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Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

  • 29-01-2014 11:06pm
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    System
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    See what I did there?!

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  • #2
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    I knew this mod once, fierce stingy with the post count so he was. :o


  • #3
    Butterface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    This thread title has a word missing.. bit stingy, no?


  • #4
    Jamie_
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Jamie_


    Butterface wrote: »
    This thread title has a word missing.. bit stingy, no?

    The OP used the number '2' instead of 'do' to save bytes. All sounds the same...

    Stingy fecker.


  • #5
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    the smell of sting off the op


  • #6
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,364 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    In order to save letters, I regularly don't finish sente


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  • #7
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    I call into a McDonald's almost every other day for no other reason than to help my self to the independent newspaper. (I don't actually buy anything when I'm in there)

    I forget how much they actually cost now, but I see it as a waste of good money to pay for something that's technically 'free'

    PS it really riles me lighting the stove with a paper I paid money for.


  • #8
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Closing threads to save some thing called a server.


  • #9
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Banjo String wrote: »
    I call into a McDonald's almost every other day for no other reason than to help my self to the independent newspaper. (I don't actually buy anything when I'm in there)

    I forget how much they actually cost now, but I see it as a waste of good money to pay for something that's technically 'free'

    PS it really riles me lighting the stove with a paper I paid money for.

    The newspaper should be on the euro saver menu.


  • #10
    coolhull
    Registered Users Posts: 49,731 ✭✭✭✭coolhull


    I always wash the toilet tissue when I've finished with it.

    Bloody awkward things to hang out on the clothesline though.


  • #11
    IsMiseMyself
    Registered Users Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭IsMiseMyself


    My brother is sitting on a small fortune due to an injury who got a lot of compo for. He's ridiculously stingy. His three-year-old phone broke, so instead of buying a new one he "borrowed" my mother's spare phone: one of those €10 Tesco ones.


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  • #12
    sully2010
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭sully2010


    I think hes serious!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88726226&postcount=88


  • #13
    Youzername
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭Youzername


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    I knew this mod once, fierce stingy with the post count so he was. :o

    I think we should all take a moment to remember those dead hamsters... :(


  • #14
    Newaglish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭Newaglish


    The thread title kills me.


  • #15
    falan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭falan


    IsMiseMyself wrote: »
    My brother is sitting on a small fortune due to an injury who got a lot of compo for. He's ridiculously stingy. His three-year-old phone broke, so instead of buying a new one he "borrowed" my mother's spare phone: one of those €10 Tesco ones.





    Kinda reminds me of a friend of mine who supposedly got a LOT of money from an accident but has never said a word about it which is cool...But just to go on and on and on about how they have no money to pay the bills or barely enough to eat, while at the same time buying very expensive collectors items, new car, house done up, laptops, 2 xboxes in one day, you name it, they got it..
    The final straw for me was when he asked me to drive a 60 mile round trip to buy a hoover. At the time i was only working part time so i genuinely had hardly any money trying to keep a car on the road and pay rent. I asked him for something towards petrol and he said no cos he was broke. (Might i add that i never ask for petrol but that week i was skint)...

    Got to the electric shop and he bought the most expensive hoover in there for 500 euro. He opened his wallet and it was packed with 50s, must have been a few grand in there at least...
    Needless to say he never got a lift off me anywhere again, id always have an excuse and we're not really friends anymore....


  • #16
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    I was in Chile and went on a tour that involved 7 of us travelling on a minibus for 4 days. There was this awful couple from London who spent four days spouting about socialism, the tyranny of how we exploit poorer societies and various other soundbites lifted from a Guardian opinion piece.

    Despite having the latest in Apple tablets and phones, high-end SLR cameras and designer clothes, they felt that a worthy tip for the driver was the princely sum of about €5 in the local currency. After 4 days, and in a country where the average industrial wage is about €20000.


  • #17
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I saw this fella* pick up and pocket a 20 cent coin





    *it was me!


  • #18
    rawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭rawn


    Davarus Walrus wrote: »
    I was in Chile and went on a tour that involved 7 of us travelling on a minibus for 4 days. There was this awful couple from London who spent four days spouting about socialism, the tyranny of how we exploit poorer societies and various other soundbites lifted from a Guardian opinion piece.

