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Going out of business sale: British isles for 8.8 Trillion Dollars
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| occrider |
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For a cool 8.8 trillion dollars, all Britain can be yours...
Mon Dec 29, 8:54 AM ET Add Offbeat - AFP to My Yahoo!
LONDON (AFP) - Want to buy a largish island off France? Slightly used, with annex. Rains a bit. Trains often late. Nice gardens. Food dubious, but lots of places to drink.
Yours for under five trillion pounds. Or 7.1 trillion euros. Or 8.8 trillion dollars.
If the 58,789,194 occupants ever care to sell, that is.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) whipped up a price tag for the United Kingdom -- that's Britain, comprising England, Wales, Scotland, plus Northern Ireland -- in a year-end tally of the nation's capital assets.
The precise figure is 4.983 trillion pounds, or 84,760.47 pounds for every man, woman and child as of April 2001.
The value of buildings, vehicles, machinery, bridges, roads, shares and bank accounts are included in the total, which is based on 2002 data.
"We found that five trillion pounds was the current market value of the United Kingdom, including the value of the land," said ONS statistician Ian Hill.
"That's risen a lot over the last few years because property prices have shot up," with the value of people's homes doubling since 1994, he said.
The estimate is the first of its kind in terms of detail from the ONS, a British government agency, and is based on a "much more robust system" of analysing investment data, Hill said.
"Economists use this information to look at wealth, and is particularly interesting for looking at household wealth," he said. "It helps them make well-founded predictions of what is going to happen in the future."
For comparative purposes, five trillion pounds can also buy:
-- 8.8 million US air force B-2 stealth bombers,
-- 41.5 million Boeing 747 airliners,
-- 11 million copies of the new cruise liner Queen Mary 2,
-- Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" 106 million times over,
-- 199 million David Beckhams at the price Real Madrid acquired him from Manchester United,
-- 7.9 trillion tins of Imperial Beluga caviar from Fortnum and Mason, the central London grocer to the aristocracy,
-- 14,655 trillion Kit Kat candy bars,
-- 2,516 trillion pints of "bitter" or dark ale at a typical English pub, or nearly 43 million pints of beer for everyone in the country.
-- Most, but not all, of the annual gross domestic product of the United States, which in 2002 was 10.45 trillion dollars.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...at_031229135419
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As tempting as Britan is, I think I would opt instead to purchase 2,516 trillion pints of beer ... and maybe a b-2 bomber or two. |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | | 84,760.47 pounds for every man, woman and child |
those Brits go for cheap nowadays...
i'd buy it if i had the money... then all the UKTAs would be mine MUHAHAHAHAHAHA :p:p:p |
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| raek |
| too many s on that island for my liking |
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| smallSHEEP |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
or nearly 43 million pints of beer for everyone in the country
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Mmmmmn... beer |
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| whiskers |
| ahahaha, i think Bush should buy the islands just to piss the Brits off! lmfao, first the Brits try to colonize the US and then the US buys Britain 200 years later, that'd be hilarious! :haha::stongue: |
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| butterfly |
| i think TA should buy it. |
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| Streakfury |
Do you lot mind?? This is my homeland you're takin the piss out of!!
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| You aint Ninja |
| quote: | Originally posted by Streakfury
Do you lot mind?? This is my homeland you're takin the piss out of!!
:stongue: :haha: :eyes: |
rofl gg. |
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| MrSquirrel |
Their math in the bottom portion is wrong.
A B2 cost the US taxpayers roughly 1 billion dollars a piece and since a trillion = 1000 billion the number is 8800 B2's, not 8.8 million. They seem to have done the same thing with the 747, making what chould be "thousand" be "million".
But on that note....I will buy the UK. Do you take Visa?
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| Perfect_Cheezit |
| so much beer |
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| jinxed84 |
| i could think of better things to do with 8 TRILLION dollars than buy a rainy island. |
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| Prodigy Child |
| I'd rather buy America and sell them to Iraq for 20 bux...LMAO |
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