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Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

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  • #2602
    ncmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭ncmc


    Depp wrote: »
    you do notice it being very prevalent with the elderly alright, to be fair to them though a lot of them have lived through times when stinge was fairly necesery so I usually just let them away with it
    There's a different between stinge and theft though, my mum is in her late 70's and is very thrifty as she grew up with nothing. She'd never in a million years steal candles or sweets from a charity box!


  • #2603
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    ncmc wrote: »
    There's a different between stinge and theft though, my mum is in her late 70's and is very thrifty as she grew up with nothing. She'd never in a million years steal candles or sweets from a charity box!

    Guarantee you she didn't see it as theft. Perception is an amazing thing!.


  • #2604
    westcoast66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭westcoast66


    I had to get the train up to Dublin a few weeks ago. It was off peak and full of pensioners. This aul one sitting beside me had brought her own teabag and wanted a cup of boiling water from the girl on the trolley. This was refused stating that €2 was the minimum charge. The aul one wouldn't pay it and went without. I don't know who was the worse stinge!


  • #2605
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,387 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    westcoast66 wrote: »
    I had to get the train up to Dublin a few weeks ago. It was off peak and full of pensioners. This aul one sitting beside me had brought her own teabag and wanted a cup of boiling water from the girl on the trolley. This was refused stating that €2 was the minimum charge. The aul one wouldn't pay it and went without. I don't know who was the worse stinge!


    The aul wan.


  • #2606
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    westcoast66 wrote: »
    I had to get the train up to Dublin a few weeks ago. It was off peak and full of pensioners. This aul one sitting beside me had brought her own teabag and wanted a cup of boiling water from the girl on the trolley. This was refused stating that €2 was the minimum charge. The aul one wouldn't pay it and went without. I don't know who was the worse stinge!

    A café I used to work at, a pot of tea for one was €1.80, and a pot of tea for two, unsurprisingly, was €3.60. The amount of auld wans who thought they'd found a loophole of 'can my friend and I have a pot of tea for one and a pot of hot water and an extra teabag, here's your €1.80' was mad.

    I didn't really give much of a shít, I'd let people off with it unless there was a manager watching (very stingy company) or the customer was annoying me. We had one auld wan who we all knew to watch when she came in and not give an inch with that sort of stuff, she came in with her friend and tried the tea thing, wouldn't back down. Manager was in a bitch of a mood that day anyway so the two of them ended up arguing about the rather Jesuitical distinction between a pot of tea for two and a pot of tea for one plus hot water plus another teabag for AGES.


  • #2607
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Birneybau wrote: »
    The aul wan.
    The auld one for sure. She's not even paying a fare to be on the train. This is why the old age pension has been so protected. You have old people who would literally rather die of hypothermia than heat their homes due to their commendable but ultimately over the top thrift and stoicism. So we couldn't reduce their basic pensions even by 1% during the height of the recession for fear there would be a mass self inflicted cull of the elderly.


  • #2608
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Amanda Screeching Housewife wrote: »
    A café I used to work at, a pot of tea for one was €1.80, and a pot of tea for We had one auld wan who we all knew to watch when she came in and not give an inch with that sort of stuff, she came in with her friend and tried the tea thing, wouldn't back down. Manager was in a bitch of a mood that day anyway so the two of them ended up arguing about the rather Jesuitical distinction between a pot of tea for two and a pot of tea for one plus hot water plus another teabag for AGES.


    Would ye not just give them the one cup between them, so they'd have to pay for the second cup?

    'Oul wans....they're either stinge or they're like this.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk3ds-VFKBs


  • #2609
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    snubbleste wrote: »
    I've decided that I'm not going into all the consumerist nonsense surrounding the forthcoming midwinter celebration.
    I've been labelled stingy for telling people that I don't want gifts nor will I be buying any.

    Am I being labelled wrongly?

    Arent you the unofficial Bargain King of Boards?

    Also, I know a guy who proudly claims he takes 6 normal small eggs from the carton and replaces them with 6 large organic eggs.

    **** sake like.


  • #2610
    benjamin d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    westcoast66 wrote: »
    I had to get the train up to Dublin a few weeks ago. It was off peak and full of pensioners. This aul one sitting beside me had brought her own teabag and wanted a cup of boiling water from the girl on the trolley. This was refused stating that €2 was the minimum charge. The aul one wouldn't pay it and went without. I don't know who was the worse stinge!