    Despite having the latest in Apple tablets and phones, high-end SLR cameras and designer clothes, they felt that a worthy tip for the driver was the princely sum of about €5 in the local currency. After 4 days, and in a country where the average industrial wage is about €20000.

    Hypocritical rather that stingey, no?

    I was short bus fare the other day by 40c, my friend that I was with said "ah no worries I have loads of change" and threw 40c in. We were back in her house that night and she asked me finish washing the dishes "to work off that 40c I owed her". She was dead serious! I just laughed it off and I did do the dishes but made a note to myself to post it here cos it just seemed so scabby haha, she is notoriously stingey, have mentioned her several times in this thread :D


  • #19
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    biko wrote: »
    I saw this fella* pick up and pocket a 20 cent coin





    *it was me!

    Did it hit you on the back of the head as you bent down to pick it up?


  • #20
    Muff Richardson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭Muff Richardson


    Davarus Walrus wrote: »
    I was in Chile and went on a tour that involved 7 of us travelling on a minibus for 4 days. There was this awful couple from London who spent four days spouting about socialism, the tyranny of how we exploit poorer societies and various other soundbites lifted from a Guardian opinion piece.

    Despite having the latest in Apple tablets and phones, high-end SLR cameras and designer clothes, they felt that a worthy tip for the driver was the princely sum of about €5 in the local currency. After 4 days, and in a country where the average industrial wage is about €20000.

    €20k? i earn about €7k more than that and am taxed to f*ck, live in a very expensive country and net about €390 a week...

    i'd gladly take a €5 tip anytime it came along, but it never has.


  • #21
    Muff Richardson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭Muff Richardson


    i am always boggled how any of those tight wads seem to think they are invisible to what they do when dipping out of whatever it is they are trying not to spend money on. they seem to think nobody notices and its usually out of embarrassment or just not wanting to cause a fuss that nothing is said to the f*cker.

    it really is the worst human trait possible, i've met some seriously unpleasant people who i'd rather spend time with other than some tight fisted c*nt.


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  • #22
    Amaya Tiny Appliance
    Posts: 0 ✭ Amaya Tiny Appliance


    This is very relevant to me right now!

    Had an old mate from Belgium staying all week. He invited himself as he was doing some work here in London...I wasn't that keen but agreed as I'm trying to be more charitable etc this year. He stayed Monday to Friday. Ate dinner with us every night, drank loads of our cans/wine..stressed me out a bit as we're very tight on money this month due to my hours being cut at work, but he's fairly good company so I didn't make a big deal of it.

    I met him in a cafe this evening to have a quick dinner before he headed home. Went to a cheap Korean place, came to about 7 quid a head, but I only had a card and it turns out they don't take cards. My friend, who had a wallet full of notes, suggested I go to a cash machine, I said there weren't any around that area (this is true)...he begrudgingly agreed to pay for my half and then he said "you can buy me one back next time you're in Belgium."

    I just sat and looked at him in amazement and he asked what was up...I couldn't bite my tongue and said "you've stayed with me for free all week, saving about £400 on a hotel bill, you've eaten dinner for free all week, saving about £100 on food, you've drunk loads of our booze which directly cost us about £20, and you're seriously feeling hard done by about paying £7 for my dinner?" The worst part was that he still didn't seem to get it, started going on about how it hadn't cost us anything to have him in our house as he was just sleeping on the sofa and food scales up well.

    We had an awkward goodbye hug and he invited me to stay with him in Belgium, but seriously? Is it just me? Staying with someone for 5 nights, bringing no gift, not offering to buy a takeaway and then grumbling over £7?


  • #23
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,692 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Amaya Tiny Appliance wrote: »
    I just sat and looked at him in amazement and he asked what was up...I couldn't bite my tongue and said "you've stayed with me for free all week, saving about £400 on a hotel bill, you've eaten dinner for free all week, saving about £100 on food, you've drunk loads of our booze which directly cost us about £20, and you're seriously feeling hard done by about paying £7 for my dinner?"

