It's all about the prices
The thing that makes me feel old is that I'm able to say 'it wasn't like that when I started xxxxxxxing'. Prices of certain things have just absolutely rocketed over the last ten years, way out of proportion with inflation. It's unfair because it's provided a demarcation that really isn't of my doing, and I'm not old at all.

Cinema is the most obvious example. This weekend I went to the cinema and two tickets and two drinks cost me £30. How the hell did that happen? Surely just a few years ago it was under a tenner. And booze - the price of booze, dearie me. Just ten years ago a pint was under £2. It's doubled in the last ten years, after decades of, er, *not* doubling every ten years. The price of petrol seem astonishing, compared to what it was a decade ago.

The length of time isn't really enough to make me feel old, but the change is.

Not that you get much change from a tenner these days, mind...
(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 19:03, 5 replies)

The last time I went to a movie theatre
was to see The English Patient.
The only reason I could see for going to that movie was so that you could truthfully say you'd slept with your girlfriend.
Around here we pay $1.25/liter for gas and even we blame the gubment and big bizness. You pay more than that in quids. Who do you blame?
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 19:28, closed)

Who to blame for rising petrol prices?
Dunno. Suppose tax is very high, but that's to deter waste, which seems like a good aim. Not the big oil companies - they don't make much profit per litre of petrol. The cost of getting the stuff out of the ground and refining it? Hard to blame the planet. OPEC, maybe?
(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 9:06, closed)

Wrong.
Tax is very high so the Treasury gets more money.

Most people don't have any practical alternative, so they can gouge the price.
(mmm savoury snacks, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 9:57, closed)

"when I started xxxxxxxing"?
You're a pornstar?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 10:16, closed)

Yup.
Banging porn stars every day. And I drive a Honda and I fucking love the mad drugs, me.
(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 12:30, closed)