Or a really cool scuba diving weight belt.

More like 20+ weight belts, you go underwater with a 280kg weight belt you're not coming back!

Technically that depends on how much water you and the gold displace.

I'm a scuba instructor so for giggles I did the maths!

Based on these densities:

    Gold Density: 19.32 g/cm3
    Lead Density: 11.34 g/cm3

We now need to understand how much water is displaced by a kg.

    Gold volume: (1,000 / 19.32) ≈ 51.75 cm3
    Lead volume: (1,000 / 11.34) ≈ 88.18 cm3

1kg of gold displaces 51.75 cm3 of water. 1kg of lead displaces 88.18 cm3 of water.

    Fresh water: 1000 g/litre
    Salt water:  1025 g/litre

In fresh water:

    1kg gold = (1000g negative buoyancy - 52g water displacement) = 9948g negative buoyancy
    1kg lead = (1000g negative buoyancy - 88g water displacement) = 9912g negative buoyancy

In salt water:

    1kg gold = (1000g negative buoyancy - 53g water displacement) = 9947g negative buoyancy
    1kg lead = (1000g negative buoyancy - 90g water displacement) = 9910g negative buoyancy

As a scuba-diving weight, gold is less than 1% more efficient (by weight) than lead.

It's counter-intuitive: gold is nearly twice as dense as lead, but the importance in scuba diving is the weight of the, er, "weight", vs the weight of the water it displaces (Archimedes principle).

Gold weights per kilo are a tiny amount more efficient than lead per kilo, but much smaller and much sparklier. Anyone who wants to donate me a gold weight-belt, please be assured I would display it to its full magnificance. Around 8kg would be fine :-)

Or a huge gold statue of Trump and Epstein partying and raping children.

It is our fiduciary responsibility to put this resource to it's highest and best use.

^ This person jokes about raping children.

Black humor.

Or isn't anyone allowed anymore to mention "Black" in the context of Epstein?

I prefer “dark humour”. After all, it allows some colours to come through.

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1kg gold bars are tiny.

Gold is pretty soft. You would have to cut it to 10 carat, so there’s be even more to go around!

Nah literally crushing plates would feel so good. Worth the effort to melt it again every few sessions

Having to handle the plates with care and the damage they’d take regardless would add to the charm.

This whole thread renews my faith in humanity

I’ll spot you!

You could encase them in plastic to prevent damage and mask them for some run off the mill equipment. Nobody would suspect anything without prior knowledge.

> Nobody would suspect anything without prior knowledge.

The weights being nearly twice as heavy for their expected size would be a bit of a giveaway to anyone who has ever been in a gym.

That's easily sorted by higher plastic to gold ratio.

But they feel nice to touch.

now that's how to flex right!

(also so would the plates or the bar holding them!)