I'm sick of hearing diamond/jewelry store commercials.

[BZeto]

Still not as bad as the BOD commercials.
"I want your bod!"
"Hot bod!"

 

[Geocentricity]

Diamonds... she'll pretty much have to 😛

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Buying diamonds = buying overpriced pieces of minerals that result in Africans getting rich.

It results in DeBeers getting rich and a whole lot of black people being exploited and treated like slaves.

 

[mercanucaribe]

http://www.fguide.org/Bulletin/conflictdiamonds.htm

Econ-Atrocity Bulletin:

Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring from Anyone, Under Any Circumstances, Even If They Really Want to Give You One (2/14/02)
By Liz Stanton, CPE Staff Economist

1. You've Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want a Diamond
The diamond engagement ring is a 63-year-old invention of N.W.Ayer advertising agency. The De Beers diamond cartel contracted N.W.Ayer to create a demand for what are, essentially, useless hunks of rock.

2. Diamonds are Priced Well Above Their Value
The De Beers cartel has systematically held diamond prices at levels far greater than their abundance would generate under anything even remotely resembling perfect competition. All diamonds not already under its control are bought by the cartel, and then the De Beers cartel carefully managed world diamond supply in order to keep prices steadily high.

3. Diamonds Have No Resale or Investment Value
Any diamond that you buy or receive will indeed be yours forever: De Beers? advertising deliberately brain-washed women not to sell; the steady price is a tool to prevent speculation in diamonds; and no dealer will buy a diamond from you. You can only sell it at a diamond purchasing center or a pawn shop where you will receive a tiny fraction of its original "value."

4. Diamond Miners are Disproportionately Exposed to HIV/AIDS
Many diamond mining camps enforce all-male, no-family rules. Men contract HIV/AIDS from camp sex-workers, while women married to miners have no access to employment, no income outside of their husbands and no bargaining power for negotiating safe sex, and thus are at extremely high risk of contracting HIV.

5. Open-Pit Diamond Mines Pose Environmental Threats
Diamond mines are open pits where salts, heavy minerals, organisms, oil, and chemicals from mining equipment freely leach into ground-water, endangering people in nearby mining camps and villages, as well as downstream plants and animals.

6. Diamond Mine-Owners Violate Indigenous People's Rights
Diamond mines in Australia, Canada, India and many countries in Africa are situated on lands traditionally associated with indigenous peoples. Many of these communities have been displaced, while others remain, often at great cost to their health, livelihoods and traditional cultures.

7. Slave Laborers Cut and Polish Diamonds
More than one-half of the world's diamonds are processed in India where many of the cutters and polishers are bonded child laborers. Bonded children work to pay off the debts of their relatives, often unsuccessfully. When they reach adulthood their debt is passed on to their younger siblings or to their own children.

8. Conflict Diamonds Fund Civil Wars in Africa
There is no reliable way to insure that your diamond was not mined or stolen by government or rebel military forces in order to finance civil conflict. Conflict diamonds are traded either for guns or for cash to pay and feed soldiers.

9. Diamond Wars are Fought Using Child Warriors
Many diamond producing governments and rebel forces use children as soldiers, laborers in military camps, and sex slaves. Child soldiers are given drugs to overcome their fear and reluctance to participate in atrocities.

10. Small Arms Trade is Intimately Related to Diamond Smuggling
Illicit diamonds inflame the clandestine trade of small arms. There are 500 million small arms in the world today which are used to kill 500,000 people annually, the vast majority of whom are non-combatants.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: RapidSnail
:music:Every kiss begins with Kay:music:

Every BAN begins with B. :|

 

[Arglebargle]

Artificial scarcity indeed. DeBeers is sitting on tons of diamonds to keep the prices way up. Al Qaeda was involved in the diamond trade for a couple of years as a way to move assets around when their banking clout got compromised. And there are artificial diamond processes in the formative stages that can lead to cheap flawless diamonds (and cheap industrial diamond as well).

Really, if you want to give a classic fancy rock, go for rubies, sapphires, or emeralds.

 

[AaronB]

:music:
How can I tell you
That I love you -- I love you
But I can't think of (the) right words to say...
:music:

:| I hate that song with every fiber of my being.

I often have the History channel on the tv in my workshop as "background noise" but this song is single handedly responsible for me choosing to tune to another station.

