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(GERMAN) Minister threatens to ban 'bargain mania' shop sales (HOLD MEIN BIER, TRULY)
The Daily Telegraph ^
| January 17, 2003
| Kate Connolly
Posted on 01/16/2003 5:17:07 PM PST by MadIvan
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You tell me - can a whole country be declared clinically insane?
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
01/16/2003 5:17:07 PM PST
by
MadIvan
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Bump!
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posted on
01/16/2003 5:17:38 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
Ivan, wir Deutshen haben ueberhaupt keinen Vogel - Niemann kann die Mehwertsteuer d'rauf bezahlen.
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posted on
01/16/2003 5:27:24 PM PST
by
patton
(Let A=B, and B=1. Then AB=AA, AB=A(^2), AB-B(^2)=A(^2)-B(^2), B(A-B)=(A+B)(A-B), B=A+B, A=0.So 1=0.)
To: MadIvan
A new spirit of entrepreneurship has also emerged, with one fashion shop owner in Oldenburg, northern Germany, offering customers a discount of £13 if they do a headstand on entering his shop. A total of 200 people took up his offer.This whole article reminds me of why Mike Myers has so much fun imitating Europeans in his "Austin Powers" movies and such - they give him so much fodder to work with!
What add odd mixture of neurosis and forced "free spiritedness" these folks present.
To: MadIvan
Oh yes, by all means, BAN BARGAINS! (THAT'LL go over like a lead balloon)
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01/16/2003 5:29:46 PM PST
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To: MadIvan
Ach, vie peinlich.
Preview, preview, preview.
Ivan, wir Deutschen haben ueberhaupt keinen Vogel - Niemann kann die Mehrwertsteuer d'rauf bezahlen.
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posted on
01/16/2003 5:30:09 PM PST
by
patton
(Let A=B, and B=1. Then AB=AA, AB=A(^2), AB-B(^2)=A(^2)-B(^2), B(A-B)=(A+B)(A-B), B=A+B, A=0.So 1=0.)
To: MadIvan
Gosh, socialism is eternally Wunderbar!
Imagine, banning sales at retail outlets.
Duh?
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posted on
01/16/2003 5:30:34 PM PST
by
friendly
To: patton
Du Lieber GOTT IM HIMMEL! "wie"
Ich bin fertig...
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posted on
01/16/2003 5:32:55 PM PST
by
patton
(Let A=B, and B=1. Then AB=AA, AB=A(^2), AB-B(^2)=A(^2)-B(^2), B(A-B)=(A+B)(A-B), B=A+B, A=0.So 1=0.)
To: friendly
Gosh, socialism is eternally Wunderbar! Imagine, banning sales at retail outlets.
No kidding! I could never survive there as I refuse to buy anything unless it's at least 25% off - hence my somewhat varied wardrobe. Thank goodness for my wife's power to make some of my stuff just "disappear" when I'm not looking.
To: MadIvan
"Thrifty means sexy."
Now there is a slogan that is really going to do it. ( / sarcasm )
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posted on
01/16/2003 5:37:52 PM PST
by
sd-joe
(T)
To: Puddleglum
I could never survive there as I refuse to buy anything unless it's at least 25% off - hence my somewhat varied wardrobe. Thank goodness for my wife's power to make some of my stuff just "disappear" when I'm not looking.LOL.
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posted on
01/16/2003 5:38:46 PM PST
by
friendly
To: Puddleglum
Thank goodness for my wife's power to make some of my stuff just "disappear" when I'm not looking. Don't you hate that? My in-house representative of the clothes police often acts as judge, jury and executioner on some of my favorite work shirts without giving me any chance to save them.
To: MadIvan
A trend has sprung up of so-called Schottische Wochen or Scottish Weeks, when customers are "encouraged to be thrifty". Tut, tut, tut. How un-PC of the Germans to infer that the Scots are, er, cheap.
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posted on
01/16/2003 6:00:48 PM PST
by
Too_Bad
(A Proud Miser)
To: patton
Your proof involves dividing by zero. Only a democrat likes that kind of math.
To: TheConservator
;)
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posted on
01/16/2003 6:14:32 PM PST
by
patton
(Let A=B, and B=1. Then AB=AA, AB=A(^2), AB-B(^2)=A(^2)-B(^2), B(A-B)=(A+B)(A-B), B=A+B, A=0.So 1=0.)
To: Too_Bad
I am half german and half scotch. (Hic).
Tight with a penny, and militant about it.
Boiler-makers-R-us.
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posted on
01/16/2003 6:16:55 PM PST
by
patton
(Let A=B, and B=1. Then AB=AA, AB=A(^2), AB-B(^2)=A(^2)-B(^2), B(A-B)=(A+B)(A-B), B=A+B, A=0.So 1=0.)
To: patton
Ivan, wir Deutshen haben ueberhaupt keinen Vogel - Niemann kann die Mehwertsteuer d'rauf bezahlen. Bestimmt! Also besser als einen Vogel zu haben.
"Wenn man einen Vogel hat, muss die Mehrwertsteuer bezahlen."
("When you're crazy ['have a bird'], you've got to pay the sales tax on it.")
But seriously, folks--I suppose there are two political factors why German Law, and now Miss German Bureaucrat, make deep discounting illegal:
1. The cartel-cozy mindset of the ruling class. Never been consumer-friendly, never will.
2. Is the 'Mehrwertsteuer' (Value Added tax) assessed as a percentage of the selling price? If so, the kleptocrats don't want to see consumer prices erode, for obvious reasons. If the tax is uncoupled somehow from the discounts, this is not a factor.
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posted on
01/16/2003 6:20:37 PM PST
by
Erasmus
To: MadIvan
Talk about a downward spiral of complete and total Liberal incompetence moving at an exponential rate.
Does anyone else see this nonsense eventually leading to War in Europe?
To: MadIvan
"You tell me - can a whole country be declared clinically insane? "
...Yes
To: MadIvan
Renate Künast.
Hmmm.
I think she's a Cajun in disguise.
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posted on
01/16/2003 6:31:39 PM PST
by
Erasmus
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