Reply to: Uk debt highest in human history

[BrilloPad]

I think you need to stop smoking whatever it is you've been smoking

Better still : give it to me.....

[EternalOptimist]

I think you need to stop smoking whatever it is you've been smoking

thanks for holdin me back PM-Junkie

I swear I'm gonna have that B@stard

[PM-Junkie]

right , you git.

oh, hang on. I've been snowed in.

I think you need to stop smoking whatever it is you've been smoking

[EternalOptimist]

yeah. yeah

come and have a go, if you think yer hard enough

right , you git.

oh, hang on. I've been snowed in.

[EternalOptimist]

sometimes it's valid.

If you dont watch it, I'll come over there and Gob you

yeah. yeah

come and have a go, if you think yer hard enough

[EternalOptimist]

Surely you are comparing apples with pears ?

sometimes it's valid.

If you dont watch it, I'll come over there and Gob you

[Doggy Styles]

Surely you are comparing apples with pears ?

Ah, thanks for the clarification EO. I hadn't realised what you'd done there. Very good.

[EternalOptimist]

Apples grown in 2008 are bigger, on average, than pears grown in 250 bc.

Surely you are comparing apples with pears ?

[Doggy Styles]

Surely most have less than the average number of heads? Everyone has at least 1 and Siamese Twins have 2.

But shirley siamese twins are two people. They wouldn't call them twins otherwise.

[BrilloPad]

And heads.

Surely most have less than the average number of heads? Everyone has at least 1 and Siamese Twins have 2.

[EternalOptimist]

Apples grown in 2008 are bigger, on average, than pears grown in 250 bc.
Oranges now have more vitamins and pips than they used to.
FACT


Who says you can't compare apples and oranges
er and pears

[Doggy Styles]

Fact: A majority of people have more than the average number of limbs.

And heads.

[HairyArsedBloke]

There are also more people alive today than have ever died. Fact.

Fact: A majority of people have more than the average number of limbs.

[TimberWolf]

There are also more people alive today than have ever died. Fact.

I used to believe that one too. But apparently it is a myth.

[Doggy Styles]

Economies are bigger than they have ever been too, GDP is higher than ever, when you look at like that it's hardly surprising that records are continually broken.

I know the situation is less than ideal but this sort of thing just proves how meaningless stats are when you're not comparing apples with apples.

That's not true in this case. The measure is the proportion of debt to the GNP. That is not directly dependent on the size of the economy, so it is meaningful.