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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭Johnny Utah


    That was just one example of many. He also buys his own clothes and furniture from a charity shop, even though he's probably a millionaire!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,251 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    javaboy wrote: »
    Meh. He's entitled to charge you for it. Imo it's stingy to expect to get one cent of petrol for free. ;)
    The inaccuracies in the pump would mean that the actual amount of petrol you get could be 5c worth either way. Thats why I always put in 2c extra and I refuse to pay for it. Maybe I'm the stingey one


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    The inaccuracies in the pump would mean that the actual amount of petrol you get could be 5c worth either way. Thats why I always put in 2c extra and I refuse to pay for it. Maybe I'm the stingey one

    No, you're just a thief. Be warned I have contacted the local authorities


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭sneakerfreak


    There's a petrol station near where I live. Just say you decide to fill your tank up with €20 worth of petrol and you hold the lever down slightly longer than you should and it adds up to €20.01. This guy would charge you the 1cent!

    how many people use the pump a day?add up all those 1 cents,multiply it by 365 and thats approx how much money they lose by not charging for the one cents
    galwayrush wrote: »
    I've noticed that people have no problem with a large retail outlet splitting a 20 euro note for a cent, but become very agitated when the small local shop does the same.:rolleyes:

    people wont haggle in tescoes or hmv but yet come into a small business and argue like f--k and get abusive when asked for the price of the goods they have brought to the counter.

    the price of the goods are clearly marked and we have put up a huge sign saying no discounts/no credit and still they put on this little smirk when you ask them for the money to pay

    that little poxy horrible f--ing condescending smirk and then they say something ridiculous like "ah come on lads youre havin a laugh,it was €5 cheaper last week",this is of course a lie,or theyl say "yer man done it for less yesterday" this is another lie as same people were working yesterday

    or they tell you another shop is doing it cheaper (more lies)

    these people are scum

    if you dont want to pay the price marked on the product then dont take it to the f--king counter you stingy,poxy,hateful f--king arseholes.

    go to another shop and try your cheap carry on

    it really ruins my day having to deal with these guys,they really put a downer on staff

    a customer who comes in and buys loads of stuff and doesnt ask for anything off will always get it cheaper or have free stuff thrown in on top just because they were pleasant

    even if your not buying loads of stuff but are nice i may even throw in something small for cheap

    i hate those dirty cheap bastards who try to make you give them stuff for less than cost price or at no profit for the shop,its a joke

    "i can get that in thailand for half the price"

    well book ur flights

    book your hotel

    arrange where your kids are going to stay while youre gone

    get to the airport on time

    wait for hours

    sit on plane for hours

    catch a disease

    buy your stupid product

    fly back for hours

    wait for bags

    sit waiting for aircoach

    pick up smelly sick kids

    get home

    clean up burglar ****e from your sitting room floor

    discover what you bought is a knock off....

    THAT IS WHY YOUR LOCAL BUSINESS CHARGES A LITTLE MORE THAN IN THAILAND ETC

    because we pay to import it

    pay huge rent

    pay rates

    pay staff

    pay for phone lines/broadband/electricity/advertising/marketing etc etc etc

    THATS WHY YOU STUPID IGNORANT FAILURE OF A HUMAN BEING

    dont haggle in shops

    haggling is for car boot sales people


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    how many people use the pump a day?add up all those 1 cents,multiply it by 365 and thats approx how much money they lose by not charging for the one cents



    people wont haggle in tescoes or hmv but yet come into a small business and argue like f--k and get abusive when asked for the price of the goods they have brought to the counter.

    the price of the goods are clearly marked and we have put up a huge sign saying no discounts/no credit and still they put on this little smirk when you ask them for the money to pay

    that little poxy horrible f--ing condescending smirk and then they say something ridiculous like "ah come on lads youre havin a laugh,it was €5 cheaper last week",this is of course a lie,or theyl say "yer man done it for less yesterday" this is another lie as same people were working yesterday

    or they tell you another shop is doing it cheaper (more lies)

    these people are scum

    if you dont want to pay the price marked on the product then dont take it to the f--king counter you stingy,poxy,hateful f--king arseholes.

