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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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  • #3512
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    sensibleken wrote: »
    yeah people who generalize are cúnts
    It's hard to argue with the claim she made, Ken! I've seen'em!


  • #3513
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    It's hard to argue with the claim she made, Ken! I've seen'em!

    which generalised claim?


  • #3514
    qz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Thanks for ruining the thread PurpleVintage. Fcuks sake.


  • #3515
    PurpleVintage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭PurpleVintage


    sensibleken
    Exactly I said "SOME". You can go read my post and every time I said something about ignorant people or pubs, I said SOME or a LOT. That's NOT generalizing.

    qz
    The thread was ruined for me a long time ago, yet you didn't care before. Now I can't voice my complaints but you can? I stopped posting after my last comment. People posted after that saying stuff, and I didnt bother commenting because they weren't being rude... i'm sorry if I ruined it for you, it wasn't my intentions tho. Just go on with your topic and ignore my comments please.


  • #3516
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    sensibleken wrote: »
    which generalised claim?

    This:
    ....A LOT of you socialize at pubs, half drunk and out of your wits..


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  • #3517
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    I stopped posting after my last comment.

    that worked out really well, didn't it...?


  • #3518
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    qz wrote: »
    Thanks for ruining the thread PurpleVintage. Fcuks sake.

    Less complaining, more STINGE!


  • #3519
    PurpleVintage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭PurpleVintage


    @ lollipop
    In my comment I CLEARLY said that the comment was ONLY aimed at those who had been saying the stuff I was complaining about. If you didnt say it, then you shouldn't have been BOTHERED by it because I made it QUITE clear that it wasn't for YOU. If you said it, then well :) hope that at least gave you some insight on other people's cultures.

    PS. It's not my fault some people are still on about it. I stopped posting, topic was done for me. I wanted to express my anger it's that simple, just like a lot of people have expressed their frustrations on the first 27 pages over the subject of saying "The dutch/French/Italian/Spanish/Etc are the worst". Yet I didnt see people having a go at them.


  • #3520
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Incidentally, does anyone know how the 'tags' at the bottom of the page are generated? There are some very revealing ones in there...
    are those my feet?, camels arse in sandstorm, cavan people, cheap, cheap egg loving granny, drink piss, foreigners, israel, moochers, offaly people, rat traps, scabby bastards, scabs, scottish, scrooge, stingy, sweaty bacon, the scots, threads that won't die, thriftiness, tight as a ducks arse, tight as a fishes hole, tight pocket bastard, willy derp


  • #3521
    Rocky_Dennis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Rocky_Dennis


    Ah come on people, don't let this thread get ruined by petty arguments, purplevintage, you have had your rant, which you are entitled to have but just let it be now and we get on with the stinge stories :D


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  • #3522
    animan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Andrewh1984 wrote: »
    Ah come on people, don't let this thread get ruined by the petty arguments, purplevintage, you had your rant, which you are entitled to have but just let it be now and we get on with the stinge stories :D
    Yeah get over it and go back to spain :p


  • #3523
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    sensibleken
    Exactly I said "SOME". You can go read my post and every time I said something about ignorant people or pubs, I said SOME or a LOT. That's NOT generalizing.

    yes it is. its an offensive one at that. do you know anything about the social habits of the people youre addressing? no, your making a general assumption. a generalisation is not universal, its general.


  • #3524
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,626 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    Yeah, I agree with the post a few back:

    My friend....... its only when you look at how you were raisd you remember how stingy your family was.

    I remember my mother being in tears if she left the immersion on.

    I really thought just touching the switch gave you the ESB bill of £60 or whatever.

    All the cloths in the kitchen started life as a towel, father's under pants, a baby's nappy (terry towel).

    Every buggy, bath, chair etc we had for me and my 3 siblings came from my cousins house and was used by her siblings first.

    I always got my cousins school uniform / books / communion dress / Christmas coat / shoes.

    We had a piece of cardboard holding the passenger window of my fathers Citron in. If you moved it the window glass fell into the door.

    My mother had packets and packets of the disabled artists cards in the drawer in the kitchen and this was the only card she ever gave to anybody.

    I had no eraser one night in primary school, I made a mistake in my homework and had to fix it so my mother got one of my sisters shoes and used the rubber sole to rub it out.

    My uniform had patches on the knees / elbows, darned holes.


  • #3525
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,626 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    double post.


  • #3526
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,643 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    wmpdd3 wrote: »

    I had no eraser one night in primary school, I made a mistake in my homework and had to fix it so my mother got one of my sisters shoes and used the rubber sole to rub it out.

    We used to use bread as an eraser. :)


  • #3527
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    Yeah, I agree with the post a few back:

    My friend....... its only when you look at how you were raisd you remember how stingy your family was.

    I remember my mother being in tears if she left the immersion on.

    I really thought just touching the switch gave you the ESB bill of £60 or whatever.

    All the cloths in the kitchen started life as a towel, father's under pants, a baby's nappy (terry towel).

    Every buggy, bath, chair etc we had for me and my 3 siblings came from my cousins house and was used by her siblings first.

