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I'll start - The humble baked potato.
I can go to somewhere nice like Leckford and buy a whole sack of the blighters for about ten or twelve quid. These can be made in to wondrous, crisp, delicious baked spuds.
And you want me to part with over a fiver for a microwaved, soggy pile of mush?
I think not!
Sex.
If you apply that logic to buying all food out, you'd never buy any.
Sorry!
a haircut. £10 bloody quid to get my hair shaved off p*ss off 😡 even worse as there's nothing but hairdressers/barbers in devizes it seems 🙁
Singletrack magazine, now priced itself out of my budget, along with all the other poorer quality bike mags out there.
Agree with Al.
This thread is the only soggy pile of mush round here 😈
...Oh, and coffee.
WTF is that all about; buying coffee from special coffee shops?
I can manage to walk around the centre of a town or city without buying coffee, yet I seem to be in some sort of minority.
Coffee from places like railway stations. I could pay £3.69 for a whole bag of Lavazza beans,and have a caffeine buzz for a fortnight.
Or one of your awful railway rip off coffees. Push the boat out and have a muffin with it, and wait - I only have a fiver on me!
Why do you think you can wallet rape me for £1.20 for a mars bar, when I can exit the platform and get the same for 75p outside, or 65p further down the road. What is it about the station platform that makes it such "value".
Oh, and I feel the same about motorway service stations. I pay a premium to go to the Fat Duck at Bray. I dont pay a premium for Burger King on the M25! I can drive past a Burger King on the M25. And I do. If you weren't ripping me of, I might have stopped.
...Oh yes, and water in special bottles.
GTF please.
flowers, i used to sell them, so know what the mark up is, mothers day? valentines day? don't make me laff!
pizza - glorified cheese on toast
Tap water in a pub/cafe
Toilet paper, it's getting so expensive you may as well wipe your arse with £5 notes
Eating out.
Sandwiches.
Haircuts.
TV license 😉
Alcohol.
Meat.
Soap.
Designer...anything.
(Hard to believe I'm still single eh?)
Building materials (specially timber) and fixings. It seriously pisses me off if I'm forced to.
buzz-lightyear - Member
Tap water in a pub/cafe
That's free everywhere i've been.
Appart from that - a work mate paid a full 3 pounds and ten whole pennies for a baked tatty with beans earlier this week and seemed flabbergasted when I was flabbergasted at how much he'd paid for it! 😯
I know a man's gotta make a living but Jeez!
Thought you couldn't charge for tap water due to some old law about not refusing a traveller a drink.
Road side parking. Hate paying for that.
Marks and spencers carrier bags, it's only 5p but it gets right on my tits
Grated cheese
1.50 to get a tenner out of a cash machine.
Oi....shop keeper/pub landlord, I SAY NO!!!
Parking fees in motorway services for more than 2 hours, when the matrix signs repeatedly tell you not to drive tires and take a break - 2hr10 min snooze £90 😯
Sex
You mean you only use free porn sites?
Thought you couldn't charge for tap water due to some old law about not refusing a traveller a drink
They cant but they can charge to cover washing the glass etc I think there was a court case on this iirc
OP SKY, Nestle products, Mc D's, ..i could go on if you want 😉
Most service station food. Horrendously overpriced bland awfulness. The only think I have to relent to is Coke, as that is a human right.
Coke.
Pure shite! Though not much of your money is actually paying for the product.
You need a better dealer
You need a better dealer
I get mine from Tesco.
/obviousjoke
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Bike servicing. I'd pay someone to wash it though.
anything from homebase.
have boycotted the store til they change that ****ing annoying whistling music on their ads.
****ers.
a car.
moneypits.
renting/ Zipcar does the job much cheaper.
Bottled still water. WHY?
Bleed nipple covers. Halfords have supplied most of mine (unknowingly).
Taxis, another bloody rip off. Walk every time.
pasta while eating out. 99p a bag and god knows how much in a restaraunt.
fancy phones and contracts..............how the f e c k did the world survive without em?
poncy pumps everyone is wearing..........in dc we had plain black slip on ones, why do people find borstal plimsoles fashionable.
any cycling mag now.........total rip off.
Bottled water.
Anything from an Esso petrol outlet.
McDonalds.
Starbucks/Costa Coffee type stuff.
Sex.
More than £5 for a haircut.
And probably loads of other stuff.
Bottled beer in pubs:
£3.50 for half a pint? Go away quickly, you shyster.
Car parks.
Posh Ice Cream:
Ben & Jerry's, Haagen Whatsit.
Nay, nay & thrice nay!
Aldi's posh stuff is £1.99 a tub and much, much nicer:
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Orange Bikes:
'But they're handmade in Britain!'