    go to another shop and try your cheap carry on

    it really ruins my day having to deal with these guys,they really put a downer on staff

    a customer who comes in and buys loads of stuff and doesnt ask for anything off will always get it cheaper or have free stuff thrown in on top just because they were pleasant

    even if your not buying loads of stuff but are nice i may even throw in something small for cheap

    i hate those dirty cheap bastards who try to make you give them stuff for less than cost price or at no profit for the shop,its a joke

    "i can get that in thailand for half the price"

    well book ur flights

    book your hotel

    arrange where your kids are going to stay while youre gone

    get to the airport on time

    wait for hours

    sit on plane for hours

    catch a disease

    buy your stupid product

    fly back for hours

    wait for bags

    sit waiting for aircoach

    pick up smelly sick kids

    get home

    clean up burglar ****e from your sitting room floor

    discover what you bought is a knock off....

    THAT IS WHY YOUR LOCAL BUSINESS CHARGES A LITTLE MORE THAN IN THAILAND ETC

    because we pay to import it

    pay huge rent

    pay rates

    pay staff

    pay for phone lines/broadband/electricity/advertising/marketing etc etc etc

    THATS WHY YOU STUPID IGNORANT FAILURE OF A HUMAN BEING

    dont haggle in shops

    haggling is for car boot sales people

    Angry much? Here, try some of these


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭Johnny Utah


    how many people use the pump a day?add up all those 1 cents,multiply it by 365 and thats approx how much money they lose by not charging for the one cents



    people wont haggle in tescoes or hmv but yet come into a small business and argue like f--k and get abusive when asked for the price of the goods they have brought to the counter.

    the price of the goods are clearly marked and we have put up a huge sign saying no discounts/no credit and still they put on this little smirk when you ask them for the money to pay

    that little poxy horrible f--ing condescending smirk and then they say something ridiculous like "ah come on lads youre havin a laugh,it was €5 cheaper last week",this is of course a lie,or theyl say "yer man done it for less yesterday" this is another lie as same people were working yesterday

    or they tell you another shop is doing it cheaper (more lies)

    these people are scum

    if you dont want to pay the price marked on the product then dont take it to the f--king counter you stingy,poxy,hateful f--king arseholes.

    go to another shop and try your cheap carry on

    it really ruins my day having to deal with these guys,they really put a downer on staff

    a customer who comes in and buys loads of stuff and doesnt ask for anything off will always get it cheaper or have free stuff thrown in on top just because they were pleasant

    even if your not buying loads of stuff but are nice i may even throw in something small for cheap

    i hate those dirty cheap bastards who try to make you give them stuff for less than cost price or at no profit for the shop,its a joke

    "i can get that in thailand for half the price"

    well book ur flights

    book your hotel

    arrange where your kids are going to stay while youre gone

    get to the airport on time

    wait for hours

    sit on plane for hours

    catch a disease

    buy your stupid product

    fly back for hours

    wait for bags

    sit waiting for aircoach

    pick up smelly sick kids

    get home

    clean up burglar ****e from your sitting room floor

    discover what you bought is a knock off....

    THAT IS WHY YOUR LOCAL BUSINESS CHARGES A LITTLE MORE THAN IN THAILAND ETC

    because we pay to import it

    pay huge rent

    pay rates

    pay staff

    pay for phone lines/broadband/electricity/advertising/marketing etc etc etc

    THATS WHY YOU STUPID IGNORANT FAILURE OF A HUMAN BEING

    dont haggle in shops

    haggling is for car boot sales people




    But, do you take student discount? :p



    [/ Slowly backs away]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Six of One


    Friend of mine went out with a guy while she was in college. He was working full time. She was renting a room in a house and he stayed over 4 - 5 nights a week. The others he went back to his Mammy who brought him hot chocolate in bed and did his laundry. Of course he contributed not so much as a pint of milk to either household. This is your typical round dodger guy. My friend brought him to meet her Dad over a few pints and had prepped him that it would be important to her Dad that he stood his round 'like a real man' :D. He forgot his wallet and she had to slip him money on the sly for his rounds.

