I just spent 6 gazillion pounds to watch a man stuff a plate of baked beans on toast down his jap.
What's the most ridiculous price you've ever paid for something?
( TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 18:56, archived)

Money for nothing

( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 18:58, archived)

I'm racking my brains and coming up with nothing.
I must be the stingiest man alive.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 18:58, archived)

One time in Birmingham train station,
I had to pay £2.95 for a pastie.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 18:58, archived)

16 quid for a round of four drinks in London.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 18:58, archived)

That's not too bad.
Rnuk and I once went to a bar, it cost a tenner to get in and then 2 single G&Ts cost him about £12

Ouch.
( TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 18:59, archived)

Hahahaha!
Obligatory story, at a dublin bash, I spent €35 on guinness in a shout.
( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:02, archived)

How much would it have been in a glass?

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:03, archived)

Don't you start.

( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:04, archived)

Try being English and buying Guinness in Dublin.
Then the price will shock you.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:07, archived)

OUCH
I did that, a fiver a pint, fuck that!
( TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:08, archived)

really?
that is pretty shocking.. and because they know you're forrin?
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:09, archived)

I think they charge everyone the same price.
But they're used to it.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:11, archived)

oh well.. at least it's not racist then
just fecking greedy
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:12, archived)

But Grade 1 racing at Leopardstwon for €20.
Kempton was £40. Life swings and life roundabouts.

Edit: Oooh, get me and my use of the euro button.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:13, archived)

So what, I can put fadás on my letters.

( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:20, archived)

12 euros for two pints :(

(__, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:08, archived)

Oh, you got burned.

( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:11, archived)

jeez

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:03, archived)

My sister once spent £30 on ONE drink in a WREXHAM bar
It's more the fact that it was in Wrexham that makes it a massive overspend I think.
(pharmatron Death or Scunthorpe? CHOOSE!!, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:24, archived)

you were let off lightly

(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:00, archived)

This was ten years ago

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:00, archived)

blimey
stop buying pints of vodka then
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:03, archived)

It was a round 3 JD and cokes and a Wild turkey.
I asked the bloke behind the bar 'are you sure?'

In a broad Suffolk accent.

We left shortly after.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:05, archived)

mmm.. wild turkey
well seeing as a mixer in london costs nearly as much as a pint i can see how that totals up
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:08, archived)

£200 for a set of guitar pickups
£500 for a coat

£3.50 to watch Motorhead in 1980
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 18:58, archived)

I'm tempted to fit a les paul with some of those Bareknuckle pickups

( moohalaa, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:02, archived)

why not spend the money on guitar lessons instead?

( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:02, archived)

It's only me that ever hears me play, so it won't offend anyone

( moohalaa, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:04, archived)

Hammersmith?
I was probably at that gig.
( The Cat's Mother Not a People Person., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:04, archived)

Manchester Apollo
it was quite loud

As in a wall of white noise. I couldn't even tell what song they were playing most of the time.
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:06, archived)

I was partially deaf for a week afterwards.
Those were the days.
( The Cat's Mother Not a People Person., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:24, archived)

£1500 to be let out of a country i didn't even want to be in
those south americans are dodgy fuckers
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 18:59, archived)

£58 for two different moisturisers
£jesus for a guitar
£60 on sweets and drinks in Cybercandy in covent garden

lots of pointless shit, really
( moohalaa, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:00, archived)

When I get a job I'm getting me a new guitar.
Yngwie Malmsteen's strat
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:01, archived)

ja, I'm really fat now? and I can play arpeggiosh really fast ja?
That's pretty much all my music. Ja.
( moohalaa, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:03, archived)

ya, I yam wanting to be Ritchie Blackmore but I am wery Scandinawian and rubbishy

( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:05, archived)

You are a bit of a splurger.
It's true.
( TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:02, archived)

*splurges in your hair*

( moohalaa, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:05, archived)

cybercandy is AMAZING

(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:05, archived)

I worry that I'm totting up a lot in there
I don't want to think how much I've spent in Cyberdog. It's probably 1500 plus.

All on light up teeshirts with plastic nonsense on them.
( moohalaa, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:06, archived)

just get a job there
the five finger discount will save you loads
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:10, archived)

£12 for a can of Coke at a gig in France once.
Didn't think to ckeck how much Francs were worth.
( Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:01, archived)

Not so much a ridiculous price as it was a decent price but it was something I don't need: A 1TB NAS drive.

I nearly got caught out in an eBay auction after I bid £25 for a Derren Brown poster, luckily someone topped my bid and I bought the same poster the next day for £8.
( magnum, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:01, archived)

And I just downloaded The Best of the Communards from Amazon for £4.78.
Hmmm.
( magnum, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:05, archived)

Amazon ThePirateBay
( applehead herp derp, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:07, archived)

it was a derren brown poster
it probably had "buy this poster at any cost" embedded in the background somewhere
( spacefish bong!, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:09, archived)

Good point
probably why I bought his latest DVD today as well. Bastard.
( magnum, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:10, archived)

i downloaded his make-you-go-to-sleep one
but haven't played it as i'm guessing some deviant has but subliminals in there that will make me act like a chicken
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:16, archived)

at work I ordered over £300 worth of tapes and a multitape dispenser to have them on
both turned out to be quite small and not very impressive but they do their job at tape holding and taping as intended. The tapes are different colours.
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:02, archived)

i knowingly spent £15 on a three minute phone call once
i spoke to the answerphone
( spacefish bong!, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:02, archived)

A grand on a kite and a piece of wood with footstraps.

( Harold Bishop's Love Child some sort of terrifying sex magician., Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:03, archived)

I bought a limited edition pair of DC trainers once for £150 once
And felt very guilty about it.

But that very same week I got £150 tax rebate so it was all good in the end!
( applehead herp derp, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:05, archived)

Oh yeah, almost forgot
Last Friday a group of 5 of us spent £320 in the Bavarian Beerhouse (I heartily reccommend it - Warsteiner and Currywurst is a great combo) on London Road on Beer, Jager trains and currywurst...
( applehead herp derp, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:11, archived)

Currywurst is excellent.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:12, archived)

High Five!

( applehead herp derp, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:14, archived)

£15 for a shot of cat poo coffee.

( Cleisthenes morning sickness is a bitch, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:08, archived)

Nearly a £1400 phone bill this month, but hopefully they're going to knock that out =DDD

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:19, archived)

gonz you nutter
is the chilean accent THAT allurring to you?
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:22, archived)

This is so far down the page, that I can admit this without many people seeing it....
It was mostly for going on b3ta and an accidental Windows Update running in the background.... at £6/mb.

To make things even worst, the updates were test ones for Win7.

=((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 19:46, archived)