Stuff that costs more than you think it should....
Discussion
This exhibition: http://artofthebrick.co.uk/
Lego sculptures by the same artist. Some great, some mediocre. Went yesterday with fiancée for her birthday.
£14.50 per adult midweek. £16.50 per adult weekend.
Not worth that in a million years.
And being half term there were plenty of kids swarming around which made me even more grumpy!
Lego sculptures by the same artist. Some great, some mediocre. Went yesterday with fiancée for her birthday.
£14.50 per adult midweek. £16.50 per adult weekend.
Not worth that in a million years.
And being half term there were plenty of kids swarming around which made me even more grumpy!
I cannot understand the price of an electric mountain bike compared to a new dirtbike.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/221291109732?limghl...
Vs
http://www.ams4ktm.co.uk/ktm-200-exc
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/221291109732?limghl...
Vs
http://www.ams4ktm.co.uk/ktm-200-exc
Snollygoster said:
Parking
Coke
Prescriptions
Sky
Condoms
10 minute hair cut
Video Games
Car Rental Insurance Premium for being under 25
Football Tickets
Cinema Tickets
Cinema Food and Drinks
To name a few. I'm sure I could think of loads. The mark up on some items is just ridiculous.
Yes, video games aren't cheap but I don't think console games have gone up in price that much. I seem to recall Atari cartridges costing £30+ over 30 years ago and PS1/N64 games were £30-50 when they first came out. Coke
Prescriptions
Sky
Condoms
10 minute hair cut
Video Games
Car Rental Insurance Premium for being under 25
Football Tickets
Cinema Tickets
Cinema Food and Drinks
To name a few. I'm sure I could think of loads. The mark up on some items is just ridiculous.
DoctorX said:
Snollygoster said:
Parking
Coke
Prescriptions
Sky
Condoms
10 minute hair cut
Video Games
Car Rental Insurance Premium for being under 25
Football Tickets
Cinema Tickets
Cinema Food and Drinks
To name a few. I'm sure I could think of loads. The mark up on some items is just ridiculous.
Yes, video games aren't cheap but I don't think console games have gone up in price that much. I seem to recall Atari cartridges costing £30+ over 30 years ago and PS1/N64 games were £30-50 when they first came out. Coke
Prescriptions
Sky
Condoms
10 minute hair cut
Video Games
Car Rental Insurance Premium for being under 25
Football Tickets
Cinema Tickets
Cinema Food and Drinks
To name a few. I'm sure I could think of loads. The mark up on some items is just ridiculous.
Otispunkmeyer said:
DoctorX said:
Snollygoster said:
Parking
Coke
Prescriptions
Sky
Condoms
10 minute hair cut
Video Games
Car Rental Insurance Premium for being under 25
Football Tickets
Cinema Tickets
Cinema Food and Drinks
To name a few. I'm sure I could think of loads. The mark up on some items is just ridiculous.
Yes, video games aren't cheap but I don't think console games have gone up in price that much. I seem to recall Atari cartridges costing £30+ over 30 years ago and PS1/N64 games were £30-50 when they first came out. Coke
Prescriptions
Sky
Condoms
10 minute hair cut
Video Games
Car Rental Insurance Premium for being under 25
Football Tickets
Cinema Tickets
Cinema Food and Drinks
To name a few. I'm sure I could think of loads. The mark up on some items is just ridiculous.
ecsrobin said:
This!! whilst i'm only an amateur photographer the amount of very bad wedding photos I see from people who have tried to cut on their expenditure just to then spend the saving on table decorations. And then there response - I wish I'd got a better photographer. I know someone who has just booked a photographer without meeting them before hand, why it costs nothing to meet them.
Best thing we did was to spend the photographer money on giving everyone (else) a free bar + cigars all night. The best man had a list of the group poses that we wanted and we asked everyone to take pics and send us copies. Over the next month or so we were sent loads of pics with enough of good quality to put together an album.10 yrs on we rarely look at the pics (apart from the framed ones) but still get comments from guests that it was the best wedding they'd every been to.
sploosh said:
ecsrobin said:
This!! whilst i'm only an amateur photographer the amount of very bad wedding photos I see from people who have tried to cut on their expenditure just to then spend the saving on table decorations. And then there response - I wish I'd got a better photographer. I know someone who has just booked a photographer without meeting them before hand, why it costs nothing to meet them.
