Things you'd expect to be cheaper
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red_slr said:
Oh right, sorry I am a bit far, 20 min walk other wise you could park at mine no problem.
I usually just dump my car outside Booths fwiw...
Ahh 'nay bother. Thanks for the thought ! I usually just dump my car outside Booths fwiw...
I just moved out, great place to live but I had a single residents pass for the multi-storey but when GF came to visit for a few days and drove I got a bill for £55-60 each time.
Off-topic but the booze section in Booths there is a dream come true, it makes the M&S booze section at old street in London City (a fairly mighty selection in itself) look like amateur hour.
For cider, beer and lager fans not familiar here are pics of that section.
[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/VJ4XFOGF[/url]
Edited by Carl_Manchester on Thursday 21st September 14:11
Carl_Manchester said:
red_slr said:
Oh right, sorry I am a bit far, 20 min walk other wise you could park at mine no problem.
I usually just dump my car outside Booths fwiw...
Ahh 'nay bother. Thanks for the thought ! I usually just dump my car outside Booths fwiw...
I just moved out, great place to live but I had a single residents pass for the multi-storey but when GF came to visit for a few days and drove I got a bill for £55-60 each time.
Off-topic but the booze section in Booths there is a dream come true, it makes the M&S booze section at old street in London City (a fairly mighty selection in itself) look like amateur hour.
For cider, beer and lager fans not familiar here are pics of that section.
[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/VJ4XFOGF[/url]
Edited by Carl_Manchester on Thursday 21st September 14:11
:-)
On-line stuff generally.
When online shopping was a new thing it was a way to save money. Retailers sold the shop, laid off the shop workers and sent everything out from the warehouse for about 20% less. Some of us moaned about s
t service, lack of advice, poor after-sales etc, but really we didn't care if it was cheaper.
Nowadays it's gone full circle it seems, physical retailers are price-matching the online retailers but you don't have to pay a hefty fee to have the stuff delivered - which seems a bit mad to me, yes I'm sure Yodel want paying to leave a card at the wrong address 3 days later than they said they would, but I'd bet it's cheaper than maintaining a High Street Shop. It seems we're so used to online actually going to a shop is a major chore so we'd rather play courier roulette for the sake of 'convenience'.
Computer Games take to piss, my Son wanted ADHD Online Racistswear Shooter 4 or whatever it's called (might have been a Call of Duty thing) - £30 in Tesco, £35 online for a disc in the post, £50 to download the thing. Seems completely backwards to me. (that's for the 'standard game' of you want to play the whole thing it's £75 and probably a monthly fee too).
When online shopping was a new thing it was a way to save money. Retailers sold the shop, laid off the shop workers and sent everything out from the warehouse for about 20% less. Some of us moaned about s
t service, lack of advice, poor after-sales etc, but really we didn't care if it was cheaper.Nowadays it's gone full circle it seems, physical retailers are price-matching the online retailers but you don't have to pay a hefty fee to have the stuff delivered - which seems a bit mad to me, yes I'm sure Yodel want paying to leave a card at the wrong address 3 days later than they said they would, but I'd bet it's cheaper than maintaining a High Street Shop. It seems we're so used to online actually going to a shop is a major chore so we'd rather play courier roulette for the sake of 'convenience'.
Computer Games take to piss, my Son wanted ADHD Online Racistswear Shooter 4 or whatever it's called (might have been a Call of Duty thing) - £30 in Tesco, £35 online for a disc in the post, £50 to download the thing. Seems completely backwards to me. (that's for the 'standard game' of you want to play the whole thing it's £75 and probably a monthly fee too).
Speed 3 said:
Sa Calobra said:
toasty said:
Quite simply, the pubs don't make a profit on beer. They've got to make a living.
I'd need to see figures to back that claim up. 
legless said:
She's just putting the finishing touches to a £1,150 order right now. So far, she's clocked up 94 hours work on it. It's an intricate design with lots of handmade sugar flowers, gold leaf and spray paint work.
