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Magnates paying to go under

BILLIONAIRES are going to ever greater depths to outdo each other: they are competing to have the biggest private submarines that money can buy.

Paul Allen, co-founder with Bill Gates of the Microsoft empire, recently bought a bright yellow submarine capable of taking 10 passengers. The craft is said to be docked, James Bond-style, inside Octopus, his 126m vessel, claimed to be the world's largest yacht.

Last week, Paul Moorhouse, a Plymouth-based submarine designer, said that two oil billionaires in the Emirates now owned private submarines offering pressurised overnight accommodation, and that an additional "seven or eight extremely wealthy people" have invested in more modest two-man subs.

You've got to be kidding me! There was an episode of Sealab 2021 about this. There was a Billionaire who did extreme stunts because he had too much money for his own damn good. For anyone that has watched Sealab, while it is a fantastic show, I would think twice about trying to duplicate anything from that show in real life. For instance, sending a crew of people inside a man to blow up his tumor with a submarine of sorts is a bit far-fetched. Who would have thought extreme billionaires were real!

Excuse me, but there's plenty of needy people in the world today that could use that money instead of your pompous ass going for a joyride hoping to spot some skeleton pirates on the bottom of the ocean! For instance, I believe they could seriously use that money to help people from Hurricane Katrina and other disasters that occurred this year.

Meanwhile, the jackass that got rich with Bill Gates when making Windows (that's a whole other rant) gets to cruise around in a submarine while I know people that are just scraping to get by because of natural disasters!

Here's to hoping it springs a leak and these rich assholes will think about helping others before they go joyriding.