Best thing we did was to spend the photographer money on giving everyone (else) a free bar + cigars all night. The best man had a list of the group poses that we wanted and we asked everyone to take pics and send us copies. Over the next month or so we were sent loads of pics with enough of good quality to put together an album.10 yrs on we rarely look at the pics (apart from the framed ones) but still get comments from guests that it was the best wedding they'd every been to.
However it all depends on what the individual is actually after.
thatdude said:
Blown2CV said:
Wedding invites. With the invite card, RSVP, info sheet and envelope, around £10 EACH.
Wedding stuff is ridiculously expensive; we had a quote for flowers from one lady who, without any hint of emotion said "it comes to £2000" (or there abouts). g3org3y said:
This exhibition: http://artofthebrick.co.uk/
Lego sculptures by the same artist. Some great, some mediocre. Went yesterday with fiancée for her birthday.
£14.50 per adult midweek. £16.50 per adult weekend.
Not worth that in a million years.
And being half term there were plenty of kids swarming around which made me even more grumpy!
oh we were going to go this weekend! So it's st then, or just too many children who's families had brought them because of the word 'lego' thinking it was a kids thing?Lego sculptures by the same artist. Some great, some mediocre. Went yesterday with fiancée for her birthday.
£14.50 per adult midweek. £16.50 per adult weekend.
Not worth that in a million years.
And being half term there were plenty of kids swarming around which made me even more grumpy!
dtmpower said:
Thankyou4calling said:
Not looking to be argumentative but I think trainers are cheaper than ever. 20 years ago you could pay £100 a pair and I know you still can but there's an amazing choice at less than £50 and well fit for purpose unless you're a budding Mo Farah.
I'm fed up paying silly money for shoes now, for daily wear these have been fine:http://www.decathlon.co.uk/C-33092-mens-walking-sh...
lovely comfy things
Disneyland... all of them cost way more than you think it should...
I just received a quote for a family of 5, in Feb for 1 night stay / 2 days in the park.... £1300 - not including getting to Paris..
Awful, awful, minging place and I'm not even sure why my dear wife is trying to make me go through it again.... I swore once was enough....
On the flip - Drayton Manor Theme Park near Birmingham is about £90 for a day's family ticket and is unbelievably great fun!!
I just received a quote for a family of 5, in Feb for 1 night stay / 2 days in the park.... £1300 - not including getting to Paris..
Awful, awful, minging place and I'm not even sure why my dear wife is trying to make me go through it again.... I swore once was enough....
On the flip - Drayton Manor Theme Park near Birmingham is about £90 for a day's family ticket and is unbelievably great fun!!
Hugo a Gogo said:
thanks for the tip, just had a pair delivered!
lovely comfy things
I have these in black, going to go for a pair in brown as well. lovely comfy things
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/miago-shoes-black-id_81...
Which ones did you go for ?
I got a pair of electric blue mesh 'Many' and the insoles
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/many-mesh-electric-blue...
and also a pair of these
http://www.decathlon.de/wanderschuhe-arpenaz-50-he...
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/many-mesh-electric-blue...
and also a pair of these
http://www.decathlon.de/wanderschuhe-arpenaz-50-he...
Cheeky Jim said:
Disneyland... all of them cost way more than you think it should...
I just received a quote for a family of 5, in Feb for 1 night stay / 2 days in the park.... £1300 - not including getting to Paris..
Awful, awful, minging place and I'm not even sure why my dear wife is trying to make me go through it again.... I swore once was enough....
On the flip - Drayton Manor Theme Park near Birmingham is about £90 for a day's family ticket and is unbelievably great fun!!
Disney accomodation takes the p**s big time. Try the Novotel Collegien - 10 mins drive from the park - kids stay free and they sometimes do a 2nd room for kids at 50% off. 3 Hours drive from Calais, a crossing should be about £100 return. Job jobbed.I just received a quote for a family of 5, in Feb for 1 night stay / 2 days in the park.... £1300 - not including getting to Paris..
