Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

D-Generate · 07-01-2009 5:48pm

Why are people still hanging around with the stingy bastards? Myself and my mates would never stand for someone not paying their own way and they wouldn't be talked to again.

inforfun · 07-01-2009 6:05pm

D-Generate wrote: »

Why are people still hanging around with the stingy bastards? Myself and my mates would never stand for someone not paying their own way and they wouldn't be talked to again.

If i see someone repeatedly dodging giving rounds the next round i buy will be 1 drink less. I also tell them to get the drink themselves or GTFO.
I have no time for those leeches.

TGi666 · 07-01-2009 6:09pm

D-Generate wrote: »

Why are people still hanging around with the stingy bastards? Myself and my mates would never stand for someone not paying their own way and they wouldn't be talked to again.

x2 we stoped doing rounds because of mates bringing mate's expecten free drink

monkeyfudge · 07-01-2009 6:14pm

I was shocked over the xmas when out drinking with a group. I thought it was my round... but it turned out it wasn't as there was a couple who actually didn't consider themselves a single entity in the round system.

Degsy · 07-01-2009 6:20pm

galwayrush wrote: »

Once in a restaurant, 4 people at a table near us, three of them leave a tip at the table on leaving, last person at the table pockets tip without the rest noticing.

Independent pizza in Drumcondra?

Degsy · 07-01-2009 6:22pm

I saw a publican fishing the used lemons out of glasses once,washing them under the tap and putting them back on the chopping board.

E.L · 07-01-2009 6:28pm

My father is so stingy ive caught him do the following

when getting cheese from the fridge he cut off the dark orange crusty hard bit once and handed it to my 3 yr old daughter rather than throw it in the bin.

*has never paid for a haircut cuts his own
*buys all his toiletries in the euro shop
*has the smelliest toothbrush about 5 yrs ive thrown it in the bin a number of times but yesterday as i was cleaning out the bathroom cabinet i found it covered in grey mouldy tooth gunge so hed taken it out of the bin and used it
he actually had no toothbrush for a while and my sister caught him using hers:eek:
barely feeds his dog he's too stingy he came back from holidays and asked me had i been overfeeding the dog she looked fat, i said just a bowl of dried food morning and evening he siad that was too much that she gets one handful of dried food per day (shes a huge labrador!)

Random · 07-01-2009 6:37pm

What's wrong with cutting your own hair?
So what if you don't tip?
Big deal you don't want to put money into the charity envelope that goes around every 20 mins in work?
What's wrong with getting a 10c tip? So what if you didn't get the 20c .. .at least you got something.
What's wrong with Dunnes / Tesco bread?
So what if your deoderant only cost €2?

Sam Vimes · 07-01-2009 6:42pm

Random wrote: »

What's wrong with cutting your own hair?

and what if you're too stingy to buy your own shaver and keep borrowing someone elses

Rochie IRL · 07-01-2009 6:48pm

I know someone who collects freebie stuff during the year and then gives it as christmas presents, Christmas just gone I got a 2008 diary that I had given them last year it had my workplace logo on it, other previous presents were a Jameson plastic measuring cup (off the top of a bottle). I was also given a game disc that came free with rice krispies.......there is tight and then there is just taking the wee wee.

sceptre · 07-01-2009 6:50pm

I've rarely enjoyed a thread this long but this is something of an exception. Some hilarious stuff.

partyguinness wrote: »

In Cork I have often seen 4/5 Spanish or Italian students sitting in a bar around one glass of guinness for hours on end...and literally staring at it as if it is going to start doing headstands...:)

Ah yes, I'm currently working part-time in <nameless college bar>. We're very quiet some Friday nights so some weeks we'll just shut up early. Quiet annoying when a small group (always the same group) comes in late the odd Friday night, buy a pint of black between them and sit around it while playing connect 4 for an hour or two. Small allowance for poor students though.

