ultra careful of wastage, very common in her cohort.

Some of this stinginess would now be classified as avoiding food & other waste, good for the environment.

Andrea B.

I have a friend whose dad brought up 4 lads on his own, at a time in 70s when mum done a runner.

My mate had to get ingrown toenail done in hospital. He was instructed to use his older brother's name for the procedure.

The dad had only 2 of them under VHI, but that covered 4 of them. Just a nod wink to doc and swap names

So many other tricks, but he reared 4 great lads, against the norm for the 70s. The church were just wringing hands to make a grab, but he never let them.

And a frugal dad he was, but not mean.

My mum had a box of old shoelaces and twine from parcels. Jars of used screws and nails.

My dad had a very good middle class job. My mum's grandmother, who my mum had a close childhood relationship with, was 10 years old by the end of The Famine. Nothing wasted, but so kind and charitable.

Andrea B.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121182307#Comment_121182307

I can relate to that. My mum was born a British subject.....in Kerry😊

Count Dracula

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121182012#Comment_121182012

No you aren't being scabby at all, you just don't have one?

That's a kick in the bowel ox right there, I can feel your dull pain starting to transcend your lower body, you might want to take a seat.

lan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121179763#Comment_121179763

Spotted the scabby bastard 😂

Seriously though, of course meanness/scabbyness is a thing. If someone doesn’t get in their round, what would you call that? Everyone else hardly bought their round out of generosity.

Also, generosity not something you’d recommend? You sound like a right miserable sod.

purifol0

People being scabby always sticks in my mind if I know they're not strapped for cash

Some personal examples:

Re-gifting Christmas And birthday presents.

Giving cheques to nieces and nephews as they're less likely to cash them.

Had an absolute stingy bastard of an uncle who would email Christmas cards because he didn't want to pay a cent buying them. Would also boast about ripping people off on adverts.ie (usually old people or people that trusted him and didn't know much about the item but thought he was nice and they were getting a good deal).

Two off the telly:

First dates women always going to the toilet as soon as the bill arrives.

The very young woman on first dates who let the crippled permanently wheelchair bound lad pay for everything and then lied to him about seeing him again, and got him to escort her to the taxi.

When it happened, no one on boards or Twitter made a comment on it. Except to say she was very pretty and how nice she was allowing that guy to be on a date with her. Reverse the genders on that one. So **** scabby

.Donegal.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121179662#Comment_121179662

Sounds more desperate than scabby.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121183326#Comment_121183326

Nothing wrong with regifting, if it is something that's not needed. If their nieces and nephews are too rich to bother cashing their cheques, that is not the uncles/aunts fault.

Viscount Aggro

I know someone who lives in Dublin city centre. He had a moped, and wanted to dispose of it.

He cut it up with angle grinder, put the pieces into street bins up and down Georges street.

Baba Yaga

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121180065#Comment_121180065

why has he got a phone charging lead up his snot?that lads not just scabby!!!

My late granny would cut open the hoover bag, empty it and sew it back together with a darning needle. She wasn’t broke but she was a 1920s woman who saw everything as waste. We got her a bagless one which she considered to be a “pile of crap” and went back to using her 1970s Nilfisk.

She also was way ahead of the trend on reusesble shopping bags. Always brought own bags / shopping trolly, long before the plastic bag charge, and said that “if they want me to advertise their shop walking down the street with their bags, they can feckin pay me for it! I’m not going around with their brand all over me !”

If you bought her anything that wasn’t extremely practical you got “what were you doing wasting your money on that!! Have you no sense ?!”

Sephiroth_dude

Mod

Thread already on this topic so closing this.