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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #8432
    truebluesac
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭truebluesac


    When i was a chungfella in school if ya needed to have a poo youd have to go the secatarys officevand ask for jax rool . He would measure off 4-5 sheets and hand them to ya , then off youd trot to have a ...............

    Id say he had the whole rool for a full school term


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    #8433
    fro9etb8j5qsl2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭fro9etb8j5qsl2


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Glad to hear it! Did Elaine confront Stinge or the other way round?

    Are any of ye in contact with Stinge now?

    She didn't confront her until we were all out in Ennis a few months later. The stinge, as per usual, had expected Elaine to pick her up but Elaine ignored her, switching her phone off a few hours before she headed out. So we were all in the pub when the stinge arrived in, an hour and a half late and drenched wet from the rain. She honestly had the neck to be pissed off and she passed some smart comment to Elaine about not giving her a lift. Elaine ignored her and didn't speak to her all night. At closing time, Elaine started saying her goodbyes (she wasn't drinking as she was working the next day and we were all heading off to a club) and as she did, the stinge grabbed her coat to put it on and leave with her. Elaine asked her where did she think she was going and the stinge with a big confused head says 'sure I might aswell get a lift with you'. To be fair to Elaine, she was still too good hearted not to lash into the stinge in front of everyone, instead taking her outside the door of the pub to have words with her. We never found out what was said but we've only seen the stinge once since and that was at christmas and it was a family thing (her family and Elaine's family have a night out together every year so we went down to meet Elaine for moral support) and she acted as if we were all great friends and nothing had ever happened :confused: Thankfully, she hasn't made any contact since :pac:


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    #8434
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    :DI love the Elaine stories!


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    #8435
    Bummer1234
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭Bummer1234


    Thanks for the great read mrspostman!!


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    #8436
    princess-lala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    Fair play to Elaine for not making a show of her in the pub :)


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    #8437
    Lyrical
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭Lyrical


    I dunno if other people will see this as stingy but at the time I thought it was a pretty crummy thing to do.I started college last year and as I lived closer to the college than everyone else in my class and I had no excuse for not showing up I used to help other students out by signing them into classes,I would also help guys out with any "homework" we got nothing major I admit.One guy I used to do this for knew someone in the year ahead of us and used to be able to get projects that his friend had completed the previous year,so I asked him could he send it on to me to get an idea how to approach the project we had got.

    He said that was no problem and sent me on the project reading through it I thought to myself that the project didn't make much sense and for a guy who got top marks during the previous year it wasn't a great project.By chance I was talking to another student in my class about the project he got off one of the other guys in the class from the previous year and said he'd send it on to me.To my surprise it was the same project however there was quite a few paragraphs included that wasn't in the version I got.Apparently the guy originally was in a hump that I got higher marks in an exam previously (first world problems) and decided to give me an edited version of the project by deleting a few paragraphs to catch me out I think :confused:.

    However I only needed a draft to go off and knowing how the lecturer would cop on to it if I copied a project word for word I did my own project and ended up doing one completely different than the draft I got.It made it all the sweeter I got a higher mark than him that and to see the disdain in his face.You reap what you sow :).


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    #8438
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Where's the stinginess there :confused:


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    #8439
    princess-lala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Where's the stinginess there :confused:

    Probably that the dude edited the project :confused:


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    #8440
    starling
    Registered Users Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭starling


    ^^^^^^ Don't know if that's stingy but it's definitely fúcked up, passive-aggressive dickery. What a sad little person he must be.


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    #8441
    GrumPy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,557 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    Jaysus, that Stinge bird is some cúnt!


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    #8442
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Lyrical wrote: »
    I dunno if other people will see this as stingy but at the time I thought it was a pretty crummy thing to do.I started college last year and as I lived closer to the college than everyone else in my class and I had no excuse for not showing up I used to help other students out by signing them into classes,I would also help guys out with any "homework" we got nothing major I admit.One guy I used to do this for knew someone in the year ahead of us and used to be able to get projects that his friend had completed the previous year,so I asked him could he send it on to me to get an idea how to approach the project we had got.

    He said that was no problem and sent me on the project reading through it I thought to myself that the project didn't make much sense and for a guy who got top marks during the previous year it wasn't a great project.By chance I was talking to another student in my class about the project he got off one of the other guys in the class from the previous year and said he'd send it on to me.To my surprise it was the same project however there was quite a few paragraphs included that wasn't in the version I got.Apparently the guy originally was in a hump that I got higher marks in an exam previously (first world problems) and decided to give me an edited version of the project by deleting a few paragraphs to catch me out I think :confused:.

    However I only needed a draft to go off and knowing how the lecturer would cop on to it if I copied a project word for word I did my own project and ended up doing one completely different than the draft I got.It made it all the sweeter I got a higher mark than him that and to see the disdain in his face.You reap what you sow :).

    Same thing happened me. I usually get a fairly high grade in lab reports and anytime someone asks me for mine I send it on straight away. One girl in particular asks for tge quite regularly. Doesn't bother me at all.

