Take on a second job to fulfill your civic duty to De Beers.
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My friend, who comes from a pretty wealthy family, was all excited when he told me that he spent like 15 grand on his wife's engagement ring.
I also love hearing ads from a local jeweler that keeps shitting on lab grown diamonds, because he sells natural diamonds, and is most likely losing money. He was like "Lab grown diamonds don't hold their value, but natural ones do! In order to "prove" this I'll give you a lab grown diamond if you buy a natural one! "
"I'd like to refund this natural diamond and keep the lab grown one.
What do you mean no? You are the one who told me natural diamonds hold their value."
Not sure if we've seen the same ad, but my local jeweler who does the same thing calls natural diamonds "earth-born". Makes me want to vomit.
Gimme that blood diamond, make it extra bloody.
We're so close to Bloodborne diamonds.
At least it's a step up from bloodborne illnesses. Step down from Bloodborne the game though.
Surely there's some lab process where you could take actual blood and process it into a shiny bauble.
I could see that as a romantic gesture.
You can made lab diamonds from blood. Diamonds are just carbon and almost everything thing has carbon. You can right now get your dead relatives' ashes made into a diamond. It would probably take a while to be able safely get enough of your own blood to make a diamond though. But that would make it more romantic, right?
I'm not sure about the amount of blood you'd really need though since I think all of these "ashes to diamonds" places add their own carbon, too. From one such website:
TBH I was hoping for something less clear diamond and more garnet/ruby looking.
The man-made rubies you can get off AliExpress are pretty nice, but they don't quite scream "deranged blood ritual"
Steven Singer?
ihatestevensinger (dotcom) holds true IMO.
Ugh I can see those billboards in my head, annoying font and all.
Yep.