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Why are all tight people horrible ?
Why are all tight people horrible ?
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I was at the house of this old fellow I knew.
I watched him place three pieces of coal on his open fire. He then sat back in his chair to consider what he had done. Thought better of it and took one piece of coal off. Now that's what I call frugal. He was worth a few bob as well. |
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It's an art mate, nothing less than an art.
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Happiness is Bliss.
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I have, or more accurately 'had' a mate who has never had much money but it has made him tighter than a nun's snatch. I'd suggest doing something (football, snooker, cinema etc) and he'd say about 50% of the time, "I can't afford it" so back then when I had quite a bit of disposable income i'd pay. Now every fecking time I suggest something he can't afford it because he is trying his luck to get me to pay. I cottoned on to this a while back and we haven't seen each other since.
When we sometimes went to McDonalds or similar we'd drive through and then settle up after. If he drove and my stuff came to £4 or so i'd give him a fiver and say you drove, so don't worry about the change. Not a massive amount but a nice little gesture IMO. When it was the other way round and his came to £4.23 for example, he would count out £4.23 in small change and pay me with that... Can't stand things like that. I think i'm extremely generous fair with my money. In fact, i'm probably over generous. I love buying stuff for my family and and I will never understand people who are rich and then hoard it. At a certain point it is numbers printed on a screen. Have some fun with it. |
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Your 'mate' was probably telling the truth.
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I used to work with a bloke who pulled in a very decent wage, and his wife had a good job also. No kids. Mortgage paid off years ago.
The had never had a proper holiday in all in their 25 years of marriage -they used to drive down to Weston super mare twice a year, bring a packed lunch, sleep in the car over night (15 year old banger)and drive back the next day. That was their summer holiday. They were in their early 50's at the time and not in the best of health. He never ever gave to a collection at work - didn't matter what the cause was. One of his best mates at work died suddenly, knew him for 25 years, never gave a penny when there was a collection for him. Just walked away when asked! One of the tightest cnunts I've ever met. He died in his mid 50's taking it all with him! |
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Where did he take it?
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to his maker
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Don't be silly.
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Dr Crippen 11 Aug 14 20:51 Joined: 16 Apr 02 | Topic/replies: 16,098 | Blogger: Dr Crippen's blog When I was at school I knew a lad who could peel an orange in his pocket. Then take a segment out at a time to eat it so that he wouldn't have to share it. Respect. how did you manage that as oranged let of fumes |
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sure he was peeling an orange in his pocket?
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think the reason most tight feckers are horrible or miserable khoonts is they are thinking about saving money or fearing losing money 24-7 and it gets under their skin , the tight wad who has serious money is far worse than a tight fecker who has feck all as the one with feck all has a valid excuse to be tight !
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I can't stand it when you go out for a meal with other couples and the bill comes... You get 90% of them want to pay by card which does my nut in. If you're going for a night/meal out then go to a fecking cashpoint, don't use your card to avoid tipping you tight tw@ts. Was in TGI Fridays one time with loads of single friends and three or four of them started using the calculators on their phones to work out what they'd had to the penny... My mate & I chucked 20 quid on the table and walked out...
Never happens when you go out with a group of male friends.. Don't know if it's people being Billy Big Bollocks or ego taking over, but say the bill in an indian comes to say £133 and there are five of you, you just all stick £30 in each and think nothing of it, no matter what everyone has eaten/drank... |
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yeah it should just be split equal not adding up whos had what
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youve had 4 drinks and ive only had 3 so let me work this out
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waiter waiter how much was that starter
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went out for my mates wifes 40th couple of years back .. There was about 6 couples and loads of kids . When the bill came i suggested - just divide it between the number of adults . There was a fat horrible couple who picked up a menu and started working out what they had eaten . The ball started rolling then and a few others done it cos they didnt wanna pay more . Anyway when i seen me mate the day after he said he was £15 short and had to put it in himself .