    Another time, for Christmas, she's gotten him a Playstation and let him know this well in advance to shame him into getting her a decent pressie. Christmas day he presents her with a (pathetic :rolleyes:) love poem on a sheet of torn copy paper, tea towels and a nagen of vodka. And low and behold when she went over to his Mam's a few days later the nagen of vodka she'd left there previously was missing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭sneakerfreak


    But, do you take student discount? :p



    [/ Slowly backs away]

    yes we do and with good grace :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    i hate those dirty cheap bastards who try to make you give them stuff for less than cost price or at no profit for the shop,its a joke

    "i can get that in thailand for half the price"

    well book ur flights

    book your hotel

    arrange where your kids are going to stay while youre gone

    get to the airport on time

    wait for hours

    sit on plane for hours

    catch a disease

    buy your stupid product

    fly back for hours

    wait for bags

    sit waiting for aircoach

    pick up smelly sick kids

    get home

    clean up burglar ****e from your sitting room floor

    discover what you bought is a knock off....

    THAT IS WHY YOUR LOCAL BUSINESS CHARGES A LITTLE MORE THAN IN THAILAND ETC

    because we pay to import it

    pay huge rent

    pay rates

    pay staff

    pay for phone lines/broadband/electricity/advertising/marketing etc etc etc

    THATS WHY YOU STUPID IGNORANT FAILURE OF A HUMAN BEING

    dont haggle in shops

    haggling is for car boot sales people

    Or they could just buy it online...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    Ah Hogzy, doing that is not being stingy at all. Cinemas have been ripping people off for decades now.
    I never buy anything in the cinema now, as a matter of principle.

    A lot of cinemas make more profit from snacks and drinks than from the actual ticket sales. Ireland is particularly bad for ripping people off with cinema snacks though. Dead right to buy them in a shop before you go in, that's what I do!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭sneakerfreak


    Honey-ec wrote: »
    Or they could just buy it online...

    and i dont have a problem with that

    im just sick of them busting staffs balls over prices


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,749 ✭✭✭Bluefoam


    The inaccuracies in the pump would mean that the actual amount of petrol you get could be 5c worth either way. Thats why I always put in 2c extra and I refuse to pay for it. Maybe I'm the stingey one

    Lets face it. The technology is simple to regulate the amount of petrol you put into the car - but the garages refuse to use it - so if you intend to pay for €20 at the pump & go over a little, they are hoping you will keep going till you spend €30...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,260 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Was it really necessary for people to quote that essay in full three times? Not that I am being stingy with my bandwidth...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭sneakerfreak


    eoin wrote: »
    Was it really necessary for people to quote that essay in full three times? Not that I am being stingy with my bandwidth...

    not happy with my essay?











































    hows your bandwitdh now? lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭sneakerfreak


    eoin wrote: »
    Was it really necessary for people to quote that essay in full three times? Not that I am being stingy with my bandwidth...

    lol that went over my head first time round

    lol


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    eoin wrote: »
    Was it really necessary for people to quote that essay in full three times? Not that I am being stingy with my bandwidth...

    Yes it was very necessary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    not happy with my essay?
    *SNIP*
    hows your bandwitdh now? lol

    Empty space surprisingly, does not take up much bandwidth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭sneakerfreak


    oeb wrote: »
    Empty space surprisingly, does not take up much bandwidth.

    Empty space surprisingly, does not take up much bandwidth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    KeyLimePie wrote: »
    i work in a petrol station and I never take the 1, 2 or 3 cent :)

    but some guy last week got 10.05 and handed me a fifty and i asked him for a five cent and he was like i dont got one and i was like okee and gave him back 39.95, apparently it was the first time it ever happened to him and he was never coming back again but up his cause if you're paying for 10 euro petrol with a fifty i think u can afford 5 cent

    :confused::confused:

    What the fook language is that ??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    KeyLimePie wrote: »
    I work in a petrol station and I never bother asking them for the extra 1, 2 or 3 cent they might go over :)

    But last week, some guy put 10.05 worth of petrol into his car, came into the shop and handed me a fifty euro note. I asked him did he have the five cent on him and he said "Sorry sir, but I do not have a 5 cent coin handy!" so I replied "Ok, not a bother." and handed him back 39.95. Apparently since it was the first time he had ever experienced something like this, he became very offended and said that he would never return to this shop again. But as far as I am concerned, he can stick it up his ass because my logic dictates that if you are paying for ten euro worth of petrol with a 50 euro note, then you can obviously afford the five cent.

    Or something.

