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Things that you would be too proud to do

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    #32
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    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.


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    #33
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    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.


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    #34
    Exceltrup
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭Exceltrup


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


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    #35
    shtpEdthePlum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 556 ✭✭✭shtpEdthePlum


    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.


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    #36
    I see sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 1,655 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    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)


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    #37
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,473 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    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.


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    #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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?


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    #39
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,031 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    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:


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    #40
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    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.


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    #41
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #42
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    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?

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #43
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,684 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    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)


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    #44
    twowheelsonly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,268 ✭✭✭twowheelsonly


    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/


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    #45
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    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?


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    #46
    joe40
    Registered Users Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭joe40


    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.


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    #47
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    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


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    #48
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    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.


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    #49
    Sky King
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    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!


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    #50
    _Godot_
    Registered Users Posts: 877 ✭✭✭_Godot_


    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.


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    #51
    barneygumble99
    Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭barneygumble99


    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 :)


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    #52
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,805 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    barneygumble99 wrote:
    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.

    Thought dacia and audi were both car manufacturers, but I must be wrong


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    #53
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    Your Face wrote: »
    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.

    US Multinational or Sales role?


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    #54
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    Feisar wrote: »
    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?

    Did you enjoy bursting her bubble?


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    #55
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,735 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Go back and ask a company that I had left for a job again.


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    #56
    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,720 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    barneygumble99 wrote: »
    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.

    Thats simply not true. Theirs a few brand names that are a little better but other than that theirs very little difference quality wise so they will always be compared. People are still blinded by brand names and most of the time just paying more for the same thing.


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    #57
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,359 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Your Face wrote: »
    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.

    I'm not so sure it was pride that stopped you treating people like dirt.


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    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    Did you enjoy bursting her bubble?

    Not as much as the time we were eating in out and she ordered bottled water. Coz ya couldn’t be drinking that tap stuff.

    “Mum, you know they ain’t Evian ice cubes?”

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #59
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Lidl and Aldi.....way to proud to ever be seen in either
    Shops for misers....
    you are the one

    Keep up the good fight sir!:P


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    #60
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


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


    No I would never do that.


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    #61
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    As I full blooded republican I could never wear a Poppy even though my grandfather fought for the British army in France, same chap fought against Dev in the Civil war, so instead I wear a remembrance Easter Lily

    21/25



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