You know times are tough when _______

You know times are tough when hookers start having BOGO sales ( buy one get one free)

 

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You know times are tough when house wives and single girls are buying red light bulbs.

 

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I wonder if you mean rough. Times, things, situations are rough. Some people are tough.

I made an appropriate post in your thread according to your "title" & OP.
Very funny too.

Things don't need to be very rough for sensible people to try to avoid being charged 15 times as much as should be.

 

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Gasoline is not cheaper than milk where I live. I doubt it is anywhere in the USA.

 

What is a typical G/M ratio? (or actual prices you pay)? and at least what state.

 

I don't know about that, now that gas prices have fallen so much in the US, even though milk prices are also falling.

Both quotes are from March of 2009


BizJournals

USA Today

 

Ranwolf’s post 26 gives from US Today Milk at $3.32 /gal

And three different regional gas prices:
Two in CA (I think) Beach area are $2.175 per gallon, $2.276 and more inland at $2.171 So I will use $2.20/ gal.

Thus the G/M ratio in CA is 0.66 or slightly lower than in Brazil

By this index both Brazil and CA are in tough times; however fact that elections are coming soon in Brazil soon, may be holding gas price down. Government owns controlling interest in Petrobras.) Or this index may be useless.

 

You know times are tough when people start making new index of just how tough they are.

 

... and especially so when people have nothing better to do than post in that thread.
Damn, foiled again!

 

I don't simply compare the price of a gallon of milk to the price of a gallon of gasoline. I also consider how much is needed of each.

 

If long division is too tough for you, give me the prices per gallon and I will compute the ratio - quantity bought has nothing to do with the G/M ratio value.

 

How much is needed is a factor in deciding which is more expensive.

 

Huu? True if question were about how much you spend, but it is not. It is about the relative cost of gasoline compared to milk. What is the G/M ratio where you live and where is that? Both in US are sold by the gallon - just divide their prices.

 

THAT is what I responded to & have been discussing, not the other angle you took.
There is no point to your statement above without considering how much of each is needed. If gasoline is $2 per gallon & milk is $3 per gallon, there is NOTHING rough about that fact alone. If gasoline is $3 per gallon & milk is $2 per gallon, there is NOTHING rough about that fact alone.

 

You know times are tough when... you walk around smelling your socks.

You know times are tough when... you constantly sniff your underwear.

You know times are tough when... you have 2 pairs to your right and left hand.

You know times are tough when... you don't even know what kind of music you like.

 

Perhaps, but if you do not remember what socks are, then you can be sure times are tough.

 

I know times are rough when I wake to find myself still here among humans.

 

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so are the times easy when i'm constantly sniffing other people's underwear? phewf!

 

Just like they did in the previous Depression, Baron; You know that times are tough when people put money down on a central city apartment because the mortgage repayments are less than the average rent you'd pay on a house.

Alternatively, YKTTAT when you wake up somewhere in the morning and can't remember how the hell you got there.