Ripped OffA friend who worked in a second hand record shop told us about a Japanese guy who regularly bought "rare" records in their shop. One time, he was looking for a signed copy of "Never Mind the Bollocks".
They didn't have one. Four people and one magic marker later, they did. Ker-ching!
How have you been ripped off? Who did you rip off? Are you a British Gas customer?
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chthonic, Thu 15 Feb 2007, 16:28)
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O Dear O Dear O Dear,So you had to pay too much for a beer in la belle France did you?
When I went to England in those early 1990s and settled into my college room in West Hampstead, I decided to cook myself some food and of course, wash it all downwards with a nice bottle of vin rouge.
It wasn't a special meal, just some bread and cheese, some salami and an exotic dish from my new adopted home...a Pot Noodle. So, then I proceeded to find a cheap wine...I seriously thought I was doing my mathematics wrong. How could the very cheapest of cheap wines cost £4.99 - that was ff50.00 which would have bought the kind of wine you would take to a meal with your new girlfriends family - if you wanted to impress! Not the stinking weasel juice that I nearly couldn't force down and would not have paid 2 francs for at home, never mind 50.
I was almost crying that night. Luckily it did not take me long to be introduced to the wonderful produce of the Fuller, Smith & Turner brewery of Chiswick. Ah, what would I give for a pint of London Pride right now? Well, not €5.50 like they charge in the English Deli in Nice. Well, OK then, I did at Christmas, but that was special. And Brannigan's crisps €2.75 - the swine, the swine.
E-Z
(, Tue 20 Feb 2007, 16:18, Reply)
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