Things that you would be too proud to do

bobbyss · 18-03-2021 2:16pm #1

What things are people too proud to do? Pride being a vey deadly sin!

Would you apply for a better paid job knowing your new boss would be your next door, much younger neighbour? Knowing that this new boss would be very much on your case as it were. A big pay increase mind?

Look for a reference from a specific person in a company having left on very bad terms with that individual?

Dress up for a fancy dress party and feeling like a .......idiot.

Pride can make fools of us all.

BENDYBINN · 15-04-2021 3:30pm

Lidl and Aldi.....way to proud to ever be seen in either
Shops for misers....

ThewhiteJesus · 15-04-2021 3:31pm

Ask for help

o1s1n · 15-04-2021 3:34pm

BENDYBINN wrote: »

Lidl and Aldi.....way to proud to ever be seen in either
Shops for misers....

Only M&S for yourself then yeah? Shops for people who don't know what to spend their money on ... :pac:

Fake Scores · 15-04-2021 3:34pm

BENDYBINN wrote: »

Lidl and Aldi.....way to proud to ever be seen in either
Shops for misers....

They do well.
There's ques outside the place.

Surreptitious · 15-04-2021 3:36pm

Take it up the ass.

dkav9 · 15-04-2021 3:37pm

BENDYBINN wrote: »

Lidl and Aldi.....way to proud to ever be seen in either
Shops for misers....

Does it make you feel better spending twice the money in dunnes or supervalu for the same thing?

Sky King · 15-04-2021 3:38pm

Get a cleaner. I know a lazy fu.ck who pays some Polish one to clean their house. I'd sooner sit in filth than have someone clean up after me.

Needless to say I usually am surrounded by filth.

15-04-2021 3:38pm

Write for National Enquirer (THE gutter press)

ThewhiteJesus · 15-04-2021 3:44pm

pretend to be PC

Trigger Happy · 15-04-2021 3:46pm

Sit drinking cans in the park.
But secretly I really want to.

Graces7 · 15-04-2021 3:57pm

dkav9 wrote: »

Does it make you feel better spending twice the money in dunnes or supervalu for the same thing?

Actually supervalu downsized and is as cheap as LIDl etc,

McGinniesta · 15-04-2021 4:02pm

You'd be surprised why you may do if you have to.

There are things you wouldn't do today, however you dont know what you are capable of doing given the right circumstances

L1011 · 15-04-2021 4:05pm

Graces7 wrote: »

Actually supervalu downsized and is as cheap as LIDl etc,

Supervalu price match a few core own brand items that people pay attention to the prices of

Otherwise they are tortuously expensive, far and away dearer than any other store.

growleaves · 15-04-2021 4:14pm

McGinniesta wrote: »

You'd be surprised why you may do if you have to.

There are things you wouldn't do today, however you dont know what you are capable of doing given the right circumstances

Like what

dinneenp · 15-04-2021 4:30pm

BENDYBINN wrote: »

Lidl and Aldi.....way to proud to ever be seen in either
Shops for misers....

Many people had that opinion in the first few years when they came to Ireland. They (Aldi & Lidl) have totally transformed since then....)

iamstop · 15-04-2021 5:23pm

Play any Journey in a DJ set.

Mad_maxx · 15-04-2021 9:31pm

L1011 wrote: »

Supervalu price match a few core own brand items that people pay attention to the prices of

Otherwise they are tortuously expensive, far and away dearer than any other store.

if i wanted to be gouged doing my weekly shop , at least M+S strike a genuinely high class pose

Super Valu has the high prices without any sort of upmarket feel

NSAman · 15-04-2021 9:34pm

Be seen in a Toyota Prius.....

Oh the humanity!!!

boombang · 15-04-2021 9:35pm

Draw dole.

I'd sooner work minimum wage.

ShatterAlan · 15-04-2021 9:39pm

Sky King wrote: »

Get a cleaner. I know a lazy fu.ck who pays some Polish one to clean their house. I'd sooner sit in filth than have someone clean up after me.

Needless to say I usually am surrounded by filth.

I pay a cleaner to clean my apartment. She's brilliant. Place looks like a show-house after 3 hours and the paltry cost of 36 euros.

Weepsie · 15-04-2021 9:39pm

L1011 wrote: »

Supervalu price match a few core own brand items that people pay attention to the prices of

Otherwise they are tortuously expensive, far and away dearer than any other store.

They also don't compare like for like.

They had an adverts comparing blueberrie punnet prices with those in Tesco on a bus stop last week. They compared their cheapest with Tesco's most expensive ignoring that you can in fact get a punnet cheaper than they themselves sell. It's misleading

ShatterAlan · 15-04-2021 9:42pm

I used to make spaghetti bolognese with the sauce from a jar.

Never again. I didn't know any better until I was shown how to do it with regular tomatoes.

KaneToad · 15-04-2021 9:43pm

bobbyss wrote: »

Would you apply for a better paid job knowing your new boss would be your next door, much younger neighbour? Knowing that this new boss would be very much on your case as it were. A big pay increase mind? .

