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- DaryLintheDark, on 07/05/2009, -7/+1225dugg for truth.
i have a friend who's bitch of a wife turned down his first proposal because the ring wasn't big enough.
and he married that..... fail. - DeskFlyer, on 07/04/2009, -4/+816Diamonds are crazy plentiful. Too bad a super cartel owns all of them.
- Soleanthia, on 07/04/2009, -8/+669Haha. Diamonds are overrated.
- absolutelytrue, on 07/04/2009, -2/+603Brutal honesty is so refreshing.
- ericthesalmon, on 07/05/2009, -2/+478Not even forever.
Diamonds are thermodynamically unstable at Earth's surface and will eventually turn into black carbon, it just takes a loooooong time. Also: You can burn them away if you get them hot enough. - DaryLintheDark, on 07/05/2009, -2/+468side note, on the same friend,
if your girlfriend swears to you that she's on the pill, don't believe her, make her take it in front of you every time.
otherwise babies happen, and you're stuck. - tnoy, on 07/05/2009, -2/+339The male birth control shot cant come soon enough.
- macmcraeart, on 07/05/2009, -6/+329It is a shiny ***** mineral that sparkles in sunlight. The diamond industry is all about pathetic mindless consumerism. If you are worried about forever - maybe you should spend more time helping poor people and less time wasting money collecting useless ***** that sparkles.
- Sloi, on 07/05/2009, -11/+326It takes a civilization of mindless ***** to place that much importance on a shiny rock. Really goes to show that most people truly are nothing more than trained animals. Bury me if it makes you feel better, but deep down, you know I'm right.
- Craftystar, on 07/05/2009, -3/+305I just got engaged. I was going to buy a diamond ring, but then read about De Beers manipulation of the market and I couldn't bring myself to get suckered into the whole scam. Anyway I did some more research and discovered moissonite, which looks very similiar to diamond, but actually sparkles more and is about 1 tenth the cost. It is a gem that is so rare on earth it was actually discovered on a meteroite first, although now it is man made. The whole meteroite part really appealed to my inner geek.
So I told my partner about the De Beers scam and about the advantages of moissonite, she trusted my judgement and had no problem at all with me not buying a diamond (but thats part of the reason I love her so much!)
Not only did we save about $8000 (Aus) on the ring, but we have also saved about $500 a year on insuring the ring. I used part of the money to take her to France and propose over there.
She loves the ring, to my untrained eye it looks better than any on the diamonds we saw and everyone who sees it comments about how great the “diamond” looks (Including the patients she looks after who don’t know she just got engaged.)
That’s my only problem is it looks too much like a diamond, so that everyone who knows about the whole De Beers scam is going to think I’m another victim. Which has got me also thinking, I wonder how many of my friends “diamonds” aren’t really diamonds at all. I mean whose going to actually ask? - Advenger, on 07/05/2009, -1/+279Diamonds are for cutting and grinding.
And laser focusing lenses. - staystilljason, on 07/05/2009, -2/+278http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2034/2457102497_81f ...
- inactive, on 07/05/2009, -6/+281It will be a great day when the marketing drones no longer have control of our minds.
- the8thbit, on 07/05/2009, -2/+263And you'd think they'd be cheap considering they're mined by slaves.
- Xaevier, on 07/05/2009, -3/+231Diamonds may be forever but any marriage that has a wife that will ask her husband to buy one of those overpriced pieces of crap will not.
- evodevo1, on 07/05/2009, -2/+182Before the 1938 diamonds were seen as jewels for aristocrats, not for the common man to give as an engagement ring. That is when De Beers hired N.W. Ayers advertising company that came up with the "Diamonds are forever" campaign. The demand was artificially created, so their values are also inflated artificially.
Check out this great article from Feb 1982:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond
De Beers is no longer a monopoly because now it is completely intractable to control supply. With man made diamonds (via CVD, carbon vapor deposition) yielding better quality for lower price, it is only time that diamonds will be as abundant as sand. Diamonds as semiconductors will also be possible.
One final thought, diamonds are NOT really forever. Thermodynamically speaking, graphite is the more stable carbon configuration, not diamond. Diamonds spontaneously convert back to graphite. - inactive, on 07/05/2009, -37/+196Technically, if you're expected to take care of a baby just because your bitch girlfriend/wife managed to get prego without your consent, then society is ***** up.
In those particular situations, they DESERVE to be left alone taking care of the kid. - bobbi21, on 07/05/2009, -5/+158I think the decide of win vs fail rests on how much sex u've had
- inactive, on 07/05/2009, -1/+151At gunpoint...
