The dollars a joke. Time to measure PM vs. something else.

[shinnosuke]

Japanese sticky rice is the best.
I want to store a few koku, but Mrs. shinnosuke says taste and nutrition will be sacrificed...so I don't have permission, yet. May do something anyway and ask for forgiveness later.

You and me is on the SAME PAGE!!! what you think i got stashed in the root cellar, food grade buckets? F#####g granola?!? (excuse my backslidden ways) short grain sticky rice...and i ALWAYS had the SAME problem with my sons mother!!! "white rice has no nutrition"....so she serves up that hippy brown rice, with steamed broccoli...swell, oh yummy.

Shinn, you know when the Tsunami hit, Fukushima, etc.....in three days, i was at the Korean grocery store, and bought six LARGE tins of Kadoya Sesame Oil, becoz i dont know when, if ever you'd see them again, and if you did, who'd want 'em? bot 2/3 rds a koku of short grain rice, and packages and packages of sheets of nori, (thats the seaweed sheets around sushi, gaijin) all sorts of 'made in Japan' food stuffs, because we can never consume anything...ever again..thats says 'made in Japan'...never. think about it. no more unagi, no more gomaee. sad really.....stash what you WANT to stash, you're the man, think Japanese. neil

Smart thinking on the purchases, neil. But I'm not willing to throw in the towel yet on all of Japan. Prevailing winds and all that rot, you know. Unless you've seen hard evidence to the contrary, Osaka and westward is still OK.

Sorry for sidetracking this thread...

[Thogey]

Japan will be fine.

They recovered from Hirohito and ,one of my heros Curtis Lemay.

Godzilla nor a stinkin tsunami will stop them.

All the rice we eat here is calrose, short fat and sticky

[OneBiteAtATime]

this is not something i worry about, but you are on the right track. I try to train myself to think of other things in ounces or grams of Pms, and the pms themselves i stop watching the prices in dollars and just watch the GSR.



holding gold or silver is really dis-investment. you are out of stocks and into money. we are just conditioned to think of fiat dollars as money, and gold as somthing else, so thinking of gold as money or cash and not an investment is not natural.

Some of this is what I was needing to hear... I could feel the folds of my mind tearing just a little bit. Recondition myself to see gold and silver as money and fiat as "republic credits" or some other trade unit that is good for now, but not really real.

But if gold and silver are money..... Damn I'm broke!

[shinnosuke]

Some of this is what I was needing to hear... I could feel the folds of my mind tearing just a little bit. Recondition myself to see gold and silver as money and fiat as "republic credits" or some other trade unit that is good for now, but not really real.

But if gold and silver are money..... Damn I'm broke!

If Plan A ain't working, go to Plan B. Sell whatever isn't nailed down, work overtime, deliver pizzas on the weekend, rob liquor stores . Do whatever it takes to buy some silver at least.

[TwoPenniesEarned]

Silverflake nailed it. Gold and silver are the traditional measure. One good golden rule is that over time, an ounce of gold has purchased a very well tailored suit. If you go into a given tailor and ask for a well cut Boss or Armani they cost upwards of $2K today, so gold is still a bit undervalued relative to fiat with respect to suits...