Indian Giver

Nozebleed

If you give someone something (inexpensive/non sentimental)..can you ask for it back..say a year later?

alwaysadub

No!
You wanna ask someone to give you back a christmas present you got them or something??

MagicMarker

Was is a blow job?

Rockery Woman

If the gift was inexpensive - you could just buy it for yourself!:D

Pompey Magnus

Nozebleed wrote: »

If you give someone something (inexpensive/non sentimental)..can you ask for it back..say a year later?

Herpes doesn't work like that.

Terry

I like Seinfeld too.

Nozebleed

no i gave a mate a €5 cable which i wasn't using a while back...so when i handed to him i remember saying "im not using it sure you can hold onto it". I never said you can keep it or its yours or whatever. so can i ask for it back? this blokes a tight ****er..doesn't spend money.

o1s1n

Nozebleed wrote: »

this blokes a tight ****er..doesn't spend money.

Says the guy who's chasing someone for a €5 cable a year later?

Pompey Magnus

Nozebleed wrote: »

no i gave a mate a €5 cable which i wasn't using a while back...so when i handed to him i remember saying "im not using it sure you can hold onto it". I never said you can keep it or its yours or whatever. so can i ask for it back? this blokes a tight ****er..doesn't spend money.

If I was that friend I would assume you were giving it to me for keeps so I'd say the answer to your question is no, unless you want to look like a tight ****er.

Rabble Rabble

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

If I was that friend I would assume you were giving it to me for keeps so I'd say the answer to your question is no, unless you want to look like a tight ****er.

disagree, a functional item loaned out is not really a gift, in the same sense as a birthday, or christmas present.

January

Indian givers are tight bastárds

Pompey Magnus

Rabble Rabble wrote: »

disagree, a functional item loaned out is not really a gift, in the same sense as a birthday, or christmas present.

If its made clear that its a loan then fair enough, but "you hold onto it" isn't exactly clear that the OP intended to come looking for it in the future.

starbelgrade

Can I have my cock back please?

Nozebleed

i know it looks and sounds bad...but this guy knows im not giving him the cable to keep. he knows im not using it,and i know he could use it in the mean time. but now i want the thing back..after all i paid for the thing. and i didnt ask him if he wanted it to keep. I text the prick and he replied by saying. "Would ye stop outta that,ye gave it to me saying "you had no need for it"..ye can go sing for it,ye gave it to me over a year ago case closed"

seriously this could end with a homicide. im fcukin goin mad here.

alwaysadub

You told him you didn't need it and to hold onto it!!

You should've said you can borrow it, or hold onto it till i need it or something, but you gave it to him!
Get over it.

Nozebleed

no..im not having it. im getting the cable back..it an total insult on his behalf not to offer the cable back when he knows i could use it. the fact i had to ask for it back is bad enough but then for the muppet to say "you can go sing for it and case closed" your not getting it. he may aswell have just text fcuk off. the cheeky bastard/

Coriolanus

Yeah after a text like that vengeance is in order.

Strangle his sister with another cable and leave a note, "this one you can keep"

oldyouth

Very surprised the OP parted with the cable in the 1st place without a notarised binding agreement. It was worth in excess of €4 after all.

His fault I'm afraid, no sympathy at all. The law is there to protect you if you use it correctly

Thoie

Nozebleed wrote: »

no..im not having it. im getting the cable back..it an total insult on his behalf not to offer the cable back when he knows i could use it. the fact i had to ask for it back is bad enough but then for the muppet to say "you can go sing for it and case closed" your not getting it. he may aswell have just text fcuk off. the cheeky bastard/

How about next time you're out for pints, just don't buy him anything when it's your round and call it quits?

DrumSteve

why don't you just ask him for a lend and don't give it back

FatherLen

you sound like a shit friend. and a bit cheap. what kind of cable is it? if its anything less than a hdmi cable then you have no business asking for it back.

bonerm

Terry wrote: »

I like Seinfeld too.

Really? I have my reserva .... er suspicions that it might be overrated.

So anyway Terry, wanna go to the big game with me this w/e? I got tickets from a scal ...... uh, one of those guys.

pickarooney

Having generously given him a 5 euro cable, you should expect and demand that he return the favour by signing over to you the deeds to a plot of land the size of lower Manhattan.

jimthemental

You sound stingy and petty and your friend seems slightly spoiled or intentionally ignorant. That said OP you're probably right to be pissed off. Vendetta time I think.

joe stodge

in this thread OP being a tight ass.

spoonface

Nozebleed wrote: »

no i gave a mate a €5 cable which i wasn't using a while back...so when i handed to him i remember saying "im not using it sure you can hold onto it". I never said you can keep it or its yours or whatever. so can i ask for it back? this blokes a tight ****er..doesn't spend money.

It's bloody 5 Euro worth and you think it's worth having it back more than it's worth still having a friendship with your mate. You weren't clear in the first place so just go out and buy a new cable. You've pretty much lost your friendship anyway and you're only gonna make the situtation worse by being insistent.

Cheap Thrills!

Nozebleed wrote: »

no i gave a mate a €5 cable which i wasn't using a while back...so when i handed to him i remember saying "im not using it sure you can hold onto it".

Nozebleed wrote: »

I never said you can keep it or its yours or whatever. so can i ask for it back? this blokes a tight ****er..doesn't spend money.

To me 'you can hold on to it' DOES mean you can keep it!! You can't just turn around a year later and get all huffy and change your mind and say you want it back!!!!

If he's such a tight fcuker don't give him anything else in future and lesson learned.

Jaxxy

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

To me 'you can hold on to it' DOES mean you can keep it!! You can't just turn around a year later and get all huffy and change your mind and say you want it back!!!!

If he's such a tight fcuker don't give him anything else in future and lesson learned.

Yeah +1 here, I'd think the exact same. Chances are though if you asked for it back I would give it to you, but I'd probably think you were tight yourself, or a little bit weird if you did.

Just buy a new one and don't give him anything else in the future.

gravityisalie

FatherLen wrote: »

you sound like a shit friend. and a bit cheap. what kind of cable is it?

stewart cable perhaps ? no wonder he wont give it back

phill106

MagicMarker wrote: »

Was is a blow job?

They are expensive!

Plazaman

Agree with Cheap Thrills here, in guy speak "you can hold onto it" means keep it. I agree with you when you say his "case closed" text was cheeky. Absolutely! It couldn't have been more cheeky if he was using some sort of electrified cheekiness induction machine plugged in with your cable.

However goin after it at this late stage (statute of limitation for give backsies is 72 hours) will only make you look like the cnut.

Revenge is the only option, be it a deliberate snub in a round as suggested on buy another cable to give to mate but reverse the polarity on it so anything it's plugged into gets fried.

orourkeda

Nozebleed wrote: »

If you give someone something (inexpensive/non sentimental)..can you ask for it back..say a year later?

If you lent it they should have given it back.