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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #4682
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    I've a friend who never orders dessert, but will ask for a forkful 'to taste' of everyone elses at the table.

    I hate petty meanness.


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    #4683
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Oh god I just had a flashback reading that. Three of my friends lived with two other girls when they were in college for a year. They didn't know them before they moved in. The girls generally behaved quite strangely towards them and very much kept to themselves. I used to call around in the evenings now and again and many evenings there was noise from the room above the sitting room like someone was moving furniture around the place. I asked my friends what was going on the whole time and they said they didn't know as it was the room of one of the other girls who kept it locked 24/7. This went on for a couple of months and the girls were getting a bit more curious..she didn't have a boyfriend in case anyone was wondering.

    Anyway one morning she left for college in a hurry and left the bedroom door open, and one of my friends spotted it and went it, just to see what could possibly be in the room that she was dragging around every night. There was nothing in there except the usual - bed, locker, desk, wardrobe, so she had a quick look in the wardrobe, where she found a large Dell box and in it was a large desktop computer: monitor (the old ones, not flat screen this was about 10 years ago) keyboard, mouse, speakers, tower, and printer, the works. The girl was setting up her computer every night to use it for college work and then packing it away (the box being heaved into the wardrobe must have been the racket) in case any of my friends found out she had a computer and asked her to use it. Such an amazing waste of time every night.


    would it not be easier to throw a sheet or tarpaulin over it to hide it instead ? And if she had an internet connection then wouldnt the flatmates already know someone is paying for it in order to use it ?


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    #4684
    GASMANN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 496 ✭✭GASMANN


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    I know EXACTLY what you mean !

    After a heavy meal in a restaurant, I like to have a cup of coffee fairly shortly after wards. Helps aid the digestion. God help you if you are out for a meal with my mother and you do that. She prefers to "let my dinner go down" before she has a nice cuppa at home 30 mins later. She has no problem eating a 40 euro steak, but if someone dares to order a coffee "when there is perfectly good tea and coffee at home" they will get a lecture about wasting money, followed by heavy signs and steely martyred silence, broken by the odd remark that " I didn't rear you to just throw money away".

    It makes it impossible to enjoy the flippin' coffee, so I just don't bother ordering it anymore. I've tried to explain to her why I like to have my coffee so soon after I eat & not wait until I get home, but she just refuses to get it. Sigh...


    ha, your ma


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    #4685
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    Giselle wrote: »
    I've a friend who never orders dessert, but will ask for a forkful 'to taste' of everyone elses at the table.

    I hate petty meanness.

    Are you sure it's meanness or is it that weird psychological thing women do where they won't order a dessert because they don't want the calories but will eat some of your dessert even though this obviously makes no sense.

    Sort of like the fat people who order Diet Coke with their Big Mac meal...


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    #4686
    coffee_cake
    Registered Users Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Mr. Loverman wrote: »
    Are you sure it's meanness or is it that weird psychological thing women do where they won't order a dessert because they don't want the calories but will eat some of your dessert even though this obviously makes no sense.

    Sort of like the fat people who order Diet Coke with their Big Mac meal...

    diet coke just tastes better :pac:


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    #4687
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    Mr. Loverman wrote: »
    Are you sure it's meanness or is it that weird psychological thing women do where they won't order a dessert because they don't want the calories but will eat some of your dessert even though this obviously makes no sense.

    Sort of like the fat people who order Diet Coke with their Big Mac meal...

    You realise that diabetics cant drink normal coke, it meant be an idea to think before you come out with such a ridiculous comment:rolleyes:


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    #4688
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    booboo88 wrote: »
    You realise that diabetics cant drink normal coke, it meant be an idea to think before you come out with such a ridiculous comment:rolleyes:

    :rolleyes:

    And McDonald's food isn't full of sugar?

    Get a grip.


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    #4689
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    psychward wrote: »
    would it not be easier to throw a sheet or tarpaulin over it to hide it instead ? And if she had an internet connection then wouldnt the flatmates already know someone is paying for it in order to use it ?

    No this was back around 2000/2001. No Internet. She was only using it for typing essays etc


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    #4690
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    booboo88 wrote: »
    You realise that diabetics cant drink normal coke, it meant be an idea to think before you come out with such a ridiculous comment:rolleyes:

    If you're a diabetic you probably shouldn't be drinking any coke, no?


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    #4691
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    Seachmall wrote: »
    If you're a diabetic you probably shouldn't be drinking any coke, no?

    Diet coke is sugar free ;)


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    #4692
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    Mr. Loverman wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    And McDonald's food isn't full of sugar?