    Well done. There are many times I've wanted to say something like this to somebody (not just about stinginess, maybe about something like not contributing to a work project, or something where they've contributed **** all and then moaned about it), but have never had the balls to do it.

    I usually just have the conversation with myself as soon as they're gone, fantasising about verbally destroying and humiliating them with comments like yours above.

    Well done again.


  • #24
    EDB66
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭EDB66


    Stopped off in a Tesco in Clonmel one evening, saw a chap acting a bit furtive around the reduced section, so took a look. He was not happy with the 4 cent scallion bunches and was ensuring he got 8 cents worth for the 4 cents :)


  • #25
    Retrovertigo
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭Retrovertigo


    Amaya Tiny Appliance wrote: »
    you've drunk loads of our booze which directly cost us about £20

    Jaysus that fella was mad for the drink.


  • #26
    Amaya Tiny Appliance
    Posts: 0 ✭ Amaya Tiny Appliance


    Retrovertigo wrote: »
    Jaysus that fella was mad for the drink.

    We had a £10 bottle of red wine, which he drank most of on the Monday night (I'm not really drinking anymore and OH was on beer), and then a few bottles of Leffe, which were something like £2.50 a bottle, during the week, plus other assorted cans. It was probably more than £20 worth.

    I just can't believe the stinginess and the fact that he truly thinks he didn't do anything wrong.


  • #27
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Amaya Tiny Appliance wrote: »
    We had a £10 bottle of red wine, which he drank most of on the Monday night (I'm not really drinking anymore and OH was on beer), and then a few bottles of Leffe, which were something like £2.50 a bottle, during the week, plus other assorted cans. It was probably more than £20 worth.

    I just can't believe the stinginess and the fact that he truly thinks he didn't do anything wrong.

    Maybe he just thought that he'd repay the kindness by doing the same to ye if ye show up in his gaff in Belgium. i.e. he would feed, house and water ye for a week free of charge.

    I agree he could have paid for the meal, as a thanks, but some people think differently. Maybe he'd be a very generous host and wouldn't think too much of it.


  • #28
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Red Kev wrote: »
    Maybe he just thought that he'd repay the kindness by doing the same to ye if ye show up in his gaff in Belgium. i.e. he would feed, house and water ye for a week free of charge.

    I agree he could have paid for the meal, as a thanks, but some people think differently. Maybe he'd be a very generous host and wouldn't think too much of it.
    Are you for real? A generous person wouldn't ask someone to walk to an atm to withdraw cash to pay for a €7 meal, nevermind making a comment that they could get them back next time they are in Belgium.

    The behaviour of the guy was out and out stingy. This guy didn't come over to visit her. He was in London on business and needed a place to stay. He wasn't a close friend but he was still put up. He happily stayed in their apartment eating their food and drinking their alcohol but on the last night, he really showed his true colours.

    When Izzy didn't have the cash to pay for a €7 meal, his response was that she could get him him when she was in Belgium. I have to say, hats off to Lizzy for pointing out to this guy that he had been staying in her apartment for a week at more of a cost than €7. Even when all his cost cutting savings had been pointed out to him, he still tried to make out like his week long stay didn't cost his host's anything and she was the one who was out of order.

    I don't care if Izzy was a millionaire. If someone puts you up for a week and on the last night doesn't have any cash, there is no excuse for you not covering their €7 meal. Even if they had the cash, the least you can do is buy them a thank you dinner fast food meal! (let's face it, if it cost €7, it wasn't a high end restaurant). It's just basic manners. I know that different countries have different expectations of what manners are but I've never been to a country where it's ok to expect all of your expenses to be paid, without even a "Thank you".


  • #29
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Amaya Tiny Appliance wrote: »
    This is very relevant to me right now!

    Had an old mate from Belgium staying all week. He invited himself as he was doing some work here in London...I wasn't that keen but agreed as I'm trying to be more charitable etc this year. He stayed Monday to Friday. Ate dinner with us every night, drank loads of our cans/wine..stressed me out a bit as we're very tight on money this month due to my hours being cut at work, but he's fairly good company so I didn't make a big deal of it.