    But one time I asked her for her lab report and she sent me the worst lab report I've ever seen in my life. It didn't occur to me that she might have edited stuff out until tge next day when I seem her perfect "real" report. She hasn't gotten anything off me since :L


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    #8443
    Pique
    Registered Users Posts: 3,044 ✭✭✭Pique


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Same thing happened me. I usually get a fairly high grade in lab reports and anytime someone asks me for mine I send it on straight away. One girl in particular asks for tge quite regularly. Doesn't bother me at all.

    But one time I asked her for her lab report and she sent me the worst lab report I've ever seen in my life. It didn't occur to me that she might have edited stuff out until tge next day when I seem her perfect "real" report. She hasn't gotten anything off me since :L

    Sounds like the shower on The Apprentice. Take what they can get and stab you in the back.


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    #8444
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    From what I hear law is crazy for that kind of stuff. Thankfully engineers seem to team up and get assignments done together


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    #8445
    Mr. G
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    Shops that charge a fee for mobile phone credit :mad:


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    #8446
    CastingCouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    I know of people who go out, then after the nightclub sleep in the fast food outlet for hours until the first bus in the morning runs.


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    #8447
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    I know of people who go out, then after the nightclub sleep in the fast food outlet for hours until the first bus in the morning runs.

    That sounds like hell.


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    #8448
    CastingCouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    April O Neill wrote: »
    That sounds like hell.

    Too tight to pay for a taxi. Even was proud of the fact they don't have to pay for taxis.


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    #8449
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Lyrical wrote: »
    I dunno if other people will see this as stingy but at the time I thought it was a pretty crummy thing to do.I started college last year and as I lived closer to the college than everyone else in my class and I had no excuse for not showing up I used to help other students out by signing them into classes,I would also help guys out with any "homework" we got nothing major I admit.
    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Same thing happened me. I usually get a fairly high grade in lab reports and anytime someone asks me for mine I send it on straight away. One girl in particular asks for tge quite regularly. Doesn't bother me at all.

    Jays, maybe this makes me stingy but I wouldn't be doing this for anyone, maybe friends the odd time but outside of that, feck off!


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    #8450
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Wouldn't you love to sit beside them all day at work, hungover and unwashed...what a pleasure..:pac: Ooops, x posted, I was referring to those sleeping in fast food joints etc.


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    #8451
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    I know of people who go out, then after the nightclub sleep in the fast food outlet for hours until the first bus in the morning runs.

    Guilty as charged :o I don't sleep though :L


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    #8452
    Vicar in a tutu
    Registered Users Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    I know of people who go out, then after the nightclub sleep in the fast food outlet for hours until the first bus in the morning runs.



    I don't get this, why would you go out if you couldn't afford taxi fare? surely they could put a few euro away for a taxi instead of throwing pints down their throats!


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    #8453
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Vicar in a tutu wrote: »
    I don't get this, why would you go out if you couldn't afford taxi fare? surely they could put a few euro away for a taxi instead of throwing pints down their throats!

    It's easy to say that but in reality it sometimes works out that you've no money left, no credit and nowhere else to go :L


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    #8454
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Jays, maybe this makes me stingy but I wouldn't be doing this for anyone, maybe friends the odd time but outside of that, feck off!

    I'm friends with everyone in my course so that's why I send them :L


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    #8455
    Vicar in a tutu
    Registered Users Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    It's easy to say that but in reality it sometimes works out that you've no money left, no credit and nowhere else to go :L



    I can understand that in certain circumstances, but not this whole drink your taxi fare and stay stranded in town! ... scary:eek:


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    #8456
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Vicar in a tutu wrote: »
    I can understand that in certain circumstances, but not this whole drink your taxi fare and stay stranded in town! ... scary:eek:

    I've done it too many times to count :L it's weird seeing o Connell street with only like 3 people on it :L


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    #8457
    Vicar in a tutu
    Registered Users Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    I've done it too many times to count :L it's weird seeing o Connell street with only like 3 people on it :L

    Do your nerves not be shot??, I'd be terrified! KEEP YOUR TAXI FARE STINGY:pac:


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    #8458
    jaxdasher
    Registered Users Posts: 779 ✭✭✭jaxdasher


    I remember me and my mate was short of taxi fare. We spent the night sleeping on the metal benches at the luas stop waiting for the first luas. Surprised we didn't lose out kidneys lol. Plan B was to ask the Guards for a lift but we didn't have the balls.


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    #8459
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    I'm friends with everyone in my course so that's why I send them :L

    Even so, it's not your responsibility! Like I said, I'd certainly help out a friend. All my friends in college were very diligent (more diligent than me TBH) and very rarely would ask for a favour like this. Of course I would help them. But people who are just being bone idle, or hungover all the time? Not a chance.


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    #8460
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    If I can make an admission... I almost never pay for parking (pay and display). And Ill be parking in a town at least twice a werk! Ive been caught twice in seven years and have bought a ticket mabye five or six times (cappy was in the area)
    :o


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    #8461
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    If I can make an admission... I almost never pay for parking (pay and display). And Ill be parking in a town at least twice a werk! Ive been caught twice in seven years and have bought a ticket mabye five or six times (cappy was in the area)
    :o
    I do this myself. It's not stingy, it's a gamble and I'm prepared to accept the results


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