Including children... - Hoogs, on 07/05/2009, -0/+148Wow, I've learned more about diamonds in this thread than in the past 21 years. Digg can be very educational...sometimes.
- christoast, on 07/05/2009, -3/+148Yeah, I don't get it. Why do we have to buy shiny rocks to impress a mate? It just seems primitive.
(its thoughts like this that keep me mateless) - Khanvalescent, on 07/05/2009, -5/+137He's a digg user. I think the answer is evident.
- SurrealDream, on 07/05/2009, -0/+126And throwing into the ocean from the backs of giant boats.
- DaryLintheDark, on 07/05/2009, -5/+130i dunno about abandoning a woman because the man didn't give consent, but this bitch blatantly LIED to my friend.
he should have ran. - Goombellaofgoom, on 07/05/2009, -1/+124They tell them apart by looking for imperfections... man-made diamonds have *fewer*.
- the8thbit, on 07/05/2009, -3/+121So you spend more on women you date within your family?
- jayrok, on 07/05/2009, -0/+114Because debt... lasts forever.
- browwiw, on 07/05/2009, -0/+111Good on you, dude. Actually, I looked moissonite up on wikipedia and the stuff is fascinating. It's supposed to have better thermal conducting properties than diamonds do, making it a better choice for super conducting.
Though, if you really loved her you would have gotten her an actual rock from outer space. - Jeepinator, on 07/05/2009, -43/+145Your consent is having sex with her. That is one of the possible consequences. Be responsible and it won't happen to you.
- WorldLeader, on 07/05/2009, -3/+103Guys, chill. We were talking about diamonds.
- jmdwinter, on 07/05/2009, -1/+99I prefer looking at the stars to be reminded of what forever looks like. Not that stars, or diamonds for that matter, last forever.
- davidmcraney, on 07/05/2009, -1/+98To women, the diamond ring is an indicator of resource abundance and a willingness to share - both are crucial characteristics of a potential mate. The diamond industry created a construct which exemplifies those two factors well, but any sufficiently expensive object which can be flaunted will generate the same emotional response in a female.
- the8thbit, on 07/05/2009, -16/+113Jeepinator: Your logic dictates that if someone has AIDS, and I ASK THEM IF THEY HAVE AIDS and they say no, then I am responsible for catching AIDS.
- christoast, on 07/05/2009, -4/+100Well, he deleted his comment. Now it just looks like I made a double post. Now its a triple, oh well.
- kbir007, on 07/05/2009, -4/+83Diamonds...she'll pretty much have to...
- christoast, on 07/05/2009, -7/+84@Slacker: So you have to get girls drunk for them to talk to you or pay them in exchange for companionship or friendship. I need to know how to be cool like you so I can act accordingly.
- Presbyterian, on 07/05/2009, -9/+85"It takes a civilization of mindless ***** to place that much importance on a shiny rock. "
Are you talking about gold?. - Wrake, on 07/05/2009, -0/+73Hey, all those guns cost money.
- christoast, on 07/05/2009, -8/+80The amount of money I've spent on girls outside my family in my whole life time (22 years) adds up to about 15$
Epic win, epic fail - you decide. - Soniti, on 07/05/2009, -0/+69Up until the later half of the last century, diamonds were a useless and cheap rock. De Beers is entirely to blame for the "necessity" of a diamond for marriage in this day and age.
Such *****. - ryanonfire, on 07/05/2009, -1/+69And don't forget about the fact that the diamond industry hordes them so as to make them seems rare.
- PrettyGreen, on 07/05/2009, -0/+68And he wouldn't have just bought it. He would have gone out to space to get it for her.
- themisanthrope, on 07/05/2009, -2/+68My favorite diamond marketing line comes from Ron White: "Diamonds. That'll shut her up."
- jtinz, on 07/05/2009, -7/+72@tnoy: It's called a condom.
- hiphoc, on 07/05/2009, -0/+58Check out this PBS Special on Diamonds, the Oppenheimer and DeBeers family.
Diamond Empire, its on google video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-618668467 ... - pervy_the_clown, on 07/05/2009, -0/+55If/when I decide to propose to my girlfriend, I'd WANT to buy her a nice ring. However, if she ASKED for it, there is no way I'd get her one.
- mysticalone, on 07/05/2009, -0/+53That's exactly the price of roofies.
- S1ngular1ty1, on 07/05/2009, -0/+54Now they can even be man made and nearly indistinguishable from natural diamonds.
- macmcraeart, on 07/05/2009, -1/+55it is genuinely frightening how shallow our system is. it is all about propaganda and greed.
- Hoogs, on 07/05/2009, -0/+54Alright, you've convinced me. On the very small off chance I actually get engaged someday, I'm getting her a moissanite ring.
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