― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I mean sort of but not really, it's just when you compare them to air fares...and just the fact that returns do not cost double the single fare most of the time, and there are many different prices to be found for what will get you the same seat on the same train just depending on what minute of the day you book and how far in advance. But we've had all this out before I know.
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
this is the same with flights.
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
(artificially kept high by the industry - they're not THAT rare)
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Train tickets are not bafflingly expensive as we all know how much the rail system in this country costs to keep going as well as how much the train companies are hiving off in profit. Budget air fares might go in my list of things that are bafflingly cheap though.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link
13. Stella Artois is supposed to be Reassuringly Expensive, according to their adverts. It isn't really though, is it?
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link
15. Real ale in supermarkets.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― mms (mms), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― DavidM* (unreal), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― bham (bham), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
22 Art materials
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
24. Coke
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Taking the car to the Hebrides on the ferry
A camping holiday (£900 for two weeks touring scotland)
I wish it was cheaper to holiday at home.
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link
assuming we're taking 'bafflingly' to just mean 'cynical rip-off by the sellers'
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― bham (bham), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Train ticket pricing is far more baffling than airline pricing. With the latter, it's usually just a case of the earlier you book, the cheaper it is. With trains, certain tickets become available at certain times, two singles are someetimes cheaper than a return, sometimes it's even cheaper to buy two separate A-B and B-C tickets than one A-B-C one when you need to change trains.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― 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
The product photos used throughout the site are pretty obviously from 1979 and I love them.
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/orange_groovy.jpg
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
NYC unlimited use 30-day card just went up to $104 and we are collectively outraged but it sounds like NYC transit is the best deal out of all this deals...not counting distance traveled, extent of system, etc, cos I don't know how spread out other cities' systems are.
In Chicago, a 30-day unlimited pass for the city's transit system is $86 (and that's after a recent fair increase). The price I mentioned above is for regional commuter rail. Outrage = justified.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I was so disappointed with Crabbie's Ginger Beer. I love ginger beer and like to put whisky or vodka in it so alcoholic ginger beer sounds amazing. But it tastes like crap.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Ooohhh Jenny, okay! Didn't understand the diff. Commuter rail here is obscene.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Also that regional ticket cost is for if you're riding every day from, like, Kenosha. From the nearest 'burb it's under $100/month.
(Dark rum is also really good in ginger beer, FYI.)
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, and I'll quit braggin' 2011 after this one, but the city's transit fare is the same no matter where you travel w/in the system. So I can go from Evanston down to 95th for the same price I can go a half mile from my house to the site of the future Trader Joe's.
Huh. As much as I complain about the CTA, it's pretty cheap.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Also the buses are actually an option, from what I remember.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
crabbe's with whiskey = win
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG at that rug website. I grew up in a house where a white flokati rug with a glass and chrome round coffee table was the centerpiece of our living room no matter where we lived.
― children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah the photography is so old, it's new again! <3
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Doesn't this completely defeat the point? Why not just get some Old Jamaica Ginger Beer and add whisk(e)y to it? Costs a lot less, tastes WAY better.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
They are vital.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
many xp - laurel that rug site looks great!
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ginger beer's expensive over here anyway tbh, the difference isnt huge.
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Fair enough then, it's about 50p a can here.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit, no. As a mixer in a bar here you're talking prob near enough two quid. Crabbes bottle much bigger too.
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, in a bar it'd prob be more like £1.50, but Crabbie's is £4 so...
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i must look further into this, you're clearly not letting it go.
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Crabbes boozy ginger beer in shops goes for a song, it's totally the pubs ripping you off there. Might as well get yourself a pint and ginger wine chaser tbh.
― superpitching, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno if it's me being pedantic or if you lot are talking about a different drink altogether, it's CrabbIe's not Crabbe's :)
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
u pedantick
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
xp ginger wine a grand contender for the 'bafflingly cheap' thread (which I think did get started)
― Scilk Mahouthy (DJ Mencap), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Coffee Table Books of Photography
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 October 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
The most expensive paper money can buy (and the accountants will approve) plus 12 rounds of color correction to print a final print run of maybe 3500 copies IF YOU'RE LUCKY that will never ever earn out the advance paid to the author even if you priced it at $150, which you can't because the market won't bear it. So you price it at $80 or something instead and hope for the most devoted devotees.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 25 October 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
They are just really expensive to make and only purchased by a tiny fraction of customers so there's no volume to amortize the costs over.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 25 October 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I read this thing about Steidl and how a few evergreen sellers in their catalog (like Robert Frank's the Americans) basically subsidize every other photography book they put out
God bless 'em
― 龜, Saturday, 25 October 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
1. Truffles. Please explain why they go for such an astonishingly high price.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:50 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-21/truffle-boom-brings-la-dolce-vita-amid-italy-s-economic-slump.html
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
had truffle not so long ago but it is a source of intense annoyance and regret that I forget what it was like
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Was the flavor strong enough to cut through the camambert and chocolate?
― 龜, Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
After one listentaste I think that 'solid' is the best word to describe this albumfoodstuff
― paolo, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:38 (1 minute ago)
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah but didn't quite breach the red mullet
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
i had forgotten you had a thing for redheads
― sarahell, Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
lol
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
so the carpet did match the drapes?
― sarahell, Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
jfc
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
Very approrpriate dn
― 龜, Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
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 21:34 (nine 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
― 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