    I met him in a cafe this evening to have a quick dinner before he headed home. Went to a cheap Korean place, came to about 7 quid a head, but I only had a card and it turns out they don't take cards. My friend, who had a wallet full of notes, suggested I go to a cash machine, I said there weren't any around that area (this is true)...he begrudgingly agreed to pay for my half and then he said "you can buy me one back next time you're in Belgium."

    I just sat and looked at him in amazement and he asked what was up...I couldn't bite my tongue and said "you've stayed with me for free all week, saving about £400 on a hotel bill, you've eaten dinner for free all week, saving about £100 on food, you've drunk loads of our booze which directly cost us about £20, and you're seriously feeling hard done by about paying £7 for my dinner?" The worst part was that he still didn't seem to get it, started going on about how it hadn't cost us anything to have him in our house as he was just sleeping on the sofa and food scales up well.

    We had an awkward goodbye hug and he invited me to stay with him in Belgium, but seriously? Is it just me? Staying with someone for 5 nights, bringing no gift, not offering to buy a takeaway and then grumbling over £7?

    Well done! I wonder if it made him think. I wonder if nobody ever calls someone on being stingy, is that why they just keep going on the same way.


  • #30
    supersean1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭supersean1999


    Brother lived with two guys years ago, and him and one lad knew the other guy was as tight as a nuns **** , so he would buy a big bag of chips and eat them and always put 8-10 into the bin after he finished, the other guy used to wait 10-15 mins and then take them out and make a chip butty thats stingy as **** it's safe to say


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  • #31
    Juniper Unkempt Smallpox
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Juniper Unkempt Smallpox


    Why would put chips in the bin :(


  • #32
    supersean1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭supersean1999


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Why would put chips in the bin :(

    Maybe he was full, :eek:


  • #33
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Was he also stingy for not sharing them, if he knew he would not eat them all ?


  • #34
    supersean1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭supersean1999


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Was he also stingy for not sharing them, if he knew he would not eat them all ?

    Haha no it happened once and ya man ate them, so they continued it on to see would he go for them every time


  • #35
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    supersean1999 wrote: »
    Haha no it happened once and ya man ate them, so they continued it on to see would he go for them every time

    Confirming that your brother is stingey.


  • #36
    supersean1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭supersean1999


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Confirming that your brother is stingey.

    No he is a bo***x , the same guy who used to wait for free food came home one evening delighted , he had went into a phone box and found a burger, came home and heated it up, he also used to buy a bag of potatoes and count them out 3-4 each day for a week, haha imagine living with that, some crack watching him,


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  • #37
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    supersean1999 wrote: »
    No he is a bo***x

    Your brother?


  • #38
    supersean1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭supersean1999


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Your brother?

    I get The feeling your slightly slow. :D


  • #39
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    supersean1999 wrote: »
    I get The feeling your slightly slow. :D

    ? I said 'confirming that your brother is stingey', then you said, 'no, he is a bollix'. So 'he' would refer to your brother here...


  • #40
    Graham_B18C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    FFS lads the last 9 (now 10) posts are OT. Can we get back to stinge stories please?


  • #41
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Mate looking for a lift to a nearby town today. I offered him a bus schedule after he insisted that there were no buses that direction. Eventually he sponged a lift off some other mug.

    The same guy met for a drink other night. Just sat at the table not buying a thing. Guess waiting for me to get him something but my own mug days are over.

    Not before their time either


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  • #42
    Mr Boom Boom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 97 ✭✭Mr Boom Boom


    veryangryman wrote: »
    Mate looking for a lift to a nearby town today. I offered him a bus schedule after he insisted that there were no buses that direction. Eventually he sponged a lift off some other mug.

    The same guy met for a drink other night. Just sat at the table not buying a thing. Guess waiting for me to get him something but my own mug days are over.

    Not before their time either

    Apt username is apt


  • #43
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Mr Boom Boom wrote: »
    Apt username is apt

    You forgot to say boom boom


  • #44
    happypants
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭happypants


    My friend mentions a guy she knows who is always particularly scabby, she told me of a night a few couples went for dinner. At the end of the meal when paying the bill each person threw in the divided amount and a couple extra € coins along with it for tips. As everyone were stood up and leaving the table, this lad scoops up the tray, pockets the cash and mutters 'oh I'll pay with my card' only my friend heard him. She stood close by while he was paying and noted he didn't give a tip using his card to pay.

