I think they have their bandwidth purposly throttled to make the page load slow.

Afterall, if a webpage is slow, it's clearly because my computer sucks, and not because of anything in between me and the source! 

Even more telling. "top of the range Pentium 4 3 GHz with 512 MB RAM". Right. That's what *I've* got. And this machine is 3 years old! And only cost $800 new! And I bought it from an actual STORE, not out of my 'friend's' trunk!

Lets not even mention that the page source has code for detecting my local currency symbol. Now, what was the exchange rate from british pounds to american dollars again? I'm not sure, but 44 pounds sounds like a lot.