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PTH2009

bargain hunters are the most stingy people in the world. People who only go to places because theres an offer on etc. Some of these people have well paid jobs. My local chip shop had half price fish and chip day a few months ago and the place was jammed but its only 8.50 for a fish and chip full price

When im at a gaa match i always go through the concession turnstiles because i have a student card but its always full of old people who would not spend christmas . Another thing that annoys me at matches is people who refuse to buy a programme and bring in a newspaper with the teams on it or ask for a programme and take the teams down. a programme is only 4/5 euro and if its a famous day could be worth something someday.

Red Kev

Dan Jaman wrote: »

"Money's short and times are hard,
So here's your fecking birthday card."

A birthday card ? No recession in that house. Nooo Sir!

"Moneys short and times are hard,
Now go on and get up the feckin yard".

I was in Dublin a couple of weeks ago, the 5th anniversary mass of a relative, it's turned into a bit of a social get together and its a good chance to catch up with people you might not see for a couple of years otherwise. Always took up a close relative of the deceased with me as he wouldn't be too used to driving that distance (which is fair enough).

Anyway, this year the Mass was on a Wednesday evening, as opposed to usually being on a Sunday, so I couldn;t hang around afterwards for more than a few minutes. I told yer man.

"So your leaving staright after"
"Yes, 15-20 minutes for small talk and then I have to go"(I'd aim to get there 30 mins before for a chat as well)
"You won't stay for the meal ?" (meal was always free, paid for by the family)
"No, definitely not, have to be back here for 11.oo ( its a 2 hour drive)
"Ah, feck ya, I'm not going so, if there's nothing to eat"
"I'll stop in the services in Enfield on the way up and down if you're hungry"
"No, no, those people want a fiver or more for a scone and a cup of tea, I'll not pay that. Leave it so."
"I'll make up sandwiches and we'll bring a flask of tea with us"
"No, no, if there's no meal, I'm not going. That's that."

Stingy b'stard wouldn't go to his cousins funeral because there was no free grub. They grew up literally next door to each other and were lifelong friends. The man is in his late 60's and fully fit, so no bother on that part.

Dan Jaman

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Getting birthday cards from family with no money in it. I don't want your card ffs, I want money riiight.

"Money's short and times are hard,
So here's your fecking birthday card."

DEFTLEFTHAND

Getting birthday cards from family with no money in it. I don't want your card ffs, I want money riiight.

Slippin Jimmy

Knew a fella that bought a tin of beans on the Tuesday so he could have a bubble bath on the Wednesday:D

Electric Sheep

Hollister11 wrote: »

I have an aunt and uncle who are fairly well off. There both working and go through money like its going out of fashion. New house, rental property, new cars, top designer clothes you name it.

Well for my communion back in 2004, they sent me out a card with €5 in it. Now granted i was only 8, but looking back on it ho give someone a fiver for their communion. My folks always give between 20-30 depending on who they are. Another time in school, we were doing a sponsored reading for MS. She sponsored me something like €4, but never gave it to me.

This says more about the ridiculous expectations that now surround first communions than it does about your aunt and uncle.

Digital Solitude

bluewolf wrote: »

30 quid? for a communion?
You're a kid. What would you be doing except buying sweets with it anyway

Save it up to buy a bullock?

Or is that only a culchie thing

[Deleted User]

30 quid? for a communion?
You're a kid. What would you be doing except buying sweets with it anyway

Hollister11

I have an aunt and uncle who are fairly well off. There both working and go through money like its going out of fashion. New house, rental property, new cars, top designer clothes you name it.

Well for my communion back in 2004, they sent me out a card with €5 in it. Now granted i was only 8, but looking back on it ho give someone a fiver for their communion. My folks always give between 20-30 depending on who they are. Another time in school, we were doing a sponsored reading for MS. She sponsored me something like €4, but never gave it to me.

Hollister11

Capt'n Midnight

From the What Scams have you only just Realised? thread

PARlance wrote: »

Just an isolated scam here. Have a neighbour who is in his 70's at home. He wouldn't spend Christmas. On the Friday evening of every bank holiday he goes to his doctor complaining of severe head pains... without fail he then gets an ambulance called for him to take him into hospital knowing full well that he will be kept under observation until a consultant sees him on Monday evening/Tuesday.

