The Ranting Room

Kestrel wrote: Dean wrote: ^ I use the Mars Bar price index... in 1972 a ticket to see Pink Floyd at Wembey Empire Pool cost the equivalent of 25 Mars Bars (£1.50/£0.06)... which in today's prices would be £11.25 (25*£0.45) ...   The Paul Rogers/Queen gig at the same venue next November will set you back £49.50 plus booking fee and postage ... or the equivalent of 128 Mars Bars!   So, tickets are 5 times more expensive now than in the 70s Hahaha, very interesting way to look at it.

I agree, tickets should be sold as is...convience charges and what-not are ridiculous. The only way to get out of it is to drive to the venue and buy them there. _popupControl();

Agreed, Ticketmaster is a huge scam. But so are ticket prices in general, I think. I wonder if tickets are more expensive or are cheaper than what they were in the 70s, when adjusted for inflation?

Quick rant about tickets. I ordered some for Stevie Wonder yesterday off the Internet. Both the web sites selling them were charging over £6 per ticket booking fee (this is off the Internet remember, I do nearly all the work!). To make matters worse, they charged me £2.25 postage - that's to put 3 tickets in an envelope. Talk about daylight robbery!

Ooo! I can't wait for them to arrive in their Chelsea tractors asking where the nearest Waitrose is. (Can't imagine them asking for the nearest Post Office - but if they did I think it's in Berkshire, or maybe Middlesex,  unless the Isle of Wight still has one that the Royal Mail has forgotten to close)

This week the SEB are digging up our road, which means:

chopper wrote: I can believe that Jared. When these people complained, what did they expect you to do about it exactly? Shoot the birds? I'm off camping again this weekend so I know I'm going to be woken up at 4am again on Saturday and Sunday morning.

One thing that does annoy me about these housing programs is how many people do not like a house because of the pink walls, blue curtains and green carpet.

Even worse than this are those people who redecorate their house in horrid colours (thanks to "TV Designers") just so they can sell the property.

Now why go to all that trouble to redecorate a house to how you've always wanted it to look, just sell it to someone who is likely to redecorate it when they move in anyway?

If I ever have to look for house (yes, I can hear you guffawing at the back!) I won't be judging it on the awful colourscheme.  Sure, if the paint scheme is to my liking, it saves me all the hassle of redecoration but I do not really care for colour schemes all that much.  Just paint the walls a light pastel colour, the ceiling white and leave the floor un-carpeted (especially if it's wooden).  There's no need to get Nick Knowles and the telev ision crew in for this.

darqDean wrote: I bought a new PC for work the other day and it came packed in shredded paper. Lots of it. A complete bin-full.   Cool, you may think.   Nice and Eco-friendly, you may say.   Saves the planet, you would reply  (smugly)   But no - not in the slightest.   We already have a shredder - it makes a couple of bags of shredded paper a week - as a business we have to pay to dispose of it, now we have to pay to dispose of Novatech's waste paper too. Bds!

Find out what's cheaper, disposing of the shreds or sending the empty box with shreds back to the vendor. 

Can I rant about packaging? We bought a new bed for my youngest son recently and, apart from the usual mountain of cardboard, I now have four bin liners of polystyrene to dispose of!
Is this stuff biodegradeable?