Tungsten filled gold

[Engineer]

Story at: http://ausbullion.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/tungsten-filled-gold-bars.html

[BamaJoe]

If you think that's something just wait until Fort Knox is actually audited.

[tractorman]

That kinda crap is bad for us all.

But I can't help but to think ... looking at the C. Montgomery Burns hand in that pic that hasn't seen a days work in its life ... that he's a shyster, one of the "we buy gold!" guys, and he deserves it. I hope so. If he's a good guy, I feel sorry for him.

[barrytrot]

That kinda crap is bad for us all.

But I can't help but to think ... looking at the C. Montgomery Burns hand in that pic that hasn't seen a days work in its life ... that he's a shyster, one of the "we buy gold!" guys, and he deserves it. I hope so. If he's a good guy, I feel sorry for him.

Define work. There are a lot of HARD jobs that require no heavy lifting.

Are you saying those jobs are repugnant or that the people that do them are?

[tractorman]

That kinda crap is bad for us all.

But I can't help but to think ... looking at the C. Montgomery Burns hand in that pic that hasn't seen a days work in its life ... that he's a shyster, one of the "we buy gold!" guys, and he deserves it. I hope so. If he's a good guy, I feel sorry for him.

Define work. There are a lot of HARD jobs that require no heavy lifting.

Are you saying those jobs are repugnant or that the people that do them are?

Of course not. I myself have a job that is mostly behind a desk. Just an impression I got from the pic, that's all. Like I said, if he's a good guy, I feel sorry for him. It was only hypothetical.

[barrytrot]

Understood tractorman, thank you for the clarification.

[tractorman]

Right on.

Sometimes I'm reminded of Henry David Thoreau's essay "Walking" ...

"When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them—as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon—I think that they deserve some credit for not having all committed suicide long ago."

I have found myself drawn to land surveying in an effort to make a living and try to remain sane. I get out into the countryside quite often this way.

[tractorman]

Or course, I'm a contradiction ... for in the same short essay where I use Thoreau to justify my choice ... he says about those who would impede his "walks" ...

"I saw the fences half consumed, their ends lost in the middle of the prairie, and some worldly miser with a surveyor looking after his bounds, while heaven had taken place around him, and he did not see the angels going to and fro, but was looking for an old post-hole in the midst of paradise. I looked again, and saw him standing in the middle of a boggy Stygian fen, surrounded by devils, and he had found his bounds without a doubt, three little stones, where a stake had been driven, and looking nearer, I saw that the Prince of Darkness was his surveyor."

[Engineer]

I agree with tractorman on the hands, because they tell you what kind of person you're dealing with.

Even though my job is sedentary, anyone who cares to look can see my life history reflected in my hands. I've always been a person who makes things happen, and I've got the calluses and scars to prove it. Salesmen generally have well kept hands without many calluses or scars, and while they have their purpose and place in the world, they're not the workers I'm looking for. I want the guy with dirt under all nine of his nails...while the sales group I try to avoid answering to would consider that some sort of hideous defect.

[DebtFreeMe]

Missing a finger?

[Gamecock]

anyone with hands that pretty ought to be hanged

[AFModell]

anyone with hands that pretty ought to be hanged

Uncalled for and ridiculous.

[barrytrot]

anyone with hands that pretty ought to be hanged

Uncalled for and ridiculous.

Especially since Rodebaugh has nicer hands than the tungsten guy.

[Rodebaugh]

why do you think I'm lying low and wearing two turtle necks ................

[merchoarder]

Did you ever consider its not a man with pretty hands but a woman with ugly hands ?

[barrytrot]

Or that the hands are actually HEAVILY WORK WORN but the guy always wears a glove like the antagonist in "Of Mice and Men"?

That's my theory.

Or, the hands are work worn but they were heavily "air brushed" prior to publishing!

[beauanderos]

You guys are ALL clearly missing the point here. This is actually incredible evidence, laying to rest all the rumors that have been floating around for years, but that no one could prove. Anyone with half a brain can see that this is clearly a fossilized cigarette case which has transformed thru eons, into this condition. What further corroboration does anyone need to be convinced that extraterrestrials once visited the Earth?

[OneBiteAtATime]

I opened this up, saw the picture and got a little sick. That is an ugly ugly sight.