By the time she's finished, she'll have made about £8.50 an hour profit on it.
How does she stop it going hopelessly off before all the finery is completed?By the time she's finished, she'll have made about £8.50 an hour profit on it.
OldSkoolRS said:
Prosthetic limbs...maybe I'm naive but I was surprised to hear on TV just now that a false leg can cost £70k. I'd never given it much thought and would have assumed £2-3k.
70K!?!Imagine having to buy an arm AND a leg!? - I bet that would be so expensive it might become almost renowned in some way.
Steamer said:
OldSkoolRS said:
Prosthetic limbs...maybe I'm naive but I was surprised to hear on TV just now that a false leg can cost £70k. I'd never given it much thought and would have assumed £2-3k.
70K!?!Imagine having to buy an arm AND a leg!? - I bet that would be so expensive it might become almost renowned in some way.
darker grapefruit said:
Steamer said:
OldSkoolRS said:
Prosthetic limbs...maybe I'm naive but I was surprised to hear on TV just now that a false leg can cost £70k. I'd never given it much thought and would have assumed £2-3k.
70K!?!Imagine having to buy an arm AND a leg!? - I bet that would be so expensive it might become almost renowned in some way.
OldSkoolRS said:
Prosthetic limbs...maybe I'm naive but I was surprised to hear on TV just now that a false leg can cost £70k. I'd never given it much thought and would have assumed £2-3k.
And she moaned about it. The guy she was telling who had a table leg grafted on said something like his cost $30!WCZ said:
drinking in paris, £26 for a double vodka and coke
I can't tell if they're fking me for being british even though I travel alone and look like a non-threatening guy
Maybe it depends how you ask for it, in Toulouse a vodka and tonic is sometimes known colloquially as a "vodka Schweppes."I can't tell if they're f
king me for being british even though I travel alone and look like a non-threatening guyIn a bar in Place Wilson a couple of months ago, I asked for "vodka Schweppes s'il vous plaît, un double", I got a double Grey Goose, with a bottled tonic, not draught, for €14.
I thought that about £12 seemed reasonable, but the girl who served me asked if I was 'un Quebecois' as she was unsure of my accent.
I just smiled and replied "non", in case the price went up if you said you were English.
Speed 3 said:
Why do you think pubs have been closing at the rate of dozens per week for years ? My sis & husband took a lease on one a few years ago and despite the fact it was really, really busy they worked 100 hours per week each and nearly lost everything including their house. And yes, they were good at what they did (both very successful hotel General Managers previously). They were basically screwed over by landlord and beer supplier. The only gross margin was on food and soft drinks and their overheads were huge. They will live with the consequences for decades.
I believe you 100%, but I have a friend in the U.S. who jacked his sales job in in North Bergen NJ, bought a bar/restaurant on Hernando Beach FL and told me that the food, (which was great BTW), was just a loss leader, he made his dough on the alcohol sales.An English friend and I were in there with our wives, 3 or 4 nights per week when we were on holiday, and would drop $100 or $120 apiece on beer, wine, and vodka, and there was always a reasonable crowd of locals in his bar area.
Some 9 or 10 years after I first met him, he sold up, bought 3 pool homes, lives in one, and rents the others out as vacation homes for between £650 and £900 p/w depending on the season.
Frank7 said:
I believe you 100%, but I have a friend in the U.S. who jacked his sales job in in North Bergen NJ, bought a bar/restaurant on Hernando Beach FL and told me that the food, (which was great BTW), was just a loss leader, he made his dough on the alcohol sales.
An English friend and I were in there with our wives, 3 or 4 nights per week when we were on holiday, and would drop $100 or $120 apiece on beer, wine, and vodka, and there was always a reasonable crowd of locals in his bar area.
It is well known that the opposite is true in the UK, hence the growth of food pubs and disappearance of booze pubs.An English friend and I were in there with our wives, 3 or 4 nights per week when we were on holiday, and would drop $100 or $120 apiece on beer, wine, and vodka, and there was always a reasonable crowd of locals in his bar area.
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