    I always got my cousins school uniform / books / communion dress / Christmas coat / shoes.

    We had a piece of cardboard holding the passenger window of my fathers Citron in. If you moved it the window glass fell into the door.

    My mother had packets and packets of the disabled artists cards in the drawer in the kitchen and this was the only card she ever gave to anybody.

    I had no eraser one night in primary school, I made a mistake in my homework and had to fix it so my mother got one of my sisters shoes and used the rubber sole to rub it out.

    My uniform had patches on the knees / elbows, darned holes.
    Again, I'd distinguish between stingy and sensible - there was a lot less money around in those days! (unless of course you guys had a fleet of Ferraris in the garage?)

    I can also remember my dad making wine in vats in the hotpress using kits bought at Eason - my god that stuff must have tasted VILE.


  • #3528
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,626 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    Yep I remember the year the bear was left in the hotpress too long!

    No Ferraris in the garage but they had a successful business.


  • #3529
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    I think that's just common sense and the somewhat lost art of thriftiness wmpdd3.
    Our parents generation knew far far harder times then us, so they value stuff more, we'd do well to learn some of their ways.


  • #3530
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We used to use bread as an eraser. :)
    Ye had bread !


  • #3531
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    aujopimur wrote: »
    Ye had bread !


    No joke. We didnt have ANY food some days. The rest of the time a box of semolina would be made to last a week, made with water! Unfortunately those days seem to be coming back again!


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  • #3532
    SerialComplaint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭SerialComplaint


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We used to use bread as an eraser. :)

    We used to use an eraser as bread.


  • #3533
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,888 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    wayfarers wrote: »
    Oooh yeah. Once on a stag weekend in Scotland, walking down a street we spotted a 5p on the street, some old woman crippled with arthritis and well into her 80s spots it also and despite barely been able to walk has bent over and picked it up and pocketed it. We weren't in any rush to pick it up and she wanders off muttering something about finders keepers. I'm assuming she spent her find on Parma Violets or whatever those sweets are that the oldies enjoy.
    Ha Ha!

    The other day in the city centre, I was waiting to cross the road and saw a beggar (blanket over shoulder type) walking along. Suddenly, he slapped one foot down on the path. He then moved his foot and bent down to pick up a 5c piece. Stingy fucher - I could have used that.

    Seriously though, I don't bend over for less than 50c these days.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #3534
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Esel wrote: »
    Seriously though, I don't bend over for less than 50c these days.
    You're a cheap date.


  • #3535
    WonderWoman!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭WonderWoman!


    one fella i know
    always goes to the loo when we're doing rounds and its his turn


  • #3536
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    You're a cheap date.
    lol:D


  • #3537
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,888 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    I set that one up well for yez...

    *makes cow eyes at Monty :eek:

    Not your ornery onager



  • #3538
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Mooo.


  • #3539
    goat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    PurpleVintage wrote: »
    sensibleken
    Exactly I said "SOME". You can go read my post and every time I said something about ignorant people or pubs, I said SOME or a LOT. That's NOT generalizing.

    qz
    The thread was ruined for me a long time ago, yet you didn't care before. Now I can't voice my complaints but you can? I stopped posting after my last comment. People posted after that saying stuff, and I didnt bother commenting because they weren't being rude... i'm sorry if I ruined it for you, it wasn't my intentions tho. Just go on with your topic and ignore my comments please.
    i have traveled parts of europe and as you say people socialise with a coffee, i found this to be true, and i love the athmosphere in italy, france, spain, i enjoyed having a coffee on these beautiful outdoor cafes while having a browse through papers, while here if you finish your coffee, you get the feeling that you should have to move on, i have worked in cafes in the past,


  • #3540
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    Just to point out coffee shops here generally are much the same for socialising, it's just the american chains that aim to get you out the door ASAP.

    There is also a difference between socialising at a coffee shop and abusing their hospitality, the latter being what I have heard described here. When I worked in one we used to get a few groups a day of teens or students where one would buy the cheapest coffee they could find so the lot could sit in the corner and avail of free wifi/shelter for hours on end.
    You can spot these groups a mile away. The genuine groups socialising are different, sure some will sit over a coffee for bloody ages but they'll get at least one a piece and they'll be enjoying themselves, the stinges are obvious in that you can see the strain in trying to stay as long as possible whilst spending as little as possible, you wonder why they bother.


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  • #3541
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    CD. wrote: »
    they also do it with drinks. we had maybe 100mls and were asked if we wanted a take away cup for it.
    the portions are ridiculous. was in burger king there, had a small meal and the small drink was 500 mls and the small fries were the size of our medium. really, you'd have to take it away with you. also, its a regular thing there for people to get one meal and split it because portions are so large

    I was in New York last year and I went into a Burger King in Manhattan. I didn't know of the differences in meal sizes, I ordered a large whopper meal with Fanta. The drink was almost the size of a 2 litre!! I mean literally, it was practically the same height as one but obviously there was some ice in it and they didn't fill it up to the brim, but still! I was shocked.


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