Have to say though, that the odd time your actions might be interpreted as stinginess when it might just be weirdness. I was over in the Canaries a few years ago with a big group and between my then-girlfriend and her sister taking ages to get ready, most of the group had gone off somewhere so the three of us decided to go for something to eat. Being male and me, I just wanted ice-cream. Girlfriend just wanted soup. Her sister hadn't eaten so wanted something proper. You can see where this is going. Small run of the mill openair food place, we order what we wanted (one soup, one main course, two desserts for me). They found it funny, especially delivering the three courses at once. Even put sparklers on the ice-cream. We were drinking beer as well though so I can only assume they thought we were just really odd.

lee_arama · 07-01-2009 6:52pm

wixfjord wrote: »

Me Da used to tell me about his former neighbour, an old typical country farmer. He used to soak turf before burning it so it would burn very slowly (not even burn just smoke really) and the worst part of it was they lived beside a bog. Also this guy went to bury a sheep one frosty winter morning. The ground was obviously rock solid so he dug the whole about 3 feet, filled it in, and left the sheep on its back with its legs sticking up out of the soil :P Not really stingy just lazy I suppose

Well as a man from farming stock I'll tell ya there's no digging much of a hole in frozen earth. You'd want a decent crowbar (proper farm one, not a burglars jimmy) to loosen up the ground before you start belting away with your mattock.

BroomBurner · 07-01-2009 6:56pm

Rochie IRL wrote: »

I know someone who collects freebie stuff during the year and then gives it as christmas presents, Christmas just gone I got a 2008 diary that I had given them last year it had my workplace logo on it, other previous presents were a Jameson plastic measuring cup (off the top of a bottle). I was also given a game disc that came free with rice krispies.......there is tight and then there is just taking the wee wee.

Hahahahahaha that's gas

One of my OH's mates is really stingy. He invited us all over to his for a Christmas dinner but told us all to bring the food. When everyone said no, he just cancelled it.

When his ex over and they were getting a takeaway, he would order one starter and one main and they'de share (his GF at the time was just as bad)

If he was out with the work crowd for lunch, he would claim he had no cash on him so everyone would round up their costs - say a set meal for €12, every chucked in €15 - and throw in the cash. He would wait til everyone left then pay for it on his credit card and keep the cash (and tips) for himself

galwayrush · 07-01-2009 6:57pm

My wife just told me about when she was going to college in Galway, she had a part time job at a bakery/cake shop. 4 middle aged American women come in, enquire about the price if a particular piece of cake / bun. 20 minutes of " How much is that one? repeated over and over again, they eventually settle on a Chester Cake which was the size of a small bun for 11p. Wife asks how many, they reply just the one and could they she cut it into 4 pieces for them.

Degsy · 07-01-2009 6:58pm

sceptre wrote: »

we'll just shut up early. Quiet annoying when a small group (always the same group) comes in late the odd Friday night, buy a pint of black between them and sit around it while playing connect 4 for an hour or two.

Ha..that'll teach yas!
A certain nameless college bar of my aquantance used to shut up early whenever it suited them and i couldnt get a drink after work if i'd been working late.

Random · 07-01-2009 7:03pm

One of my OH's mates is really stingy. He invited us all over to his for a Christmas dinner but told us all to bring the food. When everyone said no, he just cancelled it.

Some people aren't made of money. It's similiar to inviting your mates round for pints and telling them to bring their own beer. It's not a charity people are running.

When his ex over and they were getting a takeaway, he would order one starter and one main and they'de share (his GF at the time was just as bad)

What's the problem here exactly?

If he was out with the work crowd for lunch, he would claim he had no cash on him so everyone would round up their costs - say a set meal for €12, every chucked in €15 - and throw in the cash. He would wait til everyone left then pay for it on his credit card and keep the cash (and tips) for himself

Don't invite him next time. Was the service really good enough to warranty a 20% tip though?

sceptre · 07-01-2009 7:19pm

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I was shocked over the xmas when out drinking with a group. I thought it was my round... but it turned out it wasn't as there was a couple who actually didn't consider themselves a single entity in the round system.

The what? Some couples regard themselves as a single link where there's a round?

Random · 07-01-2009 7:24pm

sceptre wrote: »

The what? Some couples regard themselves as a single link where there's a round?

These sort of people should be made buy the first and last round.

NADA · 07-01-2009 7:37pm

I currently live in student accomodation in Germany and I have seen some stingy ****.

