Today I read an article in the BBC News Magazine, it was all about how the use of numbers to describe stuff has become meaningless.
I saw a good example of this today, in some propaganda from the council...
Apparently, libraries cost 85p a week, that's less than a takeaway burger a week. City events cost 27p a week, less than a Mars bar. Link buses cost a whooping 6p a week, less than an apple (fruit, not IT, I guess). Care for disabled adults, £1.94, less than a dozen eggs. 28p a week on older people's day centres (less than a bag of crisps) and a whopping £11.68 is spent on children - less than a takeaway.
I've only listed things I don't currently directly benefit from...
Put another way, it's 784.16 quid a year. That's enough to buy return flights to Shanghai (with KLM this April) (£457 - ok, I know it's on offer...) and, erm, something else that costs 327 quid...
So, peanuts then.