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I eat rice cakes.


They're usually somewhere between around 85p and ?1.20 a packet, depending where you buy them.


The other day I went into Somerfield. They had two kinds (same brand, same size) - sesame and plain.


The sesame ones were around a quid.


The plain ones had a big notice "Low Fat" and the price had shot up to ?1.50.


The thing is - all rice cakes are low fat! They're just made of, er, rice.


There's nothing you could do to them to make them lower in fat than they already are.


Rip-off or what?


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Not sure whether citing a Somerfield price fix can be fairly represented as an 'East Dulwich rip-off' unless you have reason to believe that similar pricing doesn't apply in their other branches.


And while I too wish I could find a good and reasonable haircut around here I don't think you can cry foul just because the hairdresser doesn't cut much off. A haircut is a haircut. Cutting off a foot of hair wouldn't take much longer, it's the finish that takes the time.

VeryBerryCherry Wrote:

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> Haircuts.

>

> ?40 for a dry trim, where she only took off about

> 1cm of hair.

>


xxxxxx


A dry trim??


That really is a total rip-off.


I was always told you couldn't cut hair properly unless it was wet, and if someone tried to cut mine dry I'd walk out.


They should at least wet it to cut it even if you don't want to pay to have it washed and dried.

I think it's a bit rich that a standard bottle of Jack Daniels is ?2 more in DKH than at Forest hill Sainsbury's but I follow the simple rule that where ever you open your wallet in east Dulwich you're usually getting ripped off. Apparently posting bail at Dulwich nick is twice as much as at Lewisham police castle, the cheek.

Rental prices in East Dulwich are a joke. We moved from a two bedroom flat on the second floor to a five bedroom palace in Sevenoaks with a pond, chicken run and a massive backyard that leads onto a private park for the same amount of money. And it is only 25 mins from London Bridge.


Bargain.


Join me.... come join me.... I'm lonely.

CamberwellOz Wrote:

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> Rental prices in East Dulwich are a joke. We

> moved from a two bedroom flat on the second floor

> to a five bedroom palace in Sevenoaks with a pond,

> chicken run and a massive backyard that leads onto

> a private park for the same amount of money. And

> it is only 25 mins from London Bridge.

>

> Bargain.

>

> Join me.... come join me.... I'm lonely.




Yes, but its sevenoaks - what kind of life is that ?


whenever I go through places like this, past the nice little Italian chain resurants and nicey nicey little shops , my subconscious picks up a thousand silent screams from its residents,as the realisation begins to dawn that this idyll of suburbia is their own personal verison of hell and there is no escape until death comes calling

CamberwellOz Wrote:

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We

> moved from a two bedroom flat on the second floor

> to a five bedroom palace in Sevenoaks with a pond,

> chicken run and a massive backyard that leads onto

> a private park for the same amount of money.

> Bargain.


Imagine what you could save if you were prepared to go slightly father afield?

http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&pid=3165711

snorky Wrote:

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> the

> realisation begins to dawn that this idyll of

> suburbia is their own personal verison of hell and

> there is no escape until death comes calling


xxxxxx


I read that as "venison of hell" - something to do with Bambi's mother .....


:))

yeah and once you have been to the cinema (if there is one) and the one theatre (if there is one) and the few restaurants, and walked along the river, what else is there to do in these places?

It takes me more than a week to read London's Time Out, by which time the next edition comes out and I have not been out the house yet!

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