Sharing a toilet with twelve people its normal to go out to the toilet or kitchen and find that the light bulb has been stolen.

Not sure if this is stingy or just weird but we live near Aldi. It's walking distance. The chinese guy down the hall from me has got about four shopping trolleys in his room with clothes folded inside them as well as books.

Not gonna believe this one but my friend was talking to me and asking did I see his t-shirt(with mickey mouse on it) he left it down in the laundry room while waiting for his turn to use the washing machine. Described it and had a look to see did I have it in my pile. Wasnt there. Were sitting drinking a few beers about 2-3 nights later and watching football on tv when the chinese guy from down the hall with all the shopping trolleys in his room walks in wearing it and starts putting his stuff in the fridge.Nothing was said

The marking on the milf bottles and fanta bottles here is hilarious and annoying. I've had countless bottles of Fanta and Coke and my loads of times ha my canned Jack Daniels and Coke vanish.

We have free washing machines and the house across the way has to pay 20 cent or something to wash there clothes for some weird reason. The result is that all those people wash their clothes in our machine.

Also in Germany you get 15c for every bottle you bring back to the shop. I dont do this as I've too many bottles and its a bit heavy to walk all the way to the supermarket. I jsut recyle them free in the bottle back across the road. One time I got home from a party at about 3am on a friday morning and our chinese friend was outside with a putting superglue on a tree branch taking bottles out of the recyling bin. not sure if this is stingy or a good idea?

We all share a hoover. There are two. One of them has tippex or paint on it saying it is property of some library.

In Germany they have Cafeterias run by some student body. We dont really have it in Ireland but you go in and you get food on a tray rather than a plate. Somebody has brought four of these home.

Alot of our glasses are from the bar across the road and I wonder if its a co incidence that the toilet paper we use is exactly like the commercial rolls all over the university I attend.

We had no tv in the common room because we didnt wanna buy one. There are 24 of us so if we all put in a tenner it would be cheap. But instead someone liberated one from a skip that was here back in December.

Theres tonnes more of this sort of thing that I cant even think of!

st0ned z0mbie · 07-01-2009 7:38pm

In school I had lost a pair of gloves, in german class we were doing secret santa and guess what present i got, my lost gloves

KTRIC · 07-01-2009 7:41pm

So I'm not the only boardsie in Munich

NADA · 07-01-2009 7:43pm

KTRIC wrote: »

So I'm not the only boardsie in Munich

Nope!!! Here you werent on the U6 yesterday about 8:30 in the direction of garching forshung zentrum? Heard two Irish guys on the train probably from Dublin.

MargeS · 07-01-2009 7:44pm

I used to know someone who bought their granny really good presents at Xmas & birthdays because they knew they would get them back when their granny died!!

KTRIC · 07-01-2009 7:51pm

NADA wrote: »

Nope!!! Here you werent on the U6 yesterday about 8:30 in the direction of garching forshung zentrum? Heard two Irish guys on the train probably from Dublin.

I'm working in **** and living in *******, so it wasn't me. I try and avoid the U-Bahn as much as possible.

NADA · 07-01-2009 7:52pm

KTRIC wrote: »

I'm working in Maynooth and living in Dunboyne, so it wasn't me. I try and avoid the U-Bahn as much as possible.

Ah right! Just wondering!

Mont · 07-01-2009 7:57pm

I used to wipe my ass with college note books - i think that this was more to do with my preference for a can of cider than blow a pound on stupid stuff like jacks paper
btw people used to keep their jacks paper in their rooms all for themselves, i'd wipe my ass with any towels left hanging around the toilet - nice one

Sam Vimes · 07-01-2009 8:04pm

NADA wrote: »

The marking on the milf bottles and fanta bottles here is hilarious

tell me of these milf bottles....

Sam Vimes · 07-01-2009 8:07pm

Random wrote: »

These sort of people should be made buy the first and last round.

and one in between. that'll learn 'em

NADA · 07-01-2009 8:16pm

Sam Vimes wrote: »

tell me of these milf bottles....

Ah thats what I get for being on pornhub and boards simultaneously

Berty · 07-01-2009 9:00pm

I know of a stingy person who piggy backs on other peoples eircom wireless networks instead of buying one of those vodafone/02/meteor roaming internet thingys.

