Random Irritations

Christmas has hit the shopping malls & public areas but there’s still something weird about seeing wintery scenes when it’s over 30°
 
Home insurance renwal quote.. last year 780.. this year 1250?? He house has not moved to a new neighbourhood or changed. I can understand IPT increase but how do you account for the rest?

Thanks LV.. but no thanks
 
A coffee & a small bottle of Peroni in The George near Borough Market, £10.20 - €2.70 in Spain. A BLT sandwich and a fish finger sandwich, both with chips, and a pint of Peroni and a coffee, £35.xx. Around €15.00 in Spain.

I think, perhaps, the biggest rip off foisted on the British public is hotel room & train tickets. Booked through a Spanish website I paid less in Euros than the U.K. website were quoting in GBP.
 
Hobbit said:
A coffee & a small bottle of Peroni in The George near Borough Market, £10.20 - €2.70 in Spain. A BLT sandwich and a fish finger sandwich, both with chips, and a pint of Peroni and a coffee, £35.xx. Around €15.00 in Spain.

I think, perhaps, the biggest rip off foisted on the British public is hotel room & train tickets. Booked through a Spanish website I paid less in Euros than the U.K. website were quoting in GBP.
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How much would it cost in the equivalent location in Spain? Say Barcelona or Madrid?
 
Hobbit said:
A coffee & a small bottle of Peroni in The George near Borough Market, £10.20 - €2.70 in Spain. A BLT sandwich and a fish finger sandwich, both with chips, and a pint of Peroni and a coffee, £35.xx. Around €15.00 in Spain.

I think, perhaps, the biggest rip off foisted on the British public is hotel room & train tickets. Booked through a Spanish website I paid less in Euros than the U.K. website were quoting in GBP.
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A bit unfair to compare Borough Market and rural Spain, maybe Tokyo, New York, Paris, Rome and so on.
Re hotel rooms, if you use Trivago for example you have access to many other operators, not just Spanish ones.
 
D-S said:
A bit unfair to compare Borough Market and rural Spain, maybe Tokyo, New York, Paris, Rome and so on.
Re hotel rooms, if you use Trivago for example you have access to many other operators, not just Spanish ones.
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It’s the same in Rome. Go to a tourist trap and pay €20.00 for a coffee and coke, or €3.00 in Trestevere suburb half a mile away.

Not sure I’d class the George pub in a backstreet near Borough Market as a tourist trap.

At least the bus fare today from Deptford to Greenwich is only £1.75. Pretty much on a par with the €1.20 we pay to travel similar distances.
 
Hobbit said:
It’s the same in Rome. Go to a tourist trap and pay €20.00 for a coffee and coke, or €3.00 in Trestevere suburb half a mile away.

Not sure I’d class the George pub in a backstreet near Borough Market as a tourist trap.

At least the bus fare today from Deptford to Greenwich is only £1.75. Pretty much on a par with the €1.20 we pay to travel similar distances.
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Hmm. Borough Market - and the George - are most definitely 'premium locations' for tourists & visitors. Even those of us who are fairly local don't/won't pay those prices regardless of how 'historic' the pub is.

You're about the same age as me. At least I don't even have to pay the £1.75 to get from Deptford to Greenwich.
 
Hobbit said:
It’s the same in Rome. Go to a tourist trap and pay €20.00 for a coffee and coke, or €3.00 in Trestevere suburb half a mile away.

Not sure I’d class the George pub in a backstreet near Borough Market as a tourist trap.

At least the bus fare today from Deptford to Greenwich is only £1.75. Pretty much on a par with the €1.20 we pay to travel similar distances.
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Borough Market is a hip place, it's cool. Translated, it's going to cost you more 🤷‍♂️ . Like all of those sorts of places, you just have to suck it up and accept it. Otherwise, have that drink elsewhere. It's why tap and pay was invented, don't look at the price 😄
 
Mudball said:
Home insurance renwal quote.. last year 780.. this year 1250?? He house has not moved to a new neighbourhood or changed. I can understand IPT increase but how do you account for the rest?

Thanks LV.. but no thanks
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Whats that for? Buildings and contents combined?
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Borough Market is a hip place, it's cool. Translated, it's going to cost you more 🤷‍♂️ . Like all of those sorts of places, you just have to suck it up and accept it. Otherwise, have that drink elsewhere. It's why tap and pay was invented, don't look at the price 😄
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Wouldnt happen with cold hard cash ;)
 
Been to Primani today. Cash or chip and pin only as they were having issues with the card machines. Chaos as people didn't listen to the tannoy messages and were still queuing:rolleyes:
 
'Drumeo' on YouTube does a series where they get drummers to play on other styles of music that they're maybe not familiar with, listen to a popular song with the drumtrack removed, and see what drums they come up with. It's a great series and very enjoyable, but I just can't believe some of the songs these guys have supposedly never heard before! One I watched last week they had a drum teacher from Juilliard who reckoned he'd never heard Nirvana's In Bloom before. Seems unlikely, but ok. Now I've just watched one with the drummer from Megadeth on - they play him Mr Brightside by the Killers and he claims he's never listened to that before. Come off it! I refuse to believe anyone on earth hasn't heard that song! They have to be having us on??

(For the record, I very much liked what he came up with, probably better than the actual song.)
 
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