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Ever been screwed?

  • 21-07-2012 09:29PM
    #1
    naughtysmurf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭


    In the south of France in 2010, first day, stopped at a beachside bar, gin & tonic, bacardi & coke, small bottle of white lemonade & small bottle of still water, €38!!!! Did they see me coming?:D



    Please share with us all with your getting screwed stories


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  • #2
    Doyler92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭Doyler92


    I've never been screwed before, but have got nailed a few times.


  • #3
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭TheBody


    €12 for a glass of coke (not the white powder type) near the Eiffel Tower a few years ago. My ass is still a little raw from it.


  • #4
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Every time I buy popcorn at the cinema.


  • #5
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,346 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I'm normally the screwer :pac:


  • #6
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    Did it take you two years to get over the shock?


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  • #7
    SocSocPol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭SocSocPol


    Anglo Irish
    AIB
    Irish Nationwide
    Irish Permanent
    Bertie Ahern
    The Universal Social Charge
    etc etc etc...I'm Irish I'm used to being screwed!:mad:


  • #8
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    The Grasshopper in Amsterdam, they catch a lot of folk coming out of Central Station for the first time I'd say.


  • #9
    lolz81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭lolz81


    The barmen at Dublin Airport have savaged me a few times!


  • #10
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    The Milanese. Horrible city, horrible people, extorted right left and centre, also racially abused by greasers on multiple occasions. Not fans of the 'mick' over there.


  • #11
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Kerry airport landing fee for private aircraft. €30 :mad:


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  • #12
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    naughtysmurf wrote: »
    In the south of France in 2010, first day, stopped at a beachside bar, gin & tonic, bacardi & coke, small bottle of white lemonade & small bottle of still water, €38!!!! Did they see me coming?:D



    Please share with us all with your getting screwed stories

    Sounds like any Irish bar on a saturday night.


  • #13
    3rdDegree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭3rdDegree


    Anything in the wild west Gaelteacht about 20 years ago. .


  • #14
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Last week I wasn't around and my wife needed to get a car bulb fitted, she went to halfords. It cost €8.99 to fit a bulb. I felt sick.


  • #15
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    My dad died a few years ago from a heart attack. The solictors fee was twelve thousand euro for dealing probate. My family and I joke that he would have died again if he had seen that charge.


  • #16
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Have I ever been screwed?? Oooooooooooooh yeeeeeeah (said in a very low Barry White Baratone) ;);););) hubba hubba


  • #17
    Jesus Shaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Jesus Shaves


    Doyler92 wrote: »
    I've never been screwed before, but have got nailed a few times.

    I know the feeling


  • #18
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    In Playa del Inglés... first ever holiday without the family and on the first night we went to a strip bar for a bit of a gander. The girls persuaded us to buy them a drink and they perhaps predictably ordered two bottles of the most expensive champagne in the place. I wasn't going to pay and went to walk out but was stopped by a huge bouncer holding a crash helmet. In the end we came to an amicable agreement and somehow managed to have the bouncer drive us and the girls back to our hotel and sit outside for 45 minutes while we entertained. All in all not a bad night. I got screwed twice.


  • #19
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,489 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Paid €16 in Venice for a cappucino


  • #20
    naughtysmurf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭naughtysmurf


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    Did it take you two years to get over the shock?

    Heading there again shortly but this time.... I'm fcuking ready baby!!!!:D


  • #21
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    My name is URL wrote: »
    In Playa del Inglés... first ever holiday without the family and on the first night we went to a strip bar for a bit of a gander. The girls persuaded us to buy them a drink and they perhaps predictably ordered two bottles of the most expensive champagne in the place. I wasn't going to pay and went to walk out but was stopped by a huge bouncer holding a crash helmet. In the end we came to an amicable agreement and somehow managed to have the bouncer drive us and the girls back to our hotel and sit outside for 45 minutes while we entertained. All in all not a bad night. I got screwed twice.

    ?


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lollers wrote: »
    My dad died a few years ago from a heart attack. The solictors fee was twelve thousand euro for dealing probate. My family and I joke that he would have died again if he had seen that charge.

    A friend of the family had a look through the itemised bill for a funeral from the undertakers', ****ing rip-off merchants. Got a few quid back but one wonders how many people either wouldn't care enough to check or then care enough to try to get money back.


  • #23
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    I once knew a can of tuna that got screwed.


    Anytime I shop in a "convienience store", I leave feeling screwed.


  • #24
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    ?

    He means he got an std


  • #25
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Night out in Paris city centre was fairly expensive.

    So expensive that I insisted on getting an illegal taxi back to the hotel with a guy who did even know how to get to the Eiffel Tower. At one point I thought we were being set up for an ambush. Got there after about an hour of me figuring it out.


  • #26
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    smcgiff wrote: »
    He means he got an std

    Interesting.


  • #27
    Junoesque
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Junoesque


    Almost every shop I go in. I can't help it I compare prices I wish I didn't!


  • #28
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    Yes. Screwed by John F Kennedy when he withheld air support during the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion. We lost a lot of good men that day


  • #29
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Lollers wrote: »
    My dad died a few years ago from a heart attack. The solictors fee was twelve thousand euro for dealing probate. My family and I joke that he would have died again if he had seen that charge.

    That sounds very excessive for probate alone.

    I hope you reported the fúcker.


  • #30
    staker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    Paid customs some excess charge on 600 cigarettes I was bringing to Norway for myself as they were a crazy price there at the time-what should've worked out cheaper ended up costing about £200for 600 back in 2000.:mad:


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  • #31
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    Lapin wrote: »
    That sounds very excessive for probate alone.

    I hope you reported the fúcker.

    He was a D4 solicter, who has since disappeared. No surprise really.


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