BuachaillAbroad · 07-01-2009 9:03pm

I used live wth 3 other guys.

In August, 1 of the guys (An Aussie) was leaving to go to Japan for work

1 of flatmates (Another Irish) asked the Aussie to pay for his share of the going away drinks!!
Only came to about an extra €12 or something small each!!

I paid for the Aussie: thought that was a bit harsh to pay for your own going away drinks...

Degsy · 07-01-2009 9:11pm

BuachaillAbroad wrote: »

I used live wth 3 other guys.

In August, 1 of the guys (An Aussie) was leaving to go to Japan for work

1 of flatmates (Another Irish) asked the Aussie to pay for his share of the going away drinks!!
Only came to about an extra €12 or something small each!!

I paid for the Aussie: thought that was a bit harsh to pay for your own going away drinks...

In my experience,aussies are extremely tight when it comes to buying drinks.One guy who used to work with me would go out to all the drink sessions and NEVER bought more than a glass of 7up for himself.
he was quite happy to wave the empty glass in your face when you were going to the bar and say "oh i'll have a jd and coke".

civis_liberalis · 07-01-2009 9:12pm

Solitaryman666 wrote: »

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Yep, I worked in a hotel that was across the street from a courthouse once. Being Irish, I wouldn't be used to my fellow countrymen (or women) giving tips.

I would often tot up the bill for political party functions or gatherings of legal types. I would often have been serving them attentively for most of the afternoon and evening, and sometimes a good bit after I should have been.

In every single case I can remember, no matter if the bill €50 or €500 or over a thousand on a couple of occasions, it was always paid to the cent.

People serving them were very rarely acknowledged, never mind thanked.

I don't think people are automatically entitled to tips or anything, but if I receive good service from people who show some pride in their work, I am more than happy to tip.

newmills · 07-01-2009 10:00pm

Worked with a guy ger on a site who was wearing a pair of safety shoes his oul lad wore in the corpo 10 years previous. The soles were right through and he used wire to tie them up. He refused to buy a new pair of boots for work even after the lads screwed them to the canteen ceiling and sprayed them red!! One friday he didn't come in some one of his "mates" got out the con-saw and cut them in two, then poured petrol on them and burned them. He got one of the boys to film him with his phone. He met ger on saturday and showed him the video. He went nuts cause he had to go to dunnes and spend €25 on a new pair!!

towel401 · 07-01-2009 10:02pm

Berty wrote: »

I know of a stingy person who piggy backs on other peoples eircom wireless networks instead of buying one of those vodafone/02/meteor roaming internet thingys.

i do that myself. no shame in it either. i could get mobile internet for 10e a month and i often do but its still slow as ****e compared to someone elses wireless network. so even if i paid the 10e that month and there is a wireless network i'll use it

my phone has wifi so i can also call people for about 2c a minute on it. when i was in england i would often walk to residential areas to find wifi so i could use that instead of paying the 20 or 30p a minute those rip off english networks charge

Berty · 07-01-2009 10:02pm

newmills wrote: »

Worked with a guy ger on a site who was wearing a pair of safety shoes his oul lad wore in the corpo 10 years previous. The soles were right through and he used wire to tie them up. He refused to buy a new pair of boots for work even after the lads screwed them to the canteen ceiling and sprayed them red!! One friday he didn't come in some one of his "mates" got out the con-saw and cut them in two, then poured petrol on them and burned them. He got one of the boys to film him with his phone. He met ger on saturday and showed him the video. He went nuts cause he had to go to dunnes and spend €25 on a new pair!!

When you pass over the Fermoy bypass there are a pair of boots that are forever encased in the structure of one of the columns. Dont tell the Germans!!

Degag · 07-01-2009 10:26pm

Random wrote: »

What's wrong with cutting your own hair?

What's wrong with getting a 10c tip? So what if you didn't get the 20c .. .at least you got something.

Would rather get nothing than that miserly effort mate.