    Here you go bantam


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    eth0_ wrote: »
    A lot of cinemas make more profit from snacks and drinks than from the actual ticket sales. Ireland is particularly bad for ripping people off with cinema snacks though. Dead right to buy them in a shop before you go in, that's what I do!
    Cinemas more or less break even on ticket sales because of the distributors charges. Their profit is on the food/drink. Absolutely extortionate

    I've heard of a bunch of lads going on a boat trip to collect $3 million and then drowning on the way back in a accident.Too cheap to get life jackets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,749 ✭✭✭Bluefoam


    I've heard of a bunch of lads going on a boat trip to collect $3 million and then drowning on the way back in a accident.Too cheap to get life jackets.

    That was the Somali pirates, they drowned on their way back with the money!

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/mhsnmhsnauau/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭fredzer


    i hate those dirty cheap bastards who try to make you give them stuff for less than cost price or at no profit for the shop,its a joke

    "i can get that in thailand for half the price"

    well book ur flights

    book your hotel

    arrange where your kids are going to stay while youre gone

    get to the airport on time

    wait for hours

    sit on plane for hours

    catch a disease
    buy your stupid product

    fly back for hours

    wait for bags

    sit waiting for aircoach

    pick up smelly sick kids

    get home

    clean up burglar ****e from your sitting room floor

    discover what you bought is a knock off....

    THAT IS WHY YOUR LOCAL BUSINESS CHARGES A LITTLE MORE THAN IN THAILAND ETC

    because we pay to import it

    pay huge rent

    pay rates

    pay staff

    pay for phone lines/broadband/electricity/advertising/marketing etc etc etc

    THATS WHY YOU STUPID IGNORANT FAILURE OF A HUMAN BEING

    dont haggle in shops

    haggling is for car boot sales people


    Catch a disese!! Just what are you selling in your shop?:eek:


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    fredzer wrote: »
    Catch a disese!! Just what are you selling in your shop?:eek:


    Maybe he's selling colds.. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    Anyone catch "The hunt for Britain's Stingiest Person"?

    I'm just about to put it on now. Hope it's worth watching...

    Will report back.

    P.S. Big shout out to the 98fm dj's. Dirty feckers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭KeyLimePie


    :confused::confused:

    What the fook language is that ??

    face !

    and all this talk about petrol pumps being rigged or whatever is a load of crap, i pump petrol for people 5 times a day and always have it perfect :)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Bluefoam wrote: »
    Lets face it. The technology is simple to regulate the amount of petrol you put into the car - but the garages refuse to use it - so if you intend to pay for €20 at the pump & go over a little, they are hoping you will keep going till you spend €30...
    amen
    on the continent you can find 24 hr automatic pumps in small towns


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    i worked in a pub a few years ago and in the morning the same few fellas would be in for their usual couple of pints. it wouldn't be too busy so i'd be chatting away to them. about three or four mornings in a row the same fella came in. he'd sit at the bar, open his paper, order a pint and ask me the right time, then he'd wind on the watch. after a few mornings i said to him 'i reckon it could be time you changed the watch, its not the mae west is it?'
    'no' he says, 'i pop out the winder every night to save the battery' ......then tapped his finger on the side of his nose a couple of times, winked at me and was back into his paper


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Sleipnir wrote: »
    Girl I know in work bought the team a box of Roses one Friday.

    "That''s nice" you'd think, until you noticed that she'd taken all the nice ones out for herself and shared them between herself and the manager! I swear to God, all the barrels and purple ones with the nuts in them......gone!
    That's just unatural ..some people are just so sick and twisted :mad:

    There are some incidents best left forgotten but I still remember the school trip to Newry .I would have being about 11 years old and this guy who I was quite matey at the time with had a bottle of lemonade for the long trip .It was a hot summers day and I was parching with thirst so asked him could I have a swig of his Lemo .'' No way '' he said .I even offered to buy him a bottle soon as we got there but stingy swine was having none of it and I had to endure the hot journey ( no air conditioning them days ) gasping near point of dehydration :( .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Re: The Couples Drinks thing

    Me and herself do that, but only if we're with other couples.

    Round is costing more, but comes round each way more often. I buy her drinks, my mates buy the GFs drinks, just the way of things. If we're not with other couples, we stand to ourselves. Not because we don't want to get into rounds, but simply to avoid the "Oh your one person thing." But we will make this known before we start buying drinks.

    I wouldn't class that as stingy.

    The lad that paid for everything on CC after pocketing the cash AND tips is not stingy, he's a thief. Accost him. Burn his house. Belittle his hairstyle.

    Let me see, stingy people i know...

