Stuff that shouldn't cost half as much

Kold

Well basically, everything in this country, but inflation and cost of living aside, what is complete b*llocks?

I'll start with some obvious ones:

Bottled water. It's water. Like the stuff that comes out of your tap. The real joke is when you have to get it in restaurants or gigs though. Get raped of €2 in order to not get dehydrated. Nice.

Beer and fags. It should not cost over a days wages to have a good night out. F*ck you government. F*ck you.

Clubs. What the hell? You haven't even got toilet seats!

Rhyme

Welcome to Ireland.

(I'm aware that other countries are like this too, but i don't live in them )

Wertz

Weed...ffs 100 notes for a 6 gram bag of average quality green? It's simply laughable. What's even more laughable is the amount of people buying it, their money going straight out of circulation and into the black economy with neither tax nor any other benefit going to the State...and if sellers get caught, their trial lawyer and jail cell are paid for from tax take.

Apart from that? Yeah just about everything really...
Luckily enough it's still cheap enough to get the f*ck out of here every once in a while...one of these days it'll be on a more permanent basis.

life_is_music

yeah definately water!! €1.40 for 500 mls like for **** sake!!!

Pints....

Clothes (except penneys)

Sherifu

Beer is cheap. Oh, in Ireland. Ya, that sucks.

Pepe LeFrits

Safety razor blades.

Kold

New CDs and DVDs - €25 ? They'll be €10 in 2 months. Balls to that, well done for driving us to torrents you greedy f*ckers.

Was gonna say weed too. 3.5gs that so often fails to be that. When I was in Amsterdam, a 2g bag of white widow for €14 looked awfully similar in size to the 50 bags of sprayed sh*t we get here...

Pen1987

Having to pay into clubs so you can spend your money inside on a huge scale

beautiation

Schoolbooks, surely the guarantee that they'll be bought means they can be mass produced and made cheaper?

WindSock

Take-away Pizza.

dr.bollocko

Jonnys n lewb

Redpunto

kitty litter

invincibleirish

Wertz wrote: »

Weed...ffs 100 notes for a 6 gram bag of average quality green?

50 bag is 3.5 grammes down my way, shop around!

Wertz

Kold wrote: »

When I was in Amsterdam, a 2g bag of white widow for €14 looked awfully similar in size to the 50 bags of sprayed sh*t we get here...

Seriously.

invincibleirish wrote: »

50 bag is 3.5 grammes down my way, shop around!

lol, who are you, Mary Coughlan? Believe me man, I do...when you can even get a stitch up my way, 6g is a ton, take it or leave it...and most of the guys selling it won't even bother themselves with 50 bags...if you do come across one it's not going to be over 3g and is likely to be only 2.5 or less.

Other stuff?
Houses, although prices are falling they're still way overvalued (and that's coming from someone who sees how new ones are built and knows rough costs)
Cars, even though again they've fallen because of new VRT system, they're still horribly expensive in comparison to other countries.
Doctors...not been to one in years, but hear mates and relatives all the time saying about handing over 50 quid for a 5 minute chat/check over and then paying the same for a 'scrip.

rossie1977

beer in fact all alcohol is stupidly expensive, you can buy 24 bottles of miller in dunnes for €19 or one bottle in a pub in temple bar for about €6, your choice

petrol is another it costs $0.05 a litre in Venezuela but here it cost $2.20 a litre, sure they have loads of the stuff there but we have loads of cows and sheep here and sirloin ain't 5 f**king cent a pound :mad:

c - 13

Water is ridiculous alright. I get a 19 Litre drum of it here for 1.75, you'd be lucky to get 1.5 Litres at home for that ...

Condoms are very pricey at home as well. You'd think that there might be some incentive on them with the increase in unplanned pregnancies ...

callaway92

Petrol

CarlaHeidi

i know yea

Kold

WindSock wrote: »

Take-away Pizza.