    The teabag itself is approx 1c of the cost of the cup of tea. Definitely not the sellers who are the stinges in these situations.


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  • #2611
    Field east
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭Field east


    benjamin d wrote: »
    The teabag itself is approx 1c of the cost of the cup of tea. Definitely not the sellers who are the stinges in these situations.

    I think that the tea trolley gent/ /lady on a train are issued with a specific number of tea cups and must charge €2 for each one. They then return €2 for each cup sold along with the cups not sold. A very simple accountability/ transparency system. This was relayed to me some time ago as I love a cup of weak tea - and being stingy I thought that I could get two teas for the price of one. Not possible said the lady as I have to account for all the cups so a cup of hot water will cost you €2.
    Next time when on the train I will bring my own cup and ask her to fill it up


  • #2612
    benjamin d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    Field east wrote: »
    I think that the tea trolley gent/ /lady on a train are issued with a specific number of tea cups and must charge €2 for each one. They then return €2 for each cup sold along with the cups not sold. A very simple accountability/ transparency system. This was relayed to me some time ago as I love a cup of weak tea - and being stingy I thought that I could get two teas for the price of one. Not possible said the lady as I have to account for all the cups so a cup of hot water will cost you €2.
    Next time when on the train I will bring my own cup and ask her to fill it up

    Makes sense to me. I used to work in a cafe that charged 30c for a cup of hot water and the whinging about it was unbelievable. The cups themselves were working out at 10-12c each before staff ever put water in them.


  • #2613
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Red Kev wrote: »
    Would ye not just give them the one cup between them, so they'd have to pay for the second cup?

    'Oul wans....they're either stinge or they're like this.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk3ds-VFKBs

    Oh sure that'd just be a whole other argument. And that's before we get on to the "Yes can I get four scones to takeaway [and therefore at a far lower price] please. Thanks. Actually, this has just popped into my head, sure I'll have a cup of tea while I'm here. Give me a plate and a knife and nine butters please".

    It was the attitude that used annoy me like, how they'd act so affronted when charged for perfectly standard stuff as though they'd never heard of such a thing, and how they seemed to think that the member of staff they were talking to was personally responsible and doing it out of badness rather than to avoid getting told off. They'd always try and go for the really young members of staff too, the ones who'd not stand up to them. And God forbid the member of staff who told them no wasn't Irish or you'd get a Brucey-bonus racist ramble on top of things. I let people away with stuff in that job all the time as long as they weren't like that about it, it's a completely counterproductive approach.

    I was long enough in the game by that time that I could spot them a mile off, you'd know from the second someone walked in if they were going to be an awkward chancery stingebag.


  • #2614
    benjamin d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    That reminds me actually; in the cafe I worked in on a university campus, generally one person would be making the coffees and someone else would be on the till. Occasionally the one person would be doing both if we were stretched.
    These two admin biddies ordered two americanos from me and queued on up to pay. By the time they got to the till I was manning it and one of them says that's two brewed coffees. When I told her she had americanos (1.60 vs 1.30 for a brewed coffee) she tried to start a full on row at the till over it, stamping feet and raised voices, the whole thing. When I pointed out they were clearly americanos she tried to say the server got it wrong and she'd ordered brewed coffees.
    Needless to say I wasn't taking being called a liar lying down and got in a bit of trouble with the manager afterwards!


  • #2615
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Mother of Jayzus.

    I work in an office Mondays and Tuesdays on a contract as an advisor. I'm usually in at 7.00 as I can get a couple of hours to myself. About 6 of us on the project have coffee and a snack at 10.30 with an informal chat on the project and any issues.

    So this guy pulls out a wrapped napkin and in it is half a portion of butter (I see him do this every day). He then uses it on the scone that he buys with the coffee every morning. He stretches the portion of butter to last two days as they cost 10c each.

    The odd thing is the coffee and scone is about €3.50 together and you're allowed to bring your own food in there. Two of the other lads have flasks with them, so there's no stigma attached to bringing your own (I bring my own breakfast and lunch with me, but buy coffee as it's lovely here).

    One of the other lads said the guy with the half portions of butter started doing this a year ago after they started charging for butter. They started charging for it as so many people were taking 5 or 6 portions, using 1 or 2 and talking the rest home.

    It's odd, as he spends a tenner a day there easily, but finds the extra 10c for a decent portion of butter on the scone too much. The fact that he goes to the trouble of Wrapping it up in a tissue and storing it in his desk makes it worse. He's on about €75,000 pa as.well.


