Fake diamonds = Win OR Why you shouldn't throw money at your wife's jewellry

[JS80]

Unfortunately, women will choose the real diamond every time. My wife has a PhD in chemical engineering, understands that the fake ones are actually technically superior to real diamonds, and knew that she could get a bigger, better diamond for the same price, but insisted on a real one. I even made her watch Blood Diamond a week before I proposed. There's just something about digging a rock up out of the dirt that instills it with some sentimental value for a woman... Either that, or de Beers marketing is really that good.

No offense but your wife sucks.

 

[MotF Bane]

and being a diamond member here will have to go down a couple rungs...

the new marketing for synthetics will be 'fresh and new, like your love is, yet eternal, like your love will be...' for the women's mags and "lot's cheaper, so you don't cry as much when the bitch dumps you..." for the men's mags...

Copyright both of those and send them in. Brilliance!

 

[CycloWizard]

No offense but your wife sucks.

So, what's it like being single? :hmm:

 

[Fingolfin269]

Unfortunately, women will choose the real diamond every time. My wife has a PhD in chemical engineering, understands that the fake ones are actually technically superior to real diamonds, and knew that she could get a bigger, better diamond for the same price, but insisted on a real one. I even made her watch Blood Diamond a week before I proposed. There's just something about digging a rock up out of the dirt that instills it with some sentimental value for a woman... Either that, or de Beers marketing is really that good.

The "funny" thing is that you aren't the one actually digging anything out of the dirt. You're digging into your wallet (and hers technically). However, that little african kid definitely dug that thing out of the dirt.

 

[JS80]

So, what's it like being single? :hmm:

I'm married. And yes, my wife wanted a blood diamond too. I never said mine didn't suck...

 

[StageLeft]

No offense but your wife sucks.

If he's lucky.

 

[Carmen813]

If I buy a "fake" diamond, bury it in my backyard, dig it up a day later, then does it count as real?

 

[CycloWizard]

I'm married. And yes, my wife wanted a blood diamond too. I never said mine didn't suck...

I've just accepted it at this point. I pissed away a large sum of money on something which has no intrinsic value, thereby contradicting everything I knew about myself. That was the day I died to myself.

 

[StageLeft]

I've just accepted it at this point. I pissed away a large sum of money on something which has no intrinsic value, thereby contradicting everything I knew about myself. That was the day I died to myself.

I had to control myself not to literally laugh out loud.

 

[JS80]

I've just accepted it at this point. I pissed away a large sum of money on something which has no intrinsic value, thereby contradicting everything I knew about myself. That was the day I died to myself.

I feel you brother.

 

[Zebo]

Just choose your women better and you won't have this dilemma...just sayin'...

 

[silverpig]

I really wanted a boron-doped CVD diamond for my wife but ended up with a Canadian natural diamond instead.

The boron-doped CVD diamonds are really cool looking as they go blue.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Yeah, but she would have known when I came home with a 4 carat, flawless, D-color, perfectly cut diamond with only a grad student's salary.

You sold your soul to the devil for the next 10 years!

 

[nonameo]

WTF, rubies are hotter than diamonds anyway.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

LOL @ Debeers. I'd much rather buy a larger flawless 'fake' diamond than a smaller slightly flawed 'real' one. Odd timing... I'm streaming the local sports station and they just had a diamond ad on it.

I wouldn't and neither would any sane person, it's like scanning the Mona Lisa, printing it out after fixing it up and selling it for half the price.

The real thing has value, the fake thing does not have anything more than production value, i'd buy a 100k fake for 10k max because no matter what it is, it's a fake.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

If I buy a "fake" diamond, bury it in my backyard, dig it up a day later, then does it count as real?

The same thing that makes real diamond rare is what makes them special so no.

That's also why there are paintings out there worth millions while there are perfect reprints of them that are worth nothing. The beauty is in the flaws.

 

[nonameo]

I wouldn't and neither would any sane person, it's like scanning the Mona Lisa, printing it out after fixing it up and selling it for half the price.

The real thing has value, the fake thing does not have anything more than production value, i'd buy a 100k fake for 10k max because no matter what it is, it's a fake.

I'd say it's more like we made a perfect clone of davinci and got him to paint another mona lisa, and because it's fresh (and because of new tech) it's even better quality than the original mona lisa. BUT it's still not THE original that everyone knows and has heard about.

 

[CycloWizard]

The same thing that makes real diamond rare is what makes them special so no.

That's also why there are paintings out there worth millions while there are perfect reprints of them that are worth nothing. The beauty is in the flaws.

1. Diamonds aren't rare, their output is simply controlled by cartels.
2. "Fake" diamonds are identical to "real" diamonds down to the atomic level, so why is one real or fake? Only ignorance or marketing.

 

[nonameo]

1. Diamonds aren't rare, their output is simply controlled by cartels.
2. "Fake" diamonds are identical to "real" diamonds down to the atomic level, so why is one real or fake? Only ignorance or marketing.

Right. How much you want to bet that debeers starts watermarking their diamonds? The only thing that makes a debeers diamond valuable anymore is the fact that it came from debeers, so...

 

[BoberFett]

I wouldn't and neither would any sane person, it's like scanning the Mona Lisa, printing it out after fixing it up and selling it for half the price.

The real thing has value, the fake thing does not have anything more than production value, i'd buy a 100k fake for 10k max because no matter what it is, it's a fake.

And if anyone knows about fakes it's you, eh Cap'n?

 

[artikk]

Just choose your women better and you won't have this dilemma...just sayin'...

this

 

[MotF Bane]

I wouldn't and neither would any sane person, it's like scanning the Mona Lisa, printing it out after fixing it up and selling it for half the price.

The real thing has value, the fake thing does not have anything more than production value, i'd buy a 100k fake for 10k max because no matter what it is, it's a fake.

Well, have fun supporting DeBeers and paying far more than they're worth.

 

[Brainonska511]

404: Fake Diamonds not found.

Atomic structure is the same, it is the same thing. One is just made in the earth over millions of years, then dug out of the ground by some poor third-world schlub under the thumb of a diamond monopoly and sold under the guise of being some rare mineral (when it isn't) and marked up accordingly. The other is made in a machine under accelerated conditions to yield the same diamond at a fraction of the cost to the consumer.

A fake diamond would be cubic zirconium. Synthetic diamonds are not fake.

 

[Zebo]

this

Not so fast - they all have their 'deal' - mines is horses and has to be in a new car.

I'd be happy driving a 1979 corolla.

 

[Moonbeam]

This thread is nothing more than a projection of the endless dream of man-boys to get into a girl's pants on the cheap. If you want a woman be a man.

No man or woman with real self respect gives a shit about gem stones. They are all substitutes for self worth, external symbols behind which to hide one's contempt for oneself.