QFT. Cost to make a 16 inch pizza? Probably about €2.50. Cost to buy? Twenty notes.

rossie1977

water is not too bad, you can get 2 litres of tesco or dunnes value water for 30 cents

Kold

rossie1977 wrote: »

water is not too bad, you can get 2 litres of tesco or dunnes value water for 30 cents

Why would you need to? Get a Brita water filter and you've got a free supply! I object to having to pay through the nose for it when I'm out.

Wertz

...and sometimes it falls from the sky for free!

yeah +1 on the pizzas thing...not that I bother with the overpriced junk....buy the frozen ones and make do...I don't care if they don't taste the same...they cost a fraction of the price and it all ends up in the ame place anyhow.

As regards petrol? Yeah, but apparently we're one of the cheaper countries in the EU for petrol...be glad you don't live in the UK...

Laura Appleby

Some clothes are way way too dear. shoes too. I mean I love my Choos as much as the next girl but I draw the limit at 500 euro any more is extortion

beautiation

I bought a goldfish there just for the free water.

dr.bollocko

500 euro??!
For Shoes?
Do they have WiFi Capabilities?

Wertz

Anyone who spends 500 quid on a pair of shoes can afford to ripped off IMO.

Plus I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but 99% of men don't notice/care and even if they did wouldn't be able to tell the difference between them and a pair from Penneys...
But wait, you're buying them for you, not anyone else, so it's all good...

jellie

Laura Appleby wrote: »

Some clothes are way way too dear. shoes too. I mean I love my Choos as much as the next girl but I draw the limit at 500 euro any more is extortion

if youre willing to pay 500 for a pair of shoes you probably deserve to be ripped off.

beautiation

Laura Appleby wrote: »

Some clothes are way way too dear. shoes too. I mean I love my Choos as much as the next girl but I draw the limit at 500 euro any more is extortion

:rolleyes: See if you can buy them in singles.

Laura Appleby

dr.bollocko wrote: »

500 euro??!
For Shoes?
Do they have WiFi Capabilities?

don't be silly. Of course not, they are just impeccably made and very sexy, some pairs are over 800 euro but like i said thats just like WAY too much. i mean I have a bit of money but its just too much to pay thats like almost two days work.

Laura Appleby

Wertz wrote: »

Anyone who spends 500 quid on a pair of shoes can afford to ripped off IMO.

Plus I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but 99% of men don't notice/care and even if they did wouldn't be able to tell the difference between them and a pair from Penneys...
But wait, you're buying them for you, not anyone else, so it's all good...

okay whats with the hostility? ridiculous. a blind idiot could tell the difference between blahniks and penneys

Borneo Fnctn

Laura Appleby wrote: »

Some clothes are way way too dear. shoes too. I mean I love my Choos as much as the next girl but I draw the limit at 500 euro any more is extortion

You poor thing :rolleyes:

Blisterman

Bicycle wheels.
Some little sh1t stole both the wheels off my bike the other day. Cost of replacement? £200.
Cost of new bike?
£100

Laura Appleby

jackpalance wrote: »

You poor thing :rolleyes:

I can sense your sarcasm. would you prefer that i whinged about paying 2 euro for water like that was a lot of money? I mean how log does it take to earn 2 euro??/ about five to seven minutes work right? and yet you're all crying about it.

Kimbot

Kold wrote: »

Why would you need to? Get a Brita water filter and you've got a free supply! I object to having to pay through the nose for it when I'm out.

Yeah but you have to pay for the filters so therefore its not free anymore!!

Kimbot

Laura Appleby wrote: »

I can sense your sarcasm. would you prefer that i whinged about paying 2 euro for water like that was a lot of money? I mean how log does it take to earn 2 euro??/ about five to seven minutes work right? and yet you're all crying about it.

Yes but considering they want us to ease up on the use of water yet the icecaps are melting and in the future the planet will be overrun with water you'd think it would be alot cheaper!!

Laura Appleby

jonny24ie wrote: »

Yes but considering they want us to ease up on the use of water yet the icecaps are melting and in the future the planet will be overrun with water you'd think it would be alot cheaper!!

