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I'm only joshing, I don't put my fingers up my bum.
I did work this out yesterday though *copy'n'paste*


Yet, the goverment can supply high range iPad 2s (£550 = 64gb Wifi model, or 32gb 3G one, the later coming with contracts that hasn't been mentioned... deffo 'iPad 2's as I've seen video/pictures of them). They say it'll save them £200kpa in printing costs. They bought 17 of them, so that means these 17 people use up around £12kpa in printing each. Let's round up the price of printing one page to 1p, which means they use up PER PERSON 1.2m pages per year (or 3300ish pages a day).
(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 19:43, archived)
The cost of printing government briefs is much more than a penny a sheet.
And ministers do get hundreds of pages a day. Both of these facts are somewhat absurd in themselves but they do slightly change your arithmetic.
(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 19:55, archived)
George W Bush used to refuse to read any briefing documents longer than one A4 page.
All joking aside, that's not a bad idea for a man in the position he was in.
(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 19:57, archived)
Did they often add illustrations to make it simpler?

(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 19:59, archived)
Each of the maps he saw were printed 250miles to the left to make things more acreate.
Turns out they should have made them 350 miles.
(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 20:00, archived)
Hahahahaha

(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 20:01, archived)
An ex chief of staff was on radio four a week or so ago talking about filtering out dross for presidents
although I think he worked for Bush senior. He applied a strict "why are you showing me this shit?" rule.
(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 20:00, archived)
I've a lovely image of a White House staffer shuffling into the Oval Office with a smirk on his face and a turd in his hands.

(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 20:03, archived)
10p a sheet sound better? I guess I also have worked it out to them working 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 19:59, archived)
Which would be common enough for ministers.

(, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 20:00, archived)