The pictures thread

Here you get only two whopper menus for 20$

Probably has something to do with government adding tax at each point the burger increases in value during its "manufacturing process." :p

They're looking at putting robot tellers on fast food counters, so I don't really see the downside

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Originally Posted by littlelolligagged

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Meatless burgers? :p

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Originally Posted by CitizenCain

Probably has something to do with government adding tax at each point the burger increases in value during its "manufacturing process." :p

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You do realise that the point of VAT is that the amount of 'points' in the manufacturing process doesn't alter the tax?

I actually like those vegetarian burgers, but I'm kind of weird like that.

Turkey burgers are nasty, though.

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Originally Posted by Flixy

You do realise that the point of VAT is that the amount of 'points' in the manufacturing process doesn't alter the tax?

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Not really. I just laugh every time I'm reminded that in Europe, which allegedly avoided communist occupation, they tax the "value added" during the process of "manufacturing" a fucking sandwich!!! :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

Sorry 'bout your luck and all, but that's still pretty funny.

Meanwhile, swiss rolls in Illinois are taxed at 1% for apparently being a healthy food, while cookies are taxed at 9% for being junk food. :o

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Originally Posted by CitizenCain

Not really. I just laugh every time I'm reminded that in Europe, which allegedly avoided communist occupation, they tax the "value added" during the process of "manufacturing" a fucking sandwich!!! :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

Sorry 'bout your luck and all, but that's still pretty funny.

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I don't think you understand what 'value added' means in this context :) But hey, I'm glad it sounds funny to you.

Tip: the value added per step has nothing to do with the tax burden, only the end value has. Just like with your sales tax. The difference is the type of paperwork. In fact, if it is retailed more than once, your system taxes double (even if no value is added), where as ours doesn't, everything is taxed only once. Sorry about your luck there :)

Of course, our sales tax rates are higher, so we do pay more, but that doesn't have anything to do with the 'value added' bit.

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Originally Posted by Loki

Meanwhile, swiss rolls in Illinois are taxed at 1% for apparently being a healthy food, while cookies are taxed at 9% for being junk food. :o

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Or like how 6 donuts qualify for GST in Canada, but more than a dozen, and they're exempted for being groceries, or something like that. (Or so it was when I left, at least).

What a tangled web we weave, when * government *.

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Originally Posted by Flixy

I don't think you understand what 'value added' means in this context :) But hey, I'm glad it sounds funny to you.

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I'm also amused by the advertising neighborhoods over here do to let everyone know their children are stupid, FYI.

How many iPad batteries and meters of copper piping would you really have to invest in to leave government behind? You're just not tugging at those boot straps hard enough!

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Originally Posted by CitizenCain

Probably has something to do with government adding tax at each point the burger increases in value during its "manufacturing process." :p

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Meat is just very expensive here compared to most countries. The VAT on food is just (2.5%) and services are included in that.

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Spoiler:

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That first gif looks like a girl I went to high school with :bulb:

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Originally Posted by Nessus

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Who is the one in the front?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag36yt2ecPY

Oh well, not really someone I should know.

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Always wondered what became of that first picture. It was a defining picture of that early generation of nerds. :up:

Nice pictures...

He cleaned up well, I think. Would've been funny to see the old hardware in the pic though, if he still had it.

I actually think it was mainly the grandma glasses and the pathetic attempt at a mustache (or is that a chocolate milk mustache? :o) that made him look like such an epic 'tard in the first place. Get rid of that, he's not half bad... as far as scruffy, overweight 80's nerds go anyway.

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:haha: I think the cocaine one is my favorite.

Daughter hasn't yet mastered the art of sitting


then again, maybe she has.

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Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust

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If the government just stuck to building roads and paying police/fire officers, people probably wouldn't be so angry about their taxes.