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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #5582
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    its cheap tossers not paying their fare that keeps them high

    I think you'll find that it's actually inflation.


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    #5583
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    jca wrote: »
    Get a job you stingy git and start paying your way.

    Oh you're right! Why didn't I think of that before? :eek:
    a5y wrote: »
    And are you actually failing to use emoticons correctly? I'm lost for words.

    Yes, hit me where it hurts, my emoticon using skills. Well played.


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    #5584
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    its cheap tossers not paying their fare that keeps them high

    I've no love for cheap tossers, but really? Nothing to do with the rising cost of oil? Poor planning and bad management? The pensions? The amount of public sector funding public transport in Ireland gets?

    That's a gross simplification.


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    #5585
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Yes, hit me where it hurts, my emoticon using skills. Well played.

    I don't want to hit you were it hurts. Plainly your wallet is so close to your heart I could be done for manslaughter :pac:


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    #5586
    splendid101
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭splendid101


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Well I obviously pay a tip and stuff like that but I just don't see a point in me paying for someone elses food. It works both ways BTW. If I've ordered more than everyone else I still pay for whatever I've ordered. Idon't want anyone else paying for my food either.

    I used to pay full bus fare until they raised the price. I get away with the child prices as I look young still so most of the time I get a child price.


    I prefer to split the bill up properly and not just divide it by four or whatever but I don't make myself sound like a scabby c*nt when I say it.


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    #5587
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    splendid101 wrote: »
    I prefer to split the bill up properly and not just divide it by four or whatever but I don't make myself sound like a scabby c*nt when I say it.

    Same here.


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    #5588
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    snubbleste wrote: »
    How is that stingy?
    Shops are obliged to charge 22c on the bag unless it is expicitly used for loose fruit&veg or at the meat/fish counter. Obviously he pays this at the checkout. Otherwise he's just stealing them.

    Its worse than that. Its actually illegal to let him "steal" the bags. If the staff do not confiscate the bags they are evading the bag tax by providing bags for free.


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    #5589
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    Its worse than that. Its actually illegal to let him "steal" the bags. If the staff do not confiscate the bags they are evading the bag tax by providing bags for free.

    Has anyone lit up the bat signal yet?!


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    #5590
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    I've chanced my arm on Dublin Bus a few times. They don't give change when you overpay so I don't mind underpaying by 20c rather than overpaying by €1.80


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    #5591
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    I've chanced my arm on Dublin Bus a few times. They don't give change when you overpay so I don't mind underpaying by 20c rather than overpaying by €1.80

    But you can save up your ticket stubs, and spend a day going into the CIE offices to get it back.

    ... once you have the busfare to get there of course...


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    #5592
    kirving
    Registered Users Posts: 5,978 ✭✭✭kirving


    You can just post them to a charity who will get a load of them at once, and bring them to Dublin Bus. I know Concern are always happy to get them.


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    #5593
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    You can just post them to a charity who will get a load of them at once, and bring them to Dublin Bus. I know Concern are always happy to get them.

    Yea we gave ours to charity. It came to about 50 euro between 3 of us! And we had thrown away the majority


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    #5594
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    marshbaboon wrote: »
    But you can save up your ticket stubs

    On a couple of occasions I have put in a €2 coin for a €1.85 fare and not gotten a refund ticket.


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    #5595
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    On a couple of occasions I have put in a €2 coin for a €1.85 fare and not gotten a refund ticket.

    Dirty scumbag thieves!


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    #5596
    Mocha Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 895 ✭✭✭Mocha Joe


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    On a couple of occasions I have put in a €2 coin for a €1.85 fare and not gotten a refund ticket.

    I never have the gall to ask for it and then end up annoyed with myself for letting them away with it. Ruins my day. Fecking bus drivers.


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    #5597
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    On a couple of occasions I have put in a €2 coin for a €1.85 fare and not gotten a refund ticket.

    If you said "€1.85" as you put the money in the thing then the bus driver automatically assumes that you've put the correct change in. In this case you should make sure he sees the money that you put in so that he can give you a refund ticket.


