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Goddamn Zimbabwe at it again… 250+% inflation….

I see the gender pay gap is alive and well.

Wasn't it simply because the actors didn't want to do it anymore?

At this rate you will need a bigger map soon.

The only comfort I have seeing that, is to know we are not alone stuck in that shit... That and being happy I don't live in Sudan.

PNC cites "a national bird supplier" as its source without giving additional detail.

True, but I'd say that geese are even worse. Especially when protecting their eggs.

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They may be the most expensive of this set of gifts, but definitely not the ultimate gift.

Swans are assholes.

Bet you didn't wake up this morning thinking you would know the price of a swan today

I looked up the price of swans and the numbers that I got are way more than that. As it is swans a swimming. That means that they are hatched and not eggs. The least expensive that I could find was the white mute at $3,083 each with free shipping. That comes to $129,486. The ones I would rather have are the Australian Black Swans. Those come in at $6,500 each with a grand total of $273,000. Trumpeter Swans and Whooper Swans are even more.

According to PNC, "Hatcheries provided the cost of the hens and swans." Not sure the exact seller. This website suggests that some places charge even more.

Getting my credit card out for buying Swans!

Hi - the "receptions under direct pressure" variable is reported directly by FIFA :)

How are the lords/ladies/maids prices calculated? I'm assuming it's not slavery.

Also, how do swans cost ~1900 dollars? That can't be right.

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Dude im impressed, how do you track all of this?

library(tidyverse)

price <- tibble(item_name = c("12 Partridges in a Pear Tree", "22 Turtle Doves", "30 French Hens",

"36 Calling Birds", "40 Gold Rings", "42 Geese a-Laying", "42 Swans a-Swimming",

"40 Maids a-Milking", "36 Ladies Dancing", "30 Lords a-Leaping",

"22 Pipers Piping", "12 Drummers Drumming"),

total_cost = c(3362.16, 6600, 3187.5, 5399.64, 9960, 5040, 78749.58, 290,

33232.48, 41940, 6042.8, 3266.93)) %>%

mutate(total_cost_rounded = scales::dollar(round(total_cost)))

price$item_name_ordered <-

ordered(price$item_name, levels = price$item_name)

ggplot(price, aes(x = item_name_ordered, y = total_cost, fill = "#D6001C")) +

geom_col() +

geom_label(aes(label = total_cost_rounded),

position = position_stack(

vjust = 0.5)) +

coord_flip() +

labs(

title = "Total cost of each gift in the song \"The 12 Days of Christmas\"",

y = "Total cost of each item in the United States in 2022",

x = NULL,

caption = "Created by TrueBirch using data from PNC's Christmas Price Index.

Total cost is the unit cost multiplied by number of times a gift is given."

) +

scale_y_continuous(label = scales::dollar) +

scale_fill_manual(values = "#D6001C") +

theme(

panel.grid.major = element_line(colour = "gray60"),

panel.grid.minor = element_line(colour = NA),

panel.grid.major.y = element_blank(),

panel.background = element_rect(fill = "#599C5D"),

plot.background = element_rect(fill = "gray93"),

legend.position = "none",

plot.title = element_text(size = 17),

plot.caption = element_text(size = 11),

axis.title = element_text(size = 13),

axis.text = element_text(size = 12),

strip.text = element_text(size = 12)

)

I created the chart using R and ggplot2. The full reproducible code is pasted in a following comment.

This post made me curious about how much you'd have to pay for each set of gift in The 12 Days of Christmas. Turns out PNC Bank tallies the prices every year. They make a few judgement calls, such as treating a "maid a-milking" as the cost of hiring a single individual at the federal minimum wage. Here's how PNC explains its methodology:

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"The partridge and dove prices came from a national bird supplier. Hatcheries provided the cost of the hens and swans. The price of the geese came from a waterfowl farm. A national pet chain provided the price of the calling birds, or canaries. The pear tree price came from a Pennsylvania nursery. A national jewelry chain provided the cost of five 14-carat gold rings, and PHILADANCO, a modern dance company in Philadelphia, offered the price of ladies dancing, while Philadelphia Ballet supplied the cost of the Lords-a-Leaping. Maids-a-milking are the only unskilled laborers in the PNC CPI and, as such, they reflect the federal minimum wage. Year after year, the sources for the prices remain the same for the most part for consistency, but they have changed on occasion due to changes in the market or business landscape."

indeed, his work ethics could be improved in this regard.

But as writer he stumbled on another story and gave it priority..

Love my Milwaukee tools, but they aren't flawless. I have a 12v jigsaw which is fucking useless and an 18v belt sander that consumes batteries at a rate which makes it unusable for anything outside the workshop. That said, my other 12 units are spot on. I have an impact that I'm still using daily from 2010. Used it for removing lugs from car wheels, which it handles with aplomb. Actually, I was given an 18v 1/2 drive impact that I never use because the driver still does it better.

Well they speak Dutch, so no.

Good point! The right-hand chart should be percentage of energy rather than watts.

Got em

Wait the LTT screwdriver didn’t make the list!?