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I Hate these "hired beggers" at the grocery stores.

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  • 14-02-2009 8:21pm
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    CyberGhost
    Registered Users Posts: 5,554 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    Everytime I go to tesco or dunnes store, at the end of the counter there is somebody collecting change for some "good cause".

    I fecking hate them,

    I don't want to give you my change mkay!? so stop asking me to pack my crap in the bag.

    They make me feel like crap when I don't give change, and why should I give change, when it's going into some fat cat's pocket.

    Is there nothing one can do about this ****, complain to the manager or something?

    bah!

    /end rant
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    Highsider
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    Worst thread ever.


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    ejmaztec
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    Highsider wrote: »
    Worst thread ever.

    I think that it's probably the greatest thread since God created the internet on the 8th day.


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    FlutterinBantam
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    Op has a point.


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    Kold
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    You could always.... Kill them...

    <_<
    >_>


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,072 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I hate those money-grabbing bastards as well. If it's something to do with a local hospital or proper charity, then I might let the feckers pack my groceries.

    If it's something like a local dancing school, I'll break their fucking dancing legs before I'll let them near my feckin groceries.


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    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Someone didn't get a valentines card. Relax dude. They're usually scouts collecting for their club. Would it really hurt you to stick a few cent in the bucket? Or guess what? You could shop during the week when they're not there!


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    JackKelly
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    Ah you poor thing OP

    If you'd actually taken the time to ever do a bag pack for a "good cause" you would realise that they don't actually care whether you give them change or not. A simple smile or acknowledgment is fine.


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    galwayrush
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    Don't give them anything if you don't want to.;)


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    Preset No.3
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    why worst thread ever? Ive no interest in supporting scouts or some crap like that. I also hate the ones wearing their bib supporting some charity selling scratch cards that you'll never win on!


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    CyberGhost wrote: »
    Is there nothing one can do about this ****, complain to the manager or something?

    bah!

    /end rant

    Complain to the manager or something.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    CyberGhost
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    Kiera wrote: »
    Someone didn't get a valentines card. Relax dude. They're usually scouts collecting for their club. Would it really hurt you to stick a few cent in the bucket? Or guess what? You could shop during the week when they're not there!

    What scouts, these are grown men, not kids.


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    Kiera
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    CyberGhost wrote: »
    What scouts, these are grown men, not kids.
    Its for charity ffs. Is 20/50c gonna kill you?


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    ejmaztec
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    Kiera wrote: »
    Someone didn't get a valentines card. Relax dude. They're usually scouts collecting for their club. Would it really hurt you to stick a few cent in the bucket? Or guess what? You could shop during the week when they're not there!

    I get loads of Valentine's cards - costs me a mint in postage. :pac:

    I was only making a light-hearted comment about breaking people's legs - I'd probably just give them the evil eye, unless I had my machete with me. :P


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    holly1
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    A lot of mean people out there with big chips on there shoulders.


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    Ross_Mahon
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    Bucket shaking, grocery bagging, smart mouthing beggers...

    Firing squad


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    Kiera
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I get loads of Valentine's cards - costs me a mint in postage. :pac:

    I was only making a light-hearted comment about breaking people's legs - I'd probably just give them the evil eye, unless I had my machete with me. :P
    I wasnt talking to you. I was talking to the OP.


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    ejmaztec
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    Ross_Mahon wrote: »
    Bucket shaking, grocery bagging, smart mouthing beggers...

    Firing squad

    Sometimes you see these people later on, lying in their own vomit outside an off-licence, empty buckets scattered around em.:eek:


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    Abi
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    Kiera wrote: »
    You could shop during the week when they're not there!

    Its what I do. A fortune teller told me Id be done for GBH over one of these fúckers, so I went to a shrink and he agreed.


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    phasers
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    They don't pack the shopping properly at all

    Eggs under bottles of drink? feckin GAA clubs are the worst


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    the boss of me
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    Simple solution ... shop in Aldi.


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    utick
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    Kiera wrote: »
    Its for charity ffs. Is 20/50c gonna kill you?

    ffs is it going to kill them to go without 20/50c


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    ShooterSF
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    How can you have a problem with these people. You get your bags packed and you don't have to pay them. Greatest thing ever, it's like back in the day when quinnsworth paid people to pack your bags.


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    Aodan83
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    Preset No.3 wrote: »
    why worst thread ever? Ive no interest in supporting scouts or some crap like that. I also hate the ones wearing their bib supporting some charity selling scratch cards that you'll never win on!
    Have no problem with the people packin bags and stuff, its all for a good cause.
    There is however, one guy I've seen who sells those scratch cards, who harrasses everyone on the street. I know one person who has ever bought one of these cards. Guy immediatley asked if he wanted another! Cheek of it, he'd already goten rid of one ridiculously overpriced scratch card.
    Readin that he might not sound like the worst, but the guy was really irritating.


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    juvenal
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    holly1 wrote: »
    A lot of mean people out there with big chips on there shoulders.

    Not so much just a chip, more like a fish supper :rolleyes:

    The same people who don't want to contribute to bona fide local charities and social organisations are likely to be those in another thread giving out about how there are no amenities or "anything to do" for the "young uns" in their area, and how it's all the "govurndments" fault.


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    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    holly1 wrote: »
    A lot of mean people out there with big chips on there shoulders.
    :eek:
    They throw big chips at you if you mean !!!


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    Kiera
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    utick wrote: »
    ffs is it going to kill them to go without 20/50c
    That's not the point. He said he gets grief over not putting money in the bucket. Pay attention!


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    MagicMarker
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    What's the big fúcking deal?

    If you let them help you then I won't have to start threads about some twat in front of me taking fúcking hours to pack up their shít, queues might actually go faster.

    It's not like they're holding out their filthy beggar hands, they're offering an OPTIONAL service in return for a euro or two.


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    MIN2511
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    Funny, i was in Dunnes today and i was thinking the same..
    They always seem to have young girls looking at you with puppy eyes and when i don't give i feel guilty :(


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    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    I don't mind it at all, it is when they rattle the bucket that annoys me . I walk away then .
    Whereas I would have gave them a euro or more if they didn't .
    Petty, I know but it keeps me sane .


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    calex71
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    they cant pack bags for crap , the worst ones are the people who tell them its ok having had prior bad experience of bagging mishaps and still give them the money lol , could be called racketeering in some circles :D


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