Are Cavan people stingy???

whassupp2 · 02-07-2006 08:49PM #1

Just wondering. I'm not from there. I noticed this after a GAA match in a neutral venue. I cant remember who won but afterwards the bar was full of supporters of the opposing team and a local pointed out that cavan people are stingy and therefore never spend on luxuries.
In my opinion its either that or they're all pioneers.:D

edit: shudda made a poll of this

DOLEMAN · 02-07-2006 08:50PM

Yes.

Ruu_Old · 02-07-2006 08:51PM

What proof did he have that they were stingy? OP I recall you saying that you were from cavan?:)

Huggles · 02-07-2006 08:51PM

Q: Who invented copper wire?
A. Two Cavan men fighting over two cent.

Boom boom

whassupp2 · 02-07-2006 08:53PM

Ruu wrote:

What proof did he have that they were stingy? OP I recall you saying that you were from cavan?:)

none really. just got that impression. they're lovely people (*trying not to offend*) but there seems to be that general view among the public.????

mikemac · 02-07-2006 09:44PM

It's true.

One of my past landlords was a Cavan man.
He was the meanest person I've ever met

He was also one the richest, which is why I admire him in a way

LovelyHurling · 02-07-2006 09:49PM

Definitely not the Cavan college students I know most of them are mad alcoholics! But the old people there do seem to have that air about them. Maybe its just because when they were small Cavan was a particularly poor place and they grew up learning the value of the pound more so than people in better off areas

Plug · 02-07-2006 09:50PM

I think theres a saying on Caven men: "Caven men are the meanest men". I actually have cousins up there and they're sound out, E50 please:D

Wishbone Ash · 02-07-2006 09:50PM

I think it was Niall Tobín who began started it because his wife(?) was from Cavan. He use to say, when at a GAA match, her family would keep the sandwiches to the end in case there was a draw.

Ruu_Old · 02-07-2006 10:05PM

Ah its all a load of messing about, the Cavan jokes all come out whenever the football team have to travel to Croke Park and such. "Cavan supporters are to be notified that the turnstiles dont accept shillings" etc.

Mossy Monk · 02-07-2006 10:06PM

with no poll this thread is pointless

gizmo · 02-07-2006 10:21PM

Heh, its more of an old wives tale. Some of the (rather stupid) phrases I've heard... "Cavan people would eat their dinner out of the drawer" and "Cavan people would peel an orange in their pocket" etc..

[Jackass] · 02-07-2006 10:41PM

I hear Cavan people count their money infront of the mirror.......so they can see if anyone is coming.

kaizersoze · 02-07-2006 10:43PM

Faceless Man wrote:

Heh, its more of an old wives tale. Some of the (rather stupid) phrases I've heard... "Cavan people would eat their dinner out of the drawer" and "Cavan people would peel an orange in their pocket" etc..

hehe...or the one about the Cavan man who called to his neighbour and found stripping the wallpaper in the sittingroom. "Are ye redecorating?" he asked. "No" replied the neighbour, "We're moving".:p

EWheelChair · 02-07-2006 10:56PM

Everyone from Cavan is tight, the same way everyone from Dublin is a scumbag, everyone from Limerick has stabbed someone and everyone from Cork is a farmer.

Terry · 03-07-2006 02:02AM

14 years ago i was working in my first full time job.
i was a tea boy on a site.
there were two guys from cavan working there.
everyone in the company i worked for gave me £1.50 a week for teabags/ coffee, milk and sugar except for the cavan guys.
one day the gfreek bloke working with us was unhappy with the chicken i had got him for lunch. it wasn't salty enough. he followed me outside the canteen and threw the chicken at me. one of the cavan guys came out, picked it up, dusted it off and ate it.
i'd regard them as tight. they also have the wierdest accent i've ever heard.

Scraggs · 03-07-2006 02:27AM

As tight as a nuns knickers.

TBH I've never heard Cavan people being stingy but I have heard a few time of Ballymena folk being notoriusly tight... although I dont know anyone from ther so I'll reserve judgement for now.

cournioni · 03-07-2006 07:43AM

LovelyHurling wrote:

Definitely not the Cavan college students I know most of them are mad alcoholics! But the old people there do seem to have that air about them. Maybe its just because when they were small Cavan was a particularly poor place and they grew up learning the value of the pound more so than people in better off areas

Sounds a bit more like it... Have to say I know one or two mean feckers from Cavan myself, but I know more than one or two from outside the county...

AdrianII · 03-07-2006 08:02AM

I know a few cavan people and have only met one tight guy, but we were in college so that could explain that, other that i reckon they are good decent people.

Tobias Greeshman · 03-07-2006 08:12AM

Yeah Niall Toibín was the king of cavan jokes. Like this one, describing your average meane cavan b******

"So I recently went to a friend of mine up in Cavan, and he was stripping the wallpaper off the wall. So I asked him `Mick are ya redecorating'. He replied: `eh! no, were moving!'...".

03-07-2006 08:21AM

Wishbone Ash wrote:

I think it was Niall Tobín who began started it because his wife(?) was from Cavan. He use to say, when at a GAA match, her family would keep the sandwiches to the end in case there was a draw.

I think it came from the fact that the Scottish have a reputation for meanness, and Cavan was settled by a large number of Scots during the Ulster Plantation

Funsterdelux · 03-07-2006 08:21AM

What did the Cavanman do when he found a wheelchair?...................................................................He broke his sons legs.

Dyr · 03-07-2006 08:28AM

A cavan person stung me once for no reason. In conclusion yes, they are stingy

cournioni · 03-07-2006 08:29AM

What is it with Cavan jokes and their unoriginality?! You'd think someone would come up with something new... In fact the best Cavan joke I've heard in a while came from a Cavan person on Today FM when Cavan was named as Ireland's tidiest town. He said it was because we were too mean to throw away any litter.

stepbar · 03-07-2006 08:36AM

did you ever hear the saying "the cavan man would ate his dinner out of a drawer"

cournioni · 03-07-2006 10:50AM

Many times. In fact I'm bringing yore ma out tonight to eat out of a drawer.

Terry · 03-07-2006 10:58AM

28064212 wrote:

I think it came from the fact that the Scottish have a reputation for meanness, and Cavan was settled by a large number of Scots during the Ulster Plantation

i always found the english to be far meaner than the scots.
meh, maybe it's just the ones i've met.

kirving · 03-07-2006 11:01AM

I was in somy parents friends house in Cavan a while back, and yes, the dinner table had drawers!

cournioni · 03-07-2006 11:09AM

julep wrote:

i always found the english to be far meaner than the scots.
meh, maybe it's just the ones i've met.

Particularly people from Yorkshire. They are unbelievably stingy. I work with a man from Scarborough and anything he does, he does cheap. That is no exaggeration.

Dyr · 03-07-2006 11:12AM

A scottish lad i work with claims their reputation for meaness was as a result of some scottish vaudeville comedian in the states. This guy constantly joked in his act about how mean he was/scots in general were and the reputation stuck

dunno if thats true

Terry · 03-07-2006 11:23AM

Bambi wrote:

A scottish lad i work with claims their reputation for meaness was as a result of some scottish vaudeville comedian in the states. This guy constantly joked in his act about how mean he was/scots in general were and the reputation stuck

dunno if thats true

probably is.
if the english people i've met are representative of all english people, then they are stingier than the scots and cavan folk combined.

Are Cavan people stingy???

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