Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

OldNotWIse

FTA69 wrote: »

B*llocks. When you're slaving away for minimum wage dealing with whingebags and drunks then a bit of banter is to be expected. If anything, barstaff don't stand up for themselves as much. When I worked in a bar I had people shouting at me because the boss (not me) put up the price of a pint by 5p, or moaning they got less onion rings than last time, or b*tching they didn't get enough foam on their cappuccino. I'd die of shame before whinging to some youngfella about the brand of crisps being changed or that I didn't get enough lettuce on my burger.

I've always found it funny how some grown adults act like contrary auld ones or spoilt kids when it comes to having a few pints. Sometimes these arseholes need to be set to rights and if they end up with people laughing at them for acting the fool then tough sh*t.

The customer isn't always right, sometimes they are plain wrong. And sometimes they are just plain c*nts.

Oh ok then

OldNotWIse

Apanachi wrote: »

A tulip actually

But the heads on the half litre pints are the same

tulip lol

Apanachi

OldNotWIse wrote: »

tulip lol

Seriously even as a female, I find those glasses too dainty and petite, and seeing grown men drink out of them is just wrong IMO

OldNotWIse

Apanachi wrote: »

Seriously even as a female, I find those glasses too dainty and petite, and seeing grown men drink out of them is just wrong IMO

What size r they anyway? A "shot" of beer :P

Apanachi

OldNotWIse wrote: »

What size r they anyway? A "shot" of beer :P

0,3l

...still bigger than "Kölsch*" glasses, they're only 0,2l - not much more than a spit really - they even have 0,1l glasses called "Stößchen"


*a "beer" speciality from Cologne

NothingMan

In Australia you rarely see anyone with a pint, all drink schooner, which is about 300ml I think. When I ordered a pint they said they don't like pints because it gets warm by the time you finish... Not if you drink it like an Irishman.

Shenshen

Apanachi wrote: »

0,3l

...still bigger than "Kölsch*" glasses, they're only 0,2l - not much more than a spit really - they even have 0,1l glasses called "Stößchen"


*a "beer" speciality from Cologne

Ah, that's the North for you.
Never saw the point in those, tbh. The funniest thing is when they tell you they sell them in such small measures cause the beer is sooooooo much stronger. *lol

Apanachi

Shenshen wrote: »

The funniest thing is when they tell you they sell them in such small measures cause the beer is sooooooo much stronger. *lol

Well, Kölsch taste like p*ss (until you've had a few and then you care anymore ), but I reckon the only reason they sell them so small is because one sip and it's gone, and if you don't put a beer mat on top of your glass (which to be honest, most people forget to do - at least people outside of Cologne often forget it), they'll bring you a new one as soon as you're finished without asking you, so, by the end of the night, you have no idea how much you've drank and get a huge bill at the end of the night.

The worst hangovers are "Kölsch" hangovers...

Voodoomelon

FTA69 wrote: »

B*llocks. When you're slaving away for minimum wage dealing with whingebags and drunks then a bit of banter is to be expected. If anything, barstaff don't stand up for themselves as much. When I worked in a bar I had people shouting at me because the boss (not me) put up the price of a pint by 5p, or moaning they got less onion rings than last time, or b*tching they didn't get enough foam on their cappuccino. I'd die of shame before whinging to some youngfella about the brand of crisps being changed or that I didn't get enough lettuce on my burger.

I've always found it funny how some grown adults act like contrary auld ones or spoilt kids when it comes to having a few pints. Sometimes these arseholes need to be set to rights and if they end up with people laughing at them for acting the fool then tough sh*t.

The customer isn't always right, sometimes they are plain wrong. And sometimes they are just plain c*nts.

I remember I had a regular customer come up to the bar and order a pint of Guinness. After I proceeded to pour it correctly, he pipes up that this was in fact the incorrect way, that Guinness should be poured in FIVE parts.

I tell him the correct way is the two part pour, branded glass, correct angle, the correct head height, brand presented facing the customer etc, and that his way would fail a Guinness inspection.

He wasn't having any of it. So I did it his way for the next pint over the course of 6-8 minutes. It looked rank.

