Minos Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Are you suggesting he's not careful where he puts his c0ck? Penicillin G may alleviate the insanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Melchett Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Are you suggesting he's not careful where he puts his c0ck? Ah, an actual real use for (dare I say it), silver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wren Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 If you feel compelled to a have a precious moment with your stash. My Preeeciouuuuus..... I've got a platinum Isle of Man Noble in my stash. It has a nice design with a viking ship - in fact with 19% VAT it was only the design that persuaded me to buy it. At least platinum was almost as cheap as gold at the time - I mean almost as precious at the time. Also a young queen on the other side. Aesthetically I find the Australian silver coins with animals the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagiso Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 I accept that.All I then said was this makes no sense and it's a bubble cause dby dodgy thinking and mass hysteria. Which is fine, lets call things what they are. Always slightly worrying when I find myself agreeing with Injin. What interests me with the gold-bugs' arguments is the following: Argument A: Gold is a brilliant long term holder of value, and has been for thousands of years. Argument B: I bought gold 'x' years ago and look how far it has gone up, I have made such a lot of money. If Argument A holds, then QED, Argument B is a temporary aberration. To work out the consequences I generally substitute the words 'property' for 'gold' in the above arguments. I will be happy to pass on my congratulations to all those who get out at the top, but selling gold, at any point, automatically disqualifies you as a gold-bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpy-old-man-returns Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Always slightly worrying when I find myself agreeing with Injin.What interests me with the gold-bugs' arguments is the following: Argument A: Gold is a brilliant long term holder of value, and has been for thousands of years. Argument B: I bought gold 'x' years ago and look how far it has gone up, I have made such a lot of money. If Argument A holds, then QED, Argument B is a temporary aberration. To work out the consequences I generally substitute the words 'property' for 'gold' in the above arguments. I will be happy to pass on my congratulations to all those who get out at the top, but selling gold, at any point, automatically disqualifies you as a gold-bug. yes, but not all goldbugs buy gold to make money, just as a store of value at historic juncture points like now....apparently. Otherwise, yes I agree, it could be viewed as a VI ramping bubble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Melchett Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 yes, but not all goldbugs buy gold to make money,............. Yes, as Wren points out, some buy it so they can stroke it and pet it in private away from prying, judging eyes. Which reminds me. Another way of telling if you're a Goldbug: You're over 40 foot long, have scaly skin, wings, breath fire and find your stash the most comfortable place imaginable to sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehead Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 ... you know when ... Your contemplative moments in the bath are inordinately dominated by plots and schemes to disguise your stash as bathroom fittings in the event of a confiscation order ... You close the curtains in the daytime but don't subsequently log on to "asian babes". You crack one off nonetheless. You think jewellery is best worn by a crucible, and rolexes much improved by a blow torch. You know exactly how many ounces you could buy with the kids tuition fees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 ...when you start digging your hole at the end of the rainbow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvidFan Posted August 19, 2009 Author Share Posted August 19, 2009 ...when you ordered a safe for your stash, but had it delivered to a different address and picked it up at midnight - no point advertising, is there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvidFan Posted August 19, 2009 Author Share Posted August 19, 2009 You've practised leveraging the sovereign out of your soverign ring. No point wearing your emergency fund if you can't get at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasket37 Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 ...in the course of general conversation someone mentions the word 'ounce'. you immediately think of the shiny stuff rather than something more useful, like jam for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 troy ounces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Take Me Back To London! Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 If you measure your net worth in Troy Ounces.If you have a copy of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" in you DVD collection. I measure everything in Troy ounces, not jut the PMs, it's the superior measure to go by. I bought a Blu-ray player just so I could watch the new HD version of Goldfinger.... The Fort Knox vault scenes look fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Take Me Back To London! Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 troy ounces? The hard core goldbug will have imprinted into their memory how many grams there are per Troy ounce to 7 decimal places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wren Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 When you calculate how much gold 200 000 dollars in the 19th century would have weighed. It's quite a lot, I tell you. Here's Clint "there are two kinds of people in the world: those with loaded guns and those who dig". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wren Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 The hard core goldbug will have imprinted into their memory how many grams there are per Troy ounce to 7 decimal places. Only 3 in my case. Maybe I'm not a real gold bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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