  • #2616
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    benjamin d wrote: »
    The teabag itself is approx 1c of the cost of the cup of tea. Definitely not the sellers who are the stinges in these situations.
    Agree.
    When I was in college a tea from the canteen was 1.90 but a cup of hot water was 20c + milk was free. Its a no brainer really :D


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  • #2617
    4Ad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,769 ✭✭✭4Ad


    I drove about 20 miles in total out of my way last night for my brothers friend on the way to a gig..I paid for the toll / tunnel in Limerick..got to the gig no offer of a drink...I avoided the toll on the way home...I knew it would annoy me more.. he hasnt much money but the annoying thing is he bought a ticket for a girl he was trying to 'befriend' ( she never showed)....last time I ever give him a lift..


  • #2618
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    I was told this about a distant relative - when offering someone a beer, he'd take the one beer and share it with them. He wouldn't give them their own. And if there was some leftover in their glass, he'd pour it back into the bottle/can it came from.

    Actually, I'm just assuming he gave them a glass, as anyone would. I hope he didnt make them take a sup out of the one beer...


  • #2619
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    I was told this about a distant relative - when offering someone a beer, he'd take the one beer and share it with them. He wouldn't give them their own. And if there was some leftover in their glass, he'd pour it back into the bottle/can it came from.

    Actually, I'm just assuming he gave them a glass, as anyone would. I hope he didnt make them take a sup out of the one beer...
    Robsweezie wrote: »
    I was told this about a distant relative - when offering someone a beer, he'd take the one beer and share it with them. He wouldn't give them their own. And if there was some leftover in their glass, he'd pour it back into the bottle/can it came from.

    Actually, I'm just assuming he gave them a glass, as anyone would. I hope he didnt make them take a sup out of the one beer...
    Robsweezie wrote: »
    I was told this about a distant relative - when offering someone a beer, he'd take the one beer and share it with them. He wouldn't give them their own. And if there was some leftover in their glass, he'd pour it back into the bottle/can it came from.

    Actually, I'm just assuming he gave them a glass, as anyone would. I hope he didnt make them take a sup out of the one beer...

    Has to the the stingiest person ever to do it three times to the one person :pac:


  • #2620
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    Know a old woman who was left a fortune from the death of her spouse, like hundreds of thousands. Still goes to McDonalds to read the free paper and bring coupons for free tea. One of these fur coat types who thinks something doesn't stink!.


  • #2621
    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Know a old woman who was left a fortune from the death of her spouse, like hundreds of thousands. Still goes to McDonalds to read the free paper and bring coupons for free tea. One of these fur coat types who thinks something doesn't stink!.

    See, I don't think that's 'stingy'... thifty, certainly... but just because someone has a few quid doesn't mean they should forget the value of a dollar. If anything, it shows a healthy respect for money - although that's possibly stretching it somewhat.


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  • #2622
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    See, I don't think that's 'stingy'... thifty, certainly... but just because someone has a few quid doesn't mean they should forget the value of a dollar. If anything, it shows a healthy respect for money - although that's possibly stretching it somewhat.

    Stingy out in my book, won't spead a euro on a newspaper?. Seems pathetic when you are wealthy, do these people know you can't take it with you?.


  • #2623
    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Stingy out in my book, won't spead a euro on a newspaper?. Seems pathetic when you are wealthy, do these people know you can't take it with you?.

    Why spend a euro when you don't have to though?


  • #2624
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    Why spend a euro when you don't have to though?

    Your not her are you!?!:P


  • #2625
    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Your not her are you!?!:P

    :D

    I wish - I haven't a pot to p*ss in!


  • #2626
    donkeykong5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    On train to cork. I had my lyons t bag with me. (Cie only serve barrys t bags ). I just paid for the paper cup with boiling water and milk and sugar. ( 2 euro. ). What's the problem. ?


  • #2627
    fineso.mom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    [quote="Red Kev;10195321

    It's odd, as he spends a tenner a day there easily, but finds the extra 10c for a decent portion of butter on the scone too much. The fact that he goes to the trouble of Wrapping it up in a tissue and storing it in his desk makes it worse. He's on about €75,000 pa as.well.[/quote]
    Reminds of a guy my uncle knew in America. The man was a millionaire a couple times over but if he managed to get through a toll without paying the dollar fee he would mention it gleefully to anyone he met through the day.


