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Explain the math, someone, please.

posted 8 years ago by X-Hal
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Okay I just started watching, a few episodes in, and what the frak. Why does Caroline think they need two-hundred and fifty thousand friggin' dollars to start a cupcake business? What kind of math is that? You could start a small bakery for, like, what, five grand? All you need is rent and a few supplies. Ten grand, I'll give you. It's New York so I'll even give you twenty-five grand, which is steep. What the hell two-hundred and fifty thousand!!

Second, she thinks they'll have that in a YEAR? What the double frak! If you could make that in a YEAR you wouldn't need the damn cupcake business at all! That's like five grand a week. What. What the hell.

Is anyone questioning this? No one seems to be questioning this. Why.

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

[–] dmahnarch 8 years ago

It probably IS only $5,000, but Caroline knows you need;

$25,000 to grease the palms of the permit inspector.
$15,000 for union dues for the construction workers.
$5,000 for signage and advertising.

And $200,000 to make sure Hillary Clinton doesn't have you murdered.

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[–] X-Hal 8 years ago

Well. I was prepared to discard any explanation anyone offered as not good enough to explain the show's reasoning that they need 250k, but actually your math seems about right.

Except that last part. 200 thousand seems too cheap. Maybe that plus your firstborn so she can sacrifice it in the grove?

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

[–] dmahnarch 8 years ago

She likes to soak in the youthfulness.

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[–] richzip-120-301996 8 years ago

Ahhh the obligatory injection of politics

[–] dmahnarch 8 years ago

Just like the injection of bullets into your body - even if you're a campaign worker who didn't really know inside information, but threatened to release some for personal gain.

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[–] amagul 8 years ago

They dont pay rent for the cupcake shop

[–] hitotsu47-943-615682 8 years ago

I found this odd too. It seems like in S5 they spent the 200k they got on remodeling and decor. I can't think of any way how that little bit of work they had done could come out to be anywhere near 200k. Also, it looks like all those people did was paint the room and knock out the wall to open the space up. They could've painted themselves and then just hire someone to knockout the wall they got from the pizza place. Maybe the construction/painter people aren't done yet, but if they are then they got ripped off big time.

[–] X-Hal 8 years ago

Maybe the toilet's made of gold! And they just don't show it because showing the girls in the bathroom would be tacky. XD

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

[–] rp69 8 years ago

Even $25k is pennies in NYC. It cost more than that just to get a Certificate of Occupancy on the store changed to Restaurant/Food. Then there's the Health Department, Consumer Affairs and a myriad of other Government agencies to contend with. And that's before you start renovating and buying equipment. I own rental property in NYC. My tenants are all fly-by-nights, cash businesses under the radar. They still don't make it. The property tax alone on one 2000sq.ft. storefront is $12k a year. Commercial liability insurance is another $4k. So your first-year start up costs are already 16 thousand dollars. And that's before rent, renovations, and all those city agencie's fees.
For a cheap, small storefront to sell food, that's not already set up. I'd say $100K is a modest number.

[–] X-Hal 8 years ago

She wanted $250,000, not 25k dummy. Awww, all that smug know-it-all spewing and you can't even read and your stupid post was worth nothing. And you thought you were so clever. :(

Also, saying "The OP has no clue" while replying TO the OP is passive-aggressive garbage that makes you a loser coward.

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

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[–] X-Hal 8 years ago

Oooh damn, baby's upset now! Well at least you're insulting me directly instead of dancing around it like the püssy you are.

At least we agree that 250k is too much. My original point, you validated it, thanks. I mean you could've don it WITHOUT a fight, you could've come on and and said, "I agree it's a bit steep, but..." rather than insulting me for no reason like an immature baby, but you apparently wanted a fight because you're an insecure smug piece of trash.

You need to learn to fight better though. See, initially I insulted you back for cowardice (a clear fact) and stupidity (again, fact) and now for your insecure trash behavior (facts are really quite easy), but you're just taking dumb, wild swings in the dark. Don't live in the boonies, don't have a beard, don't have balls. So you've failed to hurt me while I've scored several hits.

Aww. ^-^

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

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[–] X-Hal 8 years ago

Lol, you have a small penis and you're angry about nothing. You probably have a big veiny nose from drinking too much on top of being ugly, you drunk ugly loser!

(No no you're right, making dumb insults with nothing behind them IS fun.)

(Bet you do have a small penis though. You're just so ineffectually argumentative, it would make sense.)

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

[–] rp69 8 years ago

Sorry pal.
I'm from NY, I have some money, And yes, I can be quite smug. It goes with the territory around here.
I am just responding to your post. Maybe you're from a more financially reasonable part of the nation, where $25 thousand dollars can get you a nice start. But here in NY. Unless you have a spouse or parent backing you up, You can't even quit your job for 25k, without giving up your car and living on your own. Even with 100k, the first year or two, you will have to support yourself AND the business.IF YOU MAKE IT. That's why there's that old Sinatra cliche, If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
Me personally. It's an uphill battle, but I'm set. I hate NY. It's a big filthy, government-heavy cesspool. But, this is where my living is. and more importantly, my family and friends.

[–] X-Hal 8 years ago

Ah see, that's your problem then. Feelings! I grew up in Florida and on a whim I just moved away virtually in the middle of the night in 2002, away from all my family and friends*, and haven't been back!

So what you need to do is just cut ties with your human feelings, take your big-money New York paycheck that's not as good in New York as it is everywhere else, and move to where you can live like a king. Come! Buy one of the *beep* middle states and be as a sultan with many wives! ;)

Anyway, when I said five-or-ten grand to start up a small storefront, I meant an absolutely crappy hole-in-the-wall garbage place in NY... if that's still not enough for even that then you got me, New York is even worse than what I'd figured. (Still they have ended up in a place where they pay zero rent, so I wasn't entirely wrong! Er, by complete accident and in no way that matters.)

*I'm a painfully shy, reclusive social-retard, so cutting ties with "friends" wasn't that hard because I had like one, and he came with. So, uh. <.<

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

[–] rp69 8 years ago

Trust me. When it comes to money, it's worse than you figured.
I have relatives in Melbourn Beach. Florida's nice, but getting up there in expenses. My cousin just sold his Mom's(my aunt) home in a very old part of town(not the nice new subdivision parts). Over 400k. Not too much less than it would have gone for on Long Island.
No, I'm not stuck here for a paycheck. I have properties tying me here. and an infirm mother and a GF not ready to leave.

Whoop, gotta go. see ya.

[–] Hollywoodshack 8 years ago

X Hal, maybe you can start a small bakery for five thousand. But Caroline is the daughter of a wealthy billioniare stock invester who went to prison. All her life she has been accustomed to expensive tastes.

[–] X-Hal 8 years ago

Five thousand? Ha! No, me, I could start a bakery with two bucks and a wooden spoon!

...

I may be exaggerating.

[–] Geek_XX 8 years ago

Are you sure it's $250k?

I thought Caroline said $25k to get started and said if they really work at it and save they can have that money in 2 years.

I may have to watch it again, but if you heard $250k, then I can see how it's hard to come up with that kind of money.

[–] X-Hal 8 years ago

Yep, it's 250k. The Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2_Broke_Girls_episodes) even mentions it in the first paragraph.

I was watching it when I started the thread, so I'm pretty sure that Caroline said they could make that in ONE year if they worked hard, which is even more ludicrous than two. XD

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

[–] Geek_XX 8 years ago

Yikes.

Even in New York that's not possible on a waitress's salary.

Especially when they managed to save 600 in about 3 months. That's never going to happen.