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5 Feet of Fury

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‘Another optimistic way of looking at the figures is to compare the number of cars burned…’

January 6, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

…with the number of cars not burned.

This will put the figure into better perspective. About 19,999,000 cars in France were not burned on New Year’s Eve; that is to say, 99.995% of them. Surely this is the way the figures should be presented to improve the population’s morale? (…)

We should always remember the story of the Soviet commissar who, when asked by a soldier in the audience he was addressing whether it was true that there were more cars in the United States than in the Soviet Union, thought for a moment and then replied, “Yes, comrade, but we in the Soviet Union have more parking spaces.”

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