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Dollars: Highly valued and sought after by all humans. Of no value (except to buy gold) to space aliens.
Gold: Highly valued and sought after by everyone, including the space aliens the U.S. government bribes with said gold to not land and take over again.
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see he is saying that gold vs. the dollar is like a quote from private hudson. what is pertinent to this socioeconomic discussion is that hudson as a symbolic representation of fiat vs. commodity exchange currency acts in the visual representative stead, a sort of cinematic specie, as it were, and recognizing the depths and layers of fiat market currency is like recognizing that bill paxton is the anarcho-representative talismanic fetish of the federal reserve; an ignorant person might just look at the economic situation today and see the dollar (hudson) being eaten by an Alien, but the truly wise can look underneath that and see the dollar (paxton) being reborn symbolically and hollowly to be killed by not only the xenomorph but also a Predator (capital gains tax) and a Terminator (the future governor of California) and that this is exactly the kind of nuanced observation and comparative representation of hollywood residuals as a representation of our monetary concerns that the world truly needs. furthermore,
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quote:Originally posted by Strider: Gold & Dollars: Both worthless when the zombie apocalypse happens.
I bet you could beat a zombie to death with a gold brick, but slapping them with cash will likely only get you a one way ticket to brain eating town.
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You could make bullets/shot easier out of gold then steel, but about the same as copper.
quote:Have you ever tried to beat somebody to death with a gold brick?
You know, it's funny you should ask, as I did try and beat someone with a gold brick just the other day. Although I must admit I just wanted them unconscious and not dead.
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Having (to the best of my knowledge) never met you in person, Rabbit doesn't understand the critical importance to everyone around you of your socks' sturdiness.
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: Nearly 30 pounds. For context, a woman standing about 5'7" of average build, would comprise a little over 4 gold bars in weight.
A giant like me would be closer to 8 bars.
Five seven and 120lbs is average build in your world? Do you live in the land of TV stars and gymnasts?
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quote:Originally posted by rivka: Having (to the best of my knowledge) never met you in person, Rabbit doesn't understand the critical importance to everyone around you of your socks' sturdiness.
It's true. I have a nasty case of Happy Feet. I rely on my heavy, sturdily built socks to prevent this terrible affliction from being expressed.
quote:Five seven and 120lbs is average build in your world? Do you live in the land of TV stars and gymnasts?
Have you been reading nothing, Kate? He lives in the land of the zombie apocalypse. The average build of a woman is his bleak, ruined world is probably shambling around in an advanced state of decomposition. There's nothing like rotting to help shed pounds.
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"Dollars: Highly valued and sought after by all humans. Of no value (except to buy gold) to space aliens.
Gold: Highly valued and sought after by everyone, including the space aliens the U.S. government bribes with said gold to not land and take over again."
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"Screw that. Load shotgun shells with dimes and show zombies the money."
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"I bet you could beat a zombie to death with a gold brick, but slapping them with cash will likely only get you a one way ticket to brain eating town.
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: Nearly 30 pounds. For context, a woman standing about 5'7" of average build, would comprise a little over 4 gold bars in weight.
A giant like me would be closer to 8 bars.
Five seven and 120lbs is average build in your world? Do you live in the land of TV stars and gymnasts?
I was rounding to 30, but my math was a bit lazy. What is it, 130? I can never tell how much women are supposed to weigh. And anyway, I live in Czech republic, where women are on average a lot slimmer. For my part, my muscle and bone density is very high, so everybody underestimates my weight by about 10 percent.
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As high as 160? I know the "BMI" scale is outdated, but 160 sounds high to me. Would that be a woman with a very wide frame, or large breasts? Just curious, maybe I'm underestimating how tall a woman is at 5' 7". I usually overestimate women's heights for some reason, probably because most are shorter than me, so I just don't notice.
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Wide frame, large breasts, huge goiter, hunchback and elephantiasis of all four limbs. I mean how else could a woman weigh 160 lbs. without being a hideous freak of nature? Posts: 2804 | Registered: May 2003
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Average height for American women is 5'6". So 5'7" is on the slightly tall side for a woman.
And the notion that 160 is "too high" for a woman of 5'7" is a sign that you have been influenced by the many unrealistic images of women in the media.
Or it's the zombies, like Jake said.
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No, not necessarily. It's not that I have an unrealistic image of how a woman is supposed to look. I just don't know how heavy a normal looking woman weighs, honestly. Maybe if women stopped lying about their weight?
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: Nearly 30 pounds. For context, a woman standing about 5'7" of average build, would comprise a little over 4 gold bars in weight.
A giant like me would be closer to 8 bars.
Five seven and 120lbs is average build in your world? Do you live in the land of TV stars and gymnasts?
I was rounding to 30, but my math was a bit lazy. What is it, 130?
A gold brick weighs a little less than 30 pounds (27.4 lbs to be precise) which means that 4 gold bricks weigh just under 110 lbs -- which is really skinny for a 5'7" woman (BMI 15). Five gold bricks weigh 137 lbs which is the dead middle of the healthy range for a woman of 5'7" and well below average weight for American women.
quote:Average height for American women is 5'6".
Surprisingly (at least to me), the median height for American women is only 63.8" (5'3.8"). US health Statistics. The median height for white women between 20 and 29 is only slightly higher (5'4.8"). At just under 5'5", I've always considered myself short. It turns out I'm a bit over the 50th percentile for women of my age.
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