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    #5598
    King Cantona
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭King Cantona


    lads you´ll love this one.. there´s a lad on my football team that is so pissed off about the water charges that he´s invested in a load of cling film. He lines each dinner plate with cling film and discards the plastic instead of washing up after dinner. tight fecker


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    #5599
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    King Cantona wrote: »
    lads you´ll love this one.. there´s a lad on my football team that is so pissed off about the water charges that he´s invested in a load of cling film. He lines each dinner plate with cling film and discards the plastic instead of washing up after dinner. tight fecker

    thats a great idea


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    #5600
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    King Cantona wrote: »
    lads you´ll love this one.. there´s a lad on my football team that is so pissed off about the water charges that he´s invested in a load of cling film. He lines each dinner plate with cling film and discards the plastic instead of washing up after dinner. tight fecker

    But what about the bin charge? And the cost of clingfilm?


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    #5601
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    King Cantona wrote: »
    lads you´ll love this one.. there´s a lad on my football team that is so pissed off about the water charges that he´s invested in a load of cling film. He lines each dinner plate with cling film and discards the plastic instead of washing up after dinner. tight fecker

    But have we even started getting charged for water yet? I havent :confused:


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    #5602
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    King Cantona wrote: »
    lads you´ll love this one.. there´s a lad on my football team that is so pissed off about the water charges that he´s invested in a load of cling film. He lines each dinner plate with cling film and discards the plastic instead of washing up after dinner. tight fecker

    Cling film is much dearer than water to fulfil the same purpose!
    Nonsensical stinginess is the best!


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    #5603
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Stingyness Tip of the day!

    Next time your paying the toll, go to one of the basket lanes and innocently put in a couple of coppers. Now innocently reach below to retrieve your coppers after you've discovered they're not accepted. Not only will you coppers be there, but dozens of others from the people that payed their toll earlier on that day and were too lazy to retrieve them.

    It works, happens to me recently.

    Very stingy, I know. Got about a euro though:rolleyes:


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    #5604
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    listermint wrote: »
    nbar12 wrote: »
    Who the hell spends €200 on a jacket?

    Alot of people with nice jackets obviously. Apologies if you dont dress properly but the jackets i buy last 5 years or more. So it pretty cheap if you ask me.
    Properly???
    **** off.


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    #5605
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,276 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    King Cantona wrote: »
    lads you´ll love this one.. there´s a lad on my football team that is so pissed off about the water charges that he´s invested in a load of cling film. He lines each dinner plate with cling film and discards the plastic instead of washing up after dinner. tight fecker

    Hope he's stingy with sharp knives and pointed forks too...


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    #5606
    Vicar in a tutu
    Registered Users Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    Victor wrote: »
    Cue the barber cutting the hair on the left side of his head only or using a zero blade. :)


    Which he'd well deserve!


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    #5607
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Unregistered. wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056722761

    Guy looking to get out of a fine for not paying the correct fare on Dublin Bus. He only paid 1.90 when he should have paid 2.65.


    He drives an Austin Martin DB7.

    No he doesn't. That was a joke about his username.


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    #5608
    upandcumming
    Registered Users Posts: 2,717 ✭✭✭upandcumming


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    its cheap tossers not paying their fare that keeps them high

    That is pure bollocks and I pay my bus fare.


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    #5609
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,281 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    King Cantona wrote: »
    lads you´ll love this one.. there´s a lad on my football team that is so pissed off about the water charges that he´s invested in a load of cling film. He lines each dinner plate with cling film and discards the plastic instead of washing up after dinner. tight fecker


    This thread is for real stories, not ones you made up ;)


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    #5610
    The Highwayman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    So I rob the CIE of their already overpriced fare? So what! :L

    Why would I pay for someone elses food? :L

    So I think you have too much stuff so I rob your house! So what?


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    #5611
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    The Highwayman wrote: »
    So I think you have too much stuff so I rob your house! So what?

    Suppose you could try.


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