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http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk/
Leader of Birmingham.pm [pm.org] and a CPAN author [cpan.org]. Co-organised YAPC::Europe in 2006 and the 2009 QA Hackathon, responsible for the YAPC Conference Surveys [yapc-surveys.org] and the QA Hackathon [qa-hackathon.org] websites. Also the current caretaker for the CPAN Testers websites and data stores.
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Birmingham's New Toll Road Opens
Managing director Tom Fanning told a news conference
.... "It is exceptional value for money - £2 is the price of a cup of coffee"
Do they serve it in a gold cup or something? Aside from the fact I can't stand coffee, justifying the cost against extortionate prices for a beverage is hardly a good comparison.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
gold cups? (Score:3, Insightful)
I've not had the dis(pleasure) of needing to drive a long distance along a motorway recently, but I think that the price of tea is now over £1.50 in most of them. From memory, coffee was usually slightly more. I don't remember gold cups (actually, I don't even remember decent bone china cups), so I suspect the price is partly because they have a captive audience (where else do you get tea on a motorway), but partly because their costs are high. However, all this justification of extortion reminds me of Schwern's explanation of the cost of the POSIX standard. [mpe.mpg.de]
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Re:gold cups? (Score:3, Informative)
Their costs are not as high as you might think. The ex-singer of Ark used
Three pounds for a coffee? (Score:1)
Fortuantely for me I use rail and bike - easily the best way to get around the west midlands, a centro card costing £63.50 a month, which gives me access to all buses and trains ( bikes travel free on local services ), works out at about £3 per working day.
Pity any drivers having to fork out 3 quid to get home from work while crufts is on though.