Yep, so was the Austin Montego, but they didn't have the bare faced cheek to charge a bloody premium for one.
Designer clothes:
Do I want to look like my clothes have been chosen by a blind Mod?
No I don't. Thanks.
Leica:
It really, really isn't about the camera.
BMW/Audi/Range Rover Sport:
I want people to realise that I'm a tasteless, arrogant **** because of what I do and what I say, not because of what I drive.
Brooks Saddles:
My last one was £19.99. It's still fine.
Just because some trendy tossbag has decided they're cool, they now cost £80.00.
Either that or the world cow shortage has passed me by.
See also Barbour/Belstaff/Lewis Leathers.
anything from tesco
Baggy shorts from a bike shop at £50+
also known as "shorts" from other places who sell clothes
Premier membership.
Car parking - I'd rather walk for fifteen minutes that pay £1 an hour to park.
Really simple software
Software with a subscription
Case in point TrainerRoad.com , really simple software that takes your speed from an ANT device, uses a correlation that some other users input to give the 'virtual power' and includes some generic training sessions. $10/month. OK it's less than a mag subscription or just about any power measuring device. But I object to having to pay that every month for software that looks so simple (and requires a £40 dongle to make it work).
Thought you couldn't charge for tap water due to some old law about not refusing a traveller a drink.
I thought the closest it had to do with travelers was of the new age variety getting pilled up on E's and wizz then passing out through dehydration?
Parking.
Crikey - I hear Frankie Boyle is now telling the one about Glasgow and Las Vegas being the two places on earth where you can pay for sex with chips.
"special" clothes to ride a bike.
Zip ties
Public toilets
Air lines at filling stations
Haircuts(popular one that init)
Lube
Bike wash/car wash
Zoos 😉
Sex. I haven't struggled to get it since I stopped being a teenager and the whole idea of an business arrangement leaves me feeling stone cold.
I once went on a stag do to Berlin and was one of only two guys out of the group who didn't wind up doing it with a prostitute. Myself and the other guy had the distinction of being the only single guys in the group, it caused me to reappraise a lot of things I took for granted about my mates.
Oh and +1 for expensive bottled diet water. Sure, I pay £0.00000000001 for a glass of the stuff but I'm not paying a quid for a Peckham Spring.
Freedom
Car park car washes: Yeah. Sure. I'll let you fek my paint up with dirty water and a gritty cloth so you can remove most of the dirt and fleece me for £5. I'll do it myself thanks
Or alternatively in recent weeks: Do you REALLY think I'm actually PAYING you to half clean my car that I only paid £400' for? That rust is holding it together you know!
I won't pay for:
You, your wife, your kids.
Burgers from BK.
School fees.
MrsBouys shoes/handbags.
Bad wine, I mean over priced supermarket wine full of sulphites.
Cadburys chocolate (cough, sorry I used the word chocolate to describe cadburys)
Anything from Asda, Tesco, Morrisons.
Cheap cheese.
Cheap milk.
Drainage for the farm.
Bad service in restaurants.
Baked potatoes ( I don't like them)
Bin bags ( I use cplastic bags from shops and those free clothing bags posted through my door)
Vodka.
Clams, lobster, muscles, shrimp (I have developed an illergic reaction to gods own food, I'm not a happy buoy about that)
Kebabs.
Interior designers.
Builders.
[quote=yunki ]Freedom
That's just another word for "nothing left to lose"
Anything from Asda, Tesco, Morrisons.
you got a big rucksack then 😉
rudebwoy - Member
anything from tesco
and me - robbing ****ts
We all pay for sex,
emotionally. 🙁
Coffee in big paper containers
Poor service
Trousers from anywhere but Howies
MBR
That's just another word for "nothing left to lose"
I was born with nothing and I still have most of it left
Any water. Peopled duped into buying bottled water are crazeeeeeeee.Tap water in a pub/cafe
You men moaning about the cost of hair cuts, should try being a woman. The cheapest I can get away with is £25 and that's a cut without the blow
Parking fees in motorway services for more than 2 hours, when the matrix signs repeatedly tell you not to drive tires and take a break - 2hr10 min snooze £90
People actually pay these? 😆
The cheapest I can get away with is £25 and that's a cut without the blow
Am sure if you do the blow someone will do the cut in exchange 😉
without the blow
Nothing worse than no blow
^^^ bugger and I thought I got in there with the witty humour first
Women paying £150 for Ugg boots. Wow.
You men moaning about the cost of hair cuts, should try being a woman. The cheapest I can get away with is £25 and that's a cut without the blow
Bargain, round here blow's £75/gram!