N1njapirate · 07-01-2009 10:28pm

this really rich lady comes into Tesco, and she's forever putting reduced stickers on things from reduced stock onto full priced stock..
We never let her away with it, but yet she keeps going!
This was pre-recession too!

mehfesto2 · 07-01-2009 11:03pm

Went to school with a few people who went on holidays together there recently (3 girls, 2 guys). One girl used to take note of how much her drink cost in rounds, and as it was cheaper at the end of the night she'd ask for her 'compensation'. Yeah? Ok, fair enough you could argue. But what I thought was worse:
Y'know when your mate, like a really good, good mate says "lend me a euro". You give them the euro or two or whatever and it's forgotten about? Not if you have a notebook and are taking down - to the CENT - what you've loaned to people.

Honestly!

nlgbbbblth · 07-01-2009 11:15pm

Small shop in Naas. Main street.

Student special for sandwiches. EUR 2 each.

Two schoolboys walk into the shop. Brothers. One is about 8 or 9, the other 6 or 7. They buy one sandwich. The woman is about to wrap it and the boy asks 'can you please cut it in half'. She does that.

The boy brings the sandwich to the counter clutching a two euro coin and the following conversation ensues:

"Four euro please"

"But I've only one sandwich."

"You've two there. Two sandwiches. Four euro."

"But I just got this cut in half."

"Four euro. Come on, I haven't got all day."

The boy looks at his brother and puts his hand in his pocket. He makes up the remaining two euro in assorted change.

The owner counts it and doesn't say thanks.

When the two of them get outside the older one unwraps the sandwich, tears off some tinfoil and gives half of the sandwich to his little brother. They walk off in opposite directions.

Since then the witness (a work colleague) and me refuse to shop there.

YDMHSSB · 07-01-2009 11:20pm

this thread is currently being read out on 98fm...he has just read out about 6 posts word for work.

he is pretending they are texts from users the git.....

Preset No.3 · 07-01-2009 11:29pm

Random wrote: »

Some people aren't made of money. It's similiar to inviting your mates round for pints and telling them to bring their own beer. It's not a charity people are running.

What's the problem here exactly?

Don't invite him next time. Was the service really good enough to warranty a 20% tip though?

This has to be in the top 10 for thread of the year. Its kept me sane for the past hour.

Having read all the different tales, am I the only one that thinks that by 'random' picking at all the stories that he may be one of the stingy clan but is just trying to justify it. Either that or just trolling.

towel401 · 07-01-2009 11:32pm

YDMHSSB wrote: »

this thread is currently being read out on 98fm...he has just read out about 6 posts word for work.

he is pretending they are texts from users the git.....

Omg what a ****ing tool. We all knew TV was fake (all of it, even the news) but now the radio is fake too! maybe nobody is listening to them or wasting their time sending in texts

did the ****er read out any of mine? i hope he reads this one

monkeyfudge · 07-01-2009 11:38pm

sceptre wrote: »

The what? Some couples regard themselves as a single link where there's a round?

Yeah. I find it very rare to come across a couple that don't do that.

Preset No.3 · 07-01-2009 11:38pm

YDMHSSB wrote: »

this thread is currently being read out on 98fm...he has just read out about 6 posts word for work.

he is pretending they are texts from users the git.....

Its a slow night!

monkeyfudge · 07-01-2009 11:39pm

YDMHSSB wrote: »

this thread is currently being read out on 98fm...he has just read out about 6 posts word for work.

he is pretending they are texts from users the git.....

Now that's STINGY!

Needs to read up on copyright.

trailerparkboy · 07-01-2009 11:40pm

Did he read mine out?

Preset No.3 · 07-01-2009 11:41pm

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Now that's STINGY!

I was just going to say that but you beat me to it. Bet they wouldve come up with some original thoughts on community radio!! :eek:

Random · 07-01-2009 11:45pm

Preset No.3 wrote: »

This has to be in the top 10 for thread of the year. Its kept me sane for the past hour.

Having read all the different tales, am I the only one that thinks that by 'random' picking at all the stories that he may be one of the stingy clan but is just trying to justify it. Either that or just trolling.

Don't get me wrong .. some are a bit mad .. but some things just don't fit the thread for me.

Tech3 · 07-01-2009 11:49pm

a lad from work was out drinking with a few other lads from work and it was his turn to get the round but he decided he wanted to go home. That was fair tight

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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