quickbeam wrote: » If it's a public estate then it's pretty stingy of the Council not to cut the grass themselves, as they're being paid in the LPT to do so! If it's a private estate then the management fees should cover it. Nobody should have to pay extra for grass being cut!
Paddy Cow wrote: » A woman came into my work place a couple of days ago asking if she could leave one of those charity boxes with the sweets. I felt bad saying no as it was for a good cause (childline) but I didn't want to be responsible for it as I just knew that people would end up stealing from it and I would get the blame.
bucketybuck wrote: » I didn't feel bad saying no at all when our guy came around asking if he could leave a box in reception, I knew full well it was a recipe for disaster. He kept asking and I relented with the very clear instruction that the first time he complains to me about it being short money will be followed by the box going in the bin. Its been there a few years now, they must be making some profit out of it despite the rampant theft. And it goes without saying that the guy in our company most notorious for brazenly taking bars but never paying? One of the company directors, a fat **** who couldn't spend all of his money if he tried.
crazyderk wrote: » There’s someone over on reddit asking for a student to sign them up for the student deal on Vodafone!
Atlantic Dawn wrote: » Send them here, you can signup with a Facebook account of 'student age'...https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=102848875
quickbeam wrote: » If it's a public estate then it's pretty stingy of the Council not to cut the grass themselves, as they're being paid in the LPT to do so! If it's a private estate then the management fees should cover it. Nobody should have to pay extra for grass being cut! It's typical in this country. Another one which bugs me is schools relying on "voluntary" contributions from parents for our children's "free education". I don't blame the schools themselves, as some struggle to even pay the bare necessities, but our taxes should cover all essentials in schools, and by parents dipping in to their own pockets we're absolving the government of their responsibility to provide what's required instead. I'm not sure if it's stinginess or incompetence that results in not enough money going where it should.
CruelCoin wrote: » I'll fill you in, We had collections of Approx €2400 with maybe another 2-300 coming later. The quotes we received to get the grass cut ranged from 3500->4500. So, the only option was to buy our own mower as we couldn't afford that, Which will need to be operated by volunteers willing to give up their Saturday/Sunday to cut the grass. Let alone look after the flower beds, etc. It's also quintessentially Irish to expect some other chump to pay/do the work. €40 to have the place looking well and to not have to lift a finger? You couldn't have it better.
LirW wrote: » Stingy bride I told about a few weeks ago is getting married today. Since she didn't bother sorting breakfast out for her bridal party (they have 9 adults in the house today plus 2 kids) and the maids were staying at her place overnight, I felt so sorry for them and went shopping with one of them, got up at 7 to make them all a proper nice breakfast that she then took over. When she picked it up she told me there wasn't even milk or biscuits in the house and they had to go to the elderly neighbours to ask for some. I feel pretty sorry for the bridesmaids in general, they were asked two days ago to split the travel costs evenly between all of them after paying for their whole beauty treatments on her own and they had no real choice really than taking it because they're all so busy. Their whole outfits with everything together are awful and cheap, the dresses are the cheapest around and are so unflattering, especially on the curvier ones and one of them really broke down in tears and they tried to sort her another one out from ASOS sale, which was a bodycon thing and she would have looked even worse in that. Bride has no consciousness to make her party feel comfortable whatsoever. I'm not involved into the whole thing whatsoever, don't know the bride too well, but we'll see how the day goes but Drama is already predicted. I hope for everyone going they'll have a lovely day and may the marriage last!
WHIP IT! wrote: » No you don't :pac: :pac:
Mr.Wemmick wrote: » I was talking to my Mother this weekend and she was telling me about a local cat that, over the last couple of months, has started to visit her. He looks for and is given some grub or milk, he might then have a snooze by the stove only to wander off out the door after an hour or so. The thing is, she recently found out from another woman down the road, the very same cat has been visiting a couple more houses round their way. The same carry-on, sometimes given food or milk, sleeps for a spell, a cat song or two, and then off again. She had a good laugh about it and said in a past life, he must’ve been a real scrounger. Like some old fella doing the rounds trying to get a mug of tea or a feed. My mother now calls him the chancer.. a hairy stinge, I’d say.
Liam28 wrote: » These honesty boxes have provided some interesting research opportunities into human behaviour.
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » the higher up you are the more self entitled you feel indications of that came from the first honesty boxes in Silicon Valley. IMHO someone needs to do research to see if there is a correlation between taking stuff for free and CEO or VP behaviour.
JCX BXC wrote: » Just seen a woman make her daughter go to the toilet on a beach against a wall instead of paying for a public toilet. (Which was within view)
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » the higher up you are the more self entitled you feel
Purple Mountain wrote: » Do stingy thoughts count?? I was sitting in the car in my local town on Friday afternoon when to my horror I noticed two freshly erupted spots on my chin in the rear view mirror. I knew I didn't have any makeup with me (I had makeup on my face but hadn't brought any in the car bar lipstick) to dab over it. For a few seconds I actually debated going into a chemist to 'browse' and maybe have a try of some foundation testers while I was in there! It wasn't my stinge conscience that got the better of me in the end..the chemist was too far to walk to!!
Paddy Cow wrote: » I'd never put any of them on my face. God knows what you'd catch
Paddy Cow wrote: » Don't do it. Those testers are a breeding ground for germs and you don't know what kind of mankbag used it before you. I try testers on the back of my hand but I'd never put any of them on my face. God knows what you'd catch
LirW wrote: » Nah, I really hope it turns out to be a nice day, it's ideally a once in a lifetime thing and you want it to be perfect. Still don't need to be a fan of hers. Haven't heard anything back yet though so I assume there are no casualties as of yet!
loyatemu wrote: » F5 F5 F5 F5
mistersifter wrote: » she spent a lot of time and money catching and neutering stray cats that were multiplying like mad in the street and nobody helped her with this.
Blitzkrieger wrote: » I had a giggle fit about this for some reason. I imagined some sort of twisted Pixar movie where some witch abducts cats and the next thing they know they're waking up surrounded by their friends but their nuts are missing! "Do NOT go near that lady!" Since it's the thread for it, if you want to control the cat population, be stingy with them! Cats will have more kittens if food is plentiful. If you stop feeding the feckers some will move on and the ones left might actually catch some pests.