    I know a chap (used to live with him) that would only buy manky diet snack food so that we wouldn't eat it on him, but he'd happily tuck into our full fat stuff. That and he was a fat f**k anyway.

    Nope, thats about it. I know thrifty (never thought I'd use that word) and money wise people, but no stingy people.

    I know a guy that used to walk around picking up empty cans. I just used to think he was weird. Then he used the cans to buy a car and trailer, granted it was a junker Nova saloon, about 15 years ago. Still has it. Uses the car and trailer to collect more cans and transport them now. Don't think its stingy though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,635 ✭✭✭KatCookie


    Why would he pick up cans?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    A mate of mine, more so desperate but sort of stingey too...

    Whenever he's low on cash he runs around his Apt looking for cigarette butts, tries to get as much tobaco from them as possible and rolls it into cigarette paper...

    the other week he was using Butts in his back garden

    <<"

    Drav!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 Martly


    Guy in my job is really mean, theres been loads of incidents but this one was the worst.
    There was a meal in a conference room one in day in aid of a chinese orphanage, all chinese food etc and so u give what u can at the end and the money goes to the charity, anyway, we had that and later on he was like " oh i never ate my sandwich, ah sure il have it tomorrow", which was a saturday, so instead of throwing away the manky looking tuna sandwich he would keep it and have it on the saturday!! Yuck! Plus i dont think he gave anything to the charity even after eating a big plate of food!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭AFC_1903


    dory wrote: »
    What? I don't believe that. How could anyone think that guy on the radio is better?? You can't even understand him.

    Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh is fantastic! We'd often mute the TV and carry the radio through to listen to the commentery from it instead, no problems with understanding him no matter what part of the country we were from! The TV commentators are dull, whereas Mícheál has such energy for the game and seems to know EVERYTHING about every player! We're talking encyclopedic knowledge of every player in the countrys entire career (inc childhood!). There'll never be another GAA commentator like him, so appreciate and enjoy his commentery!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 joeybarton=hero


    heres one for ya. you know all the sh**e gifts u get for Christmas like marks and spencers bodywash socks and pointless things like miniature jenga etc. well my mother will take note of who gave her these types of presents and she'll off load them to other relatives the following year !! one way to beat the recession eh??? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭taram


    heres one for ya. you know all the sh**e gifts u get for Christmas like marks and spencers bodywash socks and pointless things like miniature jenga etc. well my mother will take note of who gave her these types of presents and she'll off load them to other relatives the following year !! one way to beat the recession eh??? :D
    Get rashes from most of those scented sh!tty giftsets that smell like rotting roses so offload them onto old aunts and such, saves me a fortune, and they love the stuff. That's smart not stingy ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,546 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Ebonyellie wrote: »
    On a different note it annoys me whenever i go into that little shop in busaras that sells crips & sandwiches and they have a little jar on the counter with "tips please" on it, tips for what?
    Some places will do this so that people don't hand tips to staff (for whatever reason) and complicating tills and "why is there money lieing around here?" questions from the boss.
    Random wrote: »
    What's wrong with getting a 10c tip? So what if you didn't get the 20c .. .at least you got something.
    I suspect the poster would have lived without the 10c tip.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    There, after three hours I've finally read this whole thread. Go me. I give it an A.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Teferi


    I stayed in a B+B of a family friend and she is ridiculously scabby. She puts one teabag in a pot for 5+ people. Also, we had breakfast one morning and my uncle didn't eat his fried tomato so the next morning his plate had a full fry on it....minus the fried tomato.


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  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There, after three hours I've finally read this whole thread. Go me. I give it an A.

    That's stingy... an A+ at least! ;)


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Teferi wrote: »
    minus the fried tomato.


    No point giving it to him if he doesn't want it! that's just wasteful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Crackerspray


    and i dont have a problem with that

    im just sick of them busting staffs balls over prices

    The best thing to do with these people is to patronize them so they shut up and just get on with it, tell them (in a smug tone) there are cheaper alternatives of the product and your more than happy to bring them to the shelf and help them choose... always worked for me! Arrogant b@stards


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Bluefoam wrote: »
    Lets face it. The technology is simple to regulate the amount of petrol you put into the car - but the garages refuse to use it - so if you intend to pay for €20 at the pump & go over a little, they are hoping you will keep going till you spend €30...

