Risibly expensive things
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nomadthethird
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Printer cartrigdes cost $50. Or something nearly as stupid. For ink (and not very much of it). In a plastic container.
crackerjack
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and if the people who make the printer found out you're using the wrong kind (ie not theirs) they go all Brazil on you too
scottdisco
rip this joint please
drinks in London pubs.
crackerjack
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scottdisco
rip this joint please
a small scented candle from Harvey Nichols is £32.
(N.B.: this may be the sale price.)
(N.B.: this may be the sale price.)
scottdisco
rip this joint please
boutique stores where tee shirts are well over £100, often approaching 200.
that's a laugh.
there's no high-grade diamond or silver inlaid there and buying the tee shirt doesn't immediately get you a night with their member of staff you fancy the most and it doesn't come with a load of gift vouchers for their catalogue: it's just a tee shirt, made from cotton, perhaps with some quirky design on the front.
i saw a squiggly skull sort of design on an otherwise remarkably plain tee shirt in a Selfridges once and it was about £150.
note to Nomad (if she's still around), our Selfridges bags look like your Forever 21 bags
that's a laugh.
there's no high-grade diamond or silver inlaid there and buying the tee shirt doesn't immediately get you a night with their member of staff you fancy the most and it doesn't come with a load of gift vouchers for their catalogue: it's just a tee shirt, made from cotton, perhaps with some quirky design on the front.
i saw a squiggly skull sort of design on an otherwise remarkably plain tee shirt in a Selfridges once and it was about £150.
note to Nomad (if she's still around), our Selfridges bags look like your Forever 21 bags
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
You took the words out of my mouth so fast it actually hurt.
Also, lamb chops that work out about a quid for one decent-sized mouthful of meat. When farmers have been shooting and burning newborn lambs because it's not financially viable to raise them until they're big enough to go to (super)market.
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IdleRich
IdleRich
Shhhhh
Yeah, train fares take the biscuit I reckon - I wanted to go to my Grandma's funeral in Manchester and for a day return that would have allowed me to get there in time they wanted almost THREE HUNDRED FUCKING QUID. Plus the trains are shite and don't get there on time and they never run on weekends. Is there a more depressing phrase in the English language than "replacement bus service"? Guaranteed to ruin that little visit you had planned.
viktorvaughn
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Also, lamb chops that work out about a quid for one decent-sized mouthful of meat. When farmers have been shooting and burning newborn lambs because it's not financially viable to raise them until they're big enough to go to (super)market.
thats depressing...can you not eat the really young ones? guess they don't have much meat on them.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Fruit and vegetables in supermarkets. No wonder so many of our children are still dying of scurvy*.
London tube passes. "Oh, I see. You want to go to zone 1. That'll be an extra three thousand pounds, I'm afraid."
* true for the purposes of this argument.
London tube passes. "Oh, I see. You want to go to zone 1. That'll be an extra three thousand pounds, I'm afraid."
* true for the purposes of this argument.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Dunno - could well be some law about a minimum age/weight before they can be sold for consumption.
I dunno if what I described is still going on, though it definitely was a few years ago. But as a general rule farmers are getting completely screwed over by the big supermarkets, who form a sort of reverse cartel to buy meat at rock-bottom prices and then make a killing at the checkout.
crackerjack
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Eh? That's beyond outrageous, you should actually take up arms.
I visited my brother in a very posh parrt of the west country last week. Return train cancelled, RBS which we had to phone to find out about, arrived 30 mins late, 45 after cancelled train. Tore across these narrow country roads to make the Newbury train excpet when it had to stop for cows crossing and to pick up passengers in Hungerford. Which seemed kinda fitting....
A lot of white faces by the end.
nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
Wow and I stopped taking amtrak because a roundtrip Syracuse to NYC went up to $100.
nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
I buy stuff online, because their stores are just nuts.
do you guys all pay for the train? i stopped buying tickets or paying for monthly transit passes right after finding out that the ticket people, who are far and few in between, can not actually lay a hand on you because they are not police, and you can just run.
but i ride my hummerbike 95% of the time.
and you can get a flight from germany to UK (or Turkhia for that matter) for 30 euros if you plan ahead...