Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

22-08-2013 01:24PM

Would the cost of making the ice be more expensive than coke?

syklops · 22-08-2013 01:27PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Would the cost of making the ice be more expensive than coke?

Doubtful.

Fighting Irish · 22-08-2013 01:29PM

Paddico wrote: »

Class thread.
One mate used to refuse ice in his Coke at takeaways so he would get more in the cup.

Another, and me been a bit of an agricultural type, was when a tray of sandwiches came out to the workmen saving hay. The tight neighbour in question decided to send out banana sandwiches to the grown working men to satisfy their hunger.

I guess ham or beef was a bit too pricey

I don't see anything stingy about either of them

bear1 · 22-08-2013 01:32PM

If you think about the coke/ice scenario then it makes sense to have the ice removed. Say you ask for a large coke, a quarter will be filled of ice and the rest by coke which gives the illusion that it is full whereas it is probably only half full of coke and the ice makes up the rest.
It's a nice con by the take-away but you are still paying for that extra coke which isn't there. Plus it taste ****e when the ice melts.
Not stingy in my opinion

Fighting Irish · 22-08-2013 01:33PM

me bolly wrote: »

Knew a guy whose wallet always looked empty but if he wanted to buy something for himself whatever way he used his fingers to root in the pockets of the wallet a twenty spot would always appear.
He wouldn't spend Christmas.

Maybe he knows the importance of saving money

petes · 22-08-2013 01:39PM

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Maybe he knows the importance of saving money

Are you in the right thread?

maguic24 · 22-08-2013 02:01PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Would the cost of making the ice be more expensive than coke?

No. We are talking about fast food outlets, they will try and save money any way they can. Plus, Ice is just frozen tapwater.

Dublinpato · 22-08-2013 02:14PM

maguic24 wrote: »

No. We are talking about fast food outlets, they will try and save money any way they can. Plus, Ice is just frozen tapwater.

That's why when i go in i ask for fresh ice, none of that frozen sh*te.:D

the_monkey · 22-08-2013 02:21PM

So my wife's friend came to Ireland for a few weeks with her husband and 2 kids, they are Catalan and they have a reputation which makes Cavanese people look like big spenders.

So we met them in town once and one of the kids showed us a little bag full of coppers and the odd 10c , 20c, 50c ....

Then the woman said - yeah they are collecting coins from vending machines, phone boxes (who the hell uses them nowadays) and the ground in general ???

Now kids don't do this by themselves, the fúcking parents had them do that to get more holiday money.

Stingey fúcking cúnts.

OhHiMark · 22-08-2013 02:48PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Assumption or not, I would resent someone offering to pay for something on my behalf.

You're in the right thread.

kylith · 22-08-2013 02:54PM

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kingtut · 22-08-2013 02:54PM

Paddico wrote: »

Cla
One mate used to refuse ice in his Coke at takeaways so he would get more in the cup.

Not stingy in the slightest, usually the coke is ice cold already as it has been in the fridge for a while so no need for the ice (all it does it gives you watery coke!)

Fighting Irish · 22-08-2013 05:09PM

petes wrote: »

Are you in the right thread?

there is a difference between being stingy and saving money

OhHiMark · 22-08-2013 05:18PM

Fighting Irish wrote: »

there is a difference between being stingy and saving money

Yes but it's assumed that you'd pay for the bride/groom's meal on a hen/stag.

maguic24 · 22-08-2013 05:48PM

OhHiMark wrote: »

Yes but it's assumed that you'd pay for the bride/groom's meal on a hen/stag.

It's very dangerous to assume.

efb · 22-08-2013 05:49PM

kingtut wrote: »

Not stingy in the slightest, usually the coke is ice cold already as it has been in the fridge for a while so no need for the ice (all it does it gives you watery coke!)

I would agree that it's stingey

Mr_Spaceman · 22-08-2013 05:49PM

the_monkey wrote: »

So my wife's friend came to Ireland for a few weeks with her husband and 2 kids, they are Catalan and they have a reputation which makes Cavanese people look like big spenders.

So we met them in town once and one of the kids showed us a little bag full of coppers and the odd 10c , 20c, 50c ....

Then the woman said - yeah they are collecting coins from vending machines, phone boxes (who the hell uses them nowadays) and the ground in general ???

Now kids don't do this by themselves, the fúcking parents had them do that to get more holiday money.

Stingey fúcking cúnts.

In a thread chock-full of stingey c unts, this is scraping the barrel.

God knows what those weans will be like when they grow up.

People like this should be banned from boarding a plane - assuming they didn't actually make a raft to save money on their journey.

maguic24 · 22-08-2013 05:50PM

efb wrote: »

I would agree that it's stingey

Which would you prefer a cup of coke or a cup or ice, when you have ordered a cup of coke?

efb · 22-08-2013 05:52PM

maguic24 wrote: »

Which would you prefer a cup of coke or a cup or ice, when you have ordered a cup of coke?

Wherever I buy it put in fcuk all ice. It keeps the drink cool too

maguic24 · 22-08-2013 05:56PM

efb wrote: »

Wherever I buy it put in fcuk all ice. It keeps the drink cool too

Sorry misread the post, which takeaway is your favourite, so I can remember this??

The burger king I frequent, they give you ice automatically, when you don't even ask for ice!!! Other places do this too, but the biggest offender in my book is burger king. It makes sense if you're a big multinational trying to make all the profits, but it's not great for us Joe Soaps who just want a coke, that tastes like coke, not a cup of ice with near a bit a coke in it atal!!

maguic24 · 22-08-2013 06:00PM

efb wrote: »

Wherever I buy it put in fcuk all ice. It keeps the drink cool too

Also do you not think the coke goes flatter way quicker, compared to a coke with no ice?

