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Gold bugs have to be some of the dumbest twats you'll see.

I remember one of them saying that gold was the only real form of money and everything else was man made. (Because money's apparently not a man made concept.)

And apparently because it's difficult to produce, it's valuable, which is kind of hilarious.

Zod wrote:Gold bugs have to be some of the dumbest twats you'll see.

I remember one of them saying that gold was the only real form of money and everything else was man made. (Because money's apparently not a man made concept.)

And apparently because it's difficult to produce, it's valuable, which is kind of hilarious.

i hope he falls for the purestrain gold bait i'm throwing out

B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:

Zod wrote:Gold bugs have to be some of the dumbest twats you'll see.

I remember one of them saying that gold was the only real form of money and everything else was man made. (Because money's apparently not a man made concept.)

And apparently because it's difficult to produce, it's valuable, which is kind of hilarious.

i hope he falls for the purestrain gold bait i'm throwing out

link to the thread? i don't want to dig through a bunch of stuff to find it

B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:

Losonti Tokash wrote:So last week I got interviewed for an article, and part of that wound up here: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/cjr_ho ... braska.php

I got misquoted a bit so one of my sentences seems nonsensical to me but meh.

I feel sorry for you having to deal with that guy in the comments, man.

I'm not really trying to convince him in particular, but assistance is always appreciated. Just remember to be nice.

Zod wrote:

B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:

Zod wrote:Gold bugs have to be some of the dumbest twats you'll see.

I remember one of them saying that gold was the only real form of money and everything else was man made. (Because money's apparently not a man made concept.)

And apparently because it's difficult to produce, it's valuable, which is kind of hilarious.

i hope he falls for the purestrain gold bait i'm throwing out

link to the thread? i don't want to dig through a bunch of stuff to find it

here

I always wonder why these guys are never for stockpiling diapers, diaper cream, canasten or sheet metal.

Its always gold or silver, which unless your a jeweller is best stuck in a sock and used as a sap.

Gold does[/i[ have practical value... you can always trade it to other people for the other shit you want.

Economics is funny in that perceptions shape reality.

Yeah, I understand that. It just seems the stuff I listed would be far easier to barter with.

yea prolly

B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:Well, libertarians are easy targets.

EDIT: Slow-moving too.

So you lead less?

lol carinthium in the aussie thread is wonderful

his sig is a reference to a thread where he attempted to defend tea party jesus as a legitimate interpretation of the bible

judging from his hate for catholics, my guess is that he's the world's second most obnoxious atheist

Who's the first?

Dawkins?

stuart obviously

edit: i dunno who bakustra was referring to, but stuart gets my vote

Oh, I thought he was a LeMayist.

recent threads have shown me that there really is better discussion of drama, games, music, and even politics in testing than elsewhere

this is largely due to the absence of certain posters from testing

what if we created a place where those posters will never go

imagine

Metatwaddle wrote:stuart obviously

edit: i dunno who bakustra was referring to, but stuart gets my vote

stuart is some sort of egoistical gnostic anyhow- worshiping his own self

but if we take him as an atheist, i still would have to put him in at second compared to internet comedian the amazing atheist
not for the faint of heart, turn down your volume before clicking

in fact, you probably shouldn't even bother clicking that

starku wrote:recent threads have shown me that there really is better discussion of drama, games, music, and even politics in testing than elsewhere

this is largely due to the absence of certain posters from testing

i can get behind that

VF5SS wrote:what if we created a place where those posters will never go

imagine

imp-ossiblle

you may say i'm a dreamer

but i'm not the only one

VF5SS wrote:you may say i'm a dreamer

but i'm not the only one

i hope someday you'll join us

and the booo-aard will live as one

wait, i'm not sure that fits

B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:

Metatwaddle wrote:stuart obviously

edit: i dunno who bakustra was referring to, but stuart gets my vote

stuart is some sort of egoistical gnostic anyhow- worshiping his own self

firefox spell check says "autotheist" isn't a word, but it seems apt anyway

but if we take him as an atheist, i still would have to put him in at second compared to internet comedian the amazing atheist
not for the faint of heart, turn down your volume before clicking

in fact, you probably shouldn't even bother clicking that

oh jesus, he's made six videos on a playlist called "antifeminism". i better tell the sisterhood of orwellian feminazis to oppress him harder.

starku wrote:recent threads have shown me that there really is better discussion of drama, games, music, and even politics in testing than elsewhere

this is largely due to the absence of certain posters from testing

i can get behind that

i think philosophy discussions have been better here too

B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote: stuart is some sort of egoistical gnostic anyhow- worshiping his own self

the term you're looking for is narcissist

Zod wrote:

B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote: stuart is some sort of egoistical gnostic anyhow- worshiping his own self

the term you're looking for is narcissist

religiously, not sexually/emotionally

narcissists don't necessarily think of themselves as god

Aaron wrote:I always wonder why these guys are never for stockpiling diapers, diaper cream, canasten or sheet metal.

Its always gold or silver, which unless your a jeweller is best stuck in a sock and used as a sap.

Depends on how deep the crash is, doesn't it? Gold would have done you just fine in Weimar Germany. Even as the Western Roman Empire was disintegrating, gold was still a useful medium as exchange; they've dug assloads of it out of sub-Roman British burial sites. If civilization ever unspools so far that gold is useless, you're talking some real apocalyptic shit. There's no reason for the goldbugs to prepare for that, because most of them are probably too old and fat to run away from the cannibal hordes.

What goldbugs really mean when they say "gold is the only real money" is that the gold standard prevents inflation. Which is true, barring unusual circumstances like conquering an entire continent full of virgin gold mines (o hai 16th century Spain). It's just that inflation isn't the worst thing in the world, and a gold standard really cripples a country's ability to maneuver in difficult economic times (kinda like how the poor indebted European economies can't inflate their way out of debt because they're stuck with a relatively inflexible and expensive currency in the Euro).

Also, I've never met a goldbug who wasn't a dipshit, so there's that, too.

Isn't gold vulnerable to deflation?