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daydreamer
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The Germans have a word "Schadenfreude" which sounds like it may be close to your description?
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Osprey
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That's close. It means the joy we feel at someone else's bad fortune. It is tied to morbid curiousity; when we slow down when we pass a bad accident.
Usually, in that context it is aimed at people we don't know but who suffer when we don't.
[Edited on 7-19-2012 by Osprey]
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windgrrl
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Profiteers? Pirates? Privateers?
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In my circles those folks who go around making lowball offers are usually referred to as "Bottomfeeders."
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Bedman
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Osprey....
try "Goniff" (sp) I believe it's Yiddish.
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Skipjack Joe
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Operator.
From a translation of 'gonif'.
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Osprey
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From the Yiddish Dictionary online
thief ganef (ganovim) ∙ (m.)
[Edited on 7-20-2012 by Osprey]
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greengoes
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Wouldn't the word 'codo' work in this situation?
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Mula
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"codo' is elbow.
I use 'codo duro' a lot when describing cheapskates - Hard elbow - which means the elbow doesn't bend very well.
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That's the word I think you hear the most around here to describe somebody who doesn't leave much of a tip: a cheapskate -- too mild for my
hypothetical guy or girl.
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BajaAnthro
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A good one, Osprey. Sometimes certain folks are looking for more than just "getting a good bargain" and the search for low prices more to do with
putting one over on a fellow human being. Sad, really. But they are out there. And you're right that words like "cheap" or "codo" don't cut it.
Anyway, thanks for this.
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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I like to use the word "prey". People who do this sign away their "rights" to be treated like anything other than a tasty morsel in the Serengeti Of
Life. They enter my food chain and god help them if they should show a soft underbelly. Nasty, nasty, David (hehehe).
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Anyone have a boat for sale, cheap????
Dave
I moved to CO and they made me buy a little rod to make it feel like a real fish
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Acadist
LOL. We have a saying in the boat biz " there is no such thing as a FREE boat"...LOL and I have found cheap people are usally never very happy folk's
!! not meaning you.but just reading the thread.... K & T 
[Edited on 7-23-2012 by captkw]
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We have run into any number of people in the Baja like you are trying to describe. We call them Canadian.
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Some of the most generous folks I have ever met were Canadian. Just saying.
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