    It's not a case of the garages refusing to use it. Automatic pumps are illegal in this country. Unless you're talking about the ones where you can just set a cap on the amount spent and then manually pump until it's reached. That would be handy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭steo87


    javaboy wrote: »
    Automatic pumps are illegal in this country

    Illegal? Where are you getting this information?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Martly wrote: »
    Guy in my job is really mean, theres been loads of incidents but this one was the worst.
    There was a meal in a conference room one in day in aid of a chinese orphanage, all chinese food etc and so u give what u can at the end and the money goes to the charity, anyway, we had that and later on he was like " oh i never ate my sandwich, ah sure il have it tomorrow", which was a saturday, so instead of throwing away the manky looking tuna sandwich he would keep it and have it on the saturday!! Yuck! Plus i dont think he gave anything to the charity even after eating a big plate of food!!


    That's not stingy, that's normal :confused: I'd sure eat my sandwich if it was there and I hadn't eaten it the day before. It's only one day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    steo87 wrote: »
    Illegal? Where are you getting this information?

    Can't remember where I heard it originally. It's comes up on the Motors forum a few times. Here's a thread that covers it and quotes the relevant legislation: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055219311
    43. (1) A stop, catch or similar device shall not be provided on a pump hose nozzle of a petroleum Class I dispensing pump which is designed to keep the nozzle valve open to permit delivery of petroleum without manual pressure unless—
    ( a ) the pump is operated at all times by an authorised person.
    ( b ) the nozzle is provided with a suitable and efficient automatic shut-off device to prevent spillage which may result from a splash-back occurrence or obstruction in or overfilling of a fuel tank of a vehicle or container, and the minimum flow-rate to operate the shut-off device does not exceed one-half of the flow-rate for which the retaining latch is set,
    ( c ) in the event of the nozzle falling out of the filling-pipe of a vehicle, the operating lever of the nozzle valve is automatically released from the retaining latch or device upon contact of the nozzle with the vehicle or the ground,
    ( d ) the flow of petroleum is stopped immediately in the event of the nozzle falling out of the filling-pipe of a vehicle, and
    ( e ) suitable means are provided to prevent so far as is practicable the displacement or detachment (other than by manual movement) of the nozzle in or from the filling-pipe of a vehicle during the delivery of petroleum to the fuel tank.

    So they aren't entirely illegal but most forecourt setups wouldn't allow for them. Some people put the petrol cap in between the trigger and trigger guard which can make it automatically pump while they do whatever else they have to do but that's dangerous imo. Putting in a limit on how much petrol you want before shutoff would probably encourage more people to do that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭HPT


    livvy wrote: »
    When i was in college the girl i shared with took the Superser gas heater connecter thingy home at weekends so i couldn't use the gas heater - i lived too far away to go home every weekend.. That was years ago but i will never forget it.

    That's shocking!
    You should have got a second one on the sly.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think there are crossed wires here about "automatic" pumps.

    There are two types,
    one which will pump a predetermined amount of fuel before shutting down and those that stop pumping when the tank is full and have the clip fitted in the trigger to allow you to pump without holding the trigger.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    We were renting a house but not all the rooms in it. When we got home from work there was a guy bricking up the doorway of one of those rooms. Then the landlady tried to sell us the bags of wood that were in the room. The house had 15/25Watt bulbs, you couldn't even read standing under the bulb had to sit at the window and use the street light. The bathroom floor was made of chipboard, not OSB or anything waterproof. After a while the two locked rooms were opened up. We took one look and closed them again. Rusty bed frames with no mattresses. The saucepans were nearly rusted through.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭321654


    On holiday in Peru. There were 6 Australians in the group with us. Some guides guys carried our backpacks and helped us out for days. We were knackered and we werent even carrying our bags. When it came to paying at the end we turned around and the 6 Australians are gone.

    Met them in a hostel later and asked them for their share and they said - wait for it - "we bought one of them a bottle of water yesterday." They wouldnt pay up.


    Couple of years ago my brother met some ausies on holiday and as the ausies never miss an opportinity to get someones address so they can freeload later, they got his address. So last summer he got a call form 2 of them. they more or less invited themselves over to our parents house for 2 weeks. They were driven around, fed, brought to the pub (where they didnt buy anything) and then were gone. Didnt even buy a teabag for my parents.


    Last story : Mary Hearney once tried to steal money from pensioners who had been charged in the wrong for staying in nursing homes.


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