Things that are just bafflingly expensive

- 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.

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.

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 :)

u pedantick

xp ginger wine a grand contender for the 'bafflingly cheap' thread (which I think did get started)

Coffee Table Books of Photography

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.

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.

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

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

had truffle not so long ago but it is a source of intense annoyance and regret that I forget what it was like

Was the flavor strong enough to cut through the camambert and chocolate?

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)

yeah but didn't quite breach the red mullet