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Spectacles and sun glasses...
I was shocked at a pair of riding sunnies at over £150. That's just mental IMHO and I won't be buying them.
Popcorn in cinemas? In fact, food in cinemas in general, £3.50 for a bag of chocolate that £1 in Tesco? Yes, I know it's a secondary purchase to make the profit but it's still a rip-off.
Soft drinks in pubs, specifically the postmix guns going for a comparable price to the beer. The markup on that stuff is in the thousands of percent.
Yes this got charged - well they tried i declined to pay and they would not haggle- £1.60 for a half of coke.
Bike brake pads Hope ones by Hope cost the same as my car ones ! as do their discs
£1.60 for a half of coke.
Bargain! Coke is £4 a pint from the [url=www.alfordarmsfrithsden.co.uk]Alford Arms[/url] near my parent's place.
Had a a tab going, almost fell over when I had to settle up. Haven't been back since.
Crisps especially hand cut super crisps with salt gathered from the dried tears of unicorns and pepper from the foothills of the Himalaya, cooked with oil pressed from sunflowers grown in the butt crack of a playboy model. 3.95 to you sir.
Bargain! Coke is £4 a pint from the Alford Arms near my parent's place.
They can afford it round there.
joolsburger - where in the world do you buy your crisps? They sound amazing. Unicorn tear salt is my favourite tear salt, children's tears are so bitter.
Bicycle tyres!
There's no way they should cost nearly as much as car tyres. (and equivalent to in some cases)
But it's equally easy to spend £30 for one that works perfectly well.
What? A VW for 30 quid?
Anyway - unquestionably inexplicably and not at all reassuringly expensive, my bloody glasses.
Birthday cards.
[quote=joolsburger opined]Crisps especially hand cut super crisps with salt gathered from the dried tears of unicorns and pepper from the foothills of the Himalaya, cooked with oil pressed from sunflowers grown in the butt crack of a playboy model. 3.95 to you sir.
I cannot help but read that in t M & S voiceover style
Some clothing brands.. eg [url= http://www.bergfreunde.co.uk/yeti-strato-ultralight-jacket-down-jacket/ ]'yeti' brand[/url] down jackets.
BDSM
You joke about that but a friend of mine used to be quite heavily into the BDSM and fetishwear "scene" in Leeds, to the extent that he worked as a model and got most of his clobber knock down or free. He always said that he cpould never understand how people could afford to get into it without being able to buy stuff at trade price. I used to say the same about mountain biking.
You joke about that
he would never joke about that
Hunters Wellies, £90 for moulded rubber.
he would never joke about that
That would make him a bad man...
Things in London
lip gloss*
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* I was with mrs b when she bought some 😯
mind you my shaving oil wasn't any better
You joke about that but a friend of mine used to be quite heavily into the BDSM and fetishwear "scene" in Leeds, to the extent that he worked as a model and got most of his clobber knock down or free. He always said that he cpould never understand how people could afford to get into it without being able to buy stuff at trade price. I used to say the same about mountain biking.
who's joking, an hour with a Pro Domme is painful on the wallet too!
Estate agent fees
Lawyers
Medicines for animals
Mrsfarmers' drinking habit (she is a good Bavarian lass!!)
Razor blade refills! 😕
alcohol in scandinavia
Ink in inkjet cartridges
Motorcycle tyres that do a couple k miles
SMEG fridges
Dyson Fan heaters
Black cabs - see uber 🙂
Children - but thats an ongoing cost
Dental care and teeth
Curtains - they are just sheets of material hanging off a pole
Pub own soft drinks as above. No excuse for the outrageous mark up.
Bottled water.
Chip shop gravy/curry sauce.
Gas boiler servicing.
Divorce.
Pasta in tomato sauce.
Artisan bread.
Leading makes of ice cream.
Parker specific fountain pen ink cartrages. [img] 
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broadband
gas prices
orange bikes
2nd hand older 125cc motorcycles (yamaha dt125 for instance).
Broad beans.
Piss easy to grow but supermarkets charge a fortune for them, I shelled split and weighed a packet from sainsburys and ended up at around £16/kg!
Knickers. They are shorter than shorts and have three huge holes in them, so why are they so blooming expensive?
S&M have a lot to answer for 👿
The outdoor clothing industry.
Some clothing brands.. eg 'yeti' brand down jackets.
Moncler clothing. I swear not long ago it was just another brand of puffa jackets. Now it's sold from fancy boutiques with a doorman.
contact lens cleaning solution. It's mostly distilled water anyway.
Inner tubes. But hey, it's probably to cover the costs of keeping the LBS going, so that's ok.
UK houses
+1
Bottles of wine in restaurants, but probably the same principle as inner tubes.
All of these things are just examples of "things that I think are expensive", but none of them is [b]inexplicably [/b]expensive.
Actually, Mr Smith's suggestion is bang on for the 'inexplicable'!
Broad beans.
Piss easy to grow but supermarkets charge a fortune for them
So true & never understood it myself either.
Viagra 😆
Metacam (ibuprofen equivalent for pets).. £50 for 100ml.
I spend the best of £500 year on it. By the time the dog dies it will be about £3k on the stuff
Longleat entry prices. £23 for a child!!!!
Hifi leads.
Hifi leads.
Hifi leads you can almost get because there is a performance benefit between door bell wire and something that actually has some copper in it - you can then start adding material and complexity of manufacturing complexity for spurious benefit.
Less easy to get is expensive HDMI leads (even cheap ones are expensive). A data lead either does or doesn't work. It can't be better than functional.
You are right a digital signal can either work or not work but analogue really depends on the material used to work #snakeoilsalespitch
Beer in Australia. I live next to Cascade brewery in Tassie & it's beer is significantly cheaper in NZ.
Metacam (ibuprofen equivalent for pets).. £50 for 100ml.
I spend the best of £500 year on it. By the time the dog dies it will be about £3k on the stuff
Cloudnine. You could try him on Flunixin. It is another NSAID but works out about 30% cheaper. Not sure if it is licensed for dogs though. It is what our sheep get if they need painkiller/anti inflam.
Lol kiwi, just supping a 12$ pint and just about forgotten it was expensive, and at least it's not cascade though I am thankful for their trail hosting... What gets me is that fancy wine it's all just grape juice isn't it 😉
Fish and Chips anywhere south of Stoke.
Theatre/Show tickets.
Engine oil.
Train travel.
Muc off products.
Wheels in my lbs