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wtf is so cool about a diamond ring? (pg. 2)
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| lücid |
i sold a pair of diamond earrings and used the money to buy a load of booze for an OMGWTFMWTABBQ.
that is why diamonds are awesome.  |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
i sold a pair of diamond earrings and used the money to buy a load of booze for an OMGWTFMWTABBQ.
that is why diamonds are awesome. |
now THAT's commitment. |
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| XaNaX |
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.
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The rest of the article if you want to read it |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by m o 0 g
wtf is so cool about a diamond ring? |
Nothing. The current obsession with "diamond rings" as a symbol of wealth and fidelity is a product of New York ad agencies of the early twentieth century.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | | Originally posted by XaNaX |
LOL. You beat me to it. :) |
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| Akridrot |
| quote: | 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... |
Great fake post. |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| quote: | 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. |
Mmkay, thats fine, but I would have left him because he told me I could leave him if I didnt like it. Living with that comment for the rest of your life over your engagement ring that you wear EVERY DAY? Nah, no thanks. Ill find a guy that's a little less . |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| All this fuss over silly trinkets. |
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| Orbax |
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. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Prostitution by any other name... |
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| 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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| Jansa |
| quote: | 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? |
insecurity |
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