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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    Is anyone else noticing a common theme in this thread?

    Rich people appear to be stingy to me this implies why they are still rich!

    Albeit it sounds like some of them are incredibly anal about staying rich!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    carzony wrote: »
    I met him at my neighbours house round the corner :eek::p

    Less one van and neighbours house robbed. Good work there. The minute I heard a travellers voice I'd have hung up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    Worked in a place once that specialised in American Tours, 8 Countries in 9 days sort of thing, anyhow part of their package on arriving in Ireland was a welcome Irish Coffee............

    Method pour 1 Gill of whiskey into a bar tray, place Paris Goblets (you'd get 40 glasses to the Gill) upside down in the liquid so rim is coated, add strong coffee sans sugar, top with fresh cream and sprinkle a couple of coffee granuals on top!!

    And that, my friends, is how we welcomed them to Irish Shores with an Irish Coffee...less the Irish bit!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    This thread is funny ye wouldn't believe the type of schabs there are in this country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    Worked in a place once that specialised in American Tours, 8 Countries in 9 days sort of thing, anyhow part of their package on arriving in Ireland was a welcome Irish Coffee............

    Method pour 1 Gill of whiskey into a bar tray, place Paris Goblets (you'd get 40 glasses to the Gill) upside down in the liquid so rim is coated, add strong coffee sans sugar, top with fresh cream and sprinkle a couple of coffee granuals on top!!

    And that, my friends, is how we welcomed them to Irish Shores with an Irish Coffee...less the Irish bit!!
    I've seen that done myself many years ago


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭michellie


    Bet you work in Odeon :pac:

    He works in Odeon Waterford.

    I think the reason people are complaining is because Waterford is the only Odeon that has increased price.

    And the prices in there are shocking


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    Worked in a place once that specialised in American Tours, 8 Countries in 9 days sort of thing, anyhow part of their package on arriving in Ireland was a welcome Irish Coffee............

    Method pour 1 Gill of whiskey into a bar tray, place Paris Goblets (you'd get 40 glasses to the Gill) upside down in the liquid so rim is coated, add strong coffee sans sugar, top with fresh cream and sprinkle a couple of coffee granuals on top!!

    And that, my friends, is how we welcomed them to Irish Shores with an Irish Coffee...less the Irish bit!!

    That's not stinginess it's sheer deception :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    Worked in a place once that specialised in American Tours, 8 Countries in 9 days sort of thing, anyhow part of their package on arriving in Ireland was a welcome Irish Coffee............

    Method pour 1 Gill of whiskey into a bar tray, place Paris Goblets (you'd get 40 glasses to the Gill) upside down in the liquid so rim is coated, add strong coffee sans sugar, top with fresh cream and sprinkle a couple of coffee granuals on top!!

    And that, my friends, is how we welcomed them to Irish Shores with an Irish Coffee...less the Irish bit!!

    Pure scumbaggery. A friend of mine's dad used to run a pub, he used to pull something similar. If a customer was on say vodka and Coke all night and therefore well p1ssed, he'd rub some vodka around the top of the glass and then just put Coke in the glass without any vodka. Claimed it was to stop them from being too drunk/unwell from excess alcohol. I doubt he put the money he saved into the Trocaire box though!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭NinjaTruncs


    michellie wrote: »
    He works in Odeon Waterford.

    I think the reason people are complaining is because Waterford is the only Odeon that has increased price.

    And the prices in there are shocking
    That's a bit stinge in itself!

    4.3kWp South facing PV System. South Dublin



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    michellie wrote: »
    He works in Odeon Waterford.

    I think the reason people are complaining is because Waterford is the only Odeon that has increased price.

    And the prices in there are shocking

    Odeon in blanch has increased too, thats how I knew. I don't think it's that had. 6 for the ticket and 5 for a medium drink and popcorn!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭MOC88


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    i work in a place where every wednesday its 6 Euro entry (7.95-9.95 every other day) and boy this is when the stingy people come out

    It used to be 5 euro on wednesdays but after a price review it was put up 1 euro to 6 euro.

    People where giving out that they had to pay 1 euro extra some even emailing head offices, some bycotting, some even getting pissy at workers, i even heard of someone crying cause they didnt have enough money lol

    i once served a customer who bought something for 5.99 and handed my 6 euro and i didnt have any 0.1c's in my til so i said 'im sorry i have no 0.1cs in my til' and the customer said i cant be without 1 cent and stood there demanding he get his 1 cent change so i gave him 5 cents and he went off (tight git)

    Theres people who come only on wednesdays and some are generally snotty precious rich ***** who are plan stupied and think the world owes them.

    I also find people stingy who bring in there own foods (cheap microwave popcorn, 40c bottles of coke etc)

    I also know someone that works 4 jobs and eats cheap cans of beans etc for dinner and gives out when he doesnt get enough hours for the week

    SOME PEOPLE MAKE YOU WANT TO KILL. NO WONDER HITLER AND THE LIKES EXCISTED lol

    So people aren't happy with a specific price increase in their area, whereas no other outlet in the chain gets an increase, you think justifies euthanasia and genocide or that it is funny? What is wrong with you?

    As for calling people "stupied" do yourself a favour and start using Google chrome it comes with a spellchecker for you! Of course the difference in words like there and their might escape you, maybe I'm being harsh and you're tired but you don't sound like someone who deserves an ounce of pity.