Not a million years would I take a job in this scenario. It wouldn't be due to pride. I have no interest in seeing more of the people I work with than I have to...

ulster · 15-04-2021 9:47pm

Sky King wrote: »

Get a cleaner. I know a lazy fu.ck who pays some Polish one to clean their house. I'd sooner sit in filth than have someone clean up after me.

Needless to say I usually am surrounded by filth.

This is such an Irish attitude haha. God forbid we'd pay someone to make our lives a little easier. That might be too pretentious!

I see sheep · 15-04-2021 9:51pm

boombang wrote: »

Draw dole.

I'd sooner work minimum wage.

Yes because everyone on the dole has turned down a minimum wage job :rolleyes:

StevenToast · 15-04-2021 9:58pm

To proud to work as a journalist......can you imagine the embarrassment....

Andrea B. · 15-04-2021 9:58pm

ShatterAlan wrote: »

I pay a cleaner to clean my apartment. She's brilliant. Place looks like a show-house after 3 hours and the paltry cost of 36 euros.

"Paltry" is relative. Also, daily, monthly?
Honestly, not knocking, but just curious.

McGinniesta · 15-04-2021 11:27pm

growleaves wrote: »

Like what

I always thought that if someone mugged me that I'd just hand over my wallet just to avoid conflict.

A while back it actually happened and I didnt hand over my wallet, the red mist descended and I was going to kill the guy that did it.

What I meant was you dont know how you would react to a situation until it happens.

Purple Mountain · 15-04-2021 11:30pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Super Valu has the high prices without any sort of upmarket feel

I shop in my local one because it's absolutely spotless and they stock a lot of local suppliers in the fruit/veg/bakery and it's all fresh and great quality.
That's one thing I hate about Tesco- less Irish brands stocked.

Vowel Movement · 15-04-2021 11:49pm

Too enter a bookies

Your Face · 16-04-2021 3:42am

A few times during my career (ha!), I was expected and entreated to screw people over, treat them like dirt etc.

I may be a lot of things but I'm too proud to do that.

Sgt Hartman · 16-04-2021 6:47am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I shop in my local one because it's absolutely spotless and they stock a lot of local suppliers in the fruit/veg/bakery and it's all fresh and great quality.
That's one thing I hate about Tesco- less Irish brands stocked.

My local Supervalu in Balbriggan has a really good butcher counter and a brilliant selection of beers. I'll never lower myself to buying meat from Tesco again, especially after the the meatballs I got there last time were full of fat.

Exceltrup · 16-04-2021 7:06am

Go on the dole. I despise the idea of sitting around waiting for handouts.

shtpEdthePlum · 16-04-2021 7:22am

bobbyss wrote: »

Look for a reference from a specific person in a company having left on very bad terms with that individual?

I did this to my last boss when i was going for my current job. I'm not quite their boss, but i have a more favourable pay scale and i control the funding for them. I knew they would either have to give me a good reference or say no and risk me getting the job anyway and having the degree of control I do now.

It wasn't strictly a malicious action, I do make sure that while I do this job, I am fair to everyone. We weren't on awful terms either, I would just have no trouble expressing my opinion to the old boss and that made them uncomfortable.

Probably makes them even more uncomfortable now, especially given I'm half their age.

I see sheep · 16-04-2021 9:27am

Exceltrup wrote: »

Go on the dole. I despise the idea of sitting around waiting for handouts.

You prefer sitting around re-registering as a new boards user to try to steer a thread into a people on the dole bashing one?

There are about 500 of theses already (as you well know)

_Brian · 16-04-2021 9:32am

People saying “I would never do that” display a lack of understanding in life matters in general.

Humans, each one of us just need the appropriate situation and motivation and we will do essentially anything. Thinking otherwise is just pretending to yourself.

16-04-2021 9:35am

BENDYBINN wrote: »

Lidl and Aldi.....way to proud to ever be seen in either
Shops for misers....

lol. It bugs me that they aren’t near me. Or online.

Also who is going to see you or care?

GreeBo · 16-04-2021 9:39am

Sky King wrote: »

Get a cleaner. I know a lazy fu.ck who pays some Polish one to clean their house. I'd sooner sit in filth than have someone clean up after me.

Needless to say I usually am surrounded by filth.

Yeah!
Screw those stupid cleaners, they dont deserve to work!:rolleyes:

completedit · 16-04-2021 9:48am

BENDYBINN wrote: »

Lidl and Aldi.....way to proud to ever be seen in either
Shops for misers....

I have found myself becoming increasingly fervent in my support of these two shops. If I hear someone mentions Dunnes Stores, Cornelscourt to me again! Also, it was the likes of Lidl and Aldi that brought competition to the Irish market which forced the likes of Dunnes to up their game. What do people have against places providing good prices? Is it the Irish way of rejecting globalisation? Some people do seem to really have issue with the quality of the stuff but I would love to do a blind test on their fresh produce. There's videos on youtube but it's more just comparing brand name vs Lidl brand snacks.

