• @[email protected]
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    757 months ago

    There are literally lawn chairs in Hyde Park in London and if you sit in a dude rocks up and informs you that it costs like $2 per half hour to sit in it.

    • @AnUnusualRelic
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      It used to be like that when I was a wee child in the Paris parks. They stopped it in the early '70s I think. I seem to remember that the fee was 50 centimes back then for 1/2 hour. I’ve no idea what the current equivalent would be.

      So I looked up a random inflation calculator and it works out to 1€ today, taking into account the 684% of inflation.

    • palordrolap
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      97 months ago

      Oh. That sounds like fun. Going round collapsing all the unoccupied chairs, that is.

    • @Whelks_chance
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      There’s literally food in restaurants in London and if you eat it a dude rocks up and informs you it’s like £15 to eat it.

      I’m not sure what you expect here. A charitable or government service to provide you with deck chairs for free?

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        Right? Like someone is going to put a chair or bench in a public space like a park. Ha! Call it a “park bench” or something… and let people sit on it for free?? Ludicrous! It’ll never happen! /s

        That’ll be £1.00 for reading this response. Please advise where to send the invoice.

        • lad
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          167 months ago

          I upvoted after reading the first half and then read the second and wanted to upvote again 😂

          also

          I hereby entitle agent_flounder to reading this response gratis as a payment for reading their comment

          • Rhynoplaz
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            87 months ago

            I wasn’t going to vote at all, so I went ahead and put another one on to cover your second.

      • @[email protected]
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        517 months ago

        I’m my local park there are hammocks that the local government puts up each year.

        Benches, hammocks, flowers, swings and a free open air gym is provided as part of the tax we pay to the city

        I know that you are just a rightoid moron but I just want to make clear that having nice parks that people want to spend time in is not a new and weird concept.

        • HubertManne
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          97 months ago

          No hammocks here but even in the small parks they put in one device to do a variety of excersises and in the larger ones there is like a circuit of various things. They are all static type things to help with calisthenics but are pretty neat.

      • @guy
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        267 months ago

        Free outdoor seating is extremely common though, it’s not that far fetched it could apply to deck chairs too

        • @samus12345
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          57 months ago

          The first half’s snark makes it seem serious, but the second half seems like sarcasm.

      • @[email protected]
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        127 months ago

        15? That’s it! Where is this good deal?

        The only reasonable food while out and about was supermarket meal deals when I went to visit a few years back.

      • @RagingRobot
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        117 months ago

        This must be the guy who charges for the chairs lol