I absolutely agree, but only if you're buying it for yourself.  Giving gold as a gift for the holidays would be a nice thing and probably one of the only reasons to buy gold at all right now.  And it's hard to give bitcoin as a gift.  I doubt there are many people outside of the very hardcore bitcoiners who actually do this.  You can't wrap it up with a bow and you can't stuff it in a Christmas stocking unless it's a paper wallet, and then of course the issue of security comes into play. 

But gold as an investment instead of bitcoin?  I don't think so.  Nor do I think we really need another damn gold vs. bitcoin thread.  This has got to be at least the thousandth one I've seen since I became a member of the forum.