    Same guy called over on her birthday with cake, which is a lovely generous gesture. Anyway he shard it out with the two other people then as he was leaving sheepishly picked up the remaining cake and says 'I'll just take the rest of this cake home'

    Personally I would have pulled him up at the meal but my friend said she was just baffled someone could do that. Then as for the cake, it was nice of him to bring it but it just seems strange to take the rest home. A bit embarrassing for him really.


  • #45
    mackeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭mackeire


    Four of us went for a pint one Saturday afternoon.
    I bought the first round.
    My brother bought the second round.
    One of the other lads bought the third round.
    Then when I went to the toilet and came back, the fourth had bought only 3 pints.
    One each for himself and the other two lads. When I asked where my pint was he simply answered "I didn't get you one".
    I asked him of he was going to get me one and he said no!
    I had to buy my own pint!!
    That was about 8 years ago and he's still as stingy today as he was back then


  • #46
    Dancor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    supersean1999 wrote: »
    the same guy who used to wait for free food came home one evening delighted , he had went into a phone box and found a burger, came home and heated it up

    I can't stop laughing at this!


  • #47
    gimmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,296 ✭✭✭✭gimmick


    This is reverse stinge, or maybe its stinge by myself and the buddy

    A few years ago, while in college in Limerick in a house share, there was another guy there who was ALWAYS whinging about how broke he was and so on.

    Anyway, it came to pancake Tuesday. We said we were making soem pancakes and anyone who wanted to chip in for the eggs and flour etc could. Your man said he couldn't afford it but he didn't want any anyway.

    So we made the pancakes and your man came staright into the kitchen looking to be fed. We reminded him that he opted out earlier so go away.

    He came back in a while later offering us £2 for a pancake.

    We gladly accepted.

    Think he bought 3 off us. Sure that paid for all the eggs etc.

    The fact he was a dick helped in accepting his offer.


  • #48
    Bleating Lamb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,736 ✭✭✭Bleating Lamb


    Knew a lad in college who was known to head to chipper with a group of people,would never buy proper meal,maybe just chips,everyone would head back,eat while watchin a film or whatever,when everyone had finished meals and plates were cold etc yer man would methodically pick thru the scraps on EVERYONE'S plates!!:)


  • #49
    kinkygirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭kinkygirl


    My Canadian friend came to visit last year. She brought me a sea shell and a book that I had sent her previously as gifts! First day, in a local coffee shop, she told me to pay for my own coffee. She stayed with us for 10 days, got all her meals, tea/coffee free. She's normally a vegetarian/healthy eater, but ate everything on offer, including McDs and 'chipper' food, standing back while we paid.
    We collected her from/dropped her at the airport, she even commented on how expensive 'gas' was here. Her whole Irish experience cost her no more than €10. Yes, we should have said something..we didn't, but when she mentions visiting again, we are moving to Chile.


  • #50
    JDM Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭JDM Jack


    My brother rents a house with 3 others and 1 of them has to be one of the tightest people I know with money. He never buys anything for the house, even if it's something he needs himself. He regularly steals toilet paper from other peoples rooms for his, leaving them in some very ****ty situations... One time he even used my brothers lecture notepad, took out some blank pages and used them until someone else bought more toilet paper!


  • #51
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    A Canadian friend was in Europe in summer 2006 traveling around mainly Germany for the world cup. He knew a few of us in Dublin and came over without telling us and I got a call out of the blue.

    Anyway after mentioning it to my mother (was living at home at the time while I was in college) she offered to let him stay for a while. Free board, free meals, my mother even did his washing for him. He stayed about 4 weeks and then stayed at another guys place for another 4 weeks, kicked him out as I was going back to college.

    When he left my mother said to him that all she wanted was a Christmas card. Nothing arrived and we were so disappointed - me especially for bringing him into the house in the first place.

    He did the same to my friend's family. No present, no thank you letter, just a month of sponging.


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