PaulKK · 22-08-2013 06:44PM

I seriously doubt they are saving money with ice. I read somewhere before that it only costs about 5c a fill for soft drinks out of those machines. The cup is more expensive than the contents.

efb · 22-08-2013 06:45PM

I think it's rank without the ice. Supermacs even McD's don't put in much, but ice is nice.

efb · 22-08-2013 06:47PM

bear1 wrote: »

If you think about the coke/ice scenario then it makes sense to have the ice removed. Say you ask for a large coke, a quarter will be filled of ice and the rest by coke which gives the illusion that it is full whereas it is probably only half full of coke and the ice makes up the rest.
It's a nice con by the take-away but you are still paying for that extra coke which isn't there. Plus it taste ****e when the ice melts.
Not stingy in my opinion

1/4 full of ice filled with coke, only half a cup of coke????

Where's the other 1/4?

Smash The House · 22-08-2013 07:00PM

On a transatlantic flight with my family, everyone was given one of those bags with headphones, blanket, toothbrush etc.
With about 30 mins to land, I go to the bathroom and as I sit back down the flight attendants started to go around to collect the headphones just to get them out of people's way. I never bothered opening mine as i had better ones myself, but my dad beside me used his to watch a movie on the tv. Anyway, I reach down to the plastic bag I was given to get the headphones; they were gone. While I was in the bathroom, my dad had knicked them and put them in his suitcase above us. I of course asked him but he wasn't going to get up and get them.
So, as the flight attendants walked down the isle collecting them, I pretended I was asleep, just so I wouldn't be asked. Meanwhile, dad gave up his used pair of sh*tty headphones.
What's even worse is that for the previous fathers day I had spent €40 on proper headphones for him, which he never uses.
(He dumped the cheap headphones days later, having never used them)

Same holiday in NY, while staying in a hotel costing $200 a night per room (one of which was upgraded to a suite), my dad refused to buy a bag of sugar (suite had a kitchen). Instead, for the whole week he knicked the little things of sugar from cafes and restaurants.

Thank fück his stinginess hasn't rubbed off on me

OhHiMark · 22-08-2013 07:23PM

Smash The House wrote: »

On a transatlantic flight with my family, everyone was given one of those bags with headphones, blanket, toothbrush etc.
With about 30 mins to land, I go to the bathroom and as I sit back down the flight attendants started to go around to collect the headphones just to get them out of people's way. I never bothered opening mine as i had better ones myself, but my dad beside me used his to watch a movie on the tv. Anyway, I reach down to the plastic bag I was given to get the headphones; they were gone. While I was in the bathroom, my dad had knicked them and put them in his suitcase above us. I of course asked him but he wasn't going to get up and get them.
So, as the flight attendants walked down the isle collecting them, I pretended I was asleep, just so I wouldn't be asked. Meanwhile, dad gave up his used pair of sh*tty headphones.
What's even worse is that for the previous fathers day I had spent €40 on proper headphones for him, which he never uses.
(He dumped the cheap headphones days later, having never used them)

Same holiday in NY, while staying in a hotel costing $200 a night per room (one of which was upgraded to a suite), my dad refused to buy a bag of sugar (suite had a kitchen). Instead, for the whole week he knicked the little things of sugar from cafes and restaurants.

Thank fück his stinginess hasn't rubbed off on me

Who paid for the $200 a night rooms?

bear1 · 22-08-2013 07:26PM

efb wrote: »

1/4 full of ice filled with coke, only half a cup of coke????

Where's the other 1/4?

It has happened to me once, cant remember where maybe mcdonalds, I was given large cup with roughly 1/4 of ice and then coke to just above the half way mark.
Now I'm probably off on my figures but my point is that they put so much ice into the feckin thing that the "large" coke is never full of, well, coke. At least not for me

Fighting Irish · 22-08-2013 08:31PM

OhHiMark wrote: »

Yes but it's assumed that you'd pay for the bride/groom's meal on a hen/stag.

I wasn't talking about weddings at all

Esoteric_ · 22-08-2013 08:59PM

bear1 wrote: »

It has happened to me once, cant remember where maybe mcdonalds, I was given large cup with roughly 1/4 of ice and then coke to just above the half way mark.
Now I'm probably off on my figures but my point is that they put so much ice into the feckin thing that the "large" coke is never full of, well, coke. At least not for me

When I was working in a fast food place (similar to McDonald's et al), the rule was that the cup had to be 1/3 full of ice.

Paddy Cow · 22-08-2013 09:25PM

Esoteric_ wrote: »

When I was working in a fast food place (similar to McDonald's et al), the rule was that the cup had to be 1/3 full of ice.

They had a fancy term for it "calibration".

Anywhere that serves coke through cannisters ie one part syrup, one part fizzy water, is on easy street. They save a fortune on having to stock a fridge etc. The ice just adds to the profits. The machines are set to put a certain amount of ice and coke into the container to make it look like a full drink.

If the customer doesn't want the ice then the drink looks a bit scabby and the customer usually asks to have the drink topped up. Where I was working we were always told to tell the customer that if they didn't want ice that was fine but their drink wouldn't be topped up. Queue loads of easy going, happy understanding customers who cared about the profit margins of the shop :pac:

For the most part ie if there wasn't a manager around, we just served the drink without ice (and hence without complaint) and surprise surprise, despite the "loss" in profits, that fast food chain has gone from strength to strength!

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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