    Cheap popcorn in comparison to what? The overpriced preheated rubbish from cinemas, I wouldn't bring in a bag of it but what do you know of people's circumstances? 40c bottles of coke, I can understand why nobody would want to drink coke in the first place but the original stuff is just as bad as the 40c stuff.

    4 jobs? Call me a skeptic but that doesn't sound possible even on part time hours.

    I pity that person crying God only knows how bad they felt, it could have been the one thing they had money for and were really looking forward to it. To be told you don't have the price of a cinema ticket on a day when the prices are specially reduced must be one of the most upsetting things that can happen. Jesus Christ can you imagine not being able to afford 6 euro? How embarrassing would that be? ... obviously you can't because you think its hilarious. I hope for your sake if it ever happens to you the person on the other side will show a lot more understanding than you and your colleagues did to them.

    Don't stop and think about how bad some people have it, keep blabbing away and building up your temper tantrums so you can come on and post in caps locks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    oldyouth wrote: »
    I've seen that done myself many years ago

    West Clare by any chance? :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭Evolution1


    Went to odeon to see "Man of steel " in 3d on a Wednesday.
    Paid €7 for the film
    Spent €10 on food
    The stingy c**ts wouldn't even turn the Air conditioning on .
    Spent 3 hours sweltering in the heat.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Evolution1 wrote: »
    Went to odeon to see "Man of steel " in 3d on a Wednesday.
    Paid €7 for the film
    Spent €10 on food
    The stingy c**ts wouldn't even turn the Air conditioning on .
    Spent 3 hours sweltering in the heat.


    Ah you should have been out enjoying the weather anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    Evolution1 wrote: »
    Went to odeon to see "Man of steel " in 3d on a Wednesday...
    The stingy c**ts wouldn't even turn the Air conditioning on .
    Spent 3 hours sweltering in the heat.

    Man of melted chocolate??


  • Registered Users Posts: 122 ✭✭mossy2390


    Evolution1 wrote: »
    Went to odeon to see "Man of steel " in 3d on a Wednesday.
    Paid €7 for the film
    Spent €10 on food
    The stingy c**ts wouldn't even turn the Air conditioning on .
    Spent 3 hours sweltering in the heat.

    i know some cinemas dont have AC all they do is recirculate the air, so if its hot it says hot and if its cold it stays cold


  • Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭Evolution1


    This was in the whitewater (AC)
    And at night . Before all this nice weather


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Evolution1 wrote: »
    Went to odeon to see "Man of steel " in 3d on a Wednesday.
    Paid €7 for the film
    Spent €10 on food
    The stingy c**ts wouldn't even turn the Air conditioning on .
    Spent 3 hours sweltering in the heat.

    Did it ever cross your mind to run out and let a member of staff know? Hard for them to deal with a problem if no one bothers making them aware of it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭Evolution1


    There were staff members constantly coming in and out of the theatre .


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Evolution1 wrote: »
    There were staff members constantly coming in and out of the theatre .

    And what stopped you mentioning the issue to them?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭MusicalMelody


    There is a new programme on the TV channel TLC called extreme cheapskates. Some of the people are ridiculous. A woman invited her friend over for dinner and served her a dinner that she had picked from bins. Another one of them hasn't used toilet paper in years and the one which i saw a womans boyfriend was having a shower and she thought he was too long in the shower so she switched off the mains cue him appearing covered in shampoo and soap out of the bathroom! These people are crazy!


  • Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭fondue


    Such a funny programme! The stuff those people do is unreal & they're so smug about it too! Even if they're makin it all up it makes for an entertaining watch.
    There is a new programme on the TV channel TLC called extreme cheapskates. Some of the people are ridiculous. A woman invited her friend over for dinner and served her a dinner that she had picked from bins. Another one of them hasn't used toilet paper in years and the one which i saw a womans boyfriend was having a shower and she thought he was too long in the shower so she switched off the mains cue him appearing covered in shampoo and soap out of the bathroom! These people are crazy!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 78,415 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I saw people stealing the rubbish from outside a charity shop last night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    West Clare by any chance? :)

    Nope, Wexford.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭M5


    A home for disadvantaged women that was supposed to care for them actually worked them to the bone. Many years later the story comes out and they refuse to pay and compensation but instead offer to "help" in other ways like providing elderly care for them.

    :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    M5 wrote: »
    A home for disadvantaged women that was supposed to care for them actually worked them to the bone. Many years later the story comes out and they refuse to pay and compensation but instead offer to "help" in other ways like providing elderly care for them.

    :confused:

    Can you imagine that? You spend your youth being physically and mentally abused by a group of people and what do they offer in compensation? To hand you right back to the same group for 'care' when you're at your most vulnerable. The stuff of nightmares.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,767 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    kylith wrote: »
    Can you imagine that? You spend your youth being physically and mentally abused by a group of people and what do they offer in compensation? To hand you right back to the same group for 'care' when you're at your most vulnerable. The stuff of nightmares.

    Yeah as if those poor women want to see more nuns! :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    M5 wrote: »
    A home for disadvantaged women that was supposed to care for them actually worked them to the bone. Many years later the story comes out and they refuse to pay and compensation but instead offer to "help" in other ways like providing elderly care for them.

    :confused:
    Sounds like a movie doesn't it?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Gotham


    I knew a guy who used to snort tequila.
    What an effective way to kill yourself.
    Your liver exists between your bloodstream and your stomach for a reason.


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