  • #2628
    OCEANIC FIZZY POP NINE
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 161 ✭✭OCEANIC FIZZY POP NINE


    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    On train to cork. I had my lyons t bag with me. (Cie only serve barrys t bags ). I just paid for the paper cup with boiling water and milk and sugar. ( 2 euro. ). What's the problem. ?

    That you think theirs a difference in lyons and barrys


  • #2629
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Stingy out in my book, won't spead a euro on a newspaper?. Seems pathetic when you are wealthy, do these people know you can't take it with you?.

    Can't blame her. The free paper is the Irish Independent. I wouldn't pay 5c for that rag, let alone the €2 it's supposed to cost.


  • #2630
    donkeykong5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    OCEANIC FIZZY POP NINE wrote: »
    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    On train to cork. I had my lyons t bag with me. (Cie only serve barrys t bags ). I just paid for the paper cup with boiling water and milk and sugar. ( 2 euro. ). What's the problem. ?

    That you think theirs a difference in lyons and barrys
    Yeah. Otherwise I wouldn't have bought said t bag with me. I like tea to taste like tea.


  • #2631
    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    I met up with a friend who lives in another city as I was there for work.

    It was lunch time and he suggested going to a place that does take away stuff (various things salads/sandwiches etc). I was wrecked and wanted to eat in somewhere but whatever. He is known as the thrifty friend.

    We go there - I make my order, he makes his - pay separately (obviously) but he makes sure the cashier knows we are together and then hands over his loyalty card to get two stamps and proclaims "Yesss!!! Next sandwich is free". That's why he brought me there - no other reason only to ensure his free sandwich.

    He will also go to cafes with friends, ask for a glass of water - down that then fill the glass from the milk jug rather than buying a drink like everyone else.

    Im actually not friends with him anymore and his stinginess grates on those that still are.


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  • #2632
    La_Gordy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭La_Gordy


    Parchment wrote: »
    I met up with a friend who lives in another city as I was there for work.

    He needs to be binned.


  • #2633
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Parchment wrote: »
    I met up with a friend who lives in another city as I was there for work.

    It was lunch time and he suggested going to a place that does take away stuff (various things salads/sandwiches etc). I was wrecked and wanted to eat in somewhere but whatever. He is known as the thrifty friend.

    We go there - I make my order, he makes his - pay separately (obviously) but he makes sure the cashier knows we are together and then hands over his loyalty card to get two stamps and proclaims "Yesss!!! Next sandwich is free". That's why he brought me there - no other reason only to ensure his free sandwich.

    He will also go to cafes with friends, ask for a glass of water - down that then fill the glass from the milk jug rather than buying a drink like everyone else.

    Im actually not friends with him anymore and his stinginess grates on those that still are.

    oooo, free milk.
    never thought of that...


  • #2634
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    La_Gordy wrote: »
    He needs to be binned.

    He'd probably eat out of the bin!


  • #2635
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,896 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    today in work some people were selling hot chocolate in aid of Pieta house for 2 euro, as it's xmas the coffee machine was free to use this week and it has hot choc in it, heard one fella saying " sure why would you pay for it when you can get it for free" then proceeding to get the free hot choc from the machine It's 2 feckin euro and it was for charity how stingy are some people.


  • #2636
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,061 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I honestly think the true Scroogies have a screw loose, or they may be suffering from some illness.

    I say this because truly, who would not care what anyone thinks when they behave like that unless they are oblivious as a result of their health issues.

    On the other hand some people are just plain MEAN.


  • #2637
    duffer247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭duffer247


    I remember back in my late teens in the 90s a friend started driving his mother's car, it was very much a novelty to drive and have access to a car at that age back then. Anyhow, of an evening he'd call over and suggest going for a drive somewhere calling in to other mates etc. Without fail he'd ask for petrol money so we'd throw whatever shrapnel we'd have. It was a bit of a running joke that he would suggest the drive and then charge but it became an issue one evening when we went back to his house. Part of his driveway was a slope, he'd stop the car on slope to let the petrol gauge indicator go up (due to the angle of the car) and then kill the ignition. This was to convince his mother he hadn't used any petrol and then she'd top up as the needle dropped when she was out driving. Still giggle about it - he's an accountant now!


  • #2638
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,759 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Just a counterweight to the stinge stories:

    Tonight we had a few neighbours round for some food and drinks. They all brought some drinks, and some brought food as well. We had a great night eating, drinking and chatting.