Paying to access to my cash, be it for use of a cash machine or being charged for using a credit card.
The cheapest I can get away with is £25 and that's a cut without the blow
go to a barber as I think a No 1 will suit you 😉
Wifi. Especially in a hotel room costing close to £200 p/n
Tv license / sky
I can't bring myself to pay for prepackaged fruit n' veg in tesco's, fleecing money grabbing barstewards, they are in my town anyway as we only have an "ickle" tesco express and they've stopped doing loose fruit/veg etc, it's all bagged and pre-packed thus dearer than buying it loose. They take great offence when i rip the bags open and take what i want to the checkout for them to weigh rather than buying 3 ****in red onions in a red net bag for £1.40, of course the folk at the checkout don't have the correct price code so they can't sell me them thus i leave a pile of loose veg n' fruit sitting on the checkout...every bloody night this week i've tried to buy what i want but they will not sell me it?.
They've only started to do this pre-packaged thingy in the past week or so and don't say shop elsewhere, i stay in a rural town in Galloway so nae choice anywhere...unless i drive to the big tescos 11miles away to buy my loose fruit n' veg but why should our small town pay extra?, and why should i waste a gallon of petrol on a return journey?.....next time i do it, so that's t'morns night then, according to the manager he's apparently going to call the police and get me removed from the store.....****in hope so......my pal is the photographer for the local news paper and she's gonna wait outside and take the picture so watch this space...if it happens t'morns night i'll make headlines.
Pick n mix at the cinema. In fact anything at the cinema. In fact even going to the cinema. Bollocks, I'm buying the DVD from Amazon.
druidh - Memberyunki » Freedom
That's just another word for "nothing left to lose"
You know, I'd have been so impressed with you for that one if I didn't know where you nicked it from. 😀
Any excuse:
good luck somafunk, the so called free market working right up yer, they will obviously fight this one, high profits involved,whenever they are the only show in town different conditions are imposed, and prices......i think its our moral duty to take from them as they do upon us...
Bottled water - ****t tax
Coffee from places like Starpucks
Football matches
Phones (beyond the basic ones)
Cars (beyond the basic ones)
Haircuts - 10 mins with my own clippers does me
Just about anything with Specialized or Mavic written on it
Fresh fruit and Vegas so overpriced!
If the government thinks everyone should eat healthier, then it should be cheaper than shite!
Besides, that's why all loose fruit/veg is onions or potatoes at big supermarkets 8)
Fresh fruit and Vegas so overpriced!
yeah man.. those slots put the fear and loathing in me for sure..
Hair cuts : no way am I paying 40-odd quid. You go in, tell them what you want, and they ignore you and do what they want. I cut my own thanks.
Rapha clothing, yes it is very nice and I could afford it, but no way, I'm not paying that price for it.
Subscription TV
Tabloid Newspapers
Chain Fast Food
Most other things get assessed on a basis of cost, value & need.
If I'm thirsty and there is only a shop selling water I'll buy it. Generally don't - unless it's for beer making.
Parking fees in motorway services for more than 2 hours, when the matrix signs repeatedly tell you not to drive tires and take a break - 2hr10 min snooze £90
People actually pay these?
ANPR cameras and the bill is auto generated.
The cheapest I can get away with is £25 and that's a cut without the blow
rudebwoy - Am sure if you do the blow someone will do the cut in exchange
😆
A round. Whats the point? I wont get a shag out of it 😆
swinley parking charge, all goes to the council.
bedgebury parking charge
mobile phone charges, redirected to a tax haven of the carriers choice.
bt, tax payers pre 1982 paid for the network, wht do we have to pay a monthly charge to maintain it.
baggy shorts
Ice in bags.
Has no one said lottery tickets? (notwithstanding the dude on here the other day who won 20k of course...) -stealth tax on the poor.
Kindle books (that in the magnificently efficient process of converting to kindle format, hosting, selling and downloading via the world's cheapest media website) somehow still have enough "value added" that they cost the same as the real book that has been physically printed (materials, press, employees), distributed (lorry, fuel, employee), put on a shelf in a bricks and mortar shop (rent, fittings, utilities) and sold to you by an employee with wages to pay. One great big "WTF?" about that.
Car parking , thought I'd be the only one, but not and that includes Swinley. Thats why Broadmoor has a lower carpark thats free 5 mins away.
Haircuts. I somehow have to ( indirectly) pay for the wife and 2 kids to be cut and although the hairdresser is a hunny, I bought some shears for a tenner and 2 yrs later still hack well.
Posh watches, Porsches, Bang n Olufsen TVs or any other things that would mark me out as a city w***** (I do a good enough impression already)
And of course Sky and the Daily Mail, but that goes without saying