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Post by Mr42 on Sept 25, 2014 9:27:00 GMT
How ridiculous is this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_CakesJaffa Cakes are defined as cakes for VAT purposes! I shit you not. The VAT on chocolate covered biscuits is DIFFERENT to chocolate covered cakes. If that's not something that proves that the universe and those 'in charge' of it is utterly ridiculous, then I don't know what is. How is that even a thing? I saw on the HM Revenue and Customs website, about jaffa cakes (!!!), the following: 'a Jaffa cake goes hard like a cake rather than soft like a biscuit', and that's what defines it as one not the other. The world has gone mad! Thankfully massive organisations like that, that we pay for, spend their valuable time researching such things. I can't have normal jaffa cakes, but, trust the Polish, there are a few shops that sell cherry flavoured 'jaffa' cakes, that are vegan, and they're amazing, better than the original I'd say. Anyway, yeah... daft! Cake or biscuit? ('Cake or death!') |
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 25, 2014 9:39:03 GMT
Hahah, when I started reading this I was going to put something along the lines of; 'I'd say they start off as a cake, but when they go a bit stale they turn into a biscuit'.
To say that is actually what they base the VAT of something on is utterly insane.
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Post by Mr42 on Sept 25, 2014 9:46:46 GMT
I think it's pretty shocking that a small group of people get to decide what gets charged on what, and also that there should be charges on anything in the first place.
I then think it's absolutely obscene that you get taxed on your wage (with National Insurance too), then on your car if you have one, then on your food, then on anything and everything else, and THEN you have to pay council tax on top of that.
So, just because your wage tax is about 20%, you pretty much end up paying out about 50% of your wage on all the other various taxes. Fucking joke!
...and people say the debate about jaffa cakes isn't important. Opens up a whole can of cakey biscuity worms this does.
...and breathe!
I'm gonna have some bourbons... BISCUITS!
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 25, 2014 9:53:34 GMT
It's ridiculous isn't it.
It really bothers me how much house prices are, to both buy and rent, and the minimum wage is not rising anywhere near the rate it should to meet it.
No wonder every fucker is skint nowadays.
They don't give a shit.
*packs up and goes to live in the woods.*
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Post by Mr42 on Sept 25, 2014 10:36:43 GMT
Warm me a brew up mate, I'll come and join ya!
As long as there's good wifi though... haha.
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 25, 2014 10:53:07 GMT
Hahaha
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 25, 2014 10:53:51 GMT
You ever made pine-needle tea?
It's lovely.
AND contains more vitamin C than orange juice.
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Post by Mr42 on Sept 25, 2014 11:08:40 GMT
That sounds bizarre, never heard of that.
Tea is great, it's amazing how many kinds you can make.
Tea and biscuits, sitting on a plate, d-u-n-k-i-n-g!
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 25, 2014 11:27:39 GMT
Just brew a handfull up in a pan. Job's a gudden.
Good for wild camping.
Or in case you forget your tea bags.
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Post by mulkington on Sept 25, 2014 11:43:27 GMT
I don't like jaffa cakes to be honest
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Post by courage on Sept 25, 2014 17:16:52 GMT
That is what makes it a cake. They're small squishy cakey cakes. Biscuits are crunchy. This really upsets me.
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Post by courage on Sept 25, 2014 17:18:37 GMT
The link says theyre mini sponge cakes. Someone probably had a fit cuz they were biscuit sized.
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Post by actthegoat on Sept 26, 2014 19:48:59 GMT
Had to stop buying Jaffa Cakes because my wife got addicted to them, scoffing every single box of them!
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Post by billywind on Oct 5, 2014 16:02:55 GMT
If it goes hard when stale its cake, if it goes soft its biscuit. Its cake. Although anyone who lets that shit go off pretty much wants stabbing anyway. Which leads me onto the fact of how boss the idea of cake in biscuit form is. Why arguments must ensue here all over the uk, instead of the pure 'preciation they should command, I don't know. Its probably just cos they say cake on the pack. I propose a campaign. First campaign slogan suggestion - "shut up and just call them Awesomes".
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