The Whining and Bitching Thread

[Slammed]

When smokes went up to about $15 for 30 smokes we started buying it by the kilo (which is illegal) and storing it in the freezer. We used to pay about $40 for a kilo now days the same under the counter stuff is about $120 depending on where you buy it, still expensive but a shitload cheaper than tailor mades that incur all the government taxes and go up in price every six months.

 

[no country for old wainds]

a 20 pack of marlboros is more like £12 here now, probably even more down south. that would've been close to 20 US dollars a few years ago but post-brexit it's more like 15. they're one of the most expensive brands though, the cheapest are holding at about £8 atm

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

actually i think they were around $3.75. Pall Malls were like $3. Parliaments cost like $12-13 bucks a pack in some stores right now lmao

At least our alcohol is much cheaper in comparison to oher states. A bottle of Glenfiddich 12 or Glenlivet 12 is about $20-25 out here while its like $40-50 in other states.

 

[Slammed]

$40 is about average for a 700ml bottle of whiskey/bourbon/rum etc of an alc/vol less than 43% (which I think is 86 proof but I could be wrong). Single malts etc can be a lot dearer and prexmixed cans of bourbon and cola etc (up to about 8%alc) are around the $40 mark for 10
The cheapest beer is about $35 per carton of 24 and "premium" beers can easily double that.

Long fucking wedding TB

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yea my other sister is getting married tonight. Dat gypsy life.

a 12pk of macrobrews(budweiser and all the other cheapo stuff)out here costs about $12.

 

[Slammed]

I can't wait 'till it's your turn!

 

[no country for old wainds]

the thing americans benefit from the most has to be petrol/gas prices. not sure about australia, but much like cigarettes it's taxed to shit in europe, i think ours is like 2.5x more than in the US and in some european countries it's even more.

 

[Slammed]

Smokes are taxed to the point of something like 56 cents of every dollar cigarette is tax and it goes up twice a year.
Petrol is the same but different. It cops two different taxes and both are indexed so they go up with the wholesale price.
Gas is a different kettle of horse shit, we export that to Singapore and then buy it back at a dearer price.

I can't be fucked doing the imperial conversation but standard fuel here is about $1.50 per litre and diesel and premium (higher octane) fuels are a about 10 cents per litre dearer. It does drop in some states to around $1.30 but I haven't seen diesel prices around here drop from $1.50 for about 5 years.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

about $3.75 a gallon here right now. But again, different prices in different states.

 

[Slammed]

I could be wrong but taking into the approx conversion rates for the dollar and the imperial conversion our prices are similar.

 

[jimmy101]

Smokes are taxed to the point of something like 56 cents of every dollar cigarette is tax and it goes up twice a year.
Petrol is the same but different. It cops two different taxes and both are indexed so they go up with the wholesale price.
Gas is a different kettle of horse shit, we export that to Singapore and then buy it back at a dearer price.

I can't be fucked doing the imperial conversation but standard fuel here is about $1.50 per litre and diesel and premium (higher octane) fuels are a about 10 cents per litre dearer. It does drop in some states to around $1.30 but I haven't seen diesel prices around here drop from $1.50 for about 5 years.

Your from Melb aren't you bro? It's below $1.30 at a fair few places around town at the moment.

 

[Slammed]

Nope I'm a country boy with hay between me teeth tooth and cowshit on me boots!
For the last 3 years we've had the ACCC looking into collusion in the fuel industry and they have been focusing on areas from Melb to Bairnsdale and the price of diesel hasn't changed in the entire time since the ACCC started their investigation. Can't be collusion if all the service stations charge the same price!

 

[jimmy101]

Yeah fuel prices are ridiculous out in the country. Especially somewhere as far as Bairnsdale I'm sure.

 

[CiG]

 

[Slammed]

Yeah fuel prices are ridiculous out in the country. Especially somewhere as far as Bairnsdale I'm sure.

Stupid thing is for more than a decade we have been told that fuel prices in the valley are high because of transportation, yet Bairnsdale another two hours further usually has prices very similar to Melbourne.

 

[jimmy101]

I would have thought transportation costs would have jacked up the price too. Wouldn't surprise me if it's all just being taxed to the shithouse.

We should be all driving electric cars by now anyway.

 

[Slammed]

Tax is big on fuel but collusion is bigger and the ACCC are fucking gutless and a waste of time.

Oh yeah I want an electric car that gets stuck on speed humps, travels at a speed just faster than walking pace and wont even get me to Melbourne without stopping at least once to recharge. Toy cars belong in the sand pit!

 

[jimmy101]

Haha, well if the major car manufacturers would invest a little more into them you'd think they'd be a bit better than that. Petroleum companies hold back the development of electric cars, kinda how pharmaceutical companies hold back the development of stem cell therapy imo.

Reminds me of the stonecutters song from the Simpsons.

 

[Slammed]

Even if car manufacturers could pull a magical finger out of their arse and produce a battery/power system that was better than we currently have the idea that everyone in a country as big as Australia could drive electric toys is laughable. We don't all drive on the paved roads, we don't all drive past service centres with power points multiple times a day and with the way power prices are increasing in this country how cheap are electric cars really going to be when the car costs more to buy than petrol cars and the batteries which make up the majority of the cost need to be replaced every 5 years.

 

[Bloopy]

Companies who are shit at catering for the disabled maybe shouldn't abandon their old Twitter and Instagram handles. This is from an online friend of mine who's very vocal about this stuff. Good on him:

https://twitter.com/LBComicCon/status/1088238870112555010