    At the end of the night, one neighboring family was heading home, and as the bottle of wine they'd brought hadn't even been opened, I offered it to them to take it home with them. He replied "That was a gift for this house, and it stays in this house."

    Good stuff, and maybe a reminder that the stingy f**ks are the minority.


  • #2639
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    osarusan wrote: »
    Just a counterweight to the stinge stories

    You just reminded me of something that happened five years ago now.


  • #2640
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    I have an aunt who gave me and my brothers bottles of sample shampoo for Christmas one year, she gets them for free and we were all under the age of 8.

    She also never pays for tea/coffee when out with my mum. She always says I'll get it next time.


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  • #2641
    happyday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭happyday


    civis_liberalis wrote: »
    You just reminded me of something that happened five years ago now.

    Wow that's amazing! I'm even more proud to be from Cork now. ☺


  • #2642
    The Highwayman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    fineso.mom wrote: »
    [quote="Red Kev;10195321

    It's odd, as he spends a tenner a day there easily, but finds the extra 10c for a decent portion of butter on the scone too much. The fact that he goes to the trouble of Wrapping it up in a tissue and storing it in his desk makes it worse. He's on about €75,000 pa as.well.
    Reminds of a guy my uncle knew in America. The man was a millionaire a couple times over but if he managed to get through a toll without paying the dollar fee he would mention it gleefully to anyone he met through the day.[/quote]

    And that's why he's a millionaire


  • #2643
    John_D80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    The Highwayman wrote: »
    And that's why he's a millionaire

    Nobody becomes a millionaire because they dodge tolls.

    I know what you are getting at but I dont think anyone really believes that thriftiness/stinginess at this level is a reason for amassing huge wealth. If the man mentioned is a millionaire there are many more likely reasons for it.


  • #2644
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    John_D80 wrote: »
    Nobody becomes a millionaire because they dodge tolls.

    I know what you are getting at but I dont think anyone really believes that thriftiness/stinginess at this level is a reason for amassing huge wealth. If the man mentioned is a millionaire there are many more likely reasons for it.

    Maybe uses his teabags two or three times :D


  • #2645
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean


    A man I know coasts down hills in his car and disengages the gears to save fuel.

    Someone I know burns what they can in the range and either composts or flushes food down the loo, so they never have to put the bin out !!

    A coworker of mine often pries open the jack's paper dispenser and takes a roll home for his own use. It's just a triangle key thing to open it, so can be opened with a car key or coin. He very proudly tells me this. I hope no one rats the lad out if he tells anyone else.

    A woman I work with pinches a bunch of teabags from the basket in the canteen (tea / coffee is free). Once I caught her taking a litre of milk from the fridge and put it in her cooler lunch bag at the end of the day (just as I was walking into the canteen to collect my own lunch box). She didn't know what to say :P

    Out breakfast items in canteen are five items for €3.50 and 50 c for each extra item. A man I work with will often hide a rasher under some beans.

    All the above are ingenious !!


  • #2646
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,775 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    When on holidays for a few months in the USA and Canada I went into lots of McDonalds, hundreds of them probably.

    The only thing I ever bought was a $1 coffee and I'd take an hour or more to drink it just to use the free wi fi to figure out where we would go next and where to camp/stay.

    Also cause I hate their food.


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  • #2647
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,594 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    dfeo wrote: »
    All the above are ingenious !!

    The workplace ones are simply theft. 
    Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin




  • #2648
    Faith+1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Jasus there's some right miserable b@stards in this country.


  • #2649
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    The toilet paper story above reminds me of an old room-mate in England mentioned further back.

    He was very decent in the pub but never spent a penny on household stuff. One saturday morning about 11 he was heading out the door. I asked him where he was going.

    He answered, " Up to the Brit (Brittania) for a sh1t. There's no toilet paper here."

    I pointed out that there was a co-op shop closer.

    He said, "Those c*nts are too dear."

    And off he went.


  • #2650
    zbluebirdz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭zbluebirdz


    dfeo wrote: »
    A man I know coasts down hills in his car and disengages the gears to save fuel.

    ....
    All the above are ingenious !!

    Myth - car burns less fuel when coasting in neutral.

    You actually use less fuel when coasting in gear.


  • #2651
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    Old housemate had en suite room. Sometimes hed nip to the local pub rather than spend the euro on toilet paper.


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