    Get a grip.
    It has a higher percentage of fat, you should propbably never eat it, burn every single mcdonalds.
    You ever hear of moderation?
    Really, no wonder you get self conscious while eating, people all feel they need to have an opinion :rolleyes:


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    #4693
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    booboo88 wrote: »
    It has a higher percentage of fat, you should propbably never eat it, burn every single mcdonalds.
    You ever hear of moderation?
    Really, no wonder you get self conscious while eating, people all feel they need to have an opinion :rolleyes:

    Calm down will you.

    McDonald's food is full of sugar, so if you have diabetes you should not be eating it.

    It's not my fault you have issues with food or your weight or self esteem so stop lashing out.


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    #4694
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Both of you can just eat this.
    Squ wrote: »
    1_277.jpg


    Now back to stingy stories


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    #4695
    CavanGal
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭CavanGal


    Herrick wrote: »
    Being from Cavan I would have thought you'd know all these things already :pac:

    I thought I did too. Now I realise I've been wasting money for years on things like teabags, petrol and electricity. <Hangs head in shame>


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    #4696
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    Mr. Loverman wrote: »
    Calm down will you.

    McDonald's food is full of sugar, so if you have diabetes you should not be eating it.

    It's not my fault you have issues with food or your weight or self esteem so stop lashing out.
    I just find your comment a bit harsh.... so what if a person orders a diet coke with mcy d's. does it affect you in anyway? No i didnt think so, im not lashing out, just pointing it out.
    norrie rugger wrote: »
    Both of you can just eat this.



    Now back to stingy stories
    What in the name of jaysus is that? It actually looks sickening.


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    #4697
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    booboo88 wrote: »
    I just find your comment a bit harsh.... so what if a person orders a diet coke with mcy d's. does it affect you in anyway? No i didnt think so, im not lashing out, just pointing it out.

    I don't want to talk to you anymore, it is too painful.


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    #4698
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Mod:
    If you want to argue about the nutritional merits of McD's go to nutrition and diet.
    If you want to insult each other head over to the thunderdome.
    If you disrupt this thread with bitching again you will be banned.


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    #4699
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Mod:
    If you want to argue about the nutritional merits of McD's go to nutrition and diet.
    If you want to insult each other head over to the thunderdome.
    If you disrupt this thread with bitching again you will be banned.
    Mod's being stingy with the bold text. It's free you mean fecker:D.


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    #4700
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,364 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Just saw a guy pick up his dogs crap and take with him


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    #4701
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    Kolido wrote: »
    Just saw a guy pick up his dogs crap and take with him

    are you sure the crap belonged to his dog ?


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    #4702
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,442 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Perhaps leave it to the diabetics to decide what they can and can't eat.


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    #4703
    Missmiddleton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Missmiddleton


    My brother was telling me about his stingy mate who will fix everyone up with a drink at an open bar, but then insists on getting a round in return when they move onto another venue.


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    #4704
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    Missmiddleton wrote: »
    My brother was telling me about his stingy mate who will fix everyone up with a drink at an open bar, but then insists on getting a round in return when they move onto another venue.

    Its people like this that are the reason I stick to buying my own drink, I used to have a mate who'd buy an expensive drink when you were paying, but the cheap ones when she was, and Im still waiting for the money she borrowed:rolleyes:


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    #4705
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,276 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Kolido wrote: »
    Just saw a guy pick up his dogs crap and take with him

    How is that stingy? Wish people around here would Bleedin' do it!


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    #4706
    stiffler123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭stiffler123


    Birneybau wrote: »
    How is that stingy? Wish people around here would Bleedin' do it!

    That's the joke.


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    #4707
    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Kolido wrote: »
    Just saw a guy pick up his dogs crap and take with him

    There's great heat in them, you can't put both hands in your pockets when you're holding the lead, a nice warm bag makes all the difference on a cold day. :D


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    #4708
    Roadtrippin
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭Roadtrippin


    Stingiest I have seen was someone at a houseparty spilling a bit of cheap bubbly onto a table, then tilting the table, filling a glass with the spilled bubbly and drinking it... how low can you go :D


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    #4709
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Roadtrippin wrote: »
    ... how low can you go :D

    soaking it up off the carpet?


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    #4710
    Soups123
    Registered Users Posts: 8,971 ✭✭✭Soups123


    Cedrus wrote: »
    Kolido wrote: »
    Just saw a guy pick up his dogs crap and take with him

    There's great heat in them, you can't put both hands in your pockets when you're holding the lead, a nice warm bag makes all the difference on a cold day. :D

    Agree I'd often use two bags halvo halvo a small bit of sealed warmt for each pocket.

    My granda always said to me there is a stingy one in every group and if you don't know who it is it's you.......


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    #4711
    idunno78
    Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭idunno78


    In eleverys today, some man was buying runners for his son. Shop assistant showed him a pair for €6 that were old stock. (son was about 11 or so) He asked was that half price!? He was told the best he could do was €4.50, but he was still humming and hawing over that price and eventually the SA told him he could have them for €3. He bought them then.


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