Gold commodes and other thoughts...

[PCIntern]

All these articles for decades have referred to Orangina’s gold toilet.

The written unspoken assumption in every case is that the toilet is made of gold…solid gold. That’s what everyone is supposed to consider.

Let’s do some calculations:

Let’s figure out how big a toilet is:
80 pounds of porcelain is 36,320 grams. The density of porcelain is approximately 2.4 so a toilet’s approximate volume is 15,133 cubic centimeters.

There are 16.4 cc in 1 cubic inch so a toilet is approximately 923 cubic inches. One ounce of 24k gold weighs 11 ounces so the toilet would weigh 634 pounds.

Today’s spot price of gold is $2685 so the value of the gold in a 24k toilet is $1,702,290. Obviously a lesser percentage of gold would reduce the value however it would depend upon what the gold was alloyed with.

For a whole variety of reasons, I don’t think so… Hard to believe he would make an untrue claim. I bet it’s not even gold leaf, I think it’s probably an alloy we used to call Tawny, used during the last huge price increase in the 1980’s.



P.S. I did these calculations rather quickly. If I am in error please advise. Also, yes, I made some assumptions as to size.

[louis-t]

1. So, the weight of him sitting on a solid gold toilet would be

er, uh....roughly the same as a Ford F-150?

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Gold plating seems likely. It would be expensive, but it's stolen money, so sleazy come, easy go. nt

[PCIntern]

3. Or gold leaf.

[Hugin]

4. 14 1/2 karat gold leaf.

[kwolf68]

5. He really has a gold shitter?

Who the fuck would come up with that idea? oh right.

[Xolodno]

6. I've seen some plated ones.

With that said, I was in college and working graveyard at an exclusive club that cost a ton of money to be part of. Since it was graveyard and wasn't open yet, and given access to nearly everything, I took a piss in it just to feel how the wealthier felt about it. I felt no different.