Free accommodation and food for him for his bank holiday retreat. Up until the last bank holiday when he was turned away

The Highwayman

Faith+1 wrote: »

^^^^ Christ I remember watching her on Extreme Cheapskates. She cooked dumpster food for an old college friend and his girlfriend.

When they found out their reaction was priceless. I'm sorry but she is one manky b*tch.

After reading about the tv show I went looking on you tube, man there are some crazy people. The first woman who cooked for her college friend isn't just stingy she is nuts.

DVDM93

sligojoek wrote: »

Today, a very wealthy friend of mine called to see me. We speak on the phone a lot but haven't met in person for about 3 years. before he left the house he gave each of my children a crisp €50 note

We adjourned to the pub and he ordered 2 pints of stout, and a pint of coke for his wife. Just as the barman served up the stout my friend fucked off to the toilet and I had to pay for the round.

You took the €50s back off your kids to pay for them pints that led you to post that didn't you? Tell the truth Cavan Joe.

DVDM93

sligojoek wrote: »

You were there, were you?

In Cavan? Nope, I wasn't.

sligojoek

DVDM93 wrote: »

Lies.

You were there, were you?

DVDM93

sligojoek wrote: »

Tipperary.

Okay. I was being harsh on him. I typed that after a few pints and regretted it the next day.

They called again today on their way back from Ballyshannon and took us all out for lunch. I showed him my post and the replies and we had a good laugh about it. He especially liked qwerty1991's reply.

Lies.

sligojoek

Dwarf.Shortage wrote: »

By any chance Sligo Joe are you in fact from Cavan?

Tipperary.

Okay. I was being harsh on him. I typed that after a few pints and regretted it the next day.

They called again today on their way back from Ballyshannon and took us all out for lunch. I showed him my post and the replies and we had a good laugh about it. He especially liked qwerty1991's reply.

identer

Still hide my grannys cookies from roomies...Never want it to finish

Dwarf.Shortage

sligojoek wrote: »

Today, a very wealthy friend of mine called to see me. We speak on the phone a lot but haven't met in person for about 3 years. before he left the house he gave each of my children a crisp €50 note

We adjourned to the pub and he ordered 2 pints of stout, and a pint of coke for his wife. Just as the barman served up the stout my friend fucked off to the toilet and I had to pay for the round.

By any chance Sligo Joe are you in fact from Cavan?

TheOtherBloke

partyguinness wrote: »

What's wrong with that? That was standard student activity in my day.

Yeah okay, it is disgusting but that reminds me of a funny incident years ago. A buddy was well aware of this type of activity and toward the end of the night he would take his pint class into the toilets and fill up with piss. Then place the glass back on a table- sit back and watch....:D

This has given me ideas :pac:

_Tombstone_

Probably why its been years since he visited.

JillyQ

sligojoek wrote: »

Today, a very wealthy friend of mine called to see me. We speak on the phone a lot but haven't met in person for about 3 years. before he left the house he gave each of my children a crisp €50 note

We adjourned to the pub and he ordered 2 pints of stout, and a pint of coke for his wife. Just as the barman served up the stout my friend fucked off to the toilet and I had to pay for the round.

Were is that stingy you dont say how many kids you have. He gave your kids at least €100 but yet your moaning about spending a quid on a couple of pints. You are the one who is coming over as being tight fisted

qwerty1991

sligojoek wrote: »

Today, a very wealthy friend of mine called to see me. We speak on the phone a lot but haven't met in person for about 3 years. before he left the house he gave each of my children a crisp €50 note

We adjourned to the pub and he ordered 2 pints of stout, and a pint of coke for his wife. Just as the barman served up the stout my friend fucked off to the toilet and I had to pay for the round.

For me I would find it stingy that you were not falling over yourself to buy the first round considering your friend had already been so generous to your family.