FTA69

Voodoomelon wrote: »

I remember I had a regular customer come up to the bar and order a pint of Guinness. After I proceeded to pour it correctly, he pipes up that this was in fact the incorrect way, that Guinness should be poured in FIVE parts.

I tell him the correct way is the two part pour, branded glass, correct angle, the correct head height, brand presented facing the customer etc, and that his way would fail a Guinness inspection.

He wasn't having any of it. So I did it his way for the next pint over the course of 6-8 minutes. It looked rank.

Tell him Guinness originally came in bottles and that draught is a relatively recent invention. While you're at it tell him that Guinness is a stout like any other, not some mythical potion that needs to be poured via a secret and specific process of alchemy.

Finally tell him to take it and shove it up his wrinkly hole.

Apanachi

FTA69 wrote: »

Finally tell him to take it and shove it up his wrinkly hole.

Which is apparently a very effective way of getting drunk faster

Never tried it myself mind you...

HansHolzel

The scene: a bunch of students hatching round a pub fire. It wasn't that they weren't buying drink and it wasn't that the pub was busy. Barman (asst. manager, wouldn't you know) asked a couple of girls there to move out of the way to the jacks. The one who was most in the way moved her chair a little, smiled at him and asked "Is that enough?" "Not really," he muttered and moved on. Then he got a bucket of wet slack and put out the fire.

Pj!

NothingMan wrote: »

In Australia you rarely see anyone with a pint, all drink schooner, which is about 300ml I think. When I ordered a pint they said they don't like pints because it gets warm by the time you finish... Not if you drink it like an Irishman.

Reminds me of the old joke about the Irish guy who arrives in a bar in Aus and orders a pint of Guinness. Barman shakes his head "We only serve schooners".
Right he says, "I'll have a pint of schooners".

Tiddlypeeps

Apanachi wrote: »

Well, Kölsch taste like p*ss (until you've had a few and then you care anymore ), but I reckon the only reason they sell them so small is because one sip and it's gone, and if you don't put a beer mat on top of your glass (which to be honest, most people forget to do - at least people outside of Cologne often forget it), they'll bring you a new one as soon as you're finished without asking you, so, by the end of the night, you have no idea how much you've drank and get a huge bill at the end of the night.

The worst hangovers are "Kölsch" hangovers...

Kölsch is nicest beer I've ever had

I love the little glasses too because the beer is always ice cold. It would annoy the hell out of me here because you would have to stand at the bar for ages to get your next one every 15 minutes. But it's fine in the bars in Cologne where they bring it too you, kinda dangerous tho.

stefan idiot jones

Apanachi wrote: »

Which is apparently a very effective way of getting drunk faster

Never tried it myself mind you...

I knew a guy who used to snort tequila.

Liamalone

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

I knew a guy who used to snort tequila.

A crowd of us done that years ago in Ibiza with absinthe, made you look as if you had the flu on one side of your face, so some guys snorted the other nostril too! Horrible it was

Sir Gallagher

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

As a barman, some of the stinginess you see is unreal. People skimping on rounds, wanting no head on their pint so they'll fit more beer in etc.

Last week this tosser of a regular came up to the top of the queue at last orders and told me, in a rather smug and accusatory fashion, that i had given him his Guinness in a half litre glass rather than a pint glass, the difference being a whopping 68ml.

He had an old Guinness glass which is shorter than the new one, i told him this but he still insisted that i had given him a half litre glass. So i got an old Guinness glass and compared it to the one he had and it was the same size. Then i noticed on the empty glass i put up actually said PINT on it, which is written on most pint glasses, a fact that i and he totally overlooked as lo and behold his glass had written on it PINT too.

Needless to say the customers at the bar and i pissed ourselves laughing in his face as he slinked away back to his seat, not only did he make himself look stingy but he also managed to make himself out to be a complete tit in the process, a double victory.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I always ask for this, but its not because I want to fit more beer in, I just think a big head is ridculous and not particularly pleasant.

Regardless of how stiingy the guy was, it was up to you to maintain your professionalism and laughing in a customers face is generally not acceptable regardless of what they have done.

