Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

Capt'n Midnight

Billy86 wrote: »

Basically, the initial value of the item (laptop) for the occasion (a nephew's birthday) more than makes up for it being second hand.

oh no

stop right there

the initial value is completely irrelevant unless you are a stinge !

A one year old laptop that initially cost €300 is worth a hell of a lot more than a 15 year old laptop that cost €6,500



It's the current usability/value that matters.

Billy86

Well my point was mainly that if I was getting a half-decent laptop off any of my uncles when I was a teenager (or younger?) I'd be fecking delighted!

That guy basically just gave a teenage boy access to unlimited porn, without fear of leaving evidence! He's the best f***ing uncle in the world at the minute! :pac: :pac:

chrissb8

Achilles wrote: »

Somebody in another thread for Orange Is The New Black mentioned pirating the series... which is a Netflix original series.

Seriously? Netflix is only €7 a month ffs... whatever about pirating a TV show that's really hard to get over here it's another thing to pirate a TV show from a service that's actually making it just as easy to watch these shows WITHOUT having to pirate anything.

Stingy feckers...

Some people won't buy a loaf of bread that is fifty cent extra.

Some people look for free parking.

If people do not want to spend money then I don't see how that's stingy. Not to get in to the whole download debate thing. It's there and it is free. Not alot in life is. So get over yourself.

chrissb8

Once had a guy come in to the shop I work and ask if we could do better on 99c bottles of beer......Really, a bottle of beer for a euro. Of course he was doing something next door and thought that gave him some sort of discount. Idiot got nothing.

Paddy Cow

chrissb8 wrote: »

Once had a guy come in to the shop I work and ask if we could do better on 99c bottles of beer......Really, a bottle of beer for a euro. Of course he was doing something next door and thought that gave him some sort of discount. Idiot got nothing.

You should've directed him to dunnes. I think they do own brands of beer for 89c a can. Might not be a bottle but it's still a bargain!

Curlysue76

Honey-ec wrote: »

Which is the very definition of stingey, no?

I didn't say that. I was quoting someone else. Must have deleted start of quote.

Caonima

princess-lala wrote: »

Strangers sometimes give money to new babies!! Hanseling (sp?) is the term I've heard it used as!

"It's that damn Hansel – He's so hot right now!"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPrBUhpGmF0

oldyouth

Achilles wrote: »

Somebody in another thread for Orange Is The New Black mentioned pirating the series... which is a Netflix original series.

Seriously? Netflix is only €7 a month ffs... whatever about pirating a TV show that's really hard to get over here it's another thing to pirate a TV show from a service that's actually making it just as easy to watch these shows WITHOUT having to pirate anything.

Stingy feckers...

Not everyone has strong enough broadband to support Netflix

SouthTippBass

oldyouth wrote: »

Not everyone has strong enough broadband to support Netflix

Yet have enough to download an entire season of Oitnb? :rolleyes:

lkionm

SouthTippBass wrote: »

Yet have enough to download an entire season of Oitnb? :rolleyes:

I only have 1 meg so I download it. Just put it to download and head to work. Job done.

MrVestek

Yeaaaaaaaahhhhhh no. If you have enough bandwidth to download it then you have enough bandwidth to stream it and let it buffer.

If you're patient enough to let it download you should be patient enough to let Netflix buffer it a little before playing.

It's still Stingey.

SouthTippBass

lkionm wrote: »

I only have 1 meg so I download it. Just put it to download and head to work. Job done.

Hey, why so stingy with the broadband? I'l understand if you are unable to respond to this until tomorrow evening.

Michael D Not Higgins

Achilles wrote: »

Yeaaaaaaaahhhhhh no. If you have enough bandwidth to download it then you have enough bandwidth to stream it and let it buffer.

If you're patient enough to let it download you should be patient enough to let Netflix buffer it a little before playing.

It's still Stingey.

But you won't get good quality video then. Netflix will downgrade the quality to suit your connection and to get 1080p quality you need to have 7Mb minimum.