Look at it from his perspective

'' Met up with an old friend and his family. Out of kindness I gave his children some money, not expecting anything in return. We then went to the pub and when ordering drinks my friend made no effort to pay for the round even after me already being so generous to him, he expected me to pay for this also, not just mine and my wife's drinks,but his too! So I fecked off to the toilet just when it was time to pay for the drinks.... stingy fecker expecting me to pay for everything because he deems me ''wealthy'' and never returning the favour ''

Hococop

sligojoek wrote: »

Today, a very wealthy friend of mine called to see me. We speak on the phone a lot but haven't met in person for about 3 years. before he left the house he gave each of my children a crisp €50 note

We adjourned to the pub and he ordered 2 pints of stout, and a pint of coke for his wife. Just as the barman served up the stout my friend fucked off to the toilet and I had to pay for the round.

Tbh i can't call him stingy considering he gave your kids €50, or am I missing something

sligojoek

Today, a very wealthy friend of mine called to see me. We speak on the phone a lot but haven't met in person for about 3 years. before he left the house he gave each of my children a crisp €50 note

We adjourned to the pub and he ordered 2 pints of stout, and a pint of coke for his wife. Just as the barman served up the stout my friend fucked off to the toilet and I had to pay for the round.

razorblunt

TOEJOE wrote: »

So she wore a carpet, that is extreme !!!!

Doesn't matter once the groom got to lay it.

Grayson

partyguinness wrote: »

Mate seriously, the myth about Rohypnol is just that.

We have all heard this conversation: "Jaysus, did you see the state of Mary last night? She was in an awful way. She said her her drink must have been spiked" ......all nod in agreement.

As if in pubs up and down the country people with unlimited access to powerful sleeping drugs randomly sneak it into pints on a regular basis.

This just is not true.

An ER consultant in Dublin wrote about this. The amount of times women off their faces arrive in A&E claiming spiked drinks is untrue. He said in his entire working career he was never once seen a positive result for Rohypnol, Simple fact is that women are getting off their faces on alcohol and then blaming it on drugs...hilariously we all just seem to accept this.

Mary drank too much. End of.

That consultant said it in a oireachteas investigation. The heads of A&E consultants from around the country were there. They all said the same. They did say that they found levels of alcohol in some women (who had reported their drinks being spiked) in one other place, the morgue.

duchalla

chewed wrote: »

There was a guy in my class in 6th year who was always flush with money, but a miserable git all the same! At lunch we'd head up to the town and he'd always go into the chipper, while us poor lads waited outside with our corn beef or jam sandwiches. When he opened the bag, he'd gob straight in all over the chips and then say "Anyone want a chip?".

I remember a guy like that in my class, he used to pull the same stunt (with taytos) until one day one of the buddies said "yeah, I'll try one" and gobbed into his packet of cheese and onion! Buddy was like "Fcuk you ya tightarsed bollix, now nobody gets any Taytos".

[Deleted User]

This is an old one ... as the money will demonstrate

Back in the day of the Irish £1 coin, a gang of us went out to dinner. There was about 10 of us and one of the girls had brought a new boyfriend along. At the end of the night, we each settled our bills and all agreed to leave a £1 tip each for the waitress. A nice tip back then all totalled, but one all of us could well afford.

As we were walking out, I looked back and saw the new boyfriend slyly slipping his coin back off the table and pocketing it.

He looked up and caught me looking at him and sheepishly put it back on the table :pac:

Stingey shíte ... he was typical of those well off families who clearly have it because they don't spend it.

partyguinness

osarusan wrote: »

Any chance she was senile or something and had forgotten her money?

No, funny (if that is the word) thing was she was the life and soul of the town. She used to run a small shop and was known for her generosity. I am not going to mention the exact town even if she died 20 years ago.

She clearly had some issues. She knew all about her money as there were regular statements and letter from Bank of Ireland- they had set it up for her. In hindsight, it was prob tax evasion and undeclared.

In fact the file also had papers clippings from the local paper from the time of her death with all sorts of locals retelling stories of how great and generous she was i.e giving out sweets etc to the children.

I am sure the locals were unaware of the circumstances of her death and the truth of the matter.