Of course yer man came across like a tool.

It wasn't his stinginess really, it was the fact that he walked up to the top of the queue at last orders while i was serving another customer and basically tried to make an eejit out of me and waste my time.

I work in a pub serving mostly regulars, the four seasons it certainly is not, this incident would be tame compared to some of the carry on and banter which goes on between staff and customers alike. My duty in this case was to point out how much of a helmet this customer was being.

Capt'n Midnight

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

My duty in this case was to point out how much of a helmet this customer was being.

I'll have to stop you right there.

Some people consider helmets useful, (but it's a never ending discussion in cycling forum)

Mr Benevolent

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I'll have to stop you right there.

Some people consider helmets useful, (but it's a never ending discussion in cycling forum)

Cycling nerds cut their helmets off? Must be painful. Do they have it done at birth?

Star Fish

There's this known stingy guy in my home town and as young adults in the pub long ago we were forever watching him watching the floors of our local pub, we decided to see how stingy he could actually be, we glued money to the wooden floor and watched the whole night as he scraped and scraped and scraped until finally removing the 5p, we played this same trick for yonks falling around in stiches, hours of fun was had by all

Funkfield

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I always ask for this, but its not because I want to fit more beer in, I just think a big head is ridiculous and not particularly pleasant.

Yeah, but addressing the issue can have consequences. It's how I met my other half. She was working in a pub I went into. She served me my first pint wen I went in but it had way too much head on it. So the next time I went up I said to her "Another pint please, and can I get a little head this time?"

Qualitymark

Star Fish wrote: »

we played this same trick for yonks falling around in stiches, hours of fun was had by all

At the turn of the (last) century this was a popular jape with messenger boys, except they heated up a copper coin to red-hot and put it on the pavement, then watched respectable folk try to pick it up, and split their sides laughing at the resulting bad language and squeaks.

sligojoek

Star Fish wrote: »

There's this known stingy guy in my home town and as young adults in the pub long ago we were forever watching him watching the floors of our local pub, we decided to see how stingy he could actually be, we glued money to the wooden floor and watched the whole night as he scraped and scraped and scraped until finally removing the 5p, we played this same trick for yonks falling around in stiches, hours of fun was had by all

There's a pub in Rosses Point, Sligo where they have a euro coin slightly sunk and super-glued into the timber floor. Everyone has a great laugh at strangers coming in and trying to sneakily stoop down to pick it up.

Martyn1989

Funkfield wrote: »

Yeah, but addressing the issue can have consequences. It's how I met my other half. She was working in a pub I went into. She served me my first pint wen I went in but it had way too much head on it. So the next time I went up I said to her "Another pint please, and can I get a little head this time?"

Classy broad

onlyrocknroll

sligojoek wrote: »

There's a pub in Rosses Point, Sligo where they have a euro coin slightly sunk and super-glued into the timber floor. Everyone has a great laugh at strangers coming in and trying to sneakily stoop down to pick it up.

When I was young we used to drink in a pub where we'd put small coins in the urinal to see if they'd disappear later in the night.

They always did

Radharc na Sleibhte

Maybe some poor bastard is taking them out before you block his outlet......

onlyrocknroll

Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »

Maybe some poor bastard is taking them out before you block his outlet......

It was a gutter so that wasn't an issue. More like some poor bastard was picking em up with his bare hands and using them towards the price of his pint.

NinjaTruncs

onlyrocknroll wrote: »

It was a gutter so that wasn't an issue. More like some poor bastard was picking em up with his bare hands and using them towards the price of his pint.

Which you then got back as change!!!

Fratoue

Stingiest thing I've ever seen is an old housemate, wouldn't spend €1 on toilet roll so would use old newspapers, cotton wool basically anything he could get his hands on for free to wipe his arse. The miserable Kerry ****er often would block the toilet.

He would boast about living on €2 a day all the time. Worst thing about stingy bastards is when they move out; they take everything that's not nailed down bulbs, pillows, chairs, coasters, mugs, washing powder, even other people's toothbrush and razors.

I Heart Internet

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

Which you then got back as change!!!

Brilliant :D haha