Who the hell are these horrible people , they should not be allowed out with nice people . Keep them in the house where they belong . |
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dewey 11 Aug 14 21:42 Joined: 07 Feb 06 | Topic/replies: 3,145 | Blogger: dewey's blog Your 'mate' was probably telling the truth. Rate reply: | report block user He could always find cash for other luxuries. He just got it in his head that if he said he was broke i'd pay for him. Now he won't go anywhere unless I pay so we don't see each other! |
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Tight people are everywhere , always saying theyre skint etc etc etc . Then jet off to Spain for 2 weeks
Go in work and the fykkas go in the office and ask if theres any weekend work  And theyve got young kids at home whod love to go swimming with their dad or the park at weekends but MONEY has got in the way of the most pleasurable things in life . FACT |
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i've been at that restaurant table,only the once i may add
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My best mate's a bit tight, and he'll still dodge a bit of expense when he can, because he used to get ribbed about it all the time.
He used to ponce ciggies in the pub when we played darts, asking every player for one, and saying 'I'll get some in a minute.' He once got 20 from the machine in the bar but left them on the table when we went for a piss. I walked round the bar and handed them out, the whole packet was gone in under two minutes. He never got over it. If we went into a pub he was never the first one up to the ramp to get a drink, and the night would end on the last round I got in. On holiday with our families he would ask all the kids if they wanted crisps, but only when it wasn't his round. We drove down from Coniston in Cumbria to Blackpool for a day out with the kids. I was starving for breakfast, and I know he was, but a lot of the cafes weren't open yet as it was only 8-30 a.m. I went in the first one I saw, but he carried on walking until he found a cheaper one. I never saw him again until we got back to the cars that night. In the hotel breakfast room in Cumbria he used to fill his kids up with toast as it was free. |
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11 Aug 14 22:37 Joined: 15 Sep 09 | Topic/replies: 5,945 | Blogger: ZEALOT's blog went out for my mates wifes 40th couple of years back .. There was about 6 couples and loads of kids . When the bill came i suggested - just divide it between the number of adults . There was a fat horrible couple who picked up a menu and started working out what they had eaten . The ball started rolling then and a few others done it cos they didnt wanna pay more . Anyway when i seen me mate the day after he said he was £15 short and had to put it in himself . Who the hell are these horrible people , they should not be allowed out with nice people . Keep them in the house where they belong . They seem to be you and your wives mates |
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wifes*
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Food certainly seems to bring the greedy nature out in some people
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no mate . they are fykin everywhere . like vermin
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Tight people are not horrible - just more sensible than the general 'run of the mill', 'priorities in the wrong place' type of person otherwise 'loser' type of person (not reccomended).
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does that mean you never buy a drink ?
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If people feel the need to go through the bill working out what everyone has had incase they've been done out of 15p they are not friends imo...
Some nights you'll be better off, other night's worse off, but if you're that tight then just stay in and have beans on toast and a glass of water you absolute ****! |
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****
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K()NTS!!!
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This happened over 40 years ago,so a £5er was worth a bit more then.
I knew this tight xxxxxx,he had put this nurse up the stick,the poor cow had to give up work and he moved in with her.a couple of weeks later I went in the local and he is standing at the bar with a suitcase.I asked him what happened,he said she threw me out,I cannot understand it, I was slinging her a £5er a week. |
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In the pub last Sunday watching Liverpool Utd , about 6 of us . A fella walked in who we all know and ordered a pint of ice water , he joined us and one of the lads said ' what you doing on the water ?' , he replied 'I'm not' , then he pulled a small bottle of cordial out of his inside pocket and squirted a splash into his glass . We were all GOBSMACKED .
He then said a cordial is £1.20 and his bottle only cost £1 . He stayed for the whole game and had 3 waters which cost him nothing and he went home with nearly a full bottle of cordial !!! The tw@t is loaded as well . WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING WITH SOCIETY ??? |
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If you're out for a meal and everyone is roughly the same or it's a stag or something, then yes chuck the money in, but if some people are drinking and others aren't and some are having steaks and the others a salad, they've every right to pay just their share as the difference could be massive, espeically with the price of booze these days. It would piss me off if that happened to me regularly I was on the wrong end of it.
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how much it set you back, £ 20 ?
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I absolutely abhor meanness, I don't ever have such people in my company if I can possibly avoid it.
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they are not real friends slippy.
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The cordial
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Once we went to a Music night in the Green Man near Leytonstone, it was packed out..came to a mates round and ordered the 4 pints as requested..then said "Can i have two Port and Lemons and a dry sherry".. the barman muttered summat and went off to find em.."Why did you order that" i said "You pulled a richard"
He just disappered into the melee whilst the barman was finding the shorts... |