Things that are just bafflingly expensive

i recently paid a lot of money. for concert tickets. i still feel kind of gross.

rly hoped that was gonna be 'silicon enema bulbs'

The absurdly expensive Magner's cider has been surpassed in UK pubs by Crabbe's Ginger Beer, which must cost about 10 pence a pint to make (carbonated water + alcohol + ginger flavouring?) and sells for about £4.

Pubs that sell nuts not in packets. I will happily be paid peanuts if they are from you.

Because so much of the work of processing the peanuts has to be done by hand. The process goes like this:(6)

* The packet is plucked off the cardboard dispenser with a lady in a swimsuit on it.
* Bartender picks up the pack and tears open the packet.
* People put the nuts into a vending machine with a turny dial, where you put 50p in.
* People lay out in the sun, waiting for the need to get the peanuts.
* People vote on whos turn it is to go to the bar, make ribald jokes about wallets and moths and so on. They use a machine called an iphone to run an app. That is powered by their hands and feet. Except not the feet.
* Person gets the beers in, then returns with a 50p. Turns dial, gets nuts.
* People remove the less sweaty nuts from the hand of the person with a knife.
* People grade the nuts into one of 22 grades.
* I sigh, and then....

crabbe's is v nice tho

My season ticket this morning. Half an hour on the train to London - £305 a month.

- anything to do with cars ffs

25 mins on the train to London = £344 from where I'm living.

*sigh*

I did not like Crabbie's alcoholic ginger beer the one time I tried it (costs so much I'm not buying another... well, not until I'm a bit tipsy) and its current success makes me sad, as I have been known to drink yr normal ginger beer with or without vodka in pubs and was beginning to see more pubs offering it, but now everywhere just stocks that instead

bbq tipple of choice tbh

Jesus, those train prices :(

- anything to do with cars ffs

Ha, yes, was just about to say car tyres, having spent the morning googling the wild variation in prices between various makes and retailers following recent flat tyre.

My season ticket this morning. Half an hour on the train to London - £305 a month.

― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:07 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

25 mins on the train to London = £344 from where I'm living.

― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:10 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

How in pink fuck do they justify that??

Streets paved with gold at the other end.

am currently nearin the end of a month without a car waiting til i could find/afford parts.

Do you get to take home some paving? Because bugger it I'm in.

xp

how long is a 'season' in rail terms

Anything over a week, I think.

Actually, for a week's ticket you still need a photocard.

Also:

Streets paved with gold at the other end.

― ailsa, Friday, 7 January 2011 10:39 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, kinda.

but how long does that season ticket last?

Um, a week?

Or, a month / 3 months

Or, a year.

You sort of get economies of scale between a week to a month, or a month to a year.

Anything else is pretty much 3 months = 3 times the cost of one month, 6 months similar.

I could have dashed out and got a years ticket before the price increase, but I don't have that kind of spare change.

confused, just wonderin what you're getting for 355 quid

mine's a monthly ticket. It's nearing the price I pay for my rent. The service is appalling in nearly every way BTW.

The cost of that train pass is ridiculous. You can get an all-you-can ride pass from the most outlying suburban station to downtown Chicago for $217.35/month. Of course, our streets are paved with filthy snow and the stale crusts of discarded deep dish pizza, so.

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I'm actually thinking of moving job to some shitty place nearby instead of the nice place I work in London because of this.

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.

shag rugs

Not true!! I found a website for really reasonably priced ones, altho I can't speak to the quality.... hold on....

http://www.flokatirug.net/

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

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.

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.

Ooohhh Jenny, okay! Didn't understand the diff. Commuter rail here is obscene.

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.)

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.

Also the buses are actually an option, from what I remember.

crabbe's with whiskey = win

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.

Yeah the photography is so old, it's new again! <3

crabbe's with whiskey = win

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.

Also the buses are actually an option, from what I remember.

They are vital.

many xp - laurel that rug site looks great!

ginger beer's expensive over here anyway tbh, the difference isnt huge.

Fair enough then, it's about 50p a can here.

holy shit, no. As a mixer in a bar here you're talking prob near enough two quid. Crabbes bottle much bigger too.

Well, in a bar it'd prob be more like £1.50, but Crabbie's is £4 so...

i must look further into this, you're clearly not letting it go.