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wtf is so cool about a diamond ring?
yeah it sparkles, oh joy lets put bleachers around the "beauty" for all to see.
someone explain this to me.
and dont fuckin say it signifies love. chocolate also signifies love, meaning a chocolate ring should be just as accepted as a diamond ring.
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| Originally posted by m o 0 g and dont fuckin say it signifies love. chocolate also signifies love, meaning a chocolate ring should be just as accepted as a diamond ring.  |
I think some people look at it as a symbol of value. The receiver will look at the ring as a symbol of how valuable they are to the giver. Or at how valuable the giver is because they have fat stacks. Or, to those perpetratin B's, how much more value this ring has than yours.
Yeah, I don't get it either but I conformed anyway. 
No other element will look as beautiful as a glittering multifaceted diamond 
well having a rock on someones finger's seems more important that love itself anymore.
take for example that thread created referring to the cheating fiance in england with the dudes on the radio show pwning her?
she asked how big the ring was...and she cheated on her fiance a week or something earlier with her boss or something, i dont remember
it just seems like a joke anymore. =/
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| Originally posted by Omega_M No other element will look as beautiful as a glittering multifaceted diamond |
I think Debeers(sp?) had alot to do with creating the perception of diamonds being a big deal.
Diamonds = sex. Sweaty kinky you-can-do-whatever-you-want-to-me sex.
My cousin always said diamonds are a waste of money. Even though hes loaded he bought his gf a beautiful engagement ring made of CZ. He told her she can leave if she doesnt like it.
A buddy of mine, just a normal working dude who makes a decent salary, has been looking at rings for his GF. He has an idea how much he wants to spend, ~$10k. She picks out a ring that is $18k.
I told him to run. FAST.
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| Originally posted by Omega_M No other element will look as beautiful as a glittering multifaceted diamond |
yea I'm not into this diamond ring crap and how u must go into major debt just to marry some beeeeotch who won't appreciate it anyway. Its a status symbol to most chicks and how they landed a big one who will pay all their bills so they can let themselves go...and if he wants to leave they take his house and all of his money.
Ok not all chicks but in South Florida there everywhere
i sold a pair of diamond earrings and used the money to buy a shitload of booze for an OMGWTFMWTABBQ.
that is why diamonds are awesome. 
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| Originally posted by l�cid i sold a pair of diamond earrings and used the money to buy a shitload of booze for an OMGWTFMWTABBQ. that is why diamonds are awesome. |
Nothing, they are basically just semi-precious stones that we have all been duped into thinking mean something and the high prices and "value" is nothing more than price fixing by the diamond cartel:
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The diamond invention�the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem�is a relatively recent development in the history of the diamond trade. Until the late nineteenth century, diamonds were found only in a few riverbeds in India and in the jungles of Brazil, and the entire world production of gem diamonds amounted to a few pounds a year. In 1870, however, huge diamond mines were discovered near the Orange River, in South Africa, where diamonds were soon being scooped out by the ton. Suddenly, the market was deluged with diamonds. The British financiers who had organized the South African mines quickly realized that their investment was endangered; diamonds had little intrinsic value�and their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity. The financiers feared that when new mines were developed in South Africa, diamonds would become at best only semiprecious gems. The major investors in the diamond mines realized that they had no alternative but to merge their interests into a single entity that would be powerful enough to control production and perpetuate the illusion of scarcity of diamonds. The instrument they created, in 1888, was called De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., incorporated in South Africa. As De Beers took control of all aspects of the world diamond trade, it assumed many forms. In London, it operated under the innocuous name of the Diamond Trading Company. In Israel, it was known as "The Syndicate." In Europe, it was called the "C.S.O." -- initials referring to the Central Selling Organization, which was an arm of the Diamond Trading Company. And in black Africa, it disguised its South African origins under subsidiaries with names like Diamond Development Corporation and Mining Services, Inc. At its height -- for most of this century -- it not only either directly owned or controlled all the diamond mines in southern Africa but also owned diamond trading companies in England, Portugal, Israel, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland. De Beers proved to be the most successful cartel arrangement in the annals of modern commerce. While other commodities, such as gold, silver, copper, rubber, and grains, fluctuated wildly in response to economic conditions, diamonds have continued, with few exceptions, to advance upward in price every year since the Depression. Indeed, the cartel seemed so superbly in control of prices -- and unassailable -- that, in the late 1970s, even speculators began buying diamonds as a guard against the vagaries of inflation and recession. The diamond invention is far more than a monopoly for fixing diamond prices; it is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally recognized tokens of wealth, power, and romance. To achieve this goal, De Beers had to control demand as well as supply. Both women and men had to be made to perceive diamonds not as marketable precious stones but as an inseparable part of courtship and married life. To stabilize the market, De Beers had to endow these stones with a sentiment that would inhibit the public from ever reselling them. The illusion had to be created that diamonds were forever -- "forever" in the sense that they should never be resold. |
Re: wtf is so cool about a diamond ring?
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| Originally posted by m o 0 g wtf is so cool about a diamond ring? |
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| Originally posted by XaNaX |
Re: Re: wtf is so cool about a diamon ring?
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| Originally posted by Subey Actually the ancient egyptians used to use chocolate instead of diamonds (they didn't have the mining technology to process diamonds at the time) for their rings. The reason they used to chocolate was because its fragile, so it symbolized how precious love was... |
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| Originally posted by jonSun My cousin always said diamonds are a waste of money. Even though hes loaded he bought his gf a beautiful engagement ring made of CZ. He told her she can leave if she doesnt like it. |
All this fuss over silly trinkets.
Women only care about time.
A diamond is the most condensed piece of time readily available to man.
Its 3 months of working your ass off every day in small, clear, hard, form.
Prostitution by any other name...
Why is it most girls have to be married when there with a guy for a while? Isn't it more important to be in a happy relationship that works over just being married in general? Ive had friends where their girlfriends gave them the ultamatum, either marry them or its over...wtf?
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| Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY Why is it most girls have to be married when there with a guy for a while? Isn't it more important to be in a happy relationship that works over just being married in general? Ive had friends where their girlfriends gave them the ultamatum, either marry them or its over...wtf? |
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| Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY Why is it most girls have to be married when there with a guy for a while? Isn't it more important to be in a happy relationship that works over just being married in general? Ive had friends where their girlfriends gave them the ultamatum, either marry them or its over...wtf? |
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