IT WAS COMING ON EVERY 15 - 20 FVCKING MINUTES AND THAT WOMAN'S VOICE DRIVES ME INSANE!!!!!!!!!11111


Ah. I feel better now. 🙂

 

[Jeff7]

It's carbon! CARBON!!!!
That's why it's so good, duh.
Everyone loves its super-stable crystalline structure, and its extreme hardness. And, um, it's sparkly.


Diamonds - one of the best marketing campaigns ever. Kind of right up there with Beanie Babies. Except diamonds don't have such a stupid name.


I had a friend when I worked at Walmart, and she liked her ring better than diamonds, because it was personal. I wish I could remember the details of it, I think it had three different kinds of stones in it, one was her birthstone, and I don't remember anymore what the others represented. But she said she loved it because of how it was more unique and symbolic than a plain diamond.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
http://www.fguide.org/Bulletin/conflictdiamonds.htm

Econ-Atrocity Bulletin:

Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring from Anyone, Under Any Circumstances, Even If They Really Want to Give You One (2/14/02)
By Liz Stanton, CPE Staff Economist

1. You've Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want a Diamond
The diamond engagement ring is a 63-year-old invention of N.W.Ayer advertising agency. The De Beers diamond cartel contracted N.W.Ayer to create a demand for what are, essentially, useless hunks of rock.

2. Diamonds are Priced Well Above Their Value
The De Beers cartel has systematically held diamond prices at levels far greater than their abundance would generate under anything even remotely resembling perfect competition. All diamonds not already under its control are bought by the cartel, and then the De Beers cartel carefully managed world diamond supply in order to keep prices steadily high.

3. Diamonds Have No Resale or Investment Value
Any diamond that you buy or receive will indeed be yours forever: De Beers? advertising deliberately brain-washed women not to sell; the steady price is a tool to prevent speculation in diamonds; and no dealer will buy a diamond from you. You can only sell it at a diamond purchasing center or a pawn shop where you will receive a tiny fraction of its original "value."

4. Diamond Miners are Disproportionately Exposed to HIV/AIDS
Many diamond mining camps enforce all-male, no-family rules. Men contract HIV/AIDS from camp sex-workers, while women married to miners have no access to employment, no income outside of their husbands and no bargaining power for negotiating safe sex, and thus are at extremely high risk of contracting HIV.

5. Open-Pit Diamond Mines Pose Environmental Threats
Diamond mines are open pits where salts, heavy minerals, organisms, oil, and chemicals from mining equipment freely leach into ground-water, endangering people in nearby mining camps and villages, as well as downstream plants and animals.

6. Diamond Mine-Owners Violate Indigenous People's Rights
Diamond mines in Australia, Canada, India and many countries in Africa are situated on lands traditionally associated with indigenous peoples. Many of these communities have been displaced, while others remain, often at great cost to their health, livelihoods and traditional cultures.

7. Slave Laborers Cut and Polish Diamonds
More than one-half of the world's diamonds are processed in India where many of the cutters and polishers are bonded child laborers. Bonded children work to pay off the debts of their relatives, often unsuccessfully. When they reach adulthood their debt is passed on to their younger siblings or to their own children.

8. Conflict Diamonds Fund Civil Wars in Africa
There is no reliable way to insure that your diamond was not mined or stolen by government or rebel military forces in order to finance civil conflict. Conflict diamonds are traded either for guns or for cash to pay and feed soldiers.

9. Diamond Wars are Fought Using Child Warriors
Many diamond producing governments and rebel forces use children as soldiers, laborers in military camps, and sex slaves. Child soldiers are given drugs to overcome their fear and reluctance to participate in atrocities.

10. Small Arms Trade is Intimately Related to Diamond Smuggling
Illicit diamonds inflame the clandestine trade of small arms. There are 500 million small arms in the world today which are used to kill 500,000 people annually, the vast majority of whom are non-combatants.

:thumbsup:

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
As much as jewelery commercials suck, I think that BMW commercial that has the kids screaming like maniacs in the beginning is the worst.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=5yjdW9_9AJM&mode=relate
&search=">NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR!!!!!!</a>

 

[evident]

i've heard the vanessa carlton song like 1000 times (zales commercial) since black friday since my roomate always has the tv on i want to shoot the tv, but it's my tv =\

 

[Pollock]

I'm frankly tired of those damned Lexus commercials.

...but what if you asked for a bow with one? Would they give it to you?

 

[Jawo]

I'm sick and tired of them too....but at least is not as bad of a markup at the Chocolate mentioned in this thread! (~3,000%+)! 😉