SouthTippBass

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

But you won't get good quality video then. Netflix will downgrade the quality to suit your connection and to get 1080p quality you need to have 7Mb minimum.

7mb for 1080p picture is a slight exaggeration I think, more like 4.5/5mb I'd say. Most people would be happy with a 720 stream I think, perfectly clear and only requiring about a 3mb connection.

Kolido

princess-lala wrote: »

Strangers sometimes give money to new babies!! Hanseling (sp?) is the term I've heard it used as!

So the stinge in your story is you getting your new born baby to pay the taxi fair!

Michael D Not Higgins

SouthTippBass wrote: »

7mb for 1080p picture is a slight exaggeration I think, more like 4.5/5mb I'd say. Most people would be happy with a 720 stream I think, perfectly clear and only requiring about a 3mb connection.

https://support.netflix.com/en/node/306

Super HD is what they call 1080p.

Edit: Apologies from previous post, it is 5Mb minimum for 1080p but 7Mb recommended.

Kolido

Regarding the Netflix story, is it possible he wanted to watch it somewhere he had no broadband, for example on a bus journey.

MrVestek

Kolido wrote: »

Regarding the Netflix story, is it possible he wanted to watch it somewhere he had no broadband, for example on a bus journey.

A bus journey? Sorry that's why we have 3G now, not to mention that all major bus providers have free wifi available.

SouthTippBass

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

https://support.netflix.com/en/node/306

Super HD is what they call 1080p.

I see, I wasnt aware we had a Super HD option.
I'm happy with DVD quality myself.

Lucena

brandon_flowers wrote: »

Famous tight arse drinks in our local pub in Kerry.

Anyway his daughter was making her First Communion a few years ago and he was bringing the family down (parents in law, uncles, aunts etc) to the local for dinner and its not exactly Michelin star stuff either. Anyway he phoned the owner before he came down and asked him if it was alright to bring their own wine and that it was his wife's favourite wine and all this bla bla bla ****e talk. Anyway because it is a rural bar and the owner doesn't like offending customers he agreed.

So after the communion they all came in to the pub with 6 bottles of wine in a cardboard box and their own opener. They drank all the wine, bought 2 x 2 litre bottles of 7-up for the kids (Max €10) and whatever the food cost.

The owner told us after that when he picked up the cardboard box from the wine it was wine that he had given away in a Christmas raffle 6 months earlier, and his tag was still on it.

The same tight arse won £22,000 (when it was punts) on Winning Streak, carried a bus of supporters to Dublin, charged them £20 each for the bus and bought one round of drinks on the way home. He also went for the local elections one time and got less than 30 first preference votes. His extended family would have more than 30 votes.

Irish voters vote for policies, not for personalities.

OhHiMark

Achilles wrote: »

A bus journey? Sorry that's why we have 3G now, not to mention that all major bus providers have free wifi available.

Have you ever tried using it the entire way from Dublin to Limerick? There's no signal for large parts of the journey.

MrVestek

OhHiMark wrote: »

Have you ever tried using it the entire way from Dublin to Limerick? There's no signal for large parts of the journey.

Yes I have. If you let it buffer enough it's usually fine.

Koptain Liverpool

Deleted User wrote: »

Yawn, this pathetic crap again.

You're pathetic.

partyguinness

JillyQ wrote: »

i think that has to be the worst form of tightness

That happens more often than you might think. I know I guy who did this for travelling to his own brother's funeral. Submitted bill for round trip.

eireannBEAR

1. taking toilet roll from a public toilet.

2. avoiding paying train fare.

3. picking up cigarette ends off the street and making rollies out of them.

at the time i had an addiction problem,but thats the past,just the other day i found a wallet with cash and handed it in.

so if your reading lukasz madez from kildare you owe me a reward!! :rolleyes:

bren2001

eireannBEAR wrote: »

1. taking toilet roll from a public toilet.

2. avoiding paying train fare.