Just unnecessarily snobby and pretentious. It tends to be followed by 'that's why all the foreigners shop there' which somehow suggests that the Irish palette, a nation without any real food culture is more sophisticated than an immigrants.

16-04-2021 10:50am

completedit wrote: »

I have found myself becoming increasingly fervent in my support of these two shops. If I hear someone mentions Dunnes Stores, Cornelscourt to me again! Also, it was the likes of Lidl and Aldi that brought competition to the Irish market which forced the likes of Dunnes to up their game. What do people have against places providing good prices? Is it the Irish way of rejecting globalisation? Some people do seem to really have issue with the quality of the stuff but I would love to do a blind test on their fresh produce. There's videos on youtube but it's more just comparing brand name vs Lidl brand snacks.

Just unnecessarily snobby and pretentious. It tends to be followed by 'that's why all the foreigners shop there' which somehow suggests that the Irish palette, a nation without any real food culture is more sophisticated than an immigrants.

I tend to prefer Irish meat but otherwise am fine with any shop.

Feisar · 16-04-2021 10:51am

As regards the supermarkets, can people not use their senses? Aldi pasta is grand of a week night but at the weekend and I want something nice it's down to Supervalue and pay through the nose for Rummo pasta.
As regards people's great butchers, ask them for a bit of shin on the bone or tongue or something. Chances are they'll have to order it in because they aren't really butchers, just meat unpacker/displayers. Bugger all butchers killing themselves anymore, it's all comingfrom a couple of factories. My mother God bless her was on about the chicken fillets from a certain butchers and how good they were. I asked her where such and such butchers chicken farm was?

Panthro · 16-04-2021 10:54am

I'd not be found dead shopping in M & S.
Ohh the embarrassment!

Aldi & Lidl, now that's the sweet spot with their German beers and low cost brocoli.

Its like they're giving it away! (in exchange for money)

twowheelsonly · 16-04-2021 12:03pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I tend to prefer Irish meat but otherwise am fine with any shop.

Aldi and Lidl both supply a lot of QA Irish meat.

https://www.leanbusinessireland.ie/bord-bia-releases-survey-irish-supermarkets/

Church on Tuesday · 16-04-2021 1:09pm

Fake Scores wrote: »

They do well.
There's ques outside the place.

Top quality produce for the most part too.

If I won Euro millions tomorrow I'd still shop there, why over pay?

joe40 · 16-04-2021 1:17pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Top quality produce for the most part too.

If I won Euro millions tomorrow I'd still shop there, why over pay?

I started to shop in Aldi for the cost but now I just simply prefer it (Lidl less so)

It is just a nice compact size of a shop without aisle upon aisle of unnecessary stuff. plus the quality for the most part is very good, and usually have some mainstream brands now as well.

Sgt Hartman · 16-04-2021 2:19pm

twowheelsonly wrote: »

Aldi and Lidl both supply a lot of QA Irish meat.

https://www.leanbusinessireland.ie/bord-bia-releases-survey-irish-supermarkets/

The 28 day aged Irish Angus rib roast from Lidl is fantastic

completedit · 16-04-2021 3:13pm

joe40 wrote: »

I started to shop in Aldi for the cost but now I just simply prefer it (Lidl less so)

It is just a nice compact size of a shop without aisle upon aisle of unnecessary stuff. plus the quality for the most part is very good, and usually have some mainstream brands now as well.

Same. Dunnes is for people who have 'goodie presses', i.e. heaps of ****e . No adult should need to shop there. Lidl and Aldi have everything needed.

Sky King · 16-04-2021 3:21pm

GreeBo wrote: »

Yeah!
Screw those stupid cleaners, they dont deserve to work!:rolleyes:

Not sure how you got that from me saying I don't like the idea of sitting on my hole while someone is cleaning up after me. Maybe you're one of those people and are getting defensive?

It's like being a giant baby IMO. Next they'll be changing your nappy.

Clean up your own sh!t. Or don't, and live in squalor - like me!

_Godot_ · 17-04-2021 4:59am

I won't do porn or other sex work (not that I could either, I'm no looker). I feel that if I ever was that desperate, my family would help me until I got back on my feet and could pay them back. Plus the whole I'm asexual thing.

barneygumble99 · 17-04-2021 5:51am

I never understand why people compare Lidl and Aldi with super valu , dunnes stores , Tesco etc. Completely different shops that sell completely different brands. You can’t compare prices in that case. It’s like comparing Dacia with Audi, sure they do the same thing , get u from A to B but , different product completely.

Me, I shop in Dunnes mainly, €50 shop is only €40 with voucher. Other than that I buy grapes, chocolate and nuts/seeds in Aldi and I buy SV own brand bran flakes. Some people will always claim cheapest is best and no difference in taste, some people will always buy luxury. It’s life. Just don’t try and convince me that Aldi/Lidl toilet paper does the same job as cushelle with the same amount of squares

Things that you would be too proud to do

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