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Diamonds Suck (2006)

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Re: Diamonds Suck (2006)

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Post by pitaj »

ClayFerguson wrote: post #295

People buy diamonds for a lot of the same 'irrational' reasons they believe in religion. Brainwashing. Girls have it pounded into their head over and over all their lives that this diamond is a MUST so they never think with their own brains about it. 99% of people would never spend $10K on a single piece of jewlery, if it was logic and reason, as opposed to pure brainwashing, that was governing their decisions. So ac…

Wouldn't the idea that it's normal to have those "disorders" make it contrary to the definition of "disorder" in the first place?

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Post by zeroer »

aquadrop wrote: post #253
ejcx wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. It's very difficult to respond to you civically. We've been together for a long long time. It is amazing what people you don't know on the internet will assume about you. There was no alternative before this article. Cubic is cheap and tacky. Diamonds are overpriced and awful. Lab diamonds not much better. This article has a real alternative. That's a huge contribution to all diamond haters everywhere.

> Cubic is cheap and tacky Why the fact it's cheap makes it tacky? There's plenty of good CZ jewelry and 99% of people won't know the difference with diamonds or moissanite if you don't tell them. Moassanite is good, but still way too much expensive than it should be. It would be fun if we chose homes same way - "Oh, that big house with large lot, fireplace, etc is perfect in every way for us, but it's 30 times cheap…

The problem with CZ is that it absorbs oil and dirt from the surroundings, so that within a couple years of regular use it's noticeably cloudy. Though I would say for the first year, it's a perfectly good substitute for diamond.

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Post by zeroer »

chii wrote: post #304
Nullabillity wrote: post #283

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$500 is still an insane price for a glorified lump of coal.

Compared to the wedding, 500 dollars is nothing.

Don't over-generalize. I got married for a total price of about $700. One can be frugal if one decides that saving money is a priority.

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Post by icantdrive55 »

beachstartup wrote: post #334
Grishnakh wrote: post #324

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>If our new president fulfills his promises, friends of mine will be cataloged, deported. My own hopes of US citizenship and the life me and my wife had planned for ourselves is now uncertain. Are you sure about that? He's already backtracking on ObamaCare, saying he wants to keep parts of it, and the latest news about deportations is that he wants to deport people who have criminal records. Personally, I'm wondering…

i think the 60 minutes interview tonight is going to calm a lot of nerves. personally i think the trump presidency will be shocking in how normal it is. people are just completely worked up over his campaign persona which is understandable. what people forget sometimes is that we have a political system in place designed to prevent dictatorships, exactly the kind of thing people on the left are concerned about with t…

I was relieved to learn that he won't be able to hire his family for any White House position, or I believe any job that can be connected to the presidency. There's a strict nepotism law prohibiting this.

I cringed when I heard Eric(the one who killed a Tiger, or Elephant in Africa. I get the two mixed up.) is on his transition team, but that's all private?

Now, we need a law, that puts any company---a current, or future president owns, with over 1 million in yearly revenue; into a blind trust for the duration of their term?

(It's something we haven't had to think about for awhile now?)

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Post by [deleted] »

chii wrote: post #308
bluedevil2k wrote: post #236

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And what color is in her peripheral vision?

Purple from the anger that her boyfriend doesn't love her enough to drop their own personal beliefs, and get that damned rock. For girls, it's not personal, it'd social. If her "friends" are such that they will look down on her if she didn't get a rock, she will insist on one. As a man, you must understand this.

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Post by ryuker16 »

ziszis wrote: post #91
joshkaufman wrote: post #66

I'm the OP - surprised to see this at the top of HN today, but happy to post a quick update: My wife and I have been happily married for ten years now. She loves her ring, and it has held up extremely well. (She just had the band resized, absolutely no issues with the stones.) No one has ever thought it was anything other than a diamond ring, which includes several years of daily scrutiny from crazy New York City bri…

We came to a similar conclusion. Although we had already bought a diamond ring. After researching, we figured out that we could sell our diamond (we only got about 60% of the original price back from a diamond broker) and buy a twice as large synthetic diamond and still save several thousand $. There is only upside as far I can tell: it looks better (clarity), is bigger (no can tell the difference between a real and…

You could just buy used diamonds

Re: Diamonds Suck (2006)

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Post by ryuker16 »

ClayFerguson wrote: post #295

People buy diamonds for a lot of the same 'irrational' reasons they believe in religion. Brainwashing. Girls have it pounded into their head over and over all their lives that this diamond is a MUST so they never think with their own brains about it. 99% of people would never spend $10K on a single piece of jewlery, if it was logic and reason, as opposed to pure brainwashing, that was governing their decisions. So ac…

Alot of women think this of men when they see us drop $60k-80k+ on car instead of getting a cheapo Toyota.

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Post by hodder »

hodder wrote: post #359

Doesn't anyone have recommendations best places to get a moissanite ring?

This was supposed to be "does anyone have any recommendations" but autocorrect changed it. Apologies if it came across as rude.

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Post by ryuker16 »

FullMtlAlcoholc wrote: post #60

Another alternative is synthetic, lab grown diamonds. They are superior to naturally occuring diamonds, cheaper, aren't tainted by human misery and suffering like conflic/blood diamondst, and arent extracted from ecologically damaging mining techniques like open pit mining.

Or just buy used stones.

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Post by ryuker16 »

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #14

Can anyone give me advice on how to convince my girlfriend of this though without her thinking I love her any less :)?

Screw the synthetic advice here and go buy the ring pre-owned or buy the diamonds direct from a wholesaler and get them set in a new piece.
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