3. picking up cigarette ends off the street and making rollies out of them.

at the time i had an addiction problem,but thats the past,just the other day i found a wallet with cash and handed it in.

so if your reading lukasz madez from kildare you owe me a reward!! :rolleyes:

I was in Sligo for New Years a few years back. Found a purse on the ground and spent a good 20 minutes looking for the girl. Finally gave up, took the 20e for my troubles/taxi home and handed the it into the Garda. Had a good chat with him where we gave out about the a-hole who robbed the money. Wasn't my finest moment. Call it stingy...call it theft....she got her cards back.

petes

bren2001 wrote: »

I was in Sligo for New Years a few years back. Found a purse on the ground and spent a good 20 minutes looking for the girl. Finally gave up, took the 20e for my troubles/taxi home and handed the it into the Garda. Had a good chat with him where we gave out about the a-hole who robbed the money. Wasn't my finest moment. Call it stingy...call it theft....she got her cards back.

I think you'll find it was theft!

oldyouth

bren2001 wrote: »

Call it stingy...call it theft....she got her cards back.

That was theft. If she got her cards back, there is no reason you couldn't track her down to refund it

partyguinness

When I got married 3 years ago, we kept it a very small affair. Family and close friends..we had 47 sit down to dinner altogether. More came for the evening.

Got married in England and my close friends made the costly trip over, paid for their own accom and gave generously in the wedding cards. Very grateful.

Because I had a large family (brothers and sisters) space for dinner was at a premium. The missus only invited 4 friends and their husbands (plus her immediate family) most of her other friends arrived to the afters as they only lived down the road.

Of the 4 UK couples:

1. 2 of them did not give us as much as a card let alone a present;
2. Same 2 couples devoured the free champagnes on arrival;
3. They got into a round with an 2 irish couples at their table. Did not buy a round back;
4. Took more free drink from our fathers
5. Their mutual friends then crashed the afters (who neither of us knew or have seen sence)
6. Of course all the free food.
7. A few weeks later one of the couples said, "Oh we are trying to decide your present. Are B&Q vouchers ok (as we were doing up the house)?" 3 years on...we are still waiting.
8. One of the husbands got **** faced and nearly knocked over the wedding cake. Was taken home.

Now people don't turn this back on us, we had a wedding that we could afford and paid for ourselves. We are not entitled to presents. We were happy that everyone was there BUT....

Who the hell goes to a wedding without a present or card!! Especially such a small intimate one. Even a card with a lottery ticket would have been a token gesture.

The wife was hurt as they were her clsoe friends and especially how much it would have cost my firends and family to stay over.

It is not stingy it is incredible bad manners.....:mad:

bucketybuck

bren2001 wrote: »

I was in Sligo for New Years a few years back. Found a purse on the ground and spent a good 20 minutes looking for the girl

I was backpacking a few years ago, and was waiting to get on a tour operator bus that would be bringing a load of backpackers five/six hours up to the next town.

There were some outdoor toilets near the bus stop, so I went in before the bus went. Sitting in the cubicle, I noticed a wallet sitting on the toilet roll dispenser, obviously left there by mistake. I looked into it and there were a bunch of credit cards, a small amount of cash and most importantly, a card from the tour operator for the bus I was about to get.

As a flat broke backpacker scratching about, I have to admit I really was sorely tempted to pocket the cash or even to do something with the cards, desperate times and all that. But my mum raised me right, so when the bus was on its way I went down to speak to the driver, gave him the wallet and asked him to announce over the intercom that a wallet had been found. He did so, and seconds later this skinny Swedish guy made his way down the bus with a sheepish look on his face.

Thanks? None whatsoever. Never mind the hassle I had just saved him, he ignored me, took his wallet and went back to his seat. No big deal, I had done the right thing and that was that.

Until over the next day or two (In the smaller towns on this route you tended to see the same people over and over) I noticed that every time this guy seen me he would either avoid me completely or I would catch him giving me the dirtiest looks imaginable. I mentioned this to another backpacker, who told me that the happy Swede was going around telling everybody that there was some cash missing, and that I must have been the one who took it.

****ing raging I was, the ungrateful little bollix, and to this day I wish I had just pocketed the cash and dumped his wallet in the toilet.