Maths question. Help!

[MycatsaPirate]

If I eat a jaffa cake every time Theresa May says 'strong and stable' between now and the GE, how many stone will I gain in weight taking into account that I do minimal exercise?

(lighthearted)

They were discussing this on the Wright stuff this morning and saying that slogans only have to be heard 7x before they're believed, same with Trump and "make America great again" and Cameron "balance the books", also "coalition of chaos".

It's all done to make us associate a positive message when we think of a particular person or party.

Is this a child's homework question?

You shouldn't be passing work off as theirs.

I would just write a note in their jotter saying that you want to discuss this at parent's night.

Don't ask Joanna Lumley to do the maths either

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I reckon a half stone gain. Will you try it and post the answer on the day?

If you gain enough weight, you'll generate your own gravitational field & start attracting jaffa cakes & other dainty comestibles, without even having to listen to her banging on trotting out the little catchphrase

Let's just keep eating Jaffa cakes, drinking wine and running to the bottom of the garden. Therein lies the answer to the original maths question.

Just so you know.... If this does becomea trend and creates anational Jaffa Cake shortage? DH and I are going to hunt you down

Gah. Our cat is lying on my arms... She makes typingdifficult.

Shares in McVities Rise...you heard it here first

I heard that bacon is always the answer. The real question being brown or red sauce? a nation divided! Never been fond of JC myself, the cake or the person.

I have just run down the garden and back. Ok, I was herding the cats in but it counts right?

Must google which stores are doing 3 for 2 on Jaffa cakes.

I don't want to go bankrupt.

Would you all contribute to a gofundme page? I was thinking of just getting McVities to deliver direct to the house.

Bacon is the answer. But. It involves cooking. I just won't have time to be cooking bacon constantly for the next however many days. Do you KNOW how many times I've heard the phrase 'strong and stable'?

And I bet she doesn't even have a fucking horse.

For you:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-39780499/in-full-theresa-may-and-laura-kuenssberg

1 Jaffa cake for strong and stable
2 for a vote for me and my team
3 for strengthen my hand in negotiations.

Ah, I've seen boxes of 24 in the pound shop. Get thyself there!

I predict that by the time of the GE, you will be extremely stable, even in high winds, if you follow this exciting new program!

You wouldn't get as obese as you would if you ate a Jaffa every time Nicola Sturgeon says "The people of Scotland". She's driving me up the wall.

Don't ask Dianne Abbott to work it out

No, although she probably wouldn't notice how many Jaffa Cakes you ate because her eyes would be closed whilst she was thinking.

I live in the USA and, for the purpose of this exercise, have substituted Pepperidge Farm Orange Milanos for Jaffa cakes (yes, I am aware it's a false equivalency but needs must when you live in a JC deprived country) and the # of times DT asserts "yes, we're open to that" instead of whatever it is TM says. Early indications are showing some surprising results from my extensive and scientific calculations. It seems OP, that you can eat ALL the Jaffa Cakes produced between now and Polling Day and have no more influence on the outcome of Election than you do right now. That can't be right so I will crunch more Milanos numbers in case I missed something.

Ok, I was herding the cats in but it counts right?

Anyone who can successfully herd cats deserves as many cakes & biscuits as they can get their paws hands on, IMO, & bugger whether there's an election on

Mycats thank for your sort-of offer, but I'm afraid I don't share Jaffa cakes. That really would be a coalition of chaos.

In that case Millie my Jaffa cake party will now outright start attacking your policies and any time I am questioned I shall deflect the question by just saying something horrible about you. Sort of like TM does.

Furry Herding was not entirely successful without help from dp. On trying to get in one cat, we ended up with three out, one out the back, two out the front. Much swearing and me stomping up the street in my pjs muttering 'get in the house you little dick' to boy cat. I suspect the neighbours talk about me.

I wouldn't even dream of taking on Nicola Sturgeon. Imagine if I ate a JC every time she said 'independent Scotland'. I'd be in ICU by next Saturday.

"But what about JC? Will he have any impact on this equation?"

JC being Jaffa Cake?

If not, then we have to use vulgar and reintroduce the Abbott if JCs are to be consumed

This thread has quite put me off my breakfast!

I'm now trying to match the food to the sound bite

Coalition of chaos = chocolate chip?

permalice Just have a Jaffa cake for breakfast before I buy the entire UK stock

I do have some in the cupboard. Stop tempting me!

Ah, I see, so when you said "herding" you actually meant "letting the cats run amok instead of coming in to bed"

That makes much more sense!