Thats salt water though you can't drink that. Plus with the global warming the water will actually Evaporate so there'll actually be LESS of it.

Wertz

Laura Appleby wrote: »

I can sense your sarcasm. would you prefer that i whinged about paying 2 euro for water like that was a lot of money? I mean how log does it take to earn 2 euro??/ about five to seven minutes work right? and yet you're all crying about it.

It's exactly that kind of attitude that has this country paying through the nose for everything. I'm glad your disposable income is so...disposable.

Laura Appleby

Wertz wrote: »

It's exactly that kind of attitude that has this country paying through the nose for everything. I'm glad your disposable income is so...disposable.

Its two friggin euro stop dagging about it

jellie

Laura Appleby wrote: »

I can sense your sarcasm. would you prefer that i whinged about paying 2 euro for water like that was a lot of money? I mean how log does it take to earn 2 euro??/ about five to seven minutes work right? and yet you're all crying about it.

2 euro a day for a year = a new pair of shoes!!!

rossie1977

Laura Appleby wrote: »

okay whats with the hostility? ridiculous. a blind idiot could tell the difference between blahniks and penneys

no man can tell the difference between a 500 pair of shoes and penneys, no straight man anyway..

KBarry

Ink cartridges for printers. I took my old dear to buy herself some new ones a while back and it worked out cheaper to buy a new printer.

Wertz

Who's dagging (?) about it?
You're in here whinging about feckin shoes on some Carrie Bradshaw wannabe fantasy...get a grip.

Laura Appleby

rossie1977 wrote: »

no man can tell the difference between a 500 pair of shoes and penneys, no straight man anyway..

Seriously you've obviously never seen good shoes like choos or blahniks or even terry de havilland because to tell the difference between them and penneys cheap tat is like telling the difference between a diamond and a zirconia

beautiation

Why don't they just leave massive price tags on these things? It's not like anyone's trying to be subtle about it anymore.

Laura Appleby

Wertz wrote: »

Who's dagging (?) about it?
You're in here whinging about feckin shoes on some Carrie Bradshaw wannabe fantasy...get a grip.

well its my job Einstein so its not a fantasy, its work.

rossie1977

Laura Appleby wrote: »

Thats salt water though you can't drink that. Plus with the global warming the water will actually Evaporate so there'll actually be LESS of it.

ice caps are fresh water, 90% of the worlds fresh water is locked up in the polar ice-caps

anyway desalination can turn sea water into drinking water, where do you think saudi arabia gets their water with no rivers or lakes in that country

Cool_CM

Laura Appleby wrote: »

Thats salt water though you can't drink that. Plus with the global warming the water will actually Evaporate so there'll actually be LESS of it.

Granted now I dropped Science at JC level, but doesn't all water that evaporates fall again as precipitation?

Diarmsquid

100% agree with the take-away pizzas.
You can can a frozen pizza for €2.99, the same pizza you'd pay €20 for at a take away.

It doesn't make sense.

Laura Appleby

rossie1977 wrote: »

ice caps are fresh water, 90% of the worlds fresh water is locked up in the polar ice-caps

anyway desalination can turn sea water into drinking water, where do you think saudi arabia gets their water with no rivers or lakes in that country

yeah but when they melt they'll just mix in with like the salty ocean and stuff its not like you can seperate them out after they mix. And in all seriousness would you drink water that used to be the sea? It would be polluted. its not pure I can't believe people drink that. NASTY!

challengemaster

Speaking of water, I find it funny that certain water companies claim its been in the ground for millions of years... yet they bottle it with an expiry date :pac:

Everything is way too expensive compared to other places. Last I checked we're paying 3 times what americans are for >50% of things.

Diesel/Petrol too.. I mean wtf? A barrel costs ~135$, and contains so 42 US gallons (34.972 Imperial gallons or 158.987 L).., we're paying €1.40/L (2.20 USD), or 349.77$ per barrel..

beautiation

How can someone with such nice shoes be so stupid?