Dude, that sucks

While walking in the centre of Manchester yesterday, I saw a few street vendors selling "fashion bracelets". On closer inspection, these turned out to be yellow plastic wrist bands - so basically LiveStrong wrist bands, only... well, not LiveStrong. This, I conclude, sucks - people jumping on the bandwagon to make a quick buck. One stall had tons of different colours, which again sucks bearing in mind you can get them in different colours for different causes (white for Oxfam, pink for breast cancer etc).

Less sucky but still sucky (if you get what I mean), I randomly saw some NFL jerseys being sold in a sports store in town. American football still has pretty much has no following in the UK - the Superbowl was on terrestrial (ie non-satellite/cable) tv a few weeks ago but no-one really cared, plus both the London Monarchs and the Scotland Claymores are both defunct - so I was suprised to see some jerseys on sale. Intrigued, I had a closer look - only to find they were on sale for the princely sum of £50. This, currency-conversion fans, works out at about $95 a jersey. Daaaaaaamn.

This was made even more ridiculous when I had a look on Amazon.com for shits and giggles, and found the same shirts being sold for about $63 (about £33), which means that its cheaper for me to import a Manning jersey from America than it is for me to walk for 20 minutes and buy one in person. Whatev. True, I have forgotten my 1st year economics classes, and so can't remember whether a small market means higher prices (to shiv them) or lower prices (to make what money you can and attract more buyers), but either way it works for Madden games too (Madden 2004 - 1.5 years out of date, currently selling for £30/$60ish).

On a random note, I'm kinda looking forward to EA's NHL 2006 - the first sim that allows you to sit on your ass and bitch about your multi-million dollar contract not being huge enough. Sort it out!

Currently watching: Futurama season 1