Poll: Gold-plated super-yacht worth $4.3 billion!

[DaMullet]

Seriously, I hope it burns and sinks.

They should call it the Titanic Gold and keep an iceburg on board. I'm sure they can add in a really big freezer somewhere.

 

[manythings]

Who does this "rich businessman" think he/ she is? Gold Member (Austin Powers)?

OT- No I would not spend on this super boat. Sure the shape and the interiors look nice (when you remove the golds and platinums) but it is way too much of a bait for mafias or criminals etc to or steal it!

I can't see it being sailed without some kind of fleet of murder drone boats escorting. I'm assuming that's an extra.

OT: I'm hoping whoever had that commissioned dies a death of unending horror.

 

[Hagi]

<---- The point

<---- Your head

What I was saying is that you do not know how much money he has given to charity in the past. And thus, you are commiting the same action you are decrying others for.

What I'm saying is that I don't care.

He spend over 4 billion dollars on something that does nothing at all a boat worth half a million dollars can not do.

He wasted 3.995 million dollars on his vanity. That's 3.995.000.000 dollars. Let that number sink in.

He spend that on nothing but his vanity. Not even on something like a car that's useful and helpful, just his vanity.

If he spend 4 billion things that were useful and helpful, even if only to himself and the people directly around him, I wouldn't complain.

But he spend near 4 billion on his vanity. That makes him, in my book, a despicable egocentric asshole. No matter what else he has done.

 

[Moromillas]

What's better than a gold-plated super-yacht? Hmm, probably a fucking regular-yacht.

 

[ks1234]

Weird.... I was under the impression that I had spent a year of my life doing volunteer work in South Africa, not seeing my family and friends, living without any luxuries, getting threatened with knives by the children I was helping and still extending my stay by 3 months so I could help longer as well as being thanked by both organizations I worked for for my far above average contributions. Heh, must have been a dream. Surely, you know better.

Meh, that's your own fault for doing volunteer work.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

<---- The point

<---- Your head

What I was saying is that you do not know how much money he has given to charity in the past. And thus, you are commiting the same action you are decrying others for.

What I'm saying is that I don't care.

He spend over 4 billion dollars on something that does nothing at all a boat worth half a million dollars can not do.

He wasted 3.995 million dollars on his vanity. That's 3.995.000.000 dollars. Let that number sink in.

He spend that on nothing but his vanity. Not even on something like a car that's useful and helpful, just his vanity.

If he spend 4 billion things that were useful and helpful, even if only to himself and the people directly around him, I wouldn't complain.

But he spend near 4 billion on his vanity. That makes him, in my book, a despicable egocentric asshole. No matter what else he has done.

So nothing he's done can make up for that eh?

Very well. I see we must agree to disagree.

 

[Sporky111]

Wow, this has got to be the most decadent creation I've ever seen. Gold plated? Dinosaur bone statue? Meteor wall feature? This sounds like something you'd see in a cartoon show where they REALLY wanted to get across how stinking-rich "Trent T. Trentington" is. And that's exactly what it is; comically decadent. This 'anonymous businessman' is probably an asshole-among-assholes.

No, I would not spend 4.3 billion dollars on something this ridiculous. If I had that kind of money right this second, I'd probably buy a house on the shore for my parents, go visit friends around the world I want to see, and then feed all the hungry people in the world for a year.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

this is the most useless waste of money, with that amount of money you could buy land by the buttload, hell if i had that kind of money i'd build the fucking g.i. joe base or something, not some lame ass boat i could make with normal stuff for 1/10000 the price.


oh and the ipad? trashy spending is trashy.

 

[Hagi]

Couldn't this also apply to your year of volunteer service in south Africa? After all, you're not doing volunteer work there now, are you?

What does that have to do with anything?

Are you implying I did my volunteer work for vanity purposes? Are you saying that was wasted time, money and effort?

 

[Sneezeguard]

I think it looks kinda ugly, I'd much prefer a boat built out of carbon fiber.

 

[Hagi]

So nothing he's done can make up for that eh?

Very well. I see we must agree to disagree.

I don't think you realize quite how much money 4 billion is.

I'm sure you understand the number but I don't think you understand the kind of things that could have been done with that amount of money.

And he spend all that on nothing, just his vanity. Nothing more.

What kind of person do you think it takes to spend so much money just so he can impress shallow people?

Sure, there's a chance he'll turn his life around and donate more then 10 billion dollar to charities next. And if that happens I'll apologize and admit I was wrong about him.

But frankly chances of that happening are rather slim. A person doesn't just spend 4 billion dollars on a single 30 meter long (which is extremely short for a boat) boat, that takes a special kind of person. That takes a despicable egocentric asshole, if you ask me.

 

[frehls]

It's his money, he earned it, he can do what he wants with it. Arrogant pricks will say that he is the most horrible person since Hitler for not throwing his money at poor children, but fuck them. He doesn't owe anything to those children, just as they don't owe anything to him. Altruism for altruism's sake is ridiculous. What's even worse is that most western governments force people to do this through taxes.
If someone has never done anything for you, you don't owe them anything.

OT: I'd buy something more practical. Like an island, satellite, fortress, and private army.

 

[Kargathia]

Ok, so there's about 100 tons of surplus weight on board a 30-meter yaught.

How exactly steers this thing? I'm thinking the experience will most closely resemble a brick in tar.

 

[Hagi]

Couldn't this also apply to your year of volunteer service in south Africa? After all, you're not doing volunteer work there now, are you?

What does that have to do with anything?

Are you implying I did my volunteer work for vanity purposes? Are you saying that was wasted time, money and effort?

No, I'm asking if your year no longer means anything, as you're not actively helping them now. You're now spending money on luxuries and the like, instead of donating.

I'm merely curious.

My year there means a lot. Just like that purchase of his means a lot.

The thing is that in my opinion bad things count for a lot more then good things.

You need to do a lot of good things to make up for a few bad things. Why? Because good things should be the norm, it should be normal to help others out when it's no huge loss to you. And it should be despicable to refuse to help others when it's no huge loss to you.

I'd need to do only a few really bad things for my entire year there to count for nothing, as obviously I learned nothing from it and whatever good I did I easily undid by doing those bad things.

That guy needs to do a LOT of good to make up for wasting 4 billion dollars. He needs to do so much good that I don't see a person who spend 4 billion on his vanity ever capable of making up for it.

But if he ever does, I'll happily admit I was wrong and apologize.