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Last time I went to the cinema properly was to see Top Gun Maverick, decided to make a night of it and go to the Everyman, tickets, couple of drinks and a few snacks and spent over £80 for 3 of us

I’m definitely getting tighter as I get older. Tend to look at the prices of stuff a lot more than I used to. Don’t eat out anything like we used to, mainly because I object to paying best part of £100 for very average pub food. I’ll go somewhere if there is a deal on but tend to avoid it. I know people say the hospitality industry is really suffering but it’s a vicious circle where the price has gone up hugely whilst the standard has gone down which forces the price to go up as it’s a lot quieter than it used to be.

Coffee has become very fashionable so they’ve hiked the price up. Along with that the woke nonsense like chia latte and the soft millennials needing oat or almond milk due to their intolerances it’s become a gravy train which they milk (pun intended). I only really drink espresso these days, couple at home when working from home on the morning or get one at the train station if travelling.

That’s mental. Got to be the cheapest take away around surely? coffee is the same now. I unfortunately had to go to a Starbucks yesterday too, usually avoid them and costa much prefer a locally run one in town. £22 for two cappuccino’s an espresso and a strawberry refresher thing to take away. I’d say our coffee machine at home was better

I blame the lefties. Had we not had an open door immigration policy then there would be far fewer foreign take aways like kebab shops meaning more people would use traditional British chip shops thus driving higher demand, more bulk buying and therefore lower prices passed onto customers.

Thanks I’ll have a look. We’re off to Calabria in 5 weeks time, been to Puglia so be interesting to see how it compares as both Deep South

Just got a chippy tea for the first time in ages. 2 x regular fish and chips, kids fish and chip and a sausage a chips £30 FFS. I swear a year ago that was more like £20.

Sorry yes metres still only needs a couple of days acclimatisation

I think a lot depends on preparation. When I did volunteer work mining silver in Potosi we had an excellent pre acclimatisation program funded by our sponsors and we were able to cope swimmingly with the altitude. However our self funded trips to Lahotse and Carro De Pasco were much more limited budgets and we could only afford an altitude tent between two so a few got headaches. Mexico City is only 2,200 feet high so a couple of days acclimatisation for a super fit sportsperson should be plenty

I didn’t say he wasn’t. His goal yesterday wasn’t “absolutely sensational” it’s a goal I’d expect most strikers to score. It’s possible to think someone is amazing without thinking every single thing they do is amazing beyond the capability of anyone else alive you know

The wanking off over Messi is ridiculous. Yes he is an amazing player but not every time he touches the ball is it amazing. his goal last night was described as “absolutely sensational” ffs. It was the sort of goal you’d expect any competent striker to score, move off the defender, one touch slot it home.

I’m going all in on Taco Bell the very least the local branch is going to get is a white plastic chair thrown badly in its general direction

Eh? It’s fucking massive what you ok about?

Didn’t Martin Semmens once tell us the women’s team would be bigger than the men’s soon?

Solak isn’t going to say we’re going to sell them off cheap is he 😂 if we get an offer that meets near our valuation he’ll go, it’s as simple as that