Price rant NWS
Borrowed from another forum, I found this quite funny, and true.....
So, I'm relatively familiar with mathematics. I can turn numbers into other ones with symbols and more numbers and all sorts of crazy shit.
I know that if you have a sales tax rate of 17.5%, an item costing £1 will cost you £1.175 to buy. I know that if you increase the sales tax rate to
20%, the same item will cost you £1.20 to buy. I know that this is an increase of 2.13%, even though the sales tax rate increase is 2.5%.
I also know that if you increase the cost of fuel by 2.13%, taking things from production facility to distribution centre and distribution centre to
supermarket increases in cost by 2.13%. I also know that if you have 250,000 items on a truck, the cost of each individual item increases by 0.0004% -
or 1 penny for every two hundred thousand pounds of value.
I'd assume, therefore, that the same companies who didn't change their prices down to reflect the 2.5% reduction in VAT would, at their
cynical worst, increase prices by 2.13% in line with VAT or, assume no-one could do maths and increase it all by 2.5% and pretend it's due to
VAT.
So would someone please explain to me why everything in the bleeping supermarket is 20% more expensive suddenly? Why a Creme Egg - a Creme bleeping Egg,
which is no more than a mouthful for a dwarf hamster - is FIFTY FUCKING PENCE (oh, and "Or 6 for £3!" qualifies as a saving or in fact
anything other than the multiplication of 50p by 6), why Haagen-Dazs is FOUR POUNDS CUNTING SEVENTY, why actual, sensible beer than I used to buy
every week for £1.33 is ONE SHITTING POUND EIGHTY and, most of all, why the place is still crammed to the rafters with jizz-brained, shuffling,
muttering, yokel inbreds lapping it the bleep up?
This, folks, is why I never leave the house. There's no sanity out there.
Though I did get to knee a small child in the sternum, shortly before its father told it that if it didn't stop running round and start
behaving, he'd "have to take away some stars". Yeah, how about taking away some testicles until you can learn to look after what
spurts out of them, you bleeping leprechaun?
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