So today we had to take father in law to pick up his specs.i did not want to go,but incase he falls down i was needed.So after picking up the specs,we take him for an afternoon latte.in Costa Mrs P treats us,A cake/bun.So i goes to look at a Bakewell tart,it's only small so it might be a junior and not grown up £ 3-20 0r £3-30 i can't remember,no i said.How can you charge so much when Aldi sell two massive Belgian buns for £1-35,i am getting two of them tomorrow.Please yourself Mrs P said.
Ow much.A great Yorkshire saying.
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Punkawallah
Veteran
So are you complaining about the price of a tart you intended to split three ways, were having it bought for you, and didn’t get it any way, or because you are from Yorkshire and it’s expected?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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Your wallet needs it’s annual service, as it’s seized shut from lack of use.
As you mentioned "specs", I was due for ane eye test.
On offer, were two for one specs from £79.
I choose ones that were nearer £100, still good value, two pairs for £100, I thought.
But then they offer you anti this and non scratch that etc and before you know, the two pairs cost over £200!
On offer, were two for one specs from £79.
I choose ones that were nearer £100, still good value, two pairs for £100, I thought.
But then they offer you anti this and non scratch that etc and before you know, the two pairs cost over £200!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
In the small print on bottom of eye chart
Always amazes me the price comes out £££ depite the receipt telling me I have saved £££
matticus
Guru
I do sometimes wonder how any businesses remain solvent in "God's Country".
What went on in their golden age? Were the only trades growing your own food, and selling wool/coal to the wealthy/wasteful South?
No there were trades like Patty slappers in Hull😉
midlandsgrimpeur
Senior Member
All high street coffee chains are a rip off. £8-9 or so for bad coffee and mass produced pastries. My local independent coffee shops are 15-20% cheaper, serve coffee that high streets can't even be compared to and bake all their own pastries and cakes onsite.
Hover Fly
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I once read a mag. article on how tykes got their “thrifty” rep,. It seems that the woolly business was considered to be nearly all men’s work, so the women folk stayed at home to make puddings, while salt of the earth Lankies worked in the cotton industry where women and men could both find work. Come the wakes weeks, the Lankies could afford to go to Blackpool or Southport and have a good spree, while the tykes had to be careful with their money to make it last.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
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When I was young and rich, I used to get designer glasses from SS and had the anti scratch coating, non-glare coating and all the rest at considerable price. Now I'm middle-aged and poor, I go for the bog standard ones without any coating at all and have noticed bog-all difference
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
My mum took her niece to a garden centre at the weekend. A ticket to see "Santa" which included a rubbish plastic toy, was £20. My mum refused to pay it. I even refused to pay a fiver when my boy was young but these days a fiver isn't that bad. but £20 is taking the mick
matticus
Guru
Have the women folk found work in the modern era? Or is Yorkshire still full of poor fat people?
