― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes yes but the point is, there is surely a sizeable middle ground of people like myself and perhaps CJ who would be prepared to overlook a price increase were it not so HUEG - thus being spurred into tightwad-based action and leaving their bloody Revels where they are
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Personally it is baffling why Real Ale costs less in pubs than generic industrial lagers (Fosters, Stella etc.) and keg Guiness (the bottle conditioned guiness the exception here) when it costs much more to make and keep in good condition. Of course the reason for this is the marketing costs of these products, and I'm not complaining. I can envisage a time in the future when Ale becomes the premium product in price terms though.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link
No, we're talking about things where the price just makes no sense. Either because the whole industry keeps something artificially expensive and no one can be bothered to start a price war, or because they're considered a delicacy, or because there's wildly inconsistent pricing policy, or something like rail fares which is just absurd.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
some airlines (esp the budgety ones) seem to just quote your fares as a combination of singles these days. but yes it's easier with planes unless you're mixing and matching airlines (but i don't think that's the same with mixing train companies).
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
otm. and it's shocking how much you can be ripped off if you don't 'shop around' for the best priced ticket. For instance my monthly visits to Bristol could cost me £82 if I just asked the teller "return ticket to Bristol please", but booking online and looking for certain types of tickets I end up saving about thirty quid.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Who does that? I thought everyone took it to A Little Bloke Down The Road.
(although, saying that, I have been pleasantly surprised by how competitively priced the dealership has been in doing some work on my BMW)
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
how does that not make sense (to them)?
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
You don't. Popcorn + pick'n'mix are freely available to scoff at will to fill up your container with in the main concourse of the cinema. (at least where I live, anyway)
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost to Stevem
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i.e
Panda cola
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
are you buying the tickets from the teller in advance though?
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes there is a funny 'if it's that cheap it must taste shit' thing with this.
Fentimann's glass bottled cola is 're-assuringly expensive' otoh.
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Price is generally a good indicator of quality.
Panda cola tastes shit. xpost grr.
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― bham (bham), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Concept of 'brand equity' to thread.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
i forget what the proper term is for economics of luxury goods but for things like truffles, diamonds &c their "artificially" high price is an integral part of their market appeal in the first place
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Macamadamia nuts are expensive because they need shelling by hand (I think?) because they'd be poisonous otherwise.
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, I take it to the little guy down the road, but I have used the main dealer for one or two jobs over the years. You'd be amazed how many people just pay through the nose for jobs that any mechanic could do.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Gent's barber
Other end:
Male Grooming
Saw this on 211 bus through Fulham yesterday.
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
literally chose a strong-tasting fish at random
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
my epitaph
honest question: is this some "impz in your brain" thing that makes you set yourself up for this kind of teasing/jokes?
― sarahell, Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:34 (1 minute ago)
'When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.'
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
otm
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
many avians are dissatisfied when "breached" with something sardine-sized
― sarahell, Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
:O
― 龜, Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
what if it is trawler-sized, and what come tail-flickeringly from its dispensation outlet are correspondingly scaled-up so as to be sardine-sized
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
sorry that's the worst post ever but it's all that sarahel deserves for this grotesque impropriety >:|
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
imago is this what you mean?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-vs8fwgwk0
― 龜, Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
paulinho
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Saturday, October 25, 2014 3:06 PM (5 minutes ago)
that doesn't even come close to being your worst post ever
― sarahell, Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
at "Oh! Didn't even tell you" I laughed very hard
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
i have no fucking idea what that means
― sarahell, Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link