Irish debt cut to 'junk' status

[PAH]

spend it. new car. house , holidays.

It's very tempting. Shame most things useful in everyday life depreciate. Why can't they invent stuff that is useful but appreciates?

Hmmm. I think that guy on Dragon's Den the other year doing gold plated anything may be onto something. Gold plated cutlery, plates, remote controls. Use them every day and they still go up in value!

Just need to find a cheap outlet for gold plate.

[BlasterBates]

It's very tempting. Shame most things useful in everyday life depreciate. Why can't they invent stuff that is useful but appreciates?

Hmmm. I think that guy on Dragon's Den the other year doing gold plated anything may be onto something. Gold plated cutlery, plates, remote controls. Use them every day and they still go up in value!

Just need to find a cheap outlet for gold plate.

Expensive guitars and wine

My Rickenbacker is worth more than I bought it for....second hand.

[TimberWolf]

Gold has just set another new record in GBP - the record it set at 9 am this morning. Gold's been rising against GBP about 30% a year, but the current rate of climb is silly, up £500/kg since yesterday alone.

[PAH]

It must be stressful for those holding gold. Do they cash in now/soon or hold out for more likely increases?

Only takes one event to crash the party.

Is there such a thing as a gold metal detector that doesn't detect anything else?

If there is, strap it to the back of your robot vacuum and tell it to vacuum the nearest field for roman coins, or ocean floor for sunken treasure if it has the snorkle attachment.

If there isn't, why not?

Edit: Apparently Sea water contains about 0.1-2 mg/tonne of gold dissolved in water (average 1 mg/tonne). Just need a suitable filter and you're rich rodders!

[TimberWolf]

Edit: Apparently Sea water contains about 0.1-2 mg/tonne of gold dissolved in water (average 1 mg/tonne). Just need a suitable filter and you're rich rodders!

I read our solar system consists of 0.13 parts gold per billion atoms, though sources for this were thin on the ground, to the tune of 1 and was not able to confirm it. Well the thing is, the Sun will contain about that proportion, I guess, perhaps a little less as it kept more lighter elements, as would the outer planets. But the inner ones, such as the Earth, which lost more abundant lighter elements, such as hydrogen and helium, because they were too hot to hold on to them with such small gravitational fields. So we ended up rocky. But the point is, if you work out even what 0.13 part per billion is multiplied by the atoms in Earth, there's an awful lot of gold down there!

I don't quite understand how our solar system came to have so much hydrogen (>99%) though, given that's our sun is supposed to be a 2nd or third generation star.

[OwlHoot]

It must be stressful for those holding gold. Do they cash in now/soon or hold out for more likely increases?

Only takes one event to crash the party.

Is there such a thing as a gold metal detector that doesn't detect anything else?

If there is, strap it to the back of your robot vacuum and tell it to vacuum the nearest field for roman coins, or ocean floor for sunken treasure if it has the snorkle attachment.

If there isn't, why not?

Edit: Apparently Sea water contains about 0.1-2 mg/tonne of gold dissolved in water (average 1 mg/tonne). Just need a suitable filter and you're rich rodders!

There's some obscure species of bacterium that hoards gold atoms, for reasons unknown.

If they haven't named it yet, I'd suggest Bacillus Dimprawnius.

[PAH]

There's some obscure species of bacterium that hoards gold atoms, for reasons unknown.

If they haven't named it yet, I'd suggest Bacillus Dimprawnius.

I hear it works by trapping the gold in a crusty sock.


Shame pure gold isn't magnetic or the solution could be easy.

[Platypus]

Expensive guitars and wine

My Rickenbacker is worth more than I bought it for....second hand.

I'm not familiar with Rickenbacker wine ... is it ready for drinking now? What does it go well with? I consider myself quite a wine buff so I'm surprised I've not heard of this producer before.

Guitars on the other hand, I know nothing about.

[Doggy Styles]

I'm not familiar with Rickenbacker wine ... is it ready for drinking now? What does it go well with? I consider myself quite a wine buff so I'm surprised I've not heard of this producer before.

I wouldn't fret about it.