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tt rip off cowboys - Anonymous - 03-06-2007
- FC - 03-06-2007
- DCLUCIE - 04-06-2007
I think you have taken a very large TT pill there FC.
There is one thing you carn't run away from FC and that is that that all the prices over here go up for TT. It has and will always be a time of cashing in. Alot of people make the money TT week that supports their firms for the rest of the year, that some of this cash may also go into a bit of paint work for their house or shop.......
:wink: But things have changed massively for this year and so they should, its a celcebration of the TT, but it should have been a celebration of the races and not the rip off attitude that seems to more prevelent this year. WOnder how many are going to be here next year?
- Don Simons - 04-06-2007
According to the Economist's Big Mac index the price of a Big Mac in the UK is Pounds 1.99 so that would put the Bushies Burger at Pounds 2.70 at a 36% premium over Great Britain. The Douglas Dog at Pounds 4.75 is a whopping 139% above the UK Big Mac. However this comparison does not take into account the high quality and enormous amount of relish accompanying the Bushies Burger, which for all we know it may well be worth making the crossing to enjoy. My gourmet favorite is the chips (fries) at the Mitre in Kirkmichael.
A pint of COLD beer in Tokyo is around Pounds 2.50; the difference is that it is drinkable. And a Big Mac is Pounds 1.16.
So Pykey I could air mail you a box of Big Macs from Tokyo and you could make a killing on the Promenade. On 100 units that would be a profit of Pounds 71.
Don't worry about the jet laged taste; most of your clients would be too full to know the difference.
- Anonymous - 04-06-2007
FC i reckon you must have changed as you used to be the biggest whinger on this site you even had own place with Eric? what i was posting is looking at all the moans and groans forget the TT and maybe give the S100 a try, and before anyone accuses me of being anti TT i put 40 yrs watching and even 40yrs ago there were rip off merchants but not as many,so enjoy your burger Colin and buy me one i a few weeks time.
- Sam Pato - 04-06-2007
Biggest whinger on the ttwebsite.com forum now thats a BIG call.
Take yourself Pykey - you've started a moaning thread about the TT rip off from the comfort of your own home?
Don's indulged himself from Tokyo!
Tough competition.....
Sam
- The Bag - 04-06-2007
- Tom Loughridge - 04-06-2007
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ERIC ANYWAY? I USED TO EWNJOY HIS POSTS , HE COULD ALWAYTS GET A GOOD ARGUMENT GOING.
WHEN IT COMES TO MINGERS IT WAS ALWAY A CLOSE RUN CONTEST BETWEEN DON, COLIN AND ERIC, PYKEY WAS NOT IN THEIR CLASS.
NOW ME I WAS NEVER A BELIEVER IN MINGING OR POSTING ANYTHING THAT WAS NOT IN STRICT ACCORDANCE WITH THE PC ESTABLISHMENT, I' AM GOOD BOY IO AM.
fao sam pato - Anonymous - 04-06-2007
- FC - 05-06-2007
- The Bag - 05-06-2007
- ade! - 05-06-2007
- Anonymous - 05-06-2007
fC you are a Manxman so by now you should know were the best food can be obtained? i recomend the pasties at the S100, as a treat next month treat yourself and me?lol
- FC - 06-06-2007
Spoke to one of the food vendors today, and he explained that some of the food stalls had put the prices up due to a ByeLaw that says that food cannot be sold on the prom after midnight, this ByeLaw is being enforced by off Island Police. He also explained that most of the vendors make their money when the pubs shut and not being able to sell after midnight and having to pay the rents that are twice as much as last year, has left them with no choice other than to put prices uf to cover expences.
- PeterCourtney - 07-06-2007
Ah what is happening to the world.......?
Once upon a time, the local bobbie would "reluctantly" accept either a greasy burger, or possibly a donation to the Policeman's Ball Fund, and quietly look the other way. Here, you just negotiate with the Guardia Civil, in folding money!
- The Bag - 07-06-2007