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

[Gudrests]

How else would you get off your island.......Made of gold.

My island wouldn't be a mass of gold.... I'll make it into a large silicon mass and make it into a sentient AI... muhahaha.

So it would be gold played silicon right??!?!?!? Cuz...It has to be gold if its that much money.

 

[evilartist]

Hell no. Student loans and bills don't pay themselves, dammit! On top of that, I would rather donate half that money to several charities, especially to any ones that help children from abusive homes...or for programs that sterilize stupid people. Either way, I would want to use that money to help better the world.

 

[Hagi]

as I just pointed out, someone clearly has.
What? you thought this guy became mega-rich by playing nice? this guy has left many a rage-faces in his time, and probably takes pleasure in each one.

And if we go by statistics he's still an unhappy man....

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-fears-of-the-super-rich/8419/
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/concerns-super-rich-wealth-bring-happiness/story?id=13167578

 

[PatrickXD]

Yes.
Yes I would.
I would cruise across to the Somalian pirates and fling gems at them at high velocity a la Dead Rising 2.
I would become the new scourge of the sea, using rare and unique wines as molotov cocktails to throw at blue whales... I would buy an island just so I could attach a nuke launcher to this boat and nuke my island... I would make the boat capable of diving underwater and fly, just so I could show up those dolphins... I would replace the sea with money, just so I could cruise on money...
I need this boat.

 

[Jakub324]

What a pointless purchase. How is that guy still anonymous? How many business men have that kind of money kicking around?

 

[winter2]

I would never do something that tawdry.. now if it had been a gold and platinum plated car shaped like a penis then we are in business!!!

 

[commiedic]

http://tripified.ca/2011/07/gold-plated-super-yacht.html

That would be really annoying to keep clean. Plus that top photo looks shooped. I couldn't imagine keeping a gold plated boat clean lol.

Hmmm. Well it looks surreal, but that could be the gold there.

And isn't gold like nobel metal. I think it would be easier to keep clean than less noble metals or plastics or whatnots.

Reason I say it looks fake is because:

1. It is the only picture of the actual hull on the internet that I can find.
2. It looks like it was placed on to the picture. Where the water is breaking under the boat seems to me like it is going pretty fast and of course by the big wake behind it.

The reason I say it would be a ***** to clean is because they type of metal doesn't matter when plant life and barnacles start growing on it. Where the salt water may not affect it plant life will. Since Gold is so soft you will have to be very delicate about chiseling that shit off.

 

[Jegsimmons]

wouldnt gold plate on a yaht be really fucking heavy and easily torn up?

also, even if i had the money, i wouldnt buy it without arming it first, cause pirate would be all over my ass.

 

[Jegsimmons]

oh that boat is so fucking fake. so no, i wouldn't buy it.

 

[Apollo45]

Of course I'd buy the boat.

And a small country.

And eventually the world.

Because anyone who owns a boat like that is required by the laws of nature to be a super villain of some sort. Especially after being called an 'anonymous businessman' by the designer.

 

[Callate]

Whoever purchases that boat makes an excellent case that it is possible to be enough of a sheer douchebag to deserve death.

 

[theultimateend]

While I'd beat him to death with that T-Rex bone if I ever met him, the rest of the story is fun.

There is something deep inside me that says anyone destroying ancient bones should be killed. But perhaps that's because I'm a little too obsessed with science and history.

The yacht isn't made out of lightning and orgasms. Therefore, it is lame and does not interest me.

My yacht is going to be so much cooler than their yacht.

You've killed all the fish and 10% of men everywhere, my friend. P:

OT; ...Wow. And just when I thought human greed could get no lower...hope he takes a trip to Somalia.

Any luxury that does not directly impede the lives of others is not a problem to me.

If he had build the boat out of homeless people skin, I'd be furious, but all he did was buy something retarded.

Plenty of people buy retarded things.

Look at beer hats.

Or Sports Jersies.

Or Activision games.

Or expensive name brand, unmarked, white t-shirts. (This is a thing, paradoxically)

 

[fix-the-spade]

Or you could use a giant robotic army to conquer their countries, then develop those countries and make their lives better.

That areas seen other people try many, many times over the last five centuries. All have met with unspeakable failure to end the constant tribal warfare of the region. Whilst none of the previous attempts had uber-robot armies, I doubt even Terminators could deliver any kind of peace to the region beyond the peace in the embrace of God kind.

I stand by my evil plan!

 

[Yorkshire_matt]

I'd buy me a sub and a hidden volcano lair Bond villain style

 

[gCrusher]

Of course. But I'd also need to install some laser turrets so as to defend from the ravaging poor people who would wish to steal my precious yacht. They have rabies don't you know?

Rabid peoples have an irrational fear of water. As long as it doesn't sprout wheels and go cruising down the road, you should be okay, turrets or no turrets.

But get the turrets anyway, because lighting the remains on fire would be awesome.

Also, YouTube it.

I was planning to put wheels on... But thanks for the heads up. And yes, I will youtube it.

"And lo, it got so many views it broke all the internets for a week. But it was so awesome, nobody minded at all."

So let it be written, so let it be done.

 

[SirDoom]

I have one small problem with this logic. So, quick question- what exactly is "bad" about this purchase?

Don't get me wrong, it's wasteful and rather stupid, I know. I just fail to see any harm coming from it. If anything, it beats the alternative of "man lets 4 billion dollars sit in bank account for 100 years", as in this case at least a few boat builders are getting a paycheck.

"The money could have been used to feed starving children" is a valid argument in stating that there are better alternatives to this boat, butthat doesn't mean the boat was a bad choice. The lack of good does not imply bad.

I would compare it to... let's say a guy tied to some train tracks. If I randomly stumble upon him and free him, then that is obviously a good decision. However, seeing him and failing to free him isn't a bad choice. I'm not directly responsible for any harm, and while I probably could have saved him if I tried harder, it doesn't make me a bad person.

It's wasteful. Waste is bad. There's nothing this boat provides that a lesser boat wouldn't.

That insanely expensive boat provides no benefit whatsoever even to himself.

He's losing that money anyway without getting any tangible benefit from it, he could used it to benefit those who need it. Instead the only persons who benefit are those promoting waste and egocentric posturing and probably already rich.

It's a bad choice.

It's like stumbling upon a man tied to some train tracks, walking over and cutting off his watch and necklace while you already possess a perfectly fine watch and necklace and then walking of again. You expend the effort of cutting something free anyway, but instead of cutting something free that benefits others you cut something free that doesn't even benefit yourself (as you already have a watch and necklace) but only serves to improve your vanity.

I disagree with your counter analogy, but only because it involves stealing from the guy. A much better one would be seeing the guy tied to the track, and a nice watch tied to the track a few hundred feet away. But anyway, that's not why I replied.

You're missing one thing though. People don't just make purchases like this on a whim. It is very possible that his dream in life is to own the best damn boat ever built. If that's the case, it's not really wasteful.

Take me for example. I live in a fairly nice secluded place at the moment, but my dream is to own an even more private home- on a private island. I would get no benefit that I don't already have from a private island, yet if I was insanely rich, I would still consider it worth the price. To you, it's 5 million dollars wasted. To me, it's a dream come true. That being said, I'll probably never have that much money, so it's not a real problem.

In any case, this article is obviously fake, so it's not a real problem either. Meh.

 

[basedg0d_a0s]

it's a nice yacht and all that but like a lot of people in this thread i would rather spend it on other things mostly because i'm not a boat person and wouldn't really use it.