Awful, awful, minging place and I'm not even sure why my dear wife is trying to make me go through it again.... I swore once was enough....
On the flip - Drayton Manor Theme Park near Birmingham is about £90 for a day's family ticket and is unbelievably great fun!!
Weddings are ridiculous - as Ben Elton eruditely puts it....
"Flowers. Wedding flowers aren't flowers, they're blooms. you don't visit a florist, you visit a bloomist. blooms are exactly the same as flowers, except they cost three times as much.
Hotels, wedding suite. you;re only sleeping in there, you'll be so pissed you won't be able to shag the bride anyway, if she drops the "you've gotta shag me" one and you say "WITH WHAT" as you look downwards, later on you you'll be hunting around the room for a pencil to use as a splint, start to vomit and wake up in the bog on the floor with toothpaste in your eye in the morning...how will you know its the wedding suite? it will have cost a fortune and there will be a doilley under the bog roll...."
"Flowers. Wedding flowers aren't flowers, they're blooms. you don't visit a florist, you visit a bloomist. blooms are exactly the same as flowers, except they cost three times as much.
Hotels, wedding suite. you;re only sleeping in there, you'll be so pissed you won't be able to shag the bride anyway, if she drops the "you've gotta shag me" one and you say "WITH WHAT" as you look downwards, later on you you'll be hunting around the room for a pencil to use as a splint, start to vomit and wake up in the bog on the floor with toothpaste in your eye in the morning...how will you know its the wedding suite? it will have cost a fortune and there will be a doilley under the bog roll...."
Blown2CV said:
g3org3y said:
This exhibition: http://artofthebrick.co.uk/
Lego sculptures by the same artist. Some great, some mediocre. Went yesterday with fiancée for her birthday.
£14.50 per adult midweek. £16.50 per adult weekend.
Not worth that in a million years.
And being half term there were plenty of kids swarming around which made me even more grumpy!
oh we were going to go this weekend! So it's st then, or just too many children who's families had brought them because of the word 'lego' thinking it was a kids thing?Lego sculptures by the same artist. Some great, some mediocre. Went yesterday with fiancée for her birthday.
£14.50 per adult midweek. £16.50 per adult weekend.
Not worth that in a million years.
And being half term there were plenty of kids swarming around which made me even more grumpy!
I think I would have preferred the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Nat History Museum.
Could be worse, at least it's not London Zoo prices!!
e-Books, Can someone explain why an e-book is £7.99 and i need a £50 reader.But I can go into tesco, etc and buy 2 in chart new real books for £7.
That and coffee I dont drink tea or coffee but the misses does. A while back we had to do some shopping in kingston, she wanted lunch and suggested costa, I suggested O'Neills. She said the coffee was nicer and the whole lunch was less than a scabby sarnie in Costa.
That and coffee I dont drink tea or coffee but the misses does. A while back we had to do some shopping in kingston, she wanted lunch and suggested costa, I suggested O'Neills. She said the coffee was nicer and the whole lunch was less than a scabby sarnie in Costa.
Blown2CV said:
razor blades are a joke. 5 blade, 6 blade, 7 blade, comfort moisturising strip, vibrating fking head thing etc etc etc. Each of these 'innovations' cost more and more money. The strip thing is actively defrauding people too, as it lasts about 3 shaves and then it erodes away revealing what i am sure is sandpaper in order to make it as uncomfortable as possible so you just change it for a new one far earlier than you would if it wasn't there at all. Gilette are stheads.
Try one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Razorpit-Razor-Bl...I've not bought any new blades in the last year. It's paid for itself a few times over.
GreenDog said:
Try one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Razorpit-Razor-Bl...
I've not bought any new blades in the last year. It's paid for itself a few times over.
Just ordered one myself the reviews seem too good to be true but as my blades (fusion) are like £12 a packet it is certainly worth a try! I